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2001 A Space Odysseyby Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley KubrickISBN 0090898303 (0-09-089830-3)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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All Souls' Risingby Madison Smartt BellISBN 0140259473 (0-14-025947-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Souls' Rising'Book summary:In his breathtaking and powerful novel that garnered nominations for both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, Madison Smartt Bell leaves the dark contemporary world he has so brilliantly made his own in nine previously acclaimed novels and short story collections, such as Save Me, Joe Louis. Now he turns to the past and brings viscerally to life the slave rebellion that would bring an end to the white rule of Haiti in the late eighteenth century. The result is an explosive, epic historical novel of astonishing depth and range, catapulting Bell into the ranks of the finest living authors. [via]
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Anais Nin: A Biographyby Deirdre BairISBN 0140255257 (0-14-025525-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriterby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0140248927 (0-14-024892-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bacchaeby Euripides, G.S. KirkISBN 0130552852 (0-13-055285-2)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bacchae'Book summary:Bacchae written by legendary Athenian playwright Euripides is widely considered to be one of the top Greek tragedies of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Bacchae is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Euripides is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books America and beautifully produced, Bacchae would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library. [via]
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Bien Sur!: Culture Et Communicationby Marie-Christine Weidmann-KoopISBN 0134744128 (0-13-474412-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930by Jerrold SeigelISBN 0140094407 (0-14-009440-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bonne Continuation: Approfondissement a L'Ecrit Et a L'Oralby Hannelore Jarausch, Nina M. FurryISBN 0130829080 (0-13-082908-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Bread and Circuses: Historical Sociology and Political Pluralismby Paul Veyne, Brian PearceISBN 0140124853 (0-14-012485-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Brothers Karamazov: Library Editionby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0075535750 (0-07-553575-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Castle: Classic Collectionby Franz Kafka, Idris Parry, J. A. UnderwookISBN 0140185046 (0-14-018504-6)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle: Classic Collection'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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The Chinese Opium Warsby Jack BeechingISBN 0091227305 (0-09-122730-5)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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A Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost Story of Christmasby Charles Dickens, John LeechISBN 0140071202 (0-14-007120-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Collage: Glamourby Lucia F. BakerISBN 007540835X (0-07-540835-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy TooleISBN 014010934X (0-14-010934-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Confederacy of Dunces'Book summary:"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Lana Lee and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Crowdby Gustavw Le BonISBN 0140045317 (0-14-004531-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Debuts: An Introduction to Frenchby H. Jay Siskin, Ann Williams-Gascon, Brian ArganbrightISBN 0072897570 (0-07-289757-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Descartes: The Project Of Pure Enquiryby Bernard WilliamsISBN 0140138404 (0-14-013840-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Descartes: The Project Of Pure Enquiry'Book summary:Descartes has often been called the 'father of modern philosophy'.His attempts to find foundations for knowledge, and to reconcile the existence of the soul with the emerging science of his time, are among the most influential and widely studied in the history of philosophy.
This is a classic and challenging introduction to Descartes by one of the most distinguished modern philosophers. Bernard Williams not only analyzes Descartes' project of founding knowledge on certainty, but uncovers the philosophical motives for his search. With acute insight, he demonstrates how Descartes' Meditations are not merely a description but the very enactment of philosophical thought and discovery. Williams covers all of the key areas of Descartes' thought, including God, the will, the possibility of knowledge, and the mind and its place in nature. He also makes profound contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics and philosophy generally. This is essential reading for any student of philosophy.
This reissue includes a new foreword by John Cottingham.
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The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldierby Jakob Walter, Marc RaeffISBN 0140165592 (0-14-016559-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier'Book summary:Eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter served in the Grand Army of Napoleon between 1806 and 1813. His diary intimately records his trials: the long, grueling marches in Prussia and Poland, the disastrous Russian campaign, and the demoralizing defeat in a war few supported or understood. It is at once a compelling chronicle of a young soldier's loss of innocence and an eloquent and moving portrait of the profound effects of all wars on the men who fight them.[via]Also included are letters home from the Russian front, previously unpublished in English, as well as period engravings and maps from the Russian/Soviet and East European collections of the New York Public Library.
"Vivid and gruesome & but also a story of human fortitude. & It reminds us that the troops Napoleon drove so mercilessly were actually more victims than victorsa side of Napoleon that should not be forgotten."
