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31 Songsby Nick HornbyISBN 0670914266 (0-670-91426-6)
Hardcover, Viking
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis CarrollISBN 0671083198 (0-671-08319-8)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Art of Dramatic Writingby L. EgriISBN 0671213326 (0-671-21332-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art of Dramatic Writing'Book summary:For many years, Lajos Egri's highly opinionated but very enjoyable The Art of Dramatic Writing has been a well-guarded secret of playwrights, scriptwriters, and writers for television. Unlike many other books on playwrighting (several of which Egri criticizes during the course of this one), the author's systematic breakdown of the essentials for creating successful realistic plays and screenplays effectively demystifies the process of creative writing. Egri, who formulated his thoughts about "a well-made play" during its heyday (the 1940s and '50s), places a premium on an exhaustive analysis of characters and discussion of their psychological motivations. The writer is exhorted to find a premise to explore and to discover which characters will most effectively demonstrate this thesis, then is shown how most effectively to place them into conflict with each other. Conflict itself is also discussed, particularly how to create scenarios in which the crisis develops at a pace that feels unforced and natural. While Egri's view of the well-made play has little space for either the spare musings of Beckett and Pinter or the conscious excesses of non-narrative and other experimental writing, it nonetheless remains an essential text for writers drawn to realistic drama, and to any writer interested in the fundamental motivations of human behavior. --John Longenbaugh [via]
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Being and Nothingnessby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0671496069 (0-671-49606-9)
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Deanby Paul AlexanderISBN 0670849510 (0-670-84951-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean'Book summary:As an icon of art and death, James Dean is surpassed only by Marilyn and Elvis. But until now, no serious biography has looked beyond the Hollywood-manufactured cliche to the volatile polarities, conflicted sexuality, and childhood trauma of the person himself. Here is a revisionist portrait, accompanied by never-before-published photos. [via]
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The Brontes: A Life in Lettersby Juliet R.V. BarkerISBN 0670872121 (0-670-87212-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brontes: A Life in Letters'Book summary:In this carefully chosen selection of their letters, diaries and autobiographical fragments, we hear the authentic voices of the three novelists, as well as their brother Bramwell and father, the Reverend Patrick Bronte. The collection follows their progress from exuberant childhood to years of hardship, followed by immense literary success and then tragic later years. [via]
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Chloe Plus Oliviaby Lillian FadermanISBN 0670846384 (0-670-84638-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chloe Plus Olivia'Book summary:This is a literary anthology with each piece set in an historical and literary context that seeks to redefine four centuries of lesbian writing. From the verse of Sappho in 600BC to Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness" published in 1928, there is little women's writing that is recognised as "lesbian". A review of the shifting concept of "lesbian literature" is offered, followed by examples of six different genres - Romantic Friendship, Sexual Inversion, Exotic Inversion, Exotic and Evil Lesbians, Lesbian Encoding, Lesbian Feminism and Post-Lesbian Feminism. Works as diverse as Willa Cather's "My Antonia" and Virginia Woolf's "Orlando", poetry by Gertrude Stein and Amy Lowell, fiction by Carson McCullers, Helen Hulll and Alice Walker are examined here. In addition, writing by men who focused on women's relationship is included. This is Faderman's own personal search for a definition of lesbian literature. [via]
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A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, William GeldartISBN 0670888796 (0-670-88879-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status Systemby Paul FussellISBN 0671449915 (0-671-44991-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Class: A Guide Through the American Status System'Book summary:In Class Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality with eagle-eyed irreverence and iconoclastic wit. This bestselling, superbly researched, exquisitely observed guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system is always outrageously on the mark as Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. He describes the houses, objects, artifacts, speech, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from the top to the bottom and everybody -- you'll surely recognize yourself -- in between. Class is guaranteed to amuse and infuriate, whether your class is so high it's out of sight (literally) or you are, alas, a sinking victim of prole drift. [via]
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Conversations With Eudora Weltyby Peggy W. PrenshawISBN 0671541676 (0-671-54167-6)
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Crucibleby Arthur MillerISBN 0670250325 (0-670-25032-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crucible'Book summary:The enduring classic drama of the Salem witch trials was inspired by the political witch-hunting activities of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the '50s. Though set in the 17th century, "The Crucible" presents issues still gnawing at modern society. [via]
