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Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psychoby Stephen RebelloISBN 0942637143 (0-942637-14-3)
Hardcover, Barricade Books, Incorporated
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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitmanby Francis Otto MatthiessenISBN 1428637907 (1-4286-3790-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The American Shoreby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0911499016 (0-911499-01-6)
Hardcover, Washington Ave Books Inc
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The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literatureby Howard Phillips Lovecraft, S. T. JoshiISBN 0967321506 (0-9673215-0-6)
Softcover, Hippocampus Pr
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Beyond Life Dizain Des Demiurgesby James Branch CabellISBN 1417903430 (1-4179-0343-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Life Dizain Des Demiurges'Book summary:1924. Contents: Wherein We Approach All Authors at Their Best; Which Deals with the Demiurge; Which Hints at the Witch-Woman; Which Admires the Economist; Which Considers the Reactionary; Which Values the Candle; Which Indicates the Mountebank; Which Concerns the Contemporary; Which Defers to the Arbiters; and Wherein We Await the Dawn. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Blood Beats: Demos, Remixes & Extended Versionsby Ernest HardyISBN 0965665984 (0-9656659-8-4)
Softcover, Redbone Pr
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The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern Worldby Jack ZipesISBN 1403960658 (1-4039-6065-8)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Classic Essays on Photographyby Alan TrachtenbergISBN 091817208X (0-918172-08-X)
Softcover, Leete's Island Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classic Essays on Photography'Book summary:Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions from Niepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, and Weston, among others.[via]More editions of Classic Essays on Photography:
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The Communist Manifestoby K. MarxISBN 1420922483 (1-4209-2248-3)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. Marx, L. M. FindlayISBN 1551113333 (1-55111-333-3)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:L.M. Findlay's elegant new translation is a work of textual and historical scholarship. Few books have had as much of an impact on modern history as The Communist Manifesto. Since it was first published in 1848, it has become the rallying cry for revolutionary movements around the world. This new Broadview edition draws on the 1888 Samuel Moore translation supervised by Engelsthe standard English version in Marxist discourseand on the original Helen Macfarlane translation into English of 1850. Throughout, Findlay draws on a variety of disciplines and maintains a broad-ranging perspective. Among the appendices are Engels' "Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith," correspondence and journalism of Marx and Engels, ten illustrations, and eight additional influential political manifestos from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [via]
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The Confidence-Manby Herman MelvilleISBN 1425008003 (1-4250-0800-3)
Softcover, ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
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Dublinersby James Joyce, Del DoughtyISBN 1416500359 (1-4165-0035-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - THERE was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said to me: "I am not long for this world," and I had thought his words idle. Now I knew they were true. Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work. Old Cotter was sitting at the fire, smoking, when I came downstairs to supper. While my aunt was ladling out my stirabout he said, as if returning to some former remark of his: [via]
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The Elements of Style: A Style Guide for Writersby William StrunkISBN 097522980X (0-9752298-0-X)
Softcover, Kt Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Style: A Style Guide for Writers'Book summary:Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. [via]
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Evelinaby Fanny BurneyISBN 1404359893 (1-4043-5989-3)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the Worldby Fanny BurneyISBN 1406800910 (1-4068-0091-0)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Fine Art of Literary Mayhem: A Lively Account of Famous Writers and Their Feudsby Myrick LandISBN 0938530119 (0-938530-11-9)
Softcover, Lexikos Pub
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Flannery O'Connor: A Proper Scaringby Jill P. BaumgaertnerISBN 0940895382 (0-940895-38-2)
Softcover, Cornerstone Pr Chicago
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flannery O'Connor: A Proper Scaring'Book summary:Drowning in a river, the violent murder of a grandmother in the backwoods of Georgia, the trans-genital display of a freak at a carnival show-all are shocking literary devices used by Flannery O'Connor, one of literature's best pulp-fiction writers. More than 35 years after her death, readers are still shocked by O'Connor's grotesque images. Dr. Jill Baumgaertner concentrates on O'Connor's use of emblems, those moments of sudden and horrid illumination when the sacred and the profane merge as sacrament. This readable volume is ideal for college students, O'Connor scholars, or those wishing to better understand Southern gothic fiction. [via]
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Folk and Fairy Talesby Martin Hallett, Barbara KarasekISBN 155111495X (1-55111-495-X)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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From Ritual to Romanceby Jessie L. WestonISBN 140435042X (1-4043-5042-X)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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Gender Troubleby Judith ButlerISBN 1428815627 (1-4288-1562-7)
Softcover, Academic Internet Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Trouble'Book summary:Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook. Accompanys: 9780415924993 [via]
