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Absolute Zeroby Helen CresswellISBN 0140311777 (0-14-031177-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Art of Coarse Drinkingby Michael GreenISBN 0091175801 (0-09-117580-1)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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The Best of Rumpoleby John MortimerISBN 0140176845 (0-14-017684-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best of Rumpole'Book summary:Rumpole is everyone's favorite defense barrister: he is a fearless tamer of judges who is kept in order only by She Who Must Be Obeyed. A rumbustious defender of the faith, Rumpole is known, not surprisingly, as something of a character. His exploits at the Old Bailey - and elsewhere - are an unsurpassable blend of eloquence, wit, cynicism, and experience. This volume of John Mortimer's favorite Rumpole stories contains some of the bluff barrister's finest moments. There is Rumpole's encounter with the acting world, his frequent and often disillusioning brushes with the Timsons, and many of his confrontations with the pompous and sometimes misguided gentlemen of the Bench. For those unfamiliar with Rumpole, this volume offers a perfect introduction to John Mortimer's wisest and wittiest creation. Those who have already encountered Rumpole will want to reacquaint themselves with the immortal barrister in this hugely entertaining collection of stories. [via]
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Boyby Roald DahlISBN 0140089179 (0-14-008917-9)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boy'Book summary:In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's, Roald Dahl's boyhood was as full of excitement and the unexpected as are his world-famous, best-selling books. Packed with anecdotes -- some funny, some painful, all interesting -- this is a book that's sure to please. [via]
The Calculating Cat Returnsby Eric Gurney, Nancy PrevoISBN 0131102133 (0-13-110213-3)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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The Clergy Omnibusby P.G. WodehouseISBN 009175335X (0-09-175335-X)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony BurgessISBN 0091683815 (0-09-168381-5)
Softcover, Hutchinson
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Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahlby Roald DahlISBN 0140158073 (0-14-015807-3)
Softcover, South Asia Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl'Book summary:A collection of the short stories which have appeared in: 'Over To You', 'Kiss Kiss', 'Someone Like You', 'Switch Bitch' and eight further stories such as 'The Umberella man'; 'Mr Botibol'; 'Vengeance in Mine inc'; 'The Butler'; 'Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life'; 'The Bookseller'; and, 'The Hitchhiker, The Surgeon'. [via]
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Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0140106499 (0-14-010649-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Danny the Champion of the Worldby Roald DahlISBN 0140328734 (0-14-032873-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Death of the King's Canaryby Dylan Thomas, John DavenportISBN 0091275105 (0-09-127510-5)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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The Dogsbody Papersby E.O. Parrott, W.F.N. WatsonISBN 0140097007 (0-14-009700-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Doonesburyby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0070652945 (0-07-065294-5)
Hardcover, American Heritage Press
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The Drunken Forestby Gerald DurrellISBN 0140013148 (0-14-001314-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The English Gentleman's Childby Douglas SutherlandISBN 014005782X (0-14-005782-X)
Softcover, Book Sales
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Fables of the Irish Intelligentsiaby Nina FitzpatrickISBN 0140173242 (0-14-017324-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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A First Rumpole Omnibusby John MortimerISBN 014006768X (0-14-006768-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A First Rumpole Omnibus'Book summary:Horace Rumpole turns down yet another invitation to exchange the joys and sorrows of life as an Old Bailey hack for the delights of the sunshine state, where Senior Citizens loll on beaches and the sarcastic tones of the Mad Bull (Judge Roger Bullingham) are heard no more. He settles instead for the beaded bubbles of Chateau Pommeroy's ordinary claret, the domestic chill emanating from she who must be obeyed, and his role 'extraordinaire' as Defender of the Faith: 'Never plead guilty'. [via]
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 0140076158 (0-14-007615-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension. Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. [via]
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From Here to Maternity: One Mother of a Journeyby Mel GiedroyeISBN 0091886864 (0-09-188686-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" "but Gentlemen Marry Bruettesby Anita LoosISBN 0140117881 (0-14-011788-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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George's Marvelous Medicineby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0140346414 (0-14-034641-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Goatperson and Other Talesby Michael LeunigISBN 0140291407 (0-14-029140-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Going Ga Gaby Mel GiedroycISBN 0091905915 (0-09-190591-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Going Soloby Roald DahlISBN 0140103066 (0-14-010306-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0140188592 (0-14-018859-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity's Rainbow'Book summary:Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo [via]
