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All Quiet on the Western Frontby Erich Maria RemarqueISBN 0791059235 (0-7910-5923-5)
Hardcover, Chelsea House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Quiet on the Western Front'Book summary:Remarque's 1929 novel is among the finest antiwar literature written after the First World War.
The title, Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on Western Front, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on Western Front through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Erich Maria Remarque, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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American Graffitiby George LucasISBN 0802100600 (0-8021-0060-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Around The World In Eighty Daysby Jane Bingham, Adam StowerISBN 079450826X (0-7945-0826-X)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around The World In Eighty Days'Book summary:When Phileas Fogg read in his newspaper that it was possible to travel around the world in only eighty days, his friends laughed. "It can't be done!" said one. So Phileas Fogg set out to prove it could. He insisted he was prepared for anything -- but he can't have expected to be chased around the world by a policemen. Detective Fix is convinced Fogg has stolen fifty-five thousand pounds and he's determined to stop him at any cost. [via]
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules Verne, Jane Bingham, Adam StowerISBN 0794507417 (0-7945-0741-7)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Lifeby Stefan Rudnicki, Sun-TzuISBN 0787105619 (0-7871-0561-9)
Hardcover, Newstar Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life'Book summary:This classic tract written 2,500 years ago by a leading Chinese philosopher-general proposes a perspective with which to negotiate daily conflicts and insightful tools to help one to succeed in life and define and achieve personal goals. [via]
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Artemisiaby Anna Banti, Shirley D. CaraccioloISBN 0803261195 (0-8032-6119-5)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
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Asta's Bookby Barbara VineISBN 0792717597 (0-7927-1759-7)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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Being Thereby Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0802136346 (0-8021-3634-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being There'Book summary:A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner - Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a media icon. Truly "a man without qualities," Chance's straightforward responses to popular concerns are heralded as visionary. But though everyone is quoting him, no one is sure what he's really saying. And filling in the blanks in his background proves impossible. Being There is a brilliantly satiric look at the unreality of American media culture that is, if anything, more trenchant now than ever. [via]
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The Best of O. Henryby O. HenryISBN 0788193228 (0-7881-9322-8)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 0789414880 (0-7894-1488-0)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:When the young Black Beauty is sold, he has no idea of the hardships he's about to face. Read his story in his own words as Black Beauty overcomes danger and cruelty, working at everything from pulling cabs in a smog-filled city to carriages in the country. 64 pages [via]
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The Choirby Joanna TrollopeISBN 0792720881 (0-7927-2088-1)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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The Chosenby Harold BloomISBN 0791081737 (0-7910-8173-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chosen'Book summary:Enjoy a comprehensive analysis and summary of The Chosen. Includes biographical sketches, summaries, an annotated bibliography, contributor profiles and index. [via]
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Christyby Catherine MarshallISBN 0800780086 (0-8007-8008-6)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Cold Mountainby Charles FrazierISBN 0802142842 (0-8021-4284-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Mountain'Book summary:The hero of Charles Frazier's beautifully written and deeply-imagined first novel is Inman, a disillusioned Confederate soldier who has failed to die as expected after being seriously wounded in battle during the last days of the Civil War. Rather than waiting to be redeployed to the front, the soul-sick Inman deserts, and embarks on a dangerous and lonely odyssey through the devastated South, heading home to North Carolina, and seeking only to be reunited with his beloved, Ada, who has herself been struggling to maintain the family farm she inherited. Cold Mountain is an unforgettable addition to the literature of one of the most important and transformational periods in American history. [via]
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A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy TooleISBN 0802130208 (0-8021-3020-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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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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David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedarsby Harold BloomISBN 0791078779 (0-7910-7877-9)
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A Density of Soulsby Christopher RiceISBN 0786886463 (0-7868-8646-3)
Softcover, Miramax
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Density of Souls'Book summary:Take the sensuous, fecund New Orleans setting, add a generous helping of tangled Southern family history, and season liberally with a sensitive teenage boy rejected by his friends and frightened of his own homoerotic impulses and you wouldn't be surprised to discover that the novel containing all of the above was written by someone named Rice. But a few paragraphs into the first page, it's clear that Anne Rice's son's first novel isn't about vampires or witches and does not otherwise read like one of her exceedingly popular books. The only family resemblance is in the setting, the sexual orientation of the lovingly described male characters, and the scent of overripe magnolias.
