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Androcles And the Lionby George Bernard ShawISBN 1421807378 (1-4218-0737-8)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage: Secret Historiesby Mark AxelrodISBN 1573661147 (1-57366-114-7)
Softcover, Univ of Alabama Pr
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Menby David Foster WallaceISBN 0316925195 (0-316-92519-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men'Book summary:Amid the screams of adulation for bandanna-clad wunderkind David Foster Wallace, you might hear a small peep. It is the cry for some restraint. On occasion the reader is left in the dust wondering where the story went, as the author, literary turbochargers on full-blast, suddenly accelerates into the wild-blue-footnoted yonder in pursuit of some obscure metafictional fancy. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Wallace's latest collection, is at least in part a response to the distress signal put out by the many readers who want to ride along with him, if he'd only slow down for a second.
The intellectual gymnastics and ceaseless rumination endure (if you don't have a tolerance for that kind of thing, your nose doesn't belong in this book), but they are for the most part couched in simpler, less frenzied narratives. The book's four-piece namesake takes the form of interview transcripts, in which the conniving horror that is the male gender is revealed in all of its licentious glory. In the short, two-part "The Devil Is a Busy Man," Wallace strolls through the Hall of Mirrors that is human motivation. (Is it possible to completely rid an act of generosity of any self-serving benefits? And why is it easier to sell a couch for five dollars than it is to give it away for free?) The even shorter glimpse into modern-day social ritual, "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life," stretches the seams of its total of seven lines with scathing economy: "She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces." Wallace also imbues his extreme observational skills with a haunting poetic sensibility. Witness what he does to a diving board and the two darkened patches at the end of it in "Forever Overhead":
It's going to send you someplace which its own length keeps you from seeing, which seems wrong to submit to without even thinking.... They are skin abraded from feet by the violence of the disappearance of people with real weight.
Of course, not every piece is an absolute winner. "The Depressed Person" slips from purposefully clinical to unintentionally boring. "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko" reimagines an Arthurian tale in MTV terms and holds your attention for about as long as you'd imagine from such a description. Ultimately, however, even these failed experiments are a testament to Mr. Wallace's endless if unbridled talent. Once he gets the reins completely around that sucker, it's going to be quite a ride. --Bob Michaels [via]More editions of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men:
The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotesby Chuck ZerbyISBN 1931229058 (1-931229-05-8)
Hardcover, Invisible Cities Pr
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El Salon De Ambarby Matilde AsensiISBN 8408068563 (84-08-06856-3)
Softcover, Booket
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinityby David Foster WallaceISBN 0393326292 (0-393-32629-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything And More: A Compact History Of Infinity'Book summary:Before discussing the merits of David Foster Wallace's Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, it is essential to define what the book is not. This volume in the "Great Discoveries" series is not a history of the personalities and social conditions that led to the "discovery" of infinity. Nor is it a narrative fixated on the cultish fear of--and obsession with--the infinite that has seemingly driven mathematicians insane over the centuries. Rather, Everything and More is a surprisingly rigorous march through the 2000 plus years of mathematical research that began with Aristotle; continued through Galileo, Isaac Newton, G.W. Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and J.W.R. Dedekind; and culminated in Georg Cantor and his Set Theory. The task Wallace (author of the bestseller Infinite Jest and other fiction) has set himself is enormously challenging: without radically compromising the complexity of the philosophy, metaphysics, or mathematics that underlies the evolving concept of infinity, present the material to a lay audience in a manner that is entertaining. To propel his narrative, Wallace even develops a style that mirrors the mathematical language he probes. One difficulty in his focus on concepts and not a strict human chronology, though, is that his structure is dependent on frequent digressions (especially early on). Patience is required. Wallace demands that his reader walk through the equations, study the graphs and charts, and relearn college-level concepts to follow along on the exploration. Indeed, after one wrenching dip into Zenos paradoxes, Wallace spouts at his imagined complaining audience: "Deal." But the book should be deemed a success. If one grants him the attention he requires, Wallace has made the trip richly rewarding. --Patrick OKelley [via]
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The Footnote: A Curious Historyby Anthony GraftonISBN 0674307607 (0-674-30760-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witchby Terry Pratchett, Neil GaimanISBN 0894808532 (0-89480-853-2)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch'Book summary:Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time... [via]
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Henry Vby William ShakespeareISBN 1420926292 (1-4209-2629-2)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry IV'Book summary:"Cry, 'God for Harry! England and Saint George!'" Henry's V's rallying cry to his soldiers before Harfleur has become an iconic rallying cry for English nationalism. More than any other Shakespeare play, Henry V has been seen to define what it means to be English in its account of Henry's triumphant victory over vastly superior French forces in 1415. The play has been endlessly quoted by politicians as an incitement to patriotism, and Laurence Olivier's ground-breaking film of the play was dedicated to the Allied soldiers who landed in France on D-Day in 1944.
