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Bleak Houseby Charles DickensISBN 0192545035 (0-19-254503-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bleak House'Book summary:Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket. (Running time: 3 hours; 2 cassettes) [via]
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The Book of American Negro Poetryby James Weldon JohnsonISBN 0156135396 (0-15-613539-6)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of American Negro Poetry'Book summary:A landmark anthology of forty poets that brought serious attention to writers such as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. The poetry, the prefaces, and Johnson's critical notes have made this book a classic. Indices. [via]
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The Case Workerby George KonradISBN 0156154129 (0-15-615412-9)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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The Castle of Crossed Destiniesby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156154552 (0-15-615455-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Castle of Otrantoby Horace Walpole, W.S. LewisISBN 0192816063 (0-19-281606-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Cat and Mouseby Gunter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 0156155516 (0-15-615551-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Cherry Pitby Donald HaringtonISBN 0156168200 (0-15-616820-0)
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The Choiring of the Treesby Donald HaringtonISBN 015617099X (0-15-617099-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Weltyby Eudora WeltyISBN 0156189216 (0-15-618921-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty'Book summary:Mozartian stylist magnificent stories entertaining stories [via]
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porterby Katherine Anne PorterISBN 0156188767 (0-15-618876-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter'Book summary:Porters reputation as one of americancas most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.[via]More editions of The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter:
Coming Up for Airby George OrwellISBN 0156196255 (0-15-619625-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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The Crimes Of Loveby Marquis De Sade, David CowardISBN 019280507X (0-19-280507-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crimes Of Love'Book summary:Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories--tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depraved passions, and they in turn suffer under the thrall of love.
This is the most complete selection from the Marquis de Sade's four-volume collection of short stories, The Crimes of Love. David Coward's vibrant new translation captures the verve of the original, and his introduction and notes describe Sade's notorious career. This new selection includes "An Essay on Novels," Sade's penetrating survey of the novelist's art. It also contains the preface to the collection and an important statement of Sade's concept of fiction and one of the few literary manifestoes published during the Revolution. Appendices include the denunciatory review of the collection that it received on publication, and Diderot's vigorous response. A skilled and artful story-teller, Marquis de Sade's is also an intellectual who asks questions about society, about ourselves, and about life. Psychologically astute and defiantly unconventional, these stories show Sade at his best. [via]More editions of The Crimes Of Love:
Darkness Visibleby William GoldingISBN 0156239310 (0-15-623931-0)
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David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens, Paul BaileyISBN 0192100432 (0-19-210043-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:David Copperfield (1849-50) was Dickens's favorite novel: 'Of all my books', he wrote, 'I like it the best.' Strikingly autobiographical in its childhood scenes, it relates David's history from birth to young manhood, and the host of characters he meets on his journey of self-knowledge: Mr Micawber, the Peggottys, Betsey Trotwood, Steerforth and Uriah Heep among them.
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Dealings With the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportationby Charles DickensISBN 0192545078 (0-19-254507-8)
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Delta of Venusby Anais NinISBN 0156252775 (0-15-625277-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Delta of Venus'Book summary:Anais Nin's Delta of Venus is a stunning collection of sexual encounters from the queen of literary erotica. From Mathilde's lust-filled Peruvian opium den to the Hungarian baron driven insane by his insatiable desire, the passions and obsessions of this dazzling cast of characters are vivid and unforgettable. Delta of Venus is a deep and sensual world that evokes the very essence of sexuality. [via]
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The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934by Anais Nin, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 0156260255 (0-15-626025-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934'Book summary:This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.[via]More editions of The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934:
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Diary of Virginia Woolfby Virginia Woolf, Anne Oliver BellISBN 0156260360 (0-15-626036-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary of Virginia Woolf'Book summary:Nothing yet published about her so totally contradicts the legend of Virginia Woolf.... [This] is a first chance to meet the writer in her own unguarded words and to observe the root impulses of her art without the distractions of a commentary (New York Times). Edited and with a Preface by Anne Olivier Bell; Introduction by Quentin Bell; Index.[via]More editions of Diary of Virginia Woolf:
The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, John D. SinclairISBN 0192810960 (0-19-281096-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Dombey and Sonby Charles Dickens, E. A. HorsmanISBN 0192815652 (0-19-281565-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dombey and Son'Book summary:'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel. [via]
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The Early Diary of Anais Nin: 1923-1927by Anais NinISBN 0156272504 (0-15-627250-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas Hardy, Suzanne B. Falck-Yi, Linda M. ShiresISBN 019280149X (0-19-280149-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Far from the Madding Crowd'Book summary:Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart.
Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. Set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year, the story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. This new edition retains the critical text that restores previously deleted and revised passages. [via]More editions of Far from the Madding Crowd:
Feast in the Gardenby George KonradISBN 0156304546 (0-15-630454-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott Abbott, Rosemary JannISBN 0192805983 (0-19-280598-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful "romance of many dimensions" explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissary Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension. Part geometry lesson, part social satire, this classic work of science fiction brilliantly succeeds in enlarging all readers' imaginations beyond the limits of their "respective dimensional prejudices."
This new edition begins with an introduction by Rosemary Jann that illuminates the social and intellectual context that produced the work and explains its relationship to the theological issues central to Abbott's career. It also provides the most extensive discussion to date of the class and gender issues raised by the text and of the debates over the limits of scientific and mathematical knowledge in which it participated.
Flatland's unique combination of astute social, philosophical, and mathematical observations with wit and humor can be read at many different levels, and will prove especially enjoyable to readers of Victorian literature and philosophy. [via]More editions of Flatland:
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Flight to Arrasby Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Lewis GalantiereISBN 0156318806 (0-15-631880-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flight to Arras'Book summary:A recollection of the shattering days during World War II when, though the fall of France was imminent, a handful of French pilots continued to fight on against the Germans. Translated by Lewis Galantière.[via]More editions of Flight to Arras:
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Flounderby Ralph Manheim, Gunter GrassISBN 0156319357 (0-15-631935-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flounder'Book summary:It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew, he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Flounder:
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The Four Loves: Featuring the Vintage Recordings of the voice of C. S. Lewisby C. S. LewisISBN 0156329301 (0-15-632930-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Four Loves: Featuring the Vintage Recordings of the voice of C. S. Lewis'Book summary:"We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves." We hear often that love is patient and kind, not envious or prideful. We hear that human love is a reflection of divine love. We hear that God is love. But how do we understand its work in our lives, its perils and rewards? Here, the incomparable C. S. Lewis examines human love in four forms: affection, the most basic, general, and emotive; friendship, the most rare, least jealous, and, in being freely chosen, perhaps the most profound; Eros, passionate love that can run counter to happiness and poses real danger; charity, the greatest, most spiritual, and least selfish. Proper love is a risk, but to bar oneself from it--to deny love--is a damning choice. Love is a need and a gift; love brings joy and laughter. We must seek to be awakened and so to find an Appreciative love through which "all things are possible." "The Four Loves deserves to become a minor classic as a modern mirror of our souls, a mirror of the virtues and failings of human loving." -New York Times Book Review "Lewis has a keen eye, a large measure of human sympathy, wit, and a command of simple words." -Times Literary Supplement C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898-1963), one of the great writers of the twentieth century, also continues to be one of our most influential Christian thinkers. He wrote more than thirty books, both popular and scholarly, including The Chronicles of Narnia series, The Screwtape Letters, The Four Loves, Mere Christianity, and Surprised by Joy. [via]
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Free Fallby William GoldingISBN 0156334682 (0-15-633468-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Fall'Book summary:Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and obscurity to see his pictures hung in London's Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is captured and confined to a prison cell in total darkness. He emerges from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb.[via]More editions of Free Fall:
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Storiesby Flannery O'ConnorISBN 0156364654 (0-15-636465-4)
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Grimms' Fairy Talesby Peter CarterISBN 0192745298 (0-19-274529-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimms' Fairy Tales'Book summary:Grimms' Fairy Tales is a charming new edition of one of the best-known collections of children's stories of all times. Peter Carter brings a novelist's flair for narrative pace and vivid imagery to these familiar tales while remaining faithful to the spirit and tone of the original orally transmitted stories. The authentic rhythm of spoken English is captured in Carter's clear and resonant style.
