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After the First Deathby Robert CormierISBN 0844672157 (0-8446-7215-7)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Bad Seedby William March, Maxwell AndersonISBN 0822200880 (0-8222-0088-0)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bad Seed'Book summary:Now reissued William March's 1954 classic thriller that's as chilling, intelligent and timely as ever before. This paperback reissue includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested reading and more.
What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This is the question at the center of William march's classic thriller. After its initial publication in 1954, the book went on to become a millioncopy bestseller, a wildly successful Broadway show, and a Warner Brothers film. The spinetingling tale of little Rhoda Penmark had a tremendous impact on the thriller genre and generated a whole perdurable crop of creepy kids. Today, The Bad Seed remains a masterpiece of suspense that's as chilling, intelligent, and timely as ever before.
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Bleak Seasonsby Glen CookISBN 0812555325 (0-8125-5532-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Blood Meridianby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0844667935 (0-8446-6793-5)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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The Book of Merlynby Terence Hanbury WhiteISBN 0816165572 (0-8161-6557-2)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Merlyn'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn WaughISBN 0816134006 (0-8161-3400-6)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brideshead Revisited'Book summary:A departure from Evelyn Waugh's normally comic theater, Brideshead Revisited concerns the tale of Charles Ryder, a captain in the British Army in post-World War I England. Unlike Waugh's previous narrators, Ryder is an intelligent man, looking back on much of his life from his current post in Oxford. He strikes a special friendship with Lord Sebastian Flyte as the setting moves to the Brideshead estate and a baroque castle that recalls England's prior standing in the world. Ryder falls for Flyte's sister while families, politics and religions collide. What makes the book extraordinary is Waugh's sharp, vivid style and his use of dialect and minor characters. This is one of Waugh's finest accomplishments and a superb book. [via]
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The Castleby David Fishelson, Max Brod, Aaron LeichterISBN 082221900X (0-8222-1900-X)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0822070383 (0-8220-7038-3)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Catcher in the Rye: New Essaysby J. P. SteedISBN 0820457299 (0-8204-5729-9)
Softcover, Peter Lang Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays'Book summary:J. D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye celebrated its fiftieth anniversary of publication in 2001. The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays presents a variety of new approaches to this extremely popular and intensely influential novel, ranging [via]
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Child of an Ancient Cityby Tad Williams, Nina Kiriki HoffmanISBN 0812533917 (0-8125-3391-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Child of an Ancient City'Book summary:A caravan of soldiers is set upon by bandits and stranded in the mountains, where the deadly vampyr challenges them to a contest--the man who tells the saddest story goes free--but the vampyr has his own sad story. Reprint. AB. [via]
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Child of Godby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0844667501 (0-8446-6750-1)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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The Chocolate Warby Robert CormierISBN 0816145288 (0-8161-4528-8)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Jacob Grimm, John B. Gruelle, Jack David ZipesISBN 0833515055 (0-8335-1505-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob GrimmISBN 0833515063 (0-8335-1506-3)
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 0812565681 (0-8125-6568-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:For nineteen-year-old Edmond Dantes, life is sweet. Soon to be captain of his own sip, he is also about to be married to his true love, Mercedes. But suddenly everything turns sour. On the joyous day of his wedding he is arrested and--without a fair trial--condemned to solitary confinement in the miserable Chateau d'If! The charges? Faked! Edmond has been framed by a handful of powerful enemies. But why?[via]
While locked away, Edmond learns from another prisoner of a secret treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond concocts a daring and audacious plan: escape and find the treasure! But it is years later--long after Edmond has transformed himself into the Count of Monte Cristo--that his plan for revenge begins to unfold.
