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1984, Spring: A Choice of Futuresby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0345313577 (0-345-31357-7)
Hardcover, Ballantyne Books
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984, Spring: A Choice of Futures'Book summary:1984: Spring/A Choice of Futures, by Clarke, Arthur C. [via]
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American Godsby Neil GaimanISBN 0380789035 (0-380-78903-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Gods'Book summary:American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.
Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.
Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.
More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Aristophanes Birdsby Nan DunbarISBN 0198150830 (0-19-815083-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristophanes Birds'Book summary:This is the first comprehensive edition in any language of the Birds, a play generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces--both for its imaginative plot and for the charm and originality of its lyrics. The commentary gives generous help with the translation, for the less advanced student of Greek, and also with interpretation and the lyric meters, as well as fully discussing the staging. The introduction discusses the nature of the play; its historical and mythological background; the history of the text, including the contributions of ancient scholars recorded in the scholia, which are exceptionally important in this play; and also more recent scholarship. [via]
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Aunts Aren't Gentlemenby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0214200477 (0-214-20047-7)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aunts Aren't Gentlemen'Book summary:A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster retires to the village of Maiden Eggesford for some rest and quiet, but the presence of Aunt Dahlia shatters the peace as a confused situation develops. From the author of JEEVES IN THE OFFING and FEUDAL SPIRIT. [via]
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Ben Jonsonby Ben JonsonISBN 0300015127 (0-300-01512-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Ben Jonson Volponeby Ben JonsonISBN 0300001398 (0-300-00139-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ben Jonson Volpone'Book summary:Renaissance comedy, first performed in 1605. Includes complete text in modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction. From the Yale Ben Jonson edition. [via]
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The Big Uby Neal StephensonISBN 0380816032 (0-380-81603-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Big U'Book summary:The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.
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Bimbos Of The Death Sunby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0345483022 (0-345-48302-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bimbos Of The Death Sun'Book summary:"Sharyn McCrumb is a born storyteller."
*Mary Higgins Clark
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD!
"Sharyn McCrumb has few equals and no superiors among today's novelists."
*San Diego Union-Tribune
For one fateful weekend, the annual science fiction and fantasy convention, Rubicon, has all but taken over a usually ordinary hotel. Now the halls are alive with Trekkies, tech nerds, and fantasy gamers in their Viking finery *all of them eager to hail their hero, bestselling fantasy author Appin Dungannon: a diminutive despot whose towering ego more than compensates for his 5' 1" height . . . and whose gleeful disdain for his fawning fans is legendary.
Hurling insults and furniture with equal abandon, the terrible, tiny author proceeds to alienate ersatz aliens and make-believe warriors at warp speed. But somewhere between the costume contest and the exhibition Dungeons & Dragons game, Dungannon gets done in. While die-hard fans of Dungannon's seemingly endless sword-and-sorcery series wonder how they'll go on and hucksters wonder how much they can get for the dead man's autograph, a hapless cop wonders, Who would want to kill Appin Dungannon? But the real question, as the harried convention organizers know, is Who wouldn't ?
"I loved BIMBOS OF THE DEATH SUN . . . Beautifully observed, funny, nicely constructed, even compassionate."
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Candideby Francois M. Voltaire, Michael Wood, Theo CuffeISBN 0143039423 (0-14-303942-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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: ISBN 0198323727 (0-19-832372-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Candide: ISBN 0300119879 (0-300-11987-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr - Candide and Other Stories: ISBN 0192817302 (0-19-281730-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Candide: ISBN 0312851901 (0-312-85190-1)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan - Candide: ISBN 0143039423 (0-14-303942-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Candide: ISBN 0198323727 (0-19-832372-7)
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Candideby Daniel Gordon, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0312148542 (0-312-14854-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Candide, Voltaire's biting portrayal of eighteenth-century European society, is a central text of the Enlightenment and essential reading for history students today. Preserving the text's provocative nature, Daniel Gordon's new translation enhances Candide's read-ability and highlights the text's wit and satire for twentieth-century readers. The introduction places the work and its author in historical context, showing students how the complexities of Voltaire's life relate to the events, philosophy, and characters of Candide. A related documents section - with personal correspondence to and from Voltaire - gives students another lens through which to view this influential thinker. Helpful editorial features include explanatory notes throughout the text and a chronology of Voltaire's life. [via]
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Candideby Burton Raffel, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0300106556 (0-300-10655-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.More editions of Candide:
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar Wilde, Ian Small, Russell Jackson, Bobby FongISBN 0198119607 (0-19-811960-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:This volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. It provides texts of Wilde's one-hundred and nineteen poems and poems in prose, including twenty-one never published in his lifetime, together with the publishing history of each poem, and a detailed commentary on allusions and echoes, imagery, and points of biographical interest. [via]
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The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, The 1890 and 1891 Textsby Oscar Wilde, Ian Small, Russell Jackson, Joseph BristowISBN 0198187726 (0-19-818772-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, The 1890 and 1891 Texts'Book summary:This is the third volume in the Oxford English Texts edition of the works of Oscar Wilde. This definitive variorum edition of Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray reprints the thirteen-chapter and twenty-chapter versions of this famous story as separate works. The volume provides readers with the most detailed account available of the considerable changes that Wilde made to a controversial narrative that appeared in two, very different editions in 1890 and 1891 respectively. [via]
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Timeby Mark HaddonISBN 0385659806 (0-385-65980-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'Book summary:Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christophers carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbors dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.
Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents marriage. As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn into the workings of Christophers mind.
And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddons choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of the freshest debuts in years: a comedy, a heartbreaker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read. [via]More editions of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time:
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: ISBN 0385512104 (0-385-51210-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: ISBN 0385509456 (0-385-50945-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: ISBN 0385659806 (0-385-65980-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: ISBN 0385512104 (0-385-51210-4)
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Dry: A Memoirby Augusten BurroughsISBN 0312423799 (0-312-42379-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dry: A Memoir'Book summary:Fans of Augusten Burroughs's darkly funny memoir Running with Scissors were left wondering at the end of that book what would become of young Augusten after his squalid and fascinating childhood ended. In Dry, we find that although adult Augusten is doing well professionally, earning a handsome living as an ad writer for a top New York agency, Burroughs's personal life is a disaster. His apartment is a sea of empty Dewar's bottles, he stays out all night boozing, and he dabs cologne on his tongue in an unsuccessful attempt to mask the stench of alcohol on his breath at work. When his employer insists he seek help, Burroughs ships out to Minnesota for detoxification, counseling, and amusingly told anecdotes about the use of stuffed animals in group therapy. But after a month of such treatment, he's back in Manhattan and tenuously sober. And while its one thing to lay off the sauce in rehab, Burroughs learns that it's quite another to resume your former life while avoiding the alcohol that your former life was based around. This quest to remain sober is made dramatically more difficult, and the tale more harrowing, when Burroughs begins an ill-advised romance with a crack addict. Certainly the "recovered alcoholic fighting to stay sober" tale is not new territory for a memoirist. But Burroughs's account transcends clichés: it doesn't adhere to the traditional "temptation narrowly resisted" storyline and it features, in Burroughs himself, a central character that is sympathetic even when he's neither likable nor admirable. But what ultimately makes this memoir such a terrific read is a brilliant and candid sense of humor that manages to stay dry even when recalling events where the author was anything but. --John Moe [via]
The Fandom of the Operatorby Robert RankinISBN 0385602561 (0-385-60256-1)
Hardcover, Transworld Pub
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Fast Womenby Jennifer CrusieISBN 0312980159 (0-312-98015-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Four Comediesby Plautus, Erich SegalISBN 0192838962 (0-19-283896-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Garfield Gains Weightby Jim DavisISBN 0345449754 (0-345-44975-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Gargantua and Pantagruelby Francois Rabelais, M. A. ScreechISBN 0140445501 (0-14-044550-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Golden Assby Apuleius, P.G. WalshISBN 0192838881 (0-19-283888-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Ass'Book summary:A frank and vivid modern version of one of the most diverting of all classics. Lindsays translation captures the genuine flavor, sharp dialogue, outrageous humor, racy delight and subtle style of Apuleius sophisticated masterpiece.
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- The Golden Ass: ISBN 0253200369 (0-253-20036-9)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr - The Golden Ass: ISBN 0140445242 (0-14-044524-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Golden Ass: ISBN 0192824929 (0-19-282492-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Golden Ass: ISBN 0198149328 (0-19-814932-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Golden Ass: ISBN 0192838881 (0-19-283888-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- The Golden Ass: ISBN 0253200369 (0-253-20036-9)
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The Golden Assby Robert Graves, ApuleiusISBN 0374505322 (0-374-50532-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Ass'Book summary:In all of literature, there are few books with the vitality of The Golden Ass. The story follows Lucius, a young man of good birth, as he disports himself in the cities and along the roads of Thessaly. This is a wonderful tale abounding in lusty incident, curious adventure and bawdy wit.Robert Graves (1895-1985) was a British poet, novelist, translator, and critic. His many books include the historical novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God, the autobiography Good-bye to All That, and the mythic/literary studies The White Goddess and The Greek Myths.In all of literature there are few books with the vitality of The Golden Ass. Boccaccio borrowed freely from it; and later it served both to amuse and to instruct Cervantes, Fielding, and Smollett. T. E. Lawrence carried it in his saddlebags all through the Arab Revolt, and it was Lawrence who first introduced the book to his friend Robert Graves.
