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All That Is Solid Melts into the Air: The Experience of Modernityby Marshall BermanISBN 0140109625 (0-14-010962-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All That Is Solid Melts into the Air: The Experience of Modernity'Book summary:"A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." Mervyn Jones, New Statesman.[via]The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new environments to replace the oldall have thrust us into a modern world of contradictions and ambiguities. In this fascinating book, Marshall Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and cultures, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
From a reinterpretation of Karl Marx to an incisive consideration of the impact of Robert Moses on modern urban living, Berman charts the progress of the twentieth-century experience. He concludes that adaptation to continual flux is possible and that therein lies our hope for achieving a truly modern society.
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Anne Frank: A Hidden Lifeby Mirjam PresslerISBN 0141312262 (0-14-131226-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Anton Reiserby Ritchie Robertson, Karl Philipp MoritzISBN 0140446095 (0-14-044609-5)
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At War, at Seaby Ronald H. SpectorISBN 0140246010 (0-14-024601-0)
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August 1914by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. WillettsISBN 0140071229 (0-14-007122-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939by Antony BeevorISBN 014303765X (0-14-303765-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thoughtby Hannah ArendtISBN 0140186506 (0-14-018650-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought'Book summary:Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute a major contribution to political philosophy. In this book she describes the perplexing crises which modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. [via]
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Billiards at Half-Past Nineby Heinrich BöllISBN 0140187243 (0-14-018724-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Black List Section Hby Francis StuartISBN 0140189262 (0-14-018926-2)
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0140440046 (0-14-044004-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]
With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaires masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the naïve Candide, who doggedly believes that all is for the best even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair. Controversial and entertaining, Candide is a book that is vitally relevant today in our world pervaded byas Candide would say the mania for insisting that all is well when all is by no means well.
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The Castle of Otrantoby Horace Walpole, Michael GamerISBN 0140437673 (0-14-043767-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle of Otranto'Book summary:On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. Fearing the end of his dynasty, his father, Manfred, determines to marry Conrad's betrothed, Isabella, until a series of supernatural events stands in his way. . . .[via]
Set in the time of the crusades, The Castle of Otranto (1764) established the Gothic as a literary form in England. With its compelling blend of psychological realism and supernatural terror, guilty secrets and unlawful desires, it has influenced a literary tradition stretching from Ann Radcliffe and Bram Stoker to Daphne Du Maurier and Stephen King.
This Penguin Classics edition includes a full selection of early responses to the novel, as well as a critical introduction, chronology of Walpole's life and works, suggestions for further reading, and full explanatory notes.
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The Cello Playerby Michael Kruger, Andrew ShieldsISBN 0151005915 (0-15-100591-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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Coleridge: Early Visionsby Richard HolmesISBN 0140124403 (0-14-012440-3)
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The Conduct of Major Maximby Gavin LyallISBN 0140094172 (0-14-009417-2)
Softcover, Select Penguin
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The Danish Girlby David EbershoffISBN 0140298487 (0-14-029848-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Danish Girl'Book summary:Though the title character of David Ebershoff's debut novel is a transsexual, the book is less concerned with transgender issues than the mysterious and ineffable nature of love. Loosely based on the life of Danish painter Einar Wegener who, in 1931, became the first man to undergo a sex-change operation, The Danish Girl borrows the bare bones of his story as a jumping-off point for an exploration of how Wegener's decisions affected the people around him. Chief among these is his Californian wife, Greta, also a painter, who unwittingly sets her husband's feet on the path to transformation. While trying to finish a portrait of an opera singer who has cancelled a sitting, she asks Einar to stand in for her subject, putting on her dress, stockings, and shoes. The moment silk touches his skin, he is shaken:
Einar could concentrate only on the silk dressing his skin, as if it were a bandage. Yes, that was how it felt the first time: the silk was so fine and airy that it felt like a gauze--a balm-soaked gauze lying delicately on healing skin. Even the embarrassment of standing before his wife began to no longer matter, for she was busy painting with a foreign intensity in her face. Einar was beginning to enter a shadowy world of dreams where Anna's dress could belong to anyone, even to him.