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The Goldberg Variationsby Nancy HustonISBN 0921833490 (0-921833-49-0)
Softcover, Signature Editions
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Graham Law, Adrian PinningtonISBN 1551111748 (1-55111-174-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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Grimms' Fairy TalesISBN 1404305378 (1-4043-0537-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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Grimms' Fairy Talesby Brothers GrimmISBN 1406821411 (1-4068-2141-1)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Henry David Thoreauby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0940450275 (0-940450-27-5)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry David Thoreau'Book summary:Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here for the first time in a single volume. Subtly interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden," one of America's great books, is at once a personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, manual of self-reliance, and masterpiece of style. "The Maine Woods" and "Cape Cod" portray landscapes changing irreversibly even as he wrote. The first combines close observation of the unexplored Maine wilderness with a far-sighted plea for conservation; the second is a brilliant and unsentimental account of survival on a barren peninsula in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay. [via]
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Henry James Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writersby Henry James, Leon Edel, Mark WilsonISBN 0940450224 (0-940450-22-4)
Hardcover, Library of America
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How I Read Gertrude Steinby Lew Welch, Eric Paul ShafferISBN 0912516232 (0-912516-23-2)
Softcover, Grey Fox Pr
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The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939by John CareyISBN 0897335074 (0-89733-507-4)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939'Book summary:This book takes as its focus the response of the English intelligentsia to the new, and supposedly threatening, phenomenon of mass culture. It shows how the attitudes of disdain and preciousness expressed in writing of the 1880-1939 period - whether by D.H. Lawrence or George Gissing, Virginia Woolf or Evelyn Waugh - was culpably related to the Nietzchian philosophical tradition which found its ultimate exponent in Hitler. [via]
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The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beautyby Dave HickeyISBN 0963726404 (0-9637264-0-4)
Softcover, Art Issues Press
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J.G. Ballardby V. ValeISBN 0965046974 (0-9650469-7-4)
Softcover, Re-Search Pubns
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James Joyce's Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 1555460194 (1-55546-019-4)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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James: Literary Criticism Vol. 2 : European Writers and Prefaces to the New York Editionby Henry James, Leon Edel, Mark WilsonISBN 0940450232 (0-940450-23-2)
Hardcover, Library of America, The
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 1417937114 (1-4179-3711-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jude the Obscure'Book summary:When Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure appeared in 1895, it immediately caused scandal and controversy. Its frank treatment of Jude's sexual relationships with Arabella and Sue, its scathing criticisms of late-Victorian hypocrisy, its depiction of the "New Woman," and its attacks on "holy wedlock" and religious bigotry outraged numerous reviewers; one called the book "Jude the Obscene." Others saw it as brilliantly progressive in its ideas and techniques. Vivid and complex, satiric and harrowing, this novel marked the culmination of Hardy's development as a leading novelist of the cultural transition from the Victorian to the Modernist era. The Broadview edition restores the original, controversial 1895 text. [via]
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic - Henri Bergsonby Henri BergsonISBN 1419129260 (1-4191-2926-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Letters to a Young Poetby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0931432944 (0-931432-94-4)
Hardcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to a Young Poet'Book summary:Written between 1903 and 1908 to a student who had sent Rilke his poems for evaluation, these ten letters--among the most famous and beloved of this century--reveal the deeply felt ideas about life and art that shaped the great poet's work. Two-color interior. [via]
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandyby Laurence SterneISBN 1404314709 (1-4043-1470-9)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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Literary Theory : An Anthologyby Julie Rivkin, Michael RyanISBN 1405106964 (1-4051-0696-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated
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Lives of the Poetsby Samuel JohnsonISBN 1404352236 (1-4043-5223-6)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Storyby Frank O'Connor, Russell BanksISBN 097186599X (0-9718659-9-X)
Softcover, Melville Pub House
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, Peter Holland, David BevingtonISBN 1402206887 (1-4022-0688-7)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media : A Primer in Intellectual Self-Defenceby Mark AchbarISBN 1551640023 (1-55164-002-3)
Softcover, Black Rose Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media : A Primer in Intellectual Self-Defence'Book summary:Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky and the Media, the companion book to the award-winning film, charts the life of America's most famous dissident, from his boyhood days running his uncle's newsstand in Manhattan to his current role as outspoken social critic.[via]
A complete transcript of the film is complemented by key excerpts from the writings, interviews and correspondence. Also included are exchanges between Chomsky and his critics, historical and biographical material, filmmakers' notes, a resource guide, more than 270 stills from the film and 18 "Philosopher All-Stars" Trading Cards!