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Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 0140186476 (0-14-018647-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:In these masterful stories, steeped in realism, joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of irish culture and civilization. Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of the truths of human experience [via]
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Softcover, Penguin USA - Dubliners: ISBN 0140155058 (0-14-015505-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Dubliners: ISBN 0140185542 (0-14-018554-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Books - Dubliners: ISBN 0140186476 (0-14-018647-6)
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The Farewell Partyby Milan KunderaISBN 0140096949 (0-14-009694-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fifth Businessby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140167943 (0-14-016794-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fifth Business'Book summary:The first book of Robertson Davies's Deptford Trilogy tells the story of three men destined to be crucial players in each others' lives. The story is, in fact, the memoir of Dunstan Ramsay, a long-time boarding-school teacher, set to retire. Written to the headmaster of the school, the memoir intends to disprove the common belief that Ramsay is nothing more than a senile old professor, "doddering into retirement with tears in his eyes and a drop hanging from his nose." The story includes two other main characters, the outcast and eventual circus performer Paul Dempster and socialite Boy Staunton, with his "too glossy perfection."
The story of Ramsay's life begins when he is 10 years old, living in a small Canadian town called Deptford. A snowball thrown by Boy Staunton, intended for Ramsay, hits the pregnant mother of Paul Dempster, forcing her into labour early. She gives birth to a premature and deformed Paul. Ramsay feels responsible for this, and thus begins his guilty friendship with Paul, as well as his grudging friendship with Boy. Eventually, Dunstan Ramsay goes off to fight in the First World War, where he earns a Victoria Cross. He later travels throughout Europe and Mexico to pursue his interest in saints and write several books about them. He even attempts to prove that Paul's mother, whom he had taken a liking to over the years, is in fact a saint. Paul and Boy keep crossing paths with Dunstan, for good and ill, for the rest of his life. This fascinating, absorbing classic of Canadian literature is punctuated with elements of the comic, the supernatural, and the magical (even touching on the occult), while the writing itself is always elegant and at times exquisite. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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Finnegans Wakeby James JoyceISBN 0140062866 (0-14-006286-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finnegans Wake'Book summary:Presented as the story of Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, a Dublin tavern-keeper, this novel has as its theme a cyclical pattern of fall and resurrection. It takes the form of a dream-sequence representing the stream of Earwicker's unconscious mind through the course of one night. [via]
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Focus on Shoot the Piano Playerby Leo BraudyISBN 0138096325 (0-13-809632-5)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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France Todayby John ArdaghISBN 0140100989 (0-14-010098-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'France Today'Book summary:This is a new edition of John Ardagh's study of modern France which examines the profound changes in French society since World War II. [via]
French Leave: Over 100 Irresistible Recipesby John Burton RaceISBN 0091891116 (0-09-189111-6)
Hardcover, Ebury Pr
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French Short Stories/Nouvelles Francaisesby Simon LeeISBN 0140034145 (0-14-003414-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'French Short Stories/Nouvelles Francaises'Book summary:These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel English text, making them valuable for both French and English language students. Among the diverse and entertaining stories in the collection are the wistful masterpiece "Green Tobacco" by Clair Sainte-Soline; the exuberant tale of "The Ants" by the post-war king of cafe society, Boris Vian, and a suspense in the nineteenth-century erotic tradition from Andre de Mandiargues. [via]
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The Girl from the Chartreuseby Pierre Peju, Ina RilkeISBN 0099468697 (0-09-946869-7)
Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd
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Harrap's Five Language Basic Dictionary: English-French-German-Italian-Spanish/Four Bilingual Dictionaries in One!by Monika Eberhard, Ursula GuidiISBN 0133879860 (0-13-387986-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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His Last Bowby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0140057099 (0-14-005709-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Historian's Craftby Marc BlochISBN 007553696X (0-07-553696-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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History of Modern France: Old Regime and Revolution, 1715-1799by Alfred CobbanISBN 0140138250 (0-14-013825-0)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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If This Is a Man and the Truce: And, the Truceby Primo LeviISBN 0140047239 (0-14-004723-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Imagist Poetryby JonesISBN 014018368X (0-14-018368-X)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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In Between the Sheets, and Other Storiesby Ian McEwanISBN 0140112812 (0-14-011281-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Invention of Solitudeby Paul AusterISBN 0140106286 (0-14-010628-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Japan: The Story of a Nationby Edwin O. ReischauerISBN 0075570742 (0-07-557074-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Jokeby Milan KunderaISBN 0140068163 (0-14-006816-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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The King's Wayby Francoise ChandernagorISBN 0140076999 (0-14-007699-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. Lawrence, Michael SquiresISBN 0140187863 (0-14-018786-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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Laughable Lovesby Milan KunderaISBN 0140096914 (0-14-009691-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Laughable Loves'Book summary:This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives. Milan Kundera is author of Unbearable Lightness of Being and the Book of Laughter and Forgetting. [via]
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Les Francaisby Jean-Francois Briere, Laurence William WylieISBN 0130307742 (0-13-030774-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Francais'Book summary:This book helps North Americans better understand the French by taking an in-depth look at French culture, and using history and cultural anthropology to illuminate the present. It offers an interpretation of some historical roots of French attitudes and institutions, as well as the changes in French society over the past three decades, to suggest and predict patterns of behavior. Offering a comparative outlook, this book provides a frameworkfor those with an advanced command of the French languageto describe France and the French in relation to others and to themselves. Chapter topics explore French points of view, family structures, the structure of society, religion, and more. For individuals with a good understanding of the French languagelooking for a better understanding of everything else French.
