| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “français”
books tagged “français”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
English
The Abyssby Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace FrickISBN 0374516669 (0-374-51666-9)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Abyss'More editions of The Abyss:
-
The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry from Nerval to Valery in English Translation: From Nerval to Valery, in English Translationby Angel Flores, Patti SmithISBN 0385498888 (0-385-49888-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry from Nerval to Valery in English Translation: From Nerval to Valery, in English Translation'More editions of The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry from Nerval to Valery in English Translation: From Nerval to Valery, in English Translation:
-
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates, Hollis Robbins, Karen C.C. DaltonISBN 0393059464 (0-393-05946-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:Henry Louis Gates Jr. redefines Uncle Tom's Cabin with this seminal interpretation of the great American novel.
Declared worthless and dehumanizing by James Baldwin in 1949, Uncle Tom's Cabin has lacked literary credibility for fifty years. Now, in a ringing refutation of Baldwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr. demonstrates the literary transcendence of Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece. Uncle Tom's Cabin, first published in 1852, galvanized the American public as no other work of fiction has ever done. The editors animate pre-Civil War life with rich insights into the lives of slaves, abolitionists, and the American reading public. Examining the lingering effects of the novel, they provide new insights into emerging race-relation, women's, gay, and gender issues. With reproductions of rare prints, posters, and photographs, this book is also one of the most thorough anthologies of Uncle Tom images up to the present day. [via]More editions of The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin:
-
The Annotated Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Michael Patrick HearnISBN 0393049922 (0-393-04992-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Wizard of Oz'Book summary:An updated version of the definitive guide, The Annotated Wizard of Oz provides a facsimile color version of the first edition of L. Frank Baum's children's classic along with extensive notes and a thorough history of the immense Oz project. In his excellent introduction, Michael Patrick Hearn describes the author's early life and interests and the development of his collaboration with W.W. Denslow, the original illustrator for his books.
An energetic and excitable fellow, Baum's devotion to make-believe began in his early 20s, when he joined a small touring theatrical troupe on the East Coast. Later attempts to run a general store and a newspaper in South Dakota (then the Wild West) failed miserably. Although few of his business ventures or artistic efforts had met with success, in 1897 Baum's "Father Goose" rhymes (designed and illustrated by Denslow) became a surprise bestseller, and Baum was able to buy his family a summer cottage on Lake Michigan, christened "The Sign of the Goose," for which he made most of the furniture (goose-themed, of course) and stenciled the walls with a frieze of green geese.
The idea for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, "a modern fairy tale," as he considered it, soon followed, and the book appeared in May 1900. The 10,000-copy first printing sold out in two weeks, and about 90,000 sold within the first year. Hearn goes on to describe the many books that followed, as well as the 1902 musical extravaganza The Wizard of Oz and Baum's subsequent, ill-starred attempts to depict the world of Oz on film. (He died long before the 1939 MGM musical made his fairy tale known around the globe.) In 1907, he told a reporter for the Grand Rapids Herald why he preferred young readers:
To write fairy stories for children, to amuse them, to divert restless children, sick children, to keep them out of mischief on rainy days, seems of greater importance than to write grown-up novels. Few of the popular novels last the year out, responding as they do to a certain psychological demand, characteristic of the time; whereas, a child's book is, comparatively speaking, the same always, since children are always the same kind of folks with the same needs to be satisfied.
Hearn has gone to great lengths in his notes to this facsimile of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, often referring to subsequent volumes in the series, slowly building a key to the rules and history of Oz, pointing out inconsistencies as well as hints to Baum's literary sources (such as Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress), and providing, among other delights, a mini-treatise on malevolent vegetation in Oz. This is an essential volume for the Oz aficionado or the student of children's literature, and a wonderful resource for parents of young readers. --Regina Marler [via]More editions of The Annotated Wizard of Oz:
-
The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Moralsby Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheISBN 0385092105 (0-385-09210-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Morals'Book summary:Skillful, sophisticated translations of two of Nietzsche's essential works about the conflict between the moral and aesthetic approaches to life, the impact of Christianity on human values, the meaning of science, the contrast between the Apollonian and Dionysian spirits, and other themes central to his thinking. [via]
More editions of The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Morals:
-
Brazil Redby Jean-Christophe Rufin, Willard WoodISBN 0393052079 (0-393-05207-9)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Brazil Red'Book summary:"BRAZIL RED tells the story of two orphaned children, Just and Colombe, who are dragged off on the French colonizing expedition--they are meant to learn the native languages and act as interpreters. Everything in this novel is outsized: the setting, a jungle still populated by cannibals; the characters, including Villegagnon, the expedition's eccentric leader, who might be a model for Cyrano or d'Artagnan; and the events, a dress rehearsal for the Wars of Religion ten years in the future. Packed with portraits, landscapes, and action, "Brazil Red is a novel about coming of age and discovering love. On a deeper level, the story follows the destinies and decisions of Just and Colombe, presenting two conflicting views of man and nature. On one hand, a conquering European civilization, offering liberation but delivering death. On the other, the Indian world, with its sensuality, its harmony, its sense of the sacred, its continual call to happiness. [via]
More editions of Brazil Red:
-
Break of Dayby Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Enid McLeodISBN 0374512213 (0-374-51221-3)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Break of Day'Book summary:Colette began writing Break of Day in her early fifties, at Saint-Tropez on the Côte d'Azur, where she had bought a small house after the breakup of her second marriage. The novel's theme--the renunciation of love and the return to an independent existence supported and enriched by the beauty and peace of nature--grows out of Colette's own period of self-assessment in the middle of her life. A collection of subtle reflections about love and life, it is among her most thoughtful and stylistically bold works.[via] 
Candideby VoltaireISBN 0394605225 (0-394-60522-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'More editions of Candide:
-
Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticismby VoltaireISBN 0393960587 (0-393-96058-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism'Book summary:Robert M. Adams's superlative revised translation of Candide provides the basis for this widely adopted Norton Critical Edition.