Greta soon recognizes her husband's affinity for feminine attire, and encourages him not only to dress like a woman, but to take on a woman's persona, as well. "Why don't we call you Lili?" she suggests. What starts out as a harmless game soon evolves into something deeper, and potentially threatening to their marriage. Yet Greta's love proves to be enduring if not immutable. As Einar inexorably transforms, he steps beyond "that small dark space between two people where a marriage exists" and Greta lets him go.Ebershoff does a remarkable job of historical prestidigitation, creating the sights and sounds and smells of 1930s Denmark and making it seem easy. Even more remarkable is his treatment of Greta: he gets inside her head and heart, and renders her in such loving detail that her reactions make perfect sense. Einar is more of a cipher, and ultimately less interesting than his wife. But in the end, this is Greta's book and David Ebershoff has done her proud. The Danish Girl marks a promising fictional debut. --Sheila Bright [via]
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Death in Romeby Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael HofmannISBN 0140187901 (0-14-018790-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Rome'Book summary:Four members of a German family are reunited by chance in the decaying beauty of post-war Rome. These different men, mutually antagonistic and fearful, learn of one another's presence in Rome and meet, their often chilling histories unfolding through a variety of literary styles and voices. [via]
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The Devil's Arithmeticby Jane YolenISBN 0140345353 (0-14-034535-3)
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The Devil's Arithmetic, 3.99 Promoby Jane YolenISBN 0142404373 (0-14-240437-3)
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Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Areby R. J. Hollingdale, Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0140445153 (0-14-044515-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Are'Book summary:In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, nietzsche (1844 1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and ecce homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a philosopher, examines the heroes he has identified with, struggled against and then overcome schopenhauer, wagner, socrates, christ and predicts the cataclysmic impact of his forthcoming revelation of all values'. Both self-celebrating and self-mocking, penetrating and strange, ecce homo gives the final, definitive expression to nietzsche's main beliefs and is in every way his last testament [via]
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Eichmann And the Holocaustby Hannah ArendtISBN 0143037609 (0-14-303760-9)
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Fear And Tremblingby Soren KierkegaardISBN 0140444491 (0-14-044449-1)
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The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world.Regarded as the father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature; in this great work of religious anxiety, he argues that a true understanding of God can only be attained by making a personal "leap of faith."
Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940by Patrick BishopISBN 0142004669 (0-14-200466-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Timeby Amos ElonISBN 0140256997 (0-14-025699-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time'Book summary:Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), patriarch of the Rothschild clan, fathered five illustrious sons who made the family name a by-word for banking, fabulous wealth, and Jewish philanthropy. Israeli historian Elon has pieced together the story of the dynasty's founding father, largely unrecorded heretofore. Mayer Amschel spent his life traveling between the humble Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt and the mansions of the prosperous Gentiles whom he served, particularly that of Prince Wilhelm of Hesse. Jews were severely restricted in most areas of their lives, and Rothschild had to conduct himself with appropriate servility in the presence of his masters. However, the displacements of the Napoleonic Wars gave the discreet Rothschild his chance to act as Wilhelm's agent, and his monopoly on the disbursement of the prince's loans was his entry into banking. It was all the start he needed. [via]
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Freuds Interpretation of Dreamsby A. BrillISBN 0140137947 (0-14-013794-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freuds Interpretation of Dreams'Book summary:Whether we love or hate Sigmund Freud, we all have to admit that he revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. Much of this revolution can be traced to The Interpretation of Dreams, the turn-of-the-century tour de force that outlined his theory of unconscious forces in the context of dream analysis. Introducing the id, the superego, and their problem child, the ego, Freud advanced scientific understanding of the mind immeasurably by exposing motivations normally invisible to our consciousness. While there's no question that his own biases and neuroses influenced his observations, the details are less important than the paradigm shift as a whole. After Freud, our interior lives became richer and vastly more mysterious.
