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The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deceptionby Emmanuel CarrereISBN 0312420609 (0-312-42060-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr Special
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All Men Are Mortalby Simone De Beauvoir, Leonard M. FriedmanISBN 0393308456 (0-393-30845-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Men Are Mortal'Book summary:Probably de Beauvoir's strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger at a French resort.
He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he is immortal. But having been resuscitated into enjoying life again, he soon starts breaking free from her grasp and all notions of mortality. [via]More editions of All Men Are Mortal:
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And Then There Were Noneby Agatha ChristieISBN 0312330871 (0-312-33087-1)
Softcover, Griffin
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Around the World We Goby Golden Books Staff, Anne DuaxISBN 0307104869 (0-307-10486-9)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Asterix and the Cauldronby GoscinnyISBN 0340202122 (0-340-20212-2)
Hardcover, French & European Pubns
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Asterix And the Magic Carpetby Uderzo, Anthea Bell, Derek HockridgeISBN 0340427205 (0-340-42720-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Asterix, Obelix and Companyby Rene De GoscinnyISBN 034025307X (0-340-25307-X)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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The Book of Laughter and Forgettingby Milan KunderaISBN 0394508963 (0-394-50896-3)
Hardcover, A. A. Knopf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting'Book summary:In one of the finer modern ironies of the life-imitates-art sort, the country that Kundera seemed to be writing about when he talked about Czechoslovakia is, thanks to the latest political redefinitions, no longer precisely there. This kind of disappearance and reappearance is, partly, what Kundera explores in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In this polymorphous work -- now a novel, now autobiography, now a philosophical treatise -- Kundera discusses life, music, sex, philosophy, literature and politics in ways that are rarely politically correct, never classifiable but always original, entertaining and definitely brilliant. [via]
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Break of Dayby Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Enid McLeodISBN 0374512213 (0-374-51221-3)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Break of Dayby Colette, Enid McLeod, Judith ThurmanISBN 0374528322 (0-374-52832-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Cassell's Colloquial French: A Handbook of Idiomatic Usageby Michel Levieux, Eleanor LevieuxISBN 0304079421 (0-304-07942-1)
Hardcover, Cassell
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Cassell's Compact French-English English-French Dictionaryby Denis Girard, W. Thompson, J. H. DouglasISBN 030492492X (0-304-92492-X)
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Claudine in Parisby Sidonie-Gabrielle ColetteISBN 0345307089 (0-345-30708-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Collageby Lucia F. BakerISBN 0394336836 (0-394-33683-6)
Softcover, Random House
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Corydonby Andre GideISBN 0374517770 (0-374-51777-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Corydon'Book summary:Considered by Gide to be the most important of his books, this slim, exquisitely crafted volume consists of four dialogues on the subject of homosexuality and its place in society. Published anonymously in bits and pieces between 1911 and 1920, "Corydon" first appeared in a signed, commercial edition in France in 1924 and in the United States in 1950, the year before Gide's death. This present edition features the impeccable translation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard. In spirited dialogue with his bigoted, boorish interviewer, "Corydon" marshals evidence from naturalists, historians, poets, and philosophers to support his contention that homosexuality pervaded the most culturally and artistically advanced civilizations, from Greece in the age of Pericles to Renaissance Italy and England in the age of Shakespeare. Although obscured by later critics, literature and art from Homer to Titian proclaim the true nature of relationships between such lovers as Achilles and Patrocles - not to mention Virgil's mythical 'Corydon' and his shepherd, Alexis. The evidence, "Corydon" suggests, points to heterosexuality as a socially constructed union, while the more fundamental, natural relation is the homosexual one. 'My friends insist that this little book is of the kind which will do me the greatest harm', Gide wrote of his "Corydon". In these pages, contemporary readers will find a prescient and courageous treatment of a topic that has scarcely become less controversial. [via]
Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Rousselby Michel FoucaultISBN 0385278543 (0-385-27854-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Djinn: Un Trou Rouge Entre Les Paves Disjointsby Alain Robbe-GrilletISBN 0394179838 (0-394-17983-8)
Softcover, Grove Press
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Emily L.by Marguerite Duras, Barbara BrayISBN 0394572335 (0-394-57233-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Exploring the French Languageby R. Anthony Lodge, Nigel Armstrong, Jane F. Shelton, Yvette M.L. EllisISBN 0340676620 (0-340-67662-0)
Softcover, Hodder Arnold
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyISBN 0345342968 (0-345-34296-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit 451'Book summary:In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]
Fetishistby Michel TournierISBN 0385153546 (0-385-15354-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Four Wise Menby Michel TournierISBN 0394726189 (0-394-72618-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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French Folktalesby Henri Pourrat, C. G. Bjurstrom, Royall TylerISBN 039454451X (0-394-54451-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'French Folktales'Book summary:Selected from Henri Pourrat's classic Le tresor des contes, one of the finest folktale collections in the world, these one-hundred-odd legends, fairy tales, devotional pieces, jokes, and animal stories from the rural provinces of France comprise a magical volume. Fairies, changelings, giants, demons, bumpkins, knaves, bewitched and bewitching princesses, bandits, and others enact stories of perilous tests of love, contests with the devil, the beneficence of saints, and more.
