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The Aeneid of Virgilby Edward McCrorieISBN 0937986712 (0-937986-71-2)
Hardcover, Donald m Grant Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid of Virgil'Book summary:Called "the best poem by the best poet," Virgil's Aeneid is perhaps the most famous work in Latin literature. It tells the story of Rome's founding by the Trojan prince Aeneas after many years of travel, and it contains many of the most famous stories about the Trojan War. It also reveals much of what the Romans felt and believed about themselves- the sensitive reader will see that these same values and issues often trouble us today.In this new translation Edward McCrorie has performed the difficult task of rendering Virgil's compact, dense Latin into fine, readable, modern English verse. The sometimes complex text is made clear and comprehensible even for first-time readers, and a glossary of names helps identify characters and place-names in the poem. The translation is well suited for students at all levels, and readers already familiar with Virgil will find many fresh images and ideas."A brilliant effort."--Robert Bly"I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines."--Robert FaglesEdward McCrorie is Professor of English, Providence College. His poetry and translations of Latin verse have been widely published.[via]More editions of The Aeneid of Virgil:
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Aishiteruze Babyby Yoko Maki, Marie CochraneISBN 142150569X (1-4215-0569-X)
Softcover, Viz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aishiteruze Baby'Book summary:Volume 2 in Aishiteruze, a manga series that revolves around the life of Kippei Katakura, a popular high-school playboy who suddenly finds himself the surrogate parent of his 5-year-old cousin. [via]
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Alcestisby Euripides, Gilbert MurrayISBN 1419105361 (1-4191-0536-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Alias Graceby Margaret AtwoodISBN 1417671963 (1-4176-7196-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alias Grace'Book summary:In 1843, a 16-year-old Canadian housemaid named Grace Marks was tried for the murder of her employer and his mistress. The sensationalistic trial made headlines throughout the world, and the jury delivered a guilty verdict. Yet opinion remained fiercely divided about Marks--was she a spurned woman who had taken out her rage on two innocent victims, or was she an unwilling victim herself, caught up in a crime she was too young to understand? Such doubts persuaded the judges to commute her sentence to life imprisonment, and Marks spent the next 30 years in an assortment of jails and asylums, where she was often exhibited as a star attraction. In Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood reconstructs Marks's story in fictional form. Her portraits of 19th-century prison and asylum life are chilling in their detail. The author also introduces Dr. Simon Jordan, who listens to the prisoner's tale with a mixture of sympathy and disbelief. In his effort to uncover the truth, Jordan uses the tools of the then rudimentary science of psychology. But the last word belongs to the book's narrator--Grace herself. [via]
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Alice 19th: Blindnessby Yu WataseISBN 1417663669 (1-4176-6366-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Amigo's Blue Guitarby Joan MacLeodISBN 0921368232 (0-921368-23-2)
Softcover, Blizzard Publishing, Incorporated
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The Banquetby Plato, Percy Bysshe ShelleyISBN 0943742129 (0-943742-12-9)
Softcover, Pagan Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Banquet'Book summary:Witty, sexy and radiantly beautiful, the Shelley translation of Plato's great Dialogue on Love, The Banquet (or The Symposium) is by far the best in the English language. It has been described as conveying much of the vivid life, the grace of movement, and the luminous beauty of Plato -- the poetry of a philosopher rendered by the prose of a poet. Although a masterpiece in its own right, the translation was suppressed and then bowdlerized for well over a century. In 19th century Britain, male love at the heart of the dialogue was unmentionable. The Banquet and Shelley's accompanying essay, A Discourse on the Manners of the Antient Greeks, were not published in their entirety until 1931, and then in an edition of 100 copies intended for private circulation only. For many years, the Shelley translation has been unobtainable, new or used. Pagan Press now offers a new edition, which is complete and authentic. In terms of both typography and editing, it is the most readable edition ever published. [via]
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 1400033411 (1-4000-3341-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved'Book summary:Set in post-Civil War Ohio, this is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad. [via]
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The Bonesetter's Daughterby Amy TanISBN 1417669985 (1-4176-6998-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyondby Martha K. SmithISBN 0965034909 (0-9650349-0-9)
Softcover, Cuchipanda Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyond'Book summary:From the author of the critically acclaimed "The Handmaid's Tale" comes this 2000 novel-within-a-novel centering on entangled relationships in 1930s-40s Ontario, Canada. [via]
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Ceres, Celestial Legend 9by Yuu WataseISBN 1417658797 (1-4176-5879-7)
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0899663974 (0-89966-397-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Ernest J. Simmons [via]
