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The Alterationby Kingsley AmisISBN 022401305X (0-224-01305-X)
Hardcover, Cape
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Animal Daysby Desmond MorrisISBN 0224017381 (0-224-01738-1)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Aristophanes CloudsISBN 0199120099 (0-19-912009-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This BookBook summary:This new translation of the play Clouds examines the two versions of the play, the history of the text, an analysis of Right and Wrong, the purpose of the chorus, and explanations of certain previously unexamined sexualjokes referred to in the play. Dover also includes notes on metrical analysis, a full commentary, and indexes. [via]
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Avocado Babyby John BurninghamISBN 0224020048 (0-224-02004-8)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Beautiful Losersby Leonard CohenISBN 0224618334 (0-224-61833-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beautiful Losers'Book summary:Leonard Cohen's 1966 Beautiful Losers is ambitiously filthy. Few Canadian novels before or since are as sexual, but there's more filth here than just squirming bodies. It is in fact the novel's psychological intimacy that will make you want a long, hot shower with astringent soap. Beautiful Losers is devoted exclusively to four characters, three of them points in a love triangle--the scholarly narrator, his Aboriginal wife Edith, and his lifelong "friend" and mentor F.--and the fourth a 17th-century Iroquois saint whose life the narrator obsessively researches. The protean, mercurial, and intense F. is a kind of artist of existence, one hopefully found more often in fiction than in reality. Though capable of buying a factory or winning an election, F. is often destitute and glad to rob sustenance and sex from his friends. He has taken the narrator as a protégé (or a victim) of his increasingly dangerous tests of desire. Surviving the hedonistic, self-destructive deaths of F. and the unfaithful Edith, the unnamed scholar even seems humiliated as narrator, as if he's cleaning up his own apartment after a party he didn't plan.
Canada has had a bumper crop of poet-novelist switch hitters: Margaret Atwood, Robert Kroetsch, Anne Michaels, Michael Ondaatje. Their novels are sure to dazzle with their language, but some readers may lower their expectations of plot and character. Similarly, Cohen the poet will snare you with his introverted, confessional prose, so easily lent to the aphorism. "Grief makes us precise." "What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate." "I am not enjoying sunsets, then for whom do they burn?" These dagger-like pensées, along with the sheer inscrutability of F., will sustain those readers who don't like sunshine (again, it's very claustrophobic inside this book), while plot purists may find the masturbatory plot, well, masturbatory. --Darryl Whetter [via]
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Bedtime Leunigby Michael LeunigISBN 0207145059 (0-207-14505-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Bibliologia Comica: Or, Humorous Aspects of the Caparisoning and Conservation of Booksby Lawrence Sidney ThompsonISBN 0208007121 (0-208-00712-1)
Hardcover, Archon Books
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Calculus and Analytic Geometryby George B. Thomas, Ross L. FinneyISBN 0201441039 (0-201-44103-9)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Calculus and Analytical Geometry'Book summary:George Thomas' clear, precise calculus text with superior applications defined the modern-day, three-semester or four-quarter calculus course. The ninth edition of this proven text has been carefully revised to give students the solid base of material they will need to succeed in math, science, and engineering programs. This edition includes recent innovations in teaching and learning that involve technology, projects, and group work. [via]
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Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Businessby Esphyr SlobodkinaISBN 020109147X (0-201-09147-X)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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Casey, the Utterly Impossible Horseby Anita M. Feagles, Dagmar W. WilsonISBN 0208022392 (0-208-02239-2)
Hardcover, Shoe String Press, Incorporated
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A Close Watch on the Trainsby Bohumil HrabalISBN 0224613758 (0-224-61375-8)
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Comic Faith: The Great Tradition from Austen to Joyceby Robert M. PolhemusISBN 0226673219 (0-226-67321-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivanby Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. BradleyISBN 0198167105 (0-19-816710-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Cosmicomicsby Italo CalvinoISBN 0224615661 (0-224-61566-1)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmicomics'Book summary:An enchanting series of stories about the evolution of the universe. Calvino makes characters out of mathematical formulae and simple cellular structures. They disport themselves amongst galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrogen atoms -- and have time for a love life. [via]
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The Crystal Bucket: Television Criticism from the Observer, 1976-79by Clive JamesISBN 0224018906 (0-224-01890-6)
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Dance to the Music of Timeby Anthony PowellISBN 0226677141 (0-226-67714-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Ecstasyby Irvine WelshISBN 022404270X (0-224-04270-X)
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Ermyntrude and Esmeralda:an Entertainment: An Entertainmentby Lytton StracheyISBN 0218511175 (0-218-51117-5)