All the favorite characters are here--Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, Red Riding Hood--along with others less well-known in gripping tales such as The Singing Bone and The Carrion Crows. Haunting and powerful, sad and humorous, these stories remain as fresh and fascinating as the first day they were told. [via]More editions of Grimms' Fairy Tales:
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Groupby Mary McCarthyISBN 0156372088 (0-15-637208-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Group'Book summary:Written with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars.
Mary McCarthys most celebrated novel follows the lives of eight Vassar graduates, known simply to their classmates as the group. An eclectic mix of personalities and upbringings, they meet a week after graduation to watch Kay Strong get married. After the ceremony, the women begin their adult livestraveling to Europe, tackling the worlds of nursing and publishing, and finding love and heartbreak in the streets of New York City. Through the years, some of the friends grow apart and some become entangled in each other's affairs, but all vow not to become like their mothers and fathers. It is only when one of them passes away that they all come back together again to mourn the loss of a friend, a confidante, and most importantly, a member of the group. [via]
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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writingsby Jonathan Swift, Louis A. LandaISBN 0192812068 (0-19-281206-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Talesby L. W. KingslandISBN 0192745328 (0-19-274532-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales'Book summary:"Far out to sea the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass, but it is very deep, deeper than any anchorage chain can reach, and many church towers would have to be put one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the water. Down there live the mer-folk." From the very beginning of "The Little Mermaid" we know we are in the hands of a master storyteller. Hans Andersen wrote over one hundred sixty fairy tales and stories and this collection features twenty-six of his very best tales.
Chosen and translated by L.W. Kingsland, the stories in this collection are perfect for reading aloud. They include all the old favorites, along with some less familiar stories, such as The Travelling Companion and Soup on a Sausage Stick.
In Hans Andersen's world you will encounter the dog with eyes as big as towers, tiny Thumbelina who sleeps in a walnut shell, the terrifying Snow Queen and the sad little Mermaid, the steadfast tin soldier, the ugly duckling, and a throng of other characters, all touched by the special charm of their creator. As Andersen himself says, "Well, now, let's begin and when we come to the end of the story we shall know more than we do now!" [via]More editions of Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales:
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Homo Faberby Max Frisch, Michael BullockISBN 0156421356 (0-15-642135-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homo Faber'Book summary:Walter Faber is an emotionally detached engineer forced by a string of coincidences to embark on a journey through his past. The basis for director Volker Schlandorffs movie Voyager. Translated by Michael Bullock. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Homo Faber:
Hot Gates and Other Occasional Piecesby William GoldingISBN 0156421801 (0-15-642180-1)
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I'm Not Stillerby Max Frisch, Michael BullockISBN 0156849909 (0-15-684990-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I'm Not Stiller'Book summary:The unabridged version of a haunting story of a man in prison. His wife, brother, and mistress recognize him and call him by his name, Anatol Ludwig Stiller. But he rejects them, repeatedly insisting that hes not Stiller. Could he possibly be right-or is he deliberately trying to shake off his old identity and assume a new one? Translated by Michael Bullock. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of I'm Not Stiller:
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Incest: From "a Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin 1932-1934by Anais NinISBN 0156443007 (0-15-644300-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incest: From "a Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin 1932-1934'Book summary:The continuation of the story begun in Henry and June, exposing the shattering psychological drama that drove Nin to seek absolution from her psychoanalysts for the ultimate transgression. It is [Nins] posthumously published uncensored diaries that will make her immortal (Booklist). Introduction by Rupert Pole; Index; photographs.[via]More editions of Incest: From "a Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin 1932-1934:
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The Inheritorsby William GoldingISBN 0156443791 (0-15-644379-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inheritors'Book summary:Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens, fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in their cruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom for the more gentle folk whose world they will inherit. Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature.[via]More editions of The Inheritors:
Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938by Mary McCarthyISBN 0156447878 (0-15-644787-8)
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Keep the Aspidistra Flyingby George OrwellISBN 0156468999 (0-15-646899-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying'Book summary:London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Nearly 30 and "rather moth-eaten already," a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen "flatter than any pancake," Gordon has given up a "good" job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former salary. Always broke, but too proud to accept charity, he rarely sees his few friends and cannot get the virginal Rosemary to bed because (or so he believes), "If you have no money ... women won't love you." On the windowsill of Gordon's shabby rooming-house room is a sickly but unkillable aspidistra--a plant he abhors as the banner of the sort of "mingy, lower-middle-class decency" he is fleeing in his downward flight. In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell has created a darkly compassionate satire to which anyone who has ever been oppressed by the lack of brass, or by the need to make it, will all too easily relate. He etches the ugly insanity of what Gordon calls "the money-world" in unflinching detail, but the satire has a second edge, too, and Gordon himself is scarcely heroic. In the course of his misadventures, we become grindingly aware that his radical solution to the problem of the money-world is no solution at all--that in his desperate reaction against a monstrous system, he has become something of a monster himself. Orwell keeps both of his edges sharp to the very end--a "happy" ending that poses tough questions about just how happy it really is. That the book itself is not sour, but constantly fresh and frequently funny, is the result of Orwell's steady, unsentimental attention to the telling detail; his dry, quiet humor; his fascination with both the follies and the excellences of his characters; and his courageous refusal to embrace the comforts of any easy answer. --Daniel Hintzsche [via]
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Lectures on Literatureby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0156495899 (0-15-649589-9)
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Lectures on Russian Literatureby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0156495910 (0-15-649591-0)
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Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Marinerby Daniel DefoeISBN 0192815555 (0-19-281555-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York. Mariner'Book summary:Son of a middle-class Englishman, Robinson Crusoe takes to the sea to find adventure. And find it he does when on one of his voyages he is shipwrecked on a deserted South American island for thirty-five years. After scavenging his broken ship for useful items, he had only his skills and ingenuity to keep him alive as there was to be no one else on the island for the next twenty-four years. In the middle of that twenty-fourth year he rescued a native about to be eaten by cannibals who were using his island for a place of feasting. Crusoe named this man Friday, after the day of his rescue. Friday became his faithful servant and friend, even returning with him to England after their deliverance by an English ship. Listeners will enjoy Crusoe's determination for survival against all odds and admire the spirituality that gave him the strength to survive. A hero through the ages, he richly deserves the admiration that has endured over three centuries. [via]
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A Life of Johnsonby James Boswell, J. D. Fleeman, Robert William ChapmanISBN 0192815377 (0-19-281537-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Life of Johnson'Book summary:James Boswell is for some the ideal scribe, for others a sycophantic toady. Edmund Wilson, for example, memorably labeled him "a vain and pushing diarist." Boswell can even be seen as someone unconsciously intent on undermining his idol in sonorous, balanced sentences. Early on in his massive Life, he puts all manner of ideas into our heads with his boobish attempts to clear the youthful Johnson of potential impropriety: "His juvenile attachments to the fair sex were, however, very transient; and it is certain that he formed no criminal connection whatsoever." And while it's often tempting to ignore Boswell's more personal intrusions and delight solely in the melancholic master's words and deeds, there are suchdelightful admissions as, "I was at this time so occupied, shall I call it? or so dissipated, by the amusements of London that our next meeting was not till Saturday, June 25..."