Royall Tyler's translation deftly captures the vigor and resonance of the originals, and his cogent introduction illuminates for the reader the earthy, chilling, mischievous, and mystical realm these tales evoke.
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French in 32 Lessonsby Adrienne, Claire BechetISBN 0393316475 (0-393-31647-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'French in 32 Lessons'Book summary:The rapid and practical way to master the basics and begin speaking the language. The book gives you the essential, simplified grammar plus 3000 of the most-used words and idiomatic phrases that people use in real-life situations. The book can be used as a self-learner by beginners and also by those who want to brush up.adrienne's key to teaching a language is to eliminate "the boring repetition of inane exercises." she emphasizes vocabulary, and lots of it (grammar will then come naturally); frequent tests (indispensable if you want to learn the language in less than ten years); and writing right away, maybe describing your house or job. Jump in! the gimmick books are based on the author's many years of successfully teaching languages to tourists, business people, diplomats, and other international travelers [via]
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From Julia Child's Kitchenby Julia ChildISBN 0394480716 (0-394-48071-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Julia Child's Kitchen'Book summary:One of the first and most importantand most successfulcookbooks by America's beloved Julia Child. Using a very accessible approach to French cooking from an American point of view, here are recipes and techniques for the beginner as well as the more advanced cook, using easily available ingredients for everything from soups and appetizers to dessert. Black and white line art and photographs throughout. [via]
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Funeral Ritesby Jean GenetISBN 0394171632 (0-394-17163-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Funeral Rites'Book summary:Yeats once remarked that the only two subjects worth of a serious mind are sex and death. Had he been born a generation later, he would have lived long enough to find the perfect embodiment of his thesis in Genet. Atlanta Journal[via]
Only a handful of twentieth-century writers, such as Kafka and Proust, have as important, as authoritative, as irrevocable a voice and style. Susan Sontag
Genets sensual and brutal portrait of World War II France unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris, and his perverse attraction to the collaborator Riton. Elegiac, macabre, chimerical, it is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death.More editions of Funeral Rites:
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Gigi, Julie De Carneilhan, Chance Acquaintancesby Colette, Roger Senhouse, Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 0374527857 (0-374-52785-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gigi, Julie De Carneilhan, Chance Acquaintances'Book summary:Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.[via]
Perhaps Colette's best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned with success and money than with the desires of the heart. But Gigi is uninterested in the dishonest society life she observes all around her and remains exasperatingly Gigi. The tale of Gigi's success in spite of her anxious family is Colette at her liveliest and most entertaining. Written during the same period as Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, based on Colette's last years with her second husband, focuses on a contest of wills between Julie, an elegant woman of forty, and her ex-husband. Chance Acquaintances, a novella, involves an invalid wife, her philandering husband, and a music-hall dancer whose odd meeting at a French spa affects and indelibly marks each one of their lives.More editions of Gigi, Julie De Carneilhan, Chance Acquaintances:
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Halfway Houseby Alfred JarryISBN 0394176049 (0-394-17604-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom, Burton RaffelISBN 0300101058 (0-300-10105-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared especially for students, that approach the work from several contemporary critical perspectives, such as gender criticism and cultural studies. Each essay is accompanied by an introduction (with bibliography) to the history, principles, and practice of its critical perspective. Every volume also surveys the biographical, historical, and critical contexts of the literary work and concludes with a glossary of critical terms. New editions reprint cultural documents that contextualize the literary works and feature essays that show how critical perspectives can be combined.[via]More editions of Hamlet:
- Hamlet: ISBN 0312055447 (0-312-05544-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Hamlet: ISBN 0312256922 (0-312-25692-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Hamlet: ISBN 0393316424 (0-393-31642-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Hamlet: ISBN 0393956636 (0-393-95663-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Hamlet: ISBN 0312138415 (0-312-13841-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0300101759 (0-300-10175-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0312089864 (0-312-08986-4)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan - Hamlet: ISBN 0333015150 (0-333-01515-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Hamlet: ISBN 0300101058 (0-300-10105-8)
