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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 0140366733 (0-14-036673-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0140383514 (0-14-038351-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140301690 (0-14-030169-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140433171 (0-14-043317-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140383514 (0-14-038351-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140301690 (0-14-030169-0)
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Are You Experienced?by William SutcliffeISBN 0140283587 (0-14-028358-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Are You Experienced?'Book summary:A bestseller in England, this hilarious novel is a trans-Atlantic, nineties version of On the Road.
Dave Greenford has heard the old cliche about how when you arrive in India, it's like stepping into an oven. But, somehow, this doesn't prepare him for the realization that when he arrives in India, it is like stepping into an oven.
He is there because his friend Liz--who he hopes will turn out to be more than just a friend--has the summer off. And what better way to spend her time than searching for her tantric center?
For Dave, however, the spiritual side of India is hidden by the daily frustrations of travel itself. A fourteen-hour bumpy bus ride, food-poisoning (and the ever-constant threat of malaria), child beggars, and a bossy and uninterested Liz can turn even the greatest of Asian adventures into the Vacation from Hell. Despite "[the] general belief that a long and unpleasant holiday was of crucial importance to one's development as a human being," Dave wants to go back home to England. How he finally gets there is what makes Are You Experienced? so much fun.
"A wonderfully acute, heartfelt--even 'wicked'--piece of new fiction . . . both very modern and timeless." --The Independent
"A marvelously funny satire. Bull's eye!" --The Daily Telegraph [via]More editions of Are You Experienced?:
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Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Rowan Atkinson, John LloydISBN 0140296085 (0-14-029608-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917'Book summary:Then look no further. Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty is the book for you. Here, at last, for the first time, are the full scripts of one of British television's funniest comedies. Follow the hilarious misadventures of the despicable Edmund Blackadder and his dimwitted sidekick Baldrick through four centuries of hopelessly mangled English history: from medieval nastiness through English history: from medieval nastiness through Elizabethan and Regency glory, to the mud and sauteed rats of the First World War. Aside from the ball-bouncingly funny scripts themselves, Blackadder also features special bonus sections: "Instruments of Torture in the Late Middle Ages"; "Medieval Medicine" ("1. Herbs; 2. Leeches; 3. Saw It Off"); and an indispensable "Index of Blackadder's Finest Insults". [via]
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Brothers Karamazovby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuffISBN 0140449248 (0-14-044924-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothers Karamazov'Book summary:The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime and Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, and profligacy. Significantly, the book was on Tolstoy's bedside table when he died. Readers in every language have since accepted Dostoevsky's own evaluation of this work and have gone further by proclaiming it one of the few great novels of all ages and countries. [via]
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Busybody Noraby Johanna Hurwitz, Lillian HobanISBN 0140345922 (0-14-034592-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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But Gentlemen Marry Brunettesby Anita LoosISBN 0140184880 (0-14-018488-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Carry On, Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140284087 (0-14-028408-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carry On, Jeeves'Book summary:Meet the inimitable gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves ...From the moment Jeeves glides into Bertie Wooster's life and provides him with a magical hangover cure, Bertie begins to wonder how he's ever managed without him. Jeeves makes himself totally indispensable in every way, disentangling the hapless Bertie from scrapes with formidable aunts, madcap girls and unbidden guests. His ability to dig assorted fellows out of sundry holes is nothing short of miraculous. In short, the man is a paragon. [via]
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Cold Comfort Farmby Stella GibbonsISBN 014018869X (0-14-018869-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Comfort Farm'Book summary:This title is a classic of its kind, a dazzling parody of the earthy, melodramatic novels of the period. Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn her own living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to go and live with her relatives the Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm. What relatives, though: Judith, alone in her grief; raving old Ada Doom, who once saw something nasty in the woodshed; Amos, called by God; Seth, smouldering with sex; and Elfine, who just needs a little polish. Flora feels it incumbent upon her to bring order into the chaos. And she turns out to be remarkably good at it. [via]
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- Cold Comfort Farm: ISBN 0140244875 (0-14-024487-5)
Softcover, Penguin Uk - Cold Comfort Farm: ISBN 0140274146 (0-14-027414-6)
Softcover, Penguin Uk - Cold Comfort Farm: ISBN 0140258132 (0-14-025813-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Cold Comfort Farm: ISBN 014018869X (0-14-018869-X)
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- Cold Comfort Farm: ISBN 0140244875 (0-14-024487-5)
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Complete Storiesby Dorothy Parker, Colleen BreeseISBN 0140189394 (0-14-018939-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Stories'Book summary:Dorothy Parker's quips and light verse have become part of the American literary landscape, but, as this new collection of her complete short stories demonstrates, Parker's talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Many of the stories, originally written for magazines, have never been collected before. [via]
