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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0805205942 (0-8052-0594-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Amerika: (The Man Who Disappeared)by Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir, Emlen EttingISBN 0805210644 (0-8052-1064-4)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amerika: (The Man Who Disappeared)'Book summary:Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
Foreword by E. L. Doctorow
Afterword by Max Brod
Kafkas first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself packed off to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures.
Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vast landscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the golden land. Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic and visionary tale of America as a place no one has yet seen, in a historical period that cant be identified, writes E. L. Doctorow in his new foreword. Kafka made his novel from his own minds mythic elements, Doctorow explains, and the research data that caught his eye were bent like rays in a field of gravity. [via]More editions of Amerika: (The Man Who Disappeared):
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, Constance Black GarnettISBN 080959322X (0-8095-9322-X)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Anna Karenina may be the greatest single novel ever written; it may also be just plainly and sublimely good. Regardless, there is no doubt that Anna Karenina (generally considered Tolstoy's finest novel) is a sublime achievement. Anna, miserable in a loveless marriage, succumbs to the desire for the dashing Vronsky. That sort of thing didn't stand one in good stead in 19th-century Russia; bad goes to worse, and the end Anna comes to is the stuff of legend. Tolstoy seamlessly captures a weaves a tapestry of Russian society -- as Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life." "One of the greatest love stories in world literature." -- Vladimir Nabokov [via]
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Anne of Inglesideby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 0808516957 (0-8085-1695-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Ingleside'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Anne, now a joyful wife and mother, returns to visit the fishing village of Avonlea in this portrayal of family life on picturesque Prince Edward Island. [via]
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Anne of the Islandby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0808553798 (0-8085-5379-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of the Island'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Anne Shirley leaves Avonlea to study to become a teacher at Redmond College and when she returns for her first summer, she finds life in Green Gables subtly changed. [via]
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Anne of Windy Poplarsby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0808516965 (0-8085-1696-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Windy Poplars'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Anne Shirley's love for Gilbert Blythe grows during her three years as a high-school principal. [via]
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The Bachman Booksby Stephen KingISBN 0808565087 (0-8085-6508-7)
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The Beginning of Springby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0805009817 (0-8050-0981-7)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Best Selections from the Arabian Nights Entertainmentsby Edward William Lane, Edward Stanley Poole, William HarveyISBN 0805502440 (0-8055-0244-0)
Hardcover, Hart Pub Co
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The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballardby J.G. BallardISBN 0805038760 (0-8050-3876-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Bleak Houseby Charles Dickens, Nicola BradburyISBN 0808577301 (0-8085-7730-1)
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 080850861X (0-8085-0861-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
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A Canticle for Leibowitzby Walter M. MillerISBN 0808520938 (0-8085-2093-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'Book summary:Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funny but bleak Canticle tackles the sociological and religious implications of the cyclical rise and fall of civilization, questioning whether humanity can hope for more than repeating its own history. Divided into three sections--Fiat Homo (Let There Be Man), Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light), and Fiat Voluntas Tua (Thy Will Be Done)--Canticle is steeped in Catholicism and Latin, exploring the fascinating, seemingly capricious process of how and why a person is canonized. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Cat's Cradleby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0805013199 (0-8050-1319-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat's Cradle'Book summary:Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature. At one time, this novel could probably be found on the bookshelf of every college kid in America; it's still a fabulous read and a great place to start if you're young enough to have missed the first Vonnegut craze. [via]
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Chapterhouse Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0808599623 (0-8085-9962-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chapterhouse Dune'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Fifteen thousand years after Leto II's death, the remnants of the Bene Gesserit contend with the ruthless leaders of an alien culture to forge a new civilization and preserve the best of the Old Empire. [via]
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Children of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0808520946 (0-8085-2094-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children of Dune'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. On the planet of Aurakis, men, nature, and time attend the messianic and evolutionary growth of Leto and his twin sister Ghanima, children and successors of the mighty Muad'Dib. [via]
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Cider With Rosieby Laurie LeeISBN 080943573X (0-8094-3573-X)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider With Rosie'Book summary:Paperback 1980 259p. 8.00"x5.25"x1.00 First Light;First Names;Village School;The Kitchen;Grannies in The Wainscot;Public Death,Private Murder;Mother;Winter and Summer and More. [via]
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A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony BurgessISBN 0808581945 (0-8085-8194-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Clockwork Orange'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A satire of the present inhumanity of man to man through a futuristic culture where teenagers rule with violence. This edition includes the final chapter deleted from the first American edition. [via]
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark TwainISBN 0808519476 (0-8085-1947-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A 19th-century New Englander wakes up in King Arthur's Age of Chivalry for a hilarious tale of anachronisms, romantic history, and biting social satire. [via]
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Cranfordby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0805502505 (0-8055-0250-5)
Hardcover, Hart Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cranford'Book summary:This work provides a timeless portrait of life in a peaceful English village in the early years of the 19th century. It is the most enduringly popular of Mrs Gaskell's works. [via]
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Dandelion Wineby Ray BradburyISBN 0808520717 (0-8085-2071-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dandelion Wine'Book summary:World-renowned fantasist Ray Bradbury has on several occasions stepped outside the arenas of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. An unabashed romantic, his first novel in 1957 was basically a love letter to his childhood. (For those who want to undertake an even more evocative look at the dark side of youth, five years later the author would write the chilling classic Something Wicked This Way Comes.)