Grievous Bodilyby Craig HarrisonISBN 0140144773 (0-14-014477-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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The Ha Ha Bonk Bookby Allan AhlbergISBN 0140314121 (0-14-031412-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Harry Enfield and His Humor Chumsby EnfieldISBN 0140272038 (0-14-027203-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now: My Difficult 80sby Andrew CollinsISBN 0091897483 (0-09-189748-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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High Spirits : A Collection of Ghost Storiesby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140065059 (0-14-006505-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Spirits : A Collection of Ghost Stories'Book summary:This collection of "spooky" stories was written for and read at the annual gaudy night each year at Massey College, where the author was master for many years. The ghost stories parody, in an affectionate manner, the usual high-flown gothic language in which most ghost stories are told. [via]
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The Hikeby Don ShawISBN 0091908752 (0-09-190875-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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How to Be Tremendously Tuned in to Operaby E.O. ParrottISBN 0140109013 (0-14-010901-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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How to Be Well-Versed in Poetryby E.O. ParrottISBN 0140112758 (0-14-011275-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Indiscretions of Archieby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140020462 (0-14-002046-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Indiscretions of Archie'Book summary:This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library. [via]
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Jake's Thingby Kingsley AmisISBN 0140050965 (0-14-005096-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Joys of Yiddish; A Relaxed Lexicon of Yiddish, Hebrew and Yinglish Words Often Encountered in English ... from the Days of the Bible to Those of tby Leo Calvin RostenISBN 0070539758 (0-07-053975-8)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Peter LeviISBN 0140183515 (0-14-018351-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other animal How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter--and they have served ever since as a source of laughter for children everywhere. [via]
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Lady Chatterly's Loverby Spike MilliganISBN 0140242996 (0-14-024299-6)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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Laughable Lovesby Milan KunderaISBN 0140096914 (0-14-009691-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Laughable Loves'Book summary:This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives. Milan Kundera is author of Unbearable Lightness of Being and the Book of Laughter and Forgetting. [via]
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Life Among the Savagesby Shirley JacksonISBN 0140267670 (0-14-026767-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Among the Savages'Book summary:Can this be the author of such chilling tales as The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House? An ordinary housewife stuck in a big, shabby house with three marvelous, demanding children and a charming husband who takes detached interest in the chaos they generate? Yes, it's Shirley Jackson all right: the precision of her observations and prose is familiar, even if her humor is something of a surprise. Not until Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions in 1993 would another woman write with such honesty about the maddening multitude of trivial, essential chores that constitute a mother's life. But Jackson nailed it first, 40 years earlier, in her hilarious chronicle of life in a small Vermont town, where getting the kids to school on time requires the combined gifts of a drill sergeant and a lady's maid. The saga of her son's bumpy adjustment to kindergarten, frequently anthologized as Charles, is justly famous, but Jackson's account of the Department Store Trip from Hell (two kids, two toy guns, one doll carriage and doll, mayhem in revolving doors and escalators) is even funnier. Although her memoirs are as merciless as her ghost stories, you may not notice because you're laughing so hard. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Limericksby Michael Palin, Tony RossISBN 0091615402 (0-09-161540-2)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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The Little Book of Stressby Kaz CookeISBN 0140266208 (0-14-026620-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Little Nuggetby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140013717 (0-14-001371-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Nugget'Book summary:Webster's edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in other works of literature, conversation, or academic examinations. Extremely rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority in the notes compared to words which are ¿difficult, and often encountered¿ in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language, and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word's meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not noted on a page, chances are that it has been highlighted on a previous page. A more complete thesaurus is supplied at the end of the book; synonyms and antonyms are extracted from Webster's Online Dictionary.
PSAT¿ is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT¿ is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE¿, AP¿ and Advanced Placement¿ are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT¿ is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT¿ is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved. [via]More editions of The Little Nugget:
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Medicine Riverby Thomas KingISBN 0140126031 (0-14-012603-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medicine River'Book summary:Winner of the PEN/Josephine Miles Award and nominated for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Medicine River is a great introduction to Thomas King's humorous fiction. It's the story of Will, a mixed-blood man of Blackfoot descent and a marginally successful Toronto photographer, who has returned to the reserve for his mother's funeral. Will isn't planning on staying in Medicine River, but his old friend Harlen Bigbear has other plans for him. In a unique brand of community planning, Harlen sets out to sell Will on the idea of returning to Medicine River as the town's only Native photographer, and manages to convince him to at least give it a try. Will feels alienated from his friends and family, but the ever-engaging Harlan has an answer for everything.