These mysteries clearly bothered him--he went to great (often absurd) lengths to explain dream imagery in terms of childhood sexual trauma, a component of his theory jettisoned mid-century, though now popular among recovered-memory therapists. His dispassionate analyses of his own dreams are excellent studies for cognitive scientists wishing to learn how to sacrifice their vanities for the cause of learning. Freud said of the work contained in The Interpretation of Dreams, "Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime." One would have to feel quite fortunate to shake the world even once. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Goebbels Diaries, 1939-1941by Fred Taylor, Joseph GoebbelsISBN 0140069321 (0-14-006932-1)
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Goetheby David LukeISBN 0140420746 (0-14-042074-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goethe'Book summary:Selected verse in German and English. [via]
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The Great Railway Bazaar : By Train Through Asiaby Paul TherouxISBN 014024980X (0-14-024980-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Railway Bazaar : By Train Through Asia'Book summary:The Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur and the Trans-Siberian Express are just a few of the evocative names that fill this, the story of Paul Theroux's epic journey by rail through India and Asia. It is a journey on which he encounters a huge variety of places and people, foods, faiths and cultures, and which has at its heart an enduring fascination with trains and railways. [via]
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Brothers GrimmISBN 0146000803 (0-14-600080-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:Product Details Mass Market Paperback: 64 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (July 1, 1995) Language: English [via]
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Willard FarnhamISBN 0140714057 (0-14-071405-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Hansel and Gretelby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Susan JeffersISBN 0140546367 (0-14-054636-7)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hansel and Gretel'Book summary:When they are left in the woods by their parents, two children find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch. [via]
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Hattie and the Wild Wavesby Barbara CooneyISBN 0140541934 (0-14-054193-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hattie and the Wild Waves'Book summary:Young Hattie dreams of becoming an artist as she spends her childhood split between a New York mansion, a summer home on Rockaway beach, a Long Island estate, and a Brooklyn hotel. Reprint. K. PW. C. [via]
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Heidiby Johanna Spyri, Eileen Hall, Cecil LeslieISBN 0140366792 (0-14-036679-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi'Book summary:Johanna Spyri's classic story of a young orphan sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Swiss Alps is retold in it's entirety in this beautifully bound hardcover edition. Heidi has charmed and intrigued readers since it's original publication in 1880. Much more than a children's story, the narrative is also a lesson on the precarious nature of freedom, a luxury too often taken for granted. Heidi almost loses her liberty as she is ripped away from the tranquility of the mountains to tend to a sick cousin in the city. Happily, all's well that ends well, and the reader is left with only warm, fuzzy thoughts. Spryi's story will never grow wearisome--and this is a very appealing edition. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
The Historiesby Cornelius TacitusISBN 0140441506 (0-14-044150-6)
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The History of the Franksby Lewis ThorpeISBN 0140442952 (0-14-044295-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Franks'Book summary:Written following the collapse of Rome's secular control over western Europe, the History of Gregory (c. AD 539 594) is a fascinating exploration of the events that shaped sixth-century France. This volume contains all ten books from the work, the last seven of which provide an in-depth description of Gregory's own era, in which he played an important role as Bishop of Tours. With skill and eloquence, Gregory brings the age vividly to life, as he relates the exploits of missionaries, martyrs, kings and queens including the quarrelling sons of Lothar I, and the ruthless Queen Fredegund, third wife of Chilperic. Portraying an age of staggering cruelty and rapid change, this is a powerful depiction of the turbulent progression of faith at a time of political and social chaos. [via]
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Hitler's Peace: A Novel Of The Second World Warby Philip KerrISBN 0143036955 (0-14-303695-5)
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In a German Pensionby Katherine MansfieldISBN 0140188754 (0-14-018875-4)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In a German Pension'Book summary:At the age of 20, Katherine Mansfield left England for the Bavarian spa town of Bad Worishofen. Alone and detached, she coolly observed the absurd posturings and affectations of the German bourgeoisie at leisure. There she began to write the stories that appeared in this, her first collection. [via]
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Introductory Lectures on Aestheticsby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelISBN 014043335X (0-14-043335-X)
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John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946by Robert SkidelskyISBN 0142001678 (0-14-200167-8)
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Journey to the Centre of the Earthby Robert Baldick, Jules VerneISBN 0140367152 (0-14-036715-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth'Book summary:Once an ancient book is opened by the eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, his life - and the life of his nephew Axel - is changed forever. An old piece of paper has tumbled from the book, a priceless parchment that will lead them on the expedition to end all expeditions. So begins a voyage thousands of feet under the sea, as the pair embark on a terrifying journey to find what lies at the centre of the earth. [via]
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The Kaiser's Battleby Martin MiddlebrookISBN 0140171355 (0-14-017135-5)
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Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinskiby Klaus Kinski, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0140255362 (0-14-025536-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Letters : 1925-1975by Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Andrew Shields, Ursula LudzISBN 0151005257 (0-15-100525-7)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Geniusby Ray MonkISBN 0140159959 (0-14-015995-9)
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Making Friends With Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to World War IIby Ian KershawISBN 0143036076 (0-14-303607-6)
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Man of Strawby Heinrich MannISBN 0140181377 (0-14-018137-7)
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Marrying Mozartby Stephanie CowellISBN 014303457X (0-14-303457-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marrying Mozart'Book summary:[via]Amadeus meets Little Women in this irresistibly delightful historical novel by award-winning author Stephanie Cowell. The year is 1777 and the four Weber sisters, daughters of a musical family, share a crowded, artistic life in a ramshackle house. While their father scrapes by as a music copyist and their mother secretly draws up a list of prospective suitors in the kitchen, the sisters struggle with their futures, both marital and musicaluntil twenty-one-year-old Wolfgang Mozart walks into their lives. Bringing eighteenth-century Europe to life with unforgiving winters, yawning princes, scheming parents, and the enduring passions of young talent, Stephanie Cowells richly textured tale captures a remarkable historical figureand the four young women who engage his passion, his music, and his heart.