There's murder, suicide, and madness at the heart of this rather clumsy coming-of-age story, which focuses on the youthful friendship of Stephen Conlin, Meredith Ducote, Greg Darby, and Brandon Charbonnet. This friendship is destroyed by a sexual incident that takes place just before the foursome enters Cannon, an exclusive prep school. There, Stephen is ostracized by his former friends, now the most popular kids on campus, who'd just as soon forget their own complicity in the event. Envy, passion, and rage drive the narrative, but the emotions are as juvenile as the characters, and the long passages depicting the rituals and cruelties of high school, from pep rallies to football games, slow down the pace without really illuminating character or motivation. The novel reads like a roman à clef. Rice might have been wiser to tell someone else's story rather than his own. --Jane Adams [via]
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Dismissing God: Modern Writer' Struggle Against Religionby D. Bruce LockerbieISBN 080105804X (0-8010-5804-X)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Mike Stocks, Barry Jones, Anthony MarksISBN 0794500897 (0-7945-0089-7)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story. [via]
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Elie Wiesel's Nightby Harold BloomISBN 0791059243 (0-7910-5924-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elie Wiesel's Night'Book summary:An important work on the Holocaust by a concentration camp survivor.
The title, Elie Wiesels Night, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Elie Wiesels Night through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Elie Wiesel, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Emma Bovaryby Harold BloomISBN 0791009351 (0-7910-0935-1)
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Forrest Gump SongtrackISBN 079353786X (0-7935-3786-X)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
Find This BookBook summary:(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This hit movie is a capsule of America's pop culture, and its soundtrack paints the picture of the times. Matching folio with 32 classic rock hits, including: Against the Wind * California Dreamin' * For What It's Worth * Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In * Mrs. Robinson * What the World Needs Now * and more, including the original "Forrest Gump Suite." Also features photos from the film. [via]
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, John Grant, Barry Jones, Anthony MarksISBN 0794500900 (0-7945-0090-0)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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Frankensteinby Harold BloomISBN 0791078825 (0-7910-7882-5)
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Frost in Mayby Antonia WhiteISBN 080372697X (0-8037-2697-X)
Softcover, Dial Press
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Ginger Manby James Patrick DonleavyISBN 0802137954 (0-8021-3795-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Good Doctorby Damon GalgutISBN 0802141692 (0-8021-4169-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Doctor'Book summary:A finalist for the Man Booker Prize and Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the region of Africa, The Good Doctor is a taut, intense tale of the dashed hopes of the post apartheid era and the small betrayals that doom a friendship. It has been greeted with enthusiastic interest around the world and assures Damon Galgut's place as a major international talent. When Laurence Waters arrives at his new post at a deserted rural hospital, staff physician Frank Eloff is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is notyoung, optimistic, and full of big ideas. The whole town is beset with new arrivals and the return of old faces. Frank reestablishes a liaison with a woman, one that will have unexpected consequences. A self-made dictator from apartheid days is rumored to be active in cross-border smuggling, and a group of soldiers has moved in to track him, led by a man from Frank's own dark past. Laurence sees only possibilitiesbut in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last.[via]More editions of The Good Doctor:
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The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiadby Roger BoylanISBN 0802140327 (0-8021-4032-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad'Book summary:Roger Boylan's first novel, Killoyle, established him as a brilliant successor to such Irish masters as Joyce, Beckett, and J. P. Donleavy. Now his new farce follows the hapless inhabitants of Killoyle, Ireland, through the frenetic week of the Pint-Pulling Olympiad. After local lush Mick McCreek gets into a car crash with a cross-dressing church sexton, he enlists a lawyer, Tom O'Mallet. As it turns out, the lawyer's real gig is selling missiles to the IRA, and he plans to use his clueless client as a patsy. O'Mallet also hoodwinks Anil, an Indian waiter who has found himself the unlikely target of a manhunt. What Tom doesn't know is that his lucrative weapons are destined for a massive terrorist attack on the Pint-Pulling Olympiad, and that Anil's sexy cousin Rashmi a sweatshop worker turned intelligence operative is hot on the bombers' trail. With a wink and a nudge, Boylan's pyrotechnic prose brings to life Ireland at its manic extremes, proving the author a dazzling and distinctive talent in American fiction.[via]More editions of The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad:
