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The Aeneidby Publius Vergilius MaroISBN 0253200458 (0-253-20045-8)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:"This translation with its admirable projection of the various moods throughout the poem can be recommended to both classicist and non-classicist." The Classical World
"Of all the editions of the Aeneid in English, [this] volume should be of special interest to the teacheras well as to the student." The Classical Outlook
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The Aeneid of Virgilby Virgil, R.D. WilliamsISBN 0333118731 (0-333-11873-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid of Virgil'Book summary:This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains an introduction by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.[via]More editions of The Aeneid of Virgil:
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Aeschylus I: Oresteiaby AeschylusISBN 0226307786 (0-226-30778-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus I: Oresteia'Book summary:"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic[via]
"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal
"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Aeschylus I: Oresteia:
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Aeschylus IIby David Grene, Richmond LattimorISBN 0226307948 (0-226-30794-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus II'Book summary:The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.[via]
For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of Aeschylus II:
Aeschylus Two: Four Tragedies Prometheus Bound, Seven Against Thebes, the Persians, the Suppliant Maidensby AeschylusISBN 0226307794 (0-226-30779-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Anna Kareninaby Leo TolstoyISBN 0393042774 (0-393-04277-4)
Hardcover, W. W. Norton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Some people say Anna Karenina is the single greatest novel ever written, which makes about as much sense to me as trying to determine the world's greatest color. But there is no doubt that Anna Karenina, generally considered Tolstoy's best book, is definitely one ripping great read. Anna, miserable in her loveless marriage, does the barely thinkable and succumbs to her desires for the dashing Vronsky. I don't want to give away the ending, but I will say that 19th-century Russia doesn't take well to that sort of thing. [via]
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Being a Green Motherby Piers AnthonyISBN 0345322231 (0-345-32223-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Book of Illusionsby Paul AusterISBN 0312421818 (0-312-42181-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Illusions'Book summary:Vermont professor David Zimmer is a broken man. The protagonist of Paul Auster's 10th novel, The Book of Illusions, hits a period in which life seemed to be working aggressively against him. After his wife and sons are killed in an airplane crash, Zimmer becomes an alcoholic recluse, fond of emptying his bottle of sleeping pills into his palm, contemplating his next move. But one night, while watching a television documentary, Zimmer's attention is caught by the silent-film comedian Hector Mann, who had disappeared without a trace in 1929 and who was considered long-dead. Soon, Zimmer begins work on a book about Mann's newly discovered films (copies of which had been sent, anonymously, to film archives around the world). The spirit of Hector Mann keeps David Zimmer alive for a year. When a letter arrives from someone claiming to be Hector Mann's wife, announcing that Mann had read Zimmer's book and would like to meet him, it is as if fate has tossed Zimmer from one hand to the other: from grief and loss to desire and confusion.
Although film images are technically "illusions," this deft and layered novel is not so much about conscious illusion or trickery as about the traces we leave behind us: words, images, memories. Children are one obvious trace, but in this book, they are not allowed to carry their parents forward. They die early: Hector Mann losing his 3-year-old son to a bee sting just as David Zimmer has lost his two sons in the crash. The second half of The Book of Illusions is given over to a love affair, and to Zimmer's attempt to save something of Hector Mann, and of the others he has loved. In the end, what really survives of us on earth--what flickering immortality we are permitted--is left to the reader to surmise. --Regina Marler [via]
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Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0307350428 (0-307-35042-8)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude'Book summary:Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo .
Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]More editions of Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude:
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City of Godby St. AugustineISBN 0385029101 (0-385-02910-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of God'Book summary:Augustine's City of God, a monumental work of religious lore, philosophy, and history, was written as a kind of literary tombstone for Roman culture. After the sack of Rome, Augustine wrote this book to anatomize the corruption of Romans' pursuit of earthly pleasures: "grasping for praise, open-handed with their money; honest in the pursuit of wealth, they wanted to hoard glory." Augustine contrasts his condemnation of Rome with an exaltation of Christian culture. The glory that Rome failed to attain will only be realized by citizens of the City of God, the Heavenly Jerusalem foreseen in Revelation. Because City of God was written for men of classical learning--custodians of the culture Augustine sought to condemn--it is thick with Ciceronian circumlocutions, and makes many stark contrasts between "Your Virgil" and "Our Scriptures." Even if Augustine's prose strikes modern ears as a bit bombastic, and if his polarized Christian/pagan world is more binary than the one we live in today, his arguments against utopianism and his defense of the richness of Christian culture remain useful and strong. City of God is, as its final words proclaim itself to be, "a giant of a book." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Colour of Magicby Terry PratchettISBN 0312150849 (0-312-15084-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Colour of Magic'Book summary:The Colour of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the bizarre land of Discworld. His entertaining and witty series has grown to more than 20 books, and this is where it all starts--with the tourist Twoflower and his hapless wizard guide, Rincewind ("All wizards get like that ... it's the quicksilver fumes. Rots their brains. Mushrooms, too."). Pratchett spoofs fantasy clichés--and everything else he can think of--while marshalling a profusion of characters through a madcap adventure. The Colour of Magic is followed by The Light Fantastic. --Blaise Selby [via]
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The Dragon Rebornby Robert JordanISBN 0312852487 (0-312-85248-7)
Hardcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dragon Reborn'Book summary:The dragon reborn--the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him--is on the run from his destiny.able to touch the one power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how--for no man has done it in three thousand years--rand al'thor knows only that he must face the dark one. But how?winter has stopped the war-almost-yet men are dying, calling out for the dragon. But where is he?perrin aybara is in pursuit with moiraine sedai, her warder lan, and the loial the ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, perrin is grappling with another deadly problem--how is her to escape the loss of his own humanity.egwene, elayne and nynaeve are approaching tar valon, where mat will be healed--if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the amyrlin their news--that the black ajah, long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? they cannot know that in tar valon far worse awaits...ahead, for all of them, in the heart of the stone, lies the next great test of the dragon reborn [via]
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Earthly Powersby Anthony BurgessISBN 0380569035 (0-380-56903-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Eye of the Worldby Robert JordanISBN 0312850093 (0-312-85009-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eye of the World'Book summary:[via]The Wheel of Times turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, and Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.More editions of Eye of the World:
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Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas HardyISBN 0330344676 (0-330-34467-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Far from the Madding Crowd'Book summary:Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardys passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective man, the man of learning, all enlisted to produce a book which . . . must hold its place among the great English novels. Introducing the fictional name of Wessex to describe Hardys legendary countryside, this early masterpiece draws a vivid picture of rural life in southwest England.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1912 Wessex edition and features Hardys map of Wessex. [via]More editions of Far from the Madding Crowd:
- Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 037575797X (0-375-75797-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 031228246X (0-312-28246-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 0333168801 (0-333-16880-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 0333168917 (0-333-16891-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 0333172698 (0-333-17269-8)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 0385487312 (0-385-48731-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 0330344676 (0-330-34467-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
- Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 037575797X (0-375-75797-X)
Fata Morganaby William KotzwinkleISBN 0380646919 (0-380-64691-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Follow the Blueby Brigid LowryISBN 0312342977 (0-312-34297-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Golden Assby Apuleius, Jack LindsayISBN 0253200369 (0-253-20036-9)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Ass'Book summary:A frank and vivid modern version of one of the most diverting of all classics. Lindsays translation captures the genuine flavor, sharp dialogue, outrageous humor, racy delight and subtle style of Apuleius sophisticated masterpiece.
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The Golden Assby Robert Graves, ApuleiusISBN 0374505322 (0-374-50532-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Ass'Book summary:In all of literature, there are few books with the vitality of The Golden Ass. The story follows Lucius, a young man of good birth, as he disports himself in the cities and along the roads of Thessaly. This is a wonderful tale abounding in lusty incident, curious adventure and bawdy wit.Robert Graves (1895-1985) was a British poet, novelist, translator, and critic. His many books include the historical novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God, the autobiography Good-bye to All That, and the mythic/literary studies The White Goddess and The Greek Myths.In all of literature there are few books with the vitality of The Golden Ass. Boccaccio borrowed freely from it; and later it served both to amuse and to instruct Cervantes, Fielding, and Smollett. T. E. Lawrence carried it in his saddlebags all through the Arab Revolt, and it was Lawrence who first introduced the book to his friend Robert Graves.
