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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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Akenfield: Portrait of an English Villageby Ronald BlytheISBN 0394738470 (0-394-73847-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village'Book summary:This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. Providing insights into farming, education, welfare, class, religion and death, Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has, in many ways, disappeared. [via]
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Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century Englandby Edward P. ThompsonISBN 0394730852 (0-394-73085-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Americanby Henry JamesISBN 0395051630 (0-395-05163-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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American Indian Myths and Legendsby Richard Erdoes, Alfonso OrtizISBN 0394740181 (0-394-74018-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Indian Myths and Legends'Book summary:Gathering 160 tales from 80 tribal groups to offer a rich and lively panarama of the Native American mythic heritage. 100 drawings. [via]
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Anecdotes of Destiny ; And, Ehrengardby Isak DinesenISBN 039474215X (0-394-74215-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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An Area of Darknessby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0394746732 (0-394-74673-2)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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The Art of Fictionby John GardnerISBN 0394725441 (0-394-72544-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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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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Autobiographyby John Stuart Mill, Jack StillingerISBN 0395051207 (0-395-05120-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography'Book summary:John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873), English philosopher, political theorist, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential Classical liberal thinker of the 19th century whose works on liberty justified freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He wrote the book Utilitarianism , a philosophical defense of utilitarianism in ethics. [via]
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Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destinyby Isak Dinesen, Martha LevinISBN 039475929X (0-394-75929-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny'Book summary:In the classic "Babette's Feast," a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares a sumptuous feast for a gathering of religious ascetics and, in doing so, introduces them to the true essence of grace. In "The Immortal Story," a miserly old tea-trader living in Canton wishes for power and finds redemption as he turns an oft-told sailors' tale into reality for a young man and woman. And in the magnificent novella Ehrengard, Dinesen tells of the powerful yet restrained rapport between a noble Wagnerian beauty and a rakish artist.
Hauntingly evoked and sensuously realized, the five stories read and novella collected here have the hold of "fairy stories read in childhood . . . of dreams . . . and of our life as dreams" (The New York Times). [via]More editions of Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny:
Ballad of the Sad Cafeby Carson McCullersISBN 0395079829 (0-395-07982-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Blind Man With a Pistolby Chester B. HimesISBN 0394759982 (0-394-75998-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Briefing for a Descent into Hellby Doris May LessingISBN 0394746627 (0-394-74662-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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British Folktalesby Katherine BriggsISBN 0394739930 (0-394-73993-0)
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The Cat in the Hat Comes Back!by SeussISBN 0394800028 (0-394-80002-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat in the Hat Comes Back!'Book summary:That behatted and bow-tied cat from Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat is back, and, not surprisingly, is up to all sorts of mischief. This time, Sally and her brother are stuck shoveling snow: "This was no time for play./ This was no time for fun./ This was no time for games./ There was work to be done." But--you guessed it--the laughing Hat Cat has other ideas, as he lets himself in to eat cake in their tub. He leaves behind "a big long pink cat ring," which he then handily cleans with "MOTHER'S WHITE DRESS!" The dress then loses its pink stain to the wall, then Dad's shoes, then the rug in the hall, until finally the Cat must call in some assistance: from inside his hat comes Little Cat A, then Littler Cats B, C, D, E, and so on, nested like dolls in ever tinier hats. With this pack of felines, Sally and her brother may get rid of those stains, but they'll likely never be rid of that rascally cat. As should be expected from the good doctor, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back provides an excellent reader (and alphabet primer) for those just learning, not to mention ample laughs for everyone else. (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes [via]
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A Child's Garden of Versesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0394837398 (0-394-83739-8)
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bangby John Burningham, Ian FlemingISBN 0394819489 (0-394-81948-9)
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The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowenby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0394752961 (0-394-75296-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Crashby J.G. BallardISBN 0394741099 (0-394-74109-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crash'Book summary:J. G. Ballard's graphic, violent novel is controversial wherever it is read, even on Amazon.com's own Web page! The book's characters are obsessed with automobile accidents and are determined to narrate the horrors of the car crash as luridly as possible. In the words of the novel's protagonist, the wounds caused by automobile collisions are "the keys to a new sexuality born from a perverse technology." Read this novel and learn why David Cronenberg, who had previously adapted Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch for the screen, fought to turn it into his latest film. [via]
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Darwin for Beginnersby Jonathan Miller, Borin Van LoonISBN 0394748476 (0-394-74847-6)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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The Diaries of Jane Somersby Doris Lessing, Jane SomersISBN 0394729552 (0-394-72955-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himselfby Daniel BoorstinISBN 0394726251 (0-394-72625-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself'Book summary:Perhaps the greatest book by one of our greatest historians, The Discoverers is a volume of sweeping range and majestic interpretation. To call it a history of science is an understatement; this is the story of how humankind has come to know the world, however incompletely ("the eternal mystery of the world," Einstein once said, "is its comprehensibility"). Daniel J. Boorstin first describes the liberating concept of time--"the first grand discovery"--and continues through the age of exploration and the advent of the natural and social sciences. The approach is idiosyncratic, with Boorstin lingering over particular figures and accomplishments rather than rushing on to the next set of names and dates. It's also primarily Western, although Boorstin does ask (and answer) several interesting questions: Why didn't the Chinese "discover" Europe and America? Why didn't the Arabs circumnavigate the planet? His thesis about discovery ultimately turns on what he calls "illusions of knowledge." If we think we know something, then we face an obstacle to innovation. The great discoverers, Boorstin shows, dispel the illusions and reveal something new about the world.