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Life Is Elsewhereby Milan Kundera, Peter KussiISBN 0140064702 (0-14-006470-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Is Elsewhere'Book summary:The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him figuratively to his love bed and literally to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent "innocence with its bloody smile"! , Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a somber farce. [via]
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Leadby Heinrich Boll, Leila VennewitzISBN 0140187286 (0-14-018728-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0140119906 (0-14-011990-6)
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Maigret Goes Homeby Georges SimenonISBN 0140019014 (0-14-001901-4)
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The Manticoreby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140167935 (0-14-016793-5)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Manticore'Book summary:Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "a modern classic," Robertson Daviess acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. The Manticorethe second book in the series after Fifth Businessfollows David Staunton, a man pleased with his success but haunted by his relationship with his larger-than-life father. As he seeks help through therapy, he encounters a wonderful cast of characters who help connect him to his past and the death of his father. [via]
The Medieval Machineby Jean GimpelISBN 0140045147 (0-14-004514-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Microwave French Cookbookby Thelma Snyder, Marcia Cone-EsakiISBN 0135821231 (0-13-582123-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall Press
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Midnight's Childrenby Salman RushdieISBN 0140132708 (0-14-013270-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight's Children'Book summary:Anyone who has spent time in the developing world will know that one of Bombay's claims to fame is the enormous film industry that churns out hundreds of musical fantasies each year. The other, of course, is native son Salman Rushdie--less prolific, perhaps than Bollywood, but in his own way just as fantastical. Though Rushdie's novels lack the requisite six musical numbers that punctuate every Bombay talkie, they often share basic plot points with their cinematic counterparts. Take, for example, his 1980 Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children: two children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947--the moment at which India became an independent nation--are switched in the hospital. The infant scion of a wealthy Muslim family is sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement, while the legitimate heir to such squalor ends up establishing squatters' rights to his unlucky hospital mate's luxurious bassinet. Switched babies are standard fare for a Hindi film, and one can't help but feel that Rushdie's world-view--and certainly his sense of the fantastical--has been shaped by the films of his childhood. But whereas the movies, while entertaining, are markedly mediocre, Midnight's Children is a masterpiece, brilliant written, wildly unpredictable, hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Rushdie's narrator, Saleem Sinai, is the Hindu child raised by wealthy Muslims. Near the beginning of the novel, he informs us that he is falling apart--literally:
I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug--that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams. In short, I am literally disintegrating, slowly for the moment, although there are signs of an acceleration.
In light of this unfortunate physical degeneration, Saleem has decided to write his life story, and, incidentally, that of India's, before he crumbles into "(approximately) six hundred and thirty million particles of anonymous, and necessarily oblivious, dust." It seems that within one hour of midnight on India's independence day, 1,001 children were born. All of those children were endowed with special powers: some can travel through time, for example; one can change gender. Saleem's gift is telepathy, and it is via this power that he discovers the truth of his birth: that he is, in fact, the product of the illicit coupling of an Indian mother and an English father, and has usurped another's place. His gift also reveals the identities of all the other children and the fact that it is in his power to gather them for a "midnight parliament" to save the nation. To do so, however, would lay him open to that other child, christened Shiva, who has grown up to be a brutish killer. Saleem's dilemma plays out against the backdrop of the first years of independence: the partition of India and Pakistan, the ascendancy of "The Widow" Indira Gandhi, war, and, eventually, the imposition of martial law.We've seen this mix of magical thinking and political reality before in the works of Günter Grass and Gabriel García Márquez. What sets Rushdie apart is his mad prose pyrotechnics, the exuberant acrobatics of rhyme and alliteration, pun, wordplay, proper and "Babu" English chasing each other across the page in a dizzying, exhilarating cataract of words. Rushdie can be laugh-out-loud funny, but make no mistake--this is an angry book, and its author's outrage lends his language wings. Midnight's Children is Salman Rushdie's irate, affectionate love song to his native land--not so different from a Bombay talkie, after all. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Moon Palaceby Paul AusterISBN 0140115854 (0-14-011585-4)
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Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames The D'Antin Manuscriptby Luis D'Antin Van RootenISBN 0140057307 (0-14-005730-7)
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, John J. Murphy, Wladyslaw T. BendaISBN 0140187642 (0-14-018764-2)
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Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Napoleon.by Hutt, Maurice, CompISBN 0136092306 (0-13-609230-6)
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Neropolisby Hubert MonteilhetISBN 0140081704 (0-14-008170-4)