The accompanying apparatus has been revised in accordance with recent biographical and critical materials. The Backgrounds and Criticism sections provide important essays that shed light on major critical issues relevant to Candide and to the intellectual climate of the period. In addition to the reports of five English visitors to Ferney, essays by Haydn Mason, Erich Auerbach, Ernst Cassirer, and Robert M. Adams are included. The final section of the edition, "The Climate of Controversy," summarizes the debate surrounding Voltaire's works and includes essays by Peter Gay, Raymond Naves, Gustave Lanson, and John Morley. Also included are a series of quotations about Voltaire by such prominent figures as Gustave Flaubert, Frederick the Great, and Stendhal, as well as the text of "Pangloss's Song," a ballad from the 1956 Candide-based operetta by Richard Wilbur. [via]More editions of Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism:
-
The Captiveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, D. J. Enright, Terence KilmartinISBN 0375753117 (0-375-75311-7)
Softcover, Modern Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Captive'Book summary:The Modern Librarys fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Prousts narrator describes living in his mothers Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive, the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of The Captive:
Cities of the Plainby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 0394705971 (0-394-70597-1)
Hardcover, Modern Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities of the Plain'More editions of Cities of the Plain:
-
The Clan of the Cave Bearby Jean M. AuelISBN 0375431802 (0-375-43180-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clan of the Cave Bear'Book summary:When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.
Although Jean Auel obviously takes certain liberties with the actions and motivations of all our ancestors, her extensive research into the Ice Age does shine through--especially in the detailed knowledge of plants and natural remedies used by the medicine woman and passed down to Ayla. Mostly, though, this first in the series of four is a wonderful story of survival. Ayla's personal evolution is a compelling and relevant tale. --Sara Nickerson [via]
More editions of The Clan of the Cave Bear:
-
The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 0385504209 (0-385-50420-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Da Vinci Code'Book summary:With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.
A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his daughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Neveu's father's murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England, and history itself.
Brown (Angels and Demons) has created a page-turning thriller that also provides an amazing interpretation of Western history. Brown's hero and heroine embark on a lofty and intriguing exploration of some of Western culture's greatest mysteries--from the nature of the Mona Lisa's smile to the secret of the Holy Grail. Though some will quibble with the veracity of Brown's conjectures, therein lies the fun. The Da Vinci Code is an enthralling read that provides rich food for thought. --Jeremy Pugh [via]
The Diary of a Country Priestby George BernanosISBN 0385096003 (0-385-09600-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of a Country Priest'More editions of The Diary of a Country Priest:
-
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prisonby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394499425 (0-394-49942-5)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison'Book summary:In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul. [via]
More editions of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison:
-
Extinctionby Thomas Bernhard, David McLintockISBN 039457253X (0-394-57253-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Extinction'Book summary:From the late Thomas Bernhard, arguably Austria's most influential novelist of the postwar period, and one of the greatest artists in all twentieth-century literature in the German language, his magnum opus.
Extinction, Bernhard's last work of fiction, takes the form of the autobiographical testimony of Franz-Josef Murau, the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family. Murau lives in Rome in self-imposed exile from his family, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends. On returning from his sister's wedding to the "wine-cork manufacturer" on the family estate of Wolfsegg, having resolved never to go home again, Murau receives a telegram informing him of the death of his parents and brother in a car crash. Not only must he now go back, he must do so as the master of Wolfsegg. And he must decide its fate.
