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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anansi Boys: Library Edition'
One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime.
Anansi Boys
God is dead. Meet the kids.
When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life.
Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.
Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself.
Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bastard Out of Carolina'
Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright familyrough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furiousuntil their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cry, the Beloved Country'
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
The most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948, Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, "We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony."
Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Die Verwandlung'
"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt".
Welch ein Satz! Ich erinnere mich, ihn in den 60er Jahren zum ersten Mal gelesen zu haben. Kafka galt in unserer Clique eine Zeitlang als jemand, den man gelesen haben mußte, um mitreden zu können. Verstanden habe ich damals eigentlich nichts. Oder fast nichts. Nur, daß etwas Ungeheuerliches geschehen war. In diesem Buch und mit mir.
Da erwacht also dieser Gregor, ein junger Handlungsreisender, der unter seinem Beruf und der Lieblosigkeit seiner Umwelt leidet, eines Morgens als riesiges Insekt. Zur Arbeit zu gehen, macht in seinem Zustand wenig Sinn. Schon taucht der erboste Prokurist auf und verlangt wütend eine Erklärung für Gregors Fernbleiben. Diese Szene, in der Gregor hinter verschlossener Tür sein Verhalten entschuldigt, seinen Käferkörper zur Tür quält und sich schließlich zu erkennen gibt, ist so haarsträubend kafkaesk, daß spätestens jetzt dieser Begriff jedem einleuchten dürfte. Gregors Familie ist angewidert, läßt den Sohn aber bei sich wohnen, bis schließlich -- nun, Sie werden es erfahren.
Keine Erklärung, nur dieser Hilfeschrei! Solche Radikalität war neu in der Literatur. Deutungen gab es viele. Gregor, wie Kafka, ein schwacher Mensch, der Tag für Tag mitansehen muß, wie diese Welt mit Schwachen umgeht, droht daran zugrundezugehen und vollzieht Die Verwandlung. Das ist seine "Rettung".
Im Jahre 1912 geschrieben, wurde Die Verwandlung noch zu Kafkas Lebzeiten veröffentlicht. Ein literarisches Jahrhundertereignis. Wie nachhaltig die Wirkung noch heute ist, läßt sich am Werk solcher Regiegrößen wie David Lynch und Polanski, um nur einige zu nennen, ablesen. --Ravi Unger [via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis'
Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis climaxes in the very first line--the protagonist has indeed been transformed. The critical questions lie in the interpretation of the transformation. Kafka has been said to have offered everything from a psychological parable of Oedipal struggle to a caricature of psychological readings.
The title, Franz Kafkas The Metamorphosis, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Franz Kafkas The Metamorphosis through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Franz Kafka, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guards! Guards!'
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In Anhk-Morpork, the blissful alcoholic oblivion of Vimes is disrupted by the arrival of Carrot, an ambitious dwarf cop who goes on an arresting spree, freeing an enormous dragon in the process. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis'
-Al despertar Gregorio Samza una manana, se encontro en su cama convertido en un montruoso insecto.-Tal es el abrupto comienzo, que nos situa de raiz bajo unas reglas distintas, de LA METAMORFOSIS, sin duda la onra de Franz Kafka 1883-1924 que ha alcanzado mayor celebridad. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphosis'
Kafka's classic on family, fatherhood, salesmanship, wise men, and insects. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphosis and Other Stories/the Great Short Works of Franz Kafka'
A new translation of the Kafka classics, The Metamorphosis, The Judgment, The Stoker, and others, preserves the humor and quirks of Kafka's original style, while injecting a freshness intended to appeal to modern readers. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphosis: Including Selections from Kafka's Letters and Diaries and Critical Essays'
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis is one of the great novellas of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. This story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking up to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect-like creature. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'
In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'
For many of us, the adventures of Dorothy in Oz will forever be associated not with Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" but with W. W. Denslow's exceedingly odd line drawings for the original editions of Baum's Oz series. The Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger, however, goes a long way toward providing a new and refreshed set of images for the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the humbug wizard. These illustrations are often cockeyed, with occasional realistic details thrown in, like a crow with a corncob in its beak in the first portrait of the Scarecrow. The characters have a poignance and oddity that escaped the makers of the Oz movie. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'
In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz Book and Charm'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz : Celebrating the Hundredth Anniversary'
For many of us, the adventures of Dorothy in Oz will forever be associated not with Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" but with W. W. Denslow's exceedingly odd line drawings for the original editions of Baum's Oz series. The Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger, however, goes a long way toward providing a new and refreshed set of images for the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the humbug wizard. These illustrations are often cockeyed, with occasional realistic details thrown in, like a crow with a corncob in its beak in the first portrait of the Scarecrow. The characters have a poignance and oddity that escaped the makers of the Oz movie. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz: Easy Piano'
Dan Coates applies his popular Easy Piano arrangements to the delightful score from this timeless movie classic. Here's a collector's item for players of all ages. Songs include: Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
* If Only I Had a Brain
* If I Were the King of the Forest
* Over the Rainbow
* We're Off to See the Wizard and more. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz : Centennial Edition'
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz must be one of the best-known, charming and unique children's stories ever but it is also more than a children's story, Oz stands as a demarcation point between American's rural past and urban future, harmoniously uniting a democratic spirit and a utopian vision with a prescient dark undercurrent that foreshadowed the Great Depression. This centennial edition, elegantly designed for all ages, includes rare and illuminating materials of interest to both first-time Oz readers and bibliophiles alike. About the Author L. Frank Baum is the author of 14 Oz books, as well as many other classics of American fantasy. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the best known of his legendary books. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis'
-Al despertar Gregorio Samza una manana, se encontro en su cama convertido en un montruoso insecto.-Tal es el abrupto comienzo, que nos situa de raiz bajo unas reglas distintas, de LA METAMORFOSIS, sin duda la onra de Franz Kafka 1883-1924 que ha alcanzado mayor celebridad. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Magicien D'Oz'
« Dorothée poussa un cri d'admiration et regarda autour d'elle, ses yeux s'écarquillaient à chaque merveille qu'elle découvrait... » C'est vers un pays bien étrange et merveilleux que Dorothée et Toto, son petit chien, se trouvent emportés par un cyclone. Mais malgré la beauté des lieux, la fillette n'a qu'une envie : rentrer chez elle au plus tôt. Lorsqu'elle apprend que seul le Grand Magicien de ce fabuleux pays d'Oz peut l'aider, elle part à sa recherche. En chemin, l'Épouvantail, le Bûcheron-en-fer-blanc et le Lion Poltron qu'elle rencontre décident de l'accompagner jusqu'à la mystérieuse Cité d'Émeraude. Et là? Le Grand Oz qu'ils découvrent ensemble se révélera encore plus énigmatique qu'ils ne l'imaginaient... Sur les traces de Dorothée, Lisbeth Zwerger nous emporte dans le monde enchanteur du célèbre « Magicien d'Oz » qu'elle réinvente aujourd'hui pour nous. Et grâce aux lunettes vertes qui accompagnent ce livre, l'illusion devient parfaite. Ses illustrations, à la fois magiques et capricieuses, nous livrent une approche nouvelle et fantastique de ce conte moderne de Lyman Frank Baum, un grand classique de la littérature enfantine américaine. [via]
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