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Aberration of Starlightby Gilbert SorrentinoISBN 0140058796 (0-14-005879-6)
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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfallby Spike MilliganISBN 0140035206 (0-14-003520-6)
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Apocalypseby D. H. Lawrence, Richard AldingtonISBN 0140038566 (0-14-003856-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apocalypse'Book summary:Apocalypse is D. H. Lawrence's last book, written during the winter of 1929-30 when he was dying. It is a radical criticism of our civilisation and a statement of Lawrence's unwavering belief in man's power to create 'a new heaven and a new earth'. Ranging over the entire system of his thought on God and man, on religion, art, psychology and politics, this book is Lawrence's final attempt to convey his vision of man and the universe. Apocalypse was published after Lawrence's death, and in a highly inaccurate text. This edition is the first to reproduce accurately Lawrence's final corrected text on the basis of a thorough examination of the surviving manuscript and typescript. In the introduction the editor has discussed the writing of Apocalypse and its place in Lawrence's works, its publication and reception, and the significance of Lawrence's other writings on the Book of Revelation. [via]
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Birds, Beasts and Relativesby Gerald Malcolm DurrellISBN 0140043853 (0-14-004385-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Birds, Beasts and Relatives'Book summary:[via]Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrells dazzling sequel to My Family and Other Animals is based on his boyhood on Corfu, from 1933 to 1939. Originally published in 1969 but long out of print, Birds, Beasts, and Relatives is filled with charming observations, amusing anecdotes, boyhood memories, and childlike wonder.
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Burger's Daughterby Nadine GordimerISBN 0140055932 (0-14-005593-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burger's Daughter'Book summary:This is the moving story of the unforgettable Rosa Burger, a young woman from South Africa cast in the mold of a revolutionary tradition. Rosa tries to uphold her heritage handed on by martyred parents while still carving out a sense of self. Although it is wholly of today, Burger's Daughter can be compared to those 19th century Russian classics that make a certain time and place come alive, and yet stand as universal celebrations of the human spirit. Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born and lives in South Africa.[via]More editions of Burger's Daughter:
Cards of Identityby Nigel DennisISBN 014006608X (0-14-006608-X)
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Carrie's Warby Nina Bawden, Faith JaquesISBN 0140055819 (0-14-005581-9)
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A Case of Spiritsby Peter LoveseyISBN 0140043330 (0-14-004333-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Case of Spirits'Book summary:A novel featuring Sgt Cribb. Late-Victorian London teems with spiritual manifestations. The Proberts and their friends explore life beyond the veil in their sumptuous Richmond home, while other hands steal an erotic painting. An electrifying murder follows, and Cribb is brought in to investigate. [via]
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Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Lifeby John MortimerISBN 0140068600 (0-14-006860-0)
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kidby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0140072802 (0-14-007280-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Complete Short Storiesby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0140043837 (0-14-004383-7)
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Confessions of an Actor: An Autobiographyby Laurence OlivierISBN 0140068880 (0-14-006888-0)
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Constance or Solitary Practicesby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0140070265 (0-14-007026-5)
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Crystal Visionby Gilbert SorrentinoISBN 014006320X (0-14-006320-X)
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Dafydd Ap Gwilym: A Selection of Poemsby Rachel Bromwich, Dafydd Ap GwilymISBN 0140076131 (0-14-007613-1)
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Daisy Miller and Other Storiesby Henry JamesISBN 0140067213 (0-14-006721-3)
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The Dalkey Archiveby Flann O'BrienISBN 0140045163 (0-14-004516-3)
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The Dark Labyrinthby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0140050256 (0-14-005025-6)
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Dharma Bumsby Jack KerouacISBN 0140042520 (0-14-004252-0)
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Do Butlers, Burgle Banks?by P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140050361 (0-14-005036-1)
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmesby Loren D. EstlemanISBN 0140056653 (0-14-005665-3)
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The Enchanted Placesby Christopher MilneISBN 0140034498 (0-14-003449-8)
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The Family Arsenalby Paul TherouxISBN 0140044655 (0-14-004465-5)
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Fifth Businessby Robertson DaviesISBN 014004387X (0-14-004387-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fifth Business'Book summary:The first book of Robertson Davies's Deptford Trilogy tells the story of three men destined to be crucial players in each others' lives. The story is, in fact, the memoir of Dunstan Ramsay, a long-time boarding-school teacher, set to retire. Written to the headmaster of the school, the memoir intends to disprove the common belief that Ramsay is nothing more than a senile old professor, "doddering into retirement with tears in his eyes and a drop hanging from his nose." The story includes two other main characters, the outcast and eventual circus performer Paul Dempster and socialite Boy Staunton, with his "too glossy perfection."