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Henry James's the Portrait of a Ladyby Harold BloomISBN 0791045145 (0-7910-4514-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry James's the Portrait of a Lady'Book summary:In his introduction Harold Bloom calls Henry James "an endlessly fecund novelist and short-story writer." He goes on to suggest that character-portraiture was one of his superb skills. This superb collection of essays touches on topics such as character delineation in the novel, narrative method, imagery, diction, and method. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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Homer's Iliadby Harold BloomISBN 0791082407 (0-7910-8240-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer's The Iliad'Book summary:In his introduction Harold Bloom states that, together with the Bible, the Iliad "represents the foundation of Western literature, thought, and spirituality." The piece is the focus of this title in our Bloom's Notes series. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on the work, this text includes a structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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I, Luciferby Glen DuncanISBN 0802140149 (0-8021-4014-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Lucifer'Book summary:Glen Duncans I, Lucifer begins one steamy summer as some heavy negotiations are taking place in Heaven. God has decided to give Lucifer, the furthest-fallen of all fallen angels, a second chance. The Prince of Darkness can return to the fold, provided he manages to last one month on earth without sin. The human form chosen for this celestial experiment? A depressed novelist of little renown, currently contemplating suicide in his Clerkenwell garret.
Lucifer eagerly grasps the opportunity for a holiday on earth, and uses his hosts identity to re-write the story of Creation in a format that has Hollywood moguls kissing his feet. Its not popular with Him Upstairs, of course, what with the Devil being portrayed as a maverick free-thinker and God as a humourless autocrat. But Lucifers having too much fun to care. Hes experiencing the pleasures of the flesh for the first time and everything the odour of sweaty tube trains, cocaine, ice-cream, dirty sex--delights him. By the time the archangels are dispatched to bring him back, the Lord of all thats inhumane cant think of anything hed rather be than human.
Lucifer befogs his audience, alternately spitting fury at them like some sulphur-charged Dennis Leary and then insisting that hes a nice guy, just misunderstood. Whats clear, however, is that Glen Duncan is not merely one of those writers who can come up with amusing concepts. Hes a sharp, sometimes savage observer of the human condition, whose talents are as many as the legions of Hell.--Matthew Baylis [via]
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Immortalityby Milan Kundera, Peter KussiISBN 0802111114 (0-8021-1111-4)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Immortality'Book summary:Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose; to explore thoroughly the great, themes of existence. [via]
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Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0791094375 (0-7910-9437-5)
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Jonathan Livingston Seagullby Richard BachISBN 0802724698 (0-8027-2469-8)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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Julius CaesarISBN 0789160838 (0-7891-6083-8)
Softcover, Perfection Learning
Find This BookBook summary:Concise breakdown of Shakespeare's play. Easy-to-understand format for students as well as enthusiasts. 4-page laminated guide includes: " fact sheet " cast of characters " act & scene interpretations " dichotomies " trivia " significant quotes & their meanings [via]
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Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Maurice Charney, William ShakepeareISBN 0789122502 (0-7891-2250-2)
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Junk Mailby Will SelfISBN 0802170234 (0-8021-7023-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Junk Mail'Book summary:Will Self is one of the most important British novelists of his generation, and he is as acclaimed in the UK for his outstanding, daring journalism as he is for his fiction. Now finally available in America, Junk Mail is an original selection of pieces from Self's nonfiction and journalism that will introduce American readers to Self as a literary journalist par excellence.[via]
Animated by the scathing brilliance and unflinching determination to walk the road less traveled, Junk Mail is an often irreverent trawl through a landscape of drugs, culture, art, literature, and current events topics Self illuminates with a keen and entirely original eye. We follow Self into the operation of an upstanding crack dealer, behind the myth of the "pragmatist" approach to drug legalization on the streets of Amsterdam, and to lunch with Indian author Salman Rushdie. Whether he is writing about bad boy British artist Damien Hirst, how literary renegade William Burroughs has changed our outlook on art and intoxication, or what the current state of transsexuality has to say about gender for all of us, this is a lively and necessary anthology from one of the defining voices of our times.More editions of Junk Mail:
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Jurassic ParkISBN 0793527775 (0-7935-2777-5)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
Find This BookBook summary:Matching folio to the hit movie featuring the music of John Williams. Features an 8-page color section with scenes from the movie. [via]
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Jurassic Park Piano Solosby John WilliamsISBN 0793526892 (0-7935-2689-2)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jurassic Park Piano Solos'Book summary:Arrangements for the intermediate-advanced player. Includes the themes by the great John Williams written for the blockbuster movie. Besides the main theme this folio includes: Journey to the Island
* Welcome to Jurassic Park
* My Friend, the Brachiosaurus
* A Tree for My Bed
* Remembering Petticoat Lane. [via]More editions of Jurassic Park Piano Solos:
Last Exit to Brooklynby Hubert SelbyISBN 0802131379 (0-8021-3137-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure With the World's Greatest Thinkersby Nicholas FearnISBN 0802143474 (0-8021-4347-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure With the World's Greatest Thinkers'Book summary:The work of the classic philosophers is well known. But what do contemporary thinkers say about what it is to be a human being? In his serious, challenging, and remarkably accessible new book, Nicholas Fearn turns to contemporary philosophers to ask the age old questions: Who am I? What do I know? What should I do? In his search for higher meaning, Fearn consults with thinkers from around the world (including John Searle, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Richard Rorty, Daniel Dennett, Noam Chomsky, Derek Parfit, Nick Bostrom, among many others) to create an impressive survey of recent thought. Variously, they believe that free will, identity, and consciousness are not what they seem; that the difference between virtue and wickedness can be a matter of sheer luck; and that, one day, we will all be vegetarians. Fearn discovers that the topics havent changed, though our world has. Or has it? Moving deftly from pop culture to the writings of Plato, Philosophy is a brilliant and entertaining guide to the current state of the philosophical thought.[via]More editions of The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure With the World's Greatest Thinkers:
Lipstick Jungleby Candace BushnellISBN 0786887079 (0-7868-8707-9)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heavenby Sherman AlexieISBN 0802141676 (0-8021-4167-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven'Book summary:When it was first published in 1993, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established Sherman Alexie as a stunning new talent of American letters. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, it remains one of his most beloved and widely praised books. In this darkly comic collection, Alexie brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and, most poetically, modern Indians and the traditions of the past. [via]
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Love, Rosieby Cecelia AhernISBN 0786890762 (0-7868-9076-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Loving Rogerby Tim ParksISBN 0802100163 (0-8021-0016-3)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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The Man Without Qualitiesby Harold BloomISBN 0791081222 (0-7910-8122-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Without Qualities'Book summary:Read a critical interpretation of Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities, edited by Harold Bloom. Includes table of contents, chronology, contributors, bibliography, acknowledgements and index. Critical Guide: 211 pages. [via]
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Marie and Bruce: A Playby Wallace ShawnISBN 0802130186 (0-8021-3018-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Master And Margaritaby Mikhail BulgakovISBN 0802130119 (0-8021-3011-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'MASTER AND MARGARITA'Book summary:Suppressed in the Soviet Union for twenty-six years, Mikhail Bulgakov's masterpiece is an ironic parable of power and its corruption, good and evil, and human frailty and the strength of love. Featuring Satan, accompanied by a retinue that includes the large, fast-talking, vodka drinking black tom cat Behemoth, the beautiful Margarita, her beloved - a distraught writer known only as the Master - Pontius Pilate, and Jesus Christ, The Master and Margarita combines fable, fantasy, political satire, and slapstick comedy into a wildly entertaining and unforgettable tale that is commonly considered one of the greatest novels ever to come out of the Soviet Union. "A wild surrealistic romp.... Brilliantly flamboyant and outrageous."-Joyce Carol Oates, The Detroit News; "Fine, funny, imaginative.... The Master and Margarita stands squarely in the great Gogolesque tradition of satiric narrative."-Saul Maloff, Newsweek; "Funny, devilish, brilliant satire.... It's literature of the highest order and . . . it will deliver a full measure of enjoyment and enlightenment."-Publisher's Weekly; "A rich, funny, moving and bitter novel.... Vast and boisterous entertainment."-The New York Times[via]More editions of Master And Margarita:
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Medieval Structure: The Gothic Vaultby James H. AclandISBN 0802018866 (0-8020-1886-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Monkey/Folk Novel of Chinaby Cheng'En Wu, Arthur WaleyISBN 0802130860 (0-8021-3086-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Mrs. Dollowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 0788191578 (0-7881-9157-8)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Naive and Sentimental Loverby John Le CarreISBN 0792710053 (0-7927-1005-3)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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The Odysseyby Homer, Richard P. Martin, Edward McCrorieISBN 0801882672 (0-8018-8267-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:"Tell us, Goddess, daughter of Zeus, start in your own place: when all the rest at Troy had fled from that steep doom and gone back home, away from war and the salt sea, only this man longed for his wife and a way home." Homer's Odyssey , at once an exciting epic of strife and subterfuge and a deeply felt tale of love and devotion, stands at the very beginning of the Western literary tradition. From ancient Greece to the present day its influence on later literature has been unsurpassed, and for centuries translators have approached the meter, tone, and pace of Homer's poetry with a variety of strategies. Chapman and Pope paid keen attention to color, drama, and vivacity of style, rendering the Greek verse loosely and inventively. In the twentieth century, translators such as Lattimore kept rigorously close to the sense of each word in the original; others, including Fitzgerald and Fagles, have departed further from the language of the original, employing their own inventive modern style. Poet and translator Edward McCrorie now opens new territory in this striking rendition, which captures the spare, powerful tone of Homer's epic while engaging contemporary readers with its brisk pace, idiomatic language, and lively characterization. McCrorie closely reproduces the Greek metrical patterns and employs a diction and syntax that reflects the plain, at times stark, quality of Homer's lines, rather than later English poetic styles. Avoiding both the stiffness of word-for-word literalism and the exaggeration and distortion of free adaptation, this translation dramatically evokes the ancient sound and sense of the poem. McCrorie's is truly an Odyssey for the twenty-first century. To accompany this innovative translation, noted classical scholar Richard Martin has written an accessible and wide-ranging introduction explaining the historical and literary context of the Odyssey , its theological and cultural underpinnings, Homer's poetic strategies and narrative techniq [via]
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The Odysseyby Richard P. Martin, HomerISBN 0801868548 (0-8018-6854-8)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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when all the rest at Troy had fled from that steep doom
and gone back home, away from war and the salt sea,
only this man longed for his wife and a way home."
Homer's Odyssey, at once an exciting epic of strife and subterfuge and a deeply felt tale of love and devotion, stands at the very beginning of the Western literary tradition. From ancient Greece to the present day its influence on later literature has been unsurpassed, and for centuries translators have approached the meter, tone, and pace of Homer's poetry with a variety of strategies. Chapman and Pope paid keen attention to color, drama, and vivacity of style, rendering the Greek verse loosely and inventively. In the twentieth century, translators such as Lattimore kept rigorously close to the sense of each word in the original; others, including Fitzgerald and Fagles, have departed further from the language of the original, employing their own inventive modern style.
Poet and translator Edward McCrorie now opens new territory in this striking rendition, which captures the spare, powerful tone of Homer's epic while engaging contemporary readers with its brisk pace, idiomatic language, and lively characterization. McCrorie closely reproduces the Greek metrical patterns and employs a diction and syntax that reflects the plain, at times stark, quality of Homer's lines, rather than later English poetic styles. Avoiding both the stiffness of word-for-word literalism and the exaggeration and distortion of free adaptation, this translation dramatically evokes the ancient sound and sense of the poem. McCrorie's is truly an Odyssey for the twenty-first century.
To accompany this innovative translation, noted classical scholar Richard Martin has written an accessible and wide-ranging introduction explaining the historical and literary context of the Odyssey, its theological and cultural underpinnings, Homer's poetic strategies and narrative techniques, and his cast of characters. In addition, Martin provides detailed notesfar more extensive than those in other editionsaddressing key themes and concepts; the histories of persons, gods, events, and myths; literary motifs and devices; and plot development. Also included is a pronunciation glossary and character index.