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Death Note 2by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi ObataISBN 1421501694 (1-4215-0169-4)
Softcover, Viz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Note 2'Book summary:Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal...or his life? Light thinks he's put an end to his troubles with the FBI - by using the Death Note to kill off the FBI agents working the case in Japan! But one of the agents has a fiancee who used to work in the Bureau, and now she's uncovered information that could lead to Light's capture. To make matters worse, L has emerged from the shadows to work directly with the task force headed by Light's father. With people pursuing him from every direction, will Light get caught in the conflux? [via]
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Death Note 3: Hard Runby Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata, Pookie RolfISBN 1421501708 (1-4215-0170-8)
Softcover, Viz
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Death Note 4: Loveby Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi ObataISBN 142150331X (1-4215-0331-X)
Softcover, Viz
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Death Note 5: Whiteoutby Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi ObataISBN 1421506262 (1-4215-0626-2)
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Anna Maria Hong, Cynthia Brantley JohnsonISBN 1416500219 (1-4165-0021-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Kaplan guarantees that readers will improve their SAT score using guidesor get their money back.
Vocabulary is a critical part of studying for the SATs. Memorizing words that are written on flashcards can be difficult because they are not put in the context of a sentence. Kaplans SAT Score-Raising Classics make learning SAT vocabulary words easier and more enjoyable for students. Classic novels that are taught throughout high school can now be read while learning vocabulary words that frequently appear on the SAT exam.
Designed for easy use, these books feature the actual text on one side of the page, with the word definitions on the opposite side. In addition, the vocabulary words are in easy-to-spot bold typeface throughout.
Each Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic features:
- The complete text of the classic novel
- Hundreds of vocabulary words tested on the SAT exam
- Definitions for each highlighted work on the facing page
- A pronunciation guide
- An index for easy reference
Kaplans SAT Score-Raising Classics series give readers get an invaluable learning tool and an enjoyable reading experience. [via]
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Early Novels and Storiesby Willa Cather, Sharon O BrienISBN 0940450399 (0-940450-39-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Novels and Stories'Book summary:"Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet." Willa Cather's remark describes her own reasons for re-creating in her powerful fiction the Nebraska frontier of her youth. The vast Great Plains, where the earth has only recently come beneath the plow and the sky is huge and open, mirrors the uniquely American ethic of her characters: their heroic aspirations and stoicism, their passion for creativity, their rebelliousness of spirit. This volume, the first in The Library of America's authoritative three-volume collected Cather, includes the story collection "The Troll Garden," her first work of fiction, along with the beloved novels "O Pioneers!," "The Song of the Lark," "My Antonia," and "One of Ours," which earned a Pulitzer Prize. [via]
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Electraby Euripides, Gilbert MurrayISBN 1420927345 (1-4209-2734-5)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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Emmaby Jane Austen, Alyssa HaradISBN 1416500286 (1-4165-0028-6)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays 1913-1920by Eugene O'Neill, Travis BogardISBN 0940450488 (0-940450-48-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Euripides Alcestisby Richard Hamilton, EuripidesISBN 0929524071 (0-929524-07-1)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyISBN 1417620285 (1-4176-2028-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit 451'Book summary:In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]
For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest HemingwayISBN 090571203X (0-905712-03-X)
Hardcover, Heinemann : Secker and Warburg : Octopus Books
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Fronteras Americanas/American Bordersby Guillermo VerdecchiaISBN 0889223831 (0-88922-383-1)
Softcover, Talonbooks Ltd
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Girl with a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 141774829X (1-4177-4829-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'Book summary:With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.
In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Girl with a Pearl Earring:
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Good Earthby Pearl S. Buck, Stephanie Reents, Cynthia Brantley JohnsonISBN 1416500189 (1-4165-0018-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Earth'Book summary:The story begins on the wedding day of farmer Wang Lung and follows his simple, often one-sided view of the Chinese culture, times, and his connection with the land. The land is a recurring theme throughout the novel, seemingly nurtured by the apparent protagonists, rejected and ruined by the antagonists. The author uses the House of Hwang, a nearby house of nobles, to contrast and predict their rise and fall. As the House of Hwang meets its slow and desperate end, Wang Lung rises.
