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Adventures of Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 086611968X (0-86611-968-X)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:The classic tale of shipwrecked adventure, Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe" is the fictional autobiography of its title character. When cast ashore upon a tropical island, Robinson Crusoe must use his survival skills to find food and shelter and evade the native cannibals. A captivating tale of action and adventure, based in part on the real life adventures of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived more than four years on an island in the Pacific, "Robinson Crusoe" is regarded by some as the first novel of the English language. [via]
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Aperture: Black Sun The Eyes of Four, No 102by Eikoh HosoeISBN 0893811939 (0-89381-193-9)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Aperture: Mothers & Daughters, That Special Quality/No 107by Tillie Olsen, Estelle Jussim, Julie Olsen EdwardsISBN 0893812641 (0-89381-264-1)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Aperture, 109: Latin American PhotographyISBN 0893812765 (0-89381-276-5)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Art of the Novelby Henry JamesISBN 093035060X (0-930350-60-X)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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The Bell Jarby Sylvia PlathISBN 0899668151 (0-89966-815-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bell Jar'Book summary:Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity. [via]
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Best Loved ClassicsISBN 0895772884 (0-89577-288-4)
Softcover, Reader's Digest Association
Find This BookBook summary:Box set contains 10 paperback books as follows: [1] The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain -- [2] Oliver Twist / by Charles Dickens -- [3] Little women / by Louisa May Alcott -- [4] Treasure Island / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- [5] The red badge of courage / by Stephen Crane -- [6] The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Mark Twain -- [7] The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo -- [8] David Copperfield / by Charles Dickens -- [9] The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe / by Daniel Defoe -- [10] Jane Eyre / by Charlotte Bronte?. [via]
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Billy Buddby Herman MelvilleISBN 0877208107 (0-87720-810-7)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd'Book summary:With an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
Collected here are the legendary American authors novella, Billy Budd, and his short stories: The Piazza, Bartleby, the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower, and The Town-Hos Story (from Melvilles masterpiece, Moby-Dick). [via]More editions of Billy Budd:
Billy Budd, Foretopmanby Herman MelvilleISBN 0891908919 (0-89190-891-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Burning Chromeby William GibsonISBN 0877957800 (0-87795-780-0)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burning Chrome'Book summary:When "Burning Chrome," the title story in William Gibson's first short story collection, appeared, it grabbed readers by the collar and shook them up a bit. Science fiction in the late '70s had grown a little bit stale and, worse, safe. "Burning Chrome" offered a fresh look at a future that was gritty, real, and more than a little dangerous. These stories brought high tech out of antiseptic university laboratories and corporate boardrooms and put it in the streets and alleyways where people found their own uses for it. Sometimes those uses were even legal.
The philosophy of cyberpunk, the movement that Gibson's early books kicked off, is most explicitly stated in "The Gernsbach Continuum," with its rejection of the '30s ideal of a future of flying cars and shining cities. But the real meat of this collection is found in those stories where Gibson involves us with the people who inhabit his world. The technical boy of "Johnny Mnemonic" and the thief-turned-game-player of "Dogfight" (cowritten with Michael Swanwick) would be right at home on the same streets. Most intense and more enigmatic is the recording engineer of "The Winter Market," who is overwhelmingly attracted to and repulsed by the greatest artist he ever worked with. Still, "Burning Chrome," with its tale of vengeance and high-stakes theft, remains the centerpiece of this collection. Read it and you will know why William Gibson became and remains one of the top writers in science fiction. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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Captains Courageousby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0931334667 (0-931334-66-7)
Softcover, Edcon Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captains Courageous'Book summary:First published in 1897, Captains Courageous tells of the high-seas adventures of Harvey Cheyne, the son of an American millionaire, who, after falling from a luxury ocean liner, is rescued by the raucous crew of the fishing ship Were Here. Obstinate and spoiled at first, Harvey in due course learns diligence and responsibility and earns the camaraderie of the seamen, who treat him as one of their own. A true test of character, Harveys months aboard the Were Here provide a delightful glimpse of life at sea and well-told morals of discipline, empathy, and self- reliance.
