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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0893754021 (0-89375-402-1)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:(Please note that all Timeless Classic Books have been carefully formatted manually with full annotation and proper photo and/or illustration placement since our start in 2010/2011. Each cover is designed with paid or public domain artwork that is pertinent to the title. Each and ever cover is unique. None have ever been used twice.)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-92) brings together the first twelve short stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. These follow Holmes's introduction in the first two novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four. [via]More editions of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 0895980150 (0-89598-015-0)
Softcover, Perfection Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century. [via]
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- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0895772175 (0-89577-217-5)
Hardcover, Readers Digest Assn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0894715410 (0-89471-541-0)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0894341278 (0-89434-127-8)
Hardcover, J.G. Ferguson Pub Co - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0895980150 (0-89598-015-0)
Softcover, Perfection Learning
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The Alphabet Manby Richard GrossmanISBN 0932511775 (0-932511-77-5)
Softcover, Univ of Alabama Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alphabet Man'Book summary:"America loves a murder, and I am a murderous American," observes Clyde Wayne Franklin, who is considered by many to be the foremost poet in America. No ordinary killer, he is equal parts writer, obsessive lover, alcoholic, moralist, ex-con, clown, and butcher. The Alphabet Man is the story of his ruthless search for carnal love and spiritual redemption as he moves through the underworld of Washington, D.C., a sadistic landscape peopled by drug dealers, prostitutes, and assassins-for-hire. Part thriller, part psychological and linguistic masterpiece, Grossman's explosive fiction convinces us that if there is a pure poetry in the modern world, it must be rooted in madness, prophecy, and bloodshed.[via]More editions of The Alphabet Man:
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AmbitionISBN 0903141078 (0-903141-07-8)
Hardcover, Granta Books
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The Beans of Egypt, Maineby Carolyn ChuteISBN 0899193625 (0-89919-362-5)
Softcover, Ticknor & Fields
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beans of Egypt, Maine'Book summary:There are families like the Beans all over America. They live on the wrong side of town in mobile homes strung with Christmas lights all year around. The women are often pregnant, the men drunk and just out of jail, and the children too numerous to count. In the 'Beans of Egypt', Maine, we meet the God-fearing Earlene Pomerleau and experience her obsession for the whole swarming Bean tribe. Therecousin Rubie, a boozer and a brawler, tall Aunt Roberta, the earth mother surrounded by countless, clinging babies, and Beal, sensitive, often gentle, but doomed by the violence within him. [via]
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The Big Chapelby Thomas KilroyISBN 0905169530 (0-905169-53-0)
Softcover, Turtle Island Books
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The Book of Ruthby Jane HamiltonISBN 0899197442 (0-89919-744-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Ruth'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, November 1996: The Book of Ruth is a virtuoso performance and that's precisely why it can be excruciating to read. Author Jane Hamilton leads us through the arid life of Ruth Grey, who extracts what small pleasures and graces she can from a tiny Illinois town and the broken people who inhabit it. Ruth's prime tormentor is her mother May, whose husband died in World War II and took her future with him. More poor familial luck has given Ruth a brother who is a math prodigy; Matt sucks up any stray attention like a black hole. Ruth is left to survive on her own resources, which are meager. She struggles along, subsisting on crumbs of affection meted out by her Aunt Sid and, later, her screwed-up husband Ruby. Hamilton has perfect pitch. So perfect that you wince with pain for confused but fundamentally good Ruth as she walks a dead-end path. The book ends with the prospect of redemption, thank goodness--but the tale is nevertheless much more bitter than sweet. [via]
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Bread Givers: A Novelby Anzia Yezierska, Alice Kessler-HarrisISBN 0892552905 (0-89255-290-5)
Softcover, Persea Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bread Givers: A Novel'Book summary:The classic novel of Jewish immigrants, with period photographs.
