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Aesop's Fablesby Aesop, Blanche WinderISBN 0804900817 (0-8049-0081-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Aesop's Fablesby Michael Hague, AesopISBN 0805063153 (0-8050-6315-3)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:"Please, O King," cried the Mouse, "spare me this time and I shall never forget your kindness. Someday I may be able to repay you." The Lion was so amused by this idea that he let the poor creature go.[via]
In sixth-century Greece, it is said, there lived a slave named Aesop who was renowned for his brilliant storytelling. The collection of sly, witty fables that bears his name continues to delight readers of all ages. Michael Hague has selected his favorite fables and illustrated them with beautiful paintings in the style that has made his work so popular.More editions of Aesop's Fables:
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Aesop's Fablesby Roberto PiuminiISBN 0812059581 (0-8120-5958-1)
Hardcover, Barrons Juveniles
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:What's the overriding moral of Aesop's Fables? Great lessons of life don't ever go out-of-date. This popular volume contains twenty familiar tales by Aesop, the legendary storyteller of ancient Greece. Extraordinarily attractive full-page color illustrations by the contemporary Italian artist Fulvio Testa capture the classic aura of The Fox and the Grapes, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Fox and the Crow, The Donkey and the Dog and sixteen more. [via]
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Angela's Ashesby Frank McCourtISBN 068484267X (0-684-84267-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angela's Ashes'Book summary:Now a major motion picture from Paramount and Universal Pictures International.
The #1 national bestseller. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the ABBY Award.
" "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."
So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling -- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.
Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors -- yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.
"Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. [via]
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- Angela's Ashes : A Memoir: ISBN 068487217X (0-684-87217-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Angela's Ashes: ISBN 0684874350 (0-684-87435-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Angela's Ashes: ISBN 0684843137 (0-684-84313-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Angela's Ashes: ISBN 0684872153 (0-684-87215-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Angela's Ashes: ISBN 068484267X (0-684-84267-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
- Angela's Ashes : A Memoir: ISBN 068487217X (0-684-87217-X)
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The Art of Warby John Minford, SunziISBN 0670031569 (0-670-03156-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of War'Book summary:For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture-a lucid epigrammatic text that reveals as much about human psychology, politics, and economics as it does about battlefield strategy. The influence of Sun-tzu's text has grown tremendously in the West in recent years, with military leaders, politicians, and corporate executives alike finding valuable insight in these ancient words. In his crisp, accessible new translation, scholar John Minford brings this seminal work to life for modern readers.
Minford opens with a lively, learned introduction in which he explores the life and times of Sun-tzu, looks at The Art of War in the context of the turbulent Warring States period, and discusses how best to read and understand the work today. There follows Minford's translation of the core text itself in two different formats-first, the unadorned thirteen chapters of the original work and then the same text reprinted with extensive running commentary by classical Chinese scholars as well as Minford himself. The result is an opportunity for Western readers to experience Sun-tzu's work in all its intensity as it applies to many aspects of our lives. [via]More editions of The Art of War:
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The Art Of Warby Sun TzuISBN 0762415983 (0-7624-1598-3)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art Of War'Book summary:The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare interpretation. This condensed version of his influential classic imparts the knowledge and skills to overcome every adversary in war, at the office, or in everyday life.[via]More editions of The Art Of War:
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The Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy for Themartial Artistby Sun Tzu, Stephen F. KaufmanISBN 0804830800 (0-8048-3080-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy for Themartial Artist'Book summary:Sun Tzu's Art of War is perhaps the best known and highly regarded treatise on strategy ever written. Although its wisdom is over two thousand years old, its principles are timeless for today's boardroom battlefields. Thirteen sections present incisive strategems from assessing the foe to proper treatment of troops to espionage. Hanshi Steve Kaufman, the widely acknowledged "Founding Father" of American Karate, translates this classic with respect for its powerful martial applications. Kaufman packs the power of the original text into straightforward prose for the benefits of all martial artists and corporate warriors. [via]
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The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Lifeby Stefan Rudnicki, Sun-TzuISBN 0787105619 (0-7871-0561-9)
Hardcover, Newstar Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life'Book summary:This classic tract written 2,500 years ago by a leading Chinese philosopher-general proposes a perspective with which to negotiate daily conflicts and insightful tools to help one to succeed in life and define and achieve personal goals. [via]
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Aspects of the Novel, and Related Writingsby E. M. ForsterISBN 0713157690 (0-7131-5769-0)
Hardcover, Edward Arnold
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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 055321330X (0-553-21330-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses The Awakening , Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent." This edition of The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin. "This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson. [via]
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The Awakening and Selected Storiesby Kate ChopinISBN 0679424695 (0-679-42469-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopinby Kate Chopin, Nina Baym, Alyssa HaradISBN 0743487672 (0-7434-8767-2)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin'Book summary:I used this book for a college class... But read it again because it was SOOOO good! [via]
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The Classic Treasury of Aesop's Fablesby Aesop, Don DailyISBN 0762404132 (0-7624-0413-2)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Classic Treasury of Aesop's Fables'Book summary:A timeless collection of twenty of Aesop's best-loved fables--punctuated by the age-old morals that have instructed countless generations. Accompanied by beautiful, full-color illustrations from award-winning artist Don Daily, this volume highlights such fables as "The Goose Who Laid the Golden Eggs," "The Mouse and the Frog," and the one and only "The Tortoise and the Hare."[via]More editions of The Classic Treasury of Aesop's Fables:
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twainby Mark TwainISBN 0553211951 (0-553-21195-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain'Book summary:For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.
Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, to the bitter vision of humankind in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, to the delightful hilarity of Is He Living or Is He Dead? Surging with Twain s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of in the words of H. L. Mencken the father of our national literature. [via]More editions of The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain:
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Fablesby Aesop, Roger L'EstrangeISBN 0679417907 (0-679-41790-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fables'Book summary:Aesop is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The eternally entertaining tales attributed to himin which the fates of sly foxes, wicked wolves, industrious ants, and others, suggest what our own behaviors should (or should not) behave been universal "best-sellers" since before L'Estrange's definitive 1692 English translation. Gooden's superb engravings were first published in 1936 in a limited edition. [via]
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Fables from Aesopby Tom Lynch, AesopISBN 0670889482 (0-670-88948-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fables from Aesop'Book summary:From century to century, generation to generation, Aesop's fables have entertained, enlightened minds, and warmed hearts around the world. Now in this unique collection, Tom Lynch uses collages of vivid color, intriguing texture and folk art style to re-invent fourteen of these well known and loved fables for today's children.
The crisp retellings of Aesop's tales and the beauty of Tom Lynch's illustrations will encourage readers to look closely before they leap from one fable to the next. [via]More editions of Fables from Aesop:
The Fables of Aesopby Aesop, Samuel CroxallISBN 0766151662 (0-7661-5166-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The Fables of Aesopby Ruth SpriggsISBN 0528820702 (0-528-82070-2)
Hardcover, Checkerboard Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fables of Aesop'Book summary:Retells 143 of Aesop's fables whose morals reflect virtues such as honesty, truth, goodness, and respect. [via]
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The First Circleby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0553246232 (0-553-24623-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Circle'Book summary:A major literary event 50 years in the making:In the First Circle is the first complete English translation of Nobel Prizewinner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns best novel (Washington Post). With an introduction by Edward Erickson, this work by the author of The Gulag Archipelago is the story of a brilliant mathematician who finds himself locked in a Moscow prison filled with the countrys brightest minds and must decide whether to aid Stalins repressive state. [via]
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Great Divorceby C. S. LewisISBN 0684823764 (0-684-82376-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Divorce'Book summary:The Great Divorce is C.S. Lewis's Divine Comedy: the narrator bears strong resemblance to Lewis (by way of Dante); his Virgil is the fantasy writer George MacDonald; and upon boarding a bus in a nondescript neighborhood, the narrator is taken to Heaven and Hell. The book's primary message is presented with almost oblique tidiness--"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" However, the narrator's descriptions of sin and temptation will hit quite close to home for many readers. Lewis has a genius for describing the intricacies of vanity and self-deception, and this book is tremendously persistent in forcing its reader to consider the ultimate consequences of everyday pettiness. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
The Innocents Abroadby Mark TwainISBN 0712619828 (0-7126-1982-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 0553213539 (0-553-21353-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'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 titleoffering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.[via]
This edition of The Invisible Man includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Gregory Benford.
It began with a quiet country inn--and a mysterious stranger, his features masked by gloves, dark glasses, and bandages that completely covered his head. Then came weird noises, the disembodied ravings, the phantom robberies, the haunted furniture...
The violence...The rampages...The killing.
An obscure scientist named Griffin had found a way to turn skin, flesh, blood and bones invisible--and tried the formula on himself. He could go anywhere; spy; steal; menace anyone. The Invisible Man had only two problems.
He couldn't turn visible again.