King's gift as a comic writer is his ability to tackle serious issues within an engaging comic narrative. He subtly explores the exclusion of First Peoples from white culture and history and the challenges faced by contemporary Native communities trying to maintain a connection to the past and a grip on the present, and he makes us laugh at the same time. Using a series of comic vignettes, King draws us into the very heart of Medicine River and creates a wonderful and intimate portrait of small-town life. Readers might also want to check out his fabulous novels, Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, and his short-story collection,One Good Story, That One. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
Menagerie Manorby Gerald Malcolm DurrellISBN 0140025227 (0-14-002522-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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My Turn to Make Teaby Monica DickensISBN 0140017518 (0-14-001751-8)
Hardcover, Penguin
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The Old Devilsby Kingsley AmisISBN 0091637902 (0-09-163790-2)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nestby Ken KeseyISBN 0140043128 (0-14-004312-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest'Book summary:"Powerful, poetic realism...makes the tired old subject of life in a mental hospital into an absorbing Orwellian microcosm of all humanity."- Life . An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. This Viking Critical Library edition is accompanied by essays, discussion topics, a chronology, and a bibliography. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results. With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers. [via]
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest: ISBN 0140155090 (0-14-015509-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest: ISBN 0140043128 (0-14-004312-8)
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Over Hill and Daleby Gervase PhinnISBN 0140281290 (0-14-028129-0)
Softcover, Penguin Global
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Paradise Newsby David LodgeISBN 0140165215 (0-14-016521-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Paradise Postponedby John MortimerISBN 014009864X (0-14-009864-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Postponed'Book summary:Why does Simeon Simcox, the CND-marching Rector of Rapstone Fanner, leave his fortune not to his two sons but to an odious Tory Minister? This novel is a portrait of English life from 1945 to the present. [via]
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Penguin Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0140090029 (0-14-009002-9)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Penguin Complete Novels of Jane Austen'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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The Penguin Pettyby Bruce PettyISBN 0140036393 (0-14-003639-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Books Australia
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Picture of Dorian Grayby College Entrance Examination BoardISBN 0140006168 (0-14-000616-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Pippi Goes on Boardby Louis S. Glanzman, Astrid LindgrenISBN 0140309594 (0-14-030959-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Pippi in the South Seasby Astrid Ericsson LindgrenISBN 0140309586 (0-14-030958-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Pippi Longstockingby Louis S. Glanzman, Astrid Ericsson LindgrenISBN 0140309578 (0-14-030957-8)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pippi Longstocking'Book summary:Pippi is an irrepressible, irreverent, and irrefutably delightful girl who lives alone (with a monkey) in her wacky house, Villa Villekulla. When she's not dancing with the burglars who were just trying to rob her house, she's attempting to learn the "pluttification" tables at school; fighting Adolf, the strongest man in the world at the circus; or playing tag with police officers. Pippi's high-spirited, good-natured hijinks cause as much trouble as fun, but a more generous child you won't find anywhere.
