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The Adding Machine: Selected Essaysby William S. BurroughsISBN 0805000003 (0-8050-0000-3)
Hardcover, Seaver Books
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The Ambassadorsby Henry JamesISBN 0804900957 (0-8049-0095-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ambassadors'Book summary:The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis [via]
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0804902186 (0-8049-0218-6)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Aristophanes Four Major Plays: Lysistrata, the Birds, the Clouds, the Archarniansby AristophanesISBN 0804901899 (0-8049-0189-9)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymousby Don FosterISBN 0805063579 (0-8050-6357-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous'Book summary:This fascinating book describes how an English professor became a detective, sort of. Don Foster still teaches literature at Vassar College, but he's recognized as an expert in attributional theory--the idea that everybody has literary fingerprints, or, as he puts it, "no two individuals write exactly the same way, using the same words in the same combinations, or with the same patterns of spelling and punctuation." Foster is now an expert at identifying anonymous authors. He fell into this line of work accidentally. As a graduate student who spent his days reading forgotten Elizabethan texts, Foster stumbled upon "A Funeral Elegy" by one "W.S." Through careful research, recounted in Author Unknown, he showed that it was, in fact, a long-lost poem of Shakespeare's. His claim was controversial; a chapter on this experience is as much a lesson in academic politics as attribution theory. "To propose an addition to the Shakespeare canon is like announcing that you've found a lost book of the Bible, due for inclusion in future editions," he writes. "History shows that it is usually the attributor who gets burned." For Foster, however, it became a launching pad.
In what is his most interesting chapter, Foster explains how he deduced Joe Klein was "Anonymous," the author of the bestselling book Primary Colors. He also became involved in the Unabomber case and a search for the identity of the mysterious novelist Thomas Pynchon. Foster is sometimes said to use computer programs to determine an author's identity, but this is only partly true: he employs searchable databases, and then conducts all of the comparative analysis himself. "Give anonymous offenders enough verbal rope and column inches, and they will hang themselves for you, every time," he writes. The first three chapters--focusing on Shakespeare, Klein, and the Unabomber--are the best part of the book; the rest of it, at times, feels like filler. Yet as a whole, Author Unknown is a compelling blend of autobiography, detective story, and literary analysis. --John J. Miller [via]
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Author Unknown: Tales of a Literary Detectiveby Don FosterISBN 0805068120 (0-8050-6812-0)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Awakeby Elizabeth GraverISBN 0805065393 (0-8050-6539-3)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Bad Habits: A One Hundred Percent Fact-Free Bookby Dave BarryISBN 0805002545 (0-8050-0254-5)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Baudelaire Rimbaud and Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose PoemsISBN 0806501960 (0-8065-0196-0)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
Find This BookBook summary:Here, for the first time, the work of three of Frances greatest poets has been published in a single volume: the sensual and passionate glow of Charles Baudelaire, the desperate intensity and challenge of Arthur Rimbaud, and the absinthe-tinted symbolist songs of Paul Verlaine.
To bring the essence of these three giants of modern poetry to the American public, Joseph M. Bernstein, a noted interpreter and translator of French literature, has selected the most representative of their writings and presented them along with a biographical and critical introduction.
"Not to know these three poets", he points out, "is to deprive oneself of a pleasure as rare as it is indispensable to any real understanding of the aims and direction of modern literature.
The volume includes Arthur Symons' unabridged translation of Flowers of Evil and the Prose Poems of Baudelaire; Louise Varese's translation of Rimbaud's A Season in Hell and Prose Poems from "Illuminations"; J. Norman Cameron's translation of the verse from the Illuminations; and a representative selection from Verlaine's verse translated by Gertrude Hall and Arthur Symons. [via]
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The Beagle Has Landedby Charles M. SchulzISBN 0805016902 (0-8050-1690-2)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicineby Frank HuylerISBN 0805065970 (0-8050-6597-0)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novelby Robin Feuer MillerISBN 0805781188 (0-8057-8118-8)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel'Book summary:[via]Fyodor Dostoevsky completed his final novel The Brothers Karamazovin 1880. A work of universal appeal and significance, his exploration of good and evil immediately gained an international readership and today remains harrowingly alive in the face of our present day worries, paradoxes, and joys, observes Dostoevsky scholar Robin Feuer Miller. In this engaging and original book, she guides us through the complexities of Dostoevskys masterpiece, offering keen insights and a celebration of the authors unparalleled powers of imagination.
