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Apuleiusby Apuleius, J. Arthur HansonISBN 0674994981 (0-674-99498-1)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apuleius'Book summary:In the Metamorphoses of ApuleiusThe Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic.
The hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of a bird, resorts to witchcraft but by an unfortunate pharmaceutical error finds himself transformed into an ass. He knows he can revert to his own body by eating rose-petals, but these prove singularly elusive; and the bulk of the work describes his adventures as an animal. He also retails many stories that he overheard, the most charming being that of Cupid and Psyche (beginning, in true fairy-tale fashion, 'Erant in quadam civitate rex et regina'). Some of the stories are as indecent as they are witty, and two in the ninth book were deemed by Boccaccio worthy of inclusion in the Decameron. At last the goddess Isis takes pity on Lucius. In a surprising denouement, he is restored to human shape and, now spiritually regenerated, is initiated into her mysteries. The author's baroque Latin style nicely matches his fantastic narrative and is guaranteed to hold a reader's attention from beginning to end.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Apuleius is in two volumes.
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Apuleius Metamorphosesby Apuleius, J. Arthur HansonISBN 0674990498 (0-674-99049-8)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apuleius Metamorphoses'Book summary:In the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, also known as The Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic. The hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of a bird, resorts to witchcraft but by an unfortunate pharmaceutical error finds himself transformed into an ass. He knows he can revert to his own body by eating rose-petals, but these prove singularly elusive; and the bulk of the work describes his adventures as an animal. He also retails many stories that he overheard, the most charming being that of Cupid and Psyche (beginning, in true fairy-tale fashion, ' Erant in quadam civitate rex et regina '). Some of the stories are as indecent as they are witty, and two in the ninth book were deemed by Boccaccio worthy of inclusion in the Decameron. At last the goddess Isis takes pity on Lucius. In a surprising denouement, he is restored to human shape and, now spiritually regenerated, is initiated into her mysteries. The author's baroque Latin style nicely matches his fantastic narrative and is guaranteed to hold a reader's attention from beginning to end. J. Arthur Hanson was at the time of his death in 1985 Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University. His publications include Roman Theater-Temples. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Apuleius is in two volumes. [via]
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Arsenic and Old Laceby Joseph KesselringISBN 0822200651 (0-8222-0065-1)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arsenic and Old Lace'Book summary:Arsenic and Old Lace: A Play in Three Acts (Dramatists Play Service) [via]
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Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parodyby Michael GerberISBN 0575074973 (0-575-07497-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parodyby Michael Gerber, Rodger RoundyISBN 0743244281 (0-7432-4428-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequelby Michael GerberISBN 0575075589 (0-575-07558-9)
Hardcover, Victor Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel'Book summary:The title says it all: Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel is Michael Gerber's needless follow-up to Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody. Who needs a second raucous spoof of Harry Potter? Ask Mr Gerber's publishers and bank manager...
Boy wizard Barry Trotter is now 38 and long married to his over-achieving schoolmate Ermine. With serious hairline problems and two kids (Nigel and Fiona), he's grown quite chummy with his old nemesis Lord Valumart, and is a far cry from the idealised Barry in bestsellers by "JG Rollins":
Not that Barry was a bad fellow--he was always ready to tell a fictitious story, dispense bad advice or lend an inexpert hand. It's just that he was sort of a loose cannon. A very loose, very, very big cannon that fired nuclear-tipped artillery shells. Into heavily populated areas. At dinner time.
Now it's young Nigel's turn to endure "The Obligatory Train-Platform Chapter" and become a first-year pupil at the famous wizarding school Hogwash, while his parents tag along for the old students' reunion. Gerber has fun sending up the lake journey, the banquet, the Sorting (sorry, Picking) Hat and other familiar props.When the current Headmaster comes to a very messy end, it has to be foul play, probably by the author. Barry unwisely takes over as interim head, while Nigel suffers squalid agonies at the bottom of the Hogwash pecking order. The mystery grows deeper, also ruder and grosser, as Barry himself is cursed with "youthanasia"--doomed to become forever younger until he painfully implodes into nothingness. A badly disguised "stranger" on the Hogwash staff is evidently implicated, but as usual our chums are too busy suspecting Professor Snipe...
