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The Age of Missing Informationby Bill McKibbenISBN 0452269806 (0-452-26980-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Missing Information'Book summary:The author of "The End of Nature" asks an intriguing question: Which provides more "information," 103 cable channels showering viewers with beguiling factoids--or a weekend in the woods? [via]
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Annotated H. P. Lovecraftby S. T. Joshi, H. P. LovecraftISBN 0440506603 (0-440-50660-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Bad Movies We Loveby Stephen Rebello, Edward MarguliesISBN 0452270057 (0-452-27005-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bad Movies We Love'Book summary:A hip, irreverent, witty tour of 203 of the worst movies of all time, describing absurd plotlines, the worst dialogue, most over-the-top performances, and memorably wacky scenes. Photos. [via]
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Books That Changed the Worldby Robert B. DownsISBN 0451529286 (0-451-52928-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Deanby Paul AlexanderISBN 0452278406 (0-452-27840-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, James Dean, Donald Roy HowardISBN 0451529685 (0-451-52968-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
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- Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460870270 (0-460-87027-0)
Softcover, Everyman - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460103075 (0-460-10307-5)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460013076 (0-460-01307-6)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460113070 (0-460-11307-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0451529685 (0-451-52968-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
- Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460870270 (0-460-87027-0)
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The Canterbury Tales : A Selectionby Geoffrey Chaucer, Donald R. Howard, James M. DeanISBN 0451524004 (0-451-52400-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Canterbury Tales : A Selection'Book summary:Here are tales told by members from all parts of English society of the 14th century, reflecting on life as they travel the road from Southwark to Canterbury. [via]
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. MarxISBN 0451527100 (0-451-52710-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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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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Confidence Manby Herman MelvilleISBN 0451520181 (0-451-52018-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Dangerous Pilgrimages: Transatlantic Mythologies and the Novelby Malcolm BradburyISBN 0436203308 (0-436-20330-8)
Softcover, Secker & Warburg
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Dublinersby James Joyce, McCourt, Malachy (AFT), Edna O'BrienISBN 0451530411 (0-451-53041-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:In these masterful stories, steeped in realism, joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of irish culture and civilization. Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of the truths of human experience [via]
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Evelina : Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the Worldby Fanny Burney, Katharine M. RogersISBN 0451525604 (0-451-52560-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evelina : Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World'Book summary:One of the first novels of manners ever written traces the adventures of country-born Evelina as she tries to make it in London pursued by cads, is used by boorish relatives, and, finally, is redeemed by the noble Lord Orville. Reprint. [via]
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For Keeps : 30 Years at the Moviesby Pauline KaelISBN 0452273080 (0-452-27308-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Godard on Godard: Critical Writingsby Jean Luc GodardISBN 043628071X (0-436-28071-X)
Softcover, Secker and Warburg
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0451526716 (0-451-52671-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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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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- Great Expectations: ISBN 0460012347 (0-460-01234-7)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Great Expectations: ISBN 0460002341 (0-460-00234-1)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Great Expectations: ISBN 0439291283 (0-439-29128-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451517598 (0-451-51759-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451525248 (0-451-52524-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451523598 (0-451-52359-8)
Hardcover, New Amer Library - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451526716 (0-451-52671-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
- Great Expectations: ISBN 0460012347 (0-460-01234-7)
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Fritz Kredel, Marian Edwardes, E.V. Lucas, Lucy CraneISBN 0448409410 (0-448-40941-0)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:An illustrated collection of fifty-five traditional tales collected by the Grimm brothers. [via]
Grimms Fairy Tal/Specby Jacob GrimmISBN 0448424363 (0-448-42436-3)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Hardboiled America: The Lurid Years of Paperbacksby Geoffrey O'BrienISBN 0442231105 (0-442-23110-5)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hardboiled America: The Lurid Years of Paperbacks'Book summary:Here's the lowdown on the 25¢ paperbacks, the books that laid bare the sordid underside of American life - and brought to millions the best in hardboiled fiction. This is the book that tells it all: From the California of Dashiell Hammett to the Florida of John D. MacDonald... From wartime morale-building to lurid postwar exploitation... From the roadside romance of The Postman Always Rings Twice to the big-city paranoia of Kiss Me, Deadly.... It's all here - the tough guys and the brassy dolls, the hoods and the lost waifs of America's subterranean legends, as transcribed by the masters of hardboiled prose and packaged by the paperback industry of the Forties and Fifties - all illustrated by the extraordinary images of America's most unsung artists. [via]
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If You Ask Me/the Collected Columns of America's Most Beloved and Irresponsible Critic: The Collected Columns of America's Most Beloved and Irresponsible Criticby Libby Gelman-WaxnerISBN 0449909913 (0-449-90991-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If You Ask Me/the Collected Columns of America's Most Beloved and Irresponsible Critic: The Collected Columns of America's Most Beloved and Irresponsible Critic'Book summary:Hi. I'm Libby Gelman-Waxner, and I'm an assistant buyer in juniors' activewear. While I find my work both rewarding and creative, especially with the new knits coming in, I want more. And so I decided to become a film critic....