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Danny the Champion of the Worldby Roald DahlISBN 0140328734 (0-14-032873-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Death by Sheer Tortureby Robert BarnardISBN 0140237879 (0-14-023787-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Diary of a Madman and Other Storiesby Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Ronald WilksISBN 0140442731 (0-14-044273-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Facts and Fanciesby IannucciISBN 0140248889 (0-14-024888-9)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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Fox All Weekby Edward Marshall, James MarshallISBN 0140377085 (0-14-037708-5)
Softcover, Puffin
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Fox Be Nimbleby James MarshallISBN 0140368426 (0-14-036842-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fox in Loveby Edward Marshall, James MarshallISBN 0140368434 (0-14-036843-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fox in Love'Book summary:Fox is on a roll in the love department. First he falls for Raisin, then for Millie, Rosa, Lola - and then Raisin again. Can Fox handle this much love? [via]
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Fox on Stageby James MarshallISBN 0140380329 (0-14-038032-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fox on the Jobby James MarshallISBN 014037602X (0-14-037602-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robin LawrieISBN 0140366660 (0-14-036666-0)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:After losing her parents and being shipped from India to the Yorkshire Moors, Mary Lennox is terribly lonely. Living in her uncle's gloomy mansion, she has nobody to play with. But one day, she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that her uncle won't allow anyone to enter. Then Mary uncovers an old key in a flowerbed - and a gust of magic leads her to the hidden door. Slowly, she turns the key and enters a world she could never have imagined... [via]
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Frogs and Other Playsby Aristophanes, David Barrett, Shomit DuttaISBN 0140449698 (0-14-044969-8)
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Gargantua and Pantagruelby Francois Rabelais, M. A. ScreechISBN 0140445501 (0-14-044550-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishingby Melissa BankISBN 0140293248 (0-14-029324-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing'Book summary:Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that's saying much--since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she's trying to figure out how not to fail in love. At twice that age, Jane quickly internalizes How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, even though that retro manual is ruining her chances at happiness. In the intervening years, Melissa Bank's heroine struggles at love and work. The former often seems indistinguishable from the latter, and her experiences in book publishing inspire little in the way of affection. As Jane announces in "The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine": "I'd been a rising star at H----- until Mimi Howlett, the new executive editor, decided I was just the lights of an airplane."
Bank's first collection has a beautiful, true arc, and all the sophistication and control her heroine could ever desire. In "The Floating House," Jane and her boyfriend, Jamie, visit his ex-girlfriend in St. Croix, and right from the start she can't stop mimicking her beautiful competitor, in a notably idiotic fashion. "I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive," she realizes--one of several thousand of Bank's ruefully funny phrases. But even as Jane clowns around, desperately trying to keep up appearances, she is so hyperaware it hurts. Again and again, the author explores the dichotomy between life as it happens and the rehearsed anecdote, the preferred outcome. In The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, even suburban quiet has "nothing to do with peace." Bank's much-anticipated debut merits all its buzz and, more to the point, transcends it. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Harry Enfield and His Humor Chumsby EnfieldISBN 0140272038 (0-14-027203-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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Herodotus: The Historiesby John Marincola, HerodutusISBN 0140446389 (0-14-044638-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herodotus: The Histories'Book summary:During the fifth century BC, a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city-states united to repel a mighty Persian army. While the story of this heroic drama forms the main theme of Herodotus' narrative, the author's curiosity fleshes out the text with digressions, folk tales and stories. [via]
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The Historiesby Herodotus, Aubrey De Selincourt, John MarincolaISBN 0140449086 (0-14-044908-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Histories'Book summary:Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola.[via]
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Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruelby Francois Rabelais, J. M. CohenISBN 014044047X (0-14-044047-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel'Book summary:This text parodies everyone from eminent classical authors and schoolmen to Rabelais's own acquaintances. But the brilliance of the book lies not merely in these learned references, but in the story into which they are woven. [via]
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Home Truthsby David LodgeISBN 0140291806 (0-14-029180-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Home Truths'Book summary:Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished but slightly faded reputation, is living in semi-retirement with his wife, Eleanor, in an isolated cottage beneath the flight path of London's Gatwick airport. Their old friend from college days, Sam Sharp, who has since become a successful screenplay writer, drops by unexpectedly on the way to Los Angeles. Sam is fuming over a scathing profile of himself by Fanny Tarrant, one of the new breed of pugnacious interviewers, in that day's newspaper. Together, Sam and Adrian plan to take revenge on the journalist, though Adrian is risking what he values most: his privacy. What follows is unexpected and upsetting for all of them, including Fanny.