Hardcover, Blond
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Falling towards England (Unreliable Memoirs Continued)by Clive JamesISBN 0224028227 (0-224-02822-7)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Family Words: The Dictionary for People Who Don't Know a Frone from a Brinkleby Paul DicksonISBN 0201155931 (0-201-15593-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Flashman at the Charge:from the Flashman Papers, 1854-1855: From the Flashman Papers, 1854-1855by George MacDonald FraserISBN 021466841X (0-214-66841-X)
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The Further Inventions of Daedalusby David JonesISBN 0198504691 (0-19-850469-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Further Inventions of Daedalus'Book summary:One of the longest-running jokes on the scientific scene, the "Daedalus" column began in New Scientist in the mid-1960s and transferred to Nature in the 1980s. Each week it offers a new scheme to challenge accepted notions of scientific principles, schemes that are neither feasible nor completely absurd. Always entertaining, the Daedalus schemes often have a serious purpose and raise crucial questions about science (sample title: "A Womb with a View, or At Least a Phone").
This delightful book compiles roughly one hundred of David Jones's popular columns, each of which exhibits a keen and approachable mixture of entertaining and thought-provoking material. Like the collection of articles that came before it, this work will appeal to a broad audience of the scientifically curious. [via]More editions of The Further Inventions of Daedalus:
Girl, 20by Kingsley AmisISBN 0224005863 (0-224-00586-3)
Hardcover, Cape
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Gorey X 3 ; Drawings by Edward Goreyby Peter F. Neumeyer, Edward Lear, Edward GoreyISBN 0201025493 (0-201-02549-3)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Pub Co
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The Green Manby Kingsley AmisISBN 0224617400 (0-224-61740-0)
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198319606 (0-19-831960-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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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]
Head to Toeby Joe OrtonISBN 0218511361 (0-218-51136-1)
Hardcover, Blond
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The History of the 7 Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple: And, The Story of the 4 Little Children Who Went Round the Worldby Edward LearISBN 0213764644 (0-213-76464-4)
Hardcover, Barker
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A House for Mr. Biswasby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0233976388 (0-233-97638-8)
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How to Be a Brit: A Mikes Minibusby George MikesISBN 0233977244 (0-233-97724-4)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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How to Be Decadentby George MikesISBN 0233969322 (0-233-96932-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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How to Be Godby George MikesISBN 0233979662 (0-233-97966-2)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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A Human Comedy: Physiognomy and Caricature in 19th Century Parisby Judith WechslerISBN 0226877701 (0-226-87770-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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I, Leonardoby Ralph SteadmanISBN 0224019163 (0-224-01916-3)
Hardcover, Cape
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If Symptoms Still Persistby Theodore Dalrymple, Nick NewmanISBN 0233990127 (0-233-99012-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature!: Computer Wit and Wisdomby David LubarISBN 0201483041 (0-201-48304-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Jimmy Corriganby Chris WareISBN 0224063979 (0-224-06397-9)
Softcover, Jonathan Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jimmy Corrigan'Book summary:Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest comic/graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize. It is now available for the first time in paperback. [via]
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Keaton Comediesby Michael Eagle, Harold D. SillISBN 0201072076 (0-201-07207-6)
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Laughing Matters: Comic Tradition in Indiaby Lee SiegelISBN 0226756912 (0-226-75691-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The League Against Christmasby Michael CurtinISBN 0233983821 (0-233-98382-1)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Lefty: A Handbook for Left-Handed Kidsby Beth Wolfensberger Singer, Planet Dexter, Jack KeelyISBN 020115143X (0-201-15143-X)
Softcover, Planet Dexter
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The Life of Godby Franco Ferrucci, Raymond RosenthalISBN 0226244962 (0-226-24496-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of God'Book summary:In this comic yet poignant novel, God emerges from primal chaos, creates the cosmos, then realizes that His creation is monstrously flawed. As he agonizes over the limitations of human intelligence, He realizes that He's lost control over the earth's destiny. Although He encounters many heroes of the human spirit including Moses, Buddha, Thomas Aquinas, Galileo, and Mozart, He is ultimately frustrated that no one sees that self-understanding offers the only path by which mankind can save the world. Defeated, God retreats to the borders of the universe to "rest in the late ripeness of my years," reflecting as much Franco Ferruci's disappointment in humankind as His own. [via]