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History of the Franksby Gregory-Bishop of ToursISBN 0393098451 (0-393-09845-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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In the Labyrinth: A Novelby Alain Robbe-GrilletISBN 0394170326 (0-394-17032-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equianoby Olaudah Equiano, Robert J. AllisonISBN 0312442033 (0-312-44203-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'Book summary:Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual. The second edition reproduces the original London printing, supervised by Equiano in 1789. Robert J. Allison's introduction, which places Equiano's narrative in the context of the Atlantic slave trade, has been revised and updated to reflect the heated controversy surrounding Equiano's birthplace, as well as the latest scholarship on Atlantic history and the history of slavery. Improved pedagogical features include contemporary illustrations with expanded captions and a map showing Equiano's travels in greater detail. Helpful footnotes provide guidance throughout the eighteenth-century text, and a chronology and an up-to-date bibliography aid students in their study of this thought-provoking narrative. [via]
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equianoby Robert J. Allison, Olaudah EquianoISBN 0312111274 (0-312-11127-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself: An Authoritative Textby Olaudah Equiano, Werner SollorsISBN 0393974944 (0-393-97494-4)
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It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. "Contexts" provides essential public writings on the autobiography, general and historical background, related travel and scientific literature, other eighteenth-century works by authors of African ancestry, and works debating the slave trade. "Criticism" includes six contemporary reviews and nine modern essays on the narrative by Paul Edwards, Charles T. Davis, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Angelo Costanzo, Catherine Obianju Acholonu, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Geraldine Murphy, Adam Potkay, and Robert J. Allison. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included. Illustrations, maps [via]More editions of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself: An Authoritative Text:
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassac the Africanby Olaudah Equiano, Shelly Eversley, Robert Reid-PharrISBN 0375761152 (0-375-76115-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassac the African'Book summary:Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr
In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill, cunning, and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom, write his story, and gain international prominence, writes Robert Reid-Pharr in his Introduction. He alerts us to the very concerns that trouble modern intellectuals, black, white, and otherwise, on both sides of the Atlantic.
The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive ninth edition of 1794, reflecting the authors final changes to his masterwork. [via]More editions of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassac the African:
LA Batardeby Violette LeducISBN 0374513716 (0-374-51371-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Le Gimmick: FrannCais ParlEby AdrienneISBN 0393044386 (0-393-04438-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Adrienne's Gimmick helps you speak and understand French. With its vocabulary of words and expressions, the Gimmick can serve as exercise books (with or without a teacher), class book or reference book, and is intended for students of intermediate level with vocabulary range of 5000+ words. [via]More editions of Le Gimmick: FrannCais ParlE:
Macbettby Eugene IonescoISBN 039417805X (0-394-17805-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Madame Curieby Eve Curie, Vincent SheeanISBN 0306810387 (0-306-81038-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madame Curie'Book summary:Marie Sklodowska Curie (18671934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide fame, and indeed, one of the great scientists of this century. Winner of two Nobel Prizes (for physics in 1903 and for chemistry in 1911), she performed pioneering studies with radium and contributed profoundly to the understanding of radioactivity. The history of her story-book marriage to Pierre Curie, of their refusal to patent their processes or otherwise profit from the commercial exploitation of radium, and her tragically ironic death are legendary and well known but are here revealed from an inside perspective. But, as this book reveals, it was also true. An astonishing mind and a remarkable life are here portrayed by Marie Curies daughter in a classic and moving account.[via]-
The Mansion of the Godsby Rene De GoscinnyISBN 0340192690 (0-340-19269-0)
Softcover, Intl Learning Systems
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mansion of the Gods'Book summary:Caesar has plans to build a luxury holiday complex, the Mansion of the Gods, for Roman holidaymakers, just next to the Gaulish village. However, through the cunning plans of Asterix, things do not turn out quite as the Romans had hoped.