This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Sarah's struggle towards independence and self-fulfillment resonates with a passion all can share. Beautifully redesigned page for page with the previous editions, Bread Givers is an essential historical work with enduring relevance. 16 black-and-white photographs [via]More editions of Bread Givers: A Novel:
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The Bridesmaidby Ruth RendellISBN 0892963883 (0-89296-388-3)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bridesmaid'Book summary:When Philip Wardman's feminine ideal, a Greek goddess, appears in the flesh as Senta Pelham, Philip thinks he has found true love. But darker forces are at work, and Senta is led to propose that Philip prove his love by committing murder. [via]
The Caine Mutinyby Herman WoukISBN 0895774143 (0-89577-414-3)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0893753440 (0-89375-344-0)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:Savage struggles and timeless bonds between man, dog, and wilderness are played to their heart-rending extremes. 2 cassettes. [via]
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Celestial Navigationby Anne TylerISBN 0893403202 (0-89340-320-2)
Hardcover, J. Curley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Celestial Navigation'Book summary:Jeremy Pauling is a bachelor with a passion for making sculptures out of odds and ends. He is also fearful of beautiful women, so when his new lodger, Mary, arrives, he is faced with a challenge he really cannot handle. From the author of THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST and BREATHING LESSONS. [via]
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0893753564 (0-89375-356-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...am here, or how I came. I have listened to the Chimes these many years. They have cheered me often." "And you have thanked them?" said the Bell. " A thousand times!" cried Trotty. "How?" "I am a poor man," faltered Trotty, " and could only thank them in words." "And always so?" inquired the Goblin of the Bell. "Have you never done us wrong in words? " "No!" cried Trotty eagerly. "Never done us foul, and false, and wicked wrong, in words?" pursued the Goblin of the Bell. Trotty was about to answer, "Never!" But he stopped, and was confused. "The voice of Time," said the Phantom, "cries to man, Advance! Time is for his advancement and improvement; for his greater worth, his greater happiness, his better life; his progressonward to that goal within its knowledge and its view, and set there, in the period when Time and He began. Ages of darkness, wickedness, and violence, have come and gone: millions uncountable, have suffered, lived, and died: to point the way Before him. Who seeks to turn him hack, or stay him on his course, arrests a mighty engine which will strike the meddler dead; and be the fiercer and the wilder, ever, for its momentary check! " "I never did so, to my knowledge, Sir," said Trotty. "It was quite, by accident if I did. I wouldn't go to do it, I "in sure." " Who puts into the month of Time, or of its servants," said the Goblin of the Bell, "a cry of lamentation for days which have had their trial and their failure, and have left deep traces of it which the blind may see--a cry that only serves the Present Time, by showing men how much it needs their help when any ears can listen to regrets for such a Past--who does this, does a wrong. And yon have done that wrong to us, the Chimes." Trotty's first excess of fear was gone. But he... [via]
Chrom Yellowby Aldous HuxleyISBN 089966847X (0-89966-847-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Clock Winderby Anne TylerISBN 0893403210 (0-89340-321-0)
Softcover, J. Curley
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 089577223X (0-89577-223-X)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.[via]
Growing up is never easy--especially if your name happens to be David Copperfield. Orphaned as an infant, David must suffer the privation and cruelties of his evil stepfather, Mr. Murdstone--who packs David away to a workhouse at the age of ten! a trusting but vulnerable boy and practically alone in the world, David finds himself time after time at the mercy of a rogue's gallery of characters: the dashing but deceitful Steerforth, the detestable clerk Uriah Heep, and, last but not least, the beautiful but ditzy Dora. With friends like these it's a miracle that David grows up at all!More editions of David Copperfield:
Day of the Locustby Nathanael WestISBN 0899663028 (0-89966-302-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa CatherISBN 0896215067 (0-89621-506-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 0895268817 (0-89526-881-7)
Softcover, Gateway Books
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Doctor Faustusby Christopher Marlowe, Michael H. KeeferISBN 092114959X (0-921149-59-X)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Faustus'Book summary:This is Michael Keefer's excellent 1604 version of Marlowe's text. His introduction reconstructs the Renaissance ideological concepts that shaped and deformed Doctor Faustus, and the text is accompanied by collations, textual and explanatory notes, and excerpts from sources. The appendices include variants from the 1616 text and excerpts from The History of . . . Doctor John Faustus, Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, and John Calvin. [via]
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Dr. Faustusby Christopher MarloweISBN 0929587561 (0-929587-56-1)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Faustus'Book summary:Marlowe's classic treatment of the myth of man's greed has contemporary reverberations that make it compelling drama. Mr. Rudall has streamlined the story and turned it into fast-paced theatre. [via]
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The Dragon Can't Danceby Earl LovelaceISBN 0892552727 (0-89255-272-7)
Softcover, Persea Books
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Ellen Fosterby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0912697520 (0-912697-52-0)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ellen Foster'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Kaye Gibbons is a writer who brings a short story sensibility to her novels. Rather than take advantage of the novel's longer form to paint her visions in broad, sweeping strokes, Gibbons prefers to concentrate on just one corner of the canvas and only a few colors to produce her small masterpieces. In Gibbons's case, her canvas is the American South and her colors are all the shades of gray.