Millers critical companion to The Brothers Karamazov explores the novels structure, themes, characters, and artistic strategies while illuminating its myriad philosophical and narrative riddles. She discusses the historical significance of the book and its initial reception, and in a new preface discusses the latest scholarship on Dostoevsky and the novel that crowned his career.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American Westby Dee Alexander BrownISBN 0805066691 (0-8050-6669-1)
Softcover, Owl Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West'Book summary:First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson [via]
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American Westby Dee BrownISBN 0805066349 (0-8050-6634-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West'Book summary:First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson [via]
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Calling Dr. Whoopee: A Doonesbury Bookby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0805006427 (0-8050-0642-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Castle : A New Translation Based on the Restored Textby Franz Kafka, Mark HarmonISBN 0805241183 (0-8052-4118-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle : A New Translation Based on the Restored Text'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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The Castle: Classic Collectionby Franz Kafka, Mark HarmanISBN 0805211063 (0-8052-1106-3)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle: Classic Collection'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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The Castle: Classic Collectionby Irving Howe, Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin MuirISBN 0805210393 (0-8052-1039-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle: Classic Collection'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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Cat's Cradleby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0805013199 (0-8050-1319-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Collected Poems of A. E. Housmanby A. E. HousmanISBN 0805005471 (0-8050-0547-1)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierceby Ambrose Bierce, Clifton FadimanISBN 0806501804 (0-8065-0180-4)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Scienceby Atul GawandeISBN 0805063196 (0-8050-6319-6)
Hardcover, Metropolitan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science'Book summary:Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine--on either end of the stethoscope. Medical professionals make mistakes, learn on the job, and improvise much of their technique and self-confidence. Gawande's tales are humane and passionate reminders that doctors are people, too. His prose is thoughtful and deeply engaging, shifting from sometimes painful stories of suffering patients (including his own child) to intriguing suggestions for improving medicine with the same care he expresses in the surgical theater. Some of his ideas will make health care providers nervous or even angry, but his disarming style, confessional tone, and thoughtful arguments should win over most readers. Complications is a book with heart and an excellent bedside manner, celebrating rather than berating doctors for being merely human. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Contrastive Rhetoric Revisited and Redefinedby Clayann Gilliam PanettaISBN 0805836349 (0-8058-3634-9)
Hardcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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Dave Barry's Bad Habits a 100% Fact-Free Bookby Dave BarryISBN 0805029648 (0-8050-2964-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Doctor Dogbody's Legby James Norman HallISBN 0805058311 (0-8050-5831-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Doonesbury Deluxe: Selected Glances Askanceby Gary B. TrudeauISBN 080500596X (0-8050-0596-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Doonesbury's Greatest Hitsby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0805008837 (0-8050-0883-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Downtown Doonesburyby Gary B. TrudeauISBN 0805003541 (0-8050-0354-1)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Emmaby Jane AustenISBN 0804901023 (0-8049-0102-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Essential C. S. Lewisby C. S. Lewis, Lyle W. DorsettISBN 0805420509 (0-8054-2050-9)
Softcover, Broadman & Holman Pub
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The Foundlingby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0805080538 (0-8050-8053-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Foundling'Book summary:The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions![via]
Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly Doli--all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexander's beautifully written tales not only captured children's imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise.
The Black Cauldron was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, The High King, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."
Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for today's generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, The Foundling is also available in paperback at this time.
In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.More editions of The Foundling:
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The Foundling : And Other Tales of Prydainby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0805061304 (0-8050-6130-4)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexander's beautifully written tales not only captured children's imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise. The Black Cauldron was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, The High King, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."
Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series to a new generation of young readers. Jackets have been handsomely redesigned while retaining the original art of Caldecott Medal-winning artist Evaline Ness. Each retypeset volume now includes a pronunciation guide prepared by Lloyd Alexander. A companion book of short stories, The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain, is also available in hardcover for the first time in twenty years.