The Adventures of Asterix (French: Asterix or Asterix le Gaulois) is a series of French comic books written by Rene Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo (Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977). The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959. As of 2008, 33 comic books in the series have been released.
The series follows the exploits of a village of ancient Gauls as they resist Roman occupation. They do so by means of a magic potion, brewed by their druid, which gives the recipient superhuman strength. The protagonist, the titular character, Asterix, along with his friend Obelix have various adventures. In many cases, this leads them to travel to various countries around the world, though other books are set in and around their village. For much of the history of the series (Volumes 4 through 29), settings in Gaul and abroad alternated, with even-numbered volumes set abroad and odd-numbered volumes set in Gaul, mostly in the village.
The Asterix series is one of the most popular Franco-Belgian comics in the world, with the series being translated into over 100 languages, and it is popular in most European countries.
The success of the series has led to the adaptation of several books into 11 films; eight animated, and three with live actors. There have also been a number of games based on the characters, and a theme park near Paris, Parc Asterix, is themed around the series. To date, 325 million copies of 33 Asterix books have been sold around the world making co-creators Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo France's bestselling authors abroad. [via]More editions of The Mansion of the Gods:
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More Pricks Than Kicksby Samuel BeckettISBN 0330241591 (0-330-24159-1)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Pricks Than Kicks'Book summary:Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the first of Becketts antiheroes, Belacqua Shuah.[via]
Belacqua is a student, a philanderer, and a failure, and Beckett portrays the various aspects of his troubled existence: he studies Dante, attempts an ill-fated courtship, witnesses grotesque incidents in the streets of Dublin, attends vapid parties, endures his marriage, and meets his accidental death. These early stories point to the qualities of precision, restraint, satire, and poetry found in Becketts mature works, and reveal the beginning stages of Becketts underlying theme of bewilderment in the face of suffering.More editions of More Pricks Than Kicks:
The Mystery Guestby Gregoire Bouillier, lorin SteinISBN 0374185700 (0-374-18570-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Newlywedsby Elizabeth BevarlyISBN 0373613938 (0-373-61393-8)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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Known more for her work ethic than for her romantic history, FBI agent Bridget Logan landed an assignment that involved issues too close to home-and a "husband" as part of the sting. If Agent Samuel Jones weren't so sexy, Bridget would have had no problem handling this case. But he was, and for the first time in her career, Bridget had trouble keeping a cool head under fire. A lot was at stake, though, and Bridget was determined to solve this case and move on, no harm done. But then her "husband" made love to her. . .and suddenly their role as a devoted couple transformed into a passion over which neither had control! [via]
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Nightby Elie Wiesel, Marion WieselISBN 0374500010 (0-374-50001-0)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man.
Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. 
The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essaysby Charles BaudelaireISBN 0306802791 (0-306-80279-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Possessed, a Play in Three Parts.by Albert CamusISBN 0394406761 (0-394-40676-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Rabbi's Catby Joann SfarISBN 0375422811 (0-375-42281-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rabbi's Cat'Book summary:The preeminent work by one of Frances most celebrated young comic artists, The Rabbis Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.
In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his masters consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the first being that he didnt eat the parrot). The rabbi vows to educate him in the ways of the Torah, while the cat insists on studying the kabbalah and having a Bar Mitzvah. They consult the rabbis rabbi, who maintains that a cat cant be Jewish but the cat, as always, knows better.