Move over, Siskel & Ebert. Watch out, Leonard Maltin. And just forget saving that aisle seat, Mr. Medved. Libby Gelman-Waxner has arrived -- in the critic's circle, that is -- and the silver screen may never be the same again. Witty, wicked, and scathingly honest -- If You Ask Me is a hilarious collection of her columns from Premiere magazine. Just listen to Libby on some recent films and film stars:
Prince of Tides -- "Barbra's only spontaneous moment in Prince of Tides comes when Nick tosses her a football and she screams 'My nails!'"
Diane Keaton -- "She's a pioneer; she takes that thing that hangs in the back of your closet, the thing that was too marked down to pass up, Diane takes that thing and she doesn't call Goodwill, she wraps it around her head a few times, pins on a Smurf brooch, and wins an Oscar...."
The Last of the Mohicans -- "Daniel Day-Lewis makes American actors look like giggly junior high school boys playing Nintendo during the prom; at one point, Madeleine asks Daniel what he is looking at, and he says, I'm looking at you, Miss, and let me tell you, the usher had to conk me with his flashlight to make me stop whimpering...."
Daryl Hannah -- "All men in America, my Josh included, they all want a date with Daryl Hannah. A girl like Daryl -- we're not talking about a Ph.D. in comparative literature; I think we're talking about hair in the eyes and not much in the way of lingerie...." [via]More editions of If You Ask Me/the Collected Columns of America's Most Beloved and Irresponsible Critic: The Collected Columns of America's Most Beloved and Irresponsible Critic:
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 0451527259 (0-451-52725-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jude the Obscure'Book summary:Novel tracing Jude Fawley's life from his aspirations of intellectual freedom to his early death. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's 1998 Movie & Video Guide: 1998by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451192885 (0-451-19288-5)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's 1998 Movie & Video Guide: 1998'Book summary:Updated annually, the 1998 edition of Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide contains reviews of more than 19,000 movies, from 1914's Cabiria and Tillie's Punctured Romance to 1997's Con Air and Batman and Robin. The book lists each film's director and major cast members, tells whether it is in black and white or color, and provides the movie's running time. It rates each film from **** to BOMB, notes whether or not the movie was made in wide-screen format, and records its availability on videocassette and laser disc. The brief reviews that accompany this documentation are tersely written, filled with enthusiasm and humor. Maltin's indices of famous stars and directors make the volume a mini-encyclopedia. Every movie lover should have a copy of Maltin's text. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's 1999 Movie & Video Guideby Leonard MaltinISBN 0451195825 (0-451-19582-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's 1999 Movie & Video Guide'Book summary:If you buy only one film book in your life, this should be it. Maltin is the filmgoer's guide--the most compact, intelligent, and informative reference available. Alphabetized by title, each of its more than 19,000 entries lists year of release, running time, director, principal cast, and availability on video. Other guides may offer even more information, but Maltin's is distinguished by the quality of its reviews. Rating films on a scale from "****" to "BOMB," it offers a comprehensive introduction to the international cinema, covers the classics with the respect they deserve, unearths thousands of little-known gems, takes the wind out of the overrated, and laughs at the awful with appropriate good humor. If you want proof of Maltin's versatility, compare the reviews of The Battleship Potemkin, History Is Made at Night, Blue Velvet, and The Navy vs. the Night Monsters. Standard, crucial, great fun to read, chock full of trivia, and bursting with passion for the movies. --Raphael Shargel [via]
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Leonard Maltin's 2003 Movie & Video Guideby Leonard MaltinISBN 0451206495 (0-451-20649-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's 2003 Movie & Video Guide'Book summary:The newly updated edition-now with over 3,000 DVD listings-of the most authoritative film guide on the market. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 1997by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451188888 (0-451-18888-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1997'Book summary:With 300 new movie entries, 1,000 more on videocassette, and laser disc listings, an enlarged index of leading performers and directors, and an updated list of mail-order sources, the 1997 edition of this perennial bestseller continues to be a "must" for every movie buff's bookshelf. The popular reference contains more than 19,000 capsule film reviews, including 300 new entries. Maltin also lists his top 100 films for family viewing. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 1999by Leonard MaltinISBN 0452279925 (0-452-27992-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 1999'Book summary:Widely acclaimed as the biggest, best, and most authoritative book in its field, "Leonard Maltin's 1999 Movie & Video Guide" is the quintessential guidebook to the movies. The author has added some 400 new film entries, bringing the total to more than 19,000, and kept pace with video and laserdisc releases, adding more than 1,000 listings in those categories.
