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Aby Andy WarholISBN 0802135536 (0-8021-3553-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Alphabetical Africaby Walter AbishISBN 0811205339 (0-8112-0533-9)
Softcover, New Directions
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American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Languageby Juliana Spahr, Claudia RankineISBN 0819565474 (0-8195-6547-4)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Berlin Alexander Platzby Alfred DoblinISBN 080446121X (0-8044-6121-X)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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A Bernadette Mayer Readerby Bernadette MayerISBN 0811212033 (0-8112-1203-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Birthmarkby Russell Warren HoweISBN 0819562637 (0-8195-6263-7)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Blood and Guts in High Schoolby Kathy AckerISBN 080213193X (0-8021-3193-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood and Guts in High School'Book summary:Jamey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. Once day she found a pencil stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with "Parents stink" (Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her). With "Blood and Guts in High School, " Kathy Acker, whose work has been labeled everthing from post-punk porn to post-punk feminism, has created a brilliantly subversive narrative built from conversation, description, conjecture, and moments snatched from history and literature.[via]More editions of Blood and Guts in High School:
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entryby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0811209547 (0-8112-0954-7)
Softcover, New Directions
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A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony BurgessISBN 0808581945 (0-8085-8194-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Confidence Manby Herman MelvilleISBN 0810103257 (0-8101-0325-7)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Cronopios and Famasby Julio Cortazar, Paul BlackburnISBN 0811214028 (0-8112-1402-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cronopios and Famas'Book summary:Cronopios and Famas is one of the best-loved books by Julio Cortázar, one of the greatest of Latin American novelists.
"The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations," the second chapter, describes the obsessions and predilections of the narrator's family, including the lodging of a tiger-just one tiger- "for the sole purpose of seeing the mechanism at work in all its complexity." Finally, the "Cronopios and Famas" section delightfully characterizes, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, "those enemies of pomposity, academic rigor mortis and cardboard celebrity-a band of literary Marx Brothers." As the Saturday Review remarked: "Each page of Cronopios and Famas sparkles with vivid satire that goes to the heart of human character and, in the best pieces, to the essence of the human condition." [via]More editions of Cronopios and Famas:
Don Quixoteby Kathy AckerISBN 0802131921 (0-8021-3192-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Double or Nothingby Raymond FedermanISBN 0804005435 (0-8040-0543-5)
Hardcover, Swallow Press
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Empty Wordsby John CageISBN 0819560677 (0-8195-6067-7)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Everybody's Autonomy : Connective Reading and Collective Identityby Juliana SpahrISBN 0817310541 (0-8173-1054-1)
Softcover, University of Alabama Press
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Fight Clubby Chuck PalahniukISBN 0805076557 (0-8050-7655-7)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fight Club: A Novel'Book summary:The only person who gets called Ballardesque more often than Chuck Palahniuk is, well... J.G. Ballard. So, does Portland, Oregon's "torchbearer for the nihilistic generation" deserve that kind of treatment? Yes and no. There is a resemblance between Fight Club and works such as Crash and Cocaine Nights in that both see the innocuous mundanities of everyday life as nothing more than the severely loosened cap on a seething underworld cauldron of unchecked impulse and social atrocity. Welcome to the present-day U.S. of A. As Ballard's characters get their jollies from staging automobile accidents, Palahniuk's yuppies unwind from a day at the office by organizing bloodsport rings and selling soap to fund anarchist overthrows. Let's just say that neither of these guys are going to be called in to do a Full House script rewrite any time soon.
But while the ingredients are the same, Ballard and Palahniuk bake at completely different temperatures. Unlike his British counterpart, who tends to cast his American protagonists in a chilly light, holding them close enough to dissect but far enough away to eliminate any possibility of kinship, Palahniuk isn't happy unless he's first-person front and center, completely entangled in the whole sordid mess. An intensely psychological novel that never runs the risk of becoming clinical, Fight Club is about both the dangers of loyalty and the dreaded weight of leadership, the desire to band together and the compulsion to head for the hills. In short, it's about the pride and horror of being an American, rendered in lethally swift prose. Fight Club's protagonist might occasionally become foggy about who he truly is (you'll see what I mean), but one thing is for certain: you're not likely to forget the book's author. Never mind Ballardesque. Palahniukian here we come! --Bob Michaels [via]
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Softcover, Henry Holt & Co - Fight Club: ISBN 0805076476 (0-8050-7647-6)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry - Fight Club: A Novel: ISBN 0805076557 (0-8050-7655-7)
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Flight from Neveryonby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0819562777 (0-8195-6277-7)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flight from Neveryon'Book summary:In his four-volume series Return to Neveryeon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Neveryeonvolumes in trade paperback.