Astrid Lindgren has created a unique and lovable character, inspiring generations of children to want to be Pippi. More than anything, Pippi makes reading a pleasure; no child will welcome the end of the book, and many will return to Pippi Longstocking again and again. Simply put, Pippi is irresistible. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Please Mrs Butlerby Allan AhlbergISBN 0140314946 (0-14-031494-6)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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Proust's Last Beer: A History of Curious Demisesby Allen Appel, Bob ArnebeckISBN 0140050221 (0-14-005022-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Rumpole a LA Carteby John Clifford MortimerISBN 014017981X (0-14-017981-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Rumpole à la Carteby John MortimerISBN 0140156097 (0-14-015609-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rumpole à la Carte'Book summary:Six new tales featuring everyone's favorite barrister, Horace Rupole--disheveled, polemical, and immensely fond of cigars, Wordsworth, and Chateau Thames Embankment. "One of the immortals of mystery fiction" (San Francisco Chronicle), Mortimer's Rumpole has also been featured on the popular PBS series, "Mystery!" [via]
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Rumpole for the Defenceby John MortimerISBN 014006060X (0-14-006060-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Spike Milligan's Transports of Delightby Spike MilliganISBN 0140040560 (0-14-004056-0)
Hardcover, Penguin
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The Te of Pigletby Benjamin HoffISBN 0140230165 (0-14-023016-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Te of Piglet'Book summary:The Te of Piglet . . . in which a good deal of Taoist wisdom is revealed through the character and actions of A. A. Milne's Piglet. Piglet? Yes, Piglet. For the better than impulsive Tigger? or the gloomy Eeyore? or the intellectual Owl? or even the lovable Pooh? Piglet herein demonstrates a very important principle of Taoism: The Te--a Chinese word meaning Virtue--of the Small.[via]More editions of The Te of Piglet:
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Techies Unite!: Featuring Helen, Sweetheart of the Internetby Peter E. ZaleISBN 0071360735 (0-07-136073-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Techies Unite!: Featuring Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet'Book summary:Voted Internet Magazine Cool Site of the Day, Talespinner Award, Daryl Cagle's "Top Pencil" Award, and The Medaille d'Or for Site Excellence, Peter Zale's "Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet" has taken the Internet by storm and is now making its move to newspaper syndication. This alternative comic strip will be making the unprecedented move from the obscure electronic underground to the forefront of comic strip mainstream this summer. The strip appeals to techies and non-techies alike with its unique blend of geek savvy and techno-phobic attitude.
Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet centers on a beautiful and brilliant computer geek who at twenty-four runs the information systems department of a large company. Peter Zales' strip brings to light the comic ironies about humankind that have come about due to the rapid advances in technology. [via]
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They Used to Call Me Snow White... but I Drifted : Women's Strategic Use of Humorby Regina BarrecaISBN 0140168354 (0-14-016835-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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This Is Craig Brownby Craig BrownISBN 0091888077 (0-09-188807-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Through the Looking Glassby Lewis CarrollISBN 014035039X (0-14-035039-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Tick Bite Feverby David BennunISBN 0091897432 (0-09-189743-2)
Softcover, Ebury Pr
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Titmuss Regainedby John MortimerISBN 014014921X (0-14-014921-X)
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A Treasury of Royal Scandalsby Michael FarquharISBN 0140280243 (0-14-028024-3)
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Trials of Rumpoleby John MortimerISBN 0140051627 (0-14-005162-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trials of Rumpole'Book summary:[This is the Audiobook Cassette Library Edition in vinyl case.]
[Read by Frederick Davidson]
Horace Rumpole--who never prosecutes, whose fame rests on an infinite knowledge of blood and typewriters, whose court scenes are proverbial, whose home is ruled by Mrs. Rumpole (''She Who Must Be Obeyed'')--is back on the defense, as irreverent, as iconoclastic, as claret-swilling, poetry-spouting, impudent, witty, and cynical as ever.
This time the judge-debunking barrister-at-law is embroiled with a minister accused of shoplifting, an actress accused of murder, and a racist candidate for Parliament, with art theft and mistaken identity thrown in for good measure. The result is a delightful excursion into hidden corners of the British judicial system served up in typically colorful Rumpole style.
Stories include:
- Rumpole and the Man of God
- Rumpole and the Showfolk
- Rumpole and the Fascist Beast
- Rumpole and the Case of Identity
- Rumpole and the Course of True Love
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- Rumpole and the Age for Retirement. [via]-
Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 014003000X (0-14-003000-X)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Unreal!by Paul JenningsISBN 0140349103 (0-14-034910-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Whispering Landby Gerald DurrellISBN 0140020837 (0-14-002083-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whispering Land'Book summary:Through windswept Patagonian shores and tropical forests in the Argentine, Durrell searches for additions to his private zoo. [via]
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Why Come to Slakaby Malcolm BradburyISBN 014010707X (0-14-010707-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six Moreby Roald DahlISBN 0140328742 (0-14-032874-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Zoo in My Luggageby Gerald Durrell, Ralph ThompsonISBN 0140020845 (0-14-002084-5)
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Let's Parler Franglais!by Miles KingtonISBN 0140056254 (0-14-005625-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let's Parler Franglais!'Book summary:[via]The trouble with French is that there are far too few English words in it. In this book, Miles Kington, the critic, columnist and creator of Franglais, puts all that right. The language here can be understood by almost anyone who failed GCSE French. If you have passed GCSE French, it could be tricky, but try anyway. A Frenchman would probably not understand a word of it, not that he would let on.More editions of Let's Parler Franglais!:
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