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Original Illustrated Strand Sherlockby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0792454154 (0-7924-5415-4)
Hardcover, World Pubns
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The Passionby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0802135226 (0-8021-3522-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Passion'Book summary:In 1985 Jeanette Winterson won the Whitbread Award for best first fiction for the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, an often wry exploration of lesbian possibility bumping up against evangelical fanaticism. She was 25. Two years later, The Passion, her third novel, appeared, the fantastical tale of Henri--Napoleon's cook--and Villanelle, a Venetian gondolier's daughter who has webbed feet (previously an all-male attribute), works as a croupier, picks pockets, cross-dresses, and literally loses her heart to a beautiful woman. Written in a lyrical and jolting combination of fairy tale diction and rhythm and the staccato, the book would be a risky proposition in lesser hands. Winterson has said that she wanted to look at people's need to worship and examine what happens to young men in militaristic societies. The question was, how to do so without being polemical and didactic? Only she could have come up with such an exquisite answer. In the end, Henri, incarcerated on an island of madmen, becomes aware that his passion, "even though she could never return it, showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else." [via]
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Passion Playby Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0802135676 (0-8021-3567-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Peace Like a Riverby Leif EngerISBN 0802139256 (0-8021-3925-6)
Softcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peace Like a River'Book summary:To the list of great American child narrators that includes Huck Finn and Scout Finch, let us now add Reuben "Rube" Land, the asthmatic 11-year-old boy at the center of Leif Enger's remarkable first novel, Peace Like a River. Rube recalls the events of his childhood, in small-town Minnesota circa 1962, in a voice that perfectly captures the poetic, verbal stoicism of the northern Great Plains. "Here's what I saw," Rube warns his readers. "Here's how it went. Make of it what you will." And Rube sees plenty.
In the winter of his 11th year, two schoolyard bullies break into the Lands' house, and Rube's big brother Davy guns them down with a Winchester. Shortly after his arrest, Davy breaks out of jail and goes on the lam. Swede is Rube's younger sister, a precocious writer who crafts rhymed epics of romantic Western outlawry. Shortly after Davy's escape, Rube, Swede, and their father, a widowed school custodian, hit the road too, swerving this way and that across Minnesota and North Dakota, determined to find their lost outlaw Davy. In the end it's not Rube who haunts the reader's imagination, it's his father, torn between love for his outlaw son and the duty to do the right, honest thing. Enger finds something quietly heroic in the bred-in-the-bone Minnesota decency of America's heartland. Peace Like a River opens up a new chapter in Midwestern literature. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Peter Pan Jigsaw Bookby Warren A. Silver, Richard JohnsonISBN 0803732368 (0-8037-3236-8)
Hardcover, Dial Books for Young Readers
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Pride and Prejudiceby Harold BloomISBN 0791081699 (0-7910-8169-9)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Ps, I Love Youby Cecelia AhernISBN 0786890754 (0-7868-9075-4)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ps, I Love You'Book summary:Cecelia Ahern's debut novel, PS, I Love You, follows the engaging, witty, and occasionally sappy reawakening of Holly, a young Irish widow who must put her life back together after she loses her husband Gerry to a brain tumor. Ahern, the twentysomething daughter of Ireland's prime minister, has discovered a clever and original twist to the Moving On After Death concept made famous by novelists and screenwriters alike--Gerry has left Holly a series of letters designed to help her face the year ahead and carry on with her life. As the novel takes readers through the seasons (and through Gerry's monthly directives), we watch as Holly finds a new job, takes a holiday to Spain with her girlfriends, and sorts through her beloved husband's belongings. Accompanying Holly throughout the healing process is a cast of friends and family members who add as much to the novel's success as Holly's own tale of survival. In fact, it is these supporting character's mini-dramas that make PS, I Love You more than just another superficial tearjerker with the obligatory episode at a karaoke bar. Ahern shows real talent for capturing the essence of an interaction between friends and foes alike; even if Holly's circle of friends does resemble the gang from Bridget Jones a bit too neatly to ignore (her best friend is even called Sharon).