Samuel Johnson was born in 1709 and died in 1784--a long life, though one marred by depression and fear of death. On April 20, 1764, for example, he declared, "I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits." Many of the quotes Boswell includes are a sort of greatest hits: Johnson's definitions of oats and lexicographer, his love for his cat Hodge, as well as thousands of bon, and mal, mots. ("Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"; "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all.") But there are also many unfamiliar pleasures--Boswell's accounts of Johnson's literary industry, including the Dictionary, The Rambler, and Lives of the Poets; Johnson's singular loathing for Scotland and France; and the surprising hints of revelry. Awakened at 3 AM by friends, he greets them with, "What, is it you, you dogs! I'll have a frisk with you." This at age 42. Johnson's final years were marked by pain and loneliness but certainly no loss of wit. [via]
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Lightning Bugby Donald HaringtonISBN 0156519984 (0-15-651998-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lightning Bug'Book summary:Latha Bourne, the attractive postmistress of Stay More-a small town in the Arkansas Ozarks-didn't expect to see Every Dill again. Now everyone in the village is surprised that Every had the nerve to reappear in this tale of loss and of finding.[via]More editions of Lightning Bug:
Linotte: The Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1914-1920by Anais NinISBN 0156523868 (0-15-652386-8)
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The Loserby George KonradISBN 015653584X (0-15-653584-X)
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The Lusiadsby Luis Vaz De Camoes, Landeg WhiteISBN 0192801511 (0-19-280151-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lusiads'Book summary:1998 is the quincentenary of Vasca da Gama's voyage via southern Africa to India, the voyage celebrated in this new translation of one of the greatest poems of the Renaissance. Portugal's supreme poet Camoes was the first major European artist to cross the equator. The freshness of that original encounter with Africa and India is the very essence of Camões's vision. The first translation of The Lusiads for almost half a century, this new edition is complemented by an illuminating introduction and extensive notes. [via]
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The Man from the USSR and Other Playsby Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0156569450 (0-15-656945-0)
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Mansfield Parkby Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Jane StablerISBN 019280264X (0-19-280264-X)
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Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the Cityby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156572044 (0-15-657204-4)
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The Meeting at Telgteby Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim, Leonard ForsterISBN 0156585758 (0-15-658575-8)
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Melmoth the Wandererby Charles Robert MaturinISBN 0192553186 (0-19-255318-6)
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, E.J. KenneyISBN 0192510339 (0-19-251033-9)
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The Monk: A Longman Cultural Editionby Matthew LewisISBN 0192815245 (0-19-281524-5)
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Moscow 2042by Vladimir Voinovich, Richard LourieISBN 0156621657 (0-15-662165-7)
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Mr. Palomarby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156627809 (0-15-662780-9)
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Night Flightby De Saint ExuperyISBN 0156656051 (0-15-665605-1)
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No Man Is an Islandby Thomas MertonISBN 015665962X (0-15-665962-X)
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Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951by Dmitri Nabokov, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0156936100 (0-15-693610-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951'Book summary:If Vladimir Nabokov's fiction merits any criticism, it is for its iciness. The master himself declared in a 1977 BBC interview, "My characters cringe as I come near them with my whip. I have seen a whole avenue of imagined trees losing their leaves at the threat of my passage." Nabokov's correspondence, however, reveals a far warmer individual, though one ever-ready with a verbal shiv. This volume begins with a 1923 letter to his mother, written while he was a farmhand in the French Alps, and ends with a 1977 letter sent to his wife, Vera, for Mother's Day: "My dearest, your roses, your fragrant rubies, glow red against a background of spring rain..."
Nabokov's son, Dmitri, and Matthew Bruccoli have created the fullest, and by far the most amusing, portrait of the serious artist as trickster. There's the famous letter to Burma-Vita, in which Nabokov offers the company an advertising jingle (alas, they turned him down). There's the best, and most amusing, account of "l'affaire Lolita." Here is his response to his New Yorker editor, Katharine White: "Let me thank you very warmly for your frank and charming letter about LOLITA. But after all how many are the memorable literary characters whom we would like our teen-age daughters to meet? Would you like our Patricia to go on a date with Othello? Would we like our Mary to read the New Testament temple against temple with Raskolnikov? Would we like our sons to marry Emma Rouault, Becky Sharp or La belle dame sans merci?"