David Lodge's delicious novella examines with characteristic wit and insight the tensions between private life and public interest in contemporary culture. [via]More editions of Home Truths:
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Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasionby Suzy Kline, Frank RemkiewiczISBN 0140329145 (0-14-032914-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion'Book summary:Harry is back, along with Miss Mackle and the entire class of Rooom 2B. Harry's name always spells trouble, but no matter what he does, it's always hilarious. "Room 2B is every child's dream."--School Library Journal. Illustrated. [via]
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Horrible Harry and the Drop of Doomby Suzy Kline, Frank RemkiewiczISBN 0140372563 (0-14-037256-3)
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Horrible Harry in Room 2Bby Suzy Kline, Frank RemkiewiczISBN 0140385525 (0-14-038552-5)
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Horrible Harry Moves Up to Third Gradeby Suzy Kline, Frank RemkiewiczISBN 0140389725 (0-14-038972-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horrible Harry Moves Up to Third Grade'Book summary:Third grade brings lots of surprises, but one thing hasn't changed a bit--Harry and Sidney are still sworn enemies. And their relationship only gets worse when Sidney accidentally kills Harry's pet spider. But Harry comes up with a horribly funny way to get revenge during a class trip to a creepy copper mine.[via]More editions of Horrible Harry Moves Up to Third Grade:
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Playsby Oscar WildeISBN 0140482091 (0-14-048209-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Inimitable Jeevesby P. G. WodehouseISBN 0140284125 (0-14-028412-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inimitable Jeeves'Book summary:With a cast of characters that includes bearded revolutionaries, practical-joking twins, incognito authors, and a pair of confidence tricksters, The Inimitable Jeeves finds our upper-class hero Bertie Wooster in all kinds of hot water. Of particular concern in this collection of short stories--sensitively abridged by Penguin and read by Simon Callow--is Bertie's friend Bingo Little, who falls in love so often that it is impossible to keep track of his romantic entanglements, and who always falls for the most unsuitable women.
Unable to refuse to help a friend, Bertie is placed in one difficult situation after another, always under the watchful eye of his butler. Jeeves constantly works in the background, undermining Bertie's autonomy and moving the narrative in unexpected directions. He often fails to let his employer in on his plots, and a large proportion of his schemes turn out to expose Bertie to ridicule.
Yet Jeeves also ensures that Bertie's life runs smoothly, steering him through the pitfalls which face a rich young man with too much time on his hands. When in one story Bertie overhears Jeeves describing his employer as "not intelligent", he sets out to disprove the butler's assessment. If it is predictable that things do not go according to plan, then it is Wodehouse's brilliant grasp of comedy which makes the manner in which things go wrong so constantly surprising. And, of course, by the end of the tale Jeeves has proved himself both inimitable and indispensable. --John Oates [via]
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James and the Giant Peachby Roald Dahl, Lane SmithISBN 0140374248 (0-14-037424-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James and the Giant Peach'Book summary:Roald Dahl's classic children's novel is now a motion picture from The Walt Disney Company, and this version of James and the Giant Peach grew out of the making of the movie. Lane Smith, conceptual artist for the film, has given James and company a new and arresting look, much in the style of his many highly regarded books, such as Math Curse and The Stinky Cheeseman. Karey Kirkpatrick, the film's screenwriter, created a text that is true to the spirit of Dahl's original, and deftly pulls young readers into the remarkable story. All in all, it's a peach of a book sure to be the pick of every child's bookshelf! [via]
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Jeremiah in the Dark Woodsby Allan Ahlberg, Janet AhlbergISBN 0140328114 (0-14-032811-4)
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Peter LeviISBN 0140183515 (0-14-018351-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other animal How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter--and they have served ever since as a source of laughter for children everywhere. [via]