The story is about Lucius Apuleius, a young man of good birth, who, while disporting himself in the cities and along the roads of Thessaly, encountered many diverting and strange adventures. Not the least of these was that Apuleius suffered the indignity of being turned into an ass after trying to steal a sorceress's magic. How Apuleius supported his misfortune and how he contrived to dedicate himself to the one goddess who could help him resume his human form make up the body of this tale. The Golden Ass is rich in lusty incident, curious adventure, and bawdy wit."Robert Graves' translation abandons the aureate latinity of Apuleius for a dry, sharp, plain stylewhich is itself a small masterpiece of twentieth-century prose."Kenneth Rexroth, Saturday Review[via]More editions of The Golden Ass:
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Great Huntby Robert JordanISBN 0312851405 (0-312-85140-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Hunt'Book summary:The Wheel of Time turns and ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave it birth returns again. For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. So many tales about each of th Hunters, and so many Hunters to tell of...Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen.[via]More editions of Great Hunt:
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Hatchetby Gary PaulsenISBN 0330310453 (0-330-31045-3)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hatchet'Book summary:Thirteen-year old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother has given him as a present -- and the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart ever since his parent's divorce. But now Brian has no time for anger, self-pity or despair -- it will take all his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed to survive. [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Ross C. MurfinISBN 0312114915 (0-312-11491-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:[via]Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz.
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- The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0312159013 (0-312-15901-3)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0312030266 (0-312-03026-6)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0393043479 (0-393-04347-9)
Hardcover, Norton - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0312114915 (0-312-11491-5)
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- The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0312159013 (0-312-15901-3)
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Heart of Darknessby Ross C. Murfin, Joseph ConradISBN 0312007612 (0-312-00761-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness'Book summary:If asked to describe the way in which the study of literature is changing, most of us willing to venture an answer would say that it is becoming more theortical. Without some kind of theoretical underpinning, literary criticism runs the riskof being impressionistic, even illogical [via]
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Heart of Darkness & Selections from the Congo Diaryby Joseph Conrad, Caryl PhillipsISBN 037575377X (0-375-75377-X)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness & Selections from the Congo Diary'Book summary:Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip GourevitchOriginally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad's Congo Diary of 1890-the first notes, in effect, for the novel, which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad: "His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life." [via]
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Holesby Louis SacharISBN 0374332657 (0-374-33265-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holes'Book summary:"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy." Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no happy campers. In place of what used to be "the largest lake in Texas" is now a dry, flat, sunburned wasteland, pocked with countless identical holes dug by boys improving their character. Stanley Yelnats, of palindromic name and ill-fated pedigree, has landed at Camp Green Lake because it seemed a better option than jail. No matter that his conviction was all a case of mistaken identity, the Yelnats family has become accustomed to a long history of bad luck, thanks to their "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather!" Despite his innocence, Stanley is quickly enmeshed in the Camp Green Lake routine: rising before dawn to dig a hole five feet deep and five feet in diameter; learning how to get along with the Lord of the Flies-styled pack of boys in Group D; and fearing the warden, who paints her fingernails with rattlesnake venom. But when Stanley realizes that the boys may not just be digging to build character--that in fact the warden is seeking something specific--the plot gets as thick as the irony.
It's a strange story, but strangely compelling and lovely too. Louis Sachar uses poker-faced understatement to create a bizarre but believable landscape--a place where Major Major Major Major of Catch-22 would feel right at home. But while there is humor and absurdity here, there is also a deep understanding of friendship and a searing compassion for society's underdogs. As Stanley unknowingly begins to fulfill his destiny--the dual plots coming together to reveal that fate has big plans in store--we can't help but cheer for the good guys, and all the Yelnats everywhere. (Ages 10 and older) --Brangien Davis [via]
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Homer: The Odysseyby Homer, Robert FitzgeraldISBN 0385050402 (0-385-05040-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer: The Odyssey'Book summary:Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus's long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn. Homer's classic poem features Odysseus's encounters with the beautiful nymph Calypso; the queenly but wily Circe; the Lotus-eaters, who fed his men their memory-stealing drug; the man-eating, one-eyed Cyclops; the Laestrygonian giants; the souls of the dead in Hades; the beguiling Sirens; the treacherous Scylla and Charybdis. Here, too, is the hero's faithful wife, Penelope, weaving a shroud by day and unraveling it by night, in order to thwart the numerous suitors attempting to take Odysseus's place.
The works attributed to Homer include the two oldest and greatest European epic poems, the Odyssey and Iliad. These texts have long stood in the Loeb Classical Library with a faithful and literate prose translation by A. T. Murray. George Dimock now brings the Loeb's Odyssey up to date, with a rendering that retains Murray's admirable style but is worded for today's readers. The two-volume edition includes a new introduction, notes, and index.