In another letter, however, he takes care to thank White for a "chubby check." (One wishes this phrase had gained greater circulation.) Nabokov again and again comes off as a difficult author, challenging his publishers left, right, and center over issues large (and there were many) and as well as those that were niggling. Calling the British paperback cover of Laughter in the Dark "atrocious, disgusting, and badly drawn besides having nothing to do whatever with the contents of the book," he tells his U.K. publisher, "I would appreciate if you would use your influence and have them substitute a pretty dark-haired girl, or a palmtree, or a winding road, or anything else for this tasteless abomination." Still, one is most often convinced that he's right, even when he makes the large claim that the French film Les Nymphettes infringes on his rights, "since this term was invented by me for the main character in my novel Lolita."
Not only is this volume endlessly quotable, it also reads like a great epistolary novel--fraught with high thought, high drama, and the delightfully unexpected. Who would have guessed that Nabokov would ask Hugh Hefner, "Have you ever noticed how the head and ears of your Bunny resemble a butterfly in shape, with an eyespot on one hindwing?" [via]
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The Odysseyby Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 0192741837 (0-19-274183-7)
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The Odysseyby Homer, Walter ShewringISBN 0192510193 (0-19-251019-3)
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The Odyssey of Homerby Barbara Leonie Picard, Joan Kiddell-MonroeISBN 0192741462 (0-19-274146-2)
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The Odyssey World Classicby HomerISBN 0192815423 (0-19-281542-3)
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Oedipus Cycleby Dudley FittsISBN 0156838389 (0-15-683838-9)
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On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literatureby Alfred KazinISBN 015668750X (0-15-668750-X)
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The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quinceyby Grevel LindopISBN 0192814362 (0-19-281436-2)
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Orlando: A Biographyby Virginia WoolfISBN 015670160X (0-15-670160-X)
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Our Mutual Friendby Marcus Stone, E. Salter Davies, Charles DickensISBN 0192545108 (0-19-254510-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Mutual Friend'Book summary:Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickens completed and is, arguably, his darkest and most complex. The basic plot is vintage Dickens: an inheritance up for grabs, a murder, a rocky romance or two, plenty of skullduggery, and a host of unforgettable secondary characters. But in this final outing the author's heroes are more flawed, his villains more sympathetic, and the story as a whole more harrowing and less sentimental. The mood is set in the opening scene in which a riverman, Gaffer Hexam, and his daughter Lizzie troll the Thames searching for drowned men whose pockets Gaffer will rifle before turning the body over to the authorities. On this particular night Gaffer finds a corpse that is later identified as that of John Harmon, who was returning from abroad to claim a large fortune when he was apparently murdered and thrown into the river.
Harmon's death is the catalyst for everything else that happens in the novel. It seems the fortune was left to the young man on the condition that he marry a girl he'd never met, Bella Wilfer. His death, however, brings a new heir onto the scene, Nicodemus Boffin, the kind-hearted but low-born assistant to Harmon's father. Boffin and his wife adopt young Bella, who is determined to marry money, and also hire a mysterious young secretary, John Rokesmith, who takes an uncommon interest in their ward. Not content with just one plot, Dickens throws in a secondary love story featuring the riverman's daughter, Lizzie Hexam; a dissolute young upper-class lawyer, Eugene Wrayburn; and his rival, the headmaster Bradley Headstone. Dark as the novel is, Dickens is careful to leaven it with secondary characters who are as funny as they are menacing--blackmailing Silas Wegg and his accomplice Mr. Venus, the avaricious Lammles, and self-centered Charlie Hexam. Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens's most satisfying novels, and a fitting denouement to his prolific career. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austenby Jane Austen, R.W. ChapmanISBN 0192547038 (0-19-254703-8)
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Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Oxford Worlds Classics Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0192100335 (0-19-210033-5)
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Paradise Lostby John Milton, Philip PullmanISBN 019280619X (0-19-280619-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost'Book summary:Paradise Lost is the great epic poem of the English language, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle ranges across heaven, hell, and earth, as Satan and his band of rebel angels conspire against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.
This marvelous edition boasts an introduction by one of Milton's most famous modern admirers, the best-selling novelist Philip Pullman. Indeed, Pullman not only provides a general introduction, but also introduces each of the twelve books of the poem. In these commentaries, Pullman illuminates the power of the poem and its achievement as a story, suggests how we should read it today, and describes its influence on him and his acclaimed trilogy His Dark Materials, which takes its title from a line in the poem. His observations offer a tribute that is both personal and insightful, and his enthusiasm for Milton's language, skill, and supreme gifts as a storyteller is infectious. He encourages readers above all to experience the poem for themselves, and surrender to its enchantment.