Zlabya falls in love with a dashing young rabbi from Paris, and soon master and cat, having overcome their shared self-pity and jealousy, are accompanying the newlyweds to France to meet Zlabyas cosmopolitan in-laws. Full of drama and adventure, their trip invites countless opportunities for the rabbi and his cat to grapple with all the important and trivial details of life.
Rich with the colors, textures, and flavors of Algerias Jewish community, The Rabbis Cat brings a lost world vibrantly to life a time and place where Jews and Arabs coexisted and peoples it with endearing and thoroughly human characters, and one truly unforgettable cat. [via]More editions of The Rabbi's Cat:
Random House French-English English-French Dictionaryby Helene GutmanISBN 0345414381 (0-345-41438-1)
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The Raw and the Cookedby Claude Levi-StraussISBN 0374949530 (0-374-94953-0)
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Rimbaudby Graham RobbISBN 039332267X (0-393-32267-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rimbaud'Book summary:When he was not yet 17, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) electrified Paris's literary society with the incendiary poems that later made him the guiding saint of 20th-century rebels, from Pablo Picasso to Jim Morrison. "A Season in Hell," "The Drunken Boat," and the prose poems of Illuminations were epochal works that changed the nature of an art form--and yet their author abandoned poetry at age 21 and spent the rest of his short life as a colonial adventurer in Arabia and Africa. "He was writing in a void," explains British scholar Graham Robb. "In 1876, most of Rimbaud's admirers either were still in the nursery or had yet to be conceived." Hardly surprising, since the poet was a difficult and frequently unpleasant person to actually know. The Parisian poets who took him under their wing soon discovered that Rimbaud was ungrateful, crude, and as scornful of their precious verse as he was of the Catholic Church, bourgeois proprieties, and everything else his disapproving mother held dear. Rimbaud's stormy affair with Paul Verlaine estranged the older poet from his wife and, eventually, from most of his artistic friends as well. In Robb's depiction, the poet possessed from his earliest youth a restless, searching intellect that permitted no compromise with convention nor tenderness for others' weaknesses. The author doesn't soften Rimbaud's "savage cynicism" or gloss over his frequently obnoxious behavior, yet Robb arouses our admiration for "one of the great Romantic imaginations, festering in damp, provincial rooms like an intelligent disease." Like Robb's excellent biographies of Hugo and Balzac, this sharp, subtle, unsentimental portrait is both erudite and beautifully written. --Wendy Smith [via]
Saint Genet : Actor and Martyrby Jean-Paul Sartre, Bernard FrechtmanISBN 0394715837 (0-394-71583-7)
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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962by Alistair HorneISBN 0333155157 (0-333-15515-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962'Book summary:Originally published in 1987, a new edition of an examination of the Algerian War of 1954-1962, which describes how the conflict saw the death of an estimated million Muslim Algerians and the expulsion of the same number of European settlers from the region. Includes an updated epilogue covering the violent Algerian elections in 1995. [via]
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Search for a Methodby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0394704649 (0-394-70464-9)
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Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Coletteby Judith ThurmanISBN 0345371038 (0-345-37103-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette'Book summary:The same keen yet affectionate gaze Judith Thurman trained on Isak Dinesen in her 1983 National Book Award winner, The Life of a Storyteller, distinguishes her robust portrait of the great French writer Colette. In Secrets of the Flesh, Thurman shrewdly disentangles fact from legend during the course of the writer's long and turbulent life (1873-1954), yet she doesn't question Colette's right to mythologize herself. The fictions Colette created about herself were part of a lifelong attempt to make sense, not just of her own experience, but of the "secrets of the flesh" (André Gide's phrase in an admiring letter), the bonds that link women to men, parents to children, in an eternal search for love that is also a struggle for dominance. Chronicling Colette's scandalous life--male and female lovers, a stint in vaudeville, an affair with her stepson, a final happy marriage to a younger man--Thurman makes it clear that the writer's adored yet dominating mother and exploitative first husband made it difficult for her to conceive of amorous equality. Yet she nonetheless created a satisfying, creative existence, firmly rooted in the senses and filled with artistic achievement, from the bestselling Claudine novels to the mature insights of The Vagabond and Chéri. Thurman assesses with equal acuity the bleakness of Colette's world-view and a zest for life that it never seemed to dampen. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Simca's Cuisineby Simone Beck, Patricia SimonISBN 039447449X (0-394-47449-X)
