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The Amber Room: The Fate Of The World's Greatest Lost Treasureby Cathy Scott-Clark, Adrian LevyISBN 0425203786 (0-425-20378-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amber Room: The Fate Of The World's Greatest Lost Treasure'Book summary:One of mankind's greatest treasures, the Amber Room stood as a symbol of Russian glory for over two hundred years. But after the Nazi invasion, it was never seen again.
Now, in a masterpiece of detection, investigative journalists Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy have at last unraveled the jumble of evidence surrounding the Amber Room's fate. Journeying through the former Soviet bloc, and exploring archives in St. Petersburg and Berlin, they reveal what happened to the most valuable lost treasure in the world-and why the truth has been withheld for so long. Their revelations have broken a conspiracy of lies by the Russians who, for decades, have blamed the Amber Room's disappearance on the widespread looting of Nazi Germany, rather than face the shocking truth. [via]More editions of The Amber Room: The Fate Of The World's Greatest Lost Treasure:
Art and Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, 1917-1933by John WillettISBN 0394739914 (0-394-73991-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Assaultby Harry Mulisch, Claire WhiteISBN 0394744209 (0-394-74420-9)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Assault'Book summary:A novel that probes moral devastation following a Nazi retaliation in a Dutch town. The Assault has been translated and published to great critical acclaim throughout Europe and in the United States.
It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of the ware in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by slaughtering an innocent family: only the youngest son, twelve-year-old Anton, survives.
The Assault traces the complex repercussions of this nightmarish event on Anton's life. Determined not to forget, he opts for a carefully normal existencea prudent marriage, a successful career, and colorless passivity. But the past keeps breaking through, in relentless memories and in chance encounters with the other actors in the drama, until Anton finally learns what really happened that night in 1945, and why. [via]More editions of The Assault:
Atomisedby Michel Houellebecq, Frank WynneISBN 0434007935 (0-434-00793-5)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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Baalby Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph ManheimISBN 0413464407 (0-413-46440-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Berlitz Self-Teacher: Germanby Berlitz Schools of Languages of America Editorial StaffISBN 0399513221 (0-399-51322-1)
Softcover, Perigee
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Bertolt Brecht Poems 1913-1956by Ralph Manheim, John Willet, Rertolt BrechtISBN 0413152103 (0-413-15210-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Buchner : The Complete Playsby Georg Buchner, Michael Patterson, Howard BrentonISBN 0413140903 (0-413-14090-3)
Softcover, Methuen Publishing Limited
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The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Groupby James P. O'DonnellISBN 0395257190 (0-395-25719-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Group'Book summary:Here is an unforgettable, graphic account of the final days in the Führer's headquarters, deep under the shattered city of Berlin as World War II in Europe drew to a close. From James P. O'Donnell's interviews with fifty eyewitnesses to the madness and carnageeveryone from Albert Speer to generals, staff officers, doctors, Hitler's personal pilot, telephone operators, and secretariesemerges an account that historian Theodore H. White has hailed as "superb . . . quite simply the most accurate and terrifying account of the nightmare and its end I have ever read."[via]More editions of The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Group:
Cassell's Compact German-English English-German Dictionaryby J. Horne, H.-C SasseISBN 0440311004 (0-440-31100-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Children of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0441104029 (0-441-10402-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children of Dune'Book summary:[via]The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, the sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy. Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions--but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens...More editions of Children of Dune:
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0440315557 (0-440-31555-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Ernest J. Simmons [via]
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Dances With Wolvesby Michael BlakeISBN 0449000753 (0-449-00075-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dances With Wolves'Book summary:Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie, DANCES WITH WOLVES.
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A Dangerous Fortuneby Ken FollettISBN 0440217490 (0-440-21749-0)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dangerous Fortune'Book summary:In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many loves... From the exclusive men's club and brothels that cater to every dark desire of London's upper classes to the dazzling ballrooms and mahogany-paneled suites of the manipulators of the world's wealth, Ken Follett conjures up a stunning array of contrasts. This breathtaking novel portrays a family splintered by lust, bound by a shared legacy... men and women swept toward a perilous climax where greed, fed by the shocking truth of a boy's death, must be stopped, or not just one man's dreams, but those of a nation, will die... [via]
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Deutsch Heute: Grundstufeby Helmut Liedloff, Constanze Kirmse, John F. Lalande, Jack Moeller, Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, Winnifred R. AdolphISBN 0395744180 (0-395-74418-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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This edition offers a greater integration of all program components to foster language learning and skill development and has been revised to reflect the Rechtschreibreform (German spelling reform).