The farrago lurches onward until, at last: "This is the part in the book where the villain explains his plan!" En route, Unnecessary Sequel offers more sleaze, innuendo, cheap shots, bad taste and bodily fluids than you could shake a broomstick at. If you enjoyed what Bored of the Rings did to Tolkien, you'll enjoy this as outrageous, irreverent fun. --David Langford [via]
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Callahan's Crosstime Saloonby Spider RobinsonISBN 0812572270 (0-8125-7227-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Candideby Francois M. Voltaire, Diane Johnson, Peter ConstantineISBN 0812972015 (0-8129-7201-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
Candideby O. R. Taylor, Francois M. Voltaire, Haydn MasonISBN 0631004009 (0-631-00400-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Candideby Voltaire, Rockwell KentISBN 0679642587 (0-679-64258-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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Candide : Or, Optimismby Peter Constantine, Voltaire, Diane JohnsonISBN 0679643133 (0-679-64313-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide : Or, Optimism'Book summary:In this splendid new translation of Voltaires satiric masterpiece, all the celebrated wit, irony, and trenchant social commentary of one of the great works of the Enlightenment is restored and refreshed.
Voltaire may have cast a jaundiced eye on eighteenth-century Europea place that was definitely not the best of all possible worlds. But amid its decadent society, despotic rulers, civil and religious wars, and other ills, Voltaire found a mother lode of comic material. And this is why Peter Constantines thoughtful translation is such a pleasure, presenting all the books subtlety and ribald joys precisely as Voltaire had intended.
The globe-trotting misadventures of the youthful Candide; his tutor, Dr. Pangloss; Martin, and the exceptionally trouble-prone object of Candides affections, Cunégonde, as they brave exile, destitution, cannibals, and numerous deprivation, provoke both belly laughs and deep contemplation about the roles of hope and suffering in human life.
The transformation of Candides outlook from panglossian optimism to realism neatly lays out Voltaires philosophythat even in Utopia, life is less about happiness than survivalbut not before providing us with one of literatures great and rare pleasures. [via]More editions of Candide : Or, Optimism:
Casual Day Has Gone Too Farby Scott AdamsISBN 0836228995 (0-8362-2899-5)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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The Cat-Nappers: A Jeeves and Bertie Storyby Pelham Grenville WodehouseISBN 0671219723 (0-671-21972-3)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat-Nappers: A Jeeves and Bertie Story'Book summary:Subjects: Wooster, Bertie (Fictitious character) --Fiction. Jeeves (Fictitious character) --Fiction. Valets--Fiction. [via]
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Cliffscomplete King Henry IVby Sidney Lamb, Michael McMahonISBN 0764585703 (0-7645-8570-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffscomplete King Henry IV'Book summary:In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.[via]CliffsComplete King Henry IV, Part 1 follows the play's alternating comic and serious scenes as a young prince rebels against his father, who happens to be king, until he must go to the king's aid to stamp out the rebellion of nobles.
Discover a story of self-sacrifice and meet one of the theatre's most enduring comic characters, Falstaff and save valuable studying time all at once. Enhance your reading of King Henry IV with these additional features:
- A summary and insightful commentary for each chapter
- Bibliography and historical background on the author, William Shakespeare
- A look at Early Modern England intellectual, religious, political, and social context
- Coverage of key themes and use of language within the work
- A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
- Review questions, a quiz, discussion guide, and activity ideas
- A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Web sites
Streamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides!
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Cliffsnotes Candideby Francois Marie ArouetISBN 0822002833 (0-8220-0283-3)
Softcover, Cliff Notes
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffsnotes Candide'Book summary:The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.[via]CliffsNotes on Candide explores the best known philosophic tale from Voltaire. The tale is a vehicle for his profoundest views on politics, religion, and philosophy. At the same time, it is an adventure tale about a young hero who travels far and wide and experiences great dangers.