While her style can be at times repetitive and her delivery is occasionally amateurish, Ahern deserves credit for a spirited first effort. If PS, I Love You is any indication of this author's talent, readers have much to look forward to as Ahern matures as a novelist and a storyteller. --Gisele Toueg [via]
The Public Burningby Robert CooverISBN 0802135277 (0-8021-3527-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Richard Wright's Native Sonby Harold BloomISBN 0791041395 (0-7910-4139-5)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, Julek HellerISBN 0789436256 (0-7894-3625-6)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:Recreations of two of the world's most unforgettable and enthralling adventure stories: one about storm and shipwreck, pirates and mutiny, the other a tale of a fantastical underwater world of mythical monsters and a mysterious sea captain. The action-packed storylines retain all the impact of the authors' own words; photos and narrative illustrations help readers to absorb the full flavor of the original novels. Fact-filled boxes examine the books' themes, characters, and each author's life and times. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea includes a map of the journey and explores marine life and oceanography in Jules Verne's time. A specially researched map of Crusoe's exotic island gives facts on its flora and fauna. [via]
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The Roverby Aphra BehnISBN 0803253508 (0-8032-5350-8)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Schindler's List Piano Solosby John WilliamsISBN 0793532779 (0-7935-3277-9)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Schindler's List Piano Solos'Book summary:8 beautiful piano solos from the Oscar-winning movie. Pieces include: Theme from Schindler's List Give Me Your Names I Could Have Done More Stolen Memories and more. Features photos from the film. [via]
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 0800606507 (0-8006-0650-7)
Hardcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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The Screwtape Letters/Book & Study Guideby C. S. LewisISBN 0800783360 (0-8007-8336-0)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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The Sea King's Daughterby Barbara MichaelsISBN 079271301X (0-7927-1301-X)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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Sexing the Cherryby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0802135781 (0-8021-3578-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexing the Cherry'Book summary:In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and grows up to travel the world like Gulliver, though he finds that the worlds most curious oddities come from his own mind. Winterson leads the reader from discussions on the nature of time to Jordans fascination with journeys concealed within other journeys, all with a dizzying speed that shoots the reader from epiphany to shimmering epiphany.[via]More editions of Sexing the Cherry:
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories With Illustrations from the Strand Magazineby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 078819173X (0-7881-9173-X)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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Smilla's Sense of Snowby Peter HoegISBN 0792720245 (0-7927-2024-5)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smilla's Sense of Snow'Book summary:In this international bestseller, Peter Høeg successfully combines the pleasures of literary fiction with those of the thriller. Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Her childhood in Greenland gives her an appreciation for the complex structures of snow, and when she notices that the boy's footprints show he ran to his death, she decides to find out who was chasing him. As she attempts to solve the mystery, she uncovers a series of conspiracies and cover-ups and quickly realizes that she can trust nobody. Her investigation takes her from the streets of Copenhagen to an icebound island off the coast of Greenland. What she finds there has implications far beyond the death of a single child. The unusual setting, gripping plot, and compelling central character add up to one of the most fascinating and literate thrillers of recent years. [via]
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Snow Gardenby Christopher RiceISBN 0786888067 (0-7868-8806-7)
Softcover, Miramax
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Garden'Book summary:Christopher Rice became a publishing sensation over-- -night with his rst novel, A Density of Souls. With the publi-cation of his second novel, The Snow Garden- an instant New York Times best-seller-he has established himself as one of the most original writers of a new gener-ation. The Snow Garden is a story of murder and sexual menace on a snowbound university campus. When a respected professor's wife drives to her death in an icy river, an illicit relationship between a student and his teacher threatens to come to light, and within days Atherton University is the scene of escalating speculation and intrigue. Another death emerges from the shadows, and the connections between the two accidents begin to look uncomfortably close. Rice explores the dynamic within a tightly knit group of young people haunted by sexual memories and fears and driven by obscure desires. The Snow Garden casts this web of friendship and passion against the backdrop of a threat that grows darker as the novel proceeds. The result is a stunning novel from an arresting talent. Christopher Rice is the best-selling author of A Density of Souls and son of novelist Anne Rice and poet and artist Stan Rice. He lives in Los Angeles. [via]
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The Spy Who Came in from the Coldby John Le CarreISBN 0802714544 (0-8027-1454-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'Book summary:It would be an international crime to reveal too much of the jeweled clockwork plot of Le Carré's first masterpiece, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. But we are at liberty to disclose that Graham Greene called it the "finest spy story ever written," and that the taut tale concerns Alec Leamas, a British agent in early Cold War Berlin. Leamas is responsible for keeping the double agents under his care undercover and alive, but East Germans start killing them, so he gets called back to London by Control, his spy master. Yet instead of giving Leamas the boot, Control gives him a scary assignment: play the part of a disgraced agent, a sodden failure everybody whispers about. Control sends him back out into the cold--deep into Communist territory to checkmate the bad-guy spies on the other side. The political chessboard is black and white, but in human terms the vicinity of the Berlin Wall is a moral no-man's land, a gray abyss patrolled by pawns.
