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100 Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ISBN 0899667031 (0-89966-703-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

ISBN 0877207011 (0-87720-701-1)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc

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The AMSCO Literature Series comprises quality unabridged editions of great literary works. They feature carefully prepared texts with large, readable type; quality paper; durable bindings; sturdy covers. A Reader's Guide is available with selected works. Written by master teachers, the guides feature explanations, questions, and activities to bring out the details of plot, characterization, theme, style, and vocabulary. [via]
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell

ISBN 0881030074 (0-88103-007-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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The Antichrist
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

ISBN 093948210X (0-939482-10-X)
Hardcover, Noontide Pr

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Antigone
by Sophocles, Andrew Brown

ISBN 0856682675 (0-85668-267-5)
Softcover, Aris & Phillips

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Paul Woodruff's translation of one of Sophocles' most famous tragedies captures the dramatic and poetic intensity of the ancient Greek play without sacrificing accuracy. This edition also features an Introduction and annotations by the translator. [via]
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Art Song: The Marriage of Music and Poetry
by Barbara Meister

ISBN 0893416355 (0-89341-635-5)
Hardcover, Hollowbrook Pub

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Asterix and the Normans

ISBN 0917201698 (0-917201-69-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Asterix in Belgium

ISBN 0917201736 (0-917201-73-6)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Translation of Asterix chez les Belges [via]
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Beginner's German
by Rosi McNab

ISBN 0844237787 (0-8442-3778-7)
Softcover, Teach Yourself

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Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-Ss
by Johann Voss

ISBN 0966638980 (0-9666389-8-0)
Softcover, Aegis Consulting Group

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Originally written while the author was a prisoner of the US Army in 194546, Black Edelweiss is a boon to serious historians and WWII buffs alike. In a day in which most memoirs are written at half a centurys distance, the former will be gratified by the authors precise recall facilitated by the chronologically short-range (a matter of one to seven years) at which the events were captured in writing. Both will appreciate and enjoy the abundantly detailed, exceptionally accurate combat episodes.
Even more than the strictly military narrative, however, the author has crafted a searingly candid view into his own mind and soul. As such, Black Edelweiss is much more than a "ripping yarn" or a low-level military history. Black Edelweiss joins not only the growing body of German military memoirs, but the more select, more narrowly-focused group of personal memoirs by other Waffen-SS enlisted men. Beyond the microcosmic view of combat these books relateto the extent that they are honest and candidsuch books are important for what they can reveal about their authors motivations and reflections on those impulses and their consequences. To date, these works differ significantly.
As it joins the ranks of the books in this genre, Black Edelweiss makes a unique and very important contribution. It is a true, personal account of the authors war years, first at school and then with the Waffen-SS, which he joined early in 1943 at the age of seventeen. For a year and a half, the author fought as a machine gunner in SS-Mountain Infantry Regiment 11 "Reinhard Heydrich," mainly in the arctic and sub-arctic reaches of Soviet Karelia and Finland, and later at the Western frontier of the Third Reich. The characters in the story are real, and the conversations and actions are recounted to the best of his ability from the short distance at which he wrote the manuscript in 194546.
Apart from the piercing insights into the question of why the German soldier fought as he did, what makes this book truly unique is the authors anguished, yet resolute examination of the dialectic between the honorable and valorous comportment of his comrades and the fundamentally reprehensible conduct of about 35,000 men behind the front lines who nevertheless wore the same uniform.
During his captivity, the author was assigned for a time as a clerk to a US Army Judge Advocate Generals Corps officer, and in the performance of his administrative duties, the author had access to the mounting reams of documentation of the Holocaust. His growing recognition of the involvement of Waffen-SS personnel in the monstrous crimes of that process caused him to dig deeply into his soul, to examine his most intimate and private motivations and thoughts, and to reevaluate the most basic assumptions of his life to that point. The author captured this process and the result in the notes which became this book.
Honestly, forthrightly, and courageously told, Black Edelweiss is a precious gift to historians and other students of World War II. It not only provides a glimpse into the attributes that made the German armed forces a formidable and tenacious foe, but squarely confronts the most painful issue facing German World War II veterans in general, and Waffen-SS veterans in particular.
Supported by 22 photos, 8 maps, and notes. [via]
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A Book for Free Spirits
by Friedrich Nietzsche