Knights of the Kitchen Tableby Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith, Adam McCauleyISBN 0140346031 (0-14-034603-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Life on the Mississippiby Mark TwainISBN 0140390502 (0-14-039050-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on the Mississippi'Book summary:This is Mark Twain's description of life on the Mississippi River, with observations and anecdotes about the culture and society along the river valley. It includes character sketches, historical facts, information and reminiscences of Twain's boyhood and experiences as a steam-boat pilot. Part travel book, part autobiography, and part social commentary, "Life on the Mississippi" is a memoir of the cub pilot's apprenticeship, a record of Twain's return to the river and to Hannibal as an adult, a meditation on the harsh vagaries of nature, and a study of the varied and sometimes violent activities engaged in by those who live on the river's shores. [via]
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The MacGuffinby Stanley ElkinISBN 0140172343 (0-14-017234-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Man and Supermanby George Bernard ShawISBN 0140480064 (0-14-048006-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man and Superman'Book summary:How tantalizing to hear Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler's List) but not be able to see him! And hear him one does in his role as Jack Tanner, the antihero of Shaw's 1905 classic drama Man and Superman. Fiennes is a veritable mouthpiece--and a frequently sarcastic one at that--for the burning issues on Shaw's philosophical and social laundry list: the state of the English working class, the arms race, women's rights, unwed mothers, the evils of industry and capitalism, and English morality in general. The seriousness of the discussions is tempered by delightful Shavian wit ("There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."), which prevents the dialogue from collapsing under its own weight, although it does teeter at times. The four-act play, directed by the esteemed Peter Hall for BBC Radio, begins in the English countryside and ends in the mountains of Spain after a curious detour to Hell, where, in act 3, the famous dream sequence unfolds and the main characters take on such roles as Don Juan and the Devil to further hash out the meaning of existence, the definition of life force, and the power of the female sex. This is a spirited production of Shaw's imperfect but intellectually challenging work. (Running time: 225 min; four cassettes) [via]
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Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophyby Bernard Shaw, Dan H. LaurenceISBN 0140437886 (0-14-043788-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy'Book summary:How tantalizing to hear Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler's List) but not be able to see him! And hear him one does in his role as Jack Tanner, the antihero of Shaw's 1905 classic drama Man and Superman. Fiennes is a veritable mouthpiece--and a frequently sarcastic one at that--for the burning issues on Shaw's philosophical and social laundry list: the state of the English working class, the arms race, women's rights, unwed mothers, the evils of industry and capitalism, and English morality in general. The seriousness of the discussions is tempered by delightful Shavian wit ("There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."), which prevents the dialogue from collapsing under its own weight, although it does teeter at times. The four-act play, directed by the esteemed Peter Hall for BBC Radio, begins in the English countryside and ends in the mountains of Spain after a curious detour to Hell, where, in act 3, the famous dream sequence unfolds and the main characters take on such roles as Don Juan and the Devil to further hash out the meaning of existence, the definition of life force, and the power of the female sex. This is a spirited production of Shaw's imperfect but intellectually challenging work. (Running time: 225 min; four cassettes) [via]
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My Year of Meatsby Ruth L. OzekiISBN 0140280464 (0-14-028046-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Year of Meats'Book summary:At first glance, a novel that promises to expose the unethical practices of the American meat industry may not be at the top of your reading list, but Ruth Ozeki's debut, My Year of Meats is well worth a second look. Like the author, the novel's protagonist, Jane Takagi-Little, is a Japanese-American documentary filmmaker; like Ozeki, who was once commissioned by a beef lobbying group to make television shows for the Japanese market, Jane is invited to work on a Japanese television show meant to encourage beef consumption via the not-so-subliminal suggestion that prime rib equals a perfect family:
TO: AMERICAN RESEARCH STAFF
FROM: Tokyo Office
DATE: January 5, 1991
RE: My American Wife!...
Here is list of IMPORTANT THINGS for My American Wife!
DESIRABLE THINGS:
1. Attractiveness, wholesomeness, warm personality
2. Delicious meat recipe (NOTE: Pork and other meats is second class meats, so please remember this easy motto: "Pork is Possible, but Beef is Best!")