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Meditationsby Marcus Aurelius, Diskin Clay, Martin HammondISBN 0140449337 (0-14-044933-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meditations'Book summary:[via]Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselvesand each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched livesand destroyed them.
Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers, and each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-drive design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped the world.
Few ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and emperor of Rome (A.D. 161180). A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, it remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcuss insights and adviceon everything from living in the world to coping with adversity and interacting with othershave made the Meditations required reading for statesmen and philosophers alike, while generations of ordinary readers have responded to the straightforward intimacy of his style. For anyone who struggles to reconcile the demands of leadership with a concern for personal integrity and spiritual well-being, the Meditations remains as relevant now as it was two thousand years ago.
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The Metamorphosis and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Malcolm PasleyISBN 0140283366 (0-14-028336-6)
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Momoby Michael EndeISBN 0140079165 (0-14-007916-5)
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Mozart's Journey to Prague and a Selection of Poemsby David Luke, Eduard Morike, Gilbert McKayISBN 0140447377 (0-14-044737-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Neverending Storyby Michael EndeISBN 0140074317 (0-14-007431-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Neverending Story'Book summary:Shy, awkward Bastian is amazed to discover that he has become a character in the mysterious book he is reading and that he has an important mission to fulfill. [via]
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Softcover, Penguin USA - The Neverending Story: ISBN 0140076190 (0-14-007619-0)
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The New Meaning of Treasonby Rebecca WestISBN 0140073795 (0-14-007379-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Nietzsche Readerby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, R. J. HollingdaleISBN 0140443290 (0-14-044329-0)
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Of Human Bondageby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0140185224 (0-14-018522-4)
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The Pastor's Wifeby Elizabeth Von ArnimISBN 0140161775 (0-14-016177-5)
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The Penguin History of the Second World Warby Peter Calvocoressi, John Pritchard, Guy WintISBN 0140285024 (0-14-028502-4)
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Posthumous Papers of a Living Authorby Robert Musil, Peter WortsmanISBN 0140189157 (0-14-018915-7)
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The Prussian Officer, and Other Storiesby D. H. Lawrence, John WorthenISBN 0140187804 (0-14-018780-4)
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Rapunzelby Paul O. ZelinskyISBN 0142301930 (0-14-230193-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rapunzel'Book summary:In older versions of the classic tale Rapunzel, it always seemed improbable that a grown man could scale a tower using only his beloved's hair. Not so in Paul O. Zelinsky's Caldecott Medal-winning version of Rapunzel. Here, Rapunzel's reddish-blonde mane is thick with waves and braids, and cascades like a waterfall down the walls of her isolation tower. In Zelinsky's able hands it's easy to believe that a prince would harbor no hesitations about scrambling up our fair heroine's hair.