ISBN 0879682027 (0-87968-202-7)
Hardcover, Gordon Press

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Book of Mormon

ISBN 0967686555 (0-9676865-5-5)
Softcover, Scriptureference

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The Book of Mormon is a volume of scripture comparable to the Bible. It is a record of God's dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas and contains, as does the Bible, the fullness of the everlasting gospel.
The book was written by many ancient prophets by the spirit of prophecy and revelation. Their words, written on gold plates, were quoted and abridged by a prophet-historian named Mormon. The record gives an account of two great civilizations. One came from Jerusalem in 600 B.C., and afterward separated into two nations, known as the Nephites and the Lamanites. The other came much earlier when the Lord confounded the tongues at the Tower of Babel. This group is known as the Jaredites. After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are the principal ancestors of the American Indians.
The crowning event recorded in the Book of Mormon is the personal ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ among the Nephites soon after his resurrection. It puts forth the doctrines of the gospel, outlines the plan of salvation, and tells men what they must do to gain peace in this life and eternal salvation in the life to come.
After Mormon completed his writings, he delivered the account to his son Moroni, who added a few words of his own and hid up the plates in the hill Cumorah. On September 21, 1823, the same Moroni, the a glorified, resurrected being, appeared to the Prophet Joseph Smith and instructed him relative to the ancient record and its destined translation into the English language.
In due course the plates were delivered to Joseph Smith, who translated them by the gift and power of God. The record is now published in many languages as a new and additional witness that Jesus Christ is the Sone of the living God and that all who will come unto him and obey the laws and ordinances of his gospel may be saved.
Concerning this record the Prophet Joseph Smith said: "I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book."
In addition to Joseph Smith, the Lord provided for eleven others to see the gold plates for themselves and to be special witnesses of the truth and divinity of the Book of Mormon. Their written testimonies are included herewith as "The Testimony of Three Witnesses" and "The Testimony of Eight Witnesses."
We invite all men everywhere to read the Book of Mormon, to ponder in their hearts the message it contains, and the to ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ if the book is true. Those who pursue this course and ask in faith will gain a testimony of its truth and divinity by the power of the Holy Ghost. (See Moroni 10:3-5.)
Those who gain this divine witness from the holy Spirit will also come to know by the same power that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world, that Joseph Smith is his revelator and prophet in these last days, and that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the Lord's kingdom once again established on the earth, preparatory to the second coming of the Messiah. [via]
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Book of Mormon: First Edition Facsimile
by Joseph Smith

ISBN 0877478082 (0-87747-808-2)
Hardcover, Deseret Book Co

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The Bremen Town Musicians
by Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm K. Grimm, Anthea Bell, Josef Palecek

ISBN 0887080715 (0-88708-071-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

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Four animal friends who are mistreated by their masters set out to become musicians in the town of Bremen and encounter a den of thieves. [via]
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Castle Gripsholm
by Kurt Tucholsky

ISBN 0879513373 (0-87951-337-3)
Softcover, Overlook Press, The

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City of Golden Shadow
by Tad Williams

ISBN 0886777100 (0-88677-710-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Conversational German in 7 Days
by Shirley Baldwin, Sarah Boas

ISBN 0844244848 (0-8442-4484-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill

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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri

ISBN 0882950282 (0-88295-028-2)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson

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This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance. Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages. [via]
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The Divine Comedy
by Peter Dale, Alighieri Dante

ISBN 0856462802 (0-85646-280-2)
Softcover, Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd

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Dante's masterpiece is undoubtedly one of the supreme works of world literature. Peter Dale's achievement has been to produce a complete version in modern English that echoes Dante's "sweet new style" while keeping to the poet's demanding terza rima verse pattern. It is a handsome reader's edition -- accurate, clear and compelling -- and contains a fascinating introduction on the poem's history, and its influence on English poetry through the ages. [via]
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Far Country
by Nevil Shute