With this study guide, youll see why Voltaire is considered among the greatest satirists in literature. Along with detailed explanations of the plot, your understanding will increase with insight into the life and times of the author. Other features that help you study include
- Background on Voltaires contemporaries and influences
- Character analyses of major players
- A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
- Critical essays
- Review questions
Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
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The Complete Far Side: Leather Boundby Gary Larson, Steve MartinISBN 0740743619 (0-7407-4361-9)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Far Side: Leather Bound'Book summary:Gary Larson calls The Complete Far Side, the massive two-volume collection of his Far Side cartoons, an "18-pound hernia giver." Sure to give any coffee table a solid workout, the handsome and heavy 1,250-page "legacy book" is a must for fervent fans; over 4,300 single-panel comics with more than half in color and 1,100 that have not appeared in any book form before (the popular--and far less weighty--paperback collections).
Set in rough chronological order, the comics share pages with occasional letters from fans, detractors, editors, folks made famous by a particular cartoon, and those begging for explanations. Though few explanations are provided (Larson personally supplies merely one, plus a single apology), this collection helps answer the inevitable "how do you think up these things" conundrum. Before each year's cartoons, Larson provides insight with essays about his childhood, various travels, occupational hazards, and his official rules for dealing with bedtime monsters (which often turned out to be his older brother). Most wonderful is the first essay on how the comic started. (His longtime editor Jake Morrissey's long introduction is a must read on The Far Side's story).
Despite no central characters, it's easy to spot patterns in Larson's wild and wacky cartoons. Animals, insects, and inanimate objects often exhibit all-too-human impulses. Larson's subjects are often in scenes of peril--disasters, visits to hell, and perhaps a hundred cartoons set on a one-palm tree deserted island. It is what Larson's fertile imagination mined from those situations that created fans and enemies for 14 years. (Larson retired at his peak and then went into jazz music). The comics are not indexed (how could they be--first lines? listings of cartoons with cows?); finding a favorite requires a great memory for its publication date. Best simply to peruse the pages of this beautiful collection in which you will certainly find more than a few new chuckles before landing on your beloved Larson sketch. --Doug Thomas [via]
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The Complete Far Side: 1980-1994by Gary Larson, Steve MartinISBN 0740721135 (0-7407-2113-5)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Far Side: 1980-1994'Book summary:Gary Larson calls The Complete Far Side, the massive two-volume collection of his Far Side cartoons, an "18-pound hernia giver." Sure to give any coffee table a solid workout, the handsome and heavy 1,250-page "legacy book" is a must for fervent fans; over 4,300 single-panel comics with more than half in color and 1,100 that have not appeared in any book form before (the popular--and far less weighty--paperback collections).
Set in rough chronological order, the comics share pages with occasional letters from fans, detractors, editors, folks made famous by a particular cartoon, and those begging for explanations. Though few explanations are provided (Larson personally supplies merely one, plus a single apology), this collection helps answer the inevitable "how do you think up these things" conundrum. Before each year's cartoons, Larson provides insight with essays about his childhood, various travels, occupational hazards, and his official rules for dealing with bedtime monsters (which often turned out to be his older brother). Most wonderful is the first essay on how the comic started. (His longtime editor Jake Morrissey's long introduction is a must read on The Far Side's story).
Despite no central characters, it's easy to spot patterns in Larson's wild and wacky cartoons. Animals, insects, and inanimate objects often exhibit all-too-human impulses. Larson's subjects are often in scenes of peril--disasters, visits to hell, and perhaps a hundred cartoons set on a one-palm tree deserted island. It is what Larson's fertile imagination mined from those situations that created fans and enemies for 14 years. (Larson retired at his peak and then went into jazz music). The comics are not indexed (how could they be--first lines? listings of cartoons with cows?); finding a favorite requires a great memory for its publication date. Best simply to peruse the pages of this beautiful collection in which you will certainly find more than a few new chuckles before landing on your beloved Larson sketch. --Doug Thomas [via]
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Complete Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0809590646 (0-8095-9064-6)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Dilbert Gives You the Businessby Scott AdamsISBN 0740700030 (0-7407-0003-0)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Every Man in His Humourby Ben JonsonISBN 0713643978 (0-7136-4397-8)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Far Side Gallery 4by Gary LarsonISBN 0836217241 (0-8362-1724-1)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Far Side Gallery 4'Book summary:This is a compilation of cartoons from three best-selling Far Side collections, Wildlife Preserves, Wiener Dog Art, and Unnatural Selections, featuring more than 20 full-color pages. [via]
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The Far Side Observerby Gary LarsonISBN 0836220986 (0-8362-2098-6)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Far Side Observer'Book summary:The Far Side® and the Larson® signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc. [via]
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dreamby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0679785892 (0-679-78589-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream'Book summary:Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the ne plus ultra of Hunter S. Thompson and the whole gonzo clan he spawned. Written in the lurid afterglow of the 1960s, Fear and Loathing is a loosely connected series of mad dashes across the desert, trashed hotel rooms, and goofs on the brutish, naïve, or merely unhip, perpetrated by Thompson and his mammoth Samoan attorney. The pair start out high on a medicine cabinet's worth of elixirs, powders, and pills, and stay that way for 200 pages. They careen through an unsettling landscape of paranoia and alienation, but that doesn't mean the book isn't a riot. Here's a small taste: "By this time, the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a tolerable level. The room service waiter had a vaguely reptilian cast to his features, but I was no longer seeing huge pterodactyls lumbering around the corridors in pools of fresh blood."