Disguised as the wealthy count, Edmond returns to his native land to find his enemies--and make them pay!More editions of Count of Monte Cristo:
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Dante's Comedy: The Infernoby Dante AlighieriISBN 0828318840 (0-8283-1884-0)
Softcover, Branden Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Comedy: The Inferno'Book summary:Translated by Nicholas Kilmer, and illustrated by Benjamin Martinez. Dante called his great work The Comedy - signifying a narrative with a happy ending. The narrative is about the journey of the human spirit through trial, and toward salvation. The journey takes place in three segments of which this, "The Inferno," is the first. [via]
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Dark Angelby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0816143366 (0-8161-4336-6)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Dark Dreamersby Christine Feehan, Marjorie M. LiuISBN 0843956879 (0-8439-5687-9)
Softcover, Dorchester Pub Co Inc
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Davita's Harpby Chaim PotokISBN 0816139512 (0-8161-3951-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Death of a Salesmanby Arthur Miller, Authur MillerISBN 0822202905 (0-8222-0290-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Salesman'Book summary:Arthur Millers most famous play, Death of a Salesman, has become a key text in Western literature. This unusually powerful recording, made for radio in 1953, was directed by Elia Kazan who premiered the play. It features Thomas Mitchell and Arthur Kennedy as father and son. Willy, a travelling salesman, based in New York, relentlessly chases material success. As the disappointing nature of his reality crowds in upon him, Willy and his family suffer the tragic cost of his delusions of greatness. A domestic tragedy, a cynical indictment of materialism and the American Dream, and a profoundly moving story of one mans struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of continual adversity Millers play is essential listening. [via]
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Destiny, Child of the Skyby Elizabeth HaydonISBN 0812570839 (0-8125-7083-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Destiny, Child of the Sky'Book summary:In a book world awash in sword-slinging fantasy novels, each trying to out-Jordan the other, the arrival of yet another big new series on the scene is... no big deal. But much to the delight of readers bored to tears by doorstopper clones, Elizabeth Haydon's three-part tale is unique, thrilling, and utterly romantic from start to finish. The story of a magical singer of extraordinary power and her battle with a blood-soaked demon began in Rhapsody: Child of Blood and continued in Prophecy: Child of Earth. The trilogy's final volume, Destiny: Child of the Sky offers fantasy fans something they crave, but don't often see--a great ending.
When last we saw our lovely heroine Rhapsody and her two best friends Achmed and Grunthor, they had just rescued the Sleeping Child from the evil tendrils of the F'dor. But as they found out through the tragic loss of their young friend Jo, the three must follow the demon's trail of violence and blood, finding the children it has spawned across the land in order to track it down and destroy it once and for all. As in the previous two books, Rhapsody's love of her friends and desire to save children in danger drive her most reckless actions.
Elizabeth Haydon delivers us from the fantasy traps of never-ending plots, wooden characters, and yawn-inducing battles. She takes much of her style from romance and suspense novels, rather than historical fiction, giving her books real depth of emotion and humanity. It's true that there are spots of sentimentality that may leave some hardened adventure fans groaning, but that very thing may help explain why Haydon's books have succeeded with crossover romance readers so admirably. We can only hope she'll set her sights on another swoony adventure as soon as possible. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Divine Enduranceby Gwyneth JonesISBN 0812542819 (0-8125-4281-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Eye of the Worldby Robert JordanISBN 081257995X (0-8125-7995-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eye of the World'Book summary:The Wheel of Times turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, and Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.[via]More editions of Eye of the World:
Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury, Dave EggersISBN 0812973577 (0-8129-7357-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Fall of the Towersby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 083982372X (0-8398-2372-X)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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Galapagosby Joan E. RatajackISBN 0831795964 (0-8317-9596-4)
Hardcover, Gallery Books