However, as the weather turns disastrous for farming, Wang Lung's family has to flee to the city to scrape out a meager living. Upon returning home, the family fares better. Wang Lung eventually becomes a prosperous man, his rise contrasting with the downfall of the Hwang family, who lose their connection to the land. At the end of the novel, when Wang Lung is an old man, he overhears his sons plotting to sell some of the land, thus showing the end of the cycle of wealth and downfall. [via]
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The Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 141770392X (1-4177-0392-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940.
The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."
The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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The Green Mileby Stephen KingISBN 1416524339 (1-4165-2433-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Mile'Book summary:This novel taps into what Stephen King does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The charming narrator is an old man looking back on the events, decades later. Maybe it's a little too cute, maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. As Time magazine put it, "Like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions ... the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel work as well as it finally does." And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome can be easily skipped by the squeamish. The Green Mile was nominated for a 1997 Bram Stoker Award. [via]
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Handbook of Epictetusby Epictetus, Nicholas P. WhiteISBN 0915145693 (0-915145-69-3)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Handbook of Epictetus'Book summary:Handbook of Epictetus also known as Enchiridion written by legendary Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus is a manual of Stoic ethical advice. Compiled by Arrian, who was a student of Epictetus, this great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, the Handbook of Epictetus is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Epictetus is highly recommended. [via]
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Hands Around Reigen: A Cycle Of Ten Dialoguesby Arthur SchnitzlerISBN 1417933488 (1-4179-3348-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Heroes and Saints & Other Plays: Giving Up the Ghost, Shadow of a Man, Heroes and Saintsby Cherrie MoragaISBN 0931122740 (0-931122-74-0)
Softcover, Univ of New Mexico Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heroes and Saints & Other Plays: Giving Up the Ghost, Shadow of a Man, Heroes and Saints'Book summary:Heroes and Saints & Other Plays is Chicana playwright Cherrí¬e Moraga's premiere collection of theatre. Included are: Shadow of a Man, winner of the 1990 Fund for New American Plays Award; Heroes and Saints, winner of the Dramalogue, the PEN West, and the Critics Circle awards, as well as the Will Glickman Prize for Best Play of 1992; and Giving Up the Ghost, first published by West End Press in 1986, and now presented here in its revised stage version.
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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 1406728713 (1-4067-2871-3)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:HOWARDS ENDBY E. M. FORSTERCHAPTER I"ONE may as well begin with Helens letters to her sister,Howards End,Dearest Meg,It isnt going to be what we expected. It is old and little, andaltogether delightful red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is,and the dear knows what will happen when Paul younger sonarrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroomor drawingroom. Hall itself is practically a room. You openanother door in it, and there are the stairs going up in a sort oftunnel to the fast floor. Three bedrooms in a row there, and threeattics in a row above. That isnt all the house really, but it9s allthat one notices nine windows as you look up from the frontgarden.Then there's a very big wychelm to the left as you look upleaning a little over the house, and standing on the boundarybetween the garden and meadow. I quite love that tree already.Also ordinary elms, oaks no nastier than ordinary oaks peartrees, appletrees, and a vine. No silver birches, though. However,I must get on to my host and hostess. I only wanted to show that itisnt the least what we expected. Why did we settle that their housewould be all gables and wiggles, and their garden all gambogecoloured paths? I believe simply because we associate them withexpensive hotels Mrs Wilcox trailing in beautiful dresses downlong corridors, Mr Wilcox bullying porters, etc We fnales arethat unjust.I shall be back Saturday I will let you know train later.They are as angry as I am that you did not come too really Tibbyis too tiresome, he starts a new mortal disease tvery month. Howcould he have got hay fever in London? and even if he could, Useems hard that you should give up a visit to hear a schoolboysneeze. Tell him that Charles Wilcox the son who is here has hayfever too, but ke9s brave and gets quite cross when we inquire afterit. Men like the Wilcoxes would do Tibby a power of good. Butyou wont agree andI'd better change the subject."............. [via]
In Her Shoes : A Novelby Jennifer WeinerISBN 141650334X (1-4165-0334-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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John SteinbeckISBN 0905712706 (0-905712-70-6)
Hardcover, Xs Books
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John Steinbeckby John SteinbeckISBN 0905712064 (0-905712-06-4)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Steinbeck'Book summary:The Grapes of Wrath / The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / East of Eden / Of Mice and Men [via]
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Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel García Márquez, Edith GrossmanISBN 140003468X (1-4000-3468-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love in the Time of Cholera'Book summary:In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.With humorous sagacity and consummate craft, García Márquez traces an exceptional half-century story of unrequited love. Though it seems never to be conveniently contained, love flows through the novel in many wonderful guises--joyful, melancholy, enriching, ever surprising. [via]
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Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 1404303855 (1-4043-0385-5)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moll Flanders'Book summary:Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and dies a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums . . . [via]
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 1419135937 (1-4191-3593-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:Cuzak sat down behind the stove and watched his womenfolk and the little children with equal amusement. He thought they were nice, and he thought they were funny, evidently. He had been off dancing with the girls and forgetting that he was an old fellow, and now his family rather surprised him; he seemed to think it a joke that all these children should belong to him. [via]
Name Of The Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 1417706112 (1-4177-0611-2)
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Nana 2by Ai YazawaISBN 1421501082 (1-4215-0108-2)
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Never Let Me Goby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 1400078776 (1-4000-7877-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Let Me Go'Book summary:From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathynow thirty-one years oldlived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.