Though somewhat dated (it appeared serially in Rolling Stone throughout November 1971), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a book of real vitality and Rabelaisian wit. A document of the counterculture after it was well past ripe and deep into rot, the book is a wild ride, a paranoid ramble that is thoroughly exhilarating and worth the trip. No pun intended. [via]
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories, Tie-In Editionby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0679602984 (0-679-60298-4)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories, Tie-In Edition'Book summary:Dr. Thompson made the list of inspirational scribes when I polled in a recent writing workshop, and why not? Back in a spiffy Modern Library edition, replete with additional essays, I find in this iconographic work that HST both invoked--and provoked--an era that was not so much the '60s proper, but rather the mean, shadow-filled death of that time, which is still playing out. Thank God Thompson was there to explode the myth of "objective" journalism and help pave the way for the pens and voices that followed. [via]
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Four Blondesby Candace BushnellISBN 080213825X (0-8021-3825-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Blondes'Book summary:Candace Bushnell made her reputation as the creator of the HBO special Sex and the City, based on her book of the same name (based in turn on her eros-intensive New York Observer column). In Four Blondes, she returns with a quartet of novellas on her favorite subject--the mating habits of wealthy sex-, status-, and media-obsessed New Yorkers. These are people for whom a million or two does not make one rich, and who consider Louis Vuitton and Prada bare necessities. Janey Wilcox, for example, is a former model who each summer chooses a house in the Hamptons--or, rather, picks up a wealthy man with a pricey rental. With one movie in her past, her "lukewarm celebrity was established and she figured out pretty quickly that it could get her things and keep on getting them, as long as she maintained her standards." Yet even Janey eventually realizes that what she's getting isn't exactly what she wants. Cecelia, on the other hand, has gotten the ultimate prize: a royal husband. Still, she finds herself descending into paranoia as the Manhattan media circus reports her every flaw. Then there's Winnie Diekes, a high-powered magazine columnist whose marriage flounders as she pushes her unambitious husband to write the book that will make him--and her--famous.