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The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930sby Malcolm CowleyISBN 0670284742 (0-670-28474-2)
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Dylan's Visions Of Sinby Christopher RicksISBN 067080133X (0-670-80133-X)
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Eugene Oneginby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Charles Hepburn JohnstonISBN 0670298891 (0-670-29889-1)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:Pushkin was the first Russian writer of European stature, and he is among the very few artists - such as Homer and Shakespeare - to have shaped the consciousness and history of an entire nation and its language, thereby affecting the world at large. Eugene Onegin is not merely the greatest poem in the Russian language by its most influential poet: it is a global culture, social and political icon of the highest order. The historical power of this work - a novel in verse - is made all the more extraordinary by the simplicity of its subject. Eugene Onegin is a story of disappointed love. Tatyana falls for the handsome Eugene to whom she daringly makes advances. He cooly rejects her, then flirts with her sister, Olga. When challenged by Olga's fiance, Lensky kills him in a duel, seemingly indifferrent to the grief he causes. (Ironically, Puskhin himself was to be killed in similar circumstances in 1937, some seven years after he completed the work). Onegin leaves the district. When he returns four years later, Tatyana has married another man and it is her turn to reject his advances. But it turns out that Onegin's hauteur is affected: he has always loved her passionately. She loves him too and both reflect painfully on what might have been. [via]
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Everybody's Favourites: Canadians Talk about Books That Changed Their Livesby Arlene Perly RaeISBN 0670870803 (0-670-87080-3)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great GatsbyISBN 0671528769 (0-671-52876-9)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Janet Allison Brown, Graham RustISBN 0670899119 (0-670-89911-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:A simplified retelling of ten-year-old Mary coming to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovering an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Shirley Hughes, Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0670825719 (0-670-82571-9)
Hardcover, Kestrel Pr
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The Friendly Shakespeareby Norrie EpsteinISBN 0670844470 (0-670-84447-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Friendly Shakespeare'Book summary:A readable guide to the works of Shakespeare includes solid, but never too simplistic, information about the Bard's language, life, and loves for those who want to learn about Shakespeare without wading through a morass of academic criticism. 35,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. [via]
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General Introduction to Psychoanalysis the Authoriby Sigmund FreudISBN 0671204181 (0-671-20418-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'General Introduction to Psychoanalysis the Authori'Book summary:Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... FIRST LECTURE INTRODUCTION I DO not know how familiar some of you may be, either from your reading or from hearsay, with psychoanalysis. But, in keeping with the title of these lectures -- A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis -- I am obliged to proceed as though you knew nothing about this subject, and stood in need of preliminary instruction. To be sure, this much I may presume that you do know, namely, that psychoanalysis is a method of treating nervous patients medically. And just at this point I can give you au example to illustrate how the procedure in this field is precisely the reverse of that which is the rule in medicine. Usually when we introduce a patient to a medical technique which is strange to him, we minimize its difficulties and give him confident promises concerning the result of the treatment. When, however, we undertake psychoanalytic treatment with a neurotic patient we proceed differently. We hold before him the difficulties of the method, its length, the exertions and the sacrifices which it will cost him; and, as to the result, we tell him that we make no definite promises, that the result depends on his conduct, on his understanding, on his adaptability, on his perseverance. We have, of course, excellent motives for conduct which seems so perverse, and into which you will perhaps gain insight at a later point in these lectures. Do not be offended, therefore, if, for the present, I treat you as I treat these neurotic patients. Frankly, I shall dissuade you from coming to hear me a second time. With this intention I shall show what imperfections are necessarily involved in the teaching of psychoanalysis and what difficulties stand in the way of gaining a personal judgment. I shall show you how the whole trend of your previous training and ... [via]