Mark Achbar has applied a wide range of creative abilities and technical skills to over 50 films, videos, and books. He has worked as editor, researcher and production coordinator.
"A juicily subversive biographical/philosophical documentary bristling and buzzing with ideas."Washington Post
"You will see the whole sweep of the most challenging critic in modern political thought."Boston Globe
"One of our real geniuses, an excellent introduction."Village Voice
"An intellectually challenging crash course in the man's cooly contentious analysis, laying out his thoughts in a package that is clever and accessible."Los Angeles Times
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The Man. Early Influences. Vietnam A Turning Point. On His Role. The Media. Thought Control in Democratic Societies. A Propaganda Model. The Gulf "War". A Case Study Cambodia & East Timor. Concision A Structural Constraint. "Sports Rap with Noam Chomsky." A Cabal of Anti-Conspiricists. Media in Media, Pennsylvania. Alternative Media. The Linguist. Basic Premises. Nim Chimsky: Chimpanzee. And the Elusive Connection to his Politics. The Social Order. On Education. Anarchism/Libertarian Socialism. Resistance & Critical Analysis. The Critics (Media-Based). William F. Buckley, Jr. "Firing Line". David Frum Journalist, Washington Post. Jeff Greenfield Producer, "Nightline". Karl E. Meyer Editorial Writer, The New York Times. Peter Worthington Editor, The Ottawa Sun. The Critics (Other Elites). Fritz Bolkestein Former Dutch Minister of Defense. Michel Foucault Philosopher. Yossi Olmert Tel Aviv University. John SilberMore editions of Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media : A Primer in Intellectual Self-Defence:
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Middlemarchby George EliotISBN 1419134205 (1-4191-3420-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-72) is one of the classic novels of English literature and was admired by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." The complex main plot and many subplots revolve around Dorothea Brooke, an ardent young woman, and her relationship to three men: Casaubon, a clergyman and scholar twice her age; Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor who shares Dorothea's enthusiasm for reform but whose flaws compromise his ambitions; and Will Ladislaw, a young man of mysterious origins, romantic temperament, and artistic inclinations. A female Bildungsroman and a study of character and society in the realistic mode pioneered by Balzac, Middlemarch is also an historical novel that offers a panorama of English society in an era of social reform and political agitation. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of contextual materials, including contemporary reviews of the novel, other writings by George Eliot (essays, reviews, and criticism), and historical documents pertaining to medical reform, religious freedom, and the advent of the railroads. [via]
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0971203709 (0-9712037-0-9)
Softcover, Spinner Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Moby Dick is a vast and dangerous white whale. An enemy for many years after the whale bit off his leg, the crazed Captain Ahab is obsessed with his quarry. Together with his extraordinary crew, Ahab braves the oceans of the world to hunt the fearsome Moby Dick. Geraldine McCaughrean is one of the most distinguished living children's authors. She has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award (twice), and The Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Geraldine's most recent best-selling novel "The Kite Rider" was published to universal acclaim in March 2001. [via]
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Moby Dick Or, the Whaleby Herman MelvilleISBN 1419134736 (1-4191-3473-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Name Of The Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 1417706112 (1-4177-0611-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Paradise Lostby John Milton, Alastair FowlerISBN 1405832789 (1-4058-3278-9)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost'Book summary:Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by William G. Madsen [via]
Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful With an Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste: And Several Other Additionsby Edmund BurkeISBN 0935005285 (0-935005-28-5)
Softcover, Lincoln Rembrandt Pub
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A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautifulby Edmund BurkeISBN 1425467997 (1-4254-6799-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful'Book summary:THIS 166 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Works Of Edmund Burke V1, by Edmund Burke. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417974818. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 1406502472 (1-4065-0247-2)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Softcover, Digireads.Com - The Picture of Dorian Gray: ISBN 1551111268 (1-55111-126-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr - The Picture of Dorian Gray: ISBN 0971336334 (0-9713363-3-4)
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Poetry After Modernismby Robert McDowellISBN 0934257353 (0-934257-35-3)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 1414500203 (1-4145-0020-3)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Robert Irvine, Robert P. IrvineISBN 1551110288 (1-55111-028-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Primal Sources: Essays on H. P. Lovecraftby S. T. JoshiISBN 0972164405 (0-9721644-0-5)