Finally, in the most clearly autobiographical story, a writer gives up on the commitment-impaired men of New York and goes to London to find a husband. There she trolls for the typical Englishman--"a guy who had sex with his socks on, possessed a microscopic willy, and came in two minutes." Bushnell is famous for this sort of sexual brashness, and the book is full of her sharp wit, both in and out of the boudoir. She also clearly enjoys her characters and their misadventures, with one exception: the politically correct Winnie, with her distaste for alcohol, night life, and casual sex, inspires an odd sort of authorial contempt. Otherwise, though, Bushnell's ironic takes on the sexual foibles of the rich and famous are mordant, mischievous fun. --Lesley Reed [via]
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The Funny Thing Is...by Ellen DegeneresISBN 0743247639 (0-7432-4763-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Funny Thing Is...'Book summary:Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...and I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this book. After years of painstaking, round-the-clock research, surviving on a mere twenty minutes of sleep a night, and collaborating with lexicographers, plumbers, and mathematicians, DeGeneres has crafted a book that is both easy to use and very funny. Along with her trademark ramblings, The Funny Thing Is... contains hundreds of succinct insights into her psyche, supplemented by easy-to-understand charts, graphs, and diagrams so that you'll never miss a joke. Overseeing all aspects of production, DeGeneres labored over details both significant and insignificant, including typefaces, page number placement, and which of the thousands of world languages to use. Ultimately she selected English, as it's her mother tongue, but translations into Hindi and Pig Latin are already in the works. DeGeneres takes an innovative approach to the organization of her book by utilizing a section in the beginning that includes the name of each chapter, along with a corresponding page number. She calls it the "Table of Contents," and she is confident that it will become the standard to which all books in the future will aspire. Some of the other innovative features you'll find in this edition: ? More than 50,000 simple, short words arranged in sentences that form paragraphs. ? Thousands of observations on everyday life -- from terrible fashion trends to how to handle seating arrangements for a Sunday brunch with Paula Abdul, Diane Sawyer, and Eminem. ? All twenty-six letters of the alphabet. Sure to make you laugh, The Funny Thing Is... is an indispensable reference for anyone who knows how to read or wants to fool people into thinking they do. [via]
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Gargantua and Pantagruelby Francois Rabelais, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony MotteuxISBN 0760763143 (0-7607-6314-3)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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The Golden Ass, Or, The Metamorphosesby Apuleius, William AdlingtonISBN 0760755981 (0-7607-5598-1)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marxby Groucho MarxISBN 0671639633 (0-671-63963-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx'Book summary:No personage is too big, no nuance too small, no subject too far out for Groucho's spontaneous, hilarious, and ferocious typewriter. He writes to comics, corporations, children, presidents, and even his daughter's boyfriend. Here is Groucho swapping photos with T. S. Eliot ("I had no idea you were so handsome!"); advising his son on courting a rich dame ("Don't come out bluntly and say, 'How much dough have you got?' That wouldn't be the Marxian way"); crisply declining membership in a Hollywood club ("I don't care to belong to any social organization that will accept me as a member"); reacting with utmost composure when informed that he has been made into a verb by James Joyce ("There's no reason why I shouldn't appear in Finnegans Wake. I'm certainly as bewildered about life as Joyce was"); responding to a scandal sheet ("Gentleman: If you continue to publish slanderous pieces about me, I shall feel compelled to cancel my subscription"); describing himself to the Lunts ("I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there"); and much, much more. That mobile visage, that look of wild amazement, and that weaving cigar are wholly captured, bound but untamed, in The Groucho Letters. [via]
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The Growing Pains of Adrian Moleby Sue TownsendISBN 0613684273 (0-613-68427-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Henry Vby William ShakespeareISBN 0671415212 (0-671-41521-2)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry IV'Book summary:FOLGER Shakespeare Library
THE WORLD'S LEADING CENTER FOR SHAKESPEARE STUDIES
Each edition includes:
· Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
· Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
· Scene-by-scene plot summaries
· A key to famous lines and phrases
· An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
· An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
· Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Alexander Leggatt
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]
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Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Henry V: ISBN 0671722638 (0-671-72263-8)
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The History of Henry the Fourth, Part 1by William ShaespeareISBN 0671733559 (0-671-73355-9)
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How to Be an Alienby George MikesISBN 0582416868 (0-582-41686-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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I Rant, Therefore I Amby Dennis MillerISBN 076790575X (0-7679-0575-X)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pitsby Erma BombeckISBN 0816166137 (0-8161-6613-7)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Jeeves and the Tie That Bindsby Pelham Grenville WodehouseISBN 0743203623 (0-7432-0362-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Jeeves, who has saved Bertie Wooster so often in the past, may finally prove to be the unwitting cause of this young master's undoing in Jeeves and the Tie that Binds. The Junior Ganymede, a club for butlers in London's fashionable West End, requires every member to provide details about the fellow he is working for. When information is inadvertently revealed to a dangerous source, it falls to Jeeves to undo the damage. [via]