Pullman's tremendous admiration and passion for Paradise Lost will attract a whole new generation of readers to this classic of English literature. An ideal gift, the book is beautifully produced, printed in two colors throughout, illustrated with the twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition published in 1688, with ribbon marker. [via]More editions of Paradise Lost:
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The Personal History of David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 0192545027 (0-19-254502-7)
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Pincher Martinby William GoldingISBN 0156718332 (0-15-671833-2)
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0192815148 (0-19-281514-8)
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Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgementby I.A. RichardsISBN 0156736268 (0-15-673626-8)
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James HoggISBN 0192815563 (0-19-281556-3)
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The Private Memoirs And Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby John Carey, James HoggISBN 0192553194 (0-19-255319-4)
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THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS
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WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
WITH A DETAIL OF CURIOUS TRADITIONARY FACTS, AND
OTHER EVIDENCE, BY THE EDITOR
By
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The Pyramidby William G. GoldingISBN 0156747030 (0-15-674703-0)
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Ratby Gunter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 015675830X (0-15-675830-X)
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Second Common Readerby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156198088 (0-15-619808-8)
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Selected Prose of T. S. Eliotby T. S. EliotISBN 0156806541 (0-15-680654-1)
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The Shadow of the Sunby A. S. ByattISBN 0156814161 (0-15-681416-1)
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Some Other Place, the Right Placeby Donald HaringtonISBN 015683801X (0-15-683801-X)
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The Spireby William Gerald GoldingISBN 0156847418 (0-15-684741-8)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0192545043 (0-19-254504-3)
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They Were Defeatedby Rose MacAuleyISBN 0192813161 (0-19-281316-1)
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Too Loud a Solitudeby Bohumil Hrabal, Michael Henry HeimISBN 0156904586 (0-15-690458-6)
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Virginia Woolf; A Biographyby Quentin BellISBN 0156935805 (0-15-693580-5)
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What Maisie Knewby Henry JamesISBN 0192815334 (0-19-281533-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Maisie Knew'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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...Mrs. Wix's, during these hours, Sir Claude was--and most of all through long pauses--the perpetual, the insurmountable theme. It all took them back to the first flush of his marriage and to the place he held in the schoolroom at that crisis of love and pain; only he had himself blown to a much bigger balloon the large consciousness he then filled out. They went through it all again, and indeed while the interval dragged by the very weight of its charm they went, in spite of defences and suspicions, through everything. Their intensified clutch of the future throbbed like a clock ticking seconds; but this was a timepiece that inevitably, as well, at the best, rang occasionally a portentous hour. Oh there were several of these, and two or three of the worst on the old city-wall where everything else so made for peace. There was nothing in the world Maisie more wanted than to be as nice to Mrs. Wix as Sir Claude had desired; but it was exactly because this fell in with her inveterate instinct of keeping the peace that the instinct itself was quickened. From the moment it was quickened, however, it found other work, and that was how, to begin with, she produced the very complication she most sought to avert. What she had essentially done, these days, had been to read the unspoken into the spoken; so that thus, with accumulations, it had become more definite to her that the unspoken was, unspeakably, the completeness of the sacrifice of Mrs. Beale. There were times when every minute that Sir Claude stayed away was like a nail in Mrs. Beale's coffin. That brought back to Maisie--it was a roundabout way--the beauty and antiquity of her connexion with the flower of the Overmores as well as that lady's own grace and charm, her peculiar prettiness and... [via]
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Wind, Sand and Starsby Antoine de Saint-ExupéryISBN 0156970902 (0-15-697090-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wind, Sand and Stars'Book summary:Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined with lyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of the most popular works ever written about flying. Translated by Lewis Galantière.[via]More editions of Wind, Sand and Stars:
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The Yearsby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156997010 (0-15-699701-0)
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