More recently critics have questioned the extent to which the play is simply a piece of nationalist propaganda, pointing to the more ambivalent reflections on the cost of war voiced by various characters throughout the play. As one of Henry's soldiers reflects on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt, "if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make". Henry himself has already been defined as a cunning and rather unsympathetic character in Henry IV Parts One and Two, and his cynical manipulation of patriotism in his pursuit of military glory is incisively undercut by the Irishman Macmorris' poignant question as to "What ish my nation?" This more ambivalent dimension of the play is most effectively captured in Kenneth Branagh's post-Falklands film, Henry V, which portrays a king much more aware of the dreadful consequences of going to war. Branagh's film suggests that Henry V ultimately questions, rather than endorses the glory of going into battle for one's country. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- Henry V: ISBN 1840224215 (1-84022-421-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Henry V: ISBN 1854596217 (1-85459-621-7)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group - King Henry V: ISBN 1903437253 (1-903437-25-3)
Softcover, Cengage Learning - King Henry V: ISBN 1904271081 (1-904271-08-1)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare - Henry V Classics Library: ISBN 1853260886 (1-85326-088-6)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Henry IV: ISBN 1420926292 (1-4209-2629-2)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
- Henry V: ISBN 1840224215 (1-84022-421-5)
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House of Leavesby Mark Z. DanielewskiISBN 0375703764 (0-375-70376-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of Leaves'Book summary:Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on.
Now that we've reached the post-postmodern era, presumably there's nobody left who needs liberating from the strictures of conventional fiction. So apart from its narrative high jinks, what does House of Leaves have to offer? According to Johnny Truant, the tattoo-shop apprentice who discovers Zampanò's work, once you read The Navidson Record,
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.
We'll have to take his word for it, however. As it's presented here, the description of the spooky film isn't continuous enough to have much scare power. Instead, we're pulled back into Johnny Truant's world through his footnotes, which he uses to discharge everything in his head, including the discovery of the manuscript, his encounters with people who knew Zampanò, and his own battles with drugs, sex, ennui, and a vague evil force. If The Navidson Record is a mad professor lecturing on the supernatural with rational-seeming conviction, Truant's footnotes are the manic student in the back of the auditorium, wigged out and furiously scribbling whoa-dude notes about life.Despite his flaws, Truant is an appealingly earnest amateur editor--finding translators, tracking down sources, pointing out incongruities. Danielewski takes an academic's--or ex-academic's--glee in footnotes (the similarity to David Foster Wallace is almost too obvious to mention), as well as other bogus ivory-tower trappings such as interviews with celebrity scholars like Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom. And he stuffs highbrow and pop-culture references (and parodies) into the novel with the enthusiasm of an anarchist filling a pipe bomb with bits of junk metal. House of Leaves may not be the prettiest or most coherent collection, but if you're trying to blow stuff up, who cares? --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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- House of Leaves: ISBN 0375420525 (0-375-42052-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - House of Leaves: ISBN 0375407324 (0-375-40732-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc - House of Leaves : A Novel: ISBN 0375410341 (0-375-41034-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - House of Leaves: ISBN 0375703764 (0-375-70376-4)
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Ibid: A Lifeby Mark DunnISBN 1931561656 (1-931561-65-6)
Hardcover, Macadam Cage Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ibid: A Life'Book summary:Mark Dunn's early forays into the novel, Ella Minnow Pea and Welcome to Higby, were praised by critics and relished by bibliophiles for their linguistic gamesmanship. But Ibid: A Life easily outdoes its predecessors for literary audacity. The novel purports to be not a novel at all, but the endnotes of a biography. The main text of the supposed life of Jonathan Bashette was destroyed by a careless editor, and, as the wearied author reports in the letters which begin the book, his publisher has decided that the notes can stand alone.