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Journey to Cubevilleby Scott AdamsISBN 0836267451 (0-8362-6745-1)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to Cubeville'Book summary:Dilbert creator Scott Adams has something special for everyone who thinks their workplace is a living monument to inefficiency ... or, for those who have been led to believe unnecessary work is like popcorn for the soul.Empathy.He also offers Journey to Cubeville, his latest book in a long line of enormously successful humor collections. In cartoons selected from his cartoon strip, which now appears in more than 1,700 newspapers, Adams lampoons everything in the business world that drives the sane worker into the land of the lunacy: -- Network administrators who have the power to paralyze an entire business with a mere keystroke-- Accountants who force you to battle ferociously to get reimbursed for a $2.59 ham sandwich you scarfed while traveling-- Managers obsessed with perfect-attendance certificates, dead-end projects, and blocking employees from fun web sites and decent office supplies-- Companies spending piles of dough on projects deeply rooted in stupidity, as well as a myriad of stupid consultantsThe former occupant of cubicle 4S700R at Pacific Bell, Adams continues to produce dollar-drawing book after book by cutting through the corporatese that plagues us all. He shows no tolerance for inept business initiatives, brain-dead coworkers, and mission statements laced with double-talk.Case in point: While recently posing as a top-notch business consultant, Adams led an unwitting audience in drafting a new mission statement for a Silicon Valley technology company. "(Our) mission is to scout profitable growth opportunities in relationships, both internally and externally, in emerging, mission-inclusive markets, and explore new paradigms and then filter and communicate and evangelize the findings". It was only afterward, when he let them in on the joke, that they realized he was pulling their collective leg.And so goes the ever-evolving legacy of the creator of today's most popular cartoon strip -- one that continues to grow with each passing month. [via]
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Journey to Cubeville No. 12: A Dilbert Bookby Scott AdamsISBN 0836271750 (0-8362-7175-0)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Empathy.
He also offers Journey to Cubeville, his latest book in a long line of enormously successful humor collections. In cartoons selected from his cartoon strip, which now appears in more than 1,700 newspapers, Adams lampoons everything in the business world that drives the sane worker into the land of the lunacy:
-- Network administrators who have the power to paralyze an entire business with a mere keystroke
-- Accountants who force you to battle ferociously to get reimbursed for a $2.59 ham sandwich you scarfed while traveling
-- Managers obsessed with perfect-attendance certificates, dead-end projects, and blocking employees from fun web sites and decent office supplies
-- Companies spending piles of dough on projects deeply rooted in stupidity, as well as a myriad of stupid consultantsThe former occupant of cubicle 4S700R at Pacific Bell, Adams continues to produce dollar-drawing book after book by cutting through the corporatese that plagues us all. He shows no tolerance for inept business initiatives, brain-dead coworkers, and mission statements laced with double-talk.
Case in point: While recently posing as a top-notch business consultant, Adams led an unwitting audience in drafting a new mission statement for a Silicon Valley technology company. "(Our) mission is to scout profitable growth opportunities in relationships, both internally and externally, in emerging, mission-inclusive markets, and explore new paradigms and then filter and communicate and evangelize the findings". It was only afterward, when he let them in on the joke, that they realized he was pulling their collective leg.
And so goes the ever-evolving legacy of the creator of today's most popular cartoon strip -- one that continues to grow with each passing month. At last count, more than 150 million fans all over the globe read his strip every year. These readers will no doubt enthusiastically feast their eyes on Journey to Cubeville like manna from a heaven that's mission statement-free. [via]
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King Henry IVby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0819139262 (0-8191-3926-2)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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Knees Up Mother Earthby Robert RankinISBN 0575076496 (0-575-07649-6)
Softcover, Victor Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Knees Up Mother Earth'Book summary:Developers are planning to destroy Brentford's beloved football grounds. Something must be done, and the lads of The Flying Swan, Brentfords celebrated drinking house, take up the challenge. Norman has recently discovered a Victorian computer that holds the secrets of the super-technology of a bygone age, and Archroy, Brentfords lone explorer, has just returned from his seventh voyage, bringing with him the fabled Golden Fleece. Surely, with these stalwarts working for the cause, the field is as good as saved. But this is Brentford, and the ancient forces of evilOld Testament horrors, beasties from the bottomless pit, that sort of evilare stirring.[via]More editions of Knees Up Mother Earth:
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Lake Wobegon Daysby Garrison KeillorISBN 0670805149 (0-670-80514-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Love's Labour's Lost, the Winter's Tale, Othello, King Henryby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0819139289 (0-8191-3928-9)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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M*A*S*Hby Richard HookerISBN 0671479989 (0-671-47998-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, "a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees."