ISBN 0884113175 (0-88411-317-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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Jennifer fled the drab monotony of post-war London. When she landed in Australia, it was like coming home. She loved it and when she met Carl, she had every reason to stay.
But the two of them came from quite different worlds, and it is the story of their building a life together that Nevil Shute tells in his matchless way. With warmth and understanding, and with his natural affection for the people he creates, the author brings to life his characters and the pioneer country in which they live.
"New lives for old...on a fresh, vital, expanding frontier! This is the exciting background of this heartlifting novel by a master weaver of romance and adventure." (Boston Herald) [via]
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The Forbidden Tower
by Marion Zimmer Bradley

ISBN 0886773733 (0-88677-373-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Tradition and a sacred caste system ruled life on the planet Darkover, but two men and two women dared to defy the ancient law. Together they formed a powerful alliance, but was it strong enough to resist the terrible forces of Darkover? [via]
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Foundation

ISBN 0905712617 (0-905712-61-7)
Hardcover, Book Sales

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The Foundation Trilogy

In this landmark of imaginative fiction, winner of a special Hugo Award as Best All Time Science Fiction Series, Asimov has brilliantly conceived a whole new world for mankind, set far in the future and spanning a period of more than a thousand years.

The beginning of the epic, Foundation, describes how one man creates a new force for civilised life as the old Galactic Empire crumbles into barbarism. Foundation and Empire is the story of the mighty conflict for mastery of the stars between these two major powers. In Second Foundation a new and even more terrifying threat to the future of humanity arises in the form of a dangerous mutant, capable of manipulating men's minds and destroying the universe. . .

The Stars, Like Dust

A masterpiece of suspense and drama: Biron Farrill sets out on a dangerous quest through the galaxies to find "Rebellion World" and its key to man's future peace.

The Naked Sun

Earth's very existence is at stake when a murder takes place on power-hungry Solaria. One of the greatest detective stories in the science fiction canon.

I, Robot

The classic vision of a future where robots are so sophisticated that mankind is threatened with redundancy.
Stories include: Robbie, Runaround, Reason, Catch That Rabbit, Liar!, Little Lost Robot, Escape!, Evidence, and The Evitable Conflict. [via]
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George Orwell Complete & Unabridged

ISBN 0905712048 (0-905712-04-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub

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German Second and Third Years
by Walter Kleinmann, Harryf Reinert

ISBN 0877205779 (0-87720-577-9)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc

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The German Ideology
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, C. J. Arthur

ISBN 0853152179 (0-85315-217-9)
Hardcover, Lawrence & Wishart

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This edition makes easily accessible the most important parts of Marx's and Engels's major early philosophical work, "The German Ideology", a text of key importance for students. [via]
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The German Research Companion
by Shirley J. Riemer

ISBN 0965676102 (0-9656761-0-2)
Hardcover, Lorelei Press

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Great Books of the Western World
by Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard Hutchins

ISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica

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The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN 0891906797 (0-89190-679-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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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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Guess How Much I Love You
by Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram

ISBN 0849959713 (0-8499-5971-3)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc

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All children want reassurance that their parents' love runs wide and deep. In Guess How Much I Love You, a young rabbit named Little Nutbrown Hare thinks he's found a way to measure the boundaries of love. In a heartwarming twist on the "I-can-do-anything-you-can-do-better" theme, Little Nutbrown Hare goes through a series of declarations regarding the breadth of his love for Big Nutbrown Hare. But even when his feelings stretch as long as his arms, or as high as his hops, Little Nutbrown Hare is fondly one-upped by the elder rabbit's more expansive love.
Anita Jeram's illustrations are bound to elicit an "aw" from even the sternest of readers; these loving rabbits are expressive, endearing, and never cloying. In turn, Sam McBratney tells a simple bedtime story of sweet familial love with humor, insight, and a delightful surprise at the end. Children and parents will love snuggling up for this one--a treat to be read again and again, just before the lights are turned out. (Click to see a sample spread. Text © 1994 by Sam McBratney. Illustrations © 1994 by Anita Jeram. Permission from Candlewick Press.) (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift, Kim Palmer, John Escott