Dandelion Wine takes us into the summer of 1928, and to all the wondrous and magical events in the life of a 12-year-old Midwestern boy named Douglas Spaulding. This tender, openly affectionate story of a young man's voyage of discovery is certainly more mainstream than exotic. No walking dead or spaceships to Mars here. Yet those who wish to experience the unique magic of early Bradbury as a prose stylist should find Dandelion Wine most refreshing. --Stanley Wiater [via]
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Darkness at Noonby Arthur KoestlerISBN 0808576364 (0-8085-7636-4)
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Dune Messiahby Frank HerbertISBN 0808520733 (0-8085-2073-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune Messiah'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit plots to seize control of the galaxy-wide empire of their supernatural leader. [via]
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The Elfstones of Shannaraby Terry BrooksISBN 0808522655 (0-8085-2265-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elfstones of Shannara'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The grandson of Shea, Wil Ohmsford, searches for Amberle, the Chosen whose gift of Bloodfire is needed to create the Ellcrys tree that protects against demons. [via]
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Exileby Richard North PattersonISBN 0805079475 (0-8050-7947-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Edgar Taylor, Amanda HarveyISBN 0805031278 (0-8050-3127-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:Thirty-seven selected stories from the Brothers Grimm, taken from the first English translation of 1823, are newly illustrated in black and white, with eight full-color plates by the artist from Stormy Weather. [via]
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The Fool's Runby John CampISBN 0805009906 (0-8050-0990-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fool's Run'Book summary:Sandford's first novel, published under his real name, and first in his Kidd series. [via]
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Foundation and Empireby Isaac AsimovISBN 0808520792 (0-8085-2079-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation and Empire'Book summary:Although small and seemingly helpless, the Foundation had managed to survive against the greed of its neighboring warlords. But could it stand against the mighty power of the Empire, who had created a mutant man with the strength of a dozen battlefleets...? [via]
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Fountainheadby Ayn RandISBN 0808519387 (0-8085-1938-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fountainhead'Book summary:The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence. [via]
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Fridayby Robert HeinleinISBN 0808522000 (0-8085-2200-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Friday'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In a Balkanized North America of the near future, threatened by imminent extinction, a strikingly beautiful and resourceful interplanetary secret agent--an Artificial Person named Friday--tries to survive a gigantic human comedy. [via]
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Ghost Stories Of An Antiquaryby M. R. JamesISBN 0809593912 (0-8095-9391-2)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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The Glass Bead Game : Magister Ludiby Hermann HesseISBN 080501246X (0-8050-1246-X)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Glass Bead Game : Magister Ludi'Book summary:The Glass Bead Game, for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is the authors last and crowning achievement, the most imaginative and prophetic of all his novels. Setting the story in the distant postapocalyptic future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals who play an elaborate game that uses all the cultural and scientific knowledge of the Ages. The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature.[via]
This edition features a Foreword by Theodore Ziolkowski that places the book in the full context of Hesses thought.More editions of The Glass Bead Game : Magister Ludi:
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The Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 0808514202 (0-8085-1420-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940.
The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."