3. Attractive, docile husband
4. Attractive, obedient children
5. Attractive, wholesome lifestyle
6. Attractive, clean house...
UNDESIRABLE THINGS:
1. Physical imperfections
2. Obesity
3. Squalor
4. Second class peoples
The series, My American Wife!, initally seems like a dream come true for Jane as she criss-crosses the United States filming a different American family each week for her Japanese audience. Naturally, the emphasis is on meat, and Ozeki has fun with out-there recipes such as rump roast in coke and beef fudge; but as Jane becomes more familiar with her subject, she becomes increasingly aware of the beef industry's widespread practice of using synthetic estrogens on their cattle and determines to sabotage the program.
Cut to Tokyo where Akiko Ueno struggles through the dull misery of life with her brutish husband, who happens to be in charge of the show's advertising. After seeing one of Jane's subversive episodes about a vegetarian lesbian couple, Akiko gets in touch and the two women plot to expose the meat industry's hazardous practices. Romance, humor, intrigue, and even a message--My Year of Meats has it all. This is a book that even a vegetarian would love. [via]
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Nude Menby Amanda FilipacchiISBN 0140178929 (0-14-017892-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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On the Roadby Jack KerouacISBN 0140283293 (0-14-028329-3)
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nestby Ken Kesey, John Clark PrattISBN 0140236015 (0-14-023601-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest'Book summary:An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s.[via]A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results.
With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers.
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Our Man in Havanaby Graham GreeneISBN 0140184937 (0-14-018493-7)
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The Peculiar Triumph of Professor Branestawmby Norman Hunter, George AdamsonISBN 0140305475 (0-14-030547-5)
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Pippi in the South Seasby Astrid Ericsson LindgrenISBN 0140309586 (0-14-030958-6)
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Pippi Longstockingby Louis S. Glanzman, Astrid Ericsson LindgrenISBN 0140309578 (0-14-030957-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pippi Longstocking'Book summary:Pippi is an irrepressible, irreverent, and irrefutably delightful girl who lives alone (with a monkey) in her wacky house, Villa Villekulla. When she's not dancing with the burglars who were just trying to rob her house, she's attempting to learn the "pluttification" tables at school; fighting Adolf, the strongest man in the world at the circus; or playing tag with police officers. Pippi's high-spirited, good-natured hijinks cause as much trouble as fun, but a more generous child you won't find anywhere.
Astrid Lindgren has created a unique and lovable character, inspiring generations of children to want to be Pippi. More than anything, Pippi makes reading a pleasure; no child will welcome the end of the book, and many will return to Pippi Longstocking again and again. Simply put, Pippi is irresistible. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Playsby Oscar WildeISBN 0140480161 (0-14-048016-1)
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The Poemsby Catullus, Whigham, Peter WhighamISBN 0140449817 (0-14-044981-7)
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The Poems of Catullusby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Peter WhighamISBN 0140441808 (0-14-044180-8)
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Pot of Gold and Other Playsby PlatusISBN 0140441492 (0-14-044149-2)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Pudd'Nhead Wilsonby Mark Twain, Malcolm BradburyISBN 0140430407 (0-14-043040-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pudd'Nhead Wilson'Book summary:Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate Chambers, the son of her master. The two boys' lives in the quiet Missouri town of Dawson's Landing remain entwined even though they take very different directions. The indulged Tom (now heir to a fortune rightfully that of Chambers) goes to Yale, where he learns how to drink and gamble, while Chambers looks set to remain a subservient drudge. But then a strange sequence of events begins - one in which the much-derided lawyer, 'Pudd'nhead' Wilson, has a key part to play - and changes everything. Darkly ironic, blending farce and tragedy, "Pudd'nhead Wilson" is a complex and fascinating depiction of human nature under slavery. [via]
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Puffin Bk of Nonsense Storiesby BlakeISBN 0140382135 (0-14-038213-5)
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Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peachby Richard R. GeorgeISBN 0140314644 (0-14-031464-4)
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Roughing Itby Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne ClemensISBN 0140390103 (0-14-039010-3)
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Small Worldby David LodgeISBN 0140244867 (0-14-024486-7)
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Song Lee and the Leech Manby Suzy Kline, Frank RemkiewiczISBN 0140372555 (0-14-037255-5)
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The Spring Cleaning Murders: An Ellie Haskell Mysteryby Dorothy CannellISBN 0140276157 (0-14-027615-7)
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Surviving Womenby Jerry PintoISBN 0140287159 (0-14-028715-9)
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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Patrick O'DonnellISBN 0140189769 (0-14-018976-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Side of Paradise'Book summary:Fitzgerald's first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman's Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920. [via]