The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neveryeon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission -- or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame. [via]More editions of Flight from Neveryon:
Ghost Townby Robert CooverISBN 0802136664 (0-8021-3666-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost Town'Book summary:Cross Cormac McCarthy with Eugene Ionesco and you might get something like Robert Coover's Ghost Town. The hero of this spaghetti Western is an unnamed cowboy riding along through a "vast empty plain, where nothing seems to have happened yet and yet everything seems already over...." Exhausted and parched, he sets his sights across the distant horizon only to find himself overtaken--literally--by a small, seemingly deserted little town. With the immutable logic of a dream, he becomes caught up in a strange, disjointed chain of events, in which drunken gamblers declare him sheriff and a saloon chanteuse stakes him out for her own. Meanwhile, the cowboy carries a torch for a melancholy, pale-faced woman known as the schoolmarm, who has a disturbing propensity for correcting his grammar while slapping his face. If, after wandering through Ghost Town's bloody streets for a while, readers find themselves suspecting that this is one of them newfangled metafictions, Coover will not disappoint. He plants the requisite empty plain-empty page analogies, and the book's denouement is nothing less than sexuality and textuality in a showdown at high noon. But there is more here than mere postmodern pastiche. Coover writes with prodigious intellectual energy and quicksilver wit; his sentences are never less than surprising, and often possess a sublime beauty all their own. As for his take on the genre's conventions, Coover may have struck closer to home than we think. Long stretches of tedium interrupted by flashes of hallucinatory violence: in its own bizarre way, Ghost Town might be the most realistic depiction of the Old West in a very long time. --Mary Park [via]
The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhoodby Patricia Dienstfrey, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Brenda HillmanISBN 0819566438 (0-8195-6643-8)
Hardcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Great Expectationsby Kathy AckerISBN 0802131557 (0-8021-3155-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiadby Roger BoylanISBN 0802140327 (0-8021-4032-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad'Book summary:Roger Boylan's first novel, Killoyle, established him as a brilliant successor to such Irish masters as Joyce, Beckett, and J. P. Donleavy. Now his new farce follows the hapless inhabitants of Killoyle, Ireland, through the frenetic week of the Pint-Pulling Olympiad. After local lush Mick McCreek gets into a car crash with a cross-dressing church sexton, he enlists a lawyer, Tom O'Mallet. As it turns out, the lawyer's real gig is selling missiles to the IRA, and he plans to use his clueless client as a patsy. O'Mallet also hoodwinks Anil, an Indian waiter who has found himself the unlikely target of a manhunt. What Tom doesn't know is that his lucrative weapons are destined for a massive terrorist attack on the Pint-Pulling Olympiad, and that Anil's sexy cousin Rashmi a sweatshop worker turned intelligence operative is hot on the bombers' trail. With a wink and a nudge, Boylan's pyrotechnic prose brings to life Ireland at its manic extremes, proving the author a dazzling and distinctive talent in American fiction.[via]More editions of The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad:
Herman Melville's Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Peter FishISBN 0812034287 (0-8120-3428-7)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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The Hour of the Starby Clarice LispectorISBN 0811211908 (0-8112-1190-8)
Softcover, New Directions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hour of the Star'Book summary:The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece.
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free/She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she should be. Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narratoredge of despair to edge of despairand, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader's preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love and the art of fiction. In her last book she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leave us deep in Lispector territory indeed. [via]More editions of The Hour of the Star:
Il Cuore: The Heart Selected Poems 1970-1995by Kathleen FraserISBN 0819522457 (0-8195-2245-7)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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In Memoriam to Identityby Kathy AckerISBN 080213579X (0-8021-3579-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Journey to the End of the Nightby Ralph Manheim, Louis Ferdinand CelineISBN 0811216543 (0-8112-1654-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to the End of the Night'Book summary:When it was published in 1932, this then-shocking and revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-Century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism. [via]
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Journey to the End of the Nightby Louis Ferdinand CelineISBN 0811208478 (0-8112-0847-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Key into the Language of Americaby Rosmarie WaldropISBN 0811212874 (0-8112-1287-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writingsby Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James E. Irby, William GibsonISBN 0811216993 (0-8112-1699-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings'Book summary:If Jorge Luis Borges had been a computer scientist, he probably would have invented hypertext and the World Wide Web.