At first, the conceit makes for difficult reading, but Dunn does a remarkable job of slowly revealing three-legged Jonathan Blashette and his odd world without ever departing from the footnote form. Readers learn that Blashette, born in Pettiville, Arkansas, in 1888, was doomed by his extra leg to become a sideshow attraction. But the boy escapes the circus to become a soldier in World War I. There, in the trenches, he first glimpses (or smells) his future calling: male underarm deodorants. Upon his return to the States, he launches the Dandy-de-odor-o Corporation and marries several times (each wife meeting a bizarre end in the cursed city of Boston). Though rocked by adversity, the fictional Blashette lives a rich life full of encounters with the writers, politicians, artists, and celebrities that marked the 20th Century.
Rather than being a limitation in this quirky Horatio Alger story, the notes offer Dunn freedom to explore the diversity of his imagination with brief sketches and "back-story" that are, in fact, all the story there is. The novel becomes a pastiche of parodies of famous documents, speeches, and poems. Dunn includes the "full text" of Lou Gehrig's farewell speech at Yankee Stadium (which includes thanks for a "'Waldorf' Wardrobe Trunk with vulcanized fiber binding and built-in shoe pockets!") and an alternate version of the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 steps, complete with consideration of Dolores Del Rio as a "power greater than ourselves." Throughout, Dunn references one obscure fictional book after another, from Ringleader: A Life in Circus Management, with a Foreword by the Bastard Ringling Brother "Skippy" to a collection of letters sent to a urologist, Confessions to a Pee Pee Doctor.
Ibid's humor, an odd mix of Monty Pythonesque potty jokes and highbrow political and literary satire, may not be for everyone. But Dunn's deft contortion of the usual elements of storytelling into this odd formal experiment proves to be a perfect showcase for his unique wit and intellect. Ibid may not be the Great American Novel, but it is certainly the cleverest American endnotes ever to see print. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Infinite Jestby David Foster WallaceISBN 0316066524 (0-316-06652-4)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Infinite Jest'Book summary:In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves. [via]
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James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 1555460208 (1-55546-020-8)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:Considered to be cast in a daring rhetorical mode, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel by James Joyce. Originally published as a series, the novel continually interacts with Irish history and culture.
The title, James Joyces A Portrait of Artist As Young Man, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on James Joyces A Portrait of Artist As Young Man through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on James Joyce, 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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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrellby Susanna ClarkeISBN 1582346038 (1-58234-603-8)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell'Book summary:It's 1808 and that Corsican upstart Napoleon is battering the English army and navy. Enter Mr. Norrell, a fusty but ambitious scholar from the Yorkshire countryside and the first practical magician in hundreds of years. What better way to demonstrate his revival of British magic than to change the course of the Napoleonic wars? Susanna Clarke's ingenious first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, has the cleverness and lightness of touch of the Harry Potter series, but is less a fairy tale of good versus evil than a fantastic comedy of manners, complete with elaborate false footnotes, occasional period spellings, and a dense, lively mythology teeming beneath the narrative. Mr. Norrell moves to London to establish his influence in government circles, devising such powerful illusions as an 11-day blockade of French ports by English ships fabricated from rainwater. But however skillful his magic, his vanity provides an Achilles heel, and the differing ambitions of his more glamorous apprentice, Jonathan Strange, threaten to topple all that Mr. Norrell has achieved. A sparkling debut from Susanna Clarke--and it's not all fairy dust. --Regina Marler [via]
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Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: ISBN 1596910534 (1-59691-053-4)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: ISBN 0765356155 (0-7653-5615-5)
Softcover, Tor Books - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: ISBN 1582346038 (1-58234-603-8)
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- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: ISBN 1596911530 (1-59691-153-0)
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King Henry IVby A.R. HumphreysISBN 1904271057 (1-904271-05-7)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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King Henry IVby David Scott KastanISBN 1904271359 (1-904271-35-9)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Henry IV'Book summary:[via]David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues that the non-historical, comic plot does not simply parody the historical action but by its existence raises questions about the very nature of history. The full and engaging introduction devotes extensive discussion to the play's language, indicating how its insistent economic vocabulary provides texture for the social concerns of the play and focuses attention on the central relationship between value and political authority. Kastan also covers the recurrence of the word "honor" in the text and the role that women play. Appendices provide the sources of 1 Henry IV, discussions of Shakespeare's metrics, and the history of the manuscript. The appendix on casting features a doubling chart to show which characters may be played by one actor. Photographic images of the original Q0 Fragment, which is assumed to have been printed in Peter Short's printing house in 1598, appear in the fifth appendix. Finally, a reference section provides a list of abbreviations and references, a catalog of Shakespeares works and works partly by Shakespeare, and citations for the modern productions mentioned in the text, other collated editions of Shakespeare's work, and other related reading.The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the plays foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader.More editions of King Henry IV:
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King Henry IVby William Shakespeare, A.R. HumphreysISBN 1904271065 (1-904271-06-5)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Henry IV'Book summary:The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of King Henry IV Part II provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts. [via]
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, Peter Holland, David BevingtonISBN 1402206887 (1-4022-0688-7)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:Shakespeare has been called the greatest writer in the English languagebut his language and settings can seem remote and forbidding. Welcome to Black Dogs Graphic Shakespeare Library, where each play comes to life in a new way, panel after illustrated panel.