The story is about Lucius Apuleius, a young man of good birth, who, while disporting himself in the cities and along the roads of Thessaly, encountered many diverting and strange adventures. Not the least of these was that Apuleius suffered the indignity of being turned into an ass after trying to steal a sorceress's magic. How Apuleius supported his misfortune and how he contrived to dedicate himself to the one goddess who could help him resume his human form make up the body of this tale. The Golden Ass is rich in lusty incident, curious adventure, and bawdy wit."Robert Graves' translation abandons the aureate latinity of Apuleius for a dry, sharp, plain stylewhich is itself a small masterpiece of twentieth-century prose."Kenneth Rexroth, Saturday Review[via]More editions of The Golden Ass:
The Goodies Fileby Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme GardenISBN 0297768166 (0-297-76816-6)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marxby Groucho MarxISBN 030680607X (0-306-80607-X)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: '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 Grouchos spontaneous, hilarious, and ferocious typewriter. He writes to comics, corporations, children, presidents, and even his daughters 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 ( Dont come out bluntly and say, How much dough have you got? That wouldnt be the Marxian way ); crisply declining membership in a Hollywood club ( I dont 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 ( Theres no reason why I shouldnt appear in Finnegans Wake. Im 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 doesnt 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]More editions of Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx:
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The Growing Pains of Adrian Moleby Sue TownsendISBN 0380704307 (0-380-70430-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole'Book summary:Adrian Mole faces the same agonies which life sets before most adolescents: troubles with girls, school, parents, and an uncaring world. The difference, though, between young Master Mole and his peers is that this British lad keeps a diary -- an earnest chronicle of longing and disaster that has convulsed more than five million readers since its two-volume initial publication. From teenaged Adrian's obsession with intellectuality after understanding "nearly every word" of a Malcolm Muggeridge broadcast to his anguished adoration of a lovely, mercurial schoolmate, from his view of his parents' constantly creaking relationship to his heartfelt but hilarious attempts at cathartic verse, here is an outrageous triumph of deadpan, and deadly accurate, satire. ABBA, Princess Di's wedding, street punks. Monty Python, the Falklands campaign -- all the cultural pageantry of a keenly observed era marches past the unique perspective of Sue Townsend's brilliant comic creation: A. Mole, the unforgettable lad whose self-absorption only gets funnier as his life becomes more desperate.
Adrian Mole faces the same agonies which life sets before most adolescents: troubles with girls, school, parents, and an uncaring world. The difference, though, between young Master Mole and his peers is that this British lad keeps a diary--an earnest chronicle of longing and disaster that has convulsed more than five million readers since its two-volume initial publication. From teenaged Adrian's obsession with intellectuality after understanding "nearly every word" of a Malcolm Muggeridge broadcast to his anguished adoration of a lovely, mercurial schoolmate, from his view of his parents' constantly creaking relationship to his heartfelt but hilarious attempts at cathartic verse, here is an outrageous triumph of deadpan, and deadly accurate, satire. ABBA, Princess Di's wedding, street punks, Monty Python, the Falklands campaign--all the cultural pageantry of a keenly observed era marches past the unique perspective of Sue Townsend's brilliant comic creation: A. Mole, the unforgettable lad whose self-absorption only gets funnier as his life becomes more desperate. [via]More editions of The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole:
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Henry the Fourth, Part One / William Shakespeare ; Fully Annotated, with an Introduction by Burton Raffel ; with an Essay by Harold Bloomby William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom, Burton RaffelISBN 030010815X (0-300-10815-X)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry the Fourth, Part One / William Shakespeare ; Fully Annotated, with an Introduction by Burton Raffel ; with an Essay by Harold Bloom'Book summary:While England is threatened by the Earl of Northumberland, Young Prince Hal cavorts in London's taverns, accompanied by the dissolute, entertaining Falstaff and his band of rogues. Much of this play's tension involves Prince Hal and Falstaff, as the former tries to live up to his duties and responsibilities. In creating Falstaff Shakespeare gave us one of the theater's most enduring and memorable characters.[via]More editions of Henry the Fourth, Part One / William Shakespeare ; Fully Annotated, with an Introduction by Burton Raffel ; with an Essay by Harold Bloom:
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Henry 4, Part 1by Roma GillISBN 019831969X (0-19-831969-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry 4, Part 1'Book summary:Written between 1596 and 1597, Henry IV Part One represents Shakespeare's increasingly mature talent in staging the history of the early Tudor monarchy. Midway in the cycle of Shakespeare's History Plays, which begin with Richard II and ultimately culminate in his last play, Henry VIII, Henry IV Part One tells the story of the troubled reign of Henry IV following his deposition of Richard II. The historical action revolves around the attempt by Henry Percy (known as Hotspur) to overthrow Henry at the Battle of Shrewsbury. However, over half the play deals with the transformation of Henry's profligate son, Prince Hal (the future King Henry V), from tavern joker to national icon.
