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Absalom, Absalom!by William FaulknerISBN 0394747755 (0-394-74775-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Absalom, Absalom!'Book summary:Read, read, read. Read everythingtrash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! Youll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, youll find out. If its not, throw it out the window. William Faulkner
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Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkners epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him. 
Adam Bedeby George Eliot, Marion EvansISBN 0395052041 (0-395-05204-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Adventures of Pinocchioby Carlo Collodi, Roberto InnocentiISBN 0394821106 (0-394-82110-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Adventures of Pinocchioby Stephanie Spinner, Carlo Collodi, Diane GoodeISBN 0394959108 (0-394-95910-8)
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The Age of Reasonby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0394718380 (0-394-71838-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Alan Ayckbournby Michael BillingtonISBN 0394620518 (0-394-62051-8)
Softcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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As I Lay Dyingby William Faulkner, Noel PolkISBN 0394747453 (0-394-74745-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As I Lay Dying'Book summary:Faulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successful incarnations here in As I Lay Dying. In the story, the members of the Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, to the town where Addie wanted to be buried. Along the way, we listen to each of the members on the macabre pilgrimage, while Faulkner heaps upon them various flavors of disaster. Contains the famous chapter completing the equation about mothers and fish--you'll see. [via]
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant Garde in France, 1885 to World War I Alfred Jarry, Henry Rousseau, Erik Satie and Guillaume Apollinairby Roger ShattuckISBN 0394704150 (0-394-70415-0)
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Bechby John UpdikeISBN 0394745094 (0-394-74509-4)
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The Best Short Stories of Dostoyevskyby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David MagarshackISBN 0394604776 (0-394-60477-6)
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Betrayed by Rita Hayworthby Manuel PuigISBN 0394746597 (0-394-74659-7)
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Beyond the Chocolate Warby Robert CormierISBN 0394873432 (0-394-87343-2)
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Cancer Wardby Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nicholas Bethell, David BurgISBN 0394604997 (0-394-60499-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cancer Ward'Book summary:Like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the hero, Oldg Kostoglotov, spent many years in labour camps and was eventually transferred to a cancer ward. This study of how people confront terminal illness is also a dissection of the "cancerous" Soviet police state. [via]
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Complete Poetical Works of John Miltonby John MiltonISBN 0395055741 (0-395-05574-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Courtship, Valentine's Day, 1918: Three Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycleby FooteISBN 0394623444 (0-394-62344-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 0395051223 (0-395-05122-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Deliveranceby James DickeyISBN 0395076137 (0-395-07613-7)
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Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German Historyby Fritz Richard SternISBN 0394757726 (0-394-75772-6)
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Elizabethan World Pictureby TillyardISBN 0394701623 (0-394-70162-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabethan World Picture'Book summary:This brief and illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Professor Tillyard in the process of its various transformations by the dynamic spirit of the Renaissance. Among his topics are: Angels; the Stars and Fortunes; the Analogy between Macrocosm and Microcosm; the Four Elements; the Four Humours; Sympathies; Correspondences; and the Cosmic Dance-ideas and symbols which inspirited the minds and imaginations not only of the Elizabethans but of all men of the Renaissance. [via]
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Ellen Fosterby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0394757572 (0-394-75757-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ellen Foster'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Kaye Gibbons is a writer who brings a short story sensibility to her novels. Rather than take advantage of the novel's longer form to paint her visions in broad, sweeping strokes, Gibbons prefers to concentrate on just one corner of the canvas and only a few colors to produce her small masterpieces. In Gibbons's case, her canvas is the American South and her colors are all the shades of gray.
