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The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969: Together with Commentaries and an Autobiographical Essayby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0525484442 (0-525-48444-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hardcover, E. P. Dutton - The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969: Together with Commentaries and an Autobiographical Essay: ISBN 0525484442 (0-525-48444-2)
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The Arcades Projectby Walter Benjamin, Kevin McLaughlin, Howard EilandISBN 0674008022 (0-674-00802-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arcades Project'Book summary:You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. It is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades (a cross between covered streets and shopping malls) of the mid-19th century and the flaneur ("the man who walks long and aimlessly through the streets" in an "anamnestic intoxication [that] ... feeds on the sensory data taking shape before his eyes but often possesses itself of abstract knowledge--indeed, of dead facts--as something experienced and lived through"). The Arcades Project is, frankly, so dense a work that one hardly has enough time to glimpse fleetingly at its sections--over 100 pages of notes on Baudelaire alone!--before mentioning it to you, though one certainly looks forward to the opportunity to peruse it at leisure. [via]
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklasby Gertrude SteinISBN 0679600817 (0-679-60081-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003by Dave Eggers, Zadie SmithISBN 0618246967 (0-618-24696-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003'Book summary:This is the second year weve put this book together, and were beginning to have some idea of what were doing. But do we know exactly what this book is? We do not. The original purpose of the collection was to introduce younger readers--high school and college-age people, more or less--to good writing from contemporary writers. But then the book came out and we discovered that the readership was not what wed expected. Sure, there were some high school and college readers, but there were also older readers, and younger readers, and readers from every walk of lifepolice officers, firefighters, animal control experts, air-conditioning repair technicians, and prisoners. It runs the gamut.[via]
Now, your questions answered:
What is the purpose of this book? Dominique, Santa Monica, CA Thank you for your question, Dominique. (Such a lovely name!) The purpose of this book is to collect good work of any kindfiction, humor, essays, comics, journalismin one place, for the English-reading consumer. The other books in the Best American series are limited by their categories, most particularly the popular but constraining Best American Catholic Badger Mystery Writing. This collection is not so limited, which is why, we think, it dominates all similar collections, making them whimper and cower in a way that is shameful.
Why aren't there more pieces about badgers? Reginald, Myrtle Beach, SC We had plans to include at least seven pieces about badgerstheir manufacture, appearance, and carebut were prevented from doing so by Zadie Smith. This was a condition of her inclusion in this volume.
In addition to the pieces included in the collection, and Ms. Smiths introductionor whatever it iswill there be a piece by the editor about a young man with a crush on a sixty-five-year-old woman whose lawn he cuts? Peter and Nam Mee, Washington, DC We might have such a piece. It might be immediately following this sentence.
(From the Foreword by Dave Eggers)
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by an editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field, making the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind.
Dave Eggers, who will be editing The Best American Nonrequired Reading annually, has once again chosen the best and least-expected fiction, nonfiction, satire, investigative reporting, alternative comics, and more from publications large, small, and on-line--The Onion, The New Yorker, Shout, Time, Zoetrope, Tin House, Nerve.com,and McSweeney's, to name just a few. Read on for "Some of the best literature you haven't been reading . . . And it's fantastic. All of it." (St. Petersburg Times).
Lynda Barry Jonathan Safran Foer Lisa Gabriele Andrea Lee J. T. Leroy Nasdijj ZZ Packer David SedarisMore editions of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003:
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006by Dave Eggers, Matt GroeningISBN 0618570519 (0-618-57051-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006'Book summary:From Dave Eggers: For this years edition of The Best American Nonrequired Reading, we wanted to expand the scope of the book to include shorter pieces, and fragments of stories, and transcripts, screenplays, television scripts -- lots of things that we hadnt included before. Our publisher readily agreed, and so youll see that this years edition is far more eclectic in form than previous editions. Along the way to making the book, we also came across a variety of things that didnt fit neatly anywhere, but which we felt should be included, so we conceived the front section, which is a loose Best American roundup of notable words and sentences from 2005. It is, like this book in general, obviously and completely incomplete, but might be interesting nevertheless.[via]More editions of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006:
Between the Actsby Virginia Woolf, Susan Dick, Mary MillarISBN 0631178848 (0-631-17884-8)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Broom of the Systemby David Foster WallaceISBN 0670812307 (0-670-81230-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Broom of the System'Book summary:[via]Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenores great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.
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Caneby Jean ToomerISBN 0679601090 (0-679-60109-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poemsby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0679402608 (0-679-40260-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Civil War Land in Bad Decline : Stories and a Novellaby George SaundersISBN 0679448128 (0-679-44812-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony BurgessISBN 060619472X (0-606-19472-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Codex Seraphinianusby Luigi SerafiniISBN 0517475146 (0-517-47514-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Collected Fictionsby Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew HurleyISBN 0670849707 (0-670-84970-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Fictions'Book summary:Although Jorge Luis Borges published his first book in 1923--doling out his own money for a limited edition of Fervor de Buenos Aires--he remained in Argentinian obscurity for almost three decades. In 1951, however, Ficciones appeared in French, followed soon after by an English translation. This collection, which included the cream of the author's short fictions, made it clear that Borges was a world-class (if highly unclassifiable) artist--a brilliant, lyrical miniaturist, who could pose the great questions of existence on the head of pin. And by 1961, when he shared the French Prix Formentor with Samuel Beckett, he seemed suddenly to tower over a half-dozen literary cultures, the very exemplar of modernism with a human face.
By the time of his death in 1986, Borges had been granted old master status by almost everybody (except, alas, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy). Yet his work remained dispersed among a half-dozen different collections, some of them increasingly hard to find. Andrew Hurley has done readers a great service, then, by collecting all the stories in a single, meticulously translated volume. It's a pleasure to be reminded that Borges's style--poetic, dreamlike, and compounded of innumerable small surprises--was already in place by 1935, when he published A Universal History of Iniquity: "The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it." (Incidentally, the thrifty author later recycled the second of these aphorisms in his classic bit of bookish metaphysics, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Teris.") The glories of his middle period, of course, have hardly aged a day. "The Garden of the Forking Paths" remains the best deconstruction of the detective story ever written, even in the post-Auster era, and "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" puts the so-called death of the author in pointed, hilarious perspective.
But Hurley's omnibus also brings home exactly how consistent Borges remained in his concerns. As late as 1975, in "Avelino Arredondo," he was still asking (and occasionally even answering) the same riddles about time and its human repository, memory: "For the man in prison, or the blind man, time flows downstream as though down a slight decline. As he reached the midpoint of his reclusion, Arredondo more than once achieved that virtually timeless time. In the first patio there was a wellhead, and at the bottom, a cistern where a toad lived; it never occurred to Arredondo that it was the toad's time, bordering on eternity, that he sought." Throughout, Hurley's translation is crisp and assured (although this reader will always have a soft spot for "Funes, the Memorious" rather than "Funes, His Memory.") And thanks to his efforts, Borgesians will find no better--and no more pleasurable--rebuttal of the author's description of himself as "a shy sort of man who could not bring himself to write short stories." --James Marcus [via]
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The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blakeby William BlakeISBN 0520044738 (0-520-04473-8)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Derek Jarman: A Portraitby Roger Wollen, James Cary ParkesISBN 0500017239 (0-500-01723-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Derek Jarman: A Portrait'Book summary:The power of Derek Jarman's visual imagination has touched every one of his projects. In the various roles of painter, stage designer, film-maker and gardener, his intensity forged a compelling view of the world in many different media. However, it was as a painter that he was trained, graduating from the Slade School of Art in the 1960s to almost immediate acclaim, and exhibiting widely both in London and abroad. His career as a film-maker never entirely exposed his importance as an artist. The book studies a selection of Jarman's work in a variety of visual media. The text explores the interconnecting aspects of Jarman's oeuvre, including the relationshp between the painting and the films, the stage designs, the late paintings and the garden - revealing common themes, ideas and influences to provide insight into Jarman's creative mind. [via]
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Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 0679600493 (0-679-60049-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce's life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from "stories of my childhood" through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland. [via]
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Einstein's Dreamsby Alan LightmanISBN 0679416463 (0-679-41646-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dreamby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0586081321 (0-586-08132-1)
Hardcover, Paladin
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories, Tie-In Editionby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0679602984 (0-679-60298-4)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories, Tie-In Edition'Book summary:Dr. Thompson made the list of inspirational scribes when I polled in a recent writing workshop, and why not? Back in a spiffy Modern Library edition, replete with additional essays, I find in this iconographic work that HST both invoked--and provoked--an era that was not so much the '60s proper, but rather the mean, shadow-filled death of that time, which is still playing out. Thank God Thompson was there to explode the myth of "objective" journalism and help pave the way for the pens and voices that followed. [via]
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Flight from Neveryonby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0553248561 (0-553-24856-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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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:
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Ghostwrittenby David MitchellISBN 0679463046 (0-679-46304-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghostwritten'Book summary:"What is real and what is not?" David Mitchell's Ghostwritten: A Novel in Nine Parts plays with precisely this question throughout its elaborately compartmentalized narrative. (That there are 10 chapters in this 9-part invention is just one more aspect of the author's mysterious schema.) With its multitude of voices and globe-girdling locations--Tokyo, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Petersburg, London--this first novel offers readers a vertiginous, sometimes seductive, display of persona and place.
At the heart of Mitchell's book is the global extension of the postmodern city, and the networks (cultural, technological, phantasmagoric) to which it gives rise. A metropolis like Tokyo is quite literally beyond our comprehension:
Twenty million people live and work in Tokyo. It's so big that nobody really knows where it stops. It's long since filled up the plain, and now it's creeping up the mountains to the west and reclaiming land from the bay in the east. The city never stops rewriting itself. In the time one street guide is produced, it's already become out of date. It's a tall city, and a deep one, as well as a spread-out one.
At this level, urban sprawl becomes an epistemological condition. On one hand it leads to a Japanese death cult, purging the "unclean" from the city's subway with nerve gas. And on the other, it produces a certain splintering of the human personality. "I'm this person, I'm this person, I'm that person, I'm that person too," chants Neal, the narrator of the book's second part. "No wonder it's all such a ... mess." He's talking about his life as a Hong Kong trader, a "man of departments, compartments, apartments." But he might also be describing the experience of reading Ghostwritten. At once loquacious and knowing, leisurely and frantic, Mitchell offers a huge, but fragmentary, portmanteau. And while he's labored diligently to solder together the many parts--the aching bodies, the reality police, the impossibly complex machinery of contemporary life--his novel, too, may suffer from an excess of split personality. --Vicky Lebeau [via]More editions of Ghostwritten:
Gone: Poemsby Fanny HoweISBN 0520238109 (0-520-23810-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chaptersby Julian Barnes, Ron MiddletonISBN 0521484782 (0-521-48478-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chapters'Book summary:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English from various genres and differing times. A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes is edited by Ron Middleton of the University of Reading. [via]
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I Love Artists: New And Selected Poemsby Mei-Mei BerssenbruggeISBN 0520246020 (0-520-24602-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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I-VIby John CageISBN 0674440072 (0-674-44007-2)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Ice-Shirtby William T. VollmanISBN 0670832391 (0-670-83239-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ice-Shirt'Book summary:The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland ?and from there to the place they call ?Vinland the Good.? The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.[via]As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples?and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise?he creates a tour-de-force of ?speculative history,? a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.
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If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Thingsby Jon McGregorISBN 0618344586 (0-618-34458-6)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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The Island of Dr. Death and Other Storiesby Gene WolfeISBN 067149516X (0-671-49516-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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James Joyce : Dubliners, a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Chamber Musicby James JoyceISBN 051708239X (0-517-08239-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Joyce : Dubliners, a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Chamber Music'Book summary:An eclectic volume of works by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century includes a short story collection, his most famous novel, and an early sequence of poems. [via]
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Familiesby Walker Evans, James AgeeISBN 0618127496 (0-618-12749-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families'Book summary:Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to a survey from the Partisan Review; exhaustive catalogs of furniture, clothing, objects, and smells. And then there are Walker Evans's famously stark portraits of depression-era sharecroppers--photographs that both stand apart from and reinforce James Agee's words.
Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.
Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park [via]
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Man Ray: Photographsby Jean-Hubert Martin, Man RayISBN 0500274738 (0-500-27473-8)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man Ray: Photographs'Book summary:This text explores the photographic career of Man Ray whose fertile artistic impulse has made him equally celebrated as a painter, sculptor, writer and film-maker. Taking up photography in 1915 for the purpose of reproducing his paintings, he earned money doing the same for others when he went to live and work in Paris in 1921. This led to a career in photography ranging from portraits of celebrated artists, musicians and writers such as Andre breton, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie, Arnold Schoenberg, T.S. Elliot and Gertrude Stein, to the pictures using light effects outside the camera for which he is famous: cliche-verres, rayographs and solarizations. Alongside many of Man-Ray's classic images, this collection presents a huge number of less familiar photographs, including portraits of Virginia Woolf and of Antonin Artaud and a large selection of erotic pictures. Most of these are from the collection of Lucien Treillard, a personal friend who worked with the artist over many years cataloguing and archiving his photographs. [via]
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Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Steinby Gertrude Stein, Jennifer AshtonISBN 048641406X (0-486-41406-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Minerals: Their Constitution and Originby Hans-Rudolf Wenk, Andrei G. BulakhISBN 0521822386 (0-521-82238-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Minerals: Their Constitution and Origin'Book summary:This introduction to mineralogy for undergraduate and graduate students in geology and materials science has been designed for a semester course. Covering all aspects of mineralogy in an integrated way, it links mineral properties with broader geological processes, and conveys their economic importance throughout the text. Handy reference tables and a glossary of terms make this study an indispensable guide for the next generation of mineralogy students. [via]
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0486432157 (0-486-43215-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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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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- Moby Dick: ISBN 0553213113 (0-553-21311-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Moby Dick: ISBN 0618265724 (0-618-26572-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Moby Dick: ISBN 0671028359 (0-671-02835-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics - Moby Dick: ISBN 0618265716 (0-618-26571-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Moby-Dick: ISBN 0679405593 (0-679-40559-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Moby Dick: ISBN 0671836706 (0-671-83670-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books - Moby Dick/Moby Dick: ISBN 0606160175 (0-606-16017-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Moby-Dick: ISBN 0679602909 (0-679-60290-9)
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Moby Dick Or, the Whaleby Herman MelvilleISBN 0520045483 (0-520-04548-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick Or, the Whale'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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Hardcover, Random House Inc - Moby Dick Or, the Whale: ISBN 0517606143 (0-517-60614-3)
Hardcover, Avenel Books - Moby Dick Or, the Whale: ISBN 0520045491 (0-520-04549-1)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr - Moby Dick Or, the Whale: ISBN 0520045483 (0-520-04548-3)
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Mrs Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 0613706226 (0-613-70622-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs Dalloway'Book summary:As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.
As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.
Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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Narcissus and Goldmundby Hermann HesseISBN 0553275860 (0-553-27586-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Neveryonaby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 055324177X (0-553-24177-X)
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Neveryona, orby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 055301434X (0-553-01434-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neveryona, or'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 Neveryona, or:
New Musical Resourcesby David Nicholls, Henry CowellISBN 0521499747 (0-521-49974-7)
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Perks of Being a Wallflowerby Stephen ChboskyISBN 0671027344 (0-671-02734-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perks of Being a Wallflower'Book summary:What is most notable about this funny, touching, memorable first novel from Stephen Chbosky is the resounding accuracy with which the author captures the voice of a boy teetering on the brink of adulthood. Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years, if not very savvy in the social arts. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes to someone of undisclosed name, age, and gender, a stylistic technique that adds to the heart-wrenching earnestness saturating this teen's story. Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids face in high school--how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality, experimenting with drugs--but he must also deal with his best friend's recent suicide. Charlie's letters take on the intimate feel of a journal as he shares his day-to-day thoughts and feelings:
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.
With the help of a teacher who recognizes his wisdom and intuition, and his two friends, seniors Samantha and Patrick, Charlie mostly manages to avoid the depression he feels creeping up like kudzu. When it all becomes too much, after a shocking realization about his beloved late Aunt Helen, Charlie retreats from reality for awhile. But he makes it back in due time, ready to face his sophomore year and all that it may bring. Charlie, sincerely searching for that feeling of "being infinite," is a kindred spirit to the generation that's been slapped with the label X. --Brangien Davis [via]More editions of Perks of Being a Wallflower:
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Picassoby Gertrude SteinISBN 0486247155 (0-486-24715-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry From Fin-De-Siecle to Negritudeby University of California (System), University of California Press, Jerome Rothenberg, Pierre JorisISBN 0520072278 (0-520-07227-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry From Fin-De-Siecle to Negritude'Book summary:As we come to the beginning of a new century, we find that the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Poems for the Millennium captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of contemporary poetry. International in its coverage, these volumes bring together the poets and poetry movements that radically altered the ways that art and language express the human condition. Volume 2 offers a dazzling chronicle of the second "great awakening" of experimental poetry in the twentieth century. Ranging from the period of World War II through the cold war to the onset of the twenty-first century, this volume presents two "galleries" of individual poets such as Holan, Olson, Rukeyser, Jabès, Celan, Mac Low, Pasolini, Bachmann, Finlay, Ginsberg, Adonis, Rich, U Tam'si, Baraka, Takahashi, Waldman, and Bei Dao. There are also samplings of local and international movements: the Beats, the Vienna Group, the Cobra poets and artists, the Arabic-language Tammuzi poets, the creators of a new "Concrete Poetry," the "postwar poets" of Japan, the Italian Novissimi and Avan-Guardia, the Chinese Misty Poets, and the North American Language Poets. In addition, an extended section is devoted to examples of the "art of the manifesto" and two smaller groupings of traditional "oral poets" and of experimenters with machine art and cyberpoetics. Poet-editors Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris provide informative and irreverent commentaries throughout. They challenge old truths and propose alternative directions, in the tradition of the manifestos that have marked the art and poetry of the twentieth century. The result is both an essential resource for experiencing the full range of contemporary poetic possibilities and an arresting statement on the future of poetry in the millennium ahead.[via]More editions of Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry From Fin-De-Siecle to Negritude:
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Softcover, Univ of California Pr - Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry From Fin-De-Siecle to Negritude: ISBN 0520072251 (0-520-07225-1)
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Sadnessby Donald BarthelmeISBN 0671832042 (0-671-83204-2)
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See the Old Lady Decentlyby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0670631736 (0-670-63173-6)
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Selected Poemsby Fanny HoweISBN 0520222636 (0-520-22263-6)
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Selected Non-Fictionsby Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger, Esther Allen, Suzane Jill Levine, Andrew HurleyISBN 0670849472 (0-670-84947-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Non-Fictions'Book summary:Jorge Luis Borges was our century's greatest miniaturist, perpetually cramming entire universes onto the head of a pin. Yet his splendid economy, along the wafer-thin proportions of such classic volumes as Ficciones and Labyrinths, has given readers the impression that Borges was miserly with his prose. In fact, he was something of a verbal spendthrift. His collected stories alone run to nearly 1,000 pages. And his nonfiction output was even more staggering: the young Borges cranked out hundreds of essays, book notes, cultural polemics, and movie reviews, and even after he lost his sight in 1955, he continued to dictate short pieces by the dozens. Eliot Weinberger has assembled just a fraction of this outpouring in Selected Non-Fictions, and the result is a 559-page Borgesian blowout, in which the Argentinean fabulist takes on being and nothingness, James Joyce and Lana Turner, and (surprisingly) racial hatred and the rise of Nazism. So much for our image of the mandarin bookworm! The very engagé author of this book seems more like a subequatorial Camus, with a dash of Siskel and Ebert on the side.
Selected Non-Fictions demonstrates just how quickly Borges began wrestling with such brainteasers as identity, time, and infinity. Indeed, the very first piece in the collection, "The Nothingness of Personality" (1922), already finds him fiddling with the self: "I, as I write this, am only a certainty that seeks out the words that are most apt to compel your attention. That proposition and a few muscular sensations, and the sight of the limpid branches that the trees place outside my window, constitute my current I." There are many such meditations here, including "A History of Eternity" (in which Borges maps out his own, disarmingly empty version of the eternal, "without a God or even a co-proprietor, and entirely devoid of archetypes"). But it's more fun--and more revelatory--to see the author venturing beyond his metaphysical stomping grounds. Borges on King Kong is a hoot, and a cornball masterpiece such as The Petrified Forest elicits this terrific nugget: "Death works in this film like hypnosis or alcohol: it brings the recesses of the soul into the light of day." His capsule biographies are a delight, his critiques of Nazi propaganda are memorably stringent, and nobody should miss him on the tango. True, the sheer variety and mind-boggling erudition of Selected Non-Fictions can be a little forbidding. But, taken as a whole, the collection surely meets the specifications that Borges laid out in a 1927 essay on literary pleasure: "If only some eternal book existed, primed for our enjoyment and whims, no less inventive in the populous morning as in the secluded night, oriented toward all hours of the world." Oh, but it does. --James Marcus [via]
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Steppenwolfby Hermann HesseISBN 0553279904 (0-553-27990-4)
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The Story of an African Farmby Olive SchreinerISBN 0486401650 (0-486-40165-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Story of an African Farm'Book summary:A searing indictment of the rigid Boer social conventions of the 19th century, the first great South African novel chronicles the adventures of 3 childhood friends who defy societal repression. The novel's unorthodox views on religion and marriage aroused widespread controversy upon its 1883 publication.[via]More editions of The Story of an African Farm:
Tales of Neveryonby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0553228420 (0-553-22842-0)
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Tender Buttonsby Gertrude SteinISBN 0486298973 (0-486-29897-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tender Buttons'Book summary:Before becoming the patron of Lost Generation artists, Gertrude Stein established her reputation as an innovative author whose style was closer to painting than literature. Stein's strong influence on 20th-century literature is evident in this 1915 work of highly original prose rendered in thought-provoking experimental techniques.[via]More editions of Tender Buttons:
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The Thief's Journalby Jean GenetISBN 0571103804 (0-571-10380-4)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thief's Journal'Book summary:Genet's fictionalized and distant account of his rambles through France, Czechoslavakia, Germany and elsewhere in the '30s and '40s, covering his time in prison, his relationships with men such as the one-armed Stilitano, along with erotic accounts of his lovers during the period, and interspersed with meditation and daydreams. [via]
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The Third Mindby Brion Gysin, Burroughs, William & Gysin, BrionISBN 0670700991 (0-670-70099-1)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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This Connection Of Everyone With Lungs: Poemsby Juliana SpahrISBN 0520242955 (0-520-24295-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0486280594 (0-486-28059-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'Book summary:The first of Gertrude Stein's publications, this accessible 1909 volume was an experiemntal work for its time and established the author's reputation as a master of language and a voice for women. In three separate tales, Stein invests the lives of three working class women with extraordinary insights into race, sex, gender, and other feminist issues. [via]
Time's Arrowby Martin AmisISBN 0517112698 (0-517-11269-8)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub
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Time's Arrow : Or the Nature of the Offenseby Martin AmisISBN 0517585154 (0-517-58515-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time's Arrow : Or the Nature of the Offense'Book summary:Amis attempts here to write a path into and through the inverted morality of the Nazis: how can a writer tell about something that's fundamentally unspeakable? Amis' solution is a deft literary conceit of narrative inversion. He puts two separate consciousnesses into the person of one man, ex-Nazi doctor Tod T. Friendly. One identity wakes at the moment of Friendly's death and runs backwards in time, like a movie played in reverse, (e.g., factory smokestacks scrub the air clean,) unaware of the terrible past he approaches. The "normal" consciousness runs in time's regular direction, fleeing his ignominious history. [via]
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Tropical Night Fallingby Manuel Puig, Suzanne Jill LevineISBN 0671679961 (0-671-67996-1)
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The Tunnelby William H. GassISBN 0679437673 (0-679-43767-3)
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The Unconsoledby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0679404252 (0-679-40425-2)
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Unfortunatesby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0586026789 (0-586-02678-9)
Hardcover, Panther in association with Secker & Warburg
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A Universal History of Infamyby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0525226702 (0-525-22670-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Use of Weaponsby Iain M. BanksISBN 0553292242 (0-553-29224-2)
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Vby Thomas PynchonISBN 0553246860 (0-553-24686-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'V'Book summary:Having just been released from the Navy, Benny Profane is content to lead a slothful existence with his friends, where the only real ambition is to perfect the art of "schlemihlhood," or being a dupe, and where "responsibility" is a dirty word. Among his pals--called the Whole Sick Crew--is Slab, an artist who can't seem to paint anything other than cheese danishes. But Profane's life changes dramatically when he befriends Stencil, an active ambitious young man with an intriguing mission--to find out the identity of a woman named V., who knew Stencil's father during the war, but who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. [via]
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Voice of the Fireby Alan MooreISBN 0575400552 (0-575-40055-2)
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The Waste Landby T. S. EliotISBN 0571096352 (0-571-09635-2)
Hardcover, (3 Queen Sq., WC1N 3AU), Faber and Faber Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land'Book summary:Each facsimile page of the original manuscript is accompanied here by a typeset transcript on the facing page. This book shows how the original, which was much longer than the first published version, was edited through handwritten notes by Ezra Pound, by Eliots first wife, and by Eliot himself. Edited and with an Introduction by Valerie Eliot; Preface by Ezra Pound.[via]More editions of The Waste Land:
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The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poemsby T. S. EliotISBN 0486400611 (0-486-40061-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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Weby Yvegeny Zamyatin, Mirra GinsburgISBN 0613178750 (0-613-17875-0)
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Weby Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin, Gregory ZiboorgISBN 0525470395 (0-525-47039-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We'Book summary:First published in the West in 1924, We is an adventurous story of the future nameless "numbers," the two-tenths of the world's population that survived the Great Two Hundred Years War. Their food is derived from petroleum, and they believe that their totally restricted existence under the watchful eye of the Benefactor is the ideal. They do not mourn the passing of the creative human spirit; indeed, they are hardly aware it ever existed. More than half a century later, We remains a strange and telling tragicomedy of love and death. The author, an acknowledged satirist in his own right, set the stage for Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984.
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Wilsonby David MametISBN 0571201873 (0-571-20187-3)
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicleby Haruki Murakami, Jay RubinISBN 0679446699 (0-679-44669-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'Book summary:Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician.
Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami's earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century.
If it were possible to isolate one theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight. --Simon Leake [via]
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Writings of John Lennon: In His Own Write and a Spaniard in the Worksby John LennonISBN 0671432575 (0-671-43257-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Written on the Bodyby Jeanette WintersonISBN 067942007X (0-679-42007-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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