Divided into two halves, Extinction explores Murau's rush of memories of Wolfsegg as he stands at his Roman window considering the fateful telegram, in counterpoint to his return to Wolfsegg and the preparations for the funeral itself.
Written in the seamless style for which Bernhard became famous, Extinction is the ultimate proof of his extraordinary literary genius. It is his summing-up against Austria's treacherous past and -- in unprecedented fashion -- a revelation of his own incredibly complex personality, of his relationship with the world in which he lived, and the one he left behind.
A literary event of the first magnitude. [via]More editions of Extinction:
-
The Fallby Albert CamusISBN 0394424247 (0-394-42424-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall'Book summary:Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a successful Parisian barrister, has come to recognize the deep-seated hypocrisy of his existence. His epigrammatic and, above all, discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, the reader's own complacency. [via]
More editions of The Fall:
-
The Firmby John GrishamISBN 0385319053 (0-385-31905-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Firm'Book summary:D.W. Moffett uses his youthful voice to outstanding effect in this excellent abridgment of Grisham's bestselling thriller about a Harvard Law grad aggressively recruited by a curiously obscure firm. "We're small and very selective... we screened over two thousand third-year law students at the best schools. Only one letter was sent." They've decided he's their man and to get him they offer top dollar, dangle a BMW, and woo his wife with offers impossible to refuse. But as the wide-eyed youngsters soon discover, there's a catch. Moffett gives an excellent performance, bringing the story to life with vibrant and believable characterizations and a smooth, knowing narrative. (Running time: 3 hours, 2 cassettes) --George Laney [via]
The Golden Dropletby Michel TournierISBN 0385237596 (0-385-23759-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Droplet'More editions of The Golden Droplet:
A Good Man in Africaby William BoydISBN 038071566X (0-380-71566-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Good Man in Africa'More editions of A Good Man in Africa:
-
The Guermantes Wayby Marcel ProustISBN 0375752331 (0-375-75233-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Guermantes Way'Book summary:The Guermantes Way, in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantess château near Combray. It also represents the narrators passage into the rarefied social kaleidoscope of the Guermantess Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantess drawing room. Here he encounters nobles, officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert de Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via] -
Hamletby William Shakespeare, Cyrus Henry HoyISBN 0393316424 (0-393-31642-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:This revised Norton Critical Edition of one of the series' most widely read texts is based on the second quarto (1604-05). Where necessary, the editor has also drawn from the folio text, recording all departures from the quarto in the Textual Notes. Punctuation and stage directions for the play have been refined, and textual annotations have been revised and expanded.
The "Intellectual Backgrounds" and "Extracts from the Sources" sections, both highly praised, remain as germane as ever. Intellectual Backgrounds includes important readings on melancholy, demonology, the nature of man, and death, including works by Peter de la Primaudaye, Timothy Bright, Lewes Lavater, G. Gifford, Michel de Montaigne, and Heironymous Cardanus. Extracts from the Sources provides pre-Shakespearean accounts of the story of Hamlet, reprinting substantial excerpts from Saxo Grammaticus's Historia Danica and Belleforest's Histoires Tragiques.
"Criticism" has been revised to accommodate the most significant recent interpretations of Hamlet while retaining the seminal essays of the First Edition. Twenty-three critical analyses are featured, including those by Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, A. C. Bradley, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, G. Wilson Knight, C. S. Lewis, Harry Levin, Peter J. Seng, Rebecca West, Arnold Kettle, Margaret W. Ferguson, Jacqueline Rose, and William Empson.
An updated Selected Bibliography is also included.
[via] -
Homer: The Odysseyby Homer, Robert FitzgeraldISBN 0385050402 (0-385-05040-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer: The Odyssey'Book summary:Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus's long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn. Homer's classic poem features Odysseus's encounters with the beautiful nymph Calypso; the queenly but wily Circe; the Lotus-eaters, who fed his men their memory-stealing drug; the man-eating, one-eyed Cyclops; the Laestrygonian giants; the souls of the dead in Hades; the beguiling Sirens; the treacherous Scylla and Charybdis. Here, too, is the hero's faithful wife, Penelope, weaving a shroud by day and unraveling it by night, in order to thwart the numerous suitors attempting to take Odysseus's place.
The works attributed to Homer include the two oldest and greatest European epic poems, the Odyssey and Iliad. These texts have long stood in the Loeb Classical Library with a faithful and literate prose translation by A. T. Murray. George Dimock now brings the Loeb's Odyssey up to date, with a rendering that retains Murray's admirable style but is worded for today's readers. The two-volume edition includes a new introduction, notes, and index.
