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All Creatures Great and Smallby James HerriotISBN 0312330855 (0-312-33085-5)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Creatures Great and Small'Book summary:"This book shines with humor, pathos, superb tale-telling and a rarity above all these, what seems a richly justified love of life. whether on his back in a much-filled stable with his arm inside a cow, trying to turn a calf into the proper position to be born, or calming a wealty dowager with an overfed Peckingses, or comforting a lonely old man companion -a dog -has died, James Herriot needed all the bedside manner, stamina, skill, and gift of humanity of the best of family doctors. [via]
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American Language No. 1by H. L. MenckenISBN 0394400763 (0-394-40076-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Language No. 1'Book summary:Supplement 1- The American Language, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States. Mencken released full-sized Supplements to the main volume in later years (1945, 1948), while revising and enlarging the main volume itself, based on the boom in linguistics articles. [via]
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American Language No. 2by H. L. MenckenISBN 0394400771 (0-394-40077-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotationsby John BartlettISBN 0316082759 (0-316-08275-9)
Hardcover, Little, Brown & Company (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'Book summary:This 16th edition of the book, first published in 1855, has been expanded to include more than 20,000 quotations and more than 340 new authors both historical and contemporary - from Russell Baker, The Doors, Elvis, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Hawking, Primo Levi, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, the Talmud, Alice Walker and Elie Wiesel. This edition has been revised and edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan. [via]
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literatureby John Bartlett, Justin KaplanISBN 0316084603 (0-316-08460-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature'Book summary:First published in 1855, BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS has been completely updated and revised for the seventeenth edition by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan. This 17th edition, under Kaplan's splendid direction, contains over 20,000 quotations, representing 2,500 authors, 90 of whom are new to BARTLETT'S. New comers include Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Tony Kushner, Tammy Wynette, Margaret Atwood, Mary Oliver, Maya Angelou, Frank O'Hara, Martin Amis, Kingsley Amis, Mother Teresa, Jacques Cousteau, Rudolph Giuliani, Alfred Hitchcock, L. M. Montgomery, Eric Ambler, Jerry Seinfeld, J.K. Rowling, Katharine Graham, and Emma Goldman. With quotations presented in chronological order, in the famous BARTLETT'S tradition, BARTLETT'S gives the reader a vast panorama of the world, from the ancient Egyptians to the latest movie, from the inspirational and the beautiful to the sardonic and the downright funny. [via]
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Beowulf: An Illustrated Editionby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0393320979 (0-393-32097-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition'Book summary:Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaneys translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review).
The translation that "rides boldly through the reefs of scholarship" (The Observer) is combined with first-rate annotation. No reading knowledge of Old English is assumed. Heaneys clear and insightful introduction to Beowulf provides students with an understanding of both the poems history in the canon and Heaneys own translation process. [via]More editions of Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition:
- Beowulf: A New Verse Translation: ISBN 0393975800 (0-393-97580-0)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. - Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition: ISBN 0374111197 (0-374-11119-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition: ISBN 0393320979 (0-393-32097-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Beowulf: A New Verse Translation: ISBN 0393975800 (0-393-97580-0)
A Certain Justiceby P. D. JamesISBN 0345425324 (0-345-42532-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Certain Justice'Book summary:It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed--and she does. But now murder is in the air. The next victim will be Aldridge herself, stabbed to death at her desk in her Chambers in the Middle Temple, a bloodstained wig on her head. Enter Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team, whose struggle to investigate and understand the shocking events cannot halt the spiral into more horrors, more murders...
A Certain Justice is P.D. James at her strongest. In her first foray into the strange closed world of the Law Courts and the London legal community, she has created a fascinating tale of interwoven passion and terror. As each character leaps into unforgettable life, as each scene draws us forward into new complexities of plot, she proves yet again that no other writer can match her skill in combining the excitement of the classic detective story with the richness of a fine novel. In its subtle portrayal of morality and human behavior, A Certain Justice will stand alongside Devices and Desires and A Taste for Death as one of P.D. James's most important, accomplished and entertaining works. [via]-
A Child in Timeby Ian McEwanISBN 0385497520 (0-385-49752-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Child in Time'Book summary:The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his 3-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself: "It was a wonder there could be so much movement, so much purpose, all the time. He himself had none." This beautifully haunting book won a 1987 Whitbread Prize. [via]
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Claudius the Godby Robert GravesISBN 0394608127 (0-394-60812-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Claudius the God'Book summary:Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emporer in spite of himself. Captures the vitality, splendor, and decadence of the Roman world at the point of its decline.