And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbedeven comfortedby their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailshams nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhoodand about their lives now.
A tale of deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonanceand takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguros finest work. [via]More editions of Never Let Me Go:
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The Open Door: Thoughts on Acting and Theatreby Peter BrookISBN 1400077877 (1-4000-7787-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Open Door: Thoughts on Acting and Theatre'Book summary:From King Lear to the Tragedy of Carmen, from Marat/Sade to the epic Mahabharata, Peter Brook has reinvented modern theatre, not once but again and again. In The Open Door the visionary director and theorist offers a lucid, comprehensive exposition of the philosophy that underlies his work.
It is a philosophy of paradoxes: We come to the theatre to find life, but that life must be different from the life we find outside. Actors have to prepare painstakingly yet be willing to sacrifice the results of their preparation. The directors most reliable tool may be his capacity to be bored. Brook illustrates these principles with anecdotes that span his entire career and that demonstrate his familiarity with Shakespeare, Chekhov, and the indigenous theatres of India and Iran. The result is an unparalleled look at what happens both onstage and behind the scenes, fresh in its insights and elegant in its prose. [via]More editions of The Open Door: Thoughts on Acting and Theatre:
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 1414500203 (1-4145-0020-3)
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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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The Razor's Edgeby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 1400034205 (1-4000-3420-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen Crane, Cynthia Brantley Johnson, Alyssa HaradISBN 1416500251 (1-4165-0025-1)
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The Red Badge of Courageby Oliver Ho, Jamel AkibISBN 1402726635 (1-4027-2663-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Badge of Courage'Book summary:[via]A searing tale of fear and courage, set during the Civil War, but more powerful today than ever. A young man enlists in the Union Army, but nervously wonders how he will react to the blood, violence, and death of a real battle. When that terrible day arrives, he flees the fighting in terror. But his cowardly behavior gnaws at his conscience, and he searches for redemption for what he has done.