Additional features include:
-- Updated and expanded indexes of leading performers and directors, listing their films reviewed in the book
-- Updated mail-order sources for purchase/rental of videocassettes and laser discs
-- Write-ups on every vintage film series, from Charlie Chart to Tarzan
-- Notes on widescreen films that are best seen in letter-box format
-- Leonard Maltin's selections of the 100 best films for family viewingAfter 28 years in publication, "Leonard Maltin's 1999 Movie & Video Guide" continues to be the leading film guide on the market. More than four million copies have been sold. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2000by Leonard MaltinISBN 0452281237 (0-452-28123-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2000'Book summary:Film historian and critic Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2000 is incredibly extensive, offering summaries and ratings of movies from Aaron Loves Angela to Zuma Beach. Each movie gets a wry comment from Maltin (the 1981 teen sex comedy Private Lessons is summed up as "a mild piece of sleaze") and a rating from "****" to "BOMB." The Movie and Video Guide 2000 is also meticulously updated--Maltin and his editors are careful to note the bit part appearances of actors who later became stars, allowing you to keep an eye peeled for Charlize Theron in Children of the Corn and Ben Affleck in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If you're looking for that movie that you can't remember the name of but you know Laurence Fishburne was in it, fear not--there's also a star index in the back. The book has several other thoughtful features: a guide to the old wide-screen formats like Panavision and Vistascope; a list of 100 must-see films of the 20th century; and grouped box listings of movies that belong to the same series but don't start with the same word, saving a great deal of flipping around. This book is both a fun browser's read and a valuable helpmate at the video store. --Ali Davis [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2001by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451201078 (0-451-20107-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2001'Book summary:From Leonard Maltin, one of the leading authorities on American film, comes the latest edition of his enormously popular movie and video guide. Key features of this 2001 edition include:
-- Reviews of more than 20,000 films -- 300 new entries
-- Easy-to-read symbols indicating more than 15,000 films available on video -- including 1,000 new entries
-- Over 8,000 listings of films available on laser disc -- and more than 2,000 available on DVD
-- A revised index of leading actors and actresses
-- An updated list of mail-order sources for renting and buying videocassettes and discs
-- Maltin's exclusive list of the best family films of all time ... and much, much more. [via]More editions of Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2001:
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2002by Leonard MaltinISBN 0452282837 (0-452-28283-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2002'Book summary:Completely updated with new information-including 300 brand-new entries-this "indispensable" (New York Daily News) guide contains Maltin's exclusive list of the best family films of all time, an extensive index of stars, and thousands of videocassette, laserdisc, and DVD listings.