And he had gone quite murderously insane.More editions of The Invisible Man:
- The Invisible Man: ISBN 0812504674 (0-8125-0467-4)
Softcover, Tor Books - The Invisible Man: ISBN 0786404108 (0-7864-0410-8)
Hardcover, McFarland & Co Inc Pub - The Invisible Man: ISBN 0590013815 (0-590-01381-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - The Invisible Man: ISBN 0590440160 (0-590-44016-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - The Invisible Man: ISBN 080490040X (0-8049-0040-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The Invisible Man: ISBN 0755104072 (0-7551-0407-2)
Hardcover, House of Stratus Ltd - The Invisible Man: ISBN 0553213539 (0-553-21353-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
- The Invisible Man: ISBN 0812504674 (0-8125-0467-4)
Journey to the Eastby Hermann HesseISBN 0553208551 (0-553-20855-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to the East'Book summary:In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse's Journey to the East tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus. The participants traverse both space and time, encountering Noahs Ark in Zurich and Don Quixote at Bremgarten. The pilgrims ultimate destination is the East, the Home of the Light, where they expect to find spiritual renewal. Yet the harmony that ruled at the outset of the trip soon degenerates into open conflict. Each traveler finds the rest of the group intolerable and heads off in his own direction, with H.H. bitterly blaming the others for the failure of the journey. It is only long after the trip, while poring over records in the League archives, that H.H. discovers his own role in the dissolution of the group, and the ominous significance of the journey itself.[via]More editions of Journey to the East:
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Never Let Me Goby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0786278374 (0-7862-7837-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Let Me Go'Book summary:All children should believe they are special. But the students of Hailsham, an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them, and only by rumor and the occasional fleeting remark by a teacher do they discover their unconventional origins and strange destiny. Kazuo Ishiguro's sixth novel, Never Let Me Go, is a masterpiece of indirection. Like the students of Hailsham, readers are "told but not told" what is going on and should be allowed to discover the secrets of Hailsham and the truth about these children on their own.
Offsetting the bizarreness of these revelations is the placid, measured voice of the narrator, Kathy H., a 31-year-old Hailsham alumna who, at the close of the 1990s, is consciously ending one phase of her life and beginning another. She is in a reflective mood, and recounts not only her childhood memories, but her quest in adulthood to find out more about Hailsham and the idealistic women who ran it. Although often poignant, Kathy's matter-of-fact narration blunts the sharper emotional effects you might expect in a novel that deals with illness, self-sacrifice, and the severe restriction of personal freedoms. As in Ishiguro's best-known work, The Remains of the Day, only after closing the book do you absorb the magnitude of what his characters endure. --Regina Marler [via]
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph ConradISBN 0809594684 (0-8095-9468-4)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Conrad's foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from complex historical circumstances were such that his greatest novel, Nostromo -- though nearly one hundred years old -- says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its recreation of the subtropical landscape, this picture of an insurrectionary society and the opportunities it provides for moral corruption gleams on every page with its author's dry, undeceived, impeccable intelligence. [via]
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- Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard: ISBN 0679409904 (0-679-40990-4)
Hardcover, Everymans Library - Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard: ISBN 0809599287 (0-8095-9928-7)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - Nostromo : A Tale of the Seaboard: ISBN 067960202X (0-679-60202-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard: ISBN 0809594684 (0-8095-9468-4)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
- Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard: ISBN 0679409904 (0-679-40990-4)
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Of Love and Other Demonsby Gabriel García MárquezISBN 0679762841 (0-679-76284-1)
Softcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Love and Other Demons'Book summary:From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera comes an extraordinary reading experience, the story of a doomed love affair between a twelve-year-old girl and a bookish priest, three times her age, who's been sent to oversee her exorcism. [via]
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Oryx and Crakeby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0771008686 (0-7710-0868-6)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oryx and Crake'Book summary:In a science fiction novel that is more Swift than Heinlein, more cautionary tale than "fictional science" (no flying cars here), Margaret Atwood depicts a near-future world that turns from the merely horrible to the horrific, from a fool's paradise to a bio-wasteland. Snowman (a man once known as Jimmy) sleeps in a tree and just might be the only human left on our devastated planet. He is not entirely alone, however, as he considers himself the shepherd of a group of experimental, human-like creatures called the Children of Crake. As he scavenges and tends to his insect bites, Snowman recalls in flashbacks how the world fell apart.