The whole play is stolen from its kings and princes by Shakespeare's greatest comic creation, the "fat-kidneyed rascal" Sir John Falstaff, king of his own dominions--the taverns and brothels of London's Eastcheap district. The tavern scenes of the play are some of the most evocative accounts of 16th-century popular London life. They revolve around the comical but ultimately sinister relationship between Falstaff and his young apprentice Hal, who learns to "so offend to make offence a skill" as he learns the slippery ropes of realpolitik and kingship. The play is considered by many to be the liveliest and most profound of Shakespeare's History Plays, and remains one of its most popular examples. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Henry IV. Part 1by William Shakespeare, Claire McEachernISBN 0140714561 (0-14-071456-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry IV. Part 1'Book summary:During Shakespeare's lifetime, Henry IV was his most popular play. Today, Sir John Falstaff still towers above Shakespeare's other comic inventions. This edition considers the play in the context of various critical approaches, offers a history of the play in performance from Shakespeare's time to ours, and provides useful information on its historical background. Readers will also find detailed commentary on individual words and phrases, and selections from Shakespeare's sources. [via]
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- Henry IV: ISBN 0192834215 (0-19-283421-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Henry IV: ISBN 0198320582 (0-19-832058-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Henry IV. Part 1: ISBN 0312134029 (0-312-13402-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Henry IV. Part 1: ISBN 0198129157 (0-19-812915-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand - Henry IV. Part 1: ISBN 0140707182 (0-14-070718-2)
Softcover, Viking Pr - Henry IV. Part 1: ISBN 0140714073 (0-14-071407-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Henry IV: ISBN 0192814494 (0-19-281449-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Henry IV. Part 1: ISBN 0198319487 (0-19-831948-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Henry IV. Part 1: ISBN 0140714561 (0-14-071456-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Henry IV: ISBN 0192834215 (0-19-283421-5)
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I Rant, Therefore I Amby Dennis MillerISBN 0385495358 (0-385-49535-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Rant, Therefore I Am'Book summary:Once again there's good news for those of us who rage at the evening news, shake our heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom helplessly between political crises and sex scandals: Dennis Miller is back with his third installment of hilarious observations, I Rant, Therefore I Am.
Dennis Miller first gained national acclaim as the wise-guy anchor of "Weekend Update" on "Saturday Night Live." When HBO premiered his weekly talk show in April 1994, both critics and fans enthusiastically agreed: "Dennis Miller Live" was the most refreshing talk show on television.
The accolades have continued to pour in. In September 1994, Dennis and his staff won an Emmy Award for writing and have been regularly nominated since. When he takes the stage, the audience demands, "The rants, the rants, the rants," and once again, Dennis Miller delivers the goods. Fans of his smart, quirky, irreverent style of humor are in for another treat-this set of rants is even funnier than the last two rounds.
Dennis Miller keeps on ranting in I Rant, Therefore I Am, and speaks his mind on topics like:
MODELS-"How ironic that the most exquisite-looking people in the world should end up choosing the profession that requires them to spend all day by the phone waiting for the most hideous people to call them."
COLLEGE-"I don't think you should have to pay back college loans unless you get a job in your field. Put some pressure on the school. If I can't pay my bills, I'm not paying yours."
CONSUMERS-"You know how to tell when you've got a shopping problem? When the lights in the department store momentarily dim after they slide your credit card through the thing."