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How I Live Nowby Meg RosoffISBN 0385746776 (0-385-74677-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How I Live Now'Book summary:"Every war has turning points and every person too."Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy.As power fails, and systems fail, the farm becomes more isolated. Despite the war, it's a kind of Eden, with no adults in charge and no rules, a place where Daisy's uncanny bond with her cousins grows into something rare and extraordinary. But the war is everywhere, and Daisy and her cousins must lead each other into a world that is unknown in the scariest, most elemental way.A riveting and astonishing story. [via]
The I Ching or Book of Changes: A Guide to Life's Turning Pointsby Brian Browne WalkerISBN 0312098286 (0-312-09828-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Iliadby Robert Fitzgerald, HomerISBN 0385059418 (0-385-05941-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:This translation of The Iliad equals Fitzgerald's earlier Odyssey in power and imagination. It recreates the original action as conceived by Homer, using fresh and flexible blank verse that is both lyrical and dramatic. [via]
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The Illustrated Odysseyby Homer, Tim Mercer, E. V. RieuISBN 0283985887 (0-283-98588-7)
Hardcover, Sidgwick & Jackson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Odyssey'Book summary:The most famous book in mythology, 251 pages of pure Grecian culture, gorgeous pictures of Greece, pottery, gods and goddesses throughout the book, easy read. [via]
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Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, Ian GregorISBN 0330344684 (0-330-34468-4)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:Michael Henchard is the respected mayor of Casterbridge, a thriving industrial town--but years ago, under the influence of alcohol, he sold his wife Susan to a sailor at a country fair. Although repentant and sober for 21 years, Henchard cannot escape his destiny when Susan and her daughter return to Casterbridge. [via]
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- Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 0312523270 (0-312-52327-0)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan - Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 0333168828 (0-333-16882-8)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 0333168925 (0-333-16892-5)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square - Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 0330344684 (0-330-34468-4)
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Lolitaby Vladimir Nabokov, Appel, Alfred, Jr.ISBN 0297819100 (0-297-81910-0)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of Lolita:
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London Fieldsby Martin AmisISBN 0224026097 (0-224-02609-7)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'London Fields'Book summary:Set in the pubs and streets of West London, this is a murder story for the end of the millennium. The author has written six novels including "The Rachel Papers", for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award, "Money" and "Success". [via]
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Lost Illusions: Part I, Two Poetsby Honore De Balzac, Kathleen Raine, Richard HowardISBN 0375757902 (0-375-75790-2)
Softcover, Modern Library
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Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman, Nicholas ShakespeareISBN 0375400699 (0-375-40069-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love in the Time of Cholera'Book summary:From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more than fifty years. In the story of Florentino Ariza, who waits more than half a century to declare his undying love to the beautiful Fermina Daza, whom he lost to Dr. Juvenal Urbino so many years before, García Márquez has created a vividly absorbing fictional world, as lush and dazzling as a dream and as real and immediate as our own deepest longings. Now available for the first time in the Contemporary Classics series! [via]
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The Love-Artistby Jane AlisonISBN 0312420064 (0-312-42006-4)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Love-Artist'Book summary:A darkly brilliant first novel that imagines a missing chapter in the life of Ovid.
Why was Ovid, the most popular author of his day, banished to the edges of the Roman Empire? Why do only two lines survive of his play Medea, reputedly his most passionate work and perhaps his most Accomplished? Between the known details of the poet's life and these enigmas, Jane Alison has Interpolated a haunting drama of passion and psychological manipulation.
On holiday at the Black Sea, on the fringes of the Empire, Ovid encounters an almost otherworldly woman who seems to embody the fictitious creations of his soon-to-be-published Metamorphoses. Part healer, part witch, she seems myth come to life. Enchanted and obsessed -- and, for the first time in a long while, flush with inspiration -- Ovid takes her back with him to Rome. But the inexorable pull of ambition leads him to make a Faustian bargain with fate that will betray his newfound muse. As the two of them become entangled in its snares, the reader is drawn deep into an ingeniously enacted meditation on love, art, and the desire for immortality. [via]
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, J.I.M. StewartISBN 0375760067 (0-375-76006-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:Michael Henchard is the respected mayor of Casterbridge, a thriving industrial town--but years ago, under the influence of alcohol, he sold his wife Susan to a sailor at a country fair. Although repentant and sober for 21 years, Henchard cannot escape his destiny when Susan and her daughter return to Casterbridge. [via]
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Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur GoldenISBN 0307275167 (0-307-27516-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Geisha'Book summary:According to Arthur Golden's absorbing first novel, the word "geisha" does not mean "prostitute," as Westerners ignorantly assume--it means "artisan" or "artist." To capture the geisha experience in the art of fiction, Golden trained as long and hard as any geisha who must master the arts of music, dance, clever conversation, crafty battle with rival beauties, and cunning seduction of wealthy patrons. After earning degrees in Japanese art and history from Harvard and Columbia--and an M.A. in English--he met a man in Tokyo who was the illegitimate offspring of a renowned businessman and a geisha. This meeting inspired Golden to spend 10 years researching every detail of geisha culture, chiefly relying on the geisha Mineko Iwasaki, who spent years charming the very rich and famous.