- Each Bausteine section is accompanied by an illustration that provides visual clues to the dialogue situations.
- Land und Leute cultural notes are accompanied by a Diskussion section which provides activities that ask students to compare their own culture to that of German-speaking nations.
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Deutsch Heute: Grundstufeby John F. Lalande, Jack Moeller, Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, Winnifred R. AdolphISBN 0395962595 (0-395-96259-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deutsch Heute: Grundstufe'Book summary:With its focus on building students' listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, Deutsche heute presents grammar in a concise and clear format, and introduces students to contemporary life and culture in German-speaking countries.
This edition offers a greater integration of all program components to foster language learning and skill development and has been revised to reflect the Rechtschreibreform (German spelling reform).
- Each Bausteine section is accompanied by an illustration that provides visual clues to the dialogue situations.
- Land und Leute cultural notes are accompanied by a Diskussion section which provides activities that ask students to compare their own culture to that of German-speaking nations.
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The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research 1923-1950by Martin JayISBN 0435824767 (0-435-82476-7)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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The Door Through Spaceby Marion Zimmer Bradley, James P. BaenISBN 0441159354 (0-441-15935-4)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Dragon Riderby Anthea Bell, Cornelia FunkeISBN 0439456959 (0-439-45695-9)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragon Rider'Book summary:It's a fantasy, it's long, and it's got dragons in it. Dragon Rider is bound to be another hit book from Cornelia Funke! Ever since the popularity of bestselling fantasies The Thief Lord and Inkheart went global a few years ago, legions of fans have demanded more books from the German author than she can reasonably hope to write each year. So, re-discovering this hefty, earlier novel from 1997 was a logical development--and her keenest readers will devour it as before.
Aimed at slightly younger readers than her previous novels, despite its massive five hundred pages, Dragon Rider is about a brave young dragon called Firedrake who embarks upon a dangerous journey to the Rim of Heaven in the Himalayas--a magical place where silver dragons can rest easy, free from the threat of destruction by mankind and their only hope of sanctuary. The key to its location is a map rendered by a rat who is a master cartographer.
Firedrake is joined on his quest by Ben, an orphaned boy, and Sorrell--a wise-cracking Brownie that is an odd, but ingenious, grumpy kind of fairy. Their journey is not a straightforward one by any means. Created by an alchemist called Petrosius Henbane in 1424, Nettlebrand (a malevolent creature covered in impenetrable gold plates) is their biggest threat--he is intent on destroying them. Nettlebrand is aided by Twigleg, a homunculus who has stowed away in Ben's bag and who is feeding reports on their progress back to his master.
Their exciting encounters are many... It is easy to forgive the narrative's excessive length when readers are gorging on such a wonderfully inventive and readable story from an author who has her readers in the palm of her hand on every page. (Age 9 and over) --John McLay [via]
Dragon Riderby Cornelia FunkeISBN 0439743362 (0-439-74336-2)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Eros and Civilization: A Philisophical Inquiry into Freudby Herbert MarcuseISBN 0415186633 (0-415-18663-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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From Max Weber: Essays in Sociologyby Max Weber, C. Wright Mills, H. H. Gerth, Bryan S. TurnerISBN 0415060567 (0-415-06056-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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German National Cinemaby Sabine HakeISBN 0415089026 (0-415-08902-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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God Emperor of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0441294677 (0-441-29467-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Emperor of Dune'Book summary:More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species. But to achieve his final victory, Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall ... [via]
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braidby Douglas R. HofstadterISBN 0394745027 (0-394-74502-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid'Book summary:Everything is a symbol, and symbols can combine to form patterns. Patterns are beautiful and revelatory of larger truths. These are the central ideas in the thinking of Kurt Gödel, M.C. Escher, and Johann Sebastian Bach, perhaps the three greatest minds of the past quarter-millennium. In a stunning work of humanism, Hofstadter ties together the work of mathematician Gödel, graphic artist Escher, and composer Bach.