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Getting Mother's Body: A Novelby Suzan-Lori ParksISBN 081296800X (0-8129-6800-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Getting Mother's Body: A Novel'Book summary:Like a country quilt, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks's spellbinding first novel, Getting Mother's Body, is pieced together from rags: short and slanted scraps of narrative recounted by various friends and members of the hard-luck Beede clan of Ector County, Texas. These sad, wily, bickering voices tell the story of Billy Beede--poor, unmarried, and pregnant--and her dead mother, the "hot and wild" blues singer, Willa Mae Beede, who may or may not have been laid to rest with a fortune of diamonds and pearls in her coffin. When a letter arrives announcing that a supermarket is being built on the ground where Willa Mae was buried, Billy determines to dig her up and get the jewels. But Willa Mae's embittered female lover, Dill Smiles, is just as intent on keeping the corpse in the ground. Deeper and richer than a typical quest novel, Getting Mother's Body is also the story of an African-American family, of beauty winding like bright thread through long-held grudges, hopelessness, and greed. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Glass Menagerieby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0822204509 (0-8222-0450-9)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Glass Menagerie'Book summary:This all-new, all-star film version of a beloved American classic combines the monumental talent of the biggest and best film stars with the literary genius of Tennessee Williams. Paul Newman directs. Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen and James Naughton star in the motion picture from Cineplex Odeon Films. [via]
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The Godfatherby Mario PuzoISBN 0816138753 (0-8161-3875-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0812563115 (0-8125-6311-5)
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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]
Grendelby John Champlin GardnerISBN 0816160155 (0-8161-6015-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Grimm's Household Storiesby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Lucy Crane, Walter CraneISBN 0831745827 (0-8317-4582-7)
Hardcover, Wh Smith Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Household Stories'Book summary:Includes such well-known titles as "Rapunzel," "Snow White," and "Sleeping Beauty" as well as lesser known tales such as "The Little Farmer," and "The Golden Bird." Illustrations are by Walter Crane. [via]
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 0833511181 (0-8335-1118-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Hamletby J. K. LowersISBN 0822000180 (0-8220-0018-0)
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Hamlet/Complete Study Editionby William ShakespeareISBN 0822014157 (0-8220-1415-7)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet/Complete Study Edition'Book summary:Stapled book contains Commentary, Complete Text, and Glossary plus a number of pen & ink drawings. Originally published under the title of "Hamlet: Complete Study Guide" [via]
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Hangover Squareby Patrick HamiltonISBN 0848810384 (0-8488-1038-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Heavenby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0816140790 (0-8161-4079-0)
Softcover, G.K. Hall
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House of Stairsby William SleatorISBN 0833559850 (0-8335-5985-0)
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The Infernoby Alighieri Dante, Gustave Dore, Anthony M. EsolenISBN 0812970063 (0-8129-7006-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:Translated by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré
A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dantes masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dantes key sources and influences. [via]More editions of The Inferno:
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Infernoby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dante Alighieri, Matthew Pearl, Lino PertileISBN 0812967216 (0-8129-6721-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inferno'Book summary:In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of Inferno and thus introduced Dantes literary genius to the New World. In the Inferno, the spirit of the classical poet Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his journey toward Heaven. Along the way Dante encounters and describes in vivid detail the various types of sinners in the throes of their eternal torment. [via]
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Initiateby Louise CooperISBN 0812533925 (0-8125-3392-5)
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Itby Stephen KingISBN 0833509454 (0-8335-0945-4)
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Jailbird: A Novelby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0816130221 (0-8161-3022-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jailbird: A Novel'Book summary:Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government. . .and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate's least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut shines his spotlight on the cold hearts and calculated greed of the mighty, giving a razor-sharp edge to an unforgettable portait of power and politics in our times. [via]
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Johnny Got His Gunby Dalton TrumboISBN 0818401109 (0-8184-0110-9)
Hardcover, Carol Pub Group
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The Jungleby Upton Beall Sinclair, Arthur, Anthony (AFT), Jane JacobsISBN 0812976231 (0-8129-7623-1)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and social reform. [via]
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The Jungleby Janice Greene, Upton Beall Sinclair, Shelley MatheisISBN 0835910482 (0-8359-1048-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:With its high-interest adaptations of classic literature and plays, this series inspires reading success and further exploration for all students. These classics are skillfully adapted into concise, softcover books of 80-136 pages. Each retains the integrity and tone of the original book.