Of course, this is not the work of an amateur--Zelinsky's lush versions of Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Swamp Angel all earned him Caldecott Honors. His gorgeous, Italian Renaissance-styled illustrations are characterized by warm golden tones and the mesmerizing sensation of trompe l'oeuil. Not only does he have the touch of a world-class illustrator, Zelinsky has also proven himself a master storyteller. We are frightened when the sorceress demands to take the baby Rapunzel, we are alarmed when the flowing locks are cruelly shorn, and we rejoice when the prince and his now modest-haired love are reunited. The notes at the back of Rapunzel reveal his careful scholarship regarding the long history of the story (tracing its origins and transformations from Italy to France and finally to Germany and the Grimm brothers)--work that no doubt contributed to his clean, compelling version of the age-old tale. Children will be captivated by the magical story and evocative pictures and adults will delight in the fresh feel of a well-loved legend. (Click to see a sample spread. Illustration © 1997 by Paul O. Zelinsky, published by Dutton Children's Books, a division of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers.) (Ages 4 and older) [via]
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Relativity: The Special And the General Theoryby Albert Einstein, Nigel Calder, Robert W. LawsonISBN 0143039822 (0-14-303982-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Relativity: The Special And the General Theory'Book summary:[via]According to Einstein himself, this book is intended "to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics." When he wrote the book in 1916, Einstein's name was scarcely known outside the physics institutes. Having just completed his masterpiece, The General Theory of Relativitywhich provided a brand-new theory of gravity and promised a new perspective on the cosmos as a wholehe set out at once to share his excitement with as wide a public as possible in this popular and accessible book.
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Robbers and Wallensteinby Johann Christoph Friedrich Von SchillerISBN 0140443681 (0-14-044368-1)
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Russian Thinkersby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0140136258 (0-14-013625-8)
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Second World Warby John KeeganISBN 0143035738 (0-14-303573-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Second World War'Book summary:The best one-volume treatment available, The Second World War by John Keegan is an outstanding synthesis of an enormous amount of material on "the largest single event in human history." The book proceeds chronologically through the war, but chapters appearing at appropriate moments focus on particular themes, such as war production, occupation, bombing, resistance, and espionage. Keegan's ability to translate the war's grand strategies is impressive, and the battle descriptions are superb. Generals obviously play a key role in this narrative, but ordinary soldiers also receive proper credit, as do the often-overlooked merchant marines whose heroic efforts to supply Great Britain made the Allied victory possible. Keegan, author of the landmark book The Face of Battle, is without doubt one of our greatest military historians, and here his analytical powers and skilled writing are on full display. [via]
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Selected Non-Fictionsby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0140290117 (0-14-029011-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Non-Fictions'Book summary:Jorge Luis Borges was our century's greatest miniaturist, perpetually cramming entire universes onto the head of a pin. Yet his splendid economy, along the wafer-thin proportions of such classic volumes as Ficciones and Labyrinths, has given readers the impression that Borges was miserly with his prose. In fact, he was something of a verbal spendthrift. His collected stories alone run to nearly 1,000 pages. And his nonfiction output was even more staggering: the young Borges cranked out hundreds of essays, book notes, cultural polemics, and movie reviews, and even after he lost his sight in 1955, he continued to dictate short pieces by the dozens. Eliot Weinberger has assembled just a fraction of this outpouring in Selected Non-Fictions, and the result is a 559-page Borgesian blowout, in which the Argentinean fabulist takes on being and nothingness, James Joyce and Lana Turner, and (surprisingly) racial hatred and the rise of Nazism. So much for our image of the mandarin bookworm! The very engagé author of this book seems more like a subequatorial Camus, with a dash of Siskel and Ebert on the side.