The story of Ramsay's life begins when he is 10 years old, living in a small Canadian town called Deptford. A snowball thrown by Boy Staunton, intended for Ramsay, hits the pregnant mother of Paul Dempster, forcing her into labour early. She gives birth to a premature and deformed Paul. Ramsay feels responsible for this, and thus begins his guilty friendship with Paul, as well as his grudging friendship with Boy. Eventually, Dunstan Ramsay goes off to fight in the First World War, where he earns a Victoria Cross. He later travels throughout Europe and Mexico to pursue his interest in saints and write several books about them. He even attempts to prove that Paul's mother, whom he had taken a liking to over the years, is in fact a saint. Paul and Boy keep crossing paths with Dunstan, for good and ill, for the rest of his life. This fascinating, absorbing classic of Canadian literature is punctuated with elements of the comic, the supernatural, and the magical (even touching on the occult), while the writing itself is always elegant and at times exquisite. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portraitby Patrick WhiteISBN 0140062939 (0-14-006293-9)
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Forgetting Elenaby Edmund WhiteISBN 0140059830 (0-14-005983-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forgetting Elena'Book summary:Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White's first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners. For, on the privileged island community where Forgetting Elena takes place, manners are everything. Or so it seems to White's excruciatingly self-conscious young narrator who desperately wants to be accepted in this world where everything from one's bathroom habits to the composition of "spontaneous" poetry is subject to rigid conventions.
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The Fountain Overflowsby Rebecca WestISBN 0140073221 (0-14-007322-1)
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The Glass-Sided Ants' Nestby Peter DickinsonISBN 0140058648 (0-14-005864-8)
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The Gondola Scamby Jonathan GashISBN 0140076565 (0-14-007656-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Guideby R.K. NarayanISBN 0140054537 (0-14-005453-7)
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The Hard Lifeby Flann O'BrienISBN 0140045171 (0-14-004517-1)
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Henderson the Rain Kingby Saul BellowISBN 0140072691 (0-14-007269-1)
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Herzogby Saul BellowISBN 0140072705 (0-14-007270-5)
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Honey for the Bearsby Anthony BurgessISBN 0140035516 (0-14-003551-6)
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Humboldt's Gift: Library Editionby Saul BellowISBN 0140072713 (0-14-007271-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Humboldt's Gift: Library Edition'Book summary:For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman and involved with a neurotic mafioso. And then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowing upon Charlie an unexpected legacy that may just help him turn his life around. [via]
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In a Free Stateby V.S. NaipaulISBN 014003711X (0-14-003711-X)
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Nightby Bulwer-Lytton Contest, Scott RiceISBN 0140075569 (0-14-007556-9)
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Jake's Thingby Kingsley AmisISBN 0140050965 (0-14-005096-5)
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July's Peopleby Nadine GordimerISBN 0140061401 (0-14-006140-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'July's People'Book summary:Not all whites in South Africa are outright racists. Some, like Bam and Maureen Smales in Nadine Gordimer's thrilling and powerful novel July's People, are sensitive to the plights of blacks during the apartheid state. So imagine their quandary when the blacks stage a full-scale revolution that sends the Smaleses scampering into isolation. The premise of the book is expertly crafted; it speaks much about the confusing state of affairs of South Africa and serves as the backbone for a terrific adventure. [via]
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Junkyby William S. Burroughs, Allen GinsbergISBN 0140043519 (0-14-004351-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The King's Peace, 1637-1641by C. V. WedgwoodISBN 0140069909 (0-14-006990-9)