In Ellen Foster, the title character is an 11-year-old orphan who refers to herself as "old Ellen," an appellation that is disturbingly apt. Ellen is an old woman in a child's body; her frail, unhappy mother dies, her abusive father alternately neglects her and makes advances on her, and she is shuttled from one uncaring relative's home to another before she finally takes matters into her own hands and finds herself a place to belong. There is something almost Dickensian about Ellen's tribulations; like Oliver Twist, David Copperfield or a host of other literary child heroes, Ellen is at the mercy of predatory adults, with only her own wit and courage--and the occasional kindness of others--to help her through. That she does, in fact, survive her childhood and even rise above it is the book's bittersweet victory. [via]
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Fanny Hillby John ClelandISBN 0913568260 (0-913568-26-0)
Hardcover, Avant-Garde Media
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Far Cry from Kensingtonby Muriel SparkISBN 0896212319 (0-89621-231-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 0899665764 (0-89966-576-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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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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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jane Parker Resnick, Dale CrawfordISBN 0894718606 (0-89471-860-6)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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The Heart of the Matter: Stamboul Train ; A Burnt-Out Case ; The Third Man ; The Quiet American ; Loser Takes All ; The Power and the Gloryby Graham GreeneISBN 0905712013 (0-905712-01-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Octopus
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0899662293 (0-89966-229-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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The House on Mango Streetby Sandra CisnerosISBN 0934770204 (0-934770-20-4)
Softcover, Arte Publico Press
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Impossible Objectby Nicholas MosleyISBN 0916583090 (0-916583-09-0)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Inland Passageby Jane RuleISBN 0930044568 (0-930044-56-8)
Softcover, Naiad Pr
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0899664156 (0-89966-415-6)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and social reform. [via]
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0895310708 (0-89531-070-8)
Softcover, Sharon Pubns
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0899663753 (0-89966-375-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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Last Standing Womanby Winona LadukeISBN 0896584526 (0-89658-452-6)
Softcover, Voyageur Pr
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Les Mandarinsby Simone de BeauvoirISBN 0895268981 (0-89526-898-1)
Softcover, Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company
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Life on the Mississippiby Mark TwainISBN 0895772752 (0-89577-275-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on the Mississippi'Book summary:Mark Twain's own story of his youthful years as a cub-pilot on a steamboat plowing up and down the Mississippi River. [via]
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Lolly Willowes: Or the Loving Huntsmanby Sylvia Townsend Warner, Anita MillerISBN 0915864916 (0-915864-91-6)
Hardcover, Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolly Willowes: Or the Loving Huntsman'Book summary:Sylvia Townsend Warner began her literary career as a poet, and her first novel is as nimble and precise as poetry and reads as if it might have been composed to a meter. Like some of Jane Austen's fiction, Lolly Willowes is a comedy about the perils, pleasures, and consolations of spinsterhood, and the predicament of its heroine is at first deliberately and deceptively commonplace. "Aunt Lolly, a middle-aging lady, light-footed upon stairs, and indispensable for Christmas Eve and birthday preparations," is nevertheless troubled by vague, indefinable longings, a hankering after the solitude of woods and dark rural places. At last a revelation in a greengrocer's leads her to abandon her outraged London family and take rooms in an obscure hamlet, Great Mop.