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Swann in Loveby Marcel ProustISBN 039472769X (0-394-72769-X)
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The Tale of Peter Rabbitby Beatrix Potter, Cyndy Szekeres, Adriana Mazza SaviozziISBN 0307030717 (0-307-03071-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'Book summary:The quintessential cautionary tale, Peter Rabbit warns naughty children about the grave consequences of misbehaving. When Mrs. Rabbit beseeches her four furry children not to go into Mr. McGregor's garden, the impish Peter naturally takes this as an open invitation to create mischief. He quickly gets in over his head, when he is spotted by farmer McGregor himself. Any child with a spark of sass will find Peter's adventures remarkably familiar. And they'll see in Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail that bane of their existence: the "good" sibling who always does the right thing. One earns bread and milk and blackberries for supper, while the obstinate folly of the other warrants medicine and an early bedtime.
Beatrix Potter's animal stories have been a joy to generations of young readers. Her warm, playful illustrations in soft colors invite children into the world of words and flights of fancy. Once there, she gently and humorously guides readers along the path of righteousness, leaving just enough room for children to wonder if that incorrigible Peter will be back in McGregor's garden tomorrow. (Ages Baby to Preschool) [via]
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0382099931 (0-382-09993-1)
Softcover, Silver Burdett Pr
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Teach Yourself French: Complete Audio Cd Programby Gaelle GrahamISBN 0340866594 (0-340-86659-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Tender Shoot and Other Storiesby ColetteISBN 0374273103 (0-374-27310-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Timelineby Michael CrichtonISBN 0345417623 (0-345-41762-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Timeline'Book summary:When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole," and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. On the social front, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with a swoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in "Milady's Bath," a brackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then for prisoners to eat.
This is the plight of the heroes of Timeline, Michael Crichton's thriller. They're historians in 1999 employed by a tech billionaire-genius with more than a few of Bill Gates's most unlovable quirks. Like the entrepreneur in Crichton's Jurassic Park, Doniger plans a theme park featuring artifacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edge science. When the project's chief historian sends a distress call to 1999 from 1357, the boss man doesn't tell the younger historians the risks they'll face trying to save him. At first, the interplay between eras is clever, but Timeline swiftly becomes a swashbuckling old-fashioned adventure, with just a dash of science and time paradox in the mix. Most of the cool facts are about the Middle Ages, and Crichton marvelously brings the past to life without ever letting the pulse-pounding action slow down. At one point, a time-tripper tries to enter the Chapel of Green Death. Unfortunately, its custodian, a crazed giant with terrible teeth and a bad case of lice, soon has her head on a block. "She saw a shadow move across the grass as he raised his ax into the air." I dare you not to turn the page!
Through the narrative can be glimpsed the glowing bones of the movie that may be made from Timeline and the cutting-edge computer game that should hit the market in 2000. Expect many clashing swords and chase scenes through secret castle passages. But the book stands alone, tall and scary as a knight in armor shining with blood. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Softcover, Ballantine Books - Timeline: ISBN 0375408738 (0-375-40873-8)
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The Toilers of the Seaby Victor Hugo, James Hogarth, Graham RobbISBN 0375761322 (0-375-76132-2)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Toilers of the Sea'Book summary:In 1855, fleeing political persecution, Victor Hugo found sanctuary on the Isle of Guernsey, among the most historic and picturesque of the Channel Islands. The legends and lore of the islands sparked Hugo's imagination, resulting in one of his most unusual works. Setting mythical, romantic, and social themes against a backdrop of memorable descriptions, The Toilers of the Sea is a novel of epic proportions, brought to light in a new Signet Classic edition. [via]
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Two Symphoniesby Andre GideISBN 0394724542 (0-394-72454-2)
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet: Prince Of Denmarkby Constance JordanISBN 0321317297 (0-321-31729-7)
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[via]From Longman's new Cultural Edition series, Hamlet, edited by Constance Jordan, includes the play and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare.