King Lear is a story of kingship, honor, and bloody revenge. Graphic Shakespeare brings all of the action to vivid life while retaining every word of the original play. King Lear is illustrated in full color by Ian Pollack and includes a synopsis of the play, and an illustrated character list. Its a marvelous way to experience Shakespeare for the first timeor the tenthand is sure to be attractive to students and theatre fans alike. [via]More editions of Macbeth:
- Macbeth: ISBN 1579126219 (1-57912-621-9)
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Softcover, Nick Hern Books - Macbeth: ISBN 1903436486 (1-903436-48-6)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare - Macbeth: ISBN 1578400147 (1-57840-014-7)
Softcover, Acclaim Books - Macbeth: ISBN 0894802054 (0-89480-205-4)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co - Macbeth: ISBN 0895984202 (0-89598-420-2)
Softcover, Perfection Form Co - Macbeth: ISBN 8437606632 (84-376-0663-2)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones - Macbeth: ISBN 9583004472 (958-30-0447-2)
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Macbeth: Shakespeare Made Easyby William Shakespeare, Tanya Grosz, Linda WendlerISBN 1599051346 (1-59905-134-6)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth: Shakespeare Made Easy'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Mezzanineby Nicholson BakerISBN 1555842585 (1-55584-258-5)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mezzanine'Book summary:In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying ones shoes, The Mezzanine at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry. At first glance, The Mezzanine appears to be a book about nothing. In reality, it is a brilliant celebration of things, simultaneously demonstrating the value of reflection and the importance of everyday human experiences. Captures the spirit of American corporate life and invests it with a passion and sympathy that is entirely unexpected. The Seattle Times A constant delight . . . among the years best. The Boston Globe Baker writes with appealing charm . . . [He] clowns and shows off . . . rambles and pounces hard; he says acute things, extravagant things, terribly funny things. Los Angeles Times Book Review [via]
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Othelloby William Shakespeare, Peter Holland, Barbara GainesISBN 1402201028 (1-4022-0102-8)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeare's major phase as a dramatist. [via]
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- Othello: ISBN 1853260185 (1-85326-018-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Othello: ISBN 1903436451 (1-903436-45-1)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare - Othello: ISBN 1411400399 (1-4114-0039-9)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Othello: ISBN 0894806114 (0-89480-611-4)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co - Othello: ISBN 8437605369 (84-376-0536-9)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones - Othello: ISBN 1402201028 (1-4022-0102-8)
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- Othello: ISBN 1853260185 (1-85326-018-5)
Othello, the Moor of Veniceby William ShakespeareISBN 0934048169 (0-934048-16-9)
Softcover, Swan Books
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Pale Fireby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679723420 (0-679-72342-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pale Fire'Book summary:Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a fairy tale. Here's the plot--listen carefully! John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poet's crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.
According to this deranged annotator, he had urged Shade to write about his own homeland--the northern kingdom of Zembla. It soon becomes clear that this fabulous locale may well be a figment of Kinbote's colorfully cracked, prismatic imagination. Meanwhile, he manages to twist the poem into an account of Zembla's King Charles--whom he believes himself to be--and the monarch's eventual assassination by the revolutionary Jakob Gradus.