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George Orwell's 1984by Ralph A. RanaldISBN 067100719X (0-671-00719-X)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0671001744 (0-671-00174-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition" includes a glossary and readers notes to help the modern reader contend with Swifts complex references and vocabulary. First published anonymously in 1727, Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels created a storm of criticismfrom those who believed the stories to be true and knew exactly who Lemuel Gulliver was, to those who demanded that the writer of the seditious tales be hunted down and executed for high treason. Even today, Swifts vitriolic attacks on politics, culture, and human nature itself have earned him the reputation of a crazed misanthrope. Swift, through his hero, consistently rails against political whims, human follies, and the bestial behaviors of the human race: In Lilliput, Gulliver is twelve times the size of the European-like natives. In Brobdingnag, he is one-twelfth the size of the primitive but moral inhabitants. In Laputa, buildings collapse and clothing does not fit, although constructed by the most modern and reasonable means. Finally, in the land of the horse-like Houyhnhnms Gulliver realizes that he and his race are nothing but a brood of Yahoos. [via]
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of Historyby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0671606018 (0-671-60601-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Herzogby Irving Howe, Saul BellowISBN 0670369136 (0-670-36913-6)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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A History of Greek Literatureby Peter LeviISBN 0670801003 (0-670-80100-3)
Hardcover, Viking
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Idle Passion: Chess and the Dance of Deathby Alexander CockburnISBN 0671218174 (0-671-21817-4)
Hardcover, Village Voice
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Iliad and Odyssey Gift Setby HomerISBN 0670779644 (0-670-77964-4)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad and Odyssey Gift Set'Book summary:This is a boxed gift edition of Fagles's two widely acclaimed translations of Homer.
The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to call it a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the 10th and final year of the Greek siege of Troy. The Odyssey is, quite simply, the story of Odysseus, who wants to go home. But Poseidon, god of oceans, doesn't want him to make it back across the wine-dark sea to his wife, Penelope, son, Telemachus, and their high-roofed home at Ithaca. The story is told in easy-going, beautiful poetry; the characters speak naturally, the action happens briskly. Even the gods come across as real people, despite the divine powers they exercise constantly. Both works have been hailed by scholars and the public for the powerful language that brings clashing, pulsing life to these ancient masterpieces. [via]
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James Joyceby John J. GrossISBN 0670405086 (0-670-40508-6)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Jane Austen: A Lifeby Carol ShieldsISBN 0670894885 (0-670-89488-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Life of Graham Greene: 1904-1939by Norman SherryISBN 0670813761 (0-670-81376-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Graham Greene: 1904-1939'Book summary:The second volume of Norman Sherry's three-volume biography reveals Graham Greene, at the height of his powers, as one of the great novelists and most enigmatic figures of this century. Saying he would not entrust his papers and own recorded confidences to a friend, Greene chose Sherry for his biographer, having admired his literary detective work on Joseph Conrad's fiction. The book encompasses the most creative phase of Greene's life, when he wrote not only some of his best novels - among them "The Ministry of Fear", "The Heart of the Matter", "The End of the Affair" and "The Quiet American" - but collaborated with Carol Reed on the films of "The Fallen Idol" and "The Third Man". Yet this was also the most tumultuous period, seeing Greene's passionate affair with a beautiful and complex American who was then married to a British peer, and the disintegration of his marriage to Vivien. Here, for the first time, is the full story of Greene's activities as a secret agent and the revealing correspondence that shuttled between his one-time boss Kim Philby in Moscow and Sherry in England. In the 1950s, Greene was increasingly drawn to areas of conflict in the world - to Kenya, Malaya, and to the last days of French Indo-China. [via]
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The Life of Katherine Mansfieldby Antony AlpersISBN 0670428051 (0-670-42805-1)
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Lillian Hellman: The Image, the Womanby William WrightISBN 0671526871 (0-671-52687-1)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Literary Democracy: The Declaration of Cultural Independence in America, 1837-1861by Larzer ZiffISBN 0670430269 (0-670-43026-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Literature or Lifeby Jorge Semprun, Linda CoverdaleISBN 0670872881 (0-670-87288-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literature or Life'Book summary:Jorge Semprun's riveting book Literature or Life has been 50 years in the making. Half essay, half memoir, the book details the hellish two years the author spent in a German concentration camp during World War II. The facts are simple: while still a teenager, Semprun joined the French Resistance. He was captured in 1943 and sent to Buchenwald. There he remained until the camp was liberated in April of 1945. Those two years shaped all the ones that have followed, as Semprun has struggled to express a living death, an "experience of Radical Evil."