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The Life of Godby Raymond Rosenthal, Franco FerrucciISBN 0226244954 (0-226-24495-4)
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Lighten Up: Survival Skills for People Under Pressureby C.W. Metcalf, Roma FelibleISBN 0201622394 (0-201-62239-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Listing Attic [and] The Unstrung Harpby Edward GoreyISBN 0200721038 (0-200-72103-8)
Hardcover, Abelard-Schuman
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The Loserby Thomas Bernhard, Jack DawsonISBN 0226043886 (0-226-04388-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Magic Puddingby Norman LindsayISBN 0207183554 (0-207-18355-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Man Upstairs and Other Storiesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0214653331 (0-214-65333-1)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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Matthew Looney and the Space Piratesby Jerome BeattyISBN 0201092824 (0-201-09282-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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May Week Was in June: Unreliable Memoirs Continuedby Clive JamesISBN 0224027875 (0-224-02787-5)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Measure for Measureby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198320108 (0-19-832010-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Measure for Measure'Book summary:The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the greatest playwright in the English language. This exclusive collection of the Bard's best works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. Each play is presented complete and unabridged, in large print. Every book is well illustrated, and starts with a commentary and character summary. Scene synopses and character summaries clarify confusing plots, while incisive essays explore the historical context and Shakespeare's sources. Each book ends with a complete list of Shakespeare's plays and a brief chronology of the Bard's life. The detailed explanatory notes are written clearly and positioned right next to the text--no more squinting at microscopic footnotes or flipping pages back and forth in search of endnotes!
The new edition of the series features new covers and new illustrations, including both new drawings and photos from recent productions of Shakespeare's plays around the globe. In addition, the notes and the introductory material have been completely revised in line with new research and in order to make them clearer and more accessible. Finally, the entire text has been redesigned and reset to enhance readability. The new edition achieves the feat of unprecedented clarity of presentation without any cuts to the original text or the detailed explanations. [via]More editions of Measure for Measure:
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MFby Anthony BurgessISBN 0224618458 (0-224-61845-8)
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, John Bryant, Haskell SpringerISBN 0205514081 (0-205-51408-1)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Money: A Suicide Noteby Martin AmisISBN 0224022768 (0-224-02276-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Money: A Suicide Note'Book summary:Absolutely one of the funniest, smartest, meanest books I know. John Self, the Rabelaisian narrator of the novel, is an advertising man and director of TV commercials who lurches through London and Manhattan, eating, drinking, drugging and smoking too much, buying too much sex, and caring for little else besides getting the big movie deal that will make him lots of money. Hey, it was the '80s. Most importantly, however, Amis in Money musters more sheer entertainment power in any single sentence than most writers are lucky to produce in a career. [via]
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A Mother's Kissesby Bruce Jay FriedmanISBN 0226264165 (0-226-26416-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Mr. Gumpy's Outingby John BurninghamISBN 0224619098 (0-224-61909-8)
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John Burningham earned the Kate Greenaway Medal, an ALA Notable Children's Book award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Mr. Gumpy's Outing, and it's no wonder. This gifted and highly original author-illustrator creates a vision of glorious summer with deeply textured, sometimes only suggested, drawings. His tentatively questioning animals are ready to step right out of the pages and quietly join the delighted reader. And the simple, repetitive dialogue will lull the listener as long as it takes the characters to reach the boat's maximum capacity. Even then, there's no big splash--just an understated, Burningham-esque "and into the water they fell." Young readers will never tire of this gentle, comforting storybook. (Ages 2 to 6) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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My Strange Quest for Mensongeby Malcolm BradburyISBN 0233980202 (0-233-98020-2)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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Near Neighboursby Gordon LeggeISBN 0224051202 (0-224-05120-2)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript The Post-Italianate Editionby Robert K. MertonISBN 0226520862 (0-226-52086-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0224032356 (0-224-03235-6)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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One More Timeby Mike Royko, Lois Wille, Studs TerkelISBN 0226730727 (0-226-73072-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One More Time'Book summary:With the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko was a Chicago institution who became, in Jimmy Breslin's words, "the best journalist of his time." Culled from 7500 columns and spanning four decades, from his early days to his last dispatch, the writings in this collection reflect a radically changing America as seen by a man whose keen sense of justice and humor never faltered. Faithful readers will find their old favorites and develop new ones, while the uninitiated have the enviable good fortune of experiencing this true American voice for the first time.[via]