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0816156514 (0-8161-5651-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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Let Me Hear You Whisper and the Ladies Should Be in Bedby Paul ZindelISBN 0822206269 (0-8222-0626-9)
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The Lion in Winter: A Playby James GoldmanISBN 0812973356 (0-8129-7335-6)
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 0833574302 (0-8335-7430-2)
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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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Maelstromby Peter WattsISBN 0812566793 (0-8125-6679-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maelstrom'Book summary:An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian world who have gotten only this far in their attempt to reach America. Is she a monster, or a goddess? One thing is for sure: all hell is breaking loose.[via]
This dark, fast-paced, hard SF novel returns to the story begun in Starfish: all human life is threatened by a disease (actually a primeval form of life) from the distant prehuman past. It survived only in the deep ocean rift where Clarke and her companions were stationed before the corporation that employed them tried to sterilize the threat with a secret underwater nuclear strike. But Clarke was far enough away that she was able to survive and tough enough to walk home, 300 miles across the ocean floor. She arrives carrying with her the potential death of the human race, and possessed by a desire for revenge. Maelstrom is a terrifying explosion of cyberpunk noir by a writer whose narrative, says Robert Sheckley, "drives like a futuristic locomotive."More editions of Maelstrom:
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Midnight's Childrenby Salman RushdieISBN 0812976533 (0-8129-7653-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight's Children'Book summary:Anyone who has spent time in the developing world will know that one of Bombay's claims to fame is the enormous film industry that churns out hundreds of musical fantasies each year. The other, of course, is native son Salman Rushdie--less prolific, perhaps than Bollywood, but in his own way just as fantastical. Though Rushdie's novels lack the requisite six musical numbers that punctuate every Bombay talkie, they often share basic plot points with their cinematic counterparts. Take, for example, his 1980 Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children: two children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947--the moment at which India became an independent nation--are switched in the hospital. The infant scion of a wealthy Muslim family is sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement, while the legitimate heir to such squalor ends up establishing squatters' rights to his unlucky hospital mate's luxurious bassinet. Switched babies are standard fare for a Hindi film, and one can't help but feel that Rushdie's world-view--and certainly his sense of the fantastical--has been shaped by the films of his childhood. But whereas the movies, while entertaining, are markedly mediocre, Midnight's Children is a masterpiece, brilliant written, wildly unpredictable, hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Rushdie's narrator, Saleem Sinai, is the Hindu child raised by wealthy Muslims. Near the beginning of the novel, he informs us that he is falling apart--literally:
I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug--that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams. In short, I am literally disintegrating, slowly for the moment, although there are signs of an acceleration.
In light of this unfortunate physical degeneration, Saleem has decided to write his life story, and, incidentally, that of India's, before he crumbles into "(approximately) six hundred and thirty million particles of anonymous, and necessarily oblivious, dust." It seems that within one hour of midnight on India's independence day, 1,001 children were born. All of those children were endowed with special powers: some can travel through time, for example; one can change gender. Saleem's gift is telepathy, and it is via this power that he discovers the truth of his birth: that he is, in fact, the product of the illicit coupling of an Indian mother and an English father, and has usurped another's place. His gift also reveals the identities of all the other children and the fact that it is in his power to gather them for a "midnight parliament" to save the nation. To do so, however, would lay him open to that other child, christened Shiva, who has grown up to be a brutish killer. Saleem's dilemma plays out against the backdrop of the first years of independence: the partition of India and Pakistan, the ascendancy of "The Widow" Indira Gandhi, war, and, eventually, the imposition of martial law.We've seen this mix of magical thinking and political reality before in the works of Günter Grass and Gabriel García Márquez. What sets Rushdie apart is his mad prose pyrotechnics, the exuberant acrobatics of rhyme and alliteration, pun, wordplay, proper and "Babu" English chasing each other across the page in a dizzying, exhilarating cataract of words. Rushdie can be laugh-out-loud funny, but make no mistake--this is an angry book, and its author's outrage lends his language wings. Midnight's Children is Salman Rushdie's irate, affectionate love song to his native land--not so different from a Bombay talkie, after all. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Native Sonby WrightISBN 0816157871 (0-8161-5787-1)
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Nemesisby Louise CooperISBN 0812534018 (0-8125-3401-8)
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Nightby Elie WieselISBN 0821924184 (0-8219-2418-4)
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Oedipus the King.by Anthony BurgessISBN 0816606676 (0-8166-0667-6)
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Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckISBN 0822208385 (0-8222-0838-5)
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Of Mice and Men/Notesby G. CareyISBN 0822009390 (0-8220-0939-0)
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Petals on the Windby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0816134278 (0-8161-3427-8)
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Peter Panby J. M. Barrie, Susan Shebar, T. LewisISBN 081671200X (0-8167-1200-X)
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Peter Panby Anne McCaffrey, J. M. Barrie, Francis D. BedfordISBN 081297297X (0-8129-7297-X)
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Peter Pan or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up: A Fantasy in Five Actsby John Caird, Trevor Nunn, J. M. BarrieISBN 0822213451 (0-8222-1345-1)
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Primary Colors: A Novel of Politicsby Joe Klein, Klein, Joe (AFT)ISBN 0812976479 (0-8129-7647-9)
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The Raging Tide: Or, the Black Doll's Imbroglioby Edward GoreyISBN 0825304377 (0-8253-0437-7)
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Deadby Tom StoppardISBN 0833553887 (0-8335-5388-7)
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Separate Peaceby John KnowlesISBN 0816158959 (0-8161-5895-9)
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She Is the Darknessby Glen CookISBN 0812555333 (0-8125-5533-3)
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At the heart of the plain stands a vast grey stronghold, unknown, older than any written memory. One ancient tower has collapsed across the fissure. From the heart of the fastness comes a great deep slow breath like that of a slumbering world-heart, cracking the olden silence.