FAITH-"I envy people who can just let go and totally commit. I, on the other hand, can't even hear the title of the show 'Touched by an Angel' without thinking that a professional baseball player is being sued for sexual harassment."
ASTRONAUTS-"Anybody who would strap themselves onto a giant deodorant spray can, set off a series of explosions under their ass until they've been blasted into the icy vacuum of deep space, and then step outside to take a walk must have more balls than a twenty-four-hour Tokyo driving range." [via]More editions of I Rant, Therefore I Am:
Jobby Robert HeinleinISBN 0345316509 (0-345-31650-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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King Henry IVby A.R. HumphreysISBN 0174436106 (0-17-443610-6)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Henry IV'Book summary:This updated edition offers a strongly theatrical perspective on the origins of Shakespeare's The First Part of King Henry IV and the history of its interpretation. The introduction clarifies the play's surprising, de-centred dramatic structure, questioning the dominant assumption that the drama focuses on the education of Prince Hal. It calls attention to the effects of civil war upon a broad range of relationships. Falstaff's unpredictable vitality is explored, together with important contemporary values of honour, friendship, festivity and reformation. Extensive lexical glosses of obscure, ambiguous or archaic meanings make the rich wordplay accessible. The notes also provide a thorough commentary on Shakespeare's transformation of his sources (particularly Holinshed's Chronicles) and suggest alternative stagings. This updated edition contains a new introductory section by Katharine A. Craik, which describes recent stage, film and critical interpretations, and an updated reading list. [via]
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The Knights, Peace, Wealth/the Birds, the Assemblywomenby AristophanesISBN 0140443320 (0-14-044332-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town Americaby Bill BrysonISBN 0385658613 (0-385-65861-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America'Book summary:A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get. The Lost Continent is no exception. Following an urge to rediscover his youth (he should know better), the author leaves his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that takes him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook.
With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of boredom, kitsch, and beauty when you least expect it. Gentler elements aside, The Lost Continent is an amusing book. Here's Bryson on the women of his native state: "I will say this, however--and it's a strange, strange thing--the teenaged daughters of these fat women are always utterly delectable ... I don't know what it is that happens to them, but it must be awful to marry one of those nubile cuties knowing that there is a time bomb ticking away in her that will at some unknown date make her bloat out into something huge and grotesque, presumably all of a sudden and without much notice, like a self-inflating raft from which the pin has been yanked."
Yes, Bill, but be honest: what do you really think? [via]
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Love Actuallyby Richard Curtis, Peter MountainISBN 0312318499 (0-312-31849-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Actually'Book summary:Love Actually is the highly awaited new screenplay and directorial debut from phenomenally popular screenwriter Richard Curtis. Weaving together the stories of ten couples, the movie is as real as our own lives, and as funny, wise, and poignant as only Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) could create.[via]
Set in contemporary London just before Christmas, the cast includes a lovelorn Prime Minister, an aging rock star, a sexually ambitious assistant, a newly widowed stepfather, a beautiful housekeeper, a straying husband, and other characters entangled in the silly, sloppy, sexy, sweet business of finding love. The film's stellar actors include Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, and others.
Introduced by Richard Curtis, the book features the full screenplay plus outtakes, behind-the-scenes snapshots, and more. With marvelous full-color photographs throughout, this smart, funny, romantic book is a valentine for anyone who still believes that despite the madness and uncertainty of modern life, love actually is all around.More editions of Love Actually:
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The Monkey Wrench Gangby Edward AbbeyISBN 038000741X (0-380-00741-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Monkey Wrench Gang'Book summary:Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension of disbelief. The story centers on Vietnam veteran George Washington Hayduke III, who returns to the desert to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins forces with feminist saboteur Bonnie Abbzug, wilderness guide Seldom Seen Smith, and billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., and together they wander off to wage war on the big yellow machines, on dam builders and road builders and strip miners. As they do, his characters voice Abbey's concerns about wilderness preservation ("Hell of a place to lose a cow," Smith thinks to himself while roaming through the canyonlands of southern Utah. "Hell of a place to lose your heart. Hell of a place... to lose. Period"). Moving from one improbable situation to the next, packing more adventure into the space of a few weeks than most real people do in a lifetime, the motley gang puts fear into the hearts of their enemies, laughing all the while. It's comic, yes, and required reading for anyone who has come to love the desert. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Much Obliged, Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0214653609 (0-214-65360-9)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Obliged, Jeeves'Book summary:A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster is dismayed by the prospect of a lifetime spent with Madeleine Bassett. If only Jeeves could come to his help. From the author of CARRY ON JEEVES, THE INIMITABLE JEEVES and FEUDAL SPIRIT. [via]