Gödel, Escher, Bach, a Pulitzer prize-winning treatise on genius, explores the workings of brilliant people's brains with the help of historical examples and brainteaser puzzles. Not for the dim or the lazy, this book shows you, more clearly than most any other, what it means to see symbols and patterns where others see only the universe. Touching on math, computers, literature, music, and artificial intelligence, Gödel, Escher, Bach is a challenging and potentially life-changing piece of writing. [via]
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Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economyby Karl MarxISBN 0394720016 (0-394-72001-6)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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The Gunslingerby Stephen KingISBN 0451160525 (0-451-16052-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gunslinger'Book summary:In very good condition. [via]
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Heaven Has No Favoritesby Erich Maria RemarqueISBN 0449912493 (0-449-91249-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heaven Has No Favorites'Book summary:Lillian is charming, beautiful . . . and slowly dying of consumption. But she doesn't wish to end her days in a hospital in the Alps. She wants to see Paris again, then Venice--to live frivolously for as long as possible. She might die on the road, she might not, but before she goes, she wants a chance at life.
Clerfayt, a race-car driver, tempts fate every time he's on the road. A man with no illusions about chance, he is powerfully drawn to a woman who can look death in the eye and laugh. Together, he and Lillian make an unusual pair, living only for the moment, without regard for the future. It's a perfect arrangement--until one of them begins to fall in love. . . . [via]More editions of Heaven Has No Favorites:
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Hedda Gablerby Henrik IbsenISBN 0413326705 (0-413-32670-5)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hedda Gabler'Book summary:Hedda is an intelligent and ambitious woman, trapped in the stifling environment of a bourgeois 19th-century marriage. When writer Eilert Loevborg, an old flame returns to Hedda's life with a masterpiece that might threaten her husband's career, Hedda decides to take drastic and fatal action.Universally condemned in 1890 when it was written, Hedda Gabler has since become one of Ibsen's most frequently performed plays. Its title role is elusive and complex: Hedda is an intelligent and ambitious woman, who has no means of finding personal fulfilment in the stifling world of late nineteenth-century bourgeois society. Too frightened of scandal to become involved with a brilliant, wayward writer, she opts for a conventional but loveless marriage in the hope of finding surrogate satisfaction through her husband's career.[via]
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Heretics Of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0441328008 (0-441-32800-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heretics Of Dune'Book summary:Thousands of years after the death of God Emperor Leto II, the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilax struggle to direct the future of Dune, now called Rakis. Book available. [via]
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Heretics of Dune/300842by Frank HerbertISBN 0425076695 (0-425-07669-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heretics of Dune/300842'Book summary:With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. In this, the fifth and most spectacular Dune book of all, the planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love... [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0425104052 (0-425-10405-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Hunchback of Notre- Dameby Victor HugoISBN 0440226759 (0-440-22675-9)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunchback of Notre- Dame'Book summary:Kindle edition of Victor Hugo's classic work with an active table of contents. [via]
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Ideas and Opinionsby Albert EinsteinISBN 0440341507 (0-440-34150-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Idiot: Library Editionby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0440339456 (0-440-33945-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idiot: Library Edition'Book summary:An introduction by Agnes Cardinal, Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners. His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot. [via]
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John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John ClelandISBN 0440055555 (0-440-05555-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'Book summary:She was a homeless orphan of 15, resolved to make her fortune in London. Abandoned by her chaperone, destitute and friendless, the inexperienced country maid was taken in by Madam Brown. And thus began, as she has told us, "...the loose part of my life, wrote with the same liberty that I led it." [via]
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Kaleidoskop: Kultur, Literatur Und Grammatikby Helmut Liedloff, Jack Moeller, Winnifred R. Adolph, Barbara MabeeISBN 0395667194 (0-395-66719-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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L Etrangerby Albert Camus, Germaine Bree, Carlos LynesISBN 0423846108 (0-423-84610-8)
Hardcover, Methuen Educational
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L Etranger'Book summary:LÉtranger est un roman dAlbert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la trilogie que Camus nommera « cycle de labsurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienne : labsurde. Cette trilogie comprend également lessai philosophique intitulé Le Mythe de Sisyphe ainsi que les deux pièces de théâtre Caligula et Le Malentendu. Le roman a été traduit en quarante langues et une adaptation cinématographique a été réalisée par Luchino Visconti en 1967.