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The Kingdom by the Sea : A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britainby Paul TherouxISBN 0140071814 (0-14-007181-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kingdom by the Sea : A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain'Book summary:Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about Britain and the British people in the '80s in "The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain". Paul Theroux's round-Britain travelogue is funny, perceptive and 'best avoided by patriots with high blood pressure...' After eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War, the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result makes superbly vivid and engaging reading. "A sharp and funny descriptive writer. One of his golden talents, perhaps because he is American and therefore classless in British eyes, is the ability to chat up and get on with all sorts and conditions of British...Theroux is a good companion". ("The Times"). "Filled with history, insights, landscape, epiphanies, meditations, celebrations and laments". ("The New York Times"). "Few of us have seen the entirety of the coast and I for one am grateful to Mr Theroux for making my journey unnecessary. He describes it all brilliantly and honestly". (Anthony Burgess, "Observer"). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his other non-fiction titles, "Riding the Iron Rooster", "The Happy Isles of Oceania", "Sunrise with Seamonsters", "The Tao of Travel", "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star", "The Old Patagonian Express", "The Great Railway Bazaar", "Dark Star Safari", "Fresh-air Fiend", "Sir Vidia's Shadow", "The Pillars of Hercules", and his novels and collections of short stories, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner "The Mosquito Coast" are available from Penguin. [via]
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Last and First Men, and Last Men in Londonby Olaf StapledonISBN 0140035060 (0-14-003506-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last and First Men, and Last Men in London'Book summary:[via]"No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination," declared 2001 author Arthur C. Clarke of this masterpiece of science fiction. An imaginative, ambitious history of humanity's future that spans billions of years, this 1930 epic abounds in prescient speculations. A must-read for scholars of the genre.More editions of Last and First Men, and Last Men in London:
The Letters of Evelyn Waughby Mark AmoryISBN 0140045953 (0-14-004595-3)
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Livia or Buried Aliveby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0140071016 (0-14-007101-6)
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London: The Biography of a Cityby Christopher HibbertISBN 014005247X (0-14-005247-X)
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Long Valleyby John SteinbeckISBN 0140080384 (0-14-008038-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Long Valley'Book summary:This classic collection of short stories serves as the ideal introduction to Steinbeck's work. Set in the idyllic Salinas Valley in California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themeselves in the world, these stories reflect many of the concerns key to Steinbeck as a writer; the tensions between town and city, labourers and owners, past and present. Included here are the celebrated tales, The Murderer and The Chrysanthemums. [via]
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Love Among the Butterflies: The Travels and Adventures of a Victorian Ladyby Margaret FountaineISBN 0140060669 (0-14-006066-9)
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Lytton Stracheyby Michael HolroydISBN 0140031987 (0-14-003198-7)
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The Man of Propertyby John GalsworthyISBN 0140031960 (0-14-003196-0)
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Martin Heideggerby George SteinerISBN 0140055010 (0-14-005501-0)
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The Memory of War ; And, Children in Exile: Poems, 1968-1983by James FentonISBN 0140068120 (0-14-006812-0)
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The Michael Innes Omnibusby Michael InnesISBN 0140060596 (0-14-006059-6)
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Monsieurby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0140071024 (0-14-007102-4)
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The Moon Is Downby John SteinbeckISBN 014006222X (0-14-006222-X)
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The Mosquito Coastby Paul TherouxISBN 0140060898 (0-14-006089-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mosquito Coast'Book summary:"The Mosquito Coast" - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness. "Stunning...exciting, intelligent, meticulously realised, artful". (Victoria Glendinning, "Sunday Times"). "An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror". (Christopher Wordsworth, "Guardian"). "Magnificently stimulating and exciting". (Anthony Burgess). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, "My Other Life", "The Collected Stories", "My Secret History", "The Lower River", "The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro", "A Dead Hand", "Millroy the Magician", "The Elephanta Suite", "Saint Jack", "The Consul's File", "The Family Arsenal", and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic "The Great Railway Bazaar" are available from Penguin. [via]
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Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames The D'Antin Manuscriptby Luis D'Antin Van RootenISBN 0140057307 (0-14-005730-7)
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Mr Stone and the Knights Companionby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0140037128 (0-14-003712-8)
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Myths of Greece and Romeby Thomas BulfinchISBN 0140056432 (0-14-005643-2)