Here her neighbors keep curiously late and noisy hours, but otherwise allow her to pass the time "in perfect idleness and contentment." She is eventually pursued into her idyll, however, by her nephew, and Titus's familiar small demands drive her to rage and despair: "No! You shan't get me. I won't go back. I won't.... Oh! Is there no help?" She is promptly visited by a mysterious black kitten, who fastens its claws upon her hand and draws blood. At once she understands. The kitten is her familiar, and has been sent by dark forces. "She, Laura Willowes, in England, in the year 1922, had entered into a compact with the Devil."
She has, in short, become a witch--or, rather, she has rediscovered her own slumbering diabolical potential, in the unlikely setting of a Buckinghamshire hamlet that--as she now realizes--is peopled entirely by witches. Laura soon attends a rollicking but ultimately rather disappointing midnight Sabbath; she is visited by Satan in the shape of a pleasant-faced man in a corduroy coat and gaiters who rids her of Titus and restores her to privacy and peace. She is left with a vision of the women "all over England, all over Europe ... as common as blackberries, and as unregarded" to whom he has offered the promise of adventure, "the dangerous black night to stretch your wings in." It is this vision that lends the novel its subversive edge, that ultimately allies it less with the work of Austen than with that of Virginia Woolf, and with later feminists. They "know they are dynamite," says Laura of Satan's women, "and long for the concussion that may justify them." --Sarah Waters [via]
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Lovers: A Midrashby Edeet RavelISBN 0921833016 (0-921833-01-6)
Softcover, Signature Editions
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Mama Dayby Gloria NaylorISBN 0899197167 (0-89919-716-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mama Day'Book summary:On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces. A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense. [via]
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Man Descendingby Guy VanderhaegheISBN 0899193854 (0-89919-385-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man Descending'Book summary:First published in 1982, Guy Vanderhaeghe's Man Descending, a collection of 12 finely crafted short stories set mostly on the Canadian Prairies, won Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction (an award that Vanderhaeghe won again in 1996 for his novel The Englishman's Boy). Showing tremendous range, Vanderhaeghe is equally adept at taking on the voice of an 11-year-old boy stuck on a dusty farm or an unemployed husband (the "descending man" of the title) whose marriage, like his scotch, is on the rocks. His characters--men, women, or children--are wholly believable and achingly human. There are no superheroes here, just real human beings with all their foibles and failings, charms and weaknesses.
Vanderhaeghe is particularly skilled at describing his creations: the grandmother with a "vinegary voice"; the father who was a "desolate, lanky, drooping weed of a man"; the child who is "loose-jointed" and "water-boned" with boredom; the husband with the "I'm-a-harmless-idiot-don't-hit-me smile." The dialogue flows with the patterns and ripples of genuine speech caught alive and still breathing, especially in "Going to Russia," in which a lunatic recalls his interview with a doctor. As they discuss a series of letters in a wonderfully resonant and twisting conversation, the two characters turn out to be tracing the ways art imitates life (and vice versa). These are rich, satisfying stories with a touch of wry humour. Despite their layers of meaning, which can reward rereading, they travel lightly. They are like the Prairies, in fact: allowing a clear view all the way to the horizon but revealing intriguing detail on closer inspection. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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Meditationsby Marcus AureliusISBN 0915145790 (0-915145-79-0)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meditations'Book summary:The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Ethics; Stoics; Life; Philosophy / Ethics [via]
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The Memoirs of a Survivorby Doris May LessingISBN 0900860308 (0-900860-30-8)
Hardcover, Octagon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memoirs of a Survivor'Book summary:In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a glimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present, and of the forces that alone can save us from total destruction. [via]
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Midaq Alleyby Naguib MahfouzISBN 0894106589 (0-89410-658-9)
Softcover, Lynne Rienner Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midaq Alley'Book summary:Centred around the residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo: Kirsha, the cafe-owner with a scandalous predilection for young boys, Hamida, the matchmaker's daughter, and Zaita, the cripple-maker - who maims and disfigures people who wish to become beggars. [via]
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Miramarby Naguib MahfouzISBN 0894106937 (0-89410-693-7)
Softcover, Three Continents Press
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A Mixture of Frailtiesby Robertson DaviesISBN 089696051X (0-89696-051-X)
Hardcover, Everest House
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A Month in the Countryby J. L. CarrISBN 0897331249 (0-89733-124-9)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Month in the Country'Book summary:Any good reader has, well, had it with novels of healing. The culture of confession has given rise to novels that begin with an unspeakable act (graphically described) and end in redemption (this part is usually more vague). That's not how it works in J.L. Carr's quiet, brief, dreamy A Month in the Country. Writing in 1978, Carr's narrator, Tom Birkin, recalls the summer of 1920. A veteran of the Great War and a cuckold, Tom arrives in Oxgodby to restore a medieval mural in the church. His single season in this town in the north of England passes quickly: he sleeps in the belfry, makes a friend or two, falls secretly in love with the vicar's wife, and, chipping away at plaster and dirt, uncovers a lost masterpiece. These events seem to melt past Tom in the heat of the perfect, fleeting English summer: "The front gardens of cottages were crammed with marjoram and roses, marguerites, sweet William, at night heavy with the scent of stocks. The Vale was heavy with leaves, motionless in the early morning, black caves of shadow in the midday heat, blurring the sound of trains hammering north and south."