In the course of this dizzying narrative, shots are indeed fired. But it's Shade who takes the hit, enabling Kinbote to steal the dead poet's manuscript and set about annotating it. Is that perfectly clear? By now it should be obvious that Pale Fire is not only a whodunit but a who-wrote-it. There isn't, of course, a single solution. But Nabokov's best biographer, Brian Boyd, has come up with an ingenious suggestion: he argues that Shade is actually guiding Kinbote's mad hand from beyond the grave, nudging him into completing what he'd intended to be a 1,000-line poem. Read this magical, melancholic mystery and see if you agree. --Tim Appelo [via]
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- Pale Fire: ISBN 0679410775 (0-679-41077-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Pale Fire: ISBN 0399504583 (0-399-50458-3)
Softcover, Perigee - Pale Fire: ISBN 0425093220 (0-425-09322-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Pale Fire: ISBN 0399121617 (0-399-12161-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - Pale Fire: ISBN 0679723420 (0-679-72342-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Pale Fire: ISBN 0679410775 (0-679-41077-5)
Pedro Paramoby Juan Rulfo, Margaret Sayers PendenISBN 1852427264 (1-85242-726-4)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pedro Paramo'Book summary:La obra de Juan Rulfo (1917 1986) es sin duda la creación literaria mexicana que ha recibido mayor reconocimiento dentro y fuera de su país. La novela Pedro Paramo tuvo una larga gestacion. Rulfo la menciona por primera vez en una carta de 1947, y puede trabajar en ella hasta terminarla entre 1953 y 1954, gracias a una beca del Centro Mexicano de Escritores. En 1954 publica adelantos de la misma en tres revistas y en 1955 aparece como libro. Entre los admiradores de esta obra maestra, habiendo escrito tambien sobre ella, figuran Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges y Susan Sontag. Pedro Paramo recoge lo mas profundo de Mexico y las formas y técnicas literarias más avanzadas de su siglo. Pocas obras tocan al lector mexicano como ésta, considerada también un clásico de la literatura universal. (Texto definitivo de la obra establecido por la Fundación Juan Rulfo [via]
Pieces of Payneby Albert GoldbarthISBN 1555973787 (1-55597-378-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man And Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 159308031X (1-59308-031-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 1416500316 (1-4165-0031-6)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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- A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: ISBN 1420922459 (1-4209-2245-9)
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The Sandman Companionby Hy BenderISBN 1563896443 (1-56389-644-3)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sandman Companion'Book summary:The Sandman was a groundbreaking and award-winning series that told the dark and tragic tale of Morpheus, the King of Dreams. A fascinating mythology of horror and consequence, this epic masterfully combined intriguing literature with captivating art. THE SANDMAN COMPANION is an exhaustive guide to this legend. Revealing hitherto undisclosed information and behind-the-scenes secrets, this book features in-depth interviews, never-before-seen illustrations, character origins, and story explanations and analysis. Also including excerpts from the original proposal for the series, this handbook is the perfect complement to the Sandman graphic novels. [via]
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The Sandman Companionby Neil Gaiman, Hy BenderISBN 1563894653 (1-56389-465-3)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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The Second Part of Henry IVby William ShakespeareISBN 1404309039 (1-4043-0903-9)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Second Part of Henry IV'Book summary:Written between 1596 and 1597, Henry IV Part One represents Shakespeare's increasingly mature talent in staging the history of the early Tudor monarchy. Midway in the cycle of Shakespeare's History Plays, which begin with Richard II and ultimately culminate in his last play, Henry VIII, Henry IV Part One tells the story of the troubled reign of Henry IV following his deposition of Richard II. The historical action revolves around the attempt by Henry Percy (known as Hotspur) to overthrow Henry at the Battle of Shrewsbury. However, over half the play deals with the transformation of Henry's profligate son, Prince Hal (the future King Henry V), from tavern joker to national icon.
The whole play is stolen from its kings and princes by Shakespeare's greatest comic creation, the "fat-kidneyed rascal" Sir John Falstaff, king of his own dominions--the taverns and brothels of London's Eastcheap district. The tavern scenes of the play are some of the most evocative accounts of 16th-century popular London life. They revolve around the comical but ultimately sinister relationship between Falstaff and his young apprentice Hal, who learns to "so offend to make offence a skill" as he learns the slippery ropes of realpolitik and kingship. The play is considered by many to be the liveliest and most profound of Shakespeare's History Plays, and remains one of its most popular examples. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Softcover, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books - The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Containing His Death: And the Coronation of King Henry the Fifth: ISBN 1557834180 (1-55783-418-0)
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Shakespeare's Macbethby Harold BloomISBN 1594480087 (1-59448-008-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Shakespeare's Othelloby Harold BloomISBN 1594480761 (1-59448-076-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Othello'Book summary:The exciting new series that began in Fall 2004 with Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Henry IV continues...