[via]More editions of Homer: The Odyssey:
-
The Iliadby Homer, Robert Fitzgerald, Andrew FordISBN 0374529051 (0-374-52905-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:Anger be now your song, immortal one,[via]
Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous,
that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss
and crowded brave souls into the undergloom,
leaving so many dead men-carrion
for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.
-Lines 1-6
Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. Fitzgerald's work is accessible, ironic, faithful, written in a swift vernacular blank verse that "makes Homer live as never before" (Library Journal).
This edition includes a new foreword by Andrew Ford. -
The Iliadby Robert Fitzgerald, HomerISBN 0385059418 (0-385-05941-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:This translation of The Iliad equals Fitzgerald's earlier Odyssey in power and imagination. It recreates the original action as conceived by Homer, using fresh and flexible blank verse that is both lyrical and dramatic. [via]
More editions of The Iliad:
Iliad of Homerby HomerISBN 0394309227 (0-394-30922-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad of Homer'More editions of Iliad of Homer:
-
Iliad of Homer: Shorten Versionby I.A. RichardsISBN 0393001016 (0-393-00101-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad of Homer: Shorten Version'Book summary:According to legend, in ancient times Agamemnon led the Greeks into war with the city of Troy to recapture the beautiful Helen of Troy, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta.
The Iliad, the heroic Greek epic called by I. A. Richards "the most influential poem in the Western tradition," describes what happens toward the end of the Trojan War, when a quarrel between Agamemnon and the Greek hero Achilles sets in motion tragic events that bring the war to its conclusion.
This edition of the Iliad, abridged and translated by the noted critic and translator I. A. Richards, has made this classic work of literature available to modern readers since 1958 in a remarkably readable version. Mr. Richards has cut many passages that are not essential to the storyline and has omitted books 2, 10, 13, and 17. Removing the stylized decoration that can hinder a nonspecialist reader, he makes the language of the poem clearly accessible, and his narrative condensation allows the action to stand out boldly. [via]More editions of Iliad of Homer: Shorten Version:
-
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiahby Richard BachISBN 0385319258 (0-385-31925-8)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'Book summary:In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald Shimoda--former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar....
In Illusions, the unforgettable follow-up to his phenomenal bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don't need airplanes to soar...that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them... and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places--like hay fields, one-traffic-light midwestern towns, and most of all, deep within ourselves. [via]More editions of Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah:
-
The Immoralistby Andre GideISBN 0394700082 (0-394-70008-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Immoralist'Book summary:With today's headlines and talk shows, it takes a lot to shock a reader--certainly more than was required in 1902, when André Gide's The Immoralist was first published. What was seen then as a story of dereliction translates today into a tale of introspection and fierce self-discovery. While traveling to Tunis with his new bride, the Parisian scholar Michel is overcome by tuberculosis. As he slowly convalesces, he revels in the physical pleasures of living and resolves to forgo his studies of the past in order to experience the present--to let "the layers of acquired knowledge peel away from the mind like a cosmetic and reveal, in patches, the naked flesh beneath, the authentic being hidden there."
But this is not the Michel his colleagues knew, nor the man Marceline married, and he must hide his new values under the patina of what he now reviles. Bored by Parisian society, he moves to a family farm in Normandy. He is happy there, especially in the company of young Charles, but he must soon return to the city and academe. Michel remains restless until he gives his first lecture and runs into Ménalque, who has long outraged society, and recognizes in him a reflection of his torment. Finally, Michel heads south, deeper into the desert, until, as he confides to his friends, he is lost in the sea of sand, under a clear, directionless sky.
What Gide's story lacks in sensationalism is fulfilled by his descriptive prose, which evokes the exotic nature of Michel's inner and outer journey: "I did not understand the forbearance of this African earth, submerged for days at a time and now awakening from winter, drunk with water, bursting with new juices; it laughed in this springtime frenzy whose echo, whose image I perceived within myself." --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
-
Les Liaisons Dangereusesby Choderlos de Laclos, Ernest C. Dowson, Pierre C. De LaclosISBN 0385487339 (0-385-48733-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'Book summary:Au petit jeu du libertinage, l'adorable Valmont et la délicieuse Madame de Merteuil se livrent à une compétition amicale et néanmoins acharnée : c'est à celui qui aura le plus de succès galants, et le moins de scrupules. Peu importent les sentiments, seule la jouissance compte. Les conquêtes se succèdent de part et d'autre, jusqu'à ce que Valmont rencontre la vertu incarnée : la présidente de Tourvel. Elle est belle, douce, mariée et chaste : en un mot, intouchable. Voilà une proie de choix pour Valmont : saura-t-il relever ce défi sans tomber dans les pièges de l'amour ? De lettre en lettre, les héros dévoilent leurs aventures, échangent leurs impressions et nous entraînent dans un tourbillon de plaisirs qui semble n'avoir pas de fin.