Selected Non-Fictions demonstrates just how quickly Borges began wrestling with such brainteasers as identity, time, and infinity. Indeed, the very first piece in the collection, "The Nothingness of Personality" (1922), already finds him fiddling with the self: "I, as I write this, am only a certainty that seeks out the words that are most apt to compel your attention. That proposition and a few muscular sensations, and the sight of the limpid branches that the trees place outside my window, constitute my current I." There are many such meditations here, including "A History of Eternity" (in which Borges maps out his own, disarmingly empty version of the eternal, "without a God or even a co-proprietor, and entirely devoid of archetypes"). But it's more fun--and more revelatory--to see the author venturing beyond his metaphysical stomping grounds. Borges on King Kong is a hoot, and a cornball masterpiece such as The Petrified Forest elicits this terrific nugget: "Death works in this film like hypnosis or alcohol: it brings the recesses of the soul into the light of day." His capsule biographies are a delight, his critiques of Nazi propaganda are memorably stringent, and nobody should miss him on the tango. True, the sheer variety and mind-boggling erudition of Selected Non-Fictions can be a little forbidding. But, taken as a whole, the collection surely meets the specifications that Borges laid out in a 1927 essay on literary pleasure: "If only some eternal book existed, primed for our enjoyment and whims, no less inventive in the populous morning as in the secluded night, oriented toward all hours of the world." Oh, but it does. --James Marcus [via]
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Selected Poems and Fragmentsby Friedrich Holderlin, Michael Hamburger, Jeremy AdlerISBN 0140424164 (0-14-042416-4)
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Selected Poetryby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David LukeISBN 0140424563 (0-14-042456-3)
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Selected Verseby Heinrich Heine, Peter BranscombeISBN 0140420983 (0-14-042098-3)
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Selected Writingsby Oliver Davies, EckhartISBN 0140433430 (0-14-043343-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Writings'Book summary:Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between ancient Greek thought and the Christian faith. Writing with great rhetorical brilliance, Eckhart combines the neoplatonic concept of oneness - the idea that the ultimate principle of the universe is single and undivided - with his Christian belief in the Trinity, and considers the struggle to describe a perfect God through the imperfect medium of language. Fusing philosophy and religion with vivid originality and metaphysical passion, these works have intrigued and inspired philosophers and theologians from Hegel to Heidegger and beyond. [via]
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The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Edification and Awakeningby Soren Kierkegaard, Anti-Climacus, Alastair HannayISBN 0140445331 (0-14-044533-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Edification and Awakening'Book summary:One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, "The Sickness Unto Death" is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may be described as living in this state of bleak abandonment - including some that may seem just the opposite - and offering a much-discussed formula for the eradication of despair. With its penetrating account of the self, this late work by Kierkegaard was hugely influential upon twentieth-century philosophers including Karl Jaspers, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. "The Sickness unto Death" can be regarded as one of the key works of theistic existentialist thought - a brilliant and revelatory answer to one man's struggle to fill the spiritual void. [via]
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The Sixth Lamentationby William BrodrickISBN 0142004626 (0-14-200462-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sixth Lamentation'Book summary:[via]Larkwood Priory, Suffolk, 1995: Following his afternoon confessions, Father Anselm is stopped by an old man. What, he is asked, should a man do when the world has turned against him? Anselms responseclaim sanctuaryis to have greater resonance than he could ever have imagined, for the man returns demanding the protection of the Church. He is Eduard Schwermann, a suspected Nazi war criminal.
Meanwhile, with her life running out, Agnes Aubret unburdens a secret to her granddaughter Lucy. Fifty years earlier Agnes lived in occupied Paris and risked her life to smuggle Jewish children to safety until her group was exposed by an SS officer: Eduard Schwermann.
As Father Anselm struggles to discover the truth about Schwermanns history and Lucy delves ever deeper into her grandmothers past, their investigations dovetail to reveal a remarkable story, in which two seemingly unconnected lives shockingly converge. William Brodrick is a master of crisp historical re-creation, precision plotting, and morally complex characterization.More editions of The Sixth Lamentation:
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The Spanish Civil Warby Hugh ThomasISBN 0140209700 (0-14-020970-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spanish Civil War'Book summary:With a keen eye for detail and unparalleled insight, Thomas reassembles the dramatic chain of events that tore apart a nation and led to the tragedy of a civil war that captured the emotions of an entire world. "A full, vivid, and deeply serious treatment of a great subject".--New York Times Book Review. Maps. [via]
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Story of an African Farmby Olive SchreinerISBN 0140431845 (0-14-043184-5)
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There Will Be Wolvesby Karleen BradfordISBN 0140383719 (0-14-038371-9)
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The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 4by John Buchan, John KeeganISBN 0141441178 (0-14-144117-8)
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Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot that could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers. [via]
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Three Men in a Boat to Say Nothing of the Dog! & Three Men on the Bummelby Jerome K. Jerome, Jeremy LewisISBN 0140437509 (0-14-043750-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Men in a Boat to Say Nothing of the Dog! & Three Men on the Bummel'Book summary:When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks. Denounced as vulgar by the literary establishment, Three Men in a Boat nevertheless caught the spirit of the times. The expansion of education and the increase in office workers created a new mass readership, and Jerome's book was especially popular among the 'clerking classes' who longed to be 'free from that fretful haste, that vehement striving, that is every day becoming more and more the bane of nineteenth-century life.'[via]So popular did it prove that Jerome reunited his heroes for a bicycle tour of Germany. Despite some sharp, and with hindsight, prophetic observations of the country, Three Men on the Bummel describes an equally picaresque journey constrained only 'by the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started'.