Instead, being a librarian and one of the world's most widely read people, he became the leading practitioner of a densely layered imaginistic writing style that has been imitated throughout this century, but has no peer (although Umberto Eco sometimes comes close, especially in Name of the Rose).
Borges's stories are redolent with an intelligence, wealth of invention, and a tight, almost mathematically formal style that challenge with mysteries and paradoxes revealed only slowly after several readings. Highly recommended to anyone who wants their imagination and intellect to be aswarm with philosophical plots, compelling conundrums, and a wealth of real and imagined literary references derived from an infinitely imaginary library. [via]
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Lanarkby Alasdair GrayISBN 0807611085 (0-8076-1108-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lanark'Book summary:Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark (first published in 1981) immediately established him as one of the most important Scottish voices of his generation and this astounding work as one of the key British novels of the last century. Magnificent in its reach and unequalled in the adulation of its critical response, Lanark is a massive book.
Perversely we start our reading with Book 3--the hero of this and the last book in the quartet, the eponymous Lanark, lives in a bizarre and fantastical future in a grey, dreary city called Unthank. He doesn't remember how he got there nor who he really is. He hangs around a local cafe with some other young people whose values and mores he can't quite figure. All around people are disappearing. Then he contracts dragonhide... and disappears too. He wakes in an institute and is told the sad but instructional tale of Duncan Thaw (the boy he used to be, the boy, in a sense, Alasdair Gray used to be).
Duncan, unknowingly speaking of the epic of which he is the centre, who we meet as a child and watch grow into an artist , says "I want to write a modern Divine Comedy with illustrations in the style of William Blake." And it is Duncan's story that is the heart of Lanark--and what a poignant, heart-breaking tale it is. From a boy who can never accept or offer or understand love, who cannot connect, to an artist who cannot accept that he cannot have the final word--both in his own life and in his art--Duncan's tale is a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story.
Lanark is a work of huge imagination and wonderful range; it is about all of our selves, how we make them and make them up; it is about place and what that means for identity and it is about love--how we can learn to love our selves, or fail to, how we need to love, both ourselves and others, to create communities in which we can create art that will promote a continuing project of place in which we can love each other better. Lanark is peerless. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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Lanark: A Life in Four Booksby Alasdair GrayISBN 080761162X (0-8076-1162-X)
Softcover, Braziller Incorporated, George
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Lectures in Americaby Gertrude SteinISBN 0807063533 (0-8070-6353-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Lesbian Bodyby Monique WittigISBN 080706307X (0-8070-6307-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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"That rare work in fiction . . . the art and the courage are of the highest level."
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The Lime Twig: A Novelby John HawkesISBN 0811200655 (0-8112-0065-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Literal Madnessby Kathy AckerISBN 0802131565 (0-8021-3156-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Loose Sugarby Brenda HillmanISBN 0819522430 (0-8195-2243-0)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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M: Writings, '67-'72by John CageISBN 0819560359 (0-8195-6035-9)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'M: Writings, '67-'72'Book summary:Mainly mesostics inspired by music, mushrooms, Marcel Duchamp, Merce Cunningham, Marshall McCluhan, etc. and includes "Mureau"-composed from the writings of Henry David Thoreau. [via]
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Mercier and Camierby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802132359 (0-8021-3235-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mercier and Camier'Book summary:One of the most accessible examples of Samuel Becketts dark humor, Mercier and Camier is the hilarious chronicle of its two heroes epic journey. While their travels are fraught with complications and intrigue, Mercier and Camier at least did not remove from home, they had that good fortune.[via]More editions of Mercier and Camier:
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle, Harrison HayfordISBN 0810102692 (0-8101-0269-2)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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Softcover, Tor Books - Moby Dick: ISBN 0809567288 (0-8095-6728-8)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - Moby Dick: ISBN 0804900337 (0-8049-0033-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Moby Dick: ISBN 0812541561 (0-8125-4156-1)
Softcover, Tor Books - Moby Dick: ISBN 0816704635 (0-8167-0463-5)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - Moby Dick: ISBN 0810102692 (0-8101-0269-2)