The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Great Divorceby C. S. LewisISBN 0805420487 (0-8054-2048-7)
Softcover, Broadman & Holman Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Divorce'Book summary:The Great Divorce is C.S. Lewis's Divine Comedy: the narrator bears strong resemblance to Lewis (by way of Dante); his Virgil is the fantasy writer George MacDonald; and upon boarding a bus in a nondescript neighborhood, the narrator is taken to Heaven and Hell. The book's primary message is presented with almost oblique tidiness--"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" However, the narrator's descriptions of sin and temptation will hit quite close to home for many readers. Lewis has a genius for describing the intricacies of vanity and self-deception, and this book is tremendously persistent in forcing its reader to consider the ultimate consequences of everyday pettiness. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Brothers GrimmISBN 0804901686 (0-8049-0168-6)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:A collection of fairy tales collected in Germany by two brothers. [via]
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The Grimms' German Folk Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Francis P. Magoun, Grimm Brothers, Alexander Haggerty KrappeISBN 0809303566 (0-8093-0356-6)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian AndersenISBN 0804901694 (0-8049-0169-4)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Harriet the Spyby Louise Fitzhugh, Anne BobbyISBN 0807280690 (0-8072-8069-0)
Softcover, Listening Library
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The Horse's Mouthby Joyce CaryISBN 0809436833 (0-8094-3683-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Horse's Mouth'Book summary:Joyce Cary wrote two trilogies, or triptychs as he later preferred to call them. The first comprises: Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth. The Horse's Mouth is a portrait of an artistic temperament. Its principal character, Gulley Gimson, is an impoverished painter who scorns conventional good behaviour. He may be a bad citizen, but he is a good artist, so wholly preoccupied with his art that he is willing to endure any privation for its sake. Such is his contempt for orthodox mores, he takes a delight in cocking a snook at them. For him there is only one morality: to be a painter. 'Mr Joyce Cary is an important and exciting writer; there's no doubt about that. To use Tennyson's phrase, he is a Lord of Language ... if you like rich writing full of gusto and accurate original character drawing, you will get it from The Horse's Mouth.' John Betjeman, Daily Herald [via]
House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0808519638 (0-8085-1963-8)
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The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Editionby H. G. WellsISBN 0809593114 (0-8095-9311-4)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Johnny Got His Gunby Dalton TrumboISBN 0806512814 (0-8065-1281-4)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Johnny Got His Gun'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The powerful story of a young boy and his tragic fate in World War I makes a terrifying statement on the horrors of war and a compelling plea for peace. [via]
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The Jungle Bookby Rudyard Kipling, Maurice Wilson, Sally Grindley, Julek HellerISBN 0805239065 (0-8052-3906-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Safaya SalterISBN 0805004394 (0-8050-0439-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0809567377 (0-8095-6737-7)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kidnapped'Book summary:If you ever read this tale, you will likely ask yourself more questions than I should care to answer: as for instance how the Appin murder has come to fall in the year 1751, how the Torran rocks have crept so near to Earraid, or why the printed trial is silent as to all that touches David Balfour. These are nuts beyond my ability to crack. But if you tried me on the point of Alan's guilt or innocence, I think I could defend the reading of the text. To this day you will find the tradition of Appin clear in Alan's favor. If you inquire, you may even hear that the descendants of "the other man" who fired the shot are in the country to this day. But that other man's name, inquire as you please, you shall not hear; for the Highlander values a secret for itself and for the congenial exercise of keeping it I might go on for long to justify one point and own another indefensible; it is more honest to confess at once how little I am touched by the desire of accuracy. This is no furniture for the scholar's library, but a book for the winter evening school-room when the tasks are over and the hour for bed draws near; and honest Alan, who was a grim old fire-eater in his day has in this new avatar no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid, carry him awhile into the Highlands and the last century, and pack him to bed with some engaging images to mingle with his dreams. [via]
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Knightsby Julek Heller, Deirdre HeadonISBN 0805238220 (0-8052-3822-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Knights'Book summary:A collection of stories about the knights of the Middle Ages draws upon Arthurian and European legends. Full color illustrations throughout. [via]
Land of Ozby Lyman Frank BaumISBN 0804901813 (0-8049-0181-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Love and Friendshipby Jane AustenISBN 0809589931 (0-8095-8993-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love and Friendship'Book summary:These are notebooks from Jane Austen's childhood, and despite their rough nature, they offer something of value: not just the insight they give us into Austen's thinking and her mind, but there is a certain charm here, a thing to value in its own. . . . [via]