This edition represents Shakespeare's text as it appears in the most authoritative of early editions, the Folio, published in 1623, and it supplies students with useful footnotes to the interpretation of the text. It also includes brief samples of works by Shakespeare's contemporaries in a section entitled Contexts; which will help students understand the historical setting and cultural ideas that helped shape the meaning of Shakespeare's play. By listening to these voices from the past, students can approach the play with some knowledge of why Hamlet asks the questions he does and of why the character himself, the creation of a distant century, also seems so much a part of our own world.
The Longman Cultural Edition series is composed of teaching texts edited by prominent scholars. In addition to the recently published Cultural Editions Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, and Othello, titles in the series for this year include Dickens' Hard Times, Beowulf, and Oscar Wilde'sThe Picture of Dorian Gray.
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, Constance JordanISBN 032114922X (0-321-14922-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'Book summary:From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hamlet, edited by Constance Jordan, includes the play and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare. This edition represents Shakespeare's text as it appears in the most authoritative of early editions, the Folio, published in 1623, and it supplies readers with useful footnotes to the interpretation of the text. It also includes brief samples of works by Shakespeare's contemporaries in a section entitled Contexts ; these will help readers to understand the historical setting and the cultural ideas that helped shape the meaning of Shakespeare's play. By listening to these voices from the past, readers can approach the play with some knowledge of why Hamlet asks the questions he does and of why the character himself, the creation of a distant century, also seems so much a part of our own world. Readers interested in Shakespeare's Plays and the time they were written Jordan Hamlet SMP.doc Page 1 of 1 [via]
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The Women Troubadoursby Magda Bogin, Meg BoginISBN 0393009653 (0-393-00965-3)
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Rescate en el Tiempo (1999 - 1357)by Michael CrichtonISBN 0307376362 (0-307-37636-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rescate en el Tiempo (1999 - 1357)'Book summary:Robert Dolinger es el joven dueño de una empresa de investigación científica llamada ITC ubicada en Nueva México. Se le reconoce como genio, extremadamente exigente y con una capacidad enorme de trabajo. ITC también está financiando varias costosas excavaciones arqueológicas por diferentes partes del mundo. Al principio de la novela sabemos que ITC necesita otra gran cantidad de dinero para seguir adelante con sus investigaciones y para conseguirlo se necesitan pruebas de los adelantos en sus proyectos para enseñar a los posibles inversionistas. Robert decide que las excavaciones que se están llevando a cabo en la región de la Dordogne en Francia son las más avanzadas y allí envía a Diane, una de sus ayudantes para que consiga estas pruebas.
Un grupo de expertos americanos está excavando el castillo de Castelgard y todos sus alrededores. Diane les informa que ITC quiere que vayan más de prisa y que empiecen ya la reconstrucción de los edificios. El profesor Johnson, el responsable de los trabajos, le contesta que es totalmente imposible, que todavía no saben lo suficiente para hacerlo con autenticidad. Pero, es evidente que ITC sabe mucho más que los historiadores de cómo era Castelgard, tiene planos del monasterio, de todo ¿Pero cómo?
Johnson acompaña a Diana a ITC para informarse y lo que descubre ni no lo habría soñado. ITC ha desarrollado un sistema de viajar hacia atrás en el tiempo. El método está basada en la física cuántica, descompone la materia del lugar de origen y lo recompone en el tiempo elegido. Miembros del equipo de ITC ya han viajado al Castelgard de hace 600 años y por lo tanto saben exactamente como eran la ciudad, el castillo, el monasterio...
Mientras tanto en Francia los arqueólogos descubren una pila de documentos dentro de las excavaciones y sobre uno está escrito en su letra un mensaje escrito por Johnson, " Ayúdame, 7.4.1357". Todos los tests demuestran que es auténtico, fue escrito en el año que pone.
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