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Moby Dick Notesby Cliff's Notes EditorsISBN 0822008521 (0-8220-0852-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick Notes'Book summary:Cliffs Test Preparation Guides help students prepare for and improve their performance on standardized tests ACT Preparation Guide CBEST Preparation Guide CLAST Preparation Guide ELM Review GMAT Preparation Guide GRE Preparation Guide LSAT Preparation Guide MAT Preparation Guide MATH Review for Standardized Tests MSAT Preparation Guide Memory Power for Exams Police Officer Examination Preparation Guide Police Sergeant Examination Preparation Guide Police Management Examinations Preparation Guide Postal Examinations Preparation Guide Praxis I: PPST Preparation Guide Praxis II: NTE Core Battery Preparation Guide SAT Preparation Guide SAT II Writing Preparation Guide TASP Preparation Guide TOEFL Preparation Guide with 2 cassettes Advanced Practice for the TOEFL with 2 cassettes Verbal Review for Standardized Tests Writing Proficiency Examinations You Can Pass the GED Cliffs Quick Reviews help students in introductory college courses or Advanced Placement classes Algebra I Algebra II Anatomy & Physiology Basic Math and Pre-Algebra Biology Calculus Chemistry Differential Equations Economics Geometry Linear Algebra Microbiology Physics Statistics Trigonometry Cliffs Advanced Placement Preparation Guides help high school students taking Advanced Placement courses to earn college credit AP Biology AP Calculus AB AP Chemistry AP English Language & Composition AP English Literature & Composition AP United States History Cliffs Complete Study Editions are comprehensive study guides with complete text, running commentary and glossary Chaucer's Prologue Chaucer's Wife of Bath Hamlet Julius Caesar King Henry IV, Part I King Lear Macbeth The Merchant of Venice Othello Romeo and Juliet The Tempest Twelfth Night See inside back cover for listing of Cliffs Notes titles Registered trademarks include: GRE, MSAT, the Praxis Series, and TOEFL (Educational Testing Service): AP, Advanced Placement Program, and SAT (College Entrance Examination Board); GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Council); and LSAT (Law School Admission Council.) Moby-Dick [via]
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Mulligan Stewby Gilbert SorrentinoISBN 0802152015 (0-8021-5201-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Murphyby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802150373 (0-8021-5037-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Nadjaby A. BretonISBN 0802150268 (0-8021-5026-8)
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Neveryona, orby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0819562718 (0-8195-6271-8)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neveryeon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission -- or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame. [via]More editions of Neveryona, or:
Nohow onby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802134262 (0-8021-3426-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Number 9 Dreamby David MitchellISBN 0812966929 (0-8129-6692-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Oracle Night: A Novelby Paul AusterISBN 0805073205 (0-8050-7320-5)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oracle Night: A Novel'Book summary:In Oracle Night, Paul Auster returns to one of his favorite themes: writing about writers and the act of writing. Recovering from a severe illness that has left him weak and prone to nosebleeds, struggling novelist Sidney Orr takes the suggestion of his mentor, the acclaimed novelist John Trause, and begins a story about a man who, upon considering a near-death experience as an omen (or excuse), walks out on his wife and begins a new life. Nick Bowen, Orr's protagonist, moves to Kansas City and finds work with a man engaged in creating a sort of catalogue of all known persons from a warehouse filled with phonebooks. Dressed in Goodwill clothing, Nick finds it "fitting to don the wardrobe of a man who has likewise ceased to exist--as if that double negation made the erasure of his past more thorough, more permanent." Grace, however, acts strangely soon after Sidney begins the "novel-within-a-novel" in a mysterious blue notebook.
Auster uses footnotes to provide interesting backstory and develops Sidney's insecurities regarding love and fidelity, but when Sidney hits a patchy spot and writes Bowen into a corner, he (and Auster) shrugs and drops the story. The mystery that seemingly unrelated coincidences may have a causal connection is left unresolved, and Trause's delinquent son shows up to facilitate a hollow, climactic ending. Auster is a gifted writer, to be sure, but once trapped by the inner story, Oracle Night loses steam. --Michael Ferch [via]
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Our Lady of the Flowersby Jean Paul Sartre, Jean GenetISBN 0802130135 (0-8021-3013-5)
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Paint It Todayby H.D., Cassandra LaityISBN 081473488X (0-8147-3488-X)
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Patersonby William Carlos WilliamsISBN 081121298X (0-8112-1298-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paterson'Book summary:Long recognized as a masterpiece of modern American poetry, WIlliam Carlos Williams' Paterson is one man's testament and vision, "a humanist manifesto enacted in five books, a grammar to help us life" (Denis Donoghue).