For fans of the movie and the series alike, here is the original version of that perfectly corrupt football game, those martini-laced mornings and sexual escapades, and that unforgettable foray into assisted if incompleted suicide--all as funny and poignant now as they were before they became a part of America's culture and heart. [via]
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Making History : A Novelby Stephen FryISBN 0679459553 (0-679-45955-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making History : A Novel'Book summary:Those of us who have already discovered Stephen Fry know him as the brilliant British comedian behind TV series such as Jeeves & Wooster and Blackadder, and the author of two enormously funny novels, The Liar and The Hippopotamus. But his new film (in which he plays Oscar Wilde) and his new novel (this one) represent a somewhat alarming departure from his previous work: They're more serious. Though humor is still an essential ingredient of both, Fry's fans are finally getting to witness the emotional depth that this brilliant polymath usually keeps hidden.
In Making History, Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an at first deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, one would reason--and so an earnest history grad student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to bring this about by preventing Adolf's conception. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours--but in most ways even worse. Fry's experiment in history makes for his most ambitious novel yet, and his most affecting. His first book to be set mostly in America, it is a thriller with a funny streak, a futuristic fantasy based on one of mankind's darkest realities. It is, in every sense, a story of our times. [via]More editions of Making History : A Novel:
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Mashby Richard HookerISBN 0688149553 (0-688-14955-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, "a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees."
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The Middle Class Gentlemanby MoliereISBN 0812001362 (0-8120-0136-2)
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Monty Python's Big Red Bookby Monty PythonISBN 0749311738 (0-7493-1173-8)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Nice Workby David LodgeISBN 0670828068 (0-670-82806-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Night of the Crash-Test Dummiesby Gary LarsonISBN 0836220498 (0-8362-2049-8)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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No Nudes Is Good Nudesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0671204645 (0-671-20464-5)
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Pantagruel Gargantuaby Francois Rabelais, Thomas UrquhartISBN 0679431373 (0-679-43137-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Past Mortemby Ben EltonISBN 0593050967 (0-593-05096-7)
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Periclesby William ShakespeareISBN 0671669141 (0-671-66914-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles'Book summary:Controversy has surrounded Pericles for centuries, due to the fact that critics and editors have argued that much of the play was written between 1607 and 1608 by one of Shakespeare's inferior collaborators, and that it shows in both its style and content. However, Shakespeare was clearly the driving force behind the play, and it is important to remember that it was one of the most popular plays of its time.
Famous for its resurrection of John Gower, the 14th-century English writer, who acts as the play's chorus, Pericles is a play which is obsessed with incest. The dramatic action begins in Antioch, where Pericles travels to solve the riddle of King Antiochus, who "to incest did provoke" his daughter. When Pericles realises Antiochus' terrible secret, he flees, wandering the seas, where he meets his wife Thaisa, who apparently dies whilst giving birth to her daughter Marina during a terrible storm. Pericles' grief is compounded by the apparent death of his daughter whilst staying at Tarsus some months later. She has in fact been sold into sexual slavery, and as Pericles resumes his wanderings, 16 years later Marina battles to retain her "peevish chastity". As with many of Shakespeare's later plays, or romances, recognition and reunion occurs in the most unlikely of circumstances. Despite questions of authorship and textual corruption, Pericles continues to fascinate audiences and critics with its dark and ambivalent account of the relations between fathers and daughters. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Pericles, Prince of Tyreby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 074327329X (0-7432-7329-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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- Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
- Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
- Scene-by-scene plot summaries
- A key to famous lines and phrases
- An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
- An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for a Floating Lady, Waspby Steve MartinISBN 0802135234 (0-8021-3523-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Real Inspector Hound: And Other Entertainmentsby Tom StoppardISBN 0571165710 (0-571-16571-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays: And Other Playsby Tom StoppardISBN 0802135617 (0-8021-3561-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Roaring Girlby Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Elizabeth CookISBN 071366813X (0-7136-6813-X)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observationsby Al FrankenISBN 0788161857 (0-7881-6185-7)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"by Bill WattersonISBN 0836218787 (0-8362-1878-7)