Ce sulfureux roman a longtemps été censuré, ce qui ne l'a pas empêché de fasciner des générations de lecteurs et, plus près de nous, de captiver bon nombre de cinéastes : Les Liaisons Dangereuses de Stephen Frears mais aussi les adaptations de Roger Vadim, et de Milos Forman. --Karla Manuele [via]
More editions of Les Liaisons Dangereuses:
-
Letters to a Young Poetby Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Herter NortonISBN 0393310396 (0-393-31039-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to a Young Poet'Book summary:Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come. [via]
More editions of Letters to a Young Poet:
-
Letters to a Young Poetby Stephen Mitchell, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver KappusISBN 0394537629 (0-394-53762-9)
Hardcover, Random House
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to a Young Poet'Book summary:Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come.
From the Paperback edition. [via]More editions of Letters to a Young Poet:
-
Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Susan CheeverISBN 0375756728 (0-375-75672-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (186869) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.
Backgrounds and Contexts includes a wealth of archival materials, among them previously unpublished correspondence with Thomas Niles and Alcotts own precursors to Little Women. Criticism reprints twenty nineteenth-century reviews. Seven modern essays represent a variety of critical theories used to read and study the novel, including feminist (Catharine R. Stimpson, Elizabeth Keyser), new historicist (Richard H. Brodhead), psychoanalytic (Angela M. Estes and Kathleen Margaret Lant), and reader-response (Barbara Sicherman). A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Little Women:
- Little Women: ISBN 0393976149 (0-393-97614-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Little Women: ISBN 0394331877 (0-394-33187-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - Little Women: ISBN 0394562798 (0-394-56279-8)
Hardcover, Ariel Books/Knopf - Little Women: ISBN 0375756728 (0-375-75672-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Little Women: ISBN 0393976149 (0-393-97614-9)
Lost Illusionsby Honoré de Balzac, Kathleen RaineISBN 0394605233 (0-394-60523-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Illusions'More editions of Lost Illusions:
Lost Illusions: Part I, Two Poetsby Honore De Balzac, Kathleen Raine, Richard HowardISBN 0375757902 (0-375-75790-2)
Softcover, Modern Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Illusions: Part I, Two Poets'More editions of Lost Illusions: Part I, Two Poets:
-
Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman, Nicholas ShakespeareISBN 0375400699 (0-375-40069-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Love in the Time of Cholera'Book summary:Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, this is a story about a woman and two men and their entwined lives. From the author of the legendary One Hundred Years of Solitude. [via]
More editions of Love in the Time of Cholera:
-
Mandarinsby Simone De BeauvoirISBN 0393318834 (0-393-31883-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mandarins'Book summary:"Salty, frank, and realistic." San Francisco Chronicle
In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren de Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desires and her public life. "Much more than a roman à clef . . . a moving and engrossing novel." New York Times [via] 
The Mark Of An Angel: Library Editionby Nancy HustonISBN 0375709215 (0-375-70921-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mark Of An Angel: Library Edition'More editions of The Mark Of An Angel: Library Edition:
-
Memoirs Of Hadrian: and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrianby Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace FrickISBN 0374529264 (0-374-52926-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs Of Hadrian: and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrian'Book summary:Written in the form of a testamentary letter from the Emperor Hadrian to his successor, the youthful Marcus Aurelius, this work is as extraordinary for its psychological depth as for its accurate reconstruction of the second century of our era. The author describes the book as a meditation upon history, but this meditation is built upon intensive study of the personal and political life of a great and complex character as seen by himself and his contemporaries, both friends and enemies. Marguerite Yourcenar reconstructs Hadrian's arduous early years, his triumphs and reversals, and his gradual reordering of a war-torn world.[via]More editions of Memoirs Of Hadrian: and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrian:
- Memoirs Of Hadrian: and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrian: ISBN 0374503486 (0-374-50348-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Memoirs Of Hadrian: and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrian: ISBN 0394605055 (0-394-60505-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Memoirs Of Hadrian: and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrian: ISBN 0374529264 (0-374-52926-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Memoirs Of Hadrian: and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrian: ISBN 0374503486 (0-374-50348-6)
Mishima: A Vision of the Voidby Marguerite YourcenarISBN 0374520615 (0-374-52061-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mishima: A Vision of the Void'More editions of Mishima: A Vision of the Void:
-
Mists of Avalonby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0394524063 (0-394-52406-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mists of Avalon'Book summary:Even readers who don't normally enjoy Arthurian legends will love this version, a retelling from the point of view of the women behind the throne. Morgaine (more commonly known as Morgan Le Fay) and Gwenhwyfar (a Welsh spelling of Guinevere) struggle for power, using Arthur as a way to score points and promote their respective worldviews. The Mists of Avalon's Camelot politics and intrigue take place at a time when Christianity is taking over the island-nation of Britain; Christianity vs. Faery, and God vs. Goddess are dominant themes.