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Three Men in a Boat to Say Nothing of the Dog! & Three Men on the Bummelby Jerome K. Jerome, Jeremy LewisISBN 0140437509 (0-14-043750-9)
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre DumasISBN 0140367470 (0-14-036747-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel'Book summary:D'Artagnan, arriving in Paris from Gascony with no horse and few worldly goods wishes to join the King's Guards. He finds himself in the company of three musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, the most renowned fighters of their day. The adventures they share, fighting for the honour of the Queen against the machinations of 'Milady', are rich in drama, colour and romance, which is why "The Three Musketeers" has remained so popular since its first serialisation in 1844. [via]
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Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0140367098 (0-14-036709-8)
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Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journeyby Ralph LeightonISBN 0140156143 (0-14-015614-3)
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The Vanby Roddy DoyleISBN 0140171916 (0-14-017191-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Van'Book summary:Roddy Doyles acclaimed Booker Prize-nominated novel, a darker portrayal of midlife crisis and an expansively farcical chain of misadventures (The New York Times Book Review)[via]
Jimmy Rabitte, Sr., is unemployed, spending his days alone and miserable. When his best friend, Bimbo, also gets laid off, they keep busy by being miserable together. Things seem to look up when they buy a decrepit fish-and-chips van and go into business, selling cheap grub to the drunk and the hungryand keeping one step ahead of the environmental health officers.
Set during the heady days of Irelands brief, euphoric triumphs in the 1990 World Cup, The Van is a tender and hilarious tale of male friendship and family life.-
Van Gogh's Room at Arlesby Stanley ElkinISBN 0140236597 (0-14-023659-7)
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Very Good, Jeeves!by P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140284109 (0-14-028410-9)
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The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plainsby Owen WisterISBN 0140390650 (0-14-039065-0)
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The Wasps, The Poet And The Women, The Frogsby Aristophanes, David BarrettISBN 0140441522 (0-14-044152-2)
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What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I'Ve Learnedby Merrill MarkoeISBN 0140166823 (0-14-016682-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I'Ve Learned'Book summary:Merrill Markoe, the creator of "Stupid Pet Tricks," won four Emmy awards for her work on the David Letterman show. In these sidesplitting essays--from "The Wacky World of Men" to "An Insider's Guide to the American Woman" to "Showering with Your Dog"--she reveals what she's learned about life from "dogs, celebrities, bachelors, and other beasts."
In Markoe's words, "I pick dogs that remind me of myself--scrappy, mutt-faced, with a hint of mange. People look for a reflection of their own personalities or the person they dream of being in the eyes of an animal companion. That is the reason I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies."
Following a collection of sparkling chapters on cultural phenomena--from the "Creeping Gabor Syndrome" (the terror of turning into Zsa Zsa Gabor) to what happens to you when you live alone (and the eight things you can do because there's no one there to stop you)--the last chapter outlines the many lessons Markoe has learned from her dogs: "If you see something you want, and all your other attempts at getting it have failed, it is only right to grovel shamelessly. As a second tactic, stare intently at the object of your desire, allowing long gelatinous drools to leak like icicles from your lips." [via]
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Wobegon Boyby Garrison KeillorISBN 0140274782 (0-14-027478-2)
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For the author, John's job is a handy pulpit, allowing him to fulminate against radio, New Age affectation, and campus politicking. Keillor remains a master of the cantankerous one-liner, yet there's a romance here, too--between John and a historian named Alida Freeman. And while Keillor can't resist roping Alida into his own pan-Scandinavian schtick--she's writing a scholarly study of a 19th-century Norwegian neuropath who administered high colonics to Lincoln himself--the love story is genuinely touching and gives the novel an extra emotional ballast.
So, too, does the magnetic pull of Lake Wobegon. John keeps describing life back in Minnesota as one long exercise in sensory (and emotional) deprivation: "We were not brought up to experience pleasure, so it doesn't register with us, like writing on glass with a pencil. Dullness is our stock-in-trade, dullness honed to its keenest edge." Nonetheless, he returns twice in the course of the novel, and his sojourns among the Lutherans are the source of not only comedy but home truths. [via]
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The Worst Witchby Jill MurphyISBN 0140311084 (0-14-031108-4)
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The Worst Witch Strikes Againby Jill MurphyISBN 0140313486 (0-14-031348-6)
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Your Mother Was a Neanderthalby Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith, Adam McCauleyISBN 0140363726 (0-14-036372-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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