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Collected Poemsby Philip Larkin, Anthony ThwaiteISBN 0374522758 (0-374-52275-8)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems'Book summary:One of the best-known, best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Larkin had a relatively small number of poems published during his lifetime. This Collected Poems, which J. D. McClatchy called "a fascinating and indispensable text" in The New York Times Book Review, brings together not only all of Larkin's published verseThe North Ship (1945), the pamphlet of XX Poems (1953), The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964), and High Windows (1974)but also a vast selection of his uncollected poetry. A brief Introduction by Anthony Thwaite illuminates both the life and verse of this highly perceptive and deeply acerbic poet, a dour yet witty soul whose brilliant writings so often suggest an ongoing conflict between the traditional and the modern.[via] -
Complete Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0385006896 (0-385-00689-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:This volume, authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, contains all 4 full-length novels and all 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. At over a thousand pages, the weighty tome is a perfect gift for budding amateur sleuths, and it is an ideal companion for a long stay on a desert island (or a leisurely trip through the English countryside). As the reader wades past the tense introductions of A Study in Scarlet and moves towards such classic tales as The Hound of the Baskervilles, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and "The Final Problem," she is sure to draw her own conclusions about Holmes's veiled past and his quirky relationship with his "Boswell," Watson. Doyle never revealed much about Holmes's early life, but the joy of reading the complete Holmes is assembling the trivia of each story into something like a portrait of the detective and his creator. By the end of the long journey through London and across Europe (with a long stopover at Reichenbach Falls), one is apt to have found a friend for life. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustusby Christopher Marlowe, Roma GillISBN 0393900592 (0-393-90059-2)
Softcover, A & C Black
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus'Book summary:Renaissance Englands great tragedy of intellectual overreaching is as relevant and unsettling today as it was when first performed at the end of the sixteenth century.
This edition provides newly edited texts of both the 1604 (A-Text) and 1616 (B-Text) versions of the play, each with detailed explanatory annotations. "Sources and Contexts" includes a generous selection from Marlowes main source, The Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus, along with contemporary writings on magic and religion (including texts by Agrippa, Calvin, and Perkins) that establish the plays intellectual background. This volume also reprints early documents relating to the writing and publication of the play and to its first performances, along with contemporary comments on Marlowes scandalous reputation. Twenty-five carefully chosen interpretationswritten from the eighteenth century to the presentallow students to enrich their critical understanding of the play. These diverse critical essays include classic analyses by Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, and A. C. Swinburne, among others, and recent criticism from, among others, Michael Neill, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Alison Findlay, Stephen Orgel, and David Bevington. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus:
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain, Daniel Carter Beard, Roy BlountISBN 0375757805 (0-375-75780-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:This edition of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court reprints the text of the first American edition, approved by Clemens and published by his own company. Accompanying the text are thirteen of the original illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard, many of which are caricatures of well-known figures of the day. Annotations point out significant textual problems and variants, as well as explaining unfamiliar references within the text.
"Backgrounds and Sources" includes selections on King Arthur from the Oxford Companion to English Literature; on the total eclipse from The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving; and on the "king's touch," the ascetic saints, and the financing of the Mansion House by W. E. H. Lecky. Selections from Clemens's letters, notebooks, autobiography, and other writings and newspaper reports of his 1886 manuscript reading at Governor's Island show how the novel developed. A section of the Beard illustrations includes material by Beard, Clemens, and Henry Nash Smith. The English edition is discussed by Dennis Welland.