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Running With Scissorsby Augusten BurroughsISBN 1417666943 (1-4176-6694-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Running With Scissors'Book summary:There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs's harrowing and highly entertaining memoir, Running with Scissors, that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped, glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. "I knew I could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctor's office," he writes, "And it certainly wouldn't be dirty after I polished it with Windex for three hours." There were certainly numerous chips in the childhood Burroughs describes: an alcoholic father, an unstable mother who gives him up for adoption to her therapist, and an adolescence spent as part of the therapist's eccentric extended family, gobbling prescription meds and fooling around with both an old electroshock machine and a pedophile who lives in a shed out back. But just as he dreamed of doing with that old table, Burroughs employs a vigorous program of decoration and fervent polishing to a life that many would have simply thrown in a landfill. Despite her abandonment, he never gives up on his increasingly unbalanced mother. And rather than despair about his lot, he glamorizes it: planning a "beauty empire" and performing an a capella version of "You Light Up My Life" at a local mental ward. Burroughs's perspective achieves a crucial balance for a memoir: emotional but not self-involved, observant but not clinical, funny but not deliberately comic. And it's ultimately a feel-good story: as he steers through a challenging childhood, there's always a sense that Burroughs's survivor mentality will guide him through and that the coffee table will be salvaged after all. --John Moe [via]
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The Sandman: The Wakeby Neil GaimanISBN 1417686197 (1-4176-8619-7)
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The Secret Historyby Donna TarttISBN 1400031702 (1-4000-3170-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret History'Book summary:Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement-both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill. [via]
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Seven Storiesby PanychISBN 0889222819 (0-88922-281-9)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Shopgirlby Steve MartinISBN 1401308279 (1-4013-0827-9)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shopgirl'Book summary:Steve Martin's first foray into fiction is as assured as it is surprising. Set in Los Angeles, its fascination with the surreal body fascism of the upper classes feels like the comedian's familiar territory, but the shopgirl of the book's title may surprise his fans. Mirabelle works in the glove department of Neiman's, "selling things that nobody buys any more." Spending her days waiting for customers to appear, Mirabelle "looks like a puppy standing on its hind legs, and the two brown dots of her eyes, set in the china plate of her face, make her seem very cute and noticeable." Lonely and vulnerable, she passes her evenings taking prescription drugs and drawing "dead things," while pursuing an on-off relationship with the hopeless Jeremy, who possesses "a slouch so extreme that he appears to have left his skeleton at home." Then Mr. Ray Porter steps into Mirabelle's life. He is much older, rich, successful, divorced, and selfish, desiring her "without obligation." Complicating the picture is Mirabelle's voracious rival, her fellow Neiman's employee Lisa, who uses sex "for attracting and discarding men."
The mutual incomprehension, psychological damage, and sheer vacuity practiced by all four of Martin's characters sees Shopgirl veer rather uncomfortably between a comedy of manners and a much darker work. There are some startling passages of description and interior monologue, but the characters are often rather hazy types. Martin tries too hard in his attempt to write a psychologically intense novel about West Coast anomie, but Shopgirl is still an enjoyable, if rather light, read. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Skipping Christmas / Christmas With the Kranksby John GrishamISBN 1417666501 (1-4176-6650-1)
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Soliloquy! the Shakespeare Monologues Womenby Michael EarleyISBN 0936839791 (0-936839-79-1)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soliloquy! the Shakespeare Monologues Women'Book summary:(Applause Books). Your one-stop classical workshop! At last, over 175 of Shakespeare's finest and most performable monologues taken from all thirty-seven plays are here in two easy-to-use volumes (Men and Women). Selections travel the entire spectrum of the great dramatist's vision, from comedies, wit and romances, to tragedies, pathos and histories. Soliloquy! is an excellent and comprehensive collection of Shakespeare's speeches. Not only are the monologues wide-ranging and varied, but they are superbly annotated. Each volume is prefaced by an informative and reassuring introduction, which explains the signals and signposts by which Shakespeare helps the actor on his journey through the text. It includes a very good explanation of blank verse, with excellent examples of irregularities which are specifically related to character and acting intentions. These two books are a must for any actor in search of a 'classical' audition piece.' Elizabeth Smith, Voice Director, Juilliard [via]
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hydeby Kathleen Olmstead, Jamel AkibISBN 1402726678 (1-4027-2667-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde'Book summary:[via]A single personbut with two personalities: one thats noble and kind and another thats pure, repulsive evil. Robert Louis Stevensons engrossing masterpiece about the dual nature of manand a good doctor whose thirst for knowledge has tragic consequencesserves up all the suspense and satisfying chills one expects from the best horror and science fiction.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0893753572 (0-89375-357-2)
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Symposiumby Plato, Gilbert P. RoseISBN 0929524322 (0-929524-32-2)
Softcover, Bryn Mawr Commentaries
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Symposium'Book summary:This is an English translation of Plato account of an important dialogue on the nature of love between Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon, Socrates and Alcibiades.[via]Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato s immediate audience.