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Metamorphosisby Franz KafkaISBN 0805201726 (0-8052-0172-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Miss Muriel and Other Storiesby Barbara SmithISBN 0807083119 (0-8070-8311-9)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0809567288 (0-8095-6728-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Call me Ishmael. Some years ago -- never mind how long precisely -- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off -- then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. [via]
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Murder on the Orient Expressby Agatha ChristieISBN 080851895X (0-8085-1895-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder on the Orient Express'Book summary:Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again. [via]
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Pastors and Mastersby Ivy Compton-BurnettISBN 0805282122 (0-8052-8212-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Percival Keeneby Frederick MarryatISBN 0805061398 (0-8050-6139-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Percival Keene'Book summary:One of Marryat's most entertaining follows adventures, Percival Keene follows namesake character, a low-born seaman, on a mission to discover and claim his true parentage and identity. Young Keene ures battles both great and small, a stint on board a pirate ship, a stormy romance, and near-execution at the hands of Napoleon himself, all told with Marryat's trademark panache. A page-turning nautical yarn with brilliant historical re-creations of life and war at sea.[via]More editions of Percival Keene:
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The Periodic Tableby Primo LeviISBN 0805210415 (0-8052-1041-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Periodic Table'Book summary:Writer Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century's most compelling voices, and The Periodic Table is his most famous book. Springboarding from his training as a chemist, Levi uses the elements as metaphors to create a cycle of linked, somewhat autobiographical tales, including stories of the Piedmontese Jewish community he came from, and of his response to the Holocaust. [via]
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Pet Semataryby Stephen KingISBN 0808560131 (0-8085-6013-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pet Sematary'Book summary:Renowned for its superior productions, BBC radio may have outdone itself by adapting Stephen King's Pet Sematary to audio. A clamorous cacophony of talking, whining, whistling, and howling, Pet Sematary is a quick, entertaining earful for those who don't have other auditory distractions to contend with, such as a car full of talking whining, whistling, howling children. However, the melodramatic prose marries well with the acting; such is the case when one reader--whose voice bears an uncanny resemblance to Kramer's from Seinfeld--tells another about the effects of the Pet Sematary: "Heroin makes junkies feel good when they put it in their arms, but all the time it's poisoning their mind and body--this place can be like that and don't you ever forget it!" (Running time: three hours, two cassettes) [via]
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Peter Simpleby Frederick MarryatISBN 0805055657 (0-8050-5565-7)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Simple'Book summary:The classic novel that gave rise to the seafaring literary tradition Before Patrick O`Brian, before C. S. Forester, there was Frederick Marryat. His novels defined the genre and were admired by literary luminaries as diverse as Conrad, Woolf, and Hemingway. Peter Simple, the story of a young naif in Nelson`s navy, is Marryat`s signature work. Marked by memorable characters, a comic edge, and the kind of unerring detail that comes only from first-hand experience, this is a true masterpiece of the Golden Age of Sail.
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Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston LerouxISBN 0808581678 (0-8085-8167-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phantom Of The Opera'Book summary:First published in French as a serial in 1909, "The Phantom of the Opera" is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. The voice, who is the deformed, murderous 'ghost' of the opera house named Erik, however, grows violent in his terrible jealousy, until Christine suddenly disappears. The phantom is in love, but it can only spell disaster. Leroux's work, with characters ranging from the spoiled prima donna Carlotta to the mysterious Persian from Erik's past, has been immortalized by memorable adaptations. Despite this, it remains a remarkable piece of Gothic horror literature in and of itself, deeper and darker than any version that follows. [via]
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The Pickwick Papersby Charles DickensISBN 0808509764 (0-8085-0976-4)
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The Plagueby Albert CamusISBN 0808519840 (0-8085-1984-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plague'Book summary:The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it. [via]
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Points of View: An Anthology of Short Storiesby James Moffett, Kenneth R. McElhenyISBN 0808523074 (0-8085-2307-4)
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Rainbow Valleyby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0808551671 (0-8085-5167-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rainbow Valley'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The heroine of Anne Of Green Gables and her lively children befriend the Meredith youngsters, the four children of a widowed minister seeking a wife. [via]
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Restaurant at the End of the Universeby Douglas AdamsISBN 080852187X (0-8085-2187-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Restaurant at the End of the Universe'Book summary:"DOUGLAS ADAMS IS A TERRIFIC SATIRIST."
--The Washington Post Book World
Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability--and desperately in search of a place to eat.
Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee who's gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, the moody android who suffers nothing and no one very gladly. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food (literally) speaks for itself.