ISBN 0861129857 (0-86112-985-7)
Hardcover, Brimax Books, Limited

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A retelling of the classic fantasy adventure, illustrated in colour by Gennady Spirin. [via]
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Gulliver's Travels
by Angela Wilkes

ISBN 0860206122 (0-86020-612-2)
Softcover, Edc Pub

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Gulliver's Travels
by Malvina G. Vogel, Johnathon Smith, Johathan Swift

ISBN 0866119922 (0-86611-992-2)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co

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a wonderful children's book filled with great illustrations [via]
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialects
by Gyorgy Lukacs

ISBN 085036129X (0-85036-129-X)
Hardcover, Merlin Press

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A History of Prussia
by H.W. Koch

ISBN 0880291583 (0-88029-158-3)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble

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Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

ISBN 0883017059 (0-88301-705-9)
Softcover, Academic Industries

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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Inferno
by Dante Alighieri

ISBN 0937832286 (0-937832-28-6)
Hardcover, Branden Pub Co

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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular, to produce a radically new and all-encompassing work. The Comedy tells the story of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman. In The Inferno, Dante's protagonist - and his reader - is presented with a graphic vision of the dreadful consequences of sin, and encounters an all-too-human array of noble, grotesque, beguiling, ridiculous and horrific characters. [via]
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Inside the 3rd Reich: Memoirs
by Albert Speer

ISBN 0883659247 (0-88365-924-7)
Hardcover, Riverside World Pub Co

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From 1946 to 1966, while serving the prison sentence handed down from the Nuremburg War Crimes tribunal, Albert Speer penned 1,200 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. Titled Erinnerungen ("Recollections") upon their 1969 publication in German, Speer's critically acclaimed personal history was translated into English and published one year later as Inside the Third Reich. Long after their initial publication, Speer's memoir continues to provide one of the most detailed and fascinating portrayals of life within Hitler's inner circles, the rise and fall of the third German empire, and of Hitler himself.
Speer chronicles his entire life, but the majority of Inside the Third Reich focuses on the years between 1933 and 1945, when Speer figured prominently in Hitler's government and the German war effort as Inspector General of Buildings for the Renovation of the Federal Capital and later as Minister of Arms and Munitions. Speer's recollections of both duties foreground the impossibility of reconciling Hitler's idealistic, imperialistic ambitions with both architectural and military reality. Throughout, Inside the Third Reich remains true to its author's intentions. With compelling insight, Speer reveals many of the "premises which almost inevitably led to the disasters" of the Third Reich as well as "what comes from one man's holding unrestricted power in his hands." -- Bertina Loeffler [via]
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The Light Fantastic
by Terry Pratchett

ISBN 0861402030 (0-86140-203-0)
Hardcover, Smythe Limited, Colin

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Hardcover book, w/dust jacket, stated copyright date, 1986. A fantasy story from Terry Pratchett. [via]
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Luchow's German Cookbook: The Story and the Favorite Dishes of America's Most Famous German Restaurant
by Jan Mitchell, Ludwig Bemelmans

ISBN 0848817524 (0-8488-1752-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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The Mansions of the Gods

ISBN 0917201604 (0-917201-60-4)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Caesar has plans to build a luxury holiday complex, the Mansion of the Gods, for Roman holidaymakers, just next to the Gaulish village. However, through the cunning plans of Asterix, things do not turn out quite as the Romans had hoped.