"Negative charisma is an odd endowment; Iago represents it uniquely in Shakespeare, and most literary incarnations of it since owe much to Iago." - Harold Bloom
Each edition in the Harold Bloom Shakespeare series will include the full text of the play, with editorial revisions and commentary by Harold Bloom. [via]More editions of Shakespeare's Othello:
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Sir Gawain and the Green KnightISBN 1853267899 (1-85326-789-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
Find This BookBook summary:A Middle English romance about the contest between King arthur's nephew Gawain and the Green Knight who interrupts the Christmas festivities at Camelot. It signifies the testing of the Arthurian ideals of chivalry, as Gawain travels north to the final duel between the two chevaliers, with an ironic moral which follows the surprising outcome. [via]
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Middle English Text With Facing Translationby James WinnyISBN 0921149921 (0-921149-92-1)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Middle English Text With Facing Translation'Book summary:The fourteenth-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the greatest classics of English literature, but one of the least accessible to most twentieth-century readers. Written in an obscure dialect, it is far more difficult to digest in the original than are most other late medieval English works. Yet any translation is bound to lose much of the flavour of the original. This edition of the poem offers the original text together with a facing-page translation. With the alliterative Middle English before the reader, James Winny provides a non-alliterative and sensitively literal rendering in modern English. This edition also provides an introduction, explanatory and textual notes, a further note on some words that present particular difficulties, and, in the appendices, two contemporary stories, The Feast of Bricriu and The Knight of the Sword, which provide insight on the poem. [via]
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Teen Angst? Naaah: A Quasi-Autobiographyby Ned VizziniISBN 1575420848 (1-57542-084-8)
Softcover, Free Spirit Pub
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Ned Vizzini writes about the weird, funny, and sometimes mortifying moments that made up his teen years. With wit, irony, and honesty, Teen Angst? Naaah . . . invites you into Neds world of school, parents, cool (and almost cool), street people, rock bands, friends, fame, camp, sex (sort of), Cancún (almost), prom, beer, video games, and more. [via]More editions of Teen Angst? Naaah: A Quasi-Autobiography:
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The Third Policemanby Flann O'BrienISBN 156478214X (1-56478-214-X)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Tragedy of Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 1419185551 (1-4191-8555-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Veniceby William ShakespeareISBN 1406821047 (1-4068-2104-7)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice'Book summary:If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances. [via]
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Algo supuestamente divertido que nunca volvere a hacerby Not AvailableISBN 9685957207 (968-5957-20-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Bartleby Y Companiaby Enrique Vila-MatasISBN 8433924494 (84-339-2449-4)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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Buenos Presagios: Las Buenas Y Ajustadas Profecfas De Agnes La Chalada/Good Omens The Nice & Accurate Prophecies Of Agnes Nutter, Witchby Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Maria FerrerISBN 159497098X (1-59497-098-X)
Softcover, Public Square Books
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English: According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter--the world's only totally reliable guide to the future--the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea... From two delightful imaginations comes an unforgettable story in which the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, the hound of the devil chases sticks, and the end of the world is subject to Murphy's Law... From Amazon.com. . . Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time... [via]
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Jonathan Strange Y El Senor Norrelby Susanna ClarkeISBN 8478889736 (84-7888-973-6)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Macbeth y Hamletby William Shakespeare, Juan Alarcon BenitoISBN 8484034216 (84-8403-421-6)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros
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La Noche Del Oraculoby Paul Auster, Benito Gomez IbanezISBN 8433970445 (84-339-7044-5)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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Palido Fuegoby Nabokov V.ISBN 843392060X (84-339-2060-X)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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Pedro Paramoby Juan Rulfo Vizcaino, Jose Carlos Boixo GonzalezISBN 8437604184 (84-376-0418-4)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Pedro Paramoby Not AvailableISBN 9681104315 (968-11-0431-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Pedro Paramoby Rulfo JISBN 8433920707 (84-339-2070-7)
Softcover, Editorial Anagrama
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Retrato Del Artista Adolescente/ Portrait of the Young Artistby James JoyceISBN 9685270740 (968-5270-74-0)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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