In Ellen Foster, the title character is an 11-year-old orphan who refers to herself as "old Ellen," an appellation that is disturbingly apt. Ellen is an old woman in a child's body; her frail, unhappy mother dies, her abusive father alternately neglects her and makes advances on her, and she is shuttled from one uncaring relative's home to another before she finally takes matters into her own hands and finds herself a place to belong. There is something almost Dickensian about Ellen's tribulations; like Oliver Twist, David Copperfield or a host of other literary child heroes, Ellen is at the mercy of predatory adults, with only her own wit and courage--and the occasional kindness of others--to help her through. That she does, in fact, survive her childhood and even rise above it is the book's bittersweet victory. [via]
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A Fableby William FaulknerISBN 0394724135 (0-394-72413-5)
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Fanny and Alexanderby Ingmar BergmanISBN 0394749456 (0-394-74945-6)
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Fantastic Mr. Foxby Roald Dahl, Donald ChaffinISBN 039480497X (0-394-80497-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'Book summary:In the tradition of The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, this is a "garden tale" of farmer versus vermin, or vice versa. The farmers in this case are a vaguely criminal team of three stooges: "Boggis and Bunce and Bean / One fat, one short, one lean. / These horrible crooks / So different in looks / Were nonetheless equally mean." Whatever their prowess as poultry farmers, within these pages their sole objective is the extermination of our hero--the noble, the clever, the Fantastic Mr. Fox. Our loyalties are defined from the start; after all, how could you cheer for a man named Bunce who eats his doughnuts stuffed with mashed goose livers? As one might expect, the farmers in this story come out smelling like ... well, what farmers occasionally do smell like.
This early Roald Dahl adventure is great for reading aloud to three- to seven-year-olds, who will be delighted to hear that Mr. Fox keeps his family one step ahead of the obsessed farmers. When they try to dig him out, he digs faster; when they lay siege to his den, he tunnels to where the farmers least expect him--their own larders! In the end, Mr. Fox not only survives, but also helps the whole community of burrowing creatures live happily ever after. With his usual flourish, Dahl evokes a magical animal world that, as children, we always knew existed, had we only known where or how to look for it. (Great read aloud for any age; written at a 9- to 12-year-old reading level) [via]
Far Tortugaby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0394756673 (0-394-75667-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Far Tortuga'Book summary:An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself. [via]
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Farewell, My Lovelyby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394758277 (0-394-75827-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farewell, My Lovely'Book summary:Private Detective Philip Marlow is in trouble. He witnesses a murder and knows who the killer is, but for some reason the police don't want to find the murderer, so Marlowe decides to find out for himself. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
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Fellowship of the Ringby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395082544 (0-395-08254-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fellowship of the Ring'Book summary:Part one of The Lord of the Rings, now featuring film art on the cover. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in THE HOBBIT. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.[via]More editions of Fellowship of the Ring:
Fiddle Cityby Dan KavanaghISBN 0394744411 (0-394-74441-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Five Modern No Playsby Yukio MishimaISBN 0394718836 (0-394-71883-6)
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Four Contemporary American Playsby Bennett CerfISBN 0394702034 (0-394-70203-4)
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Larry Weinberg, Ken BarrISBN 0394848276 (0-394-84827-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Victor Frankenstein learns the secret of producing life, and so, by putting together parts of various corpses, he creates the Frankenstein monster. The monster is huge and disformed, but he means no harm to anyone--until constant ill treatment drives him to murder and revenge. This easy-to-read version of Mary Shelley's long-standing masterpiece easily captures the sadness and horror of the original. [via]
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0394605063 (0-394-60506-3)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Go Down, Mosesby William FaulknerISBN 0394718844 (0-394-71884-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Go Down, Moses'Book summary:I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize
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Go Down, Moses is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkners mythic Yoknapatawpha County. From a variety of perspectives, Faulkner examines the complex, changing relationships between blacks and whites, between man and nature, weaving a cohesive novel rich in implication and insight.More editions of Go Down, Moses:
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Herlandby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0394736656 (0-394-73665-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herland'Book summary:On the eve of World War I, an all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male explorers who are now forced to re-examine their assumptions about women's roles in society. [via]
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The Hobbitby J.R.R. TolkienISBN 0395071224 (0-395-07122-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit'Book summary:"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure.
The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Hobbit or There and Back Againby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395177111 (0-395-17711-1)
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0395070724 (0-395-07072-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCRd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. 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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The Immoralistby Andre GideISBN 0394700082 (0-394-70008-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Immoralist'Book summary:With today's headlines and talk shows, it takes a lot to shock a reader--certainly more than was required in 1902, when André Gide's The Immoralist was first published. What was seen then as a story of dereliction translates today into a tale of introspection and fierce self-discovery. While traveling to Tunis with his new bride, the Parisian scholar Michel is overcome by tuberculosis. As he slowly convalesces, he revels in the physical pleasures of living and resolves to forgo his studies of the past in order to experience the present--to let "the layers of acquired knowledge peel away from the mind like a cosmetic and reveal, in patches, the naked flesh beneath, the authentic being hidden there."