Although The Discoverers easily stands on its own, it is technically the first entry in a trilogy that also includes The Creators and The Seekers. An outstanding book--one of the best works of history to be found anywhere. --John J. Miller [via]
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Dogsbodyby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0394820312 (0-394-82031-2)
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Duffyby Dan KavanaghISBN 039474442X (0-394-74442-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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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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The Enigma of Arrivalby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0394757602 (0-394-75760-2)
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Fiddle Cityby Dan KavanaghISBN 0394744411 (0-394-74441-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Fungus the Bogeymanby Raymond BriggsISBN 0394738209 (0-394-73820-9)
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G.by John BergerISBN 0394739671 (0-394-73967-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'G.'Book summary:This novel centres on G, who seems impervious to everything around him. His interests are purely sexual, his crowning ideal fulfilment. Yet, in the end this is enough for the politics of desire to expose the criminal politics of oppression. John Berger is the author of "To The Wedding". [via]
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George's Marvelous Medicineby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0394846001 (0-394-84600-1)
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Gertrude Jekyll on Gardeningby Gertrude Jekyll, Penelope HobhouseISBN 0394729242 (0-394-72924-2)
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Gilgameshby John Gardner, John Maier, Richard A. HenshawISBN 0394740890 (0-394-74089-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilgamesh'Book summary:The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's persistent and hopeless quest for immortality. It tells of the heroic exploits of an ancient ruler of the walled city of Uruk named Gilgamesh. Included in its story is an account of the Flood that predates the Biblical version by centuries. Gilgamesh and his companion, a wild man of the woods named Enkidu, fight monsters and demonic powers in search of honor and lasting fame. When Enkidu is put to death by the vengeful goddess Ishtar, Gilgamesh travels to the underworld to find an answer to his grief and confront the question of mortality. [via]
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The Good Terroristby Doris LessingISBN 0394746295 (0-394-74629-5)
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Green Eggs and Hamby SeussISBN 0394800168 (0-394-80016-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Green Eggs and Ham'Book summary:Young fans of the unflappable Sam-I-am will be pleased as punch to discover the plethora of flaps to lift in this 10-page board book version of the Dr. Seuss classic. Sam-I-am does his very best to convince a more finicky Seuss character to try this rather unusual delicacy.
Would you? Could you? In a car?
To which the exasperated doubter replies:
Eat them! Eat them! Here they are.
You may like them. You will see.
You may like them in a tree!
I would not,
On every page readers will find sturdy, easy-to-lift flaps behind which reside the familiar characters and lines of the unique 1960 classic--except for the last page. Here, blank spaces lurk behind the flaps, just waiting to be filled in with peel-off pictures from the accompanying sheet of silly stickers. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter [via]
could not, in a tree.
Not in a car!
You let me be.
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Grendelby John Champlin GardnerISBN 0394740564 (0-394-74056-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Hairy Bookby Babette ColeISBN 0394870263 (0-394-87026-3)
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Hansel and Gretelby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers GrimmISBN 0394898591 (0-394-89859-1)
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The Heart of Mid-Lothianby Walter ScottISBN 0395051789 (0-395-05178-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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High Windowby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394758269 (0-394-75826-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Window'Book summary:A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortunethe elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation.
"Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude."-- Erle Stanley Gardner
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Hindsightby Peter DickinsonISBN 0394726030 (0-394-72603-0)
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The Hinge of Fateby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0395075394 (0-395-07539-4)
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Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphorsby Susan SontagISBN 0394728440 (0-394-72844-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors'Book summary:This text is an examination of the fantasies concocted around conditions such as cancer and tuberculosis in our cultural history. The author argues that illness is not a metaphor and that the most truthful way of regarding illness - and the healthiest way of being ill - is to resist such thinking. Her examples of metaphors and images of illness are taken from medical and psychiatric thinking as well as from sources ranging from Greek and medieval writings to Dickens, Thomas Mann, Henry James, Frank Lloyd Wright, Auden and others. "AIDS and its Metaphors", the sequel to "Illness as Metaphor", is written in the light of the AIDS crisis. Sontag states that our metaphors for AIDS and its effects may be damaging because they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms, and therefore threaten not only the victims of the disease but all of society. [via]
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India: A Wounded Civilizationby V. S. NaipaulISBN 0394724631 (0-394-72463-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'India: A Wounded Civilization'Book summary:In 1964 the author Naipaul wrote "An Area of Darkness", his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later he came to write "India: A Wounded Civilization" in which he recapitulates the feelings that the vast, mysterious and agonized continent aroused in him. [via]
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Journey to the Western Islands of Scotlandby James Boswell, Samuel JohnsonISBN 0395051819 (0-395-05181-9)
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Jrby William GaddisISBN 0394731425 (0-394-73142-5)
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Kon-Tikiby Thor HeyerdahlISBN 039486364X (0-394-86364-X)
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Le Mot Juste: A Dictionary of Classical & Foreign Words & Phrasesby John Buchanan-BrownISBN 0394746902 (0-394-74690-2)
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The Long Goodbyeby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394757688 (0-394-75768-8)
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward BellamyISBN 0395052149 (0-395-05214-9)
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Lost Empiresby John Boynton PriestleyISBN 0394746864 (0-394-74686-4)
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The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five (as Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three)by Doris May LessingISBN 0394749782 (0-394-74978-2)
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Memory of Fire: Genesisby Eduardo GaleanoISBN 0394747305 (0-394-74730-5)
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The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies--British, French, and Dutch--In the West Indies and South Americaby Vidiadhas Surajprasad NaipaulISBN 0394746740 (0-394-74674-0)
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The Mimic Menby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0394732324 (0-394-73232-4)
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More Ripping Yarnsby Michael PalinISBN 0394748107 (0-394-74810-7)
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Mr Stone and the Knights Companionby V.S. NaipaulISBN 039473226X (0-394-73226-X)
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On Beyond Zebraby SeussISBN 0394800842 (0-394-80084-2)
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Once in Europaby John BergerISBN 0394751647 (0-394-75164-7)
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Orientalismby Edward W. SaidISBN 039474067X (0-394-74067-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orientalism'Book summary:Near Eastern Studies. 25th anniversary edition [via]
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Oscar Wildeby Richard EllmannISBN 0394759842 (0-394-75984-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oscar Wilde'Book summary:Richard Ellmann capped an illustrious career in biography (his James Joyce is considered one of the masterpieces of the 20th century) with this life of Oscar Wilde, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize on its original publication in 1988. Ellmann's account of Wilde's extravagantly operatic life as poet, playwright, aesthete, and martyr to sexual morality is notable not only for the full portrait it gives of Wilde, but also for Ellmann's assessment of his subject's literary greatness; both aims are served by a plethora of quotations from Wilde's own work and correspondence. Wilde straddled the line between the Victorian age and the modern world as he did everything in life ... with impeccable style. [via]
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Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grassby Isak DinesenISBN 0394742117 (0-394-74211-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass'Book summary:Out of Africa is Karin Blixen's love letter to the country she called home for nearly 20 years. Arriving in British East Africa (now Kenya) from Denmark in 1914, Blixen--Isak Dinesen was her pen name--was immediately seduced by the landscape of the Ngong hill country, not to mention the animals and people who inhabited it. Her descriptions bring this wonderland alive for readers: out on safari, she recalls the movements of a group of giraffes, "in their queer, inimitable, vegetative gracefulness, as if it were not a herd of animals but a family of rare, long-stemmed, speckled gigantic flowers slowly advancing." Blixen laces into her reverie the account of her coffee plantation--which ultimately succumbed to high altitude, droughts, and tumbling international coffee prices--and tales of her friendships with other colonials in Nairobi. But one should read her memoir for the stories she tells of cooking with her Kikuyu chef (who almost never ate any of the European delicacies he so expertly created), adopting an abandoned infant antelope, flying over the countryside in her lover's plane--"the greatest, most transporting pleasure of my life on the farm"--and watching the children of her tenant farmers collect at her house each day at noon for the spectacle of her cuckoo clock.