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The Neverending Storyby Michael EndeISBN 0140074317 (0-14-007431-7)
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Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Beby Simone SignoretISBN 0140051813 (0-14-005181-3)
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The Old Wives' Taleby Arnold Bennett, John WainISBN 0140182551 (0-14-018255-1)
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Paralleles: Communication Et Cultureby Fouletier-SmithISBN 0131832360 (0-13-183236-0)
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Paralleles: Communication Et Cultureby Pam Le Zotte, Fouletier-Smith NicoleISBN 0136084648 (0-13-608464-8)
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Penguin French Readerby Simon Lee, David RickISBN 0140026568 (0-14-002656-8)
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Quantum Mechanicsby L.D. LandauISBN 0080291406 (0-08-029140-6)
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Quantum Mechanics-Nonrelativistic Theoryby L.D. LandauISBN 0080209408 (0-08-020940-8)
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Reunionby Fred UhlmanISBN 0140047905 (0-14-004790-5)
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Peter Avery, Omar Khayyam, John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs, Edward FitzgeraldISBN 0140059547 (0-14-005954-7)
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Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaamby Omar Khayyam, Robert Graves, Omar Ali ShahISBN 0140034080 (0-14-003408-0)
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The Safety Netby Heinrich BollISBN 0140064680 (0-14-006468-0)
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The Sailors' Rendezvous: A Maigret Mysteryby Georges SimenonISBN 0140031367 (0-14-003136-7)
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Selected Essays and Notebooksby Albert Camus, Philip Malcolm Waller ThodyISBN 0140048928 (0-14-004892-8)
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A Short History of French Literatureby Geoffrey BreretonISBN 0140202978 (0-14-020297-8)
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The Sleeping-Car Murdersby Sebastien JaprisotISBN 0140049924 (0-14-004992-4)
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A Song of Truth and Semblenceby Cees Nooteboom, Adrienne DixonISBN 0140116788 (0-14-011678-8)
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Spring Snowby Yukio MishimaISBN 0140041362 (0-14-004136-2)
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Strangers on a Trainby Patricia HighsmithISBN 0140037969 (0-14-003796-9)
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Tangram: The Ancient Chinese Shapes Game/Book and Board Gameby Joost ElffersISBN 0140041818 (0-14-004181-8)
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Tao Te Ching: The Book of Meaning and Lifeby Lao Tzu, Richard WilhelmISBN 0140190600 (0-14-019060-0)
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Thereseby Francois Mauriac, Gerard HopkinsISBN 0140181539 (0-14-018153-9)
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For Everyone And Nobodyby Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Walter Arnold KaufmannISBN 0140047484 (0-14-004748-4)
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Totemismby Claude Levi-StraussISBN 0140210334 (0-14-021033-4)
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The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islandsby Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 0140115137 (0-14-011513-7)
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U. S. A.by John DOS PassosISBN 0140024182 (0-14-002418-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'U. S. A.'Book summary:"The Penguin Modern Classics" edition of John Dos Passos' "U.S.A." is a groundbreaking work of experimental fiction which, with its unique melange of fact and fiction, creates a compelling, tragic vision of America at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this experimental trilogy, Dos Passos uses 'camera eye' and 'newsreel' sections to create a fragmented atmosphere. Through the testimony of numerous characters, both fictional and historical figures, he builds up a composite picture of American society in the first quarter of the 20th century. Richly detailed and throbbing with vitality, "U.S.A." vividly evokes that uncertain period when America, so full of ideas and potential, was slowly and painfully abandoning the great American Dream. John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was born in Chicago, the son of an eminent lawyer. After graduating from Harvard he served in the US Army Medical Corps during the First World War, and dabbled in journalism before embarking on life as a writer. In 1925 he published Manhattan Transfer, his first experimental novel in what was to become his peculiar style - a mixture of fact and fiction. His began a series of panoramic epics of American life with the "U.S.A." trilogy, using the same technique and tracing, through interwoven biographies, the story of America from the early twentieth century to the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. If you enjoyed "U.S.A.", you might like E.L. Doctorow's "Ragtime", also available in "Penguin Modern Classics". "Wonderful and extraordinary". (Robert McCrum, "Observer"). "No novelist in America has written more sombrely of the dangers to individual integrity in a centrally controlled society". (Alfred Kazin). [via]
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World of Wondersby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140043896 (0-14-004389-6)
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French Grammar: The Key to Readingby Colette D. BrichantISBN 013331264X (0-13-331264-X)
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Le Pont Neuf: A Structural Reviewby Edward M. StackISBN 0135304938 (0-13-530493-8)
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El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera / Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0140255788 (0-14-025578-8)
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