Will they make it? The answer: hard to say. But bear in mind that the Hitchhiker's Guide deleted the term "Future Perfect" from its pages, since it was discovered not to be!
"What's such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adams' sardonically silly eyes."
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Skeleton Crewby Stephen KingISBN 0808571524 (0-8085-7152-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skeleton Crew'Book summary:In the introduction to Skeleton Crew (1985), his second collection of stories, King pokes fun at his penchant for "literary elephantiasis," makes scatological jokes about his muse, confesses how much money he makes (gross and net), and tells a story about getting arrested one time when he was "suffused with the sort of towering, righteous rage that only drunk undergraduates can feel." He winds up with an invitation to a scary voyage: "Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way."
And he sure does. Skeleton Crew contains a superb short novel ("The Mist") that alone is worth the price of admission, plus two forgettable poems and 20 short stories on such themes as an evil toy monkey, a human-eating water slick, a machine that avenges murder, and unnatural creatures that inhabit the thick woods near Castle Rock, Maine. The short tales range from simply enjoyable to surprisingly good.
In addition to "The Mist," the real standout is "The Reach," a beautifully subtle story about a great-grandmother who was born on a small island off the coast of Maine and has lived there her whole life. She has never been across "the Reach," the body of water between island and mainland. This is the story that King fans give to their friends who don't read horror in order to show them how literate, how charming a storyteller he can be. Don't miss it. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Speaker for the Deadby Orson Scott CardISBN 0808586874 (0-8085-8687-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speaker for the Dead'Book summary:Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts. Like its predecessor, this book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. [via]
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Spiesby Michael FraynISBN 0805070583 (0-8050-7058-3)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Stuart Littleby E. B. White, Julie HarrisISBN 0807283320 (0-8072-8332-0)
Softcover, Listening Library
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0805502645 (0-8055-0264-5)
Hardcover, Hart Pub Co
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The Talismanby Stephen King, Peter StraubISBN 0808565664 (0-8085-6566-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Talisman'Book summary:On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across Americaand into another realm.
One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mothers life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest
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Tarnsman of Gorby John NormanISBN 0809500795 (0-8095-0079-5)
Softcover, Wildside Press
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Tarnsman of Gor 1by John NormanISBN 0809556154 (0-8095-5615-4)
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Three Men in a Boatby Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 0809436957 (0-8094-3695-7)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre Dumas, William RobsonISBN 0805502041 (0-8055-0204-1)
Softcover, Hart Pub Co
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910014 (0-8049-1001-4)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, Mervyn PeakeISBN 0805206205 (0-8052-0620-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Treasure Island'Book summary:Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
Vacant Possessionby Hilary MantelISBN 0805062718 (0-8050-6271-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0804901384 (0-8049-0138-4)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Viaductby David WheldonISBN 0807610771 (0-8076-1077-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0809589885 (0-8095-8988-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette: Library Edition'Book summary:When I was a girl I went to Bretton about twice a year, and well I liked the visit. The house and its inmates specially suited me. The large peaceful rooms, the well-arranged furniture, the clear wide windows, the balcony outside, looking down on a fine antique street, where Sundays and holidays seemed always to abide -- so quiet was its atmosphere, so clean its pavement -- these things pleased me well. One child in a household of grown people is usually made very much of, and in a quiet way I was a good deal taken notice of by Mrs. Bretton, who had been left a widow, with one son, before I knew her; her husband, a physician, having died while she was yet a young and handsome woman. . . . [via]
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The Vintage Bradburyby Ray BradburyISBN 0808599836 (0-8085-9983-6)
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Waldenby Henry David Thoreau, Bill McKibbenISBN 0807014230 (0-8070-1423-0)
Softcover, Beacon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau's groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revised Introduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly in his role as cultural and spiritual seer, this beautiful edition of Walden for the new millennium is more accessible and relevant than ever. [via]
The Wishsong of Shannaraby Terry BrooksISBN 0808572407 (0-8085-7240-7)
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Michael HagueISBN 0805002219 (0-8050-0221-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Wizard of Ozby M. P. Hearn, L. Frank Baum, W. W. DenslowISBN 0805238123 (0-8052-3812-3)
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The Wizard of Oz : Celebrating the Hundredth Anniversaryby L. Frank Baum, Michael HagueISBN 0805064303 (0-8050-6430-3)
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Wormholes : Essays and Occasional Writingsby John FowlesISBN 080506172X (0-8050-6172-X)
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