But this is not the Michel his colleagues knew, nor the man Marceline married, and he must hide his new values under the patina of what he now reviles. Bored by Parisian society, he moves to a family farm in Normandy. He is happy there, especially in the company of young Charles, but he must soon return to the city and academe. Michel remains restless until he gives his first lecture and runs into Ménalque, who has long outraged society, and recognizes in him a reflection of his torment. Finally, Michel heads south, deeper into the desert, until, as he confides to his friends, he is lost in the sea of sand, under a clear, directionless sky.
What Gide's story lacks in sensationalism is fulfilled by his descriptive prose, which evokes the exotic nature of Michel's inner and outer journey: "I did not understand the forbearance of this African earth, submerged for days at a time and now awakening from winter, drunk with water, bursting with new juices; it laughed in this springtime frenzy whose echo, whose image I perceived within myself." --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
In the Boom Boom Roomby David RabeISBN 0394622057 (0-394-62205-7)
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 0395051916 (0-395-05191-6)
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L' Amante Anglaiseby Marguerite Duras, Barbara BrayISBN 0394750225 (0-394-75022-5)
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Last Operas and Playsby Gertrude Stein, Carl Van VechtenISBN 0394716957 (0-394-71695-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Operas and Plays'Book summary:In the more than 75 plays Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with the pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. She drew into her plays the daily flow of life around her - including the natural world - and turned cities, villages, parts of the dramatic structure, and even her own friends into characters. She made punctuation and typography part of her compositional style and chose words for their joyful impact as sound and wordplay. For Stein, the writing process itself was always important in developing the "continuous present" at the heart of her work. "Last Operas and Plays" contains many of Stein's most important and most-produced works. As a special feature, it also includes her essay "Plays", in which she reflects on the experience in the theatre of seeing and hearing, and on emotion and time. [via]
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The Later Renaissance in England: Nondramatic Verse and Prose, 1600-1660by Hershel BakerISBN 0395160383 (0-395-16038-3)
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Le Petit Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 039511148X (0-395-11148-X)
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The Marriage of Bette and Booby Christopher DurangISBN 0394623479 (0-394-62347-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marriage of Bette and Boo'Book summary:Never have marriage and the family been more scathingly or hilariously savaged than in this brilliant black comedy. The marriage of Bette and Boo brings together two of the maddest families in creation in a portrait album of family lifes uncertainties and confusion. Bereaved by miscarriages, undermined by their families, separated by alcoholism, assaulted by disease, and mystified by their priest, Bette and Boo, in their bewildered attempts to provide a semblance of hearth and home, are presented with a poignant compassion that enriches and enlarges the play, and places Christopher Durang squarely in the forefront of American dramatists.[via]More editions of The Marriage of Bette and Boo:
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The Mask of Apolloby Mary RenaultISBN 0394751051 (0-394-75105-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mask of Apollo'Book summary:Set in fourth-century B.C. Greece, The Mask of Apollo is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he finds himself at the center of a political crisis in which the philosopher Plato is also involved. Much of the action is set in Syracuse, where Plato's friend Dion is trying to persuade the young tyrant Dionysios the Younger to accept the rule of law. Through Nikeratos' eyes, the reader watches as the clash between the two looses all the pent-up violence in the city. [via]
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Mickelsson's Ghosts: A Novelby John GardnerISBN 0394729382 (0-394-72938-2)
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The New Women's Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Womenby New York :ISBN 039472206X (0-394-72206-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Women's Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women'Book summary:From the Introduction: "During the sixties, much of theatre did not touch real women in spite of the number of female dramatists. But in the seventies, with the shift in the theatre away from 'absurdism' and back to a kind of realism, women have begun to write from their own experience. the women playwrights of the seventies are not part of a single movement; they write in many different styles and come to the theatre with many different life-histories...All over the country, women are beginning to create plays, not only from their own lives, but that dramatize history, bring our foremothers to life." Plays: BITS AND PIECES by Corinne Jacker. WINDOW DRESSING by Joanna Russ. BREAKFAST PAST NOON by Ursule Molinaro. BIRTH AND AFTER BIRTH by Tina Howe. MOURNING PICTURES by Honor Moore. WEDDING BAND by Alice Childress. THE ABDICATION by Ruth Wolff. THE ICE WOLF by Joanna Halpert Kraus. I LOST A PAIR OF GLOVES YESTERDAY by Myrna Lamb. OUT OF OUR FATHERS' HOUSE arranged for the stage by Eve Merriam, Paula Wagner, Jack Hoffsiss [via]