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Pantagruel Gargantuaby Francois Rabelais, Burton RaffelISBN 0393028437 (0-393-02843-7)
Hardcover, Norton
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A Pelican at Blandingsby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0257650962 (0-257-65096-2)
Hardcover, Jenkins
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Periclesby P. EdwardsISBN 0140707298 (0-14-070729-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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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Periclesby William Shakespeare, Stephen OrgelISBN 0140714693 (0-14-071469-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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, Roger WarrenISBN 0192814605 (0-19-281460-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Private Eye Story: The First 21 Yearsby Patrick MarnhamISBN 0233974903 (0-233-97490-3)
Hardcover, Harper & Collins
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Private Eye's Colemanballs 2by Larry, Barry FantoniISBN 0233977007 (0-233-97700-7)
Softcover, Private Eye
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Ranting Againby Dennis MillerISBN 038548853X (0-385-48853-X)
Softcover, Doubleday
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Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot : And Other Observationsby Al FrankenISBN 0385314744 (0-385-31474-4)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960sby Gerald NachmanISBN 0375410309 (0-375-41030-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rollsby Robert RankinISBN 0385600569 (0-385-60056-9)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Skinny Dipby Carl HiaasenISBN 0375411089 (0-375-41108-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Sonnetsby William ShakespeareISBN 0174434731 (0-17-443473-1)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedyby Greg DeanISBN 0325001790 (0-325-00179-0)
Softcover, Heinemann Drama
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Tales of the Cityby Armistead MaupinISBN 0345351908 (0-345-35190-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Troilus and Cressidaby William Shakespeare, Jonathan V. CreweISBN 0140714863 (0-14-071486-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Troilus and Cressida'Book summary:Given the wealth of formal debate contained in this tragedy, Troilus and Cressida was probably written in 1602 for a performance at one of the Inns of the Court. Shakespeare's treatment of the age-old tale of love and betrayal is based on many sources, from Homer and Ovid to Chaucer and Shakespeare's near contemporary Robert Greene. In the introduction the various problems connected with the play, its performance, and publication, are considered succinctly; its multiple sources are discussed in detail, together with its peculiar stage history and its renewed popularity in recent years. [via]
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Waiting for Godalmingby Robert RankinISBN 0385600577 (0-385-60057-7)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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The Wallflower 2: Yamatonadeshiko Shichihengeby Tomoko Hayakawa, Dana Hayward, David UryISBN 0345479491 (0-345-47949-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Wallflower 3: Yamatonadeshiko Shichihengeby David Ury, Tomoko Hayakawa, Dana HaywardISBN 0345479998 (0-345-47999-8)
Softcover, Del Rey
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The Wallflower 4: Yamatonadeshiko Shichihengeby David Ury, Tomoko Hayakawa, Dana HaywardISBN 0345480015 (0-345-48001-5)
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What the Lady Wantsby Jennifer CrusieISBN 0373256442 (0-373-25644-2)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Wiltby Tom SharpeISBN 0330253603 (0-330-25360-3)
Softcover, Pan Books in association with Secker & Warburg
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wilt'Book summary:This story of Henry Wilt, the Polytechnic lecturer who gets into all sorts of trouble is written by the author of "Riotous Assembly", "Blot on the Landscape" and "Wilt Alternative". [via]
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Birds: Greek Textby Aristophanes, Nan DunbarISBN 0198721773 (0-19-872177-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Birds: Greek Text'Book summary:Birds is generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces, for its imaginative plot (it is the source of the word "Cloudcuckooland"), and its charming and original lyrics. This abridgment of Nan Dunbar's widely acclaimed edition of Birds, published in 1995, preserves all the material designed to help the less advanced student of Greek or the non-specialist to translate, understand, and enjoy the play. It also retains the notes on staging, but the metrical, textual, and ornithological problems are dealt with more summarily, and purely illustrative parallels are omitted. [via]
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The Birds : With Introduction and Commentaryby Aristophanes, Nan DunbarISBN 0198149344 (0-19-814934-4)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Un Mal Principioby Nestor Busquets, Brett HelquistISBN 0307209342 (0-307-20934-2)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Un Mal Principio'Book summary:Book 1 of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The Bad Beginning is actually a great beginning. It's the first book in Lemony Snicket's A Series of unfortunate Events, a wonderfully different and disastrous children's story starring three highly unlucky siblings. [via]
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