Young and old alike will enjoy this magical Arthurian reinvention by science fiction and fantasy veteran Marion Zimmer Bradley. --Bonnie Bouman [via]
More editions of Mists of Avalon:
Molloyby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394475151 (0-394-47515-1)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Molloy'More editions of Molloy:
-
Much Ado about Nothing: The Making of the Movieby Kenneth BranaghISBN 0393311112 (0-393-31111-2)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado about Nothing: The Making of the Movie'Book summary:Movie, Making, Kenneth Branaugh, Shakespeare, Much ado about nothing [via]
More editions of Much Ado about Nothing: The Making of the Movie:
-
The Odysseyby Homer, Robert FitzgeraldISBN 0374525749 (0-374-52574-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:A retelling of Homer's epic that describes the adventures of the hero Odysseus as he encounters many monsters and other obstacles on his journey home from the Trojan War. [via]
More editions of The Odyssey:
- The Odyssey: ISBN 0393007448 (0-393-00744-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Odyssey: ISBN 0393964051 (0-393-96405-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Odyssey: ISBN 0393041336 (0-393-04133-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Odyssey: ISBN 0393099717 (0-393-09971-7)
Softcover, Norton - The Odyssey: ISBN 0393041611 (0-393-04161-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Odyssey: ISBN 0374525749 (0-374-52574-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
- The Odyssey: ISBN 0393007448 (0-393-00744-8)
-
The Past Recapturedby Marcel ProustISBN 0394706005 (0-394-70600-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Past Recaptured'Book summary:From Vintage Books (V-600). By Marcel Proust Remembrances of Things Past. Newly translated by Andreas Mayor from the definitive French text. ISBN 394-3600-5. [via]
More editions of The Past Recaptured:
Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston LerouxISBN 0375761136 (0-375-76113-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Phantom Of The Opera'More editions of Phantom Of The Opera:
-
Platformby Michel Houellebecq, Frank WynneISBN 0375414622 (0-375-41462-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Platform'Book summary:Michel Renault is a human void. Following the death of the father he barely knew, he endures his civil ser-
vice job while eking out an existence of prepackaged pleasure, hollow friendships, TV dinners, and pornography. On a group holiday in Thailand, however, he meets the shyly compelling Valérie, who soon pursues an agenda that Michel himself could never have thought possible: his own humanization.
Back in Paris, they plunge into an affair that strays into S&M, public sex, and partner swapping, even as they devise a scheme to save Valéries ailing travel company by capitalizing on the only trade Michel has seen flourish in the Third World. Before long, he quits his job, and their business model for sex tourism is gradually implemented. But when they return to Thailand, where Michels philosophy will be put into practice, he discovers that sex is neither the most consuming nor dangerous of passions . . .
From a suburbanized West crippled by hate crime to an East subsumed by materialism, Michel Houellebecq exploreswith characteristic provocativeness, but also with surprising tendernessthe emotions that seem most resilient to any influence: love and hate. Platform is, as Anita Brookner has written, a brilliant novel, casting a prescient eye on the abuses and inequalities that lead to wider trouble. [via]More editions of Platform:
Princess of Clevesby Marie-Madeleine De LafayetteISBN 0393963330 (0-393-96333-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess of Cleves'More editions of Princess of Cleves:
-
The Prophetby Kahlil GibranISBN 0394404289 (0-394-40428-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prophet'Book summary:In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have. --Brian Bruya [via]
Querelleby Jean GenetISBN 0394623681 (0-394-62368-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Querelle'More editions of Querelle:
-
The Ravishing of Lol Steinby Marguerite Duras, Richard SeaverISBN 0394743040 (0-394-74304-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ravishing of Lol Stein'Book summary:Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in a comfortable life, and a voyeur. [via]
More editions of The Ravishing of Lol Stein:
-
Remembrance of Things Pastby Marcel ProustISBN 0394711831 (0-394-71183-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembrance of Things Past'Book summary:Perfect Condition! Copyright 1981 by Random House. Translation by Andreas Mayor. Clean and free from markings. Very light shelf wear. All 3 books in excellent condition. Includes all dust jackets and 3-volume case. Expedited shipping available. Guaranteed customer satisfaction. [via]
More editions of Remembrance of Things Past:
-
Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way, Within a Budding Groveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 0394711823 (0-394-71182-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove'Book summary:Here are the first two volumes of Prousts monumental achievement, Swanns Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann's Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, exquisite memories, long since passedhis mothers good-night kiss, the water lilies on the Vivonne, his love for Swanns daughter Gilbertespring vividly into being. In Within a Budding Grovewhich won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, bringing the author instant famethe narrator turns from his childhood recollections and begins to explore the memories of his adolescence. As his affections for Gilberte grow dim, the narrator discovers a new object of attention in the bright-eyed Albertine. Their encounters unfold by the shores of Balbec. One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin.