My first genuine out and out American story ... Its a corker... Im sinfully proud of it. -Rudyard Kipling [via]
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Charles Dickens' Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 0877547378 (0-87754-737-8)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Dickens' Hard Times'Book summary:A collection of eight critical essays on the Dickens novel, arranged in chronological order of original publication. [via]
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Cloud Of Witnessesby Jim Wallis, Joyce HollydayISBN 0883447398 (0-88344-739-8)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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Commodore Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0884119289 (0-88411-928-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Commodore Hornblower'Book summary:These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found "vastly entertaining" and Ernest Hemingway recommended to "every literate I know", are being eagerly embraced by a new generation of readers. Back Bay takes pleasure in reissuing these classic tales in handsome new trade paperback editions.
-- The Hornblower renaissance is in full sail with a nearly tenfold increase in sales: more than I5O, OOO Hornblower books sold in the first six months of 1999.
-- The A&E television network's series of original movies based on Hornblower's adventures have been tremendously successful -- praised by critics, enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of viewers, and winner of the Emmy Award for best miniseries.
-- Two new movies will be premiering in the spring on A&E.
-- Readers and booksellers who admire Patrick O'Brian's novels delight in discovering this "new" series of nautical adventure stories. [via]More editions of Commodore Hornblower:
The Complete Illustrated Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0907486975 (0-907486-97-5)
Hardcover, Chancellor
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The Critical Reader, Thinker, and Writerby W. Ross Winterowd, Geoffrey R. WinterowdISBN 0874849268 (0-87484-926-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Crocodile on the Sandbankby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0922890366 (0-922890-36-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0877549486 (0-87754-948-6)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Dark Tower: The Gunslinger/the Drawing of the Three/the Waste Lands/Wizard and Glassby Stephen KingISBN 093798650X (0-937986-50-X)
Hardcover, Donald m Grant Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Tower: The Gunslinger/the Drawing of the Three/the Waste Lands/Wizard and Glass'Book summary:"The Gunslinger" is a man in tattered black on a quest in an alternative world. By the process of passing through the gate into the other universe, he collects a crew of misfits to join him. [via]
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Death of a Salesmanby Arthur MillerISBN 0881030171 (0-88103-017-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Dune: La Batalla De Corrinby Frank HerbertISBN 0881036366 (0-88103-636-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune: La Batalla De Corrin'Book summary:This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.
The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Emmaby Jane Austen, Stephen Maxfield ParrishISBN 0895775824 (0-89577-582-4)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Assoc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 0899665764 (0-89966-576-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension. Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. [via]
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Gerard Ter Borchby Arthur K. Wheelock, Gerard ter BorchISBN 0894683179 (0-89468-317-9)
Softcover, Natl Gallery of Art
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0891906797 (0-89190-679-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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Green Mansionsby W. H. HudsonISBN 0877207267 (0-87720-726-7)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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The Gunslingerby Stephen King, Michael WhelanISBN 0937986518 (0-937986-51-8)
Hardcover, Donald M. Grant
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Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 0881030244 (0-88103-024-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:This edition of "Hard Times" contains an introduction by Peter Ackroyd. The novel tells the tragic story of Louisa, starved of the graces of the imagination so essential to emotional well-being, and trapped in a loveless marriage. [via]
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0895772191 (0-89577-219-1)
Hardcover, Readers Digest Assn
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How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasyby Orson Scott CardISBN 0898794161 (0-89879-416-1)
Hardcover, F & W Pubns
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The Hunt For Red Octoberby Tom ClancyISBN 0870212850 (0-87021-285-0)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunt For Red October'Book summary:Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision: the Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on....