"A book you must buy." (Esquire)
"Head and shoulders about the rest." (The New York Times) [via]More editions of Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2002:
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2003by Leonard MaltinISBN 0452283299 (0-452-28329-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2003'Book summary:With over 19,000 reviews, including more than 14,000 video entries and 13,000 DVD and laserdisc listings, this work, by the film critic of television's "Entertainment Tonight", aims to be one of the most complete and up-to-date reference works on the subject. Features include: an up-to-date list of mail-order sources for buying renting videocassettes and discs; an index of leading performers; official motion picture code ratings; exact running times - a guide for taping and for discovering which movies have been edited; and reviews of little-known sleepers, foreign films, rarities and camp classics. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2004by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451209400 (0-451-20940-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2004'Book summary:Leonard Maltin is a film critic and resident film buff on USA television's "Entertainment Tonight". This guide presents his insightful criticism and provides an up-to-date listing of movies. It contains more than 18,000 reviews, including over 300 new entries, with over 13,000 video and 8000 DVD and laserdisc listings. It also includes an updated index of leading performers and a list of 50 films you "really ought to see". [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1996by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451185056 (0-451-18505-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1996'Book summary:Featuring more than nineteen thousand entries, this comprehensive film guide encompasses capsule movie reviews, identification of movies available in video, a listing of top family films, cross-references to performers and directors, ratings, and more. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide, 1995: The 25th Anniversary Editionby Leonard MaltinISBN 0451181727 (0-451-18172-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2005by Leonard Maltin, Mike Clark, Luke Sader, Cathleen Anderson, Casey St Charnez, Alvin H. Marill, Bill Warren, Jerry Beck, Rob Edelman, Spencer Green, Michael ScheinfeldISBN 0451212657 (0-451-21265-7)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2005'Book summary:More than 18,000 capsule movie reviews, with more than 300 new entries. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2006by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451216091 (0-451-21609-1)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2006'Book summary:Entertainment, Pop Culture, Cinema [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2007by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451219163 (0-451-21916-3)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2007'Book summary:On the Signet list for more than thirty years, and still the one to beat. Completely updated and expanded to include more than 17,000 entries, this is the one that has become standard. [via]
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence SterneISBN 0451518683 (0-451-51868-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Lives of the English Poets: Selectionby Samuel Johnson, John WainISBN 046000770X (0-460-00770-X)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, John F. AndrewsISBN 046087182X (0-460-87182-X)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. It also contains comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of "Macbeth", then and now. [via]
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Middlemarchby George EliotISBN 0451529170 (0-451-52917-0)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:With sure and subtle touch, Eliot paints a luminous and spacious landscape of life in a provincial town, interweaving her themes with a proliferation of characters: an innocent idealist; a self-defeated young doctor; a naive young woman; and a cold man, who "lives too much with the dead". [via]
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Elizabeth RenkerISBN 0451526996 (0-451-52699-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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Moby-Dick, Or, The White Whaleby Herman MelvilleISBN 0451524551 (0-451-52455-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby-Dick, Or, The White Whale'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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The Name of the Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 0446357200 (0-446-35720-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Paradise Lost and Other Poemsby John B. Milloni, Edward Le Comte, John MiltonISBN 0451628268 (0-451-62826-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0460011987 (0-460-01198-7)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Storiesby Oscar WildeISBN 0451523849 (0-451-52384-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Pleasure-Dome: The Collected Film Criticism 1935-40 [of] Graham Greeneby Graham GreeneISBN 0436187981 (0-436-18798-1)
Hardcover, Secker and Warburg
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Points of View: An Anthology of Short Storiesby James MoffettISBN 0451628721 (0-451-62872-1)
Softcover, Mentor Books
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Politics and the Novelby Irving HoweISBN 0452008441 (0-452-00844-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, Margaret DrabbleISBN 0451525884 (0-451-52588-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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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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Tragedy of Macbethby William Shakespeare, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451526775 (0-451-52677-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Tristram Shandyby Laurence SterneISBN 0460016172 (0-460-01617-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0460871595 (0-460-87159-5)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent
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Walden Or, Life in the Woods and "on the Duty of Civil Disobedience"by Henry David ThoreauISBN 0451527070 (0-451-52707-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Waste Landby T. S. Eliot, Helen Hennessy VendlerISBN 0451526848 (0-451-52684-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land'Book summary:This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early poems, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, The Waste land, which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech linked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos and disillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of WWI. The Waste Land is a modernist literary masterpiece. Contains a number of early poems, including Spleen, The Death of St. Narcissus, The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes, Gerontion, The Hippopotmaus, and Sweeny Among the Nightingales. T.S. Eliot is the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is one of America's greatest poets. Edited and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler, a foremost scholar of moderism at Harvard University who writes regularly for the New Yorker and The New Republic. Vendler is also the author of books on other essential poets, including W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, George Herbert, and the forthcoming The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnete. @DeadFlowers Note From Ezra Pound: Maybe cut 75%? From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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What to Listen for in Musicby Aaron Copland, William Schuman, Alan RichISBN 0451528670 (0-451-52867-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Where I've Been and Where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, Proseby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452280532 (0-452-28053-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Writer & Critic, and Other Essaysby Gyorgy LukacsISBN 0448002590 (0-448-00259-0)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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