The Adventures of Asterix (French: Asterix or Asterix le Gaulois) is a series of French comic books written by Rene Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo (Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977). The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959. As of 2008, 33 comic books in the series have been released.
The series follows the exploits of a village of ancient Gauls as they resist Roman occupation. They do so by means of a magic potion, brewed by their druid, which gives the recipient superhuman strength. The protagonist, the titular character, Asterix, along with his friend Obelix have various adventures. In many cases, this leads them to travel to various countries around the world, though other books are set in and around their village. For much of the history of the series (Volumes 4 through 29), settings in Gaul and abroad alternated, with even-numbered volumes set abroad and odd-numbered volumes set in Gaul, mostly in the village.
The Asterix series is one of the most popular Franco-Belgian comics in the world, with the series being translated into over 100 languages, and it is popular in most European countries.
The success of the series has led to the adaptation of several books into 11 films; eight animated, and three with live actors. There have also been a number of games based on the characters, and a theme park near Paris, Parc Asterix, is themed around the series. To date, 325 million copies of 33 Asterix books have been sold around the world making co-creators Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo France's bestselling authors abroad. [via]
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Mark Twain
by Mark Twain

ISBN 0940450070 (0-940450-07-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Here for the first time in one volume are the most famous and characteristic of Mark Twain's works. Through each of them runs the powerful and majestic Mississippi. The river represented for Twain the complex and contradictory possibilities in his own and the nation's life: the place where civilization's comforts meet the violence and promise of freedom of the frontier. It was the place, too, where Twain's youthful innocence confronted the grim reality of slavery. The nostalgic re-creation of childhood in "Tom Sawyer"--"simply a hymn put into prose form to give it a worldly air," said Twain--and the richly anecdotal memoir of his days as a riverboat pilot in "Life on the Mississippi" give way to the realism and often dark comedy of "Huckleberry Finn" and the troubled exploration of slavery in his mystery, "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Together, these four books trace the central trajectory of his life and career, and they can be read as a single masterpiece. [via]
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On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
by Friedrich Nietzsche, Peter Preuss

ISBN 0915144956 (0-915144-95-6)
Hardcover, Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated

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On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

ISBN 0915144948 (0-915144-94-8)
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
by Arthur Schopenhauer

ISBN 0875482015 (0-87548-201-5)
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Otherland
by Tad Williams

ISBN 0886777631 (0-88677-763-1)
Softcover, Daw Books

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Best-selling fantasy author Tad Williams (Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series) begins a far-reaching cyberpunk saga with Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizing something is wrong on the network. Some of the younger kids, including her brother Stephen, have logged into the net, but they can't get back out. The clues point to a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but everyone who tries to find out what's going on ends up dead. Settle in for a long, enjoyable ride, because this 770-page monster is just the first of four projected novels. [via]
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Perpetual Peace, and Other Essays on Politics, History, and Morals
by Immanuel Kant, Ted Humphrey

ISBN 0915145472 (0-915145-47-2)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction. Bibliography. A Note on the Text.
1. Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent (1784)
2. An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784)
3. Speculative Beginning of Human History (1786)
4. On the Proverb: That May Be True in Theory, but Is of No Practical Use (1793)
5. The End of All Things (1794)
6. To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (1795)
Glossary of Some German-English Translations. Index. [via]
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Peter Schlemiel
by Adelbert Von Chamisso, Peter Wortsman

ISBN 0880641428 (0-88064-142-8)
Hardcover, Fromm Intl

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Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
by Friedrich Nietzsche, Marianne Cowan

ISBN 0895267101 (0-89526-710-1)
Softcover, Regnery Pub

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Nietzsche's consideration of 5th and 6th century Greece, the proving ground for his philosophy. [via]
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The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century
by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

ISBN 0854965041 (0-85496-504-1)
Hardcover, Berg

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Because it made possible rapid movement and shipping across large distances, joining far-off towns to economic and cultural capitals, many people who lived in the early 19th century regarded the railroad as an instrument of progress. Because anyone with the price of a ticket could board a train, regardless of social class, the railroad was also seen as a democratizing technology.
But, Wolfgang Schivelbusch notes in this vivid history of early rail travel, the promise of progress and democracy was swiftly compromised. The railroads became an agency for the concentration of wealth in a few hands, and they created a class of passive consumers who simply got aboard and waited to arrive at their destinations. The railroads, Schivelbusch writes, changed the 19th-century world for good and ill. They helped rewrite the industrializing world's sense of time, for now precise schedules had to be kept; they reinforced a sense of forward-plunging movement into the future; they even introduced the reality of mass disaster, for railroads were always crashing, sometimes taking hundreds of riders to their deaths.
Delving into urban planning, psychology, architecture, and economics, as well as the history of technology, Schivelbusch paints a revealing portrait of the role of the railroad in shaping the 19th-century mind. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Railway Journey: Trains and Travel in the 19th Century
by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