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Nights at the Circusby Angela CarterISBN 0140077030 (0-14-007703-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nights at the Circus'Book summary:Sophi Fevversthe toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, painted by Toulouse-Lautrecis an aerialiste extraordinaire, star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover Fevvers's true identity: Is she part swan or all fake? Dazzled by his love for Fevvers, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser joins the circus on its tour. The journey takes himand the readeron an intoxicating trip through turn-of-the-century London, St. Petersburg, and Siberiaa tour so magical that only Angela Carter could have created it.[via]More editions of Nights at the Circus:
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Nocturnes for the King of Naplesby Edmund WhiteISBN 0140053301 (0-14-005330-1)
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North of South: An African Journeyby Shiva NaipaulISBN 0140048944 (0-14-004894-4)
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Nuns and Soldiersby Iris MurdochISBN 0140057579 (0-14-005757-9)
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The Oranging of America and Other Storiesby Max AppleISBN 0140058494 (0-14-005849-4)
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetryby Jon SilkinISBN 0140080325 (0-14-008032-5)
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Penguin Russian Courseby F. FennellISBN 0140070532 (0-14-007053-2)
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The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibusby Brian Wilson AldissISBN 0140031456 (0-14-003145-6)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, Tony TannerISBN 0140057749 (0-14-005774-9)
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Rates of Exchangeby Malcolm BradburyISBN 014007631X (0-14-007631-X)
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The Recognitionsby William GaddisISBN 0140077685 (0-14-007768-5)
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Ring of Bright Waterby Gavin MaxwellISBN 0140039236 (0-14-003923-6)
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The Sacred and Profane Love Machineby Iris MurdochISBN 0140041117 (0-14-004111-7)
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Say It My Way: How to Avoid Certain Pitfalls of Spoken English Together with a Decidedly Informal History of How Our Language Rose (or Fell)by Willard R. EspyISBN 0140057331 (0-14-005733-1)
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The Sea, the Seaby Iris MurdochISBN 0140051996 (0-14-005199-6)
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Sebastian, or Ruling Passionby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0140077057 (0-14-007705-7)
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A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generationby Malcolm CowleyISBN 0140054987 (0-14-005498-7)
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The Secret of Father Brownby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0140038078 (0-14-003807-8)
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Shuttlecockby Graham SwiftISBN 0140063226 (0-14-006322-6)
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Sign of Fourby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0140058559 (0-14-005855-9)
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Sleepers of Erinby Jonathan GashISBN 0140069704 (0-14-006970-4)
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Spring Snowby Yukio MishimaISBN 0140041362 (0-14-004136-2)
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A Spy in the House of Loveby Anais NinISBN 0140036008 (0-14-003600-8)
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Star Markerby Olaf StapledonISBN 0140035419 (0-14-003541-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Marker'Book summary:a selection from the PREFACE AT a moment when Europe is in danger of a catastrophe worse than that of 1914 a book like this may be condemned as a distraction from the desperately urgent defence of civilization against modern barbarism.Year by year, month by month, the plight of our fragmentary and precarious civilization becomes more serious. Fascism abroad grows more bold and ruthless in its foreign ventures, more tyrannical toward its own citizens, more barbarian in its contempt for the life of the mind. Even in our own country we have reason to fear a tendency toward militarization and the curtailment of civil liberty. Moreover, while the decades pass, no resolute step is taken to alleviate the injustice of our social order. Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration. In these conditions it is difficult for writers to pursue their calling at once with courage and with balanced judgment. Some merely shrug their shoulders and withdraw from the central struggle of our age. These, with their minds closed against the world's most vital issues, inevitably produce works which not only have no depth of significance for their contemporaries but also are subtly insincere. For these writers must consciously or unconsciously contrive to persuade themselves either that the crisis in human affairs does not exist, or that it is less important than their own work, or that it is anyhow not their business. But the crisis does exist, is of supreme importance, and concerns us all. Can anyone who is at all intelligent and informed hold the contrary without self-deception? Yet I have a lively sympathy with some of those "intellectuals" who declare that they have no useful contribution to make to the struggle, and therefore had better not dabble in it. I am, in fact, one of them. In our defense I should say that, though we are inactive or ineffective as direct supporters of the cause, we do not ignore it. Indeed, it constantly, obsessively, holds our attention. But we are convinced by prolonged trial and error that the most useful service open to us is indirect. For some writers the case is different. Gallantly plunging into the struggle, they use their powers to spread urgent propaganda, or they even take up arms in the cause. If they have suitable ability, and if the particular struggle in which they serve is in fact a part of the great enterprise of defending (or creating) civilization, they may, of course, do valuable work. In addition they may gain great wealth of experience and human sympathy, thereby immensely increasing their literary power. But the very urgency of their service may tend to blind them to the importance of maintaining and extending, even in this age of crisis, what may be called metaphorically the "self-critical self-consciousness of the human species," or the attempt to see man's life as a whole in relation to the rest of things. This involves the will to regard all human affairs and ideals and theories with as little human prejudice as possible. Those who are in the thick of the struggle inevitably tend to become, though in a great and just cause, partisan. They nobly forgo something of that detachment, that power of cold assessment, which is, after all, among the most valuable human capacities. In their case this is perhaps as it should be; for a desperate struggle demands less of detachment than of devotion. But some who have the cause at heart must serve by striving to maintain, along with human loyalty, a more dispassionate spirit. And perhaps the attempt to see our turbulent world against a background of stars may, after all, increase, not lessen the significance of the present human crisis. It may also strengthen our charity toward one another. [via]
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Tales of Unrestby Joseph ConradISBN 014003885X (0-14-003885-X)
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This anthology of short stories by Conrad presents an array of settings from London and France to Malaysia and Africa. As the protagonists suffer from different anxieties and stresses, Conrad presents an in-depth analysis of their thought-processes. The moral dilemmas are presented and a glimpse of the minds and souls of the characters is offered.
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The Tao of Poohby Benjamin HoffISBN 0140067477 (0-14-006747-7)
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Tenderfeet and Ladyfingers: A Visceral Approach to Words and Their Originsby Susan Kelz SperlingISBN 0140062831 (0-14-006283-1)
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Time Bombby James D. AtwaterISBN 014005023X (0-14-005023-X)
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To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Accountby Saul BellowISBN 014007273X (0-14-007273-X)
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Troublesby J.G. FarrellISBN 0140039732 (0-14-003973-2)
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Tuncby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0140051848 (0-14-005184-8)
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The Valley of Fear: Library Editionby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0140057102 (0-14-005710-2)
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The Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selectionby W. H. Auden, Louis KronenbergerISBN 0140059660 (0-14-005966-0)
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The Winter of Our Discontentby John SteinbeckISBN 0140062211 (0-14-006221-1)
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World of Wondersby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140043896 (0-14-004389-6)
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The Writer's Quotation Book: A Literary Companionby James CharltonISBN 0140058818 (0-14-005881-8)
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The Year of Living Dangerouslyby Christopher J. KochISBN 0140065350 (0-14-006535-0)
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Youth/the End of the Tetherby Joseph ConradISBN 0140040552 (0-14-004055-2)
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Let's Parler Franglais!by Miles KingtonISBN 0140056254 (0-14-005625-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let's Parler Franglais!'Book summary:[via]The trouble with French is that there are far too few English words in it. In this book, Miles Kington, the critic, columnist and creator of Franglais, puts all that right. The language here can be understood by almost anyone who failed GCSE French. If you have passed GCSE French, it could be tricky, but try anyway. A Frenchman would probably not understand a word of it, not that he would let on.More editions of Let's Parler Franglais!:
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