The Hunt for Red October is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so accurate and convincing that the author was rumored to have been debriefed by the White House. Its theme: the greatest espionage coup in history. Its story: the chase for a runaway top secret Russian missile sub. [via]
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Improving Humanities Studies at Community Technical and Junior Colleges: An Advancing the Humanitites Reportby James F. Gollattscheck, Diane V. Eisenberg, Barbara C. Shapiro, Dianan H. MetcalfISBN 0871172127 (0-87117-212-7)
Softcover, Community College Pr/Amer Assoc
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J.D. Salingerby Harold BloomISBN 0877547165 (0-87754-716-5)
Hardcover, Chelsea House Pub
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0883012669 (0-88301-266-9)
Softcover, Ags Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:"Jane Eyre," Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane Eyre's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. "Jane Eyre" lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect. "At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë." -Virginia Woolf [via]
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Lion in the Valleyby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0896217302 (0-89621-730-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lion in the Valley'Book summary:The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and their precocious (some might say rambunctious) eight-year-old son, Ramses. The long-denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor has finally been granted, and the much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid is now theirs for the exploring.
Before the young family exchanges the relative comfort of Cairo for the more rudimentary quarters near the excavation site, they engage a young Englishman, Donald Fraser, as a tutor and companion for Ramses, and Amelia takes a wayward young woman, Enid Debenham, under her protective wing.
But there is danger and deception in the wind that blows across the hot Egyptian sands. A brazen kidnapping attempt, a gruesome murder, and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and deathall serve to alert Amelia to the likely presence of her arch nemesis, the "Master Criminal," notorious looter of the living and the dead. But it is far more than ill-gotten riches that motivate the man known as Sethos. The evil genius has a score to settle with the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice . . . and he's got her dead-on in his sights.
Replete with edge-of-the-seat suspense and scrupulous archaeological and historical detail, all delivered in Amelia Peabody's unique, wry voice, Lion in the Valley is a classic installment in Elizabeth Peters's beloved mystery-adventure series.
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Long Day's Journey into Nightby Eugene O'NeillISBN 0891903704 (0-89190-370-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Moments of Grace: Spirit in the American LandscapeISBN 0893817805 (0-89381-780-5)
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Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo!: The Incredible World of Japanese Fantasy Filmsby Stuart Galbraith, Yukari Fujii, Atsushi SakaharaISBN 0922915474 (0-922915-47-4)
Softcover, Feral House
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Mr Midshipman Easyby Rafael Sabatini, Frederick MarryatISBN 0935526404 (0-935526-40-4)
Softcover, McBooks Pr
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Mr. Midshipman Easyby Captain MarryatISBN 0870215906 (0-87021-590-6)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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The Mummy Caseby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0865531404 (0-86553-140-4)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Okhota Za"Krasnym Oktiabrem"by Tom ClancyISBN 0914481274 (0-914481-27-4)
Hardcover, Time & We
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Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0899665381 (0-89966-538-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Picturing Modernity: Highlights from the Photograpy Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Artby Douglas R. NickelISBN 091847146X (0-918471-46-X)
Softcover, San Francisco Museum
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0895771985 (0-89577-198-5)
Hardcover, Readers Digest Assn
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
Pride and Prejudiceby Harold BloomISBN 0877549451 (0-87754-945-1)
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Pygmalionby George Bernard ShawISBN 088411452X (0-88411-452-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pygmalion'Book summary:[via]A rousing success on the London and New York stages, a popular film, and a great musical hit ("My Fair Lady"), this brilliantly written play, with its irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, is one of the most acclaimed comedies in the English language. Includes Shaw's Preface and "Sequel."More editions of Pygmalion:
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0895771551 (0-89577-155-1)
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Rio De Luz: Aperture 153by Aperture Foundation, Nacho LopezISBN 0893818135 (0-89381-813-5)
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Robert Frank: The Americansby Robert FrankISBN 0893810339 (0-89381-033-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robert Frank: The Americans'Book summary:Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a couple at city hall in Reno, Nevada, and the despair of the present in a grimy roofscape. He saw the roiling racial tension, glamour, and beauty, and, perhaps because Frank himself was on the road, he was particularly attuned to Americans' love for cars. Funeral-goers lean against a shiny sedan, lovers kiss on a beach blanket in front of their parked car, young boys perch in the back seat at a drive-in movie. A sports car under a drop cloth is framed by two California palm trees; on the next page, a blanket is draped over a car accident victim's body in Arizona.