In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.More editions of The Foundling : And Other Tales of Prydain:
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Four Major Playsby Henrik IbsenISBN 0804901201 (0-8049-0120-1)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Michael HagueISBN 0805002774 (0-8050-0277-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Genre in Classroom: Multiple Perspectivesby Ann M. JohnsISBN 0805830731 (0-8058-3073-1)
Hardcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Booksby Nicholas A. BasbanesISBN 0805061762 (0-8050-6176-2)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books'Book summary:What a delightful book about books and people who love books! As a second generation bibliophile, a possible bibliomane who had several people move out of my house a year ago because they erroneously believed that my books were taking over the household, and a devout employee of "Earth's Biggest Bookstore," I can vouch that Basbanes accurately describes the glorious role of book collectors as archivists of human knowledge, and -- in continual counterpoint -- sometimes pathologically obsessed book junkies. [via]
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Storiesby Robert Olen ButlerISBN 0805019863 (0-8050-1986-3)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories'Book summary:The Vietnam War continues to play itself out in fiction, autobiography, and history books, but no American author has captured the experiences of the Vietnamese themselves--and caught their voices--more tellingly than Robert Olen Butler, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain. The 15 stories collected here, all written in the first person, blend Vietnamese folklore, the terrible, lingering memories of war, American pop culture and family drama. Butler's literary ventriloquism, as he mines the experiences of a people with a great literary tradition of their own, is uncanny; but his talents as a writer of universal truths is what makes this a collection for the ages. [via]
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Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failureby Paul AusterISBN 0805054898 (0-8050-5489-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure'Book summary:It's no wonder that Paul Auster (The Music of Chance, Leviathan, Mr. Vertigo) creates such singular characters. While his youth comprised a series of failures too unbelievable for fiction, it also equipped him with a range of experiences to draw from that most fiction writers only dream of. He worked with Bowery bums at a summer camp, had a childhood friend join the Weather Underground, and was a student at Columbia in 1968 at the height of the student uprisings there (and at which point, he boasts, he knew seven of the FBI's ten most wanted men). He worked on an oil tanker, for a French Mafia-style film producer in Paris, and for a rare-book organization in New York. He translated the North Vietnamese constitution from French into English (don't ask). His work brought him in contact to varying extents with Jean Genet, Mary McCarthy, Jerzy Kosinski, Sartre, Foucault, and John Lennon. The encounters and experiences must have been fascinating, failure aside, but Auster's prose here, sadly, lacks the tightness and luster of his fiction. The remainder--and major portion--of the volume consists of three plays, a baseball card game, and a detective novel, all written during this time. [via]
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The History of Tom Jones: A Foundlingby Henry FieldingISBN 080490135X (0-8049-0135-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling'Book summary:Tom Jones isn't a bad guy, but boys just want to have fun. Nearly two and a half centuries after its publication, the adventures of the rambunctious and randy Tom Jones still makes for great reading. I'm not in the habit of using words like bawdy or rollicking, but if you look them up in the dictionary, you should see a picture of this book. [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0805236023 (0-8052-3602-3)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor HugoISBN 0804901627 (0-8049-0162-7)
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I Never Promised You a Rose Gardenby Hannah GreenISBN 0805008721 (0-8050-0872-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'Book summary:[via]The classic novel about a young womans struggle against madness, now a Holt Paperback, with a new afterword by the author
Hailed by The New York Times as "convincing and emotionally gripping" upon its publication in 1964, Joanne Greenbergs semiautobiographical novel stands as a timeless and unforgettable portrayal of mental illness. Enveloped in the dark inner kingdom of her schizophrenia, sixteen-year-old Deborah is haunted by private tormentors that isolate her from the outside world. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a mental hospital where she will spend the next three years battling to regain her sanity with the help of a gifted psychiatrist. As Deborah struggles toward the possibility of the "normal" life she and her family hope for, the reader is inexorably drawn into her private suffering and deep determination to confront her demons.
A modern classic, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden remains every bit as poignant, gripping, and relevant today as when it was first published.
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I Thought My Father Was God : And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Projectby Paul Auster, Nelly Reifler, National Story Project StaffISBN 0805067140 (0-8050-6714-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Thought My Father Was God : And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project'Book summary:When the call went out to listeners of National Public Radio's Weekend All Things Considered to submit stories about their personal experiences, the results were overwhelming. I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project contains editor Paul Auster's pick of the best submissions. The stories, whether fact or fiction, all exhibit a heartfelt earnestness to be heard, and share similar themes of bizarre coincidences, otherworldly intervention, love and loss, life-changing experiences, and mundane pleasures. Some are deeply moving, most are not. But it is uplifting and well worth the time to sift through these brief snapshots of our collective human experience.