[via]More editions of Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way, Within a Budding Grove:
-
Remembrance of Things Past Volume 1-3 Box Setby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 0394712439 (0-394-71243-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembrance of Things Past Volume 1-3 Box Set'Book summary:Marcel Proust whiled away the first half of his life as a self-conscious aesthete and social climber. The second half he spent in the creation of the mighty roman-fleuve that is Remembrance of Things Past, memorializing his own dandyism and parvenu hijinks even as he revealed their essential hollowness. Proust begins, of course, at the beginning--with the earliest childhood perceptions and sorrows. Then, over several thousand pages, he retraces the course of his own adolescence and adulthood, democratically dividing his experiences among the narrator and a sprawling cast of characters. Who else has ever decanted life into such ornate, knowing, wrought-iron sentences? Who has subjected love to such merciless microscopy, discriminating between the tiniest variations of desire and self-delusion? Who else has produced a grief-stricken record of time's erosion that can also make you laugh for entire pages? The answer to all these questions is: nobody. [via]
More editions of Remembrance of Things Past Volume 1-3 Box Set:
-
Remembrance of Things Past/Captive, the Fugitive, Time Regainedby Marcel ProustISBN 039471184X (0-394-71184-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembrance of Things Past/Captive, the Fugitive, Time Regained'Book summary:The third and final volume includes THE CAPTIVE, THE FUGITIVE, and TIME REGAINED. [via]
More editions of Remembrance of Things Past/Captive, the Fugitive, Time Regained:
-
Roland Barthesby Roland Barthes, Richard HowardISBN 0374521549 (0-374-52154-9)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Roland Barthes'Book summary:[via]First published in 1977, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is the great literary theorists most original worka brilliant and playful text, gracefully combining the personal and the theoretical to reveal Roland Barthess tastes, his childhood, his education, his passions and regrets.More editions of Roland Barthes:
The Sea Wallby Marguerite Duras, Herma BriffaultISBN 0374519455 (0-374-51945-5)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sea Wall'More editions of The Sea Wall:
Shoah : An Oral History of the Holocaustby Claude Lanzmann, Simone de Beauvoir, Elie WieselISBN 0394551427 (0-394-55142-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Shoah : An Oral History of the Holocaust'More editions of Shoah : An Oral History of the Holocaust:
-
Sodom and Gomorrahby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, D. J. Enright, Terence KilmartinISBN 0375753109 (0-375-75310-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sodom and Gomorrah'Book summary:Sodom and Gomorrah opens a new phase of In Search of Lost Time. While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guermantess orchid, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two men. Flower and plant have no conscious will, Samuel Beckett wrote of Prousts representation of sexuality. They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Prousts men and women . . . shameless. There is no question of right and wrong.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of Sodom and Gomorrah:
Time Regainedby D.J. Enright, Marcel Proust, Andreas Mayor, Joanna Kilmartin, Terence KilmartinISBN 0375753125 (0-375-75312-5)
Softcover, Modern Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Regained'More editions of Time Regained:
-
Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Lifes Greatest Lessonby Mitch AlbomISBN 0385484518 (0-385-48451-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Lifes Greatest Lesson'Book summary:This true story about the love between a spiritual mentor and his pupil has soared to the bestseller list for many reasons. For starters: it reminds us of the affection and gratitude that many of us still feel for the significant mentors of our past. It also plays out a fantasy many of us have entertained: what would it be like to look those people up again, tell them how much they meant to us, maybe even resume the mentorship? Plus, we meet Morrie Schwartz--a one of a kind professor, whom the author describes as looking like a cross between a biblical prophet and Christmas elf. And finally we are privy to intimate moments of Morrie's final days as he lies dying from a terminal illness. Even on his deathbed, this twinkling-eyed mensch manages to teach us all about living robustly and fully. Kudos to author and acclaimed sports columnist Mitch Albom for telling this universally touching story with such grace and humility. --Gail Hudson [via]
More editions of Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Lifes Greatest Lesson:
-
Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jane SmileyISBN 0375756930 (0-375-75693-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other book in the world except the Bible.