Robert Frank's Americans reappear 40 years after they were initially published in this exquisite volume by Scalo. Each photograph (there are more than 80 of them) stands alone on a page, while the caption information is included at the back of the book, allowing viewers an unfettered look at the images. Jack Kerouac's original introduction, commissioned when the photographer showed the writer his work while sitting on a sidewalk one night outside of a party, provides the only accompanying text. Kerouac's words add narrative dimension to Frank's imagery while in turn the photographs themselves perfectly illustrate the writer's own work. [via]
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Robinson CrusoeISBN 0907785743 (0-907785-74-3)
Hardcover, Sai Publications
Find This BookBook summary:Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God. This edition features maps. [via]
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wilbert J. LevyISBN 0877208085 (0-87720-808-5)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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The Second Mouseby Archer MayorISBN 0892960728 (0-89296-072-8)
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0877207399 (0-87720-739-9)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
Someday the Rabbi Will Leaveby Harry KemelmanISBN 0896216462 (0-89621-646-2)
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Stickby Elmore LeonardISBN 0877954364 (0-87795-436-4)
Hardcover, Arbor House Pub Co
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The Strangerby Albert CamusISBN 0881032476 (0-88103-247-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stranger'Book summary:The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its time. Alienation, the fear of anonymity, spiritual doubt--all could have been given a purely modern inflection in the hands of a lesser talent than Camus, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957 and was noted for his existentialist aesthetic. The remarkable trick of The Stranger, however, is that it's not mired in period philosophy.
The plot is simple. A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. The trial's proceedings are absurd, a parsing of incidental trivialities--that Meursault, for instance, seemed unmoved by his own mother's death and then attended a comic movie the evening after her funeral are two ostensibly damning facts--so that the eventual sentence the jury issues is both ridiculous and inevitable.
Meursault remains a cipher nearly to the story's end--dispassionate, clinical, disengaged from his own emotions. "She wanted to know if I loved her," he says of his girlfriend. "I answered the same way I had the last time, that it didn't mean anything but that I probably didn't." There's a latent ominousness in such observations, a sense that devotion is nothing more than self-delusion. It's undoubtedly true that Meursault exhibits an extreme of resignation; however, his confrontation with "the gentle indifference of the world" remains as compelling as it was when Camus first recounted it. --Ben Guterson [via]
Strong Hearts: Native American Visions and Voicesby P. RoalfISBN 0893816531 (0-89381-653-1)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens, Henry I. ChristISBN 0877208131 (0-87720-813-1)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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Tales of the South Pacificby James A. MichenerISBN 0895776979 (0-89577-697-9)
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Up the Down Staircaseby Bel KaufmanISBN 0871292815 (0-87129-281-5)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co
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The Waste Landsby Stephen KingISBN 0937986178 (0-937986-17-8)
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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypseby Stephen KingISBN 093798616X (0-937986-16-X)
Hardcover, Donald M. Grant Publisher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse'Book summary:The third volume in Stephen Kings acclaimed, epic Dark Tower series.[via]
Roland continues his quest for the Dark Tower, but he is no longer alone. He has trained Eddie and Susannahwho entered Mid-World from their separate whens in New York City in The Drawing of the Threein the old ways of the gunslingers. But their ka-tet is not yet complete. Another must be drawn from New York into Mid-World, someone who has been there before, a boy who has died not once but twice, and yet still lives. The "Ka-tet," four who are bound together by fate, must travel far in this novel encountering not only the poisonous waste lands and the ravaged city of Lud that lies beyond, but also the rage of a train that might be their only means of escape.The stunning Plume edition features full-color illustrations by Ned Dameron and is a collectors item for years to come.
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 091406116X (0-914061-16-X)
Softcover, Orchises Pr
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilmanby Denise D. Knight, Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 087413479X (0-87413-479-X)
Hardcover, University of Delaware Press
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