Paterson is both a placethe New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. Williams' words) "follows the course of teh Passaic River" from above the great falls to its entrance into the sea. The unexpected Book Five, published in 1958, affirms the triumphant life of the imagination, in spite of age and death. This revised edition has been meticulously re-edited by Christopher MacGowan, who has supplied a wealth of notes and explanatory material. [via] -
Personal Anthologyby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0802130771 (0-8021-3077-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Personal Anthology'Book summary:After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his workshort stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant sketches, which, in Borgess hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters.[via]More editions of Personal Anthology:
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Picasso: The Complete Writingsby Gertrude SteinISBN 0807066575 (0-8070-6657-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso: The Complete Writings'Book summary:Intimate, revealing memoir of Picasso as man and artist by influential literary figure. Highly readable amalgam of biographical fact, artistic and aesthetic comments: Picasso as founder of Cubism, associate of Apollinaire, Braque, Derain, other notables; titanic, creative spirit. One of Stein's most accessible works. 61 black-and-white illustrations. Index.[via]More editions of Picasso: The Complete Writings:
Pierce-Arrowby Susan HoweISBN 0811214109 (0-8112-1410-9)
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Pricksongs and Descantsby Robert CooverISBN 0802136672 (0-8021-3667-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pricksongs and Descants'Book summary:Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously word-drunk fictional romps, two children follow an old man into the woods, trailing bread crumbs behind and edging helplessly toward a sinister end that never comes; a husband walks toward the bed where his wife awaits his caresses, but by the time he arrives she's been dead three weeks and detectives are pounding down the door; a teenaged babysitter's evening becomes a kaleidoscope of dangerous erotic fantasies-her employer's, her boyfriend's, her own; an aging, humble carpenter marries a beautiful but frigid woman, and after he's waited weeks to consummate their union she announces that God has made her pregnant. Now available in a Grove paperback, Pricksongs & Descants is a cornerstone of Robert Coover's remarkable career and a brilliant work by a major American writer.[via]More editions of Pricksongs and Descants:
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Princess Brideby William GoldmanISBN 0808586998 (0-8085-8699-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess Bride'Book summary:The Princess Bride is a true fantasy classic. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern's original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. Morgenstern's mostly complimentary views of the text. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles."
Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.
Is The Princess Bride a critique of classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers, that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you'll put it on your "keeper" shelf. --Nona Vero [via]
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The Promises of Glassby Michael PalmerISBN 0811214796 (0-8112-1479-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Promises of Glass'Book summary:The Promises of Glass, Michael Palmer's first new collection since At Passages (1995), is now available as a paperback. In seven sections this gorgeous book explores language and the "salt sea of autobiographies." His work also examines what Marjorie Perloff has described as "the absurdist 'displacement by degrees' one experiences in the post-urban wold of late twentieth-century America." [via]
Pussy, King of the Piratesby Kathy AckerISBN 080213484X (0-8021-3484-X)
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Repetitionby Alain Robbe-Grillet, Richard HowardISBN 0802140572 (0-8021-4057-2)
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Return to Neveryonby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0819562785 (0-8195-6278-5)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Skywriting by Word of Mouth & Other Writings Including the Ballad of John & Yokoby John LennonISBN 0809590751 (0-8095-9075-1)
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Stephen Heroby James Joyce, Theodore SpencerISBN 0811200744 (0-8112-0074-4)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stephen Hero'Book summary:Stephen Hero is an early version of Joyce's A Portrait of the artist as a Young Man.
It was originally rejected on grounds of indecencyso the story goes by twenty publishers, whereupon Joyce threw the manuscript in the fire, but Mrs. Joyce rescued several unburnt portions.