Literature or Life is more than just a memoir of life in the camps and afterward. It is a meditation on the power of language to process experience. Through his novels, screenplays, and poetry, Semprun has revisited the central events of his life; now, so many years later, he looks back again, this time without the filter of fiction, to reexamine his life, his writing, and his memory of death. [via]
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, James PrunierISBN 0670877069 (0-670-87706-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:"Little Women" is an American classic, adored for Louisa May Alcott's lively and vivid portraits of the endearing March sisters: talented tomboy Jo, pretty Meg, shy Beth, temperamental Amy. Millions have shared in their joys, hardships, and adventures as they grow up in Civil War New England, separated by the war from their father and beloved mother, "Marmee", blossoming from "little women" into adults. Jo searches for her writer's voice and finds unexpected love... Meg prepares for marriage and a family... Beth reaches out to the less fortunate, tragically... and Amy travels to Europe to become a painter. Based on Louisa May Alcott's own Yankee childhood, "Little Women" is a treasure-- a story whose enduring values of patience, loyalty, and love have kept this extraordinary family close to the hearts of generation after generation of delighted readers. [via]
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Little Womenby Janet Allison Brown, Dinah DryhurstISBN 0670899127 (0-670-89912-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:A simple retelling of the adventures of the four March sisters living in New England during the time of the Civil War. [via]
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Little Womenby Laurie Lawlor, Louisa May AlcottISBN 0671519026 (0-671-51902-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:An American classic portrays a lively family of four sisters, as they grow up--serious Meg, quiet, sweet Beth, Amy who wants everything her way, and Jo, who makes up her own mind no matter what. Reprint. Movie tie-in. [via]
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Lives of the Poetsby Louis UntermeyerISBN 0671212990 (0-671-21299-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Magic of Lewis Carrollby John FisherISBN 067121604X (0-671-21604-X)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Marcel Proustby Edmond WhiteISBN 0670880574 (0-670-88057-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marcel Proust'Book summary:Marcel Proust documented his existence so lavishly--albeit in fictional form--that many of his biographers have functioned as little more than code-breakers, doggedly translating art back into life. It's a great pleasure, then, to welcome Edmund White's slender, superbly artful account. A novelist himself (as well as a biographer of Jean Genet), White beautifully evokes "the France of heavy, tasteless furniture, of engraved portraits of Prince Eugene, of clocks kept under a glass bell on the mantelpiece, of overstuffed chairs covered with antimacassars and of brass beds warmed by hot-water bottles." And he's no less canny at summoning up Proust's personality, in all its neurotic, contradictory glory.
Of course, Proust's life can't truly be separated from his art. Every biography of him is bound to operate in the shadow of Remembrance of Things Past, and White has some shrewd things to say about that mammoth work, whose style he describes as "an ether in which all the characters revolve like well-regulated heavenly bodies." Yet the focus remains on Proust and on his unlikely transformation from momma's boy to social climber to world-class genius. Like his subject, White often proceeds by anecdote. His book is packed with telling, hilarious little nuggets, which find Proust being snubbed by that "powdered, perfumed, puffy Irish giant" Oscar Wilde or luring back his lover Alfred Agostinelli by buying him an airplane.
At the same time, White conveys the considerable pain that Proust endured as an invalid, an artist, and (more to the point) a closeted homosexual. No doubt these factors shaped his rather hopeless take on human affections, which impoverished his life even as they enriched his writing. "Proust may be telling us that love is a chimera," White writes, "a projection of rich fantasies onto an indifferent, certainly mysterious surface, but nevertheless these fantasies are undeniably beautiful, intimations of paradise--the artificial paradise of art." In White's view, this recognition makes his subject not only a supreme poet of impermanence but the greatest novelist of the century. Here, of course, it's possible to quibble. But the world would be an emptier place indeed without Proust's mighty masterpiece--and readers curious about its brilliant, bedridden creator should start with White's witty and exquisite portrait. --James Marcus [via]
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Marcel Proust : A Lifeby Jean-Yves Tadie, Euan CameronISBN 0670876550 (0-670-87655-0)
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Marcel Proust, 1871-1922;: A Centennial Volumeby Peter QuennellISBN 0671210130 (0-671-21013-0)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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The Masks of God: Primitive Mythologyby Joseph CampbellISBN 0670460125 (0-670-46012-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology'Book summary:The author of such acclaimed books as Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discusses the primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology[via]More editions of The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology:
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Merchant of Veniceby Laura LippmanISBN 0671006371 (0-671-00637-1)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Merchant of Venice'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. [via]
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Monarch Notes on Poems of Robert Frostby Robert FrostISBN 0671007831 (0-671-00783-1)
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Monarch Notes on To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0671006819 (0-671-00681-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Australia
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Monarch Notes on Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Charles LeavittISBN 067100879X (0-671-00879-X)
Hardcover, Peterson's
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Nabokov, His Life in Partby Andrew FieldISBN 0670503673 (0-670-50367-3)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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The Odysseyby Homer, Samuel ButlerISBN 0671015486 (0-671-01548-6)
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The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotesby James SutherlandISBN 0671227440 (0-671-22744-0)
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Phoenix; The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence.by D. H. LawrenceISBN 0670552119 (0-670-55211-9)
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, Tony RossISBN 067089494X (0-670-89494-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 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]
The Pocket Aristotleby Justin D. KaplanISBN 0671463772 (0-671-46377-2)
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The Poetics of Reverieby Gaston BachelardISBN 0670562610 (0-670-56261-0)
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The Portable Dorothy Parkerby Dorothy ParkerISBN 0670540161 (0-670-54016-1)
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Portable Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0670561789 (0-670-56178-9)
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The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe. Along with the authors familiar masterworks in poetry and fiction, this new Portable Poe includes satirical tales that reflect his critique of American culture. [via]More editions of Portable Poe:
Praises and Dispraises: Poetry and Politics, the 20th Centuryby Terrence Des PresISBN 0670804061 (0-670-80406-1)
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Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Loveby Suzanne JuhaszISBN 0670844012 (0-670-84401-2)
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0671002759 (0-671-00275-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Badge of Courage'Book summary:ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
The story of a young soldier's quest for manhood during the American Civil War.
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Riding the Yellow Trolley Car: Selected Nonfictionby William KennedyISBN 0670842117 (0-670-84211-7)
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Robert Frost's Poemsby Robert Frost, Louis UntermeyerISBN 0671496174 (0-671-49617-4)
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Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic, 1895-1926by Richard Perceval GravesISBN 0670813265 (0-670-81326-5)
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Robertson Davies: Man of Mythby Judith Skelton GrantISBN 0670825573 (0-670-82557-3)
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Romeo and Julietby Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, William ShakespeareISBN 0671042882 (0-671-04288-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Ross and Tom: Two American Tragediesby John LeggettISBN 067121733X (0-671-21733-X)
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Samuel Beckettby Alfred AlvarezISBN 0670616559 (0-670-61655-9)
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Selected Letters of James Joyceby James JoyceISBN 0670631906 (0-670-63190-6)
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Shadow Linesby Amitav GhoshISBN 0670826332 (0-670-82633-2)
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Shakespeare and Macbethby Victor G. Ambrus, Stewart Ross, Tony KarpinskiISBN 0670856290 (0-670-85629-0)
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Shakespeare's Kingsby John Julius NorwichISBN 067086319X (0-670-86319-X)
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Spirits of Place: Five Famous Lives in Their Landscapeby Jane BrownISBN 0670880000 (0-670-88000-0)
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Stephen Cranes the Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0671006606 (0-671-00660-6)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Barry V. QuallsISBN 0671532103 (0-671-53210-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Worksby Angus WilsonISBN 0670677019 (0-670-67701-9)
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Sylvia Plath Method and Madnessby Edward ButscherISBN 0671415182 (0-671-41518-2)
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T. S. Eliotby Stephen SpenderISBN 0670291846 (0-670-29184-6)
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T.S. Eliot: A Lifeby Peter AckroydISBN 0671605720 (0-671-60572-0)
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Tragedy of Dr Faustusby Christopher MarlowISBN 0671509772 (0-671-50977-2)
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The Tragedy of Richard the Secondby William Shakespeare, Louis B. Wright, Virginia A. LamarISBN 0671531425 (0-671-53142-5)
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Unsent Letters: Irreverent Notes from a Literary Lifeby Malcolm BradburyISBN 0670820709 (0-670-82070-9)
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Vampire: The Complete Guide to the World of the Undeadby Manuela Dunn MascettiISBN 0670846643 (0-670-84664-3)
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Wanderlust : A History of Walkingby Rebecca SolnitISBN 0670882097 (0-670-88209-7)
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What Was Literature: Class Culture and Mass Societyby Leslie A. FiedlerISBN 0671249835 (0-671-24983-5)
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White Noiseby Don DelilloISBN 0670803731 (0-670-80373-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Noise'Book summary:Something is amiss in a small college town in Middle America. Something subliminal, something omnipresent, something hard to put your finger on. For example, teachers and students at the grade school are falling mysteriously ill:
Investigators said it could be the ventilating system, the paint or varnish, the foam insulation, the electrical insulation, the cafeteria food, the rays emitted by microcomputers, the asbestos fireproofing, the adhesive on shipping containers, the fumes from the chlorinated pool, or perhaps something deeper, finer-grained, more closely woven into the fabric of things.
J.A.K. Gladney, world-renowned as the living center, the absolute font, of Hitler Studies in North America in the mid-1980s, describes the malaise affecting his town in a superbly ironic and detached manner. But even he fails to mask his disquiet. There is menace in the air, and ultimately it is made manifest: a poisonous cloud--an "airborne toxic event"--unleashed by an industrial accident floats over the town, requiring evacuation. In the aftermath, as the residents adjust to new and blazingly brilliant sunsets, Gladney and his family must confront their own poses, night terrors, self-deceptions, and secrets.DeLillo is at his dark, hilarious best in this 1985 National Book Award winner, a novel that preceded but anticipated the explosion of the Internet, tabloid television, and the dialed-in, wired-up, endlessly accelerated tenor of the culture we live in. He doesn't just describe life in a hypermediated society, he re-creates it. His characters repeat phrases, information, and rumor gleaned from television, radio, and other media sources like people speaking in code. And DeLillo has seeded the book with short gemlike episodes that demand to be read aloud, and that haunt the imagination years after their first reading: a visit to the Most Photographed Barn in America. A plane that nearly falls out of the sky. An hour in a classroom, canonizing Elvis. These vignettes are vivid and unique, yet, like the phrases from television shows that interject themselves, out of context, into Gladney's consciousness, they are strangely unconnected to one another--reflections of the lives DeLillo is showing us we lead. --Jan Bultmann [via]
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Whole Story Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, William GeldartISBN 0670888788 (0-670-88878-8)
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Writers at Workby George PlimptonISBN 0670790974 (0-670-79097-4)
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Writing into the World: Essays, 1973-1987by Terrance Des PresISBN 0670804649 (0-670-80464-9)
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