While the story begins with a rather ponderous set-up of what has become a clichéd landscape of the human endgame, littered with smashed computers and abandoned buildings, it takes on life when Snowman recalls his boyhood meeting with his best friend Crake: "Crake had a thing about him even then. . . . He generated awe . . . in his dark laconic clothing." A dangerous genius, Crake is the book's most intriguing character. Crake and Jimmy live with all the other smart, rich people in the Compounds, gated company towns owned by biotech corporations. (Ordinary folks are kept outside the gates in the chaotic "pleeblands.") Meanwhile, beautiful Oryx, raised as a child prostitute in Southeast Asia, finds her way to the West and meets Crake and Jimmy, setting up an inevitable love triangle. Eventually Crake's experiments in bioengineering cause humanity's shockingly quick demise (with uncanny echoes of SARS, ebola, and mad cow disease), leaving Snowman to try to pick up the pieces. There are a few speed bumps along the way, including some clunky dialogue and heavy-handed symbols such as Snowman's broken watch, but once the bleak narrative gets moving, as Snowman sets out in search of the laboratory that seeded the world's destruction, it clips along at a good pace, with a healthy dose of wry humour. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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Our Mutual Friendby Charles DickensISBN 0613708652 (0-613-70865-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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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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- Our Mutual Friend: ISBN 0679420282 (0-679-42028-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Our Mutual Friend: ISBN 0553213865 (0-553-21386-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Our Mutual Friend: ISBN 0679600221 (0-679-60022-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Our Mutual Friend: ISBN 0613708652 (0-613-70865-2)
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- Our Mutual Friend: ISBN 0679420282 (0-679-42028-2)
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark TwainISBN 0553212567 (0-553-21256-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince and the Pauper'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 titleoffering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.[via]
This edition of The Prince and the Pauper includes an Introduction, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R. L. Fisher.
The Prince of Wales, Edward Tudor, was thrown to a filthy drunken mob--by his own guards. Beaten, starved, chased by dogs, forced to beg and steal...while even the prince's one friend, adventurer Miles Hendon, thought the boy was only a demented beggar.
Tom Canty was thrust into an alien life of protocol, ritual, and diplomacy. He, too, was thought mad, for suddenly "forgetting" classic languages, courtly manners, his role in world destiny. The beggar realized, with growing terror, that he was expected to rule, wage war, send people to their deaths...
Then King Henry VIII died. And unless two "mad" boys could convince someone of the truth, their fates would be sealed forever. By a crown.
Long live the king.More editions of The Prince and the Pauper:
- The Prince and the Pauper: ISBN 0812504771 (0-8125-0477-1)
Softcover, Tor Books - The Prince and the Pauper: ISBN 0582522846 (0-582-52284-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley - The Prince and the Pauper: ISBN 059044817X (0-590-44817-X)
Softcover, Scholastic - The Prince and the Pauper: ISBN 0804900329 (0-8049-0032-9)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Prince and the Pauper: ISBN 0606168966 (0-606-16896-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Prince and the Pauper: ISBN 0553212567 (0-553-21256-7)
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- The Prince and the Pauper: ISBN 0812504771 (0-8125-0477-1)
Remembrance of Things Pastby Marcel ProustISBN 0701124776 (0-7011-2477-6)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 0553214020 (0-553-21402-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'Book summary:ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: " A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
" A chronology of the author's life and work
" A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
" An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
" Detailed explanatory notes
" Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
" Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
" A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. [via]SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
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- The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0743487745 (0-7434-8774-5)
Softcover, Pocket Classics - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0755111184 (0-7551-1118-4)
Softcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 080851038X (0-8085-1038-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0804900280 (0-8049-0028-0)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0553214020 (0-553-21402-0)
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- The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0743487745 (0-7434-8774-5)
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The Scarlet Pimpernel: The New Musical Adventureby Frank Wildhorn, Nan KnightonISBN 0769258476 (0-7692-5847-6)
Softcover, Alfred Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel: The New Musical Adventure'Book summary:The songs are: Believe Into the Fire Falcon in the Dive When I Look at You The Scarlet Pimpernel Where's the Girl? The Creation of Man The Riddle They Seek Him Here Only Love She Was There Storybook You Are My Home. [via]
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Shakespeare's the Winter's Taleby William ShakespeareISBN 0671006568 (0-671-00656-8)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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Silver Chairby C. S. Lewis, Focus on the FamilyISBN 0613930118 (0-613-93011-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silver Chair'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch. [via]
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Sun Tzu: The New Translationby Sun-Tzu, J. H. HuangISBN 0688124003 (0-688-12400-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sun Tzu: The New Translation'Book summary:Sun-Tzu is a landmark translation of the Chinese classic that is without a doubt one of the most important books of all time. Popularly known as The Art of War, Sun-Tzu is one of the leading books on strategic thinking ever written. While other books