Early critical views are by Sylvester Baxter, William Dean Howells, Andrew Lang, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Whibley, Albert Bigelow Paine, John B. Hoben, and anonymous reviewers in the London Daily Telegraph and the Boston Literary World. The later critical essays are by Howard G. Baetzhold, James D. Williams, Kenneth S. Lynn, James M. Cox, Louis J. Budd, Henry Nash Smith, David Ketterer, and Everett Carter.
A Selected Bibliography is also included. [via]More editions of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court:
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A Critical Edition of the War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0253328535 (0-253-32853-5)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Danny the Champion of the Worldby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0375814256 (0-375-81425-6)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danny the Champion of the World'Book summary:"My father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had." Danny feels very lucky. He adores his life with his father, living in a gypsy caravan, listening to his stories, tending their gas station, puttering around the workshop, and occasionally taking off to fly home-built gas balloons and kites. His father has raised him on his own, ever since Danny's mother died when he was four months old. Life is peaceful and wonderful... until he turns 9 and discovers his father's one vice. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most incredible plot ever attempted against nasty Victor Hazell, a wealthy landowner with a bad attitude. Can they pull it off? If so, Danny will truly be the champion of the world. Danny is right up to Roald Dahl's impishly brilliant standards. An intense and beautiful father-son relationship is balanced with sublegal high jinks that will have even the most rigid law-abider rooting them on. Dahl's inimitable way with words leaves the reader simultaneously satisfied and itching for more. (Ages 9 to 13) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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- Danny the Champion of the World: ISBN 0224012010 (0-224-01201-0)
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Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Danny the Champion of the World: ISBN 0394831039 (0-394-83103-9)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - Danny the Champion of the World: ISBN 0394931033 (0-394-93103-3)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - Danny the Champion of the World: ISBN 0375814256 (0-375-81425-6)
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The Day of the Triffidsby John WyndhamISBN 0345328175 (0-345-32817-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Day of the Triffidsby Pauline Francis, John WyndhamISBN 0237525364 (0-237-52536-4)
Softcover, Evans Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day of the Triffids'Book summary:The triffids are a monstrous species of stinging plant; they walk, they talk, they dominate the world. The narrator of this novel wakes up in hospital to find that, by missing the end of the world, he has survived to witness a new world. But the new world that awaits him is fantastic and horrific. [via]
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Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionaryby Henry HitchingsISBN 0312426208 (0-312-42620-8)
Softcover, Picador
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary'Book summary:By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary.[via]
Johnson imagined that he could complete the job in three years. But the complexity of English meant that his estimate was wildly inadequate. Only after he had expended nearly a decade of his prime on the task did the dictionary finally appear - magisterial yet quirky, dogmatic but generous of spirit, and steeped in the richness of English literature. It would come to be seen as the most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century, and its influence fanned out across Europe and throughout Britain's colonies - including, crucially, America.
Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, Defining the World is the story of Johnson's heroic endeavor, 250 years after the first publication of the Dictionary. In alphabetically sequenced chapters, Henry Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure - his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.More editions of Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary:
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An Elementary Latin Dictionary: With Brief Helps for Latin Readersby Charlton T. LewisISBN 0199102058 (0-19-910205-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Elementary Latin Dictionary: With Brief Helps for Latin Readers'Book summary:With a vocabulary extended to include all words used by Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, and Tacitus, as well as those used by Terence, Caesar, Sallust, Cicero, Livy, Nepos, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Juvenal, Phaedrus, and Curtius, this abridgement of Lewis's Latin Dictionary for Schools excludes proper names and detailed references to books and passages, and limits illustrative citations. [via]
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Equusby Peter ShafferISBN 0380003570 (0-380-00357-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equus'Book summary:An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, "Equus" is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the motivation for Alan's brutality, he is increasingly drawn into Alan's web and eventually forced to question his own sanity. "Equus" is a timeless classic and a cornerstone of contemporary drama that delves into the darkest recesses of human existence. [via]