ISBN 0893960284 (0-89396-028-4)
Softcover, Urizen Books

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Selected Stories
by Christopher Middleton, Robert Walser, Susan Sontag

ISBN 0940322986 (0-940322-98-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Seven Years in Tibet
by Heinrich Harrer, Dalai Lama XIV

ISBN 0874778883 (0-87477-888-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as one of the first Europeans ever to enter Tibet. Harrer was traveling in India when the Second World War erupted. He was subsequently seized and imprisoned by British authorities. After several attempts, he escaped and crossed the rugged, frozen Himalayas, surviving by duping government officials and depending on the generosity of villagers for food and shelter. Harrer finally reached his ultimate destination-the Forbidden City of Lhasa-without money, or permission to be in Tibet. But Tibetan hospitality and his own curious appearance worked in Harrer?s favor, allowing him unprecedented acceptance among the upper classes. His intelligence and European ways also intrigued the young Dalai Lama, and Harrer soon became His Holiness?s tutor and trusted confidant. When the Chinese invaded Tibet in 1950, Harrer and the Dalai Lama fled the country together. This timeless story illuminates Eastern culture, as well as the childhood of His Holiness and the current plight of Tibetans. It is a must-read for lovers of travel, adventure, history, and culture. A motion picture, under the direction of Jean-Jacques Annaud, will feature Brad Pitt in the lead role of Heinrich Harrer. [via]
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Sharra's Exile
by Marion Zimmer Bradley

ISBN 0886773091 (0-88677-309-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The sequel to Heritage of Hastur, perhaps the single most popular of Bradley's spectacular Darkover novels, Sharra's Exile is the story of Lew Alton's return to Darkover and his battle to destroy the deadly Sharra matrix. Reissue. [via]
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Sophocles' Antigone
by Sophocles, Nicolas P. Gross

ISBN 0929524330 (0-929524-33-0)
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The enduring story of Antigone--the Greek princess who braved the wrath of a king and sacrificed her own life in order to honor her slain brother--is retold here for contemporary readers.
Through the words of the blind prophet Teiresias, we watch the inevitable tragedy unfold as Antigone discovers that her brother, a rebel against the rule of their uncle Creon, has been murdered and his body left unburied. Torn between duty to her uncle the king, love for her brother, and her duty to the gods, Antigone symbolizes the often tragic conflict between love and duty, honor and the law.
This modern retelling of the story, best known through Sophocles' drama, is enhanced by original illustrations in the style of ancient Greek art silk-screened on handmade paper. Truly a unique and beautiful book, Sophocles' Antigone will be a treasured addition to the libraries of those who love the arts of ancient Greece and of fine, contemporary bookmaking. [via]
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Sophocles' Antigone
by Mary W. Blundell

ISBN 0941051250 (0-941051-25-0)
Softcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co

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This is an English translation of Sophocles tragedy of Antigone and her fate when she decides to bury her dead brother Polyneices. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
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The Spell
by Hermann Broch, H.F. Broch De Rothermann

ISBN 0865473595 (0-86547-359-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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The Spell Singers
by Marion Zimmer Bradley

ISBN 0886772370 (0-88677-237-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Stowe:Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks
by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kathryn K. Sklar