"A treasure trove lies between these covers. Royko was in a class by himself. He was a true original."Ann Landers
"The joy of One More Time is Royko in his own words."Mary Eileen O'Connell, New York Times Book Review
"Reading a collection of Royko's columns is even more of a pleasure than encountering them one by one, and that is a large remark for he rarely wrote a piece that failed to wake you up with his hard-earned moral wit. Three cheers for Royko!"Norman Mailer
"Powerful, punchy, amazingly contemporary."Neil A. Grauer, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"This crackling collection of his own favorite columns as well as those beloved by his fans reminds us just how much we miss the gruff, compassionate voice of Mike Royko."Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News
"A marvelous road map through four decades of America."Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago Tribune Books
"Royko was an expert at finding universal truths in parochial situations, as well as in the larger issueswar and peace, justice and injustice, wealth and povertyhe examined. Think of One More Time as one man's pungent commentary on life in these United States over the last few decades."Booklist
"Royko was one of the most respected and admired people in the business, by readers and colleagues alike. . . . Savor [his sketches] while you can."Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
"Book collections of columns aren't presumed to be worth reading. This one is, whether or not you care about newspapering or Chicago."Neil Morgan, San Diego Union-Tribune
"A treasure house for journalism students, for would-be writers, for students of writing styles, for people who just like to laugh at the absurdity of the human condition or, as Studs Terkel said, for those who will later seek to learn what it was really like in the 20th century."Georgie Anne Geyer, Washington Times
"Full of astonishments, and the greatest of these is Royko's technical mastery as a writer."Hendrik Hertzberg, New Yorker
"A great tribute to an American original, a contrarian blessed with a sense of irony and a way with words."Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today
"In this posthumous collection of his columns, journalist Royko displays the breezy wit that made him so beloved in the Windy City."People
The Oxford Book of Light Verseby W. H. AudenISBN 0198813317 (0-19-881331-7)
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The Peloponnesian War: Thucydidesby Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, David GreneISBN 0226801063 (0-226-80106-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Physicistsby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0224009133 (0-224-00913-3)
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Pictures from an Institutionby Randall JarrellISBN 0226393747 (0-226-39374-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Rachel Papersby Martin AmisISBN 0224009125 (0-224-00912-5)
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Raised by Puppets: Only to Be Killed by Researchby Andrei CodrescuISBN 0201523396 (0-201-52339-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Rejectionby John WhiteISBN 0201083108 (0-201-08310-8)
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Rhyme Stewby Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0224026607 (0-224-02660-7)
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Roman Aromasby Victor G. Ambrus, Mary J. Dobson, Vince ReidISBN 0199100942 (0-19-910094-2)
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Sadnessby Donald BarthelmeISBN 0224008978 (0-224-00897-8)
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The School for Scandalby Richard Brinsley Butler SheridanISBN 0199110085 (0-19-911008-5)
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Simple Pleasuresby Nora GallagherISBN 0201045796 (0-201-04579-6)
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The Steel Bonnets:the Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reiversby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0214653080 (0-214-65308-0)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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The Sunlight Dialoguesby John Champlin GardnerISBN 0224009311 (0-224-00931-1)
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Swami and Friendsby R.K. NarayanISBN 0226568318 (0-226-56831-8)
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That Magnetic Dogby Bruce WhatleyISBN 0207184208 (0-207-18420-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Australia
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Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobilesby Donald A. NormanISBN 020162236X (0-201-62236-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Vintage Wodehouseby P.G. Wodehouse, Richard UsborneISBN 0214203506 (0-214-20350-6)
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Visions before Midnightby Clive JamesISBN 0224013866 (0-224-01386-6)
Hardcover, Cape
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What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aestheticby Henry JenkinsISBN 0231078552 (0-231-07855-2)
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What's So Funny? : The Comic Conception of Culture and Societyby Murray S. DavisISBN 0226138100 (0-226-13810-0)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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