Carr devotes many fewer words to Tom's time in the war. The vicar's wife tries to ask him about it. "'What about hell on earth?' she said. I told her I'd seen it and lived there and that, mercifully, they usually left an exit open." His healing consists of not talking about his past--perhaps a revolutionary notion these days. A Month in the Country, with its paean to a lost, good place, oddly recalls Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes. But where that novel was elliptical, Carr's work values clarity and simplicity above all. These are rare enough qualities, but to find them in a novel of romance and healing is a rarer pleasure still. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Nervous Conditionsby Tsitsi DangarembgaISBN 0931188741 (0-931188-74-1)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Nest of Singing Birdsby Susan HaleyISBN 0920316611 (0-920316-61-1)
Softcover, NeWest Press
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The Nihilestheteby Richard KalichISBN 0932966772 (0-932966-77-2)
Hardcover, Permanent Pr Pub Co
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On Strike Against Godby Joanna RussISBN 0895941864 (0-89594-186-4)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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On the Beachby Nevil ShuteISBN 0899683657 (0-89968-365-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Beach'Book summary:Following the war, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left sheltering in Australia, preparing with the locals for the inevitable. Despite his memories of his wife, he becomes close to a young woman struggling to accept the harsh realities of their situation. Then a Morse code signal is picked up and the submarine must set sail through the bleak ocean to search for signs of life. [via]
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Othelloby William Shakespeare, Oscar ZarateISBN 0894806114 (0-89480-611-4)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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Othello, the Moor of Veniceby William ShakespeareISBN 0934048169 (0-934048-16-9)
Softcover, Swan Books
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Paradise Lostby John MiltonISBN 0899664571 (0-89966-457-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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A Passage to India: Library Editionby E. M. ForsterISBN 0895773341 (0-89577-334-1)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Passage to India: Library Edition'Book summary:What really happened in the Marabar caves? This is the mystery at the heart of E.M. Forster's 1924 novel, A Passage to India, the puzzle that sets in motion events highlighting an even larger question: Can an Englishman and an Indian be friends?
"It is impossible here," an Indian character tells his friend, Dr. Aziz, early in the novel.
"They come out intending to be gentlemen, and are told it will not do.... Why, I remember when Turton came out first. It was in another part of the Province. You fellows will not believe me, but I have driven with Turton in his carriage--Turton! Oh yes, we were once quite intimate. He has shown me his stamp collection.
Written while England was still firmly in control of India, Forster's novel follows the fortunes of three English newcomers to India--Miss Adela Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Cyril Fielding--and the Indian, Dr. Aziz, with whom they cross destinies. The idea of true friendship between the races was a radical one in Forster's time, and he makes it abundantly clear that it was not one that either side welcomed. If Aziz's friend, Hamidullah, believed it impossible, the British representatives of the Raj were equally discouraging."He would expect you to steal it now. Turton! But red-nosed boy will be far worse than Turton!
"I do not think so. They all become exactly the same, not worse, not better. I give any Englishman two years, be he Turton or Burton. It is only the difference of a letter. And I give any Englishwoman six months. All are exactly alike."
"Why, the kindest thing one can do to a native is to let him die," said Mrs. Callendar.