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Thousand Acresby Jane SmileyISBN 1400033837 (1-4000-3383-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thousand Acres'Book summary:Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm--one of the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa--to his three daughters, Caroline, Ginny and Rose. A man of harsh sensibilities, he carves Caroline out of the deal because she has the nerve to be less than enthusiastic about her father's generosity. While Larry Cook deteriorates into a pathetic drunk, his daughters are left to cope with the often grim realities of life on a family farm--from battering husbands to cutthroat lenders. In this winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Smiley captures the essence of such a life with stark, painful detail. [via]
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Tokyo Babylon 6by ClampISBN 1417683430 (1-4176-8343-0)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklynby Betty SmithISBN 0895773287 (0-89577-328-7)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'Book summary:Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive. Betty Smith's poignant, honest novel created a big stir when it was first published over 50 years ago. Her frank writing about life's squalor was alarming to some of the more genteel society, but the book's humor and pathos ensured its place in the realm of classics--and in the hearts of readers, young and old. (Ages 10 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Trial ; Metamorphosis ; In the Penal Colony: Three Theatre Adaptations from Franz Kafkaby Franz Kafka, Steven BerkoffISBN 090639984X (0-906399-84-X)
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Trial and Death of Socratesby PlatoISBN 0915144158 (0-915144-15-8)
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Two Plays About God and Manby Dorothy SayersISBN 0913886092 (0-913886-09-2)
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Two Plays About God and Manby Michael Wolfe, Dorothy Sayers, Lucy Avery BrookeISBN 0939218194 (0-939218-19-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Plays About God and Man'Book summary:These two plays, The Devil to Pay (A Faustian Drama) and He That Should Come (A Nativity Play in One Act), have proved successful additions to the school and church dramatic repertoire everywhere. Here they are accompanied by professional suggestions for amateur productions. [via]
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The Unseen Hand and Other Playsby S. ShepardISBN 0893960411 (0-89396-041-1)
Softcover, Urizen Books
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The Valley of the Dollsby Jacqueline SusannISBN 0937858021 (0-937858-02-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Valley of the Dolls'Book summary:Sex and drugs and shlock and more--Jacqueline Susann's addictively entertaining trash classic about three showbiz girls clawing their way to the top and hitting bottom in New York City has it all. Though it's inspired by Susann's experience as a mid-century Broadway starlet who came heartbreakingly close to making it, but did not, and despite its reputation as THE roman á clef of the go-go 1960s, the novel turned out to be weirdly predictive of 1990s post-punk, post-feminist, post "riot grrrl" culture. Jackie Susann may not be a writer for the ages, but--alas!--she's still a writer for our times. [via]
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 1404339574 (1-4043-3957-4)
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El Amor en Los Tiempos de Coleraby Gabriel García MárquezISBN 1400034671 (1-4000-3467-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Amor en Los Tiempos de Colera'Book summary:De jóvenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un médico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino está anonadado, pero es un romántico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunque sostiene 622 pequeños romances, su corazón todavía pertenece a Fermina. Cuando al fin el esposo de ella muere, Florentino acude al funeral con toda intención. A los cincuenta años, nueve meses y cuatro días de haberle profesado amor a Fermina, lo hará una vez más.
Con sagacidad humorística y depurado estilo, García Márquez traza la historia excepcional de un amor que no ha sido correspondido por medio siglo. Aunque nunca parece estar propiamente contenido, el amor fluye a través de la novela de mil maneras alegre, melancólico, enriquecedor, siempre sorprendente. [via]More editions of El Amor en Los Tiempos de Colera:
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Ana Frank: Diario de una Adolescenteby Anne FrankISBN 1400002672 (1-4000-0267-2)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ana Frank: Diario de una Adolescente'Book summary:Tras la invasion de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judios alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Ana tenia sus oficinas. Estas ocho personas permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidos y enviados a diversos campos de concentracion. En esta buhardilla y en las mas precarias condiciones, Ana, a la sazon una nina de trece anos, escribio un estremecedor Diario: un testimonio unico en su genero sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias de la propia Ana y de sus acompanantes. Ana murio en el campo de Bergen-Belsen en marzo de 1945. Su Diario nunca morira. [via]
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Emmaby Jane AustenISBN 1400000831 (1-4000-0083-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. So begins Jane Austen's comic masterpiece Emma. In Emma, Austen's prose brilliantly elevates, in the words of Virginia Woolf, the trivialities of day-to-day existence, of parties, picnics, and country dances of early-nineteenth-century life in the English countryside to an unrivaled level of pleasure for the reader. At the center of this world is the inimitable Emma Woodhouse, a self-proclaimed matchmaker who, by the novel's conclusion, just may find herself the victim of her own best intentions. [via]
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