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Ericby Terry PratchettISBN 0380821214 (0-380-82121-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eric'Book summary:Eric, also known as Faust Eric, is the ninth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett. It was originally published in 1990[1] as a "Discworld story", in a larger format than the other novels and illustrated by Josh Kirby.[2] It was later reissued as a normal paperback without any illustrations, and in some cases, with the title given on the cover and title pages simply as Eric. (The page headers, however, continued to alternate between Faust and Eric.) The story is a parody of the tale of Faust,[3] and follows the events of Sourcery in which the Wizard Rincewind was trapped in the Dungeon Dimensions. Rincewind wakes in a strange place, having been summoned by the 13-year-old demonologist, Eric Thursley, who wants the mastery of all kingdoms, to meet the most beautiful woman who ever existed, and to live forever. He is disappointed when Rincewind tells him he is unable to deliver any of these things, and embarrassed when Rincewind sees through his disguise. Rincewind is disheartened to learn that the spells to confine the demon summoned are working on him; Eric's parrot tells him that because he was summoned as a demon, he is subject to the same terms. [via]
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Greek-English Lexiconby Henry G. Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, Roderick McKenzieISBN 0198642148 (0-19-864214-8)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall PTR
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A Greek-English Lexicon: With a Revised Supplement 1996by R. Scott, Henry G. Liddell, P. G. Glare, Henry S. Jones, Roderick McKenzieISBN 0198642261 (0-19-864226-1)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Headlongby Michael FraynISBN 0312267460 (0-312-26746-0)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Headlong'Book summary:An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master.Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art-historian wife are asked to assess three dusty paintings blocking the draught from the chimney. But hiding beneath the soot is nothing less-Martin believes-than a lost work by Bruegel. So begins a hilarious trail of lies and concealments, desperate schemes and soaring hopes as Martin, betting all that he owns and much that he doesn't, embarks on a quest to prove his hunch, win his wife over, and separate the painting from its owner. In Headlong, Michael Frayn, "the master of what is seriously funny" Anthony Burgess , offers a procession of superbly realized characters, from the country squire gone to seed to his giddy, oversexed young wife. All are burdened by human muddle and human cravings; all are searching for a moral compass as they grapple with greed, folly, and desire. And at the heart of the clamor is Breugel's vision, its dark tones warning of the real risks of temptation and obsession.With this new novel, Michael Frayn has given us entertainment of the highest order. Supremely wise and wickedly funny, Headlong elevates Frayn into the front rank of contemporary novelists. [via]
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An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon: Founded upon the 7th Edition of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon 1889by Henry G. Liddell, Robert L. Scott-BuccleuchISBN 0199102066 (0-19-910206-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon: Founded upon the 7th Edition of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon 1889'Book summary:This abridgement of the world's most authoritative dictionary of ancient Greek is based on the 1883 revision. It includes some discussion of word usage, citing examples and characteristic phrases. Generally speaking, only words used by late writers and scientific terms have been omitted from the full lexicon. From Homer downwards, to the close of Attic Greek, care has been taken to include all words, as well as those used by Aristotle, Plutarch in his Lives, Polybius, Strabo, Lucian, and the writers of the New Testament. [via]
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Interview with the Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 0345337662 (0-345-33766-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interview with the Vampire'Book summary:In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.
While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Interview with the Vampire: ISBN 0394498216 (0-394-49821-6)
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James and the Giant Peachby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0375814248 (0-375-81424-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James and the Giant Peach'Book summary:Roald Dahl's classic children's novel is now a motion picture from The Walt Disney Company, and this version of James and the Giant Peach grew out of the making of the movie. Lane Smith, conceptual artist for the film, has given James and company a new and arresting look, much in the style of his many highly regarded books, such as Math Curse and The Stinky Cheeseman. Karey Kirkpatrick, the film's screenwriter, created a text that is true to the spirit of Dahl's original, and deftly pulls young readers into the remarkable story. All in all, it's a peach of a book sure to be the pick of every child's bookshelf! [via]
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Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - James and the Giant Peach: ISBN 0394912829 (0-394-91282-9)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - James and the Giant Peach: ISBN 0375814248 (0-375-81424-8)
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Joseph Andrewsby Henry FieldingISBN 0330235338 (0-330-23533-8)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Joseph Andrews with Shamela and Related Writingsby Henry Fielding, Home GoldbergISBN 0393955559 (0-393-95555-9)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joseph Andrews with Shamela and Related Writings'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition reprints the authoritative Wesleyan text of Joseph Andrews, edited by Martin Battestin.