To give the book shape, Auster has done his best to categorize the material by subject, such as Animals, Families, War, Love, Dreams, and the like. These categories hold true to the submission criteria: "[I was most interested in] stories that defied our expectations about the world, anecdotes that revealed the mysterious and unknowable forces at work in our lives, in our family histories, in our minds and bodies, in our souls.... I was hoping to put together ... a museum of American reality." I Thought My Father Was God is a testament that, despite what on a bad day we may think is a drab existence, we all have a few good stories in us. --Michael Ferch [via]
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 Worldby Noam Chomsky, David BarsamianISBN 080507967X (0-8050-7967-X)
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In the Midst of Lifeby Ambrose G. BierceISBN 0806505516 (0-8065-0551-6)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Midst of Life'Book summary:Some of the most chilling and macabre tales in the English language can be attributed to American journalist and short story writer Ambrose Bierce. His books include "Can Such Things Be: Tales of Horror and the Supernatural", as well as "The Devil's Dictionary". He has also penned scathing views of frontier life and its lawlessness, and the most caustic treatises on war.
"In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians" represents Bierce's short stories written in and around the time of the Civil War. These include "A Horseman in the Sky", "Chickamauga", "The Applicant", "A Holy Terror", "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"-- perhaps his most famous story of all,-- and 21 other disturbing tales. Their message about the horrors of war lives on vividly to this day. [via]
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The Jungle Bookby Rudyard Kipling, Maurice Wilson, Sally Grindley, Julek HellerISBN 0805239065 (0-8052-3906-5)
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Lady of the Lake and Other Poemsby Walter ScottISBN 0804901376 (0-8049-0137-6)
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Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 0804900914 (0-8049-0091-4)
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Literary Las Vegas: The Best Writing about America's Most Fabulous Cityby Mike Tronnes, Nick ToschesISBN 0805036709 (0-8050-3670-9)
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Marilynby Gloria SteinemISBN 0805000607 (0-8050-0060-7)
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Metamorphosisby Franz KafkaISBN 0805201726 (0-8052-0172-6)
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910057 (0-8049-1005-7)
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Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Wordsby Josefa H. Byrne, Robert ByrneISBN 0806504986 (0-8065-0498-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words'Book summary:First it must be known that all 6000 weird words lovingly compiled by Mrs. Byrne are "real" English words, legitimized by at least one major dictionary. That said, the inclusions are delightfully ludicrous, unfailingly obscure and often sadly missing from common parlance. The English language seems the poorer without "furfuraceous" (covered with dandruff), "omphaloskepsis" (meditation while gazing at one's navel) or "blabagogy" (a criminal environment). It's the most addictively interesting dictionary imaginable. [via]
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Out of My Later Yearsby Albert EinsteinISBN 0806503572 (0-8065-0357-2)
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellionsby Gloria SteinemISBN 0805042024 (0-8050-4202-4)
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Paradise Lostby John MiltonISBN 0804901732 (0-8049-0173-2)
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The People's Doonesburyby Gary TrudeauISBN 0805010742 (0-8050-1074-2)
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The Pequots in Southern New England: The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nationby Laurence M. Hauptman, James D. WherryISBN 0806125152 (0-8061-2515-2)
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Plato's Republicby PlatoISBN 0804901724 (0-8049-0172-4)
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The Red and the Black: Mimetic Desire and the Myth of Celebrityby Jefferson HumphriesISBN 0805783520 (0-8057-8352-0)
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The Road Not Taken: An Introduction to Robert Frostby Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer, John O'Hara CosgraveISBN 0805069836 (0-8050-6983-6)
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Sea Battles on Dry Land : Essaysby Harold BrodkeyISBN 0805060529 (0-8050-6052-9)
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Sheby H. Rider HaggardISBN 0804901465 (0-8049-0146-5)
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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancakeby Breece D'J PancakeISBN 0805007202 (0-8050-0720-2)
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0805502645 (0-8055-0264-5)
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Talkin' About My G-G-Generationby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0805007911 (0-8050-0791-1)