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Nickel Mountain: A Pastoral Novelby John Champlin GardnerISBN 0394743938 (0-394-74393-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nickel Mountain: A Pastoral Novel'Book summary:[via]One mans search for personal grace in a town plagued by misfortuneHenry Soames runs a diner in an eccentric rural community in the Catskills. He is anxious and overweight, and at age forty-two, suffers from poor health. When Callie Wells, Soamess seventeen-year-old employee, is impregnated by a local boy on his way to college, it becomes apparent that both are in need of a little help. After an unsuccessful attempt to find Callie a husband, Henry accepts the role. But soon after the improbable marriage commences, strange events occur in the small town, and Henrys pursuit of personal salvation begins.Written by the author of October Light and The Sunlight Dialogues, Nickel Mountain is a wonderfully conceived narrative about one mans search for fulfillment in a lonely world.This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.More editions of Nickel Mountain: A Pastoral Novel:
October Lightby John GardnerISBN 0394740580 (0-394-74058-0)
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One to Count Cadenceby James CrumleyISBN 0394735595 (0-394-73559-5)
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Orchards: Storiesby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Maria Irene FornesISBN 0394745353 (0-394-74535-3)
Softcover, Knopf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orchards: Stories'Book summary:seven one-act plays based on Chekhov: THE MAN IN A CASE by Wendy Wasserstein, 1 M, 1 F; VINT by David Mamet, 6 M; DROWNING by Maria Irene Fornes, 3 M; A DOPEY FAIRY TALE by Michael Weller (from The Skit), 8 M, 3F; EVE OF THE TRIAL by Samm-Art Williams, 3 M, 4 F; THE TALKING DOG by John Guare (from A Joke), 2 M, 2 F; RIVKALA'S RING by Spalding Gray (from The Witch), 1 M [via]
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Other Placesby Harold PinterISBN 0394624491 (0-394-62449-1)
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The Plagueby Albert CamusISBN 0394712587 (0-394-71258-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plague'Book summary:The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it. [via]
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Platero Y Yo/Platero and Iby Juan Ramon JimenezISBN 0394736249 (0-394-73624-9)
Hardcover, Shambhala Publications
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The Plays of Strindbergby August Strindberg, Michael Leverson MeyerISBN 0394716981 (0-394-71698-1)
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The Poetical Works of Longfellowby Henry Wadsworth LongfellowISBN 0395184878 (0-395-18487-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Portnoy's Complaintby Philip RothISBN 0394608100 (0-394-60810-0)
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Pubis Angelicalby Manuel Puig, Elena BrunetISBN 0394746643 (0-394-74664-3)
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The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of 1830by Marie Henry Bey Stendhal, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 039460511X (0-394-60511-X)
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Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Groveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 0394711823 (0-394-71182-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove'Book summary:Here are the first two volumes of Prousts monumental achievement, Swanns Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann's Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, exquisite memories, long since passedhis mothers good-night kiss, the water lilies on the Vivonne, his love for Swanns daughter Gilbertespring vividly into being. In Within a Budding Grovewhich won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, bringing the author instant famethe narrator turns from his childhood recollections and begins to explore the memories of his adolescence. As his affections for Gilberte grow dim, the narrator discovers a new object of attention in the bright-eyed Albertine. Their encounters unfold by the shores of Balbec. One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin.
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A Room With a Viewby E. M. ForsterISBN 0394743180 (0-394-74318-0)
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The Ruby in the Smokeby Philip PullmanISBN 0394895894 (0-394-89589-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ruby in the Smoke'Book summary:"Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man." Philip Pullman begins his Sally Lockhart trilogy with a bang in The Ruby in the Smoke--a fast-paced, finely crafted thriller set in a rogue- and scalawag-ridden Victorian London. His 16-year-old heroine has no time for the usual trials of adolescence: her father has been murdered, and she needs to find out how and why. But everywhere she turns, she encounters new scoundrels and secrets. Why do the mere words "seven blessings" cause one man to keel over and die at their utterance? Who has possession of the rare, stolen ruby? And what does the opium trade have to do with it?