Although Joyce later entirely rewrote his novel of a young Irishman's rebellion against church, country and family, this early version is beautifully composed, the mood being more discursive and personal than in A Portrait. Many episodes later cut for the sake of good novelistic form, especially autobiographical episodes of sensual and family life, are fully presented, with some of the most vivacious dialogue Joyce ever wrote. Between them, the two versions give us a clear example of Joyce's literary development as well as many details of his life.
This edition of Stephen Hero for the first time printed the five missing pages of the novel found among the papers in the Joyce Collection of the Cornell University Library. These pages fill gaps in the text as edited in 1956 by John J. Slocum and Herbert Cahoon and also extend the narrative. The main text of Stephen Hero is a connected, nearly self-contained passage of 383 manuscript pages which turned up soon after Joyce's death. It was first edited by Theodore Spencer and published by New Directions in 1944. In this edition, introductions by the successive editors discuss the literary and bibliographical aspects of this important early work by one of the great modern masters. [via]More editions of Stephen Hero:
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Steppenwolfby Hermann Hesse, Joseph MileckISBN 0805012478 (0-8050-1247-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Steppenwolf'Book summary:Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meerts a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal Magic Theaterfor mad men only.[via]
Steppenwolf is Hesses best-known and most autobiographical work. With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, it is one of literatures most poetic evocations of the souls journey to liberation. Originally published in English in 1929, the novels wisdom continues to speak to our souls and marks it as a classic of modern literature. 
Stepsby Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0802135269 (0-8021-3526-9)
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Story of an African Farmby Olive SchreinerISBN 0805205470 (0-8052-0547-0)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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Tales of Nevérÿonby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 081956270X (0-8195-6270-X)
Softcover, University of Arizona Press
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The Thief's Journalby Jean Genet, Bernard FrechtmanISBN 0802130143 (0-8021-3014-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thief's Journal'Book summary:The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the man Jean Cocteau dubbed France's "Black Prince of Letters" here reconstructs his early adult years -- time he spent as a petty criminal and vagabond, traveling through Spain and Antwerp, occasionally border hopping across the rest of Europe, always one step ahead of the authorities. "Only a handful of twentieth-century writers, such as Kafka and Proust, have as important, as authoritative, as irrevocable a voice and style." -- Susan Sontag; "One of the strongest and most vital accounts of a life ever set down on paper. . . . Genet has dramatized the story of his own life with a power and vision which take the breath away. The Thief's Journal will undoubtedly establish Genet as one of the most daring literary figures of all time." -- The New York Post[via]More editions of The Thief's Journal:
This Is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics Of Filmby Abigail ChildISBN 0817351604 (0-8173-5160-4)
Softcover, Univ of Alabama Pr
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Three Tragediesby Federico Lorca GarciaISBN 0811200922 (0-8112-0092-2)
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Travestyby John HawkesISBN 0811206408 (0-8112-0640-8)
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Two Novelsby A. Robbe-GrilletISBN 080215106X (0-8021-5106-X)
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Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Actsby Samuel BecketISBN 0802130348 (0-8021-3034-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Acts'Book summary:A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone-or something-named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett's language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existentialism of post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time. [via]
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Wattby Samuel BeckettISBN 080215140X (0-8021-5140-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watt'Book summary:In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. Watt is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is rooted in the powerful and terrifying vision that made Beckett one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.[via]More editions of Watt:
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Weby Yvegeny Zamyatin, Natasha RandallISBN 081297462X (0-8129-7462-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We'Book summary:Translated by Natasha Randall
Foreword by Bruce Sterling
Written in 1921, We is set in the One State, where all live for the collective good and individual freedom does not exist. The novel takes the form of the diary of mathematician D-503, who, to his shock, experiences the most disruptive emotion imaginable: love. At once satirical and soberingand now available in a powerful new translationWe is both a rediscovered classic and a work of tremendous relevance to our own times. [via]More editions of We:
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The Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0808589768 (0-8085-8976-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Warrior'Book summary:The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother's mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upward. The author's America is a landscape of confounding white "ghosts"--the policeman ghost, the social worker ghost--with equally rigid, but very different rules. Like the woman warrior of the title, Kingston carries the crimes against her family carved into her back by her parents in testimony to and defiance of the pain. [via]
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Word Virusby William S. Burroughs, Ira Silverberg, James GrauerholzISBN 080213694X (0-8021-3694-X)
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Writing Through: Translations & Variationsby Jerome RothenbergISBN 0819565881 (0-8195-6588-1)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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