En 1999. La revue Le Monde classa ce roman premier parmi les 100 romans du siècle.
Meursault, le narrateur, employé de bureau algérois, apprend la mort de sa mère. Il prend l'autobus pour se rendre à l'asile où elle a fini ses jours et assiste avec indifférence à la veillée et à l'enterrement. Le lendemain, samedi, il rencontre Marie dans un établissement de bains, l'emmène au cinéma et passe la nuit avec elle. Le dimanche s'étire dans l'ennui et le désoeuvrement. Meursault retrouve son bureau et ses voisins: Céleste le restaurateur, le vieux Salamano qui bat son chien, et Raymond Sintès, dont on dit dans le quartier qu'il «vit des femmes». Celui-ci demande à Meursault de rédiger une lettre destinée à une femme qui l'a trompé. Le samedi suivant, Meursault se rend à la plage avec Marie. Au retour, ils assistent à une scène violente au cours de laquelle Raymond frappe sa maîtresse. La police étant intervenue, Meursault accepte de témoigner en faveur de Raymond ... Meursault et Marie vont passer le dimanche à la plage, avec Raymond. Deux Arabes les ont suivis. L'un est le frère de la femme que Raymond a maltraitée. Une dispute éclate: Raymond est blessé d'un coup de couteau. Un peu plus tard, par une chaleur accablante, il revient provoquer son agresseur. Meursault, qui lui, a pris son revolver par précaution, se retrouve seul face à l'Arabe. Aveuglé par le soleil et l'éclat du couteau que celui-ci a sorti de sa poche, il tire sur lui...
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The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0441007317 (0-441-00731-7)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Left Hand of Darkness'Book summary:Genly Ai is an emissary from the human galaxy to Winter, a lost, stray world. His mission is to bring the planet back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters. On a planet where people are of no gender--or both--this is a broad gulf indeed. The inventiveness and delicacy with which Le Guin portrays her alien world are not only unusual and inspiring, they are fundamental to almost all decent science fiction that has been written since. In fact, reading Le Guin again may cause the eye to narrow somewhat disapprovingly at the younger generation: what new ground are they breaking that is not already explored here with greater skill and acumen? It cannot be said, however, that this is a rollicking good story. Le Guin takes a lot of time to explore her characters, the world of her creation, and the philosophical themes that arise.
If there were a canon of classic science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness would be included without debate. Certainly, no science fiction bookshelf may be said to be complete without it. But the real question: is it fun to read? It is science fiction of an earlier time, a time that has not worn particularly well in the genre. The Left Hand of Darkness was a groundbreaking book in 1969, a time when, like the rest of the arts, science fiction was awakening to new dimensions in both society and literature. But the first excursions out of the pulp tradition are sometimes difficult to reread with much enjoyment. Rereading The Left Hand of Darkness, decades after its publication, one feels that those who chose it for the Hugo and Nebula awards were right to do so, for it truly does stand out as one of the great books of that era. It is immensely rich in timeless wisdom and insight.
The Left Hand of Darkness is science fiction for the thinking reader, and should be read attentively in order to properly savor the depth of insight and the subtleties of plot and character. It is one of those pleasures that requires a little investment at the beginning, but pays back tenfold with the joy of raw imagination that resonates through the subsequent 30 years of science fiction storytelling. Not only is the bookshelf incomplete without owning it, so is the reader without having read it. --L. Blunt Jackson [via]
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Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethicsby Erich FrommISBN 0449300196 (0-449-30019-6)
Hardcover, Fawcett Premier
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Man in the Modern Ageby Karl JaspersISBN 0404145582 (0-404-14558-2)
Hardcover, A M S Press, Incorporated
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Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0394747232 (0-394-74723-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History'Book summary:Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.
Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0395051088 (0-395-05108-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Needful Thingsby Stephen KingISBN 0451172817 (0-451-17281-7)
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Outlanderby Diana GabaldonISBN 0440212561 (0-440-21256-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Outlander'Book summary:In Outlander, a 600-page time-travel romance, strong-willed and sensual Claire Randall leads a double life with a husband in one century, and a lover in another. Torn between fidelity and desire, she struggles to understand the pure intent of her heart. But don't let the number of pages and the Scottish dialect scare you. It's one of the fastest reads you'll have in your library.
While on her second honeymoon in the British Isles, Claire touches a boulder that hurls her back in time to the forbidden Castle Leoch with the MacKenzie clan. Not understanding the forces that brought her there, she becomes ensnared in life-threatening situations with a Scots warrior named James Fraser. But it isn't all spies and drudgery that she must endure. For amid her new surroundings and the terrors she faces, she is lured into love and passion like she's never known before.
I was lame and sore in every muscle when I woke next morning. I shuffled to the privy closet, then to the wash basin. My innards felt like churned butter. It felt as though I had been beaten with a blunt object, I reflected, then thought that that was very near the truth. The blunt object in question was visible as I came back to bed, looking now relatively harmless. Its possessor [Jamie] woke as I sat next to him, and examined me with something that looked very much like male smugness."
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The Planet Savers: The Sword of Aldonesby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0441670253 (0-441-67025-3)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Poemsby Ralph Manheim, Stefan Brecht, John Willett, Erich FriedISBN 0413339203 (0-413-33920-3)
Hardcover, Methuen
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Poems 1913-1956: Bertolt Brechtby Bertolt BrechtISBN 0416000819 (0-416-00081-9)
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Poems, 1913-1956by Ralph Manheim, Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Erich FriedISBN 0416000916 (0-416-00091-6)
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The Queen of Springtimeby Robert SilverbergISBN 044651442X (0-446-51442-X)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Rabbiby Noah GordonISBN 0449214540 (0-449-21454-0)
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Ramona Quimby, Age 8by Beverly ClearyISBN 0440473500 (0-440-47350-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ramona Quimby, Age 8'Book summary:From the first day of third grade, when Ramona Quimby meets her eventual nemesis Yard Ape, life moves on at its usual wild pace--usual for the boisterous Ramona, that is. Soon she is accidentally squashing a raw egg into her hair at the school cafeteria, being forced to play Uncle Rat with her annoying young neighbor, and, worst of all, throwing up in her classroom. The responsibilities of an 8-year-old are sometimes daunting, especially in a family that is trying to squeak by while the father goes back to school. But Ramona is full of too much vim and vigor to ever be down for long.
In her second Newbery Honor Book about Ramona (the first was Ramona and Her Father), Beverly Cleary presents another slice of the Quimby family life. Author of more than two dozen children's books, Cleary has a true knack for understanding the tangle of thoughts and emotions in a child's mind and heart. Empathic, witty, and astute, she has earned many other awards, including the Newbery Medal for Dear Mr. Henshaw. Alan Tiegreen's clever line drawings have charmed countless readers of Cleary's books over the years, and his style is now inextricably tied to hers. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Return of the Kingby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 039548930X (0-395-48930-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of the King'Book summary:In the third volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy the good and evil forces join battle, and we see that the triumph of good is not absolute. The Third Age of Middle-earth ends, and the age of the dominion of Men begins. [via]
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Riotous Assemblyby Tom SharpeISBN 0436458004 (0-436-45800-4)
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Salem's Lotby Stephen KingISBN 0451150651 (0-451-15065-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salem's Lot'Book summary:Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.
Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Sanditonby Jane Austen, Anne TelscombeISBN 0395202841 (0-395-20284-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sanditon'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via] -
The Secret History : A Novelby Donna TarttISBN 0449911519 (0-449-91151-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret History : A Novel'Book summary:"Powerful...Enthrallling...A ferociously well-paced entertainment."THE NEW YORK TIMESRichard Papen arrived at Hampden College in New England and was quickly seduced by an elite group of five students, all Greek scholars, all worldly, self-assured, and, at first glance, all highly unapproachable. As Richard is drawn into their inner circle, he learns a terrifying secret that binds them to one another...a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night where an ancient rite was brought to brutal life...and led to a gruesome death. And that was just the beginning...."A smart, craftsman-like, viscerally compelling novel."TIMESelected by the Book-of-the-Month ClubA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKFrom the Paperback edition. [via]
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Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusadeby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440180295 (0-440-18029-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade'Book summary:Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.
Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor. [via]
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Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949by Ted BrusawISBN 0440215269 (0-440-21526-9)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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The Solitaire Mysteryby Jostein Gaarder, Sarah Jane Hails, Hilde KramerISBN 042515999X (0-425-15999-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Solitaire Mystery'Book summary:Jostein Gaarder had an unlikely international success with Sophie's World, a novelized exploration of western philosophy through the eyes of a young girl. This is an earlier work, translated from the Norwegian by Sarah Jane Hails. This fable-like story dabbles in philosophy too, though more lightly. It tells of a Norwegian boy traveling across Europe with his calm and reflective father in search of his long lost mother. The boy finds a tiny manuscript that reveals the secret of a magic deck of cards that can tell the future. [via]
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The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Editionby Stephen KingISBN 0451169530 (0-451-16953-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition'Book summary:In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Strangerby Chris Van AllsburgISBN 0395423317 (0-395-42331-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Tactics of Mistakeby Gordon R. DicksonISBN 0441799787 (0-441-79978-7)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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A Time to Love and a Time to Dieby Erich Maria RemarqueISBN 0449912507 (0-449-91250-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Time to Love and a Time to Die'Book summary:From the quintessential author of wartime Germany, A Time to Love and a Time to Die echoes the harrowing insights of his masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front.
After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes.
Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his house bombed to ruin and his parents nowhere in sight. Nobody knows if they are dead or alive. As his leave draws to a close, Graeber reaches out to Elisabeth, a childhood friend. Like him, she is imprisoned in a world she did not create. But in a time of war, love seems a world away. And sometimes, temporary comfort can lead to something unexpected and redeeming.
The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure. The New York Times Book Review [via]More editions of A Time to Love and a Time to Die:
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0446310786 (0-446-31078-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Kill a Mockingbird'Book summary:"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Two Towersby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395489334 (0-395-48933-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Ubungsbuch Kaleidoskop: Kultur, Literatur Und Grammatikby Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, Wolfgang Adolph, Barbara Beckman SharonISBN 0395890284 (0-395-89028-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Wicked Dayby Mary StewartISBN 0449205193 (0-449-20519-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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"Gripping....A superior adventure tale."
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The World Wreckersby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0441911781 (0-441-91178-1)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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L Etrangerby Albert Camus, Ray DavisonISBN 0415025869 (0-415-02586-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L Etranger'Book summary:Condamné à mort, Meursault. Sur une plage algérienne, il a tué un Arabe. À cause du soleil, dira-t-il, parce qu'il faisait chaud. On n'en tirera rien d'autre. Rien ne le fera plus réagir : ni l'annonce de sa condamnation, ni la mort de sa mère, ni les paroles du prêtre avant la fin. Comme si, sur cette plage, il avait soudain eu la révélation de l'universelle équivalence du tout et du rien. La conscience de n'être sur la terre qu'en sursis, d'une mort qui, quoi qu'il arrive, arrivera, sans espoir de salut. Et comment être autre chose qu'indifférent à tout après ça ?
Étranger sur la terre, étranger à lui-même, Meursault le bien nommé pose les questions qui deviendront un leitmotiv dans l'oeuvre de Camus. De La Peste à La Chute, mais aussi dans ses pièces et dans ses essais, celui qui allait devenir Prix Nobel de littérature en 1957 ne cessera de s'interroger sur le sens de l'existence. Sa mort violente en 1960 contribua quelque peu à rendre mythique ce maître à penser de toute une génération. --Karla Manuele [via]
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