Death is eternity. Eternity is stone. Stone is silence.
Stone cannot speak but stone remembers.
So begins the next movement of Glittering Stone....
The tale again comes to us from the pen of Murgen, Annalist and Standard Bearer of the Black Company, whose developing powers of travel through space and time give him a perspective like no other.
Led by the wily commander, Croaker, and the Lady, the Company is working for the Taglian government, but neither the Company nor the Taglians are overflowing with trust for each other. Arrayed against both is a similarly tenuous alliance of sorcerers, including the diabolical Soulcatcher, the psychotic Howler, and a four-year-old child who may be the most powerful of all.More editions of She Is the Darkness:
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The Shiningby Stephen KingISBN 0816156859 (0-8161-5685-9)
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Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and the Actor's Nightmare: Two Playsby Christopher DurangISBN 0822210355 (0-8222-1035-5)
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Six Degrees of Separationby John GuareISBN 0822210347 (0-8222-1034-7)
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Spoon River Anthologyby Edgar Lee MastersISBN 0812539044 (0-8125-3904-4)
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Starfishby Peter WattsISBN 0812575857 (0-8125-7585-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Starfish'Book summary:Peter Watts's first novel explores the last mysterious place on earth--the floor of a deep sea rift. Channer Vent is a zone of freezing darkness that belongs to shellfish the size of boulders and crimson worms three meters long. It's the temporary home of the maintenance crew of a geothermal energy plant--a crew made up of the damaged and dysfunctional flotsam of an overpopulated near-future earth. The crew's reluctant leader, basket case Lenie Clarke, can barely survive in the upper world, but she quickly falls under the rift's spell, just as Watts's magical descriptions of it enchant the reader: "Steam never gets a chance to form at three hundred atmospheres, but thermal distortion turns the water into a column of writhing liquid prisms, hotter than molten glass."
Watts is investigating monsters. Gigantic deep sea monsters, surgically-altered-from-human monsters, faceless jellied-brain computer monsters--which monsters are human, which are more than human, which are less? Watts keeps the story line stripped down to showcase the theme of dehumanization. The anonymous millions who live along the unstable shore of N'AmPac come under threat (a triggered earthquake, and perhaps a disaster that's slower but even more pitiless) from their own dehumanized creations. But Watts is less interested in whether Lenie can save the dry world as in whether she can save herself. In Starfish, Watts stretches the boundaries of humanity up, down, and sideways to see whether its dimensions reveal anything we'd be proud to be a part of. --Blaise Selby [via]
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The Stars My Destinationby Alfred BesterISBN 0839823002 (0-8398-2300-2)
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Steel Magnoliasby Robert HarlingISBN 0822210789 (0-8222-1078-9)
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Steppenwolfby Hermann HesseISBN 0848810503 (0-8488-1050-3)
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Steppenwolf is Hesse s best-known and most autobiographical work. With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, it is one of literature s most poetic evocations of the soul s journey to liberation. Originally published in English in 1929, the novel s wisdom continues to speak to our souls and marks it as a classic of modern literature.More editions of Steppenwolf:
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Tombs of Atuanby Ursula K. Le Guin, Gail GarratyISBN 0816144303 (0-8161-4430-3)
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madreby B. TravenISBN 0837604362 (0-8376-0436-2)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklynby Betty SmithISBN 0816133018 (0-8161-3301-8)
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The Unabridged Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. SchultzISBN 0820324019 (0-8203-2401-9)
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This new edition is based on David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshis exhaustive investigation into the books writing and publishing history. All of Bierces known satiric definitions are here, including previously uncollected, unpublished, and alternative entries. Definitions dropped from previous editions have been restored while nearly two hundred wrongly attributed to Bierce have been excised. For dedicated Bierce readers, an introduction and notes are also included.
Ambrose Bierces Devils Dictionary is a classic that stands alongside the best work of satirists such as Twain, Mencken, and Thurber. This unabridged edition will be celebrated by humor fans and word lovers everywhere.
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Visions Of Heaven & Hellby Clive BarkerISBN 0847827372 (0-8478-2737-2)
Hardcover, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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