The result is a novel with the broad social canvas (and love of coincidence) of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen's intense attention to the nuances of erotic maneuvering. Readers experience the entire life of a geisha, from her origins as an orphaned fishing-village girl in 1929 to her triumphant auction of her mizuage (virginity) for a record price as a teenager to her reminiscent old age as the distinguished mistress of the powerful patron of her dreams. We discover that a geisha is more analogous to a Western "trophy wife" than to a prostitute--and, as in Austen, flat-out prostitution and early death is a woman's alternative to the repressive, arcane system of courtship. In simple, elegant prose, Golden puts us right in the tearoom with the geisha; we are there as she gracefully fights for her life in a social situation where careers are made or destroyed by a witticism, a too-revealing (or not revealing enough) glimpse of flesh under the kimono, or a vicious rumor spread by a rival "as cruel as a spider."
Golden's web is finely woven, but his book has a serious flaw: the geisha's true romance rings hollow--the love of her life is a symbol, not a character. Her villainous geisha nemesis is sharply drawn, but she would be more so if we got a deeper peek into the cause of her motiveless malignity--the plight all geisha share. Still, Golden has won the triple crown of fiction: he has created a plausible female protagonist in a vivid, now-vanished world, and he gloriously captures Japanese culture by expressing his thoughts in authentic Eastern metaphors. [via]
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Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur Golden, Pilar VazquezISBN 0307275302 (0-307-27530-2)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geisha'Book summary:Una sensación literaria y bestseller internacional presenta con perfecta autenticidad y exquisito lirismo las fieles confesiones de una de las geishas más famosas de Japón.
En Memorias de una geisha entramos a un mundo donde las apariencias son de suma importancia; donde la virginidad de una niña es subastada al mejor postor; donde las mujeres son entrenadas para seducir a los hombres más poderosos; y donde el amor es desdeñado como una mera ilusión. Es una obra de ficción única y triunfal al mismo tiempo romántica, erótica y de suspenso absolutamente inolvidable. [via]More editions of Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geisha:
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, John Bryant, Haskell SpringerISBN 0205514081 (0-205-51408-1)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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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]
Mr. Maniby A. B. Yehoshua, Hillel HalkinISBN 0385267924 (0-385-26792-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Odysseyby HomerISBN 0312869010 (0-312-86901-0)
Softcover, Forge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in a Noonday paperback. Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. The Noonday Press is delighted to publish a new edition of this classic work.Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale of love, adventure, food and drink, sensual pleasure, and mortal danger reaches the English-language reader in all its glory.Of the many translations published since World War II, only Fitzgerald's has won admiration as a great poem in English. The noted classicist D. S. Carne-Ross explains the many aspects of its artistry in his Introduction, written especially for this new edition.The Noonday Press edition also features a map, a Glossary of Names and Places, and Fitzgerald's Postscript. Line drawings precede each book of the poem. Winner of the Bollingen Prize [via]
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Oedipus Tyrannus - a New Translation: Passages from Ancient Authors - Religion And Psychologyby Sophocles, Luci Berkowitz, Theodore F. BrunnerISBN 039304307X (0-393-04307-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0224032356 (0-224-03235-6)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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Pawn of Prophecyby David EddingsISBN 0345418883 (0-345-41888-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pawn of Prophecy'Book summary:"Eddings' BELGARIAD is exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight."
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Long ago, the Storyteller claimed, in this first book of THE BELGARIAD, the evil god Torak drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. So long as it lay at Riva, the prophecy went, men would be safe.
But Garion did not believe in such stories. Brought up on a quiet farm by his Aunt Pol, how could he know that the Apostate planned to wake dread Torak, or that he would be led on a quest of unparalleled magic and danger by those he loved--but did not know...?