Le Carré beats most spy writers for two reasons. First, he knows what he's talking about, since he raced around working for British Intelligence while the Wall went up. He's familiar with spycraft's fascinations, but also with the fact that it leaves ideals shaken and emotions stirred. Second, his literary tone has deep autobiographical roots. Spying is about betrayal, and Le Carré was abandoned by his mother and betrayed by his father, a notorious con man. (They figure heavily in his novels Single & Single and A Perfect Spy.) In a world of lies, Le Carré writes the bitter truth: it's every man for himself. And may the best mask win. --Tim Appelo [via]
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens, Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, Bob HarveyISBN 079450390X (0-7945-0390-X)
Softcover, Usborne Pub Ltd
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Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allan Poe, Tony Allan, Barry Jones, Anthony MarksISBN 0794501869 (0-7945-0186-9)
Softcover, Usborne Pub Ltd
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Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godotby Samuel Beckett, James Knowlson, Douglad McMillanISBN 0802115489 (0-8021-1548-9)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot'Book summary:A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity . . . like a sharp stab of beauty and pain".--The London Times. [via]
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Till We Have Facesby C. S. LewisISBN 0802860192 (0-8028-6019-2)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Till We Have Faces'Book summary:At once more human and more mythic than his Perelandra trilogy, Lewis's short novel of love, faith, and transformation (both good and ill) offers the reader much food for thought in a compact, impressively rich story. Less heavy-handedly Christian-allegorical than Narnia, Till We Have Faces gives us characters who remind us of people we know facing choices and difficulties we recognize. This deceptively simple book takes on new depth with each rereading. [via]
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To the Lighthouseby Susan DickISBN 0802055249 (0-8020-5524-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The Valley of the Dollsby Jacqueline SusannISBN 0802135196 (0-8021-3519-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Village Diaryby ReadISBN 0792715357 (0-7927-1535-7)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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Waiting for Godotby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802118216 (0-8021-1821-6)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting for Godot'Book summary:From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment by American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. Now in honor of the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth, Grove Press is publishing a bilingual edition of the play. Originally written in French, Beckett translated the work himself, and in doing so chose to revise and eliminate various passages. With side-by-side text the reader can experience the mastery of Beckett's language and explore the nuances of his creativity.[via]
Upon being asked who Godot is, Samuel Beckett told Alan Schneider, "If I knew, I would have said so in the play." Although we may never know who we are waiting for, in this special edition we can rediscover one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.More editions of Waiting for Godot:
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Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Actsby Samuel BecketISBN 0802130348 (0-8021-3034-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Acts'Book summary:A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone-or something-named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett's language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existentialism of post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time. [via]
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Where or Whenby Anita ShreveISBN 0792718070 (0-7927-1807-0)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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William ShakespeareISBN 0791076555 (0-7910-7655-5)
Hardcover, Facts on File
Find This BookBook summary:In creating workds such as Hamlet and Macbeth, Shakespeare became the quintessential dramatist of the Western canon. This comprehensive volume places critical focus on Shakespeare's major comedies, histories, romances, and tragedies.
This title, William Shakespeare, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of William Shakespeare through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on William Shakespeare, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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The World of Mr. Mullinerby Pelham Grenville WodehouseISBN 0800885813 (0-8008-8581-3)
Softcover, Parkwest Pubns
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