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The Taming of the Shrewby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910103 (0-8049-1010-3)
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0804900825 (0-8049-0082-5)
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre DumasISBN 0804901279 (0-8049-0127-9)
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910049 (0-8049-1004-9)
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, Mervyn PeakeISBN 0805206205 (0-8052-0620-5)
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The Trialby Franz Kafka, Breon MitchellISBN 0805209999 (0-8052-0999-9)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0804901430 (0-8049-0143-0)
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A Wonder Bookby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 080490118X (0-8049-0118-X)
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The Word 'Desire'by Rikki DucornetISBN 0805051740 (0-8050-5174-0)
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Working Menby Michael DorrisISBN 0805022961 (0-8050-2296-1)
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Wormholes : Essays and Occasional Writingsby John FowlesISBN 080506172X (0-8050-6172-X)
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Wounded Kneeby Dee Brown, Amy EhrlichISBN 0805027009 (0-8050-2700-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wounded Knee'Book summary:First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson [via]
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Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Timesby John DarntonISBN 0805070850 (0-8050-7085-0)
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Here, Richard Ford explains why he finds not writing to be a terrific thing. Alice Hoffman describes the effect illness (her own and that of others) has had on her work. Barbara Kingsolver grapples with writing an "unchaste" novel. Louise Erdrich explores the effect a second language, Ojibwe in her case, can have on one's involvement with the first. And Russell Banks learns the hard way that "when you meet a witness to your distant past, your memory tends to improve." The most hilarious piece is Carolyn Chute's "How Can You Create Fiction When Reality Comes to Call?" In it, she describes one day, in which "X-rated stuff happens," the cuckoo clock goes off incessantly, dirty dishes beckon, political cohorts come calling, a dog has a couple of seizures, laundry needs doing, and guests constantly arrive. Once Chute finally does get down to writing, the "n" breaks off the daisy wheel. But at least the phone doesn't ring. "Its bell is broken. It never rings. Thank heavens." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Timesby New York Times Staff, John DarntonISBN 0805067418 (0-8050-6741-8)
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Here, Richard Ford explains why he finds not writing to be a terrific thing. Alice Hoffman describes the effect illness (her own and that of others) has had on her work. Barbara Kingsolver grapples with writing an "unchaste" novel. Louise Erdrich explores the effect a second language, Ojibwe in her case, can have on one's involvement with the first. And Russell Banks learns the hard way that "when you meet a witness to your distant past, your memory tends to improve." The most hilarious piece is Carolyn Chute's "How Can You Create Fiction When Reality Comes to Call?" In it, she describes one day, in which "X-rated stuff happens," the cuckoo clock goes off incessantly, dirty dishes beckon, political cohorts come calling, a dog has a couple of seizures, laundry needs doing, and guests constantly arrive. Once Chute finally does get down to writing, the "n" breaks off the daisy wheel. But at least the phone doesn't ring. "Its bell is broken. It never rings. Thank heavens." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Writers on Writing Vol. II: More Collected Essays from the New York Timesby New York Times Staff, Jane SmileyISBN 0805073612 (0-8050-7361-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writers on Writing Vol. II: More Collected Essays from the New York Times'Book summary:Todays most celebrated writers explore the literary life in a second collection of inspiring and eye-opening essays[via]
In a second volume of original essays drawn from the long-running New York Times column, Writers on Writing brings together another group of contemporary literatures finest voices to muse on the challenges and gifts of language and creativity.
The pieces ranges from taciturn, hilarious advice for aspiring writers to thoughtful, soul-wrenching reflections on writing in the midst of national tragedy. William Kennedy talks about the intersecting lives of real and imagined Albany politics; Susan Isaacs reveals her nostalgia for a long-retired protaganist; and Elmore Leonard offers pithy rules for letting the writing, and not the writer, take charge. Writers on Writing offers an uncommon and revealing view of the writers world.
Contributors include Diane Ackerman, Margaret Atwood, Ann Beattie, Geraldine Brooks, Frank Conroy, Chitra Divakaruni, Allegra Goodman, Kathryn Harrison, Mary Karr, Patrick McGrath, Arthur Miller, P. J. ORourke, Anna Quinlan, Amy Tan, and Edmund White.More editions of Writers on Writing Vol. II: More Collected Essays from the New York Times:
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