It was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. The book had a far-reaching impact and deeply affected the national conscience of antebellum America. The Norton Critical Edition text is that of the 1852 book edition, published in two volumes by John P. Jewett and Company, Boston; original illustrations are included. Annotations are provided to assist the reader with obscure historical terms and biblical allusions. Backgrounds and Contexts includes a wealth of historical material relevant to slavery and abolitionism. Among the documents presented are Josiah Henson's 1849 slave narrative (named by Stowe as one of the sources for the novel); Solomon Northup's eyewitness account of an 1841 slave auction; Harriet Jacobs's narrative of her life as a fifteen-year-old slave; two epistolary accounts by ex-slave and abolitionist William Wells Brown, which document events in Uncle Tom's Cabin; two crucial excerpts from Stowe's Key to "Uncle Tom's Cabin " which provide the real-life basis for characters and events in the novel; and accounts of Tom-Shows and the anti-Uncle Tom literature that sprang up in response to the novel's publication. Illustrative material includes slave advertisements, runaway slave posters, and illustrations for the first British edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Britain's premier illustrator, George Cruikshank, as well as popular illustrations from American editions of the novel. Criticism is arranged under two headings. "Nineteenth-Century Reviews and Reception" includes critiques by George Sand, William G. Allen and Ethiop (both from Frederick Douglass' Paper), George F. Holmes, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, among others. Twentieth-Century Criticism collects five of the best critical assessments of the novel's continuing impact on American society. With the exception of James Baldwin's groundbreaking essay, "Everybody's Protest Novel," the critical essays date from the years 1985 to 1992. Jane P. Tompkins investigates why the text was excluded from the canon for most of the twentieth century. Robert S. Levine provides an overview of the text's popular reception and influence since publication, including current critical schools and critics. Hortense J. Spillers takes a textual/linguistic view in her comparison between Stowe and Ishmael Reed as "impression points in the literary imagination of slavery." And Christina Zwarg traces the influence Stowe's feminism had on her treatment of fatherhood and its effect on the home. A Chronology of Stowe's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included. [via] -
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Talesby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0394497716 (0-394-49771-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Uses of Enchantment : The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales'Book summary:Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses ...magic forests and enchanted towers ...little pigs and big bad wolves ...Fairy tales have been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But what do they really mean? In this award-winning work of criticism, renowned psychoanalyst Dr Bruno Bettelheim presents a thought provoking and stimulating exploration of the best-known fairy stories. He reveals the true content of the stories and shows how children can use them to cope with their baffling emotions and anxieties. [via]
More editions of The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales:
The Vice Consulby Marguerite Duras, Eileen EllenbogenISBN 0394558987 (0-394-55898-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vice Consul'More editions of The Vice Consul:
-
The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Charles SantoreISBN 0375811370 (0-375-81137-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In the 100 years since L. Frank Baum first published his Wonderful Wizard of Oz, countless authors and illustrators have adapted, interpreted, and retold this story of Dorothy and her unusual companions, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. But for sheer opulence and sumptuous color, award-winning artist Charles Santore's 100th anniversary edition takes the cake. Santore's large, fairy-tale style watercolors feature ominous, shadowy forests, magnificent but deadly poppies, the whimsical, green-tinted landscapes of Oz, and the golden gray fields of Kansas. Each page is awash in color; many of the two-page spreads have no text to distract readers from the illustrations' myriad details--not-yet-blooming poppy buds, the Tin Woodman's watering can head, and the radiant good witch, Glinda, posing on her ruby-encrusted throne. The text is condensed rather than adapted; so virtually every word is Baum's own. Although some scenes have been left out, Baum's classic story rings through, loud and clear. Sharing this lush edition with a favorite child would be the perfect way to celebrate a century of Oz. (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
More editions of The Wizard of Oz:
Spanish
-
El profetaby Kahlil Gibran, Mauro ArminoISBN 0375701621 (0-375-70162-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'El profeta'Book summary:La obra maestra de Kahlil Gibrán es uno de los más queridos clásicos de nuestra época, un repositorio rico en sabiduría y alegría que ha inspirado a generaciones de lectores. Con poesía frugal y bellamente resonante, El profeta ofrece inolvidables palabras de esperanza y consolación sobre los temas del nacimiento, del amor, del matrimonio, de la muerte y de los otros hitos de la vida.
Desde su publicación hace más de setenta años, El profeta ha sido traducido a más de veinte idiomas y ha dado inspiración a millones de lectores, quienes encuentran en sus palabras la expresión de los más profundos impulsos, la más profunda poesía, del corazón humano. Ilustrados con los dibujos místicos de Gibrán--comparados por Auguste Rodin a los de William Blake--El profeta es un volumen para disfrutar y al cual volver a lo largo de la vida. [via]More editions of El profeta:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}