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Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, 1992: Proceedings of the Conference Held at Keble College, Oxford, England, 17th-24th August 1992 to Celebrate the Centenary of the Birth of Professor J.R.R. Tolkien, Incorporating the 23rd...by Glen Goodknight, Patricia Reynolds, Tolkien Society (England), Mythopoeic Society (U.S.)ISBN 0905520068 (0-905520-06-8)
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Re/Search No. 8/9: J. G. Ballardby Vale Juno, Andrea JunoISBN 0940642085 (0-940642-08-5)
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Rhetoricby Aristotle, Rhys W. RobertsISBN 1420925997 (1-4209-2599-7)
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The Roots of Horror in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraftby Barton Levi St. ArmandISBN 0911499040 (0-911499-04-0)
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Rotten Reviews : A Literary Companionby Bill HendersonISBN 0916366405 (0-916366-40-5)
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Samuel R. Delanyby Jane WeedmanISBN 0916732258 (0-916732-25-8)
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Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literatureby Elizabeth Hardwick, Joan DidionISBN 0940322781 (0-940322-78-1)
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Selected Papers on Lovecraftby S. T. JoshiISBN 0940884232 (0-940884-23-2)
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Still Looking: Essays on American Artby John UpdikeISBN 1400044189 (1-4000-4418-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Still Looking: Essays on American Art'Book summary:When, in 1989, a collection of John Updikes writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it. In the sixteen years since Just Looking was published, he has continued to serve as an art critic, mostly for The New York Review of Books, and from fifty or so articles has selected, for this richly illustrated book, eighteen that deal with American art.
After beginning with early American portraits, landscapes, and the transatlantic career of John Singleton Copley, Still Looking then considers the curious case of Martin Johnson Heade and extols two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Next, it discusses the eccentric pre-moderns James McNeill Whistler and Albert Pinkham Ryder, the competing American Impressionists and Realists in the early twentieth century, and such now-historic avant-garde figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Elie Nadelman. Two appreciations of Edward Hopper and appraisals of Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol round out the volume.
America speaks through its artists. As Updike states in his introduction, The dots can be connected from Copley to Pollock: the same tense engagement with materials, the same demand for a morality of representation, can be discerned in both.
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Some of these essays are marvelous examples of critical explanation, in which the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work in an exhibition until a deep understanding of the art emerges.
Arthur Danto, The New York Times Book Review
These are remarkably elegant little essays, dense in thought and perception but offhandedly casual in style. Their brevity makes more acute the sense of regret one feels to see them end. Jeremy Strick, Newsday [via]More editions of Still Looking: Essays on American Art:
The Straits of Messinaby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0934933049 (0-934933-04-9)
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Sylvia Plath: A Literary Lifeby Linda Wagner-MartinISBN 1403916535 (1-4039-1653-5)
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Thomas Mann: The Ironic German, a Studyby Erich HellerISBN 0911858296 (0-911858-29-6)
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A Tolkien Bestiaryby David Day, I. Miller, M. Foreman, A. Curless, L. PostmaISBN 0920080472 (0-920080-47-2)
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Tragedy of Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 1419185551 (1-4191-8555-1)
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Unholy Bible Blake Jung and the Collective Unconscious: Blake, Jung, and the Collective Unconsciousby June Singer, William BlakeISBN 093843425X (0-938434-25-X)
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 1420922610 (1-4209-2261-0)
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The Waste Land and Other Poemsby T. S. EliotISBN 0899668984 (0-89966-898-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Poems'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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The Waste Land, Prufrock And Other Poemsby T. S. Eliot, Caroldean K. CummingsISBN 1420925784 (1-4209-2578-4)
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Why I Am Not a Christianby Bertrand Russell, National Secular SocietyISBN 0950103411 (0-9501034-1-1)
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William Faulkner's the Sound and the Furyby William FaulknerISBN 1555460429 (1-55546-042-9)
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The title, William Faulkners The Sound and the Fury, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on William Faulkners The Sound and the Fury through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on William Faulkner, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Yeats at Workby Curtis B. BradfordISBN 0912946601 (0-912946-60-1)
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Tenian Ombligo Adan y Eva?by Martin GardnerISBN 140000263X (1-4000-0263-X)
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