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Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960sby Gerald NachmanISBN 0823047865 (0-8230-4786-5)
Softcover, Watson-Guptill Pubns
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Sewer, Gas & Electricby Matt RuffISBN 0802141552 (0-8021-4155-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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High above Manhattan android and human steelworkers are constructing a new Tower of Babel for billionaire Harry Gant, as a monument to humanity's power to dream. In the festering sewers below a darker game is afoot: a Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Gant's crusading ex-wife, Joan Fine, has been hired to find out why. The year is 2023, and Ayn Rand has been resurrected and bottled in a hurricane lamp to serve as Joan's assistant; an eco-terrorist named Philo Dufrense travels in a pink-and-green submarine designed by Howard Hughes; a Volkswagen Beetle is possessed by the spirit of Abbie Hoffman; Meisterbrau, a mutant great white shark, is running loose in the sewers beneath Times Square; and a one-armed 181-year-old Civil War veteran joins Joan and Ayn in their quest for the truth. All of whom, and many more besides, are caught up in a vast conspiracy involving Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and a mob of homicidal robots.More editions of Sewer, Gas & Electric:
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifestoby Chuck KlostermanISBN 0743236017 (0-7432-3601-7)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto'Book summary:There's quite a bit of intelligent analysis and thought-provoking insight packed into the pages of Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, which is a little surprising considering how darn stupid most of Klosterman's subject matter actually is. Klosterman, one of the few members of the so-called "Generation X" to proudly embrace that label and the stereotypical image of disaffected slackers that often accompanies it, takes the reader on a witty and highly entertaining tour through portions of pop culture not usually subjected to analysis and presents his thoughts on Saved by the Bell, Billy Joel, amateur porn, MTV's The Real World, and much more. It would be easy in dealing with such subject matter to simply pile on some undergraduate level deconstruction, make a few jokes, and have yourself a clever little book. But Klosterman goes deeper than that, often employing his own life spent as a member of the lowbrow target demographic to measure the cultural impact of his subjects. While the book never quite lives up to the use of the word "manifesto" in the title (it's really more of a survey mixed with elements of memoir), there is much here to entertain and illuminate, particularly passages on the psychoses and motivations of breakfast cereal mascots, the difference between Celtic fans and Laker fans, and The Empire Strikes Back. Sections on a Guns n' Roses tribute band, The Sims, and soccer feel more like magazine pieces included to fill space than part of a cohesive whole. But when you're talking about a book based on a section of cultural history so reliant on a lack of attention span, even the incongruities feel somehow appropriate. --John Moe [via]
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Shakespeare Set Free Pt. 1: Hamlet and Henry IVby Peggy O'Brien, Jane Rosenman, William ShakespeareISBN 0671760483 (0-671-76048-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Something Under the Bed Is Droolingby Bill WattersonISBN 0836218256 (0-8362-1825-6)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Troilus and Cressidaby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743273311 (0-7432-7331-1)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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Within the walls of Troy, Prince Troilus falls madly in love with Cressida, daughter of the deserter Calchas. His love is intense and frenetic--"I am giddy, expectation whirls round me," but turns to bitter disillusion when Cressida defects to the Greek camp and flirts with Diomedes. As the war and conflict over the abduction of Helen whirls around the doomed romance, the play delights in its complex syntax and cynical images of waste, decay, corruption and mutability, summed up in Ulysses' comment that, "Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all / To envious and calumniating time." The play's cynical open-ended quality has frustrated many readers, but gives the play a remarkably modern, contemporary sensibility. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Uncle Fred in the Springtimeby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0671203096 (0-671-20309-6)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Volponeby Ben Jonson, Robert N. WatsonISBN 0713654333 (0-7136-5433-3)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Volpone Or, the Foxby Ben Jonson, R.B. ParkerISBN 0719015294 (0-7190-1529-4)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Way of the Worldby William CongreveISBN 0713666625 (0-7136-6662-5)
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Wiredby Bob WoodwardISBN 0671640771 (0-671-64077-1)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0600393720 (0-600-39372-0)
Hardcover, Spring Books
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