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Total Warby Guy Wint, Peter CalvecoressiISBN 0140214224 (0-14-021422-4)
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, G. B. HarrisonISBN 0140701028 (0-14-070102-8)
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The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, A. R. BraunmullerISBN 0140714545 (0-14-071454-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmark'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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A Tramp Abroadby Mark Twain, Robert G. Bruce, Hamlin Lewis HillISBN 0140436081 (0-14-043608-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tramp Abroad'Book summary:Nearly nine decades after his death, Mark Twain remains an international icon. His white-maned, mustachioed image is instantly identifiable throughout the world, the very picture of probity and high spirits (which explains why he's become the poster boy for products as diverse as beer, billiard tables, sewing machines, pizza, and real estate). Perhaps more importantly, Twain's books have retained all their power to amuse and enrage. How is it possible for the creator of a 19th-century "boy's holiday book" (Twain's own description of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) to raise so many contemporary hackles? The answer is that Twain is a contemporary writer. Not, of course, from a chronological point of view--he was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in 1910 (having insisted that "annihilation has no terrors for me"). But Twain was the first writer to elevate the American vernacular to a high art. Sidestepping the starched-shirt diction of his peers, he created an idiom that resembled (but did not precisely duplicate) the wayward, slangy, ungrammatical music of American conversation. No serious reader of Twain will want to do without the Oxford Mark Twain. This 29-volume leviathan includes not only the major works but also a treasure trove of essays and short pieces, many of them unavailable for decades. Throw in the introductions to each volume (by such heavyweights as Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley), as well as the original illustrations, and you've got the book bargain of the millennium. [via]
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Twenty and Tenby Claire Huchet Bishop, William Pene DuboisISBN 0140310762 (0-14-031076-2)
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Waiting for Anyaby Michael MorpurgoISBN 0140384316 (0-14-038431-6)
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The War in the Airby H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder, Andy Sawyer, Jay WinterISBN 0141441305 (0-14-144130-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War in the Air'Book summary:This thrilling tale is H. G. Wells at his modernist, visionary best. In 1907, a naive Londoner named Bert Smallways finds himself an unwitting passenger on a fleet of German airships heading over the Atlantic to attack New York. What unfolds in characteristically Wellsian fashion is a clash of early flying machines that leaves Gotham in shambles and unleashes the terrible age of Total War. Uncannily relevant to our own era, The War in the Air remains a cornerstone of early science fiction.[via]More editions of The War in the Air:
What's to Become of the Boy?by Heinrich BollISBN 0140083219 (0-14-008321-9)
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Willehalmby Wolfram Von EschenbachISBN 0140443991 (0-14-044399-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Willehalm'Book summary:Wolfram von Eschenbach (fl. c. 1195-1225), best known as the author of Parzival, based Willehalm, his epic poem of military prowess and courtly love, on the style and subject matter of an Old French chanson de geste.[via]In it he tells of the love of Willehalm for Giburc, a Saracen woman converted to Christianity, and its consequences. Seeking revenge for the insult to their faith, her relatives initiate a religious war but are finally routed. Wolfram's description of the two battles of Alischanz, with their massive slaughter and loss of heroes, and of the exploits of Willehalm and the quasicomic Rennewart, well displays the violence and courtliness of the medieval knightly ideal. Wolfram flavors his brutal account, however, with tender scenes between the lovers, asides to his audience, sympathetic cameos of his charactersespecially the womenand, most unusually for his time, a surprising tolerance for 'pagans'.
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The Marquise of O and Other Storiesby Heinrich Von Kleist, David Luke, Nigel ReevesISBN 0140443592 (0-14-044359-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marquise of O and Other Stories'Book summary:In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this happened, she must prove her innocence to her doubting family and discover whether the perpetrator is an assailant or lover. Michael Kohlhaas depicts an honourable man who feels compelled to violate the law in his search for justice, while other tales explore the singular realm of the uncanny, such as The Beggarwoman of Locarno, in which an old woman's ghost drives a heartless nobleman to madness, and St Cecilia, which portrays four brothers possessed by an uncontrollable religious mania. The stories collected in this volume reflect the preoccupations of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) with the deceptiveness of human nature and the unpredictability of the physical world. [via]
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