An accurate text of Shamela (Fieldings satire of Samuel Richardsons Pamela, the most popular epistolary novel of the eighteenth century) as well as An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men, selections from The Champion, and the Preface to The Adventures of David Simple are also included. All of the texts are fully annotated.
"Backgrounds" contains generous extracts from works that Fielding satirizedPamela and Conyer Middletons Dedication to the Life of Ciceroand emulatedGil Blas and selections from Don Quixote, the Roman Comique, and Le Paysan Parvenu. The section concludes with a general explanation of the political and religious contexts in which Joseph Andrews was written.
"Criticism" offers a broad range of responses to the novel. Contemporary assessments include selected letters of Thomas Gray, William Shenstone, Samuel Richardson, and others as well as commentary from The Student, or Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany, by William Hazlitt, James Beattie, and Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier.
Modern assessments are by Mark Spilka, Dick Taylor, Jr., Martin Battestin, Sheldon Sacks, Morris Golden, Brian McCrea, and Homer Goldberg.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
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Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, Ralph SteadmanISBN 0261633325 (0-261-63332-5)
Hardcover, MacGibbon & Kee
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Lost in a Good Book: A Thursday Next Novelby Jasper FfordeISBN 0340733578 (0-340-73357-8)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in a Good Book: A Thursday Next Novel'Book summary:Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinister Goliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt out of the poem in which Thursday trapped him, and it will do almost anything to achieve this - but bribing the ChronoGuard? Is that possible? Having barely caught her breath after The Eyre Affair, Thursday must battle corrupt politicians, try to save the world from extinction, and help the Neanderthals to species self-determination. Mastadon migrations, journeys into Just William, a chance meeting with the Flopsy Bunnies, and violent life-and-death struggles in the summer sales are all part of a greater plan. But whose? and why? [via]
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Mansfield Parkby Jane Austen, Mary E. ChaseISBN 0393002748 (0-393-00274-8)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:A new edition of a satire on Richardson's PAMELA, featuring the character of Parson Adams. With explanatory notes by A R Humphreys. [via]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Joe GoresISBN 0345327144 (0-345-32714-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A Month in the Countryby J. L. CarrISBN 0312546807 (0-312-54680-7)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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More Anguished Englishby Richard Lederer, Bill ThompsonISBN 038531017X (0-385-31017-X)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950by Helen GardnerISBN 0198121369 (0-19-812136-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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North and Southby Alan Shelston, Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN 0393979083 (0-393-97908-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston. "Contexts" includes contemporary reviews and correspondence related to North and South, along with the full text of Gaskells 1850 short story "Lizzie Leigh," which, like North and South, is set in industrial Manchester and deals with strong working women. This topic is further addressed in Bessie Rayner Parkess essay on Victorian working women. "Criticism" collects eleven assessments of the novel, among them Louis Cazamians 1904 study of industrial fiction and Hilary Schors recent study of North and South in the context of discourse analysis. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of North and South:
The Oxford Guide to English Usageby E. S. Weiner, Andrew DelahuntyISBN 0198631375 (0-19-863137-5)
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Poems of Robert Browningby Robert BrowningISBN 0395051037 (0-395-05103-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poems of Robert Browning'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...dying whims, And soothe her with the idle hope They'd say their prayers and sing their hymns As if her husband were the Pope! And she did die--believing just This privilege was purchased! Dead In comfort thro' her foolish trust! "Stiff-necked ones," well Esaias said! XXVIII. So, Sabbath morning, out of gate And on to way, what sees our arch Good Farmer? Why, they hoist their freight--The corpse--on shoulder, and so, march! "Now for it, Buti!" In the nick Of time't is pully-hauly, hence With hoarding! O'er the wayside quick There's Mary plain in evidence! XXIX. And here's the convoy halting: right! O they are bent on howling psalms And growling prayers, when opposite! And yet they glance, for all their qualms, Approve that promptitude of his, The Farmer's--duly at his post 330 To take due thanks from every phiz, Sour smirk--nay, surly smile almost! xxx. Then earthward drops each brow again; The solemn task's resumed; they reach Their holy field--the unholy train: Enter its precinct, all and each, Wrapt somehow in their godless rites; Till, rites at end, up-waking, lo They lift their faces! What delights The mourners as they turn to go? 240 XXXI. Ha, ha! he, he! On just the side They drew their purse-strings to make quit Of Mary,--Christ the Crucified Fronted them now--these biters bit! Never was such a hiss and snort, Such screwing nose and shooting lip! Their purchase--honey in report--Proved gall and verjuice at first sip! XXXII. Out they break, on they bustle, where, A-top of wall, the Farmer waits 250 With Buti: never fun so rare! The Farmer has the best: he rates The rascal, as the old High Priest Takes on himself to sermonize--Nay, sneer " We Jews supposed, at least, Theft was a crime in Christian eyes!" XXXIII. "Thef... [via]
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The Return of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Nicholas MeyerISBN 0345327136 (0-345-32713-6)
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The Seaby John BanvilleISBN 0307263118 (0-307-26311-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sea'Book summary:Incandescent prose. Beautifully textured characterisation. Transparent narratives. The adjectives to describe the writing of John Banville are all affirmative, and The Sea is a ringing affirmation of all his best qualities. His publishers are claiming that this novel by the Booker-shortlisted author is his finest yet, and while that claim may have an element of hyperbole, there is no denying that this perfectly balanced book is among the writers most accomplished work.
Max Morden has reached a crossroads in his life, and is trying hard to deal with several disturbing things. A recent loss is still taking its toll on him, and a trauma in his past is similarly proving hard to deal with. He decides that he will return to a town on the coast at which he spent a memorable holiday when a boy. His memory of that time devolves on the charismatic Grace family, particularly the seductive twins Myles and Chloe. In a very short time, Max found himself drawn into a strange relationship with them, and pursuant events left their mark on him for the rest of his life. But will he be able to exorcise those memories of the past?
The fashion in which John Banville draws the reader into this hypnotic and disturbing world is non pareil, and the very complex relationships between his brilliantly delineated cast of characters are orchestrated with a masters skill. As in such books as Shroud and The Book of Evidence, the author eschews the obvious at all times, and the narrative is delivered with subtlety and understatement. The genuine moments of drama, when they do occur, are commensurately more powerful. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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The Short Stories of Sakiby Saki, Christopher MorleyISBN 0394604288 (0-394-60428-8)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby W. S. MerwinISBN 0375709924 (0-375-70992-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'Book summary:A splendid new translation of the classic Arthurian tale of enchantment, adventure, and romance, presented alongside the original Middle English text.
It is the height of Christmas and New Years revelry when an enormous knight with brilliant green clothes and skin descends upon King Arthurs court. He presents a sinister challenge: he will endure a blow of the axe to his neck without offering any resistance, but whoever gives the blow must promise to take the same in exactly a year and a days time. The young Sir Gawain quickly rises to the challenge, and the poem tells of the adventures he findsan almost irresistible seduction, shockingly brutal hunts, and terrifyingly powerful villainsas he endeavors to fulfill his promise.
Capturing the pace, impact, and richly alliterative language of the original text, W. S. Merwin has imparted a new immediacy to a spellbinding narrative, written centuries ago by a poet whose name is now unknown, lost to time. Of the Green Knight, Merwin notes in his foreword: We seem to recognize himhis splendor, the awe that surrounds him, his menace and his gracewithout being able to place him . . . We will never know who the Green Knight is except in our own response to him. [via] -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby M. BorroffISBN 0393097544 (0-393-09754-4)
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Smoke and Mirrorsby Neil GaimanISBN 0380973642 (0-380-97364-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smoke and Mirrors'Book summary:This anthology of short stories, and the occasional story poem, is vintage Neil Gaiman: quirky, sometimes very funny, often dark and disturbing. Most have been published before, but are hard to find elsewhere and cover all of Gaiman's writing life. As Gaiman says in his introduction, "most of the stories in this book are about love in some form or another," but not requited love. The stories in Smoke and Mirrors touch on all of Gaiman's themes: sex, death, dreams, and the end of the world. From "Chivalry," about the Holy Grail and where it finally ended up, to "Troll Bridge," a very adult version of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff"; from "Bay Wolf," a story poem that melds Beowulf and Baywatch, with interesting results, to "Murder Mysteries," which is about a murder, but also about angels, God's will, and Evil, these stories leave lasting impressions. Fans of Ray Bradbury's short stories and of Gaiman's other works will enjoy this collection. --Nona Vero [via]
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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusionsby Neil GaimanISBN 0380789027 (0-380-78902-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions'Book summary:This anthology of short stories, and the occasional story poem, is vintage Neil Gaiman: quirky, sometimes very funny, often dark and disturbing. Most have been published before, but are hard to find elsewhere and cover all of Gaiman's writing life. As Gaiman says in his introduction, "most of the stories in this book are about love in some form or another," but not requited love. The stories in Smoke and Mirrors touch on all of Gaiman's themes: sex, death, dreams, and the end of the world. From "Chivalry," about the Holy Grail and where it finally ended up, to "Troll Bridge," a very adult version of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff"; from "Bay Wolf," a story poem that melds Beowulf and Baywatch, with interesting results, to "Murder Mysteries," which is about a murder, but also about angels, God's will, and Evil, these stories leave lasting impressions. Fans of Ray Bradbury's short stories and of Gaiman's other works will enjoy this collection. --Nona Vero [via]
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The Spy Who Came in from the Coldby John Le CarreISBN 0345377370 (0-345-37737-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'Book summary:It would be an international crime to reveal too much of the jeweled clockwork plot of Le Carré's first masterpiece, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. But we are at liberty to disclose that Graham Greene called it the "finest spy story ever written," and that the taut tale concerns Alec Leamas, a British agent in early Cold War Berlin. Leamas is responsible for keeping the double agents under his care undercover and alive, but East Germans start killing them, so he gets called back to London by Control, his spy master. Yet instead of giving Leamas the boot, Control gives him a scary assignment: play the part of a disgraced agent, a sodden failure everybody whispers about. Control sends him back out into the cold--deep into Communist territory to checkmate the bad-guy spies on the other side. The political chessboard is black and white, but in human terms the vicinity of the Berlin Wall is a moral no-man's land, a gray abyss patrolled by pawns.
Le Carré beats most spy writers for two reasons. First, he knows what he's talking about, since he raced around working for British Intelligence while the Wall went up. He's familiar with spycraft's fascinations, but also with the fact that it leaves ideals shaken and emotions stirred. Second, his literary tone has deep autobiographical roots. Spying is about betrayal, and Le Carré was abandoned by his mother and betrayed by his father, a notorious con man. (They figure heavily in his novels Single & Single and A Perfect Spy.) In a world of lies, Le Carré writes the bitter truth: it's every man for himself. And may the best mask win. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Style: Ten Lessons In Clarity And Graceby Joseph M. WilliamsISBN 0321024087 (0-321-02408-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Style: Ten Lessons In Clarity And Grace'Book summary:The best-selling style book, Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Seventh Edition , presents principles of writing to help students diagnose their prose quickly and revise it effectively. The four sections-Style as Choice, Clarity, Grace, and Ethics-feature new principles of effective prose, chapter summaries for quick and easy review, and group exercises that encourage students to work and learn together. Williams offers these principles as reason-based approaches to improving prose, rather than hard and fast rules to writing well. Style, 7/e, empowers students to use their writing not only as a tool to identify and solve problems, but also as a method for exploring their own thinking. [via]
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Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0312803745 (0-312-80374-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0394869168 (0-394-86916-8)
Hardcover, A.A. Knopf
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Troilus and Cressida in Modern English Verseby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 0394701429 (0-394-70142-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Troilus and Criseydeby Geoffrey Chaucer, George Philip Krapp, Peter BeidlerISBN 0375757368 (0-375-75736-8)
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The editors lucid introduction, marginal glosses, and explanatory annotations make Troilus and Criseyde easily accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Chaucer or Middle English. Also included is Robert Henrysons Testament of Cresseid, the poignant "sequel" to Troilus and Criseyde from fifteenth-century Scotland.
"Criticism" includes ten essays by a diverse group of distinguished Chaucerians, among them C. S. Lewis, E. Talbot Donaldson, Karla Taylor, Lee Patterson, and Jill Mann, that illuminate the major scholarly issues raised by this complex and challenging poem.
A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included [via]
Under the Greenwood Treeby Thomas HardyISBN 0333168771 (0-333-16877-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Under the Greenwood Tree, Or, the Mellstock Quireby Thomas HardyISBN 0333168895 (0-333-16889-5)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Understanding English Grammarby Martha Kolln, Robert FunkISBN 0205268552 (0-205-26855-2)
Hardcover, Longman Publishing Group
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Understanding English Grammarby Robert Funk, Martha KollnISBN 0321316835 (0-321-31683-5)
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells, Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0375759239 (0-375-75923-9)
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Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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When We Were Orphansby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0375724400 (0-375-72440-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When We Were Orphans'Book summary:When 9-year-old Christopher Banks's father--a British businessman involved in the opium trade--disappears from the family home in Shanghai, the boy and his friend Akira play at being detectives: "Until in the end, after the chases, fist-fights and gun-battles around the warren-like alleys of the Chinese districts, whatever our variations and elaborations, our narratives would always conclude with a magnificent ceremony held in Jessfield Park, a ceremony that would see us, one after another, step out onto a specially erected stage ... to greet the vast cheering crowds."
But Christopher's mother also disappears, and he is sent to live in England, where he grows up in the years between the world wars to become, he claims, a famous detective. His family's fate continues to haunt him, however, and he sifts through his memories to try to make sense of his loss. Finally, in the late 1930s, he returns to Shanghai to solve the most important case of his life. But as Christopher pursues his investigation, the boundaries between fact and fantasy begin to evaporate. Is the Japanese soldier he meets really Akira? Are his parents really being held in a house in the Chinese district? And who is Mr. Grayson, the British official who seems to be planning an important celebration? "My first question, sir, before anything else, is if you're happy with the choice of Jessfield Park for the ceremony? We will, you see, require substantial space."
In When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro uses the conventions of crime fiction to create a moving portrait of a troubled mind, and of a man who cannot escape the long shadows cast by childhood trauma. Sherlock Holmes needed only fragments--a muddy shoe, cigarette ash on a sleeve--to make his deductions, but all Christopher has are fading recollections of long-ago events, and for him the truth is much harder to grasp. Ishiguro writes in the first person, but from the beginning there are cracks in Christopher's carefully restrained prose, suggestions that his version of the world may not be the most reliable. Faced with such a narrator, the reader is forced to become a detective too, chasing crumbs of truth through the labyrinth of Christopher's memory.
Ishiguro has never been one for verbal pyrotechnics, but the unruffled surface of this haunting novel only adds to its emotional power. When We Were Orphans is an extraordinary feat of sustained, perfectly controlled imagination, and in Christopher Banks the author has created one of his most memorable characters. --Simon Leake [via]
Word Power Made Easyby Norman LewisISBN 0385140851 (0-385-14085-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Peopleby Bede, Roger A. Mynors, Bertram ColgraveISBN 0198221738 (0-19-822173-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People'Book summary:Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731 and still ranks among the most popular of history books. First published in 1969, Colgrave and Mynors's edition made use for the first time of the mid-eighth-century manuscript now in Leningrad and provided a survey of the extant manuscripts and a new translation; it also brought up to date Plummer's invaluable edition. This revised edition takes into account J.M. Wallace-Hadrill's Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People: A Historical Commentary (Oxford Medieval Texts, 1988), enabling the reader to use the two in conjunction. [via]
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Ecclesiastical History of the English Peopleby Bede the Venerable, Bertram Colgrave, R. A. MinorsISBN 0198222025 (0-19-822202-5)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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