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Pawn of Prophecy: The Belgariad Book 1by David EddingsISBN 0345335511 (0-345-33551-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pawn of Prophecy: The Belgariad Book 1'Book summary:Selected as a 2003 Popular Paperback for Young Adults by the Young Adult Library Services Association
Long ago, so the storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought dominion over all and drove the world to war. Now the one talisman keeping this sinister force from seizing power has been disturbedand no one will be safe. . . .
Raised on a quiet farm by his Aunt Pol, Garion spends his days lounging in his aunts warm kitchen and playing in the surrounding fields with his friends. He has never believed in magic, despite the presence of a cloaked, shadowless stranger who has haunted him from a distance for years. But one afternoon, the wise storyteller Wolf appears and urges Garion and his aunt to leave the farm that very night. Without understanding why, Garion is whisked away from the only home he has ever knownand thrown into dark and unfamiliar lands.
Thus begins an extraordinary quest to stop a reawakened evil from devouring all that is good. It is a journey that will lead Garion to discover his heritage and his future. For the magic that once seemed impossible to Garion is now his destiny.
The first exciting adventure in David Eddingss The Belgariad
Pawn of Prophecy is the newest addition to the Del Rey Imagine program, which offers the best in fantasy and science fiction for readers twelve and up. [via]More editions of Pawn of Prophecy: The Belgariad Book 1:
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Softcover, Ballantine Books - Pawn of Prophecy: The Belgariad Book 1: ISBN 0345309979 (0-345-30997-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Pawn of Prophecy: The Belgariad Book 1: ISBN 0345335511 (0-345-33551-1)
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Remembrance Dayby Brian AldissISBN 0312093705 (0-312-09370-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Shadow Risingby Robert JordanISBN 0312854315 (0-312-85431-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow Rising'Book summary:[via]The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. The Shadow is rising to cover humankind.
In Tar Valon, Min sees portents of hideous doom. Will the White Tower itself be broken?
In the Two Rivers, the Whitecloaks ride in pursuit of a man with golden eyes, and in pursuit of the Dragon Reborn.
In Cantorin, among the Sea Folk, High Lady Suroth plans the return of the Seanchan armies to the mainland.
In the Stone of Tear, the Lord Dragon considers his next move. It will be something no one expects, not the Black Ajah, not Tairen nobles, not Aes Sedai, not Egwene or Elayne or Nynaeve.
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Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby Sophocles, David Greene, Richard LattimoreISBN 0226307921 (0-226-30792-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone'Book summary:"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic[via]
"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal
"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone:
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, John Paul RiquelmeISBN 0312106882 (0-312-10688-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:One of a selection of Thomas Hardy's best-known novels with introductions by critics, notes, a bibliography, a map of Hardy's Wessex, a chronology of his life and the New Wessex Edition text. [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Terence WrightISBN 0391034510 (0-391-03451-0)
Softcover, Humanities Press International
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardyby Peter WiddowsonISBN 0312090927 (0-312-09092-7)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Trialby Franz Kafka, Douglas Scott, Christopher Waller, J. P. SternISBN 033024468X (0-330-24468-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Ulvertonby Adam ThorpeISBN 0374523940 (0-374-52394-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Untamedby Helen KirkmanISBN 0373771657 (0-373-77165-7)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Virgil's Aeneidby Virgil, Cecil Day LewisISBN 0385093187 (0-385-09318-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Walking on Glassby Iain BanksISBN 0333379861 (0-333-37986-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walking on Glass'Book summary:Graham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grout is paranoid - and with justice. He knows that They are out to get him. They are. Quiss is forced to play impossible games. The solution to the oldest of all paradoxical riddles will release him. [via]
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Who Can Speak?: Authority and Critical Identityby Judith Roof, Robyn WiegmanISBN 0252064879 (0-252-06487-9)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0307350274 (0-307-35027-4)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude'Book summary:Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo .
Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]More editions of Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude:
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Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur Golden, Pilar VazquezISBN 0307275310 (0-307-27531-0)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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En Memorias de una geisha entramos a un mundo donde las apariencias son de suma importancia; donde la virginidad de una niña es subastada al mejor postor; donde las mujeres son entrenadas para seducir a los hombres más poderosos; y donde el amor es desdeado como una mera ilusión. Es una obra de ficción única y triunfal al mismo tiempo romántica, erótica y de suspenso absolutamente inolvidable. [via]More editions of Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geisha:
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