ISBN 0940450011 (0-940450-01-1)
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Described by Henry James as "much less a book than a state of vision," "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is probably the most influential work of fiction in American history. Stowe's moving Christian epic turned millions of Americans against slavery, bringing the "peculiar institution" immeasurably closer to its fiery destruction. In "The Minister's Wooing" and "Oldtown Folks," Stowe examines the interplay of religion, domesticity, and women's roles and choices in the shaping of American culture. [via]
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Streetwise German: Speaking and Understanding Colloquial German
by Paul G. Graves

ISBN 0844225142 (0-8442-2514-2)
Softcover, Passport Books

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Tales from the Calendar
by Bertolt Brecht, Michael Hamburger, Yvonne Kapp

ISBN 0902490370 (0-902490-37-0)
Hardcover, Lion and Unicorn Press

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Thendara House
by Marion Zimmer Bradley

ISBN 0886772400 (0-88677-240-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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To Green Angel Tower
by Tad Williams

ISBN 0886775981 (0-88677-598-1)
Softcover, Daw Books

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Miriaamele and Simon embark on a perilous quest through war- and magic-torn lands as they and the valiant followers of Josua Lackhand struggle to make a stand against the Storm King's seemingly unstoppable evil forces. Reprint. [via]
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To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
by Immanuel Kant, Ted Humphrey

ISBN 0872206912 (0-87220-691-2)
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What is the standing of a sovereign nation and what are its rights relative to other sovereign nations? What is our obligation to pursue peace? Can intervention in the affairs of another sovereign nation be justified? Who, if any one, has the right to intervene? In this short essay, Kant completes his political theory and philosophy of history, considering the prospects for peace among nations and addressing questions that remain central to our thoughts about nationalism, war, and peace. Ted Humphrey provides an eminently readable translation, along with a brief introduction that sketches Kant's argument. [via]
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Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize With a Hammer
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

ISBN 0872203549 (0-87220-354-9)
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Ulysses
by James Joyce

ISBN 0914061704 (0-914061-70-4)
Hardcover, Orchises Pr

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Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe

ISBN 0899663788 (0-89966-378-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

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Uncle Tom's Cabin is an American classic written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Harriet Beecher Stowe was appalled by slavery, and she took one of the few options open to nineteenth-century women who wanted to affect public opinion: she wrote a novel, a huge, enthralling narrative that claimed the heart, soul, and politics of pre-Civil War Americans. An overtly moralistic work of unabashed propaganda, it is an attempt to make whites North and South see slaves as mothers, fathers, and children as human beings. Her basic question remains penetrating even today: Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? Uncle Tom's Cabin is an American classic that every American should read. [via]
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Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly
by Harriet Beecher Stowe

ISBN 0895773678 (0-89577-367-8)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest

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Uncle Tom's Cabin is an American classic written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Harriet Beecher Stowe was appalled by slavery, and she took one of the few options open to nineteenth-century women who wanted to affect public opinion: she wrote a novel, a huge, enthralling narrative that claimed the heart, soul, and politics of pre-Civil War Americans. An overtly moralistic work of unabashed propaganda, it is an attempt to make whites North and South see slaves as mothers, fathers, and children as human beings. Her basic question remains penetrating even today: Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? Uncle Tom's Cabin is an American classic that every American should read. [via]
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The Waste Books
by R. J. Hollingdale, Georg Lichtenberg

ISBN 0940322501 (0-940322-50-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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German scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century polymath: an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the casual notes and aphorisms that he collected in what he called his Waste Books. With unflagging intelligence and encyclopedic curiosity, Lichtenberg wittily deflates the pretensions of learning and society, examines a range of philosophical questions, and tracks his own thoughts down hidden pathways to disconcerting and sometimes hilarious conclusions.

Lichtenberg's Waste Books have been greatly admired by writers as very different as Tolstoy, Einstein, and Andre Breton, while Nietzsche and Wittgenstein acknowledged them as a significant inspiration for their own radical work in philosophy. The record of a brilliant and subtle mind in action, The Waste Books are above all a powerful testament to the necessity, and pleasure, of unfettered thought. [via]
More editions of The Waste Books:
- The Waste Books: ISBN 0940322501 (0-940322-50-1)
  Softcover, Random House Inc