As our determined and intelligent sleuth sets her mind to unraveling these dark mysteries, she learns how embroiled she is in the whole affair. As riveting and witty as the sensational "penny dreadfuls" of Victorian England (but thousands of times better written), Pullman's trilogy (including The Shadow in the North and The Tiger in the Well) will have readers on the edges of their seats. Ruby is an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. (Ages 12 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Scapegoat:Ritual and Literature: Ritual and Literatureby John B. Vickery, J'nan M. SelleryISBN 0395112567 (0-395-11256-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Seven Famous Greek Playsby Eugene O'Neill, Whitney Oates, Oates, Whitney & O'Neill, EugeneISBN 0394701259 (0-394-70125-9)
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Seven Plays of the Seaby Eugene O'NeillISBN 0394718569 (0-394-71856-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0395051347 (0-395-05134-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Sorrows of Young Werther and Novellaby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elizabeth Mayer, Louise Bogan, W. H. AudenISBN 0394605098 (0-394-60509-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Stepsby Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0394757165 (0-394-75716-5)
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Story of a Shipwrecked Sailorby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0394754034 (0-394-75403-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Swann's Wayby Marcel ProustISBN 0394705947 (0-394-70594-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way'Book summary:Swann's Way begins with one of the most famous incidents in all of literature -- the taste of a madeleine and tea that reawakens the elusive childhood memories of the narrator, Marcel. An image of Charles Swann, a wealthy and fashionable neighbor, precipitates Marcel's recollection of Swann's marriage to Odette de Crecy, a beautiful, manipulative woman far beneath him in social standing, and of the jealousy, aroused by Odette's many affairs with both men and women, that eventually destroys Swarm. Marcel recounts, too, his own initiation into the aesthetic pleasures and sexual intrigues of belle-epoque Paris. The themes introduced in Swann's Way -- the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories -- form the threads that unite all the volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. [via]
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Tale of Genjiby Murasaki ShikubuISBN 0394735307 (0-394-73530-7)
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In the early eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote what many consider to be the worlds first novel, more than three centuries before Chaucer. The Heian era (7941185) is recognized as one of the very greatest periods in Japanese literature, and The Tale of Genji is not only the unquestioned prose masterpiece of that period but also the most lively and absorbing account we have of the intricate, exquisite, highly ordered court culture that made such a masterpiece possible.
Genji is the favorite son of the emperor but also a man of dangerously passionate impulses. In his highly refined world, where every dalliance is an act of political consequence, his shifting alliances and secret love affairs create great turmoil and very nearly destroy him.
Edward Seidenstickers translation of Lady Murasakis splendid romance has been honored throughout the English-speaking world for its fluency, scholarly depth, and deep literary tact and sensitivity. [via] 
Three Children's Playsby David MametISBN 0394621670 (0-394-62167-0)
Softcover, Grove Press
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Tom Jones - A Foundlingby Henry FieldingISBN 0394605195 (0-394-60519-5)
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Tom Stoppard's Playsby Jim HunterISBN 0394624149 (0-394-62414-9)
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U. S. A.by John DOS PassosISBN 0395076277 (0-395-07627-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0394605276 (0-394-60527-6)
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0395051614 (0-395-05161-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Victorian Poetry and Poeticsby Walter Edwards Houghton, George Robert StangeISBN 0395046467 (0-395-04646-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Wallby John Richard HerseyISBN 0394756967 (0-394-75696-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wall'Book summary:Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty -- a gripping and visceral story, impossible to put down. [via]
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War and Peaceby Leo TolstoyISBN 039460475X (0-394-60475-X)
Hardcover, The Modern Library
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Widowsby Ariel DorfmanISBN 0394711084 (0-394-71108-4)
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Wild Palmsby William FaulknerISBN 039470262X (0-394-70262-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Palms'Book summary:Harry Wilbourne and his lover Charlotte escape from the snare of Chicago and the security that the city holds after he has performed an abortion on her. But the shades of the prison house, of death, seem to close around them as they turn their backs on life to conserve their love. [via]
Win, Lose, or Wear a Tie: Sports Riddlesby Dave Ross, Peter Desberg, Gloria D. MiklowitzISBN 0394623517 (0-394-62351-7)
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The Woman Destroyedby Simone De BeauvoirISBN 0394711033 (0-394-71103-3)
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Works of Geoffrey Chaucerby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 0395055687 (0-395-05568-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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