Though some of her references to native Africans will likely make today's readers uncomfortable, Blixen can also be perceptive, particularly in her articulation of the differences between European and African culture and her excitement over what she learns from "her" Africans. It is not long before she is attuned to the rhythms of nature: she can foresee when the rains will come, can spot the new moon before anyone else on the farm, and knows exactly what the silence of night should sound like. Though her sorrow is almost unbearably palpable when at last--after the collapse of the farm, the loss of her lover, and the war looming--Blixen leaves Africa, the reader will close the book richer for her sojourn. --Jordana Moskowitz [via]
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Piggybookby Anthony BrowneISBN 0394884167 (0-394-88416-7)
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The Praise Singerby Mary RenaultISBN 0394751027 (0-394-75102-7)
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The Return of Eva Peron, with The Killings in Trinidadby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0394746759 (0-394-74675-9)
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Ripping Yarnsby Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Monty Python (Comedy troupe)ISBN 0394736788 (0-394-73678-8)
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Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpectedby Roald DahlISBN 0394740815 (0-394-74081-5)
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Robert Louis Stevenson's a Child's Garden of Verses to Colorby Diane DegroatISBN 0394872754 (0-394-87275-4)
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Scaramoucheby Rafael SabatiniISBN 0395081424 (0-395-08142-4)
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Shameby Salman RushdieISBN 0394726650 (0-394-72665-0)
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Sleep and His Brotherby Peter DickinsonISBN 0394744527 (0-394-74452-7)
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Snowmanby Raymond BriggsISBN 0394884663 (0-394-88466-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snowman'Book summary:Who needs words to tell a story? In Raymond Briggs's charming tale, told with 175 softly hued, artfully composed frames, a little boy makes friends with a snowman. He wakes up on a snowy day, tells his mother he's going outside, then begins a flurry of snowman-building. That night, he can't sleep, so he opens the front door and lo! the snowman has come to life. The amiable yet frosty fellow enjoys his tour of the boy's cozy home; he admires the cat, but is disturbed by the fire. The boy shows him other wonders--the TV and a lamp and running water. Predictably perhaps, he is disturbed by the stove, but likes ice cubes quite a bit. Soon it is the snowman's turn to introduce the boy to his wintry world. They join hands, rise up into the blizzardy air--presumably over Russia and into the Middle East--and then safely back to home sweet home. The boy pops into bed before his parents get up... but when he wakes up the next morning he races outside only to find his new buddy's melted remains, scattered with a few forlorn lumps of coal. Since the book is wordless, you can make up any ending you want... like "Then, in a puff of pink smoke, the snowman recomposed himself and went to live in the boy's garage freezer." Or you could just resign yourself to a peaceful "And that was that." Raymond Briggs's The Snowman won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and this wintertime classic continues to win the hearts of kids every year. (Preschool and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
Stories: Introduction by Margaret Drabbleby Doris May LessingISBN 0394742494 (0-394-74249-4)
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Story of a Shipwrecked Sailorby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0394754034 (0-394-75403-4)
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Suffrage of Elviraby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0394732162 (0-394-73216-2)
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A Tale of Time Cityby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0394820304 (0-394-82030-4)
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Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice Burroughs, Harold Woods, Geraldine Woods, Tim GaydosISBN 0394850890 (0-394-85089-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan of the Apes'Book summary:First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty." [via]
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The Throwbackby Tom SharpeISBN 0394724399 (0-394-72439-9)
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Thursday's Childby Noel StreatfeildISBN 0394820967 (0-394-82096-7)
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Tin Drumby Gunter GrassISBN 0394745604 (0-394-74560-4)
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Triumph and Tragedyby Winston S. ChurchillISBN 0395075408 (0-395-07540-8)
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Trouble Is My Businessby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394757645 (0-394-75764-5)
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The Tunnelby Anthony BrowneISBN 0394945824 (0-394-94582-4)
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Uncollected Stories of William Faulknerby William FaulknerISBN 0394746562 (0-394-74656-2)
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Willy the Champby Anthony BrowneISBN 0394979079 (0-394-97907-9)
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Willy the Wimpby Anthony BrowneISBN 0394970616 (0-394-97061-6)
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Wilt on Highby Tom SharpeISBN 0394743210 (0-394-74321-0)
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Women Artists, 1550-1950by Ann Sutherland HarrisISBN 0394733266 (0-394-73326-6)
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Doby Studs TerkelISBN 0394729536 (0-394-72953-6)
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