Despite their countrymen's disapproval, Miss Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Mr. Fielding are all eager to meet Indians, and in Dr. Aziz they find a perfect companion: educated, westernized, and open-minded. Slowly, the friendships ripen, especially between Aziz and Fielding. Having created the possibility of esteem based on trust and mutual affection, Forster then subjects it to the crucible of racial hatred: during a visit to the famed Marabar caves, Miss Quested accuses Dr. Aziz of sexually assaulting her, then later recants during the frenzied trial that follows. Under such circumstances, affection proves to be a very fragile commodity indeed.
"How if he went to heaven?" asked Mrs. Moore, with a gentle but crooked smile.
"He can go where he likes as long as he doesn't come near me. They give me the creeps."Arguably Forster's greatest novel, A Passage to India limns a troubling portrait of colonialism at its worst, and is remarkable for the complexity of its characters. Here the personal becomes the political and in the breach between Aziz and his English "friends," Forster foreshadows the eventual end of the Raj. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Poetry for Young People : William Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, William G. Clark, William A. WrightISBN 0894716999 (0-89471-699-9)
Hardcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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Princess Brideby William GoldmanISBN 0899668097 (0-89966-809-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess Bride'Book summary:The Princess Bride is a true fantasy classic. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern's original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. Morgenstern's mostly complimentary views of the text. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles."
Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.
Is The Princess Bride a critique of classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers, that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you'll put it on your "keeper" shelf. --Nona Vero [via]
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Raneyby Clyde EdgertonISBN 0912697172 (0-912697-17-2)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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Rubyfruit Jungleby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0913780022 (0-913780-02-2)
Hardcover, Daughters, inc.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubyfruit Jungle'Book summary:Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor southern couple who want something better for their daughter. Molly plays doctor with the boys, beats up Leroy and loses her virginity to her girlfriend in sixth grade. As she grows to realize she's different, Molly decides not to apologize. [via]
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The Seven Storey Mountainby Thomas MertonISBN 089966864X (0-89966-864-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 0894717286 (0-89471-728-6)
Hardcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare'Book summary:These elegant volumes are bound in simulated leather with titles stamped in gold and gilt-edged pages.
Includes footnoted text of the Bard's 37 plays, sonnets, and poems, with a glossary and index of characters. [via]
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0899682073 (0-89968-207-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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South Sea Talesby Jack LondonISBN 0935180141 (0-935180-14-1)
Softcover, Booklines Hawaii Ltd
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The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Storiesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0895773848 (0-89577-384-8)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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Tales from the Arabian Nightsby Edmund Dulac, C. LangISBN 0895773740 (0-89577-374-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales from the Arabian Nights'Book summary:Beautiful princesses, genies who emerge from bottles, and talking birds in 26 magical tales: "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," "Sindbad the Sailor," "Noureddin and the Fair Persian," "Merchant of Bagdad," and more. 66 illustrations. [via]
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Tao Te Ching: About the Way of Nature and Its Powersby Lao TzuISBN 0895295067 (0-89529-506-7)
Softcover, Avery Pub Group
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The Tao Teh King: Liber CLVII a New Translationby Aleister Crowley, Lao-TzuISBN 0913576069 (0-913576-06-9)
Hardcover, Thelema Publications
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The Temple of My Familiarby Alice WalkerISBN 0896219372 (0-89621-937-2)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hallby Anne Brontë, John WeeksISBN 0912800704 (0-912800-70-4)
Softcover, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited
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Time and Againby Jack FinneyISBN 0899684033 (0-89968-403-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0907785735 (0-907785-73-5)
Hardcover, Sai Publications
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An Unkindness of Ravensby Ruth RendellISBN 0896216845 (0-89621-684-5)
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Venus in Furs, a Novel: Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Matajaby Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Uwe MoellerISBN 0922233012 (0-922233-01-2)
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The Victorian Chaise Loungeby Marghanita LaskiISBN 0897330978 (0-89733-097-8)
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We So Seldom Look on Loveby Barbara GowdyISBN 0921051700 (0-921051-70-0)
Softcover, Somerville House Books, Limited
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0907785751 (0-907785-75-1)
Hardcover, Sai Publications
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0893759910 (0-89375-991-0)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 091406116X (0-914061-16-X)
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