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Blindnessby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 0156007754 (0-15-600775-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blindness'Book summary:In an unnamed city in an unnamed country, a man sitting in his car waiting for a traffic light to change is suddenly struck blind. But instead of being plunged into darkness, this man sees everything white, as if he "were caught in a mist or had fallen into a milky sea." A Good Samaritan offers to drive him home (and later steals his car); his wife takes him by taxi to a nearby eye clinic where they are ushered past other patients into the doctor's office. Within a day the man's wife, the taxi driver, the doctor and his patients, and the car thief have all succumbed to blindness. As the epidemic spreads, the government panics and begins quarantining victims in an abandoned mental asylum--guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot anyone who tries to escape. So begins Portuguese author José Saramago's gripping story of humanity under siege, written with a dearth of paragraphs, limited punctuation, and embedded dialogue minus either quotation marks or attribution. At first this may seem challenging, but the style actually contributes to the narrative's building tension, and to the reader's involvement.
In this community of blind people there is still one set of functioning eyes: the doctor's wife has affected blindness in order to accompany her husband to the asylum. As the number of victims grows and the asylum becomes overcrowded, systems begin to break down: toilets back up, food deliveries become sporadic; there is no medical treatment for the sick and no proper way to bury the dead. Inevitably, social conventions begin to crumble as well, with one group of blind inmates taking control of the dwindling food supply and using it to exploit the others. Through it all, the doctor's wife does her best to protect her little band of blind charges, eventually leading them out of the hospital and back into the horribly changed landscape of the city.
Blindness is in many ways a horrific novel, detailing as it does the total breakdown in society that follows upon this most unnatural disaster. Saramago takes his characters to the very edge of humanity and then pushes them over the precipice. His people learn to live in inexpressible filth, they commit acts of both unspeakable violence and amazing generosity that would have been unimaginable to them before the tragedy. The very structure of society itself alters to suit the circumstances as once-civilized, urban dwellers become ragged nomads traveling by touch from building to building in search of food. The devil is in the details, and Saramago has imagined for us in all its devastation a hell where those who went blind in the streets can never find their homes again, where people are reduced to eating chickens raw and packs of dogs roam the excrement-covered sidewalks scavenging from corpses.
And yet in the midst of all this horror Saramago has written passages of unsurpassed beauty. Upon being told she is beautiful by three of her charges, women who have never seen her, "the doctor's wife is reduced to tears because of a personal pronoun, an adverb, a verb, an adjective, mere grammatical categories, mere labels, just like the two women, the others, indefinite pronouns, they too are crying, they embrace the woman of the whole sentence, three graces beneath the falling rain." In this one woman Saramago has created an enduring, fully developed character who serves both as the eyes and ears of the reader and as the conscience of the race. And in Blindness he has written a profound, ultimately transcendent meditation on what it means to be human. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Boots and the Seven Leaguersby Jane YolenISBN 0152025634 (0-15-202563-4)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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Breakfast of Championsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224008889 (0-224-00888-9)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast of Champions'Book summary:"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, David WrightISBN 019283360X (0-19-283360-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:They set off on an April morning with the rain dripping from the branches. Priests, nuns, tradesmen, men from the city--all pilgrims on the road to Canterbury. To pass the long journey they told each other stories of magic and trickery, of animals with blazing eyes, of people with pants on fire, of love and death and the devil. Geraldine McCaughrean retells The Canterbury Tales for children in a lively and humorous style that captures the original flair of Chaucer himself. She introduces us to the characters who told these tales: the shy, battle-hardened Knight, the Summoner whose breath smells of onions, the Widow of Bath who likes a happy ending. The stories and characters are brought to life by the brush of Victor Ambrus, with pictures of wild chases, exciting battles, and the English countryside. [via]
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The Canterbury Talesby Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 019278109X (0-19-278109-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Canterbury Tales'Book summary:Interest age: 9+ [via]
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The Centaur in the Gardenby Ilan Stavans, Margaret A. Neves, Moacyr ScliarISBN 0299187845 (0-299-18784-5)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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The Children of Menby P. D. JamesISBN 0307275434 (0-307-27543-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children of Men'Book summary:Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race. [via]
Chymical Weddingby Lindsay ClarkeISBN 0224025376 (0-224-02537-6)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Companions on the Road and The Winter Playersby Tanith LeeISBN 0312153120 (0-312-15312-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar Wilde, Ian Small, Russell Jackson, Bobby FongISBN 0198119607 (0-19-811960-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:This volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. It provides texts of Wilde's one-hundred and nineteen poems and poems in prose, including twenty-one never published in his lifetime, together with the publishing history of each poem, and a detailed commentary on allusions and echoes, imagery, and points of biographical interest. [via]
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The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, The 1890 and 1891 Textsby Oscar Wilde, Ian Small, Russell Jackson, Joseph BristowISBN 0198187726 (0-19-818772-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Darkness, 1by Tanith LeeISBN 031213956X (0-312-13956-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernityby Patrick CurryISBN 0312176716 (0-312-17671-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity'Book summary:Although highly popular "The Lord of the Rings" has also been widely labelled as reactionary and escapist by hostile critics. This text shows just how mistaken they are. He reveals Tolkien's profound and subtle advocacy of community, ecology and spiritual values against the destructive forces of runaway modernity. Tolkien's remedy, and the project implicit in his literary mythology, is a re-enchantment of the world. In helping us to realize that living nature, including humanity, is sacred, his writings draw on ancient magical mythology, but at the same time resonate closely with the ideas of contemprary radical ecology. Quoting extensively from Tolkien's works, the author argues that Tolkien addresses hard global realities and widely justified fears. [via]
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Difficult Lovesby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156260557 (0-15-626055-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Difficult Loves'Book summary:Tales of love and loneliness in which the author blends reality and illusion. The quirkiness and grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work,...and a certain lovable nuttiness make this collection well worth reading (Margaret Atwood). Translated by William Weaver, Peggy Wright, and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Difficult Loves:
Edenby Stanislaw Lem, Marc E. HeineISBN 0156278065 (0-15-627806-5)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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Edmund Spenser, the Faerie Queeneby Edmund SpenserISBN 0300027060 (0-300-02706-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edmund Spenser, the Faerie Queene'Book summary:This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was Spenser's finest achievement: the first epic poem in modern English, "The Faerie Queene" combines dramatic narratives of chivalrous adventure with exquisite and picturesque episodes of pageantry. [via]
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Faustby Martin Greenberg, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0300056567 (0-300-05656-7)
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The author of the present version, then, has no knowledge that a rendering of this wonderful poem into the exact and ever-changing metre of the original has, until now, been so much as attempted. To name only one defect, the very best versions which he has seen neglect to follow the exquisite artist in the evidently planned and orderly intermixing of male and female rhymes, i.e. rhymes which fall on the last syllable and those which fall on the last but one. Now, every careful student of the versification of Faust must feel and see that Goethe did not intersperse the one kind of rhyme with the other, at random, as those translators do; who, also, give the female rhyme (on which the vivacity of dialogue and description often so much depends,) in so small a proportion.
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Faust Part 1by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David LukeISBN 0192835955 (0-19-283595-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust Part 1'Book summary:This new translation, in rhymed verse, of goethe's faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of european literature--preserves the essence of goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest "equivalent" rendering of the german ever achieved [via]
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Faust, Part Twoby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David LukeISBN 0192826166 (0-19-282616-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust, Part Two'Book summary:This is a new translation of Faust, Part Two by David Luke, whose translation of Faust, Part I was the winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here, Luke expertly imitates the varied verse-forms of the original, and provides a highly readable and actable translation which includes an introduction, full notes, and an index of classical mythology. [via]
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The Fires of Lan-Kernby Peter TremayneISBN 0312292090 (0-312-29209-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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First Men in the Moonby H. G. Wells, David LakeISBN 0192828282 (0-19-282828-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Four Granniesby Diana Wynne Jones, Thelma LambertISBN 0241104459 (0-241-10445-9)
Hardcover, H. Hamilton
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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Meby Roald Dahl, Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress), Quentin BlakeISBN 0224029991 (0-224-02999-1)
Hardcover, Cape
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Goethe's Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0195004108 (0-19-500410-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goethe's Faust'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... the proper company for his Cadaverousness. In a letter of 1780, Goethe playfully applies the name £rad)e to his friend Merck, who was also a gaunt man. 5671. iBJnrlcrlol', 'wooden cross'; in sarcastic allusion to the Lean Person's appearance. 5678. bctUCflt, 'excitedly'; adv. with entfctltett. 5681. llmfrfjiipytc = befcfjupte, 'scaly.' 5685-6. J)o6cn... fycrnitiictraticn. The dragons (without hands, hence the marvel) take the box, with Mephistopheles sitting on it, out of the chariot and bring it to (heron) where Faust is standing. 5691. ft!) fief lit, 'motley.' 56g6. jur GtnfomfeU. Cf. the words of the Poet in the Prelude, 11. 59 ff. 5706. ticrrnftjcu. Poetry is self-revelation, i.e., self-betrayal. Cf. the lines in the West-Ostlicher Divan, IX, 19: ®rft ficfi im fflefjetmnifs toteflcn, £mn ter)I(mtetn friif) unb fpatl SUcfjter ift umfonft Berf(6wieflen, Sidjten fel&ft ift fdjott Serratfj. 5712. (loltmcnt SBlitte; figurative for the red-golden liquid which rises in the pots and threatens to dissolve the jewels. 5717. ftJimeljen fid), 'are melting,' i.e.,' are on the point of melting,'--whence the need of seizing them quickly. 5718. ©emiinte SRoHcn, 'minted rolls,' i.e., coins. 5719. $u!aten... gepragt = OotbftiidCe tote getorfigte £ufatcn, 'pieces like genuine ducats.' But Schroer says tote geprtigt = hrie lieu ge« torogt. 573-©olb unb 2Bertfy; i.e., roerthtjolle? (roirfltd)e«) ©olb. 5735-6. The meaning is: What 's the use of truth for such as you, ever the ready victims of stupid illusion?--9ln alien 3tyfeltt patfctl, 'to lay hold of by every tag,' i.e., to lay hold of with all one's might. 5753-Oil' UltS all', 'all together,' 'every one of us.' Cf. Sltt OTe in 1. 8483+. 5761-2. Plutus as magician draws an... [via]
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A Harp of Fishbones and Other Storiesby Joan AikenISBN 0224006665 (0-224-00666-5)
Hardcover, Cape
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Helga's Dowry: A Troll Love Storyby Tomie de PaolaISBN 0156400103 (0-15-640010-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books
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Here There Be Unicornsby Jane Yolen, David WilgusISBN 0152099026 (0-15-209902-6)
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A History Makerby Alasdair GrayISBN 0156003627 (0-15-600362-7)
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The Illustrated Story of Oby Doris Kloster, Pauline Reage, Jean-Jacques PauvertISBN 0312266057 (0-312-26605-7)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Story of O'Book summary:"...I was convinced that Story of O was going to revolutionize the book trade, that I would sell hundreds of thousands of copies across the world, and that moral attitudes would change overnight. The audacity of this novel seemed to me to be liberating rather than provocative. I perceived the promise of a new freedom. And I expected to cause a shock."--Jean-Jacques Pauvert, from the Introduction[via]
When Story of O was first published in 1954 in Paris by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, it narrowly escaped censorship by the Department of the Interior and eventually became the most widely translated French novel in the world.
It describes in cool, elegant language the experiences of a young woman as she willingly enters a dark maze of perverse sexual practices within a clandestine amoral society. Revelling in pure fantasy, its theme is total submission through love to excesses of sadism and masochism, and the bond of "ownership."
Now Doris Kloster, a photographer specializing in issues of women's sexuality and power, has realized a long-standing dream. She has created a photographic representation of one of the most famous and controversial erotic novels ever published.
The result is another sensation. The Illustrated Story of O presents over 50 superb images which mirror perfectly the intense eroticism of the novel. Shooting entirely in Paris and its environs, Doris Kloster has succeeded in matching characters, locations, costumes and props to the original descriptions. And each magnificent color photograph is accompanied by a short extract from the novel. In addition, there is a Preface from Doris Kloster herself and an Introduction from Jean-Jacques Pauvert, the original publisher of the novel.
The Illustrated Story of O presents a rich visual feast that will delight fans of Doris Kloster's work, and appeal strongly to connoisseurs of the darker excesses of sexuality. It is destined to become a classic collector's edition.More editions of The Illustrated Story of O:
The Keeper of the Isis Lightby Monica HughesISBN 024110405X (0-241-10405-X)
Hardcover, H. Hamish
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The Lady of Shalottby Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Charles KeepingISBN 0192760572 (0-19-276057-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Lady of Shalottby Charles Keeping, Alfred Tennyson TennysonISBN 0192722115 (0-19-272211-5)
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The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Storiesby Joan Aiken, Margaret WaltyISBN 0224022970 (0-224-02297-0)
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Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Marinerby Daniel DefoeISBN 0192815555 (0-19-281555-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York. Mariner'Book summary:Son of a middle-class Englishman, Robinson Crusoe takes to the sea to find adventure. And find it he does when on one of his voyages he is shipwrecked on a deserted South American island for thirty-five years. After scavenging his broken ship for useful items, he had only his skills and ingenuity to keep him alive as there was to be no one else on the island for the next twenty-four years. In the middle of that twenty-fourth year he rescued a native about to be eaten by cannibals who were using his island for a place of feasting. Crusoe named this man Friday, after the day of his rescue. Friday became his faithful servant and friend, even returning with him to England after their deliverance by an English ship. Listeners will enjoy Crusoe's determination for survival against all odds and admire the spirituality that gave him the strength to survive. A hero through the ages, he richly deserves the admiration that has endured over three centuries. [via]
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Making of the Representative for Planet 8by Doris May LessingISBN 0224020080 (0-224-02008-0)
Hardcover, Cape
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Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the Cityby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156572044 (0-15-657204-4)
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The Monster's Ring: A Magic Shop Bookby Bruce Coville, Katherine CovilleISBN 0152046186 (0-15-204618-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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The Monsters of Morley Manor: Library Editionby Bruce CovilleISBN 0152047050 (0-15-204705-0)
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Narrative Poemsby C. S. LewisISBN 0156027984 (0-15-602798-4)
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucketby Edgar Allan Poe, J. Gerald KennedyISBN 0192828444 (0-19-282844-4)
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, J. Gerald KennedyISBN 0192837710 (0-19-283771-0)
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Nebula Awardsby Robert SilverbergISBN 0156013355 (0-15-601335-5)
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News from Nowhere or an Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romanceby William Morris, David LeopoldISBN 0192801775 (0-19-280177-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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One Day Closer to Deathby Bradley DentonISBN 0312181507 (0-312-18150-7)
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The Oxford Book of Gothic Talesby Chris BaldickISBN 0192862197 (0-19-286219-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales'Book summary:Brimming with tales of terror, suspense, and the uncanny, with dark castles and even gloomier monasteries, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales offers the first such collection devoted to this spine-tingling genre. Though Gothic fiction has generally been identified with Walpole's"Castle of Otranto" and the works of Ann Radcliffe, these thirty-seven selections compiled by Chris Baldick provide a unique look at the genre's development into its present-day forms. We see standard gothic elements of incest, murder, and greed in "The Poisoner of Montremos," a late eighteenth-century story by Richard Cumberland. We find in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" the tale that set a new standard of decadence for Gothic stories. In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," a woman's death satisfies a neighborhood's curiosity with a bizarre discovery. All the stories contain the common elements of the gothic tale: a warped sense of time, a claustrophobic setting, a link to archaic modes of thought, dynastic corruption, and the impression of a descent into disintegration. Yet they also reveal the progression of the genre from stories of feudal villains amid crumbling ruins to a greater level of sophistication in which writers brought the gothic tale out of its medieval setting, and placed it in the contemporary world.
Bringing together the work of such writers as Robert Louis Stevenson, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, Jorge Luis Borges, Eudora Welty, Patrick McGrath, and Isabel Allende, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents a wide array of the sinister and unsettling for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror. [via]More editions of The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales:
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Oxford Worlds Classics Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0192100335 (0-19-210033-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Paradise Lostby John Milton, Stephen Orgel, Jonathan GoldbergISBN 0192833197 (0-19-283319-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost'Book summary:Paradise Lost is the great epic poem of the English language, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle ranges across heaven, hell, and earth, as Satan and his band of rebel angels conspire against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.
This marvelous edition boasts an introduction by one of Milton's most famous modern admirers, the best-selling novelist Philip Pullman. Indeed, Pullman not only provides a general introduction, but also introduces each of the twelve books of the poem. In these commentaries, Pullman illuminates the power of the poem and its achievement as a story, suggests how we should read it today, and describes its influence on him and his acclaimed trilogy His Dark Materials, which takes its title from a line in the poem. His observations offer a tribute that is both personal and insightful, and his enthusiasm for Milton's language, skill, and supreme gifts as a storyteller is infectious. He encourages readers above all to experience the poem for themselves, and surrender to its enchantment.
Pullman's tremendous admiration and passion for Paradise Lost will attract a whole new generation of readers to this classic of English literature. An ideal gift, the book is beautifully produced, printed in two colors throughout, illustrated with the twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition published in 1688, with ribbon marker. [via] 
The People Of Paperby Salvador PlascenciaISBN 0156032112 (0-15-603211-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Philosopher's Stoneby Colin WilsonISBN 0213177900 (0-213-17790-0)
Hardcover, Barker
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Pilgermannby Russell HobanISBN 0224020722 (0-224-02072-2)
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Plainsongby Deborah GrabienISBN 0312044038 (0-312-04403-8)
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The Poetic Eddaby Lee Milton Hollander, Lee M. HollanderISBN 0292764995 (0-292-76499-5)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poetic Edda'Book summary:The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the North during the late heathen and early Christian times.
Collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, The Poetic Edda was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars. Even then its value as poetry, as a source of historical information, and as a collection of entertaining stories was recognized. This meticulous translation succeeds in reproducing the verse patterns, the rhythm, the mood, and the dignity of the original in a revision that Scandinavian Studies says "may well grace anyone's bookshelf."
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The Princess and the Goblin/the Princess and Curdieby George MacDonaldISBN 0192825798 (0-19-282579-8)
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River Godby Wilbur SmithISBN 0312287550 (0-312-28755-0)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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River Ratsby Caroline StevermerISBN 0152055541 (0-15-205554-1)
Softcover, Magic Carpet Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River Rats'Book summary:A paddle wheeler cruises up the Mississippi, delivering mail and hosting an occasional concert. A scene straight out of the nineteenth century? Not quite. This Mississippi is a toxic brown river. And the paddle wheeler is run by the River Rats, a troop of orphans who survived the Flash, a nuclear holocaust. What were once huge cities are now plague-ridden ruins haunted by gangs of savage children. And the concerts the Rats play are post-apocalyptic rock and roll--a music as rough and ragged as the musicians who perform it.[via]
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, Thomas Keymer, James KellyISBN 0192833421 (0-19-283342-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Satyriconby Petronius, P.G. WalshISBN 0192839527 (0-19-283952-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Satyricon'Book summary:The Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque genre. It recounts the sleazy progress of a pair of literate scholars as they wander through the cities of the southern Mediterranean in the age of Nero, encountering en route type-figures whom the author wishes to satirize. P.G. Walsh captures the spirit of the original in this new and lively translation. His introduction and detailed notes provide the reader with a comprehensive guide to the meanings and intentions of the story and the later history of its literary influence. [via]
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Satyriconby P.G. Walsh, Petronius ArbiterISBN 0198150121 (0-19-815012-1)
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Seekerby William NicholsonISBN 0152058664 (0-15-205866-4)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexiconby Michael AdamsISBN 0195175999 (0-19-517599-9)
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In the tradition of The Physics of Star Trek, Slayer Slang is one of those rare books that offers a serious examination a TV cult phenomenon appealing to fans and thinkers alike.
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bitca n [AHD4 bitch n in sense 2.a + a] Bitch 1997 Sep 15 Whedon When She Was Bad "[Willow:] 'I mean, why else would she be acting like such a b-i-t-c-h?' [Giles:] 'Willow, I think we're all a little old to be spelling things out.' [Xander:] 'A bitca?'"
break and enterish adj [AHD4 sv breaking and entering n + -ish suff in sense 2.a] Suitable for crime 1999 Mar 16 Petrie Enemies "I'll go home and stock up on weapons, slip into something a little more break and enterish." [B]
carbon-dated adj [fr. AHD4 carbondating + -ed] Very out of date 1997 Mar 10 Whedon Welcome to the Hellmouth "[Buffy:] 'Deal with that outfit for a moment.' [Giles:] 'It's dated?' [Buffy:] 'It's carbon-dated.'"
cuddle-monkey n [AHD4 cuddle v + monkey n in sense 2, by analogy fr. RHHDAS (also DAS3 and NTC) sv cuddle bunny 'an affectionate, passionate, or sexually attractive young woman'] Male lover 1998 Feb 10 Noxon Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered "Every woman in Sunnydale wants to make me her cuddle-monkey." [X] [via]More editions of Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon:
Stellalunaby Janell CannonISBN 015201540X (0-15-201540-X)
Softcover, Voyager Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stellaluna'Book summary:Stellaluna is the tender story of a lost young bat who finally finds her way safely home to her mother and friends. This award-winning book by Janell Cannon has sold more than 500,000 copies and was on the bestseller list for more than two years. Multiple Grammy nominee and master storyteller, David Holt, is heard in live concerts throughout the country, on television and on his many award-winning recordings. (Ages 3+)
Side One: 1. Stellaluna. 11:50. Told by David Holt. Original music by Steven Heller. 2. Why the Bat Flies at Night. 6:36. Around the world there are stories about bats and how they came to fly at night. This is David's version.
Side Two: 1. Hattie, the Backstage Bat. 6:17. This story is by Don Freeman, the author of "Corduroy." 2. Amazing Bat Facts. 8:25. What you never knew about bats! 3. Stellaluna's Theme. 1:14. [via]
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Steppenwolfby Hermann HesseISBN 0312278675 (0-312-27867-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Steppenwolf'Book summary:With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesses best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literatures most poetic evocations of the souls journey to liberation[via]
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 meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal Magic TheaterFor Madmen Only!
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Tale of a One Way Streetby Joan AikenISBN 0224011588 (0-224-01158-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192835750 (0-19-283575-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Time Windowsby Kathryn ReissISBN 0152023992 (0-15-202399-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Windows'Book summary:When Miranda moves with her family to a new house in a small Massachusetts town, she discovers a mysterious antique--a dollhouse. Through the windows, she is shocked to find what seem to be living people in the tiny rooms, and gradually she realizes that scenes from the lives of the big houses past inhabitants are being replayed there. With numerous deftly sketched characters, including a sympathetic boy next door, an intriguing plot, and such dividends as a secret room used to hide escaping slaves, this should keep readers interested. Well wrought and entertaining. --Kirkus Reviews[via]
Tolkien and the Critics; Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings,by Neil David IsaacsISBN 0268002797 (0-268-00279-7)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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Very Far Away from Anywhere Elseby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0152052089 (0-15-205208-9)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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A Walk Out of the Worldby Ruth NicholsISBN 0152945148 (0-15-294514-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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A Wonder Book for Girls & Boysby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walter CraneISBN 0195107187 (0-19-510718-7)
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Wonder Talesby Gilbert Adair, Marina Warner, Sophie HerxheimerISBN 0195178211 (0-19-517821-1)
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Year's Best Fantasy & Horrorby Ellen Datlow, Terri WindlingISBN 0312111029 (0-312-11102-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Year's Best Fantasy & Horror'Book summary:The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror annuals are always a treat; read this one and The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois and you'll have a fairly complete overview of speculative fiction from 1998 as well as hours of great reading.
Datlow and Windling, renowned for crossing genre boundaries, gather stories and poems from mainstream magazines, literary journals, and Internet zines. There are vampires, a Lovecraft homage, enchanted birds and animals, shapeshifters, adult fairy tales, ghosts, and even a hunted muse. The best are Byatt's sensuous, enchanting "Cold"--about an ice princess who marries a glass-blowing desert prince--and Straub's novella, "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff" (which won the Stoker award for Best Long Fiction in 1999), a black comedy of revenge gone awry. The reference material includes each editor's review of the year's best novels, collections and anthologies, magazines, related nonfiction, children's books, and art. There's also a roundup of 1998's film, television, and dramatic offerings by Ed Bryant, a brief essay on comics by Seth Johnson, and obituaries by James Frenkel.
It's an invaluable source of introductions to authors you might not otherwise try, plus thought-provoking observations on fantasy in all its guises. You may not get to a convention this year, but if you've read Datlow and Windling, you'll know what a good one is like. --Nona Vero [via]
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The Young Merlin Trilogy: Passager, Hobby, and Merlinby Jane YolenISBN 0152052119 (0-15-205211-9)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Carrieby Stephen KingISBN 0307348075 (0-307-34807-5)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carrie'Book summary:El escalofriante caso de una joven de apariencia insignificante que se transformó en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en la ciudad. Con pulso mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una serie de descubrimientos hasta llegar al terrible momento de la venganza. Esta novela fue llevada al cine con un inmenso éxito de público y crítica. [via]
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