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The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versaby Michael KimmelmanISBN 0143037331 (0-14-303733-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0142500984 (0-14-250098-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Age Like This 1920-1940: Collected Essaysby George OrwellISBN 0156186209 (0-15-618620-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Age Like This 1920-1940: Collected Essays'Book summary:Considering that much of his life was spent in poverty and ill health, it is something of a miracle that in only forty-six years George Orwell managed to publish ten books and two collections of essays. Here, in four fat volumes, is the best selection of his non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism that is breathtaking in its scope and eclectic passions. Orwell had something to say about just about everyone and everything. His letters to such luminaries as Julian Symons, Anthony Powell, Arthur Koestler, and Cyril Connolly are poignant and personal. His essays, covering everything from "English Cooking" to "Literature and Totalitarianism," are memorable, and his books reviews (Hitler's Mein Kampf, Mumford's Herman Melville, Miller's Black Spring, Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield to name just a few) are among the most lucid and intelligent ever written. From 1943 to l945, he wrote a regular column for the Tribune, a left wing weekly, entitled "As I Please." His observations about life in Britain during the war embraced everything from anti-American sentiment to the history of domestic appliances. [via]
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The Age Of Anxiety: Mccarthyism To Terrorismby Haynes JohnsonISBN 015603039X (0-15-603039-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age Of Anxiety: Mccarthyism To Terrorism'Book summary:For five long years in the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-Communist crusade dominated the American scene, terrified politicians, and destroyed the lives of thousands of our citizens. In this masterful history, Haynes Johnson re-creates that time of crisis-of President Eisenhower, who hated McCarthy but would not attack him; of the Republican senators who cynically used McCarthy to win their own elections; of Edward R. Murrow, whose courageous TV broadcast began McCarthy's downfall; and of mild-mannered lawyer Joseph Welch, who finally shamed McCarthy into silence.[via]
Johnson tells this monumental story through the lens of its relevance to our own time, when fear again affects American behavior and attitudes, for he believes now, as then, that our civil liberties, our Constitution, and our nation are at stake as we confront the ever more difficult task of balancing the need for national security with that of personal liberty.
Compelling narrative history, insightful political commentary, and intimate personal remembrance combine to make The Age of Anxiety a vitally important book for our time.
Extremism-and the suspicion and hatred it engenders-may be Joe McCarthy's most lasting legacy . . . For these and other reasons, while McCarthy and the leading players of his time- Truman and Acheson, Eisenhower and Nixon, the Kennedy brothers and LBJ, Cohn and Schine, Stalin and Mao-have long since passed from the scene, McCarthyism remains a story without an end. -f rom the book.More editions of The Age Of Anxiety: Mccarthyism To Terrorism:
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The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Ironyby D.J. EnrightISBN 0192122533 (0-19-212253-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The author takes a fresh look at irony in the works of Shakespeare, Austen, James, Proust and Freud, and a briefer look at such conspicous practitioners as Swift, Fielding and Hardy. He goes on to review the use of irony, or what resembles it, in the works of Pope, Dickens, Conrad, Brecht and other more recent writers.
Religion, politics, censorship, love and death are all mined for their rich lode of ironic situations. Among other themes discussed are the perils of irony unrecognised and irony wrongly presumed; the risks run by self-ironists; and the questions "Does romantic irony exist?" and "Must irony have a victim? Can it be sweet?". Enright's reflections vary from musings on the absurdities of acronyms like AIDS and CREEP to a consideration of the apparent absence of irony in China.
Although irony commonly generates laughter, some have observed that it can be no laughing matter. But the author concludes this witty and elegant book by noting that, "while irony is an ambiguous gift... it is a gift all the same." [via]More editions of The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony:
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Animal Farmby George Orwell, Ralph SteadmanISBN 0151002177 (0-15-100217-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Animals In Translation: Using The Mysteries Of Autism To Decode Animal Behaviorby Catherine Johnson, Temple GrandinISBN 0156031442 (0-15-603144-2)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Another Day of Lifeby Ryszard KapuscinskiISBN 0151075638 (0-15-107563-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The Beast, the Eunuch, and the Glass-Eyed Child: Television in the 80sby Ron PowersISBN 0151112517 (0-15-111251-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Blue Pasturesby Mary Oliver, John RadziewiczISBN 0156002159 (0-15-600215-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Pastures'Book summary:With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself and those around her. She praises Whitman, denounces cuteness, notes where to find the extraordinary, and extols solitude.[via]More editions of Blue Pastures:
Books & Portraitsby Virginia Woolf, Mary LyonISBN 0156135604 (0-15-613560-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Books and Portraits: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolfby Virginia WoolfISBN 0151134782 (0-15-113478-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Burmese Daysby George OrwellISBN 0156148501 (0-15-614850-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Christianity and Cultureby T. S. EliotISBN 0156177358 (0-15-617735-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christianity and Culture'Book summary:Two long essays: The Idea of a Christian Society on the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems; and Notes towards the Definition of Culture on culture, its meaning, and the dangers threatening the legacy of the Western world.[via]More editions of Christianity and Culture:
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Complications Notes from the Life of a Young SurgeonISBN 0143028456 (0-14-302845-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This BookBook summary:Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine--on either end of the stethoscope. Medical professionals make mistakes, learn on the job, and improvise much of their technique and self-confidence. Gawande's tales are humane and passionate reminders that doctors are people, too. His prose is thoughtful and deeply engaging, shifting from sometimes painful stories of suffering patients (including his own child) to intriguing suggestions for improving medicine with the same care he expresses in the surgical theater. Some of his ideas will make health care providers nervous or even angry, but his disarming style, confessional tone, and thoughtful arguments should win over most readers. Complications is a book with heart and an excellent bedside manner, celebrating rather than berating doctors for being merely human. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Critical Theory Since Platoby Hazard Adams, Leroy SearleISBN 0155055046 (0-15-505504-6)
Hardcover, Heinle
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The Death of the Moth and Other Essaysby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156252341 (0-15-625234-1)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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Do You Hear What I Hear?: An Unreligious Writer Investigates Religious Callingby Minna ProctorISBN 0143036572 (0-14-303657-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticismby Octavio PazISBN 0156003651 (0-15-600365-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism'Book summary:In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence. Brimming with insight, thoughtfulness, and sincerity (Kirkus Reviews). Translated by Helen Lane.[via]More editions of The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism:
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evilby Hannah Arendt, Amos ElonISBN 0143039881 (0-14-303988-1)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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Eighteenth-Century English Literatureby Geoffrey TillotsonISBN 0155209574 (0-15-520957-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Eminent Victoriansby Lytton StracheyISBN 0156286971 (0-15-628697-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eminent Victorians'Book summary:The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame. In his flamboyant collection, Lytton Strachey chose to stray far from the traditional mode of biography: "Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead--who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design?" Instead he provided impressionistic but acute (and, some said, skewed) portraits. Rarely does Strachey explore the details of a subject's daily or family life unless they point directly to an issue of character. In short, he pioneered a deeply sardonic and often scathingly funny biographical style.
None of Strachey's Victorians emerge unscathed. In his hands, Florence Nightingale is not a gentle archangel descended from heaven to minister sweetly to wounded soldiers, but rather an exacting, dictatorial, and judgmental crusader. Her "pen, in the virulence of its volubility, would rush ... to the denunciation of an incompetent surgeon or the ridicule of a self-sufficient nurse. Her sarcasm searched the ranks of the officials with the deadly and unsparing precision of a machine-gun. Her nicknames were terrible. She respected no one." Dr. Thomas Arnold, the man appointed to revamp the very private British public school system, fares little better: in Strachey's acid ink, he became "the founder of the worship of athletics and the worship of good form." In this same vain, military hero General Gordon is portrayed as a temperamental, irascible hermit, occasionally drunk and often found in the company of young boys--a man who tended to forget and forgo the tenets found in the Bible he kept with him always. And the powerful and popular Cardinal Manning, who came within a hair's breadth of succeeding Pope Pius IX, belonged, Strachey writes, "to that class of eminent ecclesiastics ... who have been distinguished less for saintliness and learning than for practical ability."
As he offered up indelible sketches of his less-than-fab four, Strachey was intent on critiquing established mores. This effortlessly superior wit knew full well that deep convictions and good deeds often go hand in hand with hypocrisy, arrogance, and egomania. His task was to pique those who pretended they did not. --Jordana Moskowitz [via]
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Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnoldby Lytton StracheyISBN 0156027895 (0-15-602789-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold'Book summary:The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame. In his flamboyant collection, Lytton Strachey chose to stray far from the traditional mode of biography: "Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead--who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design?" Instead he provided impressionistic but acute (and, some said, skewed) portraits. Rarely does Strachey explore the details of a subject's daily or family life unless they point directly to an issue of character. In short, he pioneered a deeply sardonic and often scathingly funny biographical style.
None of Strachey's Victorians emerge unscathed. In his hands, Florence Nightingale is not a gentle archangel descended from heaven to minister sweetly to wounded soldiers, but rather an exacting, dictatorial, and judgmental crusader. Her "pen, in the virulence of its volubility, would rush ... to the denunciation of an incompetent surgeon or the ridicule of a self-sufficient nurse. Her sarcasm searched the ranks of the officials with the deadly and unsparing precision of a machine-gun. Her nicknames were terrible. She respected no one." Dr. Thomas Arnold, the man appointed to revamp the very private British public school system, fares little better: in Strachey's acid ink, he became "the founder of the worship of athletics and the worship of good form." In this same vain, military hero General Gordon is portrayed as a temperamental, irascible hermit, occasionally drunk and often found in the company of young boys--a man who tended to forget and forgo the tenets found in the Bible he kept with him always. And the powerful and popular Cardinal Manning, who came within a hair's breadth of succeeding Pope Pius IX, belonged, Strachey writes, "to that class of eminent ecclesiastics ... who have been distinguished less for saintliness and learning than for practical ability."
As he offered up indelible sketches of his less-than-fab four, Strachey was intent on critiquing established mores. This effortlessly superior wit knew full well that deep convictions and good deeds often go hand in hand with hypocrisy, arrogance, and egomania. His task was to pique those who pretended they did not. --Jordana Moskowitz [via]
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The Essays of Virginia Woolf Vol. 1: 1904-1912by Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillieISBN 0151290555 (0-15-129055-5)
Hardcover, SPCK Publishing
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A Field Guide To Getting Lostby Rebecca SolnitISBN 0143037242 (0-14-303724-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Four Loves: Featuring the Vintage Recordings of the voice of C. S. Lewisby C. S. LewisISBN 0156329301 (0-15-632930-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Four Loves: Featuring the Vintage Recordings of the voice of C. S. Lewis'Book summary:The Four Loves summarizes four kinds of human love--affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. Masterful without being magisterial, this book's wise, gentle, candid reflections on the virtues and dangers of love draw on sources from Jane Austen to St. Augustine. The chapter on charity (love of God) may be the best thing Lewis ever wrote about Christianity. Consider his reflection on Augustine's teaching that one must love only God, because only God is eternal, and all earthly love will someday pass away:
Who could conceivably begin to love God on such a prudential ground--because the security (so to speak) is better? Who could even include it among the grounds for loving? Would you choose a wife or a Friend--if it comes to that, would you choose a dog--in this spirit? One must be outside the world of love, of all loves, before one thus calculates.
His description of Christianity here is no less forceful and opinionated than in Mere Christianity or The Problem of Pain, but it is far less anxious about its reader's response--and therefore more persuasive than any of his apologetics. When he begins to describe the nature of faith, Lewis writes: "Take it as one man's reverie, almost one man's myth. If anything in it is useful to you, use it; if anything is not, never give it a second thought." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]More editions of The Four Loves: Featuring the Vintage Recordings of the voice of C. S. Lewis:
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, James Kinsley, M. K. JosephISBN 019251010X (0-19-251010-X)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, And the Braveby Stefan Gates, Max La Riviere-hedrickISBN 0156030977 (0-15-603097-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Granite and Rainbowby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156364751 (0-15-636475-1)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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Hamletby JenkinsISBN 0174434693 (0-17-443469-3)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:This edition offers a detailed insight into the work of Shakespeare expanding the individual's knowledge and appreciation of his work. [via]
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Homage to Cataloniaby George OrwellISBN 0156421178 (0-15-642117-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homage to Catalonia'Book summary:"I wonder what is the appropriate first action when you come from a country at war and set foot on peaceful soil. Mine was to rush to the tobacco-kiosk and buy as many cigars and cigarettes as I could stuff into my pockets." Most war correspondents observe wars and then tell stories about the battles, the soldiers and the civilians. George Orwell--novelist, journalist, sometime socialist--actually traded his press pass for a uniform and fought against Franco's Fascists in the Spanish Civil War during 1936 and 1937. He put his politics and his formidable conscience to the toughest tests during those days in the trenches in the Catalan section of Spain. Then, after nearly getting killed, he went back to England and wrote a gripping account of his experiences, as well as a complex analysis of the political machinations that led to the defeat of the socialist Republicans and the victory of the Fascists. [via]
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In Depthby Chris Anderson, Carol H. Klaus, Rebecca Blevins FaeryISBN 0155001728 (0-15-500172-8)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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In Depth: Essayists for Our Timeby Carl H. KlausISBN 0155413465 (0-15-541346-5)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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In Light of Indiaby Octavio Paz, Eliot WeinbergerISBN 0156005786 (0-15-600578-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Light of India'Book summary:Anyone who knows India, or simply dreams of her, will find Octavio Paz's fascinating new book In Light of India spellbinding. Paz was Mexico's Ambassador to India from 1962 until 1968; during his six years in that ancient and multicultural country, he befriended poets, politicians, and ordinary Indians, and soaked up quite a bit of India's history and tragedy in the process. The eleven essays collected here are framed by an introduction and a farewell, and divided among three sections entitled "Religions, Castes, Languages," "A Project of Nationhood," and "The Full and the Empty." In each, Paz weaves the strands of religion, art, culture, and politics as he takes the reader on a tour of India's past and present.
Paz writes with great authority on a variety of subjects, from architecture and poetry to the history of Hindu-Muslim relations on the subcontinent. But some things are beyond the comprehension of an outsider. Though he makes a heroic attempt to explain the intricacies of the caste system, the tragedy of the untouchables remains problematic. This book conveys an India at once seductive and perilous, one that will hold your interest and inspire your wanderlust until the very last page. [via]
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The Inner Lifeby Thomas, Leo Sherley-PriceISBN 0143036262 (0-14-303626-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inner Life'Book summary:Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselvesand each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched livesand destroyed them.[via]Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers, and each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-drive design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped the world.
The Inner Life is taken from Thomas à Kempis's The Imitation of Christ, a classic Christian devotional that has taught and inspired generations.
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Invisible Citiesby Italo Calvino, William WeaverISBN 0156453800 (0-15-645380-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invisible Cities'Book summary:"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which "has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be," the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take. [via]
Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipesby Mark CrickISBN 0151012830 (0-15-101283-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayerby C. S. LewisISBN 0156027666 (0-15-602766-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer'Book summary:In the form of warm, relaxed letters to a close friend, Lewis meditates on many puzzling questions concerning the intimate dialogue between man and God. Lewis also considers practical and metaphysical aspects of private prayer, petitionary prayer, the Lords Prayer, and other forms of prayer.[via]
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Literary Life and Other Curiositiesby Robert HendricksonISBN 0156527871 (0-15-652787-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987by Alice WalkerISBN 0156528657 (0-15-652865-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987'Book summary:The The Color Purple meditates on planetary concerns as well as on feminist and political issues in her most deeply spiritual work yet. She writes of our intimate connection with nature, focuses on racial questions, reports on trips to China, Bali, and Jamaica, and more. [via]
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London Perceivedby V. S. PritchettISBN 015652970X (0-15-652970-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'London Perceived'Book summary:London of the mind, the heart and the eye is displayed, discussed and dissected in this classic work of 1962 that unites the elegant prose of V.S. Pritchett and the revealing photographs of Evelyn Hofer. Here is a pithy, knowledgeable distillation of the essential London - a panorama of its history, art, literature and daily life. Here is the city that Londoners know, a paraodox of grandeur and grime, the locus of bustling markets and tranquil parks, of palaces and pubs, of docks and railway depots, of the ancient and modern. Great Londoners of the past stalk these pages - Wren, Pepys, Defoe, Hogarth, Dickens and, of course, Samuel Johnson. And here, too, are the faces of the people inhabiting modern London - enigmatic and enduring. [via]
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Marchby Geraldine BrooksISBN 0143036661 (0-14-303666-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'March'Book summary:[via]From Louisa May Alcotts beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With"pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brookss place as a renowned author of historical fiction.
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The Memory of Birds in Time of Revolution: Essaysby Breyten BreytenbachISBN 0151001685 (0-15-100168-5)
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Misreadingsby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0156607522 (0-15-660752-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Misreadings'Book summary:Satirical essays in which Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde. A scintillating collection of writings (Los Angeles Times). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Misreadings:
Moments of Beingby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156619180 (0-15-661918-0)
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Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writingsby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156619172 (0-15-661917-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writings'Book summary:Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. Despite Quentin Bell's comprehensive biography and numerous recent studies of her, the author's own account of her early life holds new fascination---for its unexpected detail, the strength of its emotion, and its clear-sighted judgment of Victorian values.
Contents: Editor's Note and Introduction -- Reminiscences -- A Sketch of the Past -- The Memoir Club Contributions: 22 Hyde Park Gate; Old Bloomsbury; [and] Am I a Snob? -- Appendix -- Index. [via]More editions of Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writings:
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My Country Right or Left 1940-1943by George Orwell, Ian AngusISBN 0156186217 (0-15-618621-7)
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Nonrequired Reading: Prose Piecesby Wisawa Szymborska, Clare CavanaghISBN 0151006601 (0-15-100660-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces'Book summary:Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers. Unknown to most of them, however, Szymborska also worked for several decades as a columnist, reviewing a wide variety of books under the unassuming title "Nonrequired Reading."[via]
As readers of her poems would expect, the short prose pieces collected here are anything but ordinary. Reflecting the author's own eclectic tastes and interests, the pretexts for these ruminations range from books on wallpapering, cooking, gardening, and yoga, to more lofty volumes on opera and world literature. Unpretentious yet incisive, these charming pieces are on a par with Szymborska's finest lyrics, tackling the same large and small questions with a wonderful curiosity.More editions of Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces:
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On Literatureby Umberto Eco, Martin McLaughlinISBN 0156032392 (0-15-603239-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Literature'Book summary:In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce, Eco's luminous intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge are on dazzling display throughout. And when he reveals his own ambitions and superstitions, his authorial anxieties and fears, one feels like a secret sharer in the garden of literature to which he so often alludes.[via]
Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that have made Eco one of the world's leading writers.More editions of On Literature:
On the Shortness of Lifeby Lucius Annaeus Seneca, C.D.N. CostaISBN 0143036327 (0-14-303632-7)
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The Oxford Book of Essaysby John GrossISBN 0192141856 (0-19-214185-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of Essays'Book summary:When Montaigne developed the essay in the sixteenth century, he could not have imagined the power and longevity of his creation. "He did not set up for a philosopher, wit, orator, or moralist," wrote Hazlitt, "but he became all these by merely daring to tell us whatever passed through his mind." Ever since, writers have seized upon his example, and for over four hundred years we have encountered astonishing insights and breathtaking language by following what has passed through their minds, as recounted in the essay. And now some of the finest essays of all time have been gathered together by John Gross, former editor of The New York Times Book Review, in an outstanding new anthology.
Ranging from the early 1600s through the 1980s, this sweeping collection includes 140 essays by 120 of the finest writers in the history of the English language. John Gross has collected classics and rare gems, representative samples and personal favorites, intimate essays and learned, serious reflections and hysterically funny satire, by both British and American writers. Here is Eveleyn Waugh, providing tips on how to move in Well-Informed Circles ("Attribute all facts of common knowledge to personal information; for instance, do not say, 'What a wet week it has been,' but, 'They tell me at Greenwich they have registered the highest rainfall for six weeks'"); Ralph Waldo Emerson on conservatism and innovation; Ambrose Bierce on "the horror of the characteristic American custom of promiscuous, unsought, and unauthorized introductions"; Oscar Wilde on the critic as artist ("It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless"); Rose Macaulay on dinner parties; and James Baldwin, musing about what a remote Swiss village tells him about race in the wider world ("Joyce is right about history being a nightmare--but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.").
The authors Gross has gathered form a gallery of genius, all indispensable masters of rhetoric, from Samuel Butler to Samuel Johnson, from John Dryden to Ben Franklin, from Geoge Eliot to George Bernard Shaw, from E.B. White to Joan Didion. Including book reviews and travel sketches, history lessons and meditations, reflections on art and on potato chips, these essays sample four centuries of eloquence and insight in a collection that is at once immensely enlightening, edifying, and entertaining. [via]More editions of The Oxford Book of Essays:
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Paris Journal: 1965-1970by Janet Flanner, William ShawnISBN 015670952X (0-15-670952-X)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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People With Dirty Hands: The Passion for Gardeningby Robin ChotzinoffISBN 0156005158 (0-15-600515-8)
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The Pleasures and Pains of Opiumby Thomas De Quincey, Alethea HayterISBN 0146001826 (0-14-600182-6)
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Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraqby Rory StewartISBN 0156032791 (0-15-603279-1)
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Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Livingby Mem FoxISBN 015607947X (0-15-607947-X)
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Relativity: The Special And the General Theoryby Albert Einstein, Nigel Calder, Robert W. LawsonISBN 0143039822 (0-14-303982-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Relativity: The Special And the General Theory'Book summary:[via]According to Einstein himself, this book is intended "to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics." When he wrote the book in 1916, Einstein's name was scarcely known outside the physics institutes. Having just completed his masterpiece, The General Theory of Relativitywhich provided a brand-new theory of gravity and promised a new perspective on the cosmos as a wholehe set out at once to share his excitement with as wide a public as possible in this popular and accessible book.
- First time in Penguin Classics
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Rites of Passageby Judie Rae, Catherine FragaISBN 0155061224 (0-15-506122-4)
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Road to Wigan Pierby George OrwellISBN 0156767503 (0-15-676750-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Road to Wigan Pier'Book summary:Although George Orwell grew up in the relative comfort of the English middle class, his socialist convictions and general sense of fairness led him to hate his country's deeply ingrained class structure. That perspective permeates this book, but the most striking elements are the quotidian details of life that Orwell observes in his first-person account of the lives of coal miners and others in the poor north of England. Wigan Pier is almost too realistic at times, as Orwell brings his unparalleled powers of observation to portray the wretched conditions of the working class. That Orwell may have slanted his reporting to make things look worse than they were is a question that does not lessen the book's interest. [via]
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Satires and Personal Writingsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0192541471 (0-19-254147-1)
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Selected Essays: 1917-1932by T. S. EliotISBN 0151803870 (0-15-180387-0)
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The Selfish Geneby Richard DawkinsISBN 0192177737 (0-19-217773-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Selfish Gene'Book summary:Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't thought of evolution in the same way since.
Why are there miles and miles of "unused" DNA within each of our bodies? Why should a bee give up its own chance to reproduce to help raise her sisters and brothers? With a prophet's clarity, Dawkins told us the answers from the perspective of molecules competing for limited space and resources to produce more of their own kind. Drawing fascinating examples from every field of biology, he paved the way for a serious re-evaluation of evolution. He also introduced the concept of self-reproducing ideas, or memes, which (seemingly) use humans exclusively for their propagation. If we are puppets, he says, at least we can try to understand our strings. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Sepharadby Antonio M. Molina, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0156032198 (0-15-603219-8)
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Sepharadby Antonio Munoz Molina, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0151009015 (0-15-100901-5)
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Serendipities: Language & Lunacyby Umberto EcoISBN 0156007517 (0-15-600751-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Serendipities: Language & Lunacy'Book summary:The multitalented Umberto Eco--novelist, critic, and literary theorist--turns his attention to the history of linguistics. In linguistics, as in the other sciences, Eco explains, there are serendipities: "Even the most lunatic experiments can produce strange side effects, stimulating research that proves perhaps less amusing but scientifically more serious." In his earlier book The Search for the Perfect Language, for example, he discussed the project of discovering the language spoken before the collapse of the Tower of Babel. Although misconceived, the project by chance led to advances in mathematical logic, artificial intelligence, and even world peace--the goal of artificial languages like Esperanto and the unfortunately named Volapük. In the five essays in Serendipities, Eco explores some related serendipitous episodes in the history of linguistics; as always, his characteristic blend of playfulness and erudition is bound to be irresistible to any lover of language.
The first essay, "The Force of Falsity," discusses false documents with momentous repercussions, such as the letter of Prester John, which encouraged European explorers and conquerors to seek its supposed author, the Christian ruler of a distant and fantastically wealthy land. In the second essay, Eco considers Dante's relation to the idea of the perfect language. The third essay discusses early misinterpretations of Egyptian, Chinese, and Mexican ideograms. The Jesuit savant Athanasius Kircher, for example, devoted page upon page to mystical interpretations of a hieroglyph that later turned out to represent nothing more profound than the Greek letter lambda. The remaining two essays are devoted to single authors: "The Language of the Austral Land" concerns Gabriel de Foigny's instructive parody of contemporary attempts to devise the perfect language, while "The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre" endeavors, with indifferent success, to make sense of the counterrevolutionary Savoyard's musings on the nature of language. --Glenn Branch [via]
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Settling the Score: Essays on Musicby Ned RoremISBN 0151808953 (0-15-180895-3)
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Shakespeare in Performance: An Introduction through Six Major Playsby William Shakespeare, John Russell BrownISBN 015580829X (0-15-580829-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Shooting an Elephant and Other Essaysby Eric BlairISBN 0151820430 (0-15-182043-0)
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A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainianby Marina LewyckaISBN 0143036742 (0-14-303674-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian'Book summary:[via]With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his intention to remarry, his daughters must set aside their longtime feud to thwart him. For their fathers intended is a voluptuous old-country gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully.
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The Shorter Stracheyby Giles Lytton StracheyISBN 0192122118 (0-19-212211-8)
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The Star Throwerby Loren C. EiseleyISBN 0156849097 (0-15-684909-7)
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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeby C. S. LewisISBN 0156870118 (0-15-687011-8)
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They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hagueby Slavenka DrakulicISBN 0143035428 (0-14-303542-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague'Book summary:[via]"Who were they? Ordinary people like you or meor monsters? asks internationally acclaimed author Slavenka Drakulic as she sets out to understand the people behind the horrific crimes committed during the war that tore apart Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Drawing on firsthand observations of the trials, as well as on other sources, Drakulic portrays some of the individuals accused of murder, rape, torture, ordering executions, and more during one of the most brutal conflicts in Europe in the twentieth century, including former Serbian president Slobodan Miloaevic; Radislav Krstic, the first to be sentenced for genocide; Biljana Plavaic, the only woman accused of war crimes; and Ratko Mladic, now in hiding. With clarity and emotion, Drakulic paints a wrenching portrait of a country needlessly torn apart.
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The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientistsby Peter Medawar, David PykeISBN 0192177788 (0-19-217778-8)
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, G. B. HarrisonISBN 0156384108 (0-15-638410-8)
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Two Cheers for Democracyby E. M. ForsterISBN 0156920255 (0-15-692025-5)
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Venture to the Interiorby Laurens Van Der PostISBN 0156935295 (0-15-693529-5)
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The Western Canon : The Books and School of the Agesby Harold BloomISBN 0151957479 (0-15-195747-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Western Canon : The Books and School of the Ages'Book summary:Discussed and debated, revered and reviled, Bloom's tome reinvigorates and re-examines Western Literature, arguing against the politicization of reading. His erudite passion will encourage you to hurry and finish his book so you can pick up Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens once again to rediscover their original magic. In addition, his appendix listing of the "future" canon - the books today that will be timeless tomorrow - is sure to be the template for future debate. [via]
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Women and Madnessby Phyllis CheslerISBN 0156982951 (0-15-698295-1)
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Storiesby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0146001702 (0-14-600170-2)
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Zarathustra's Discoursesby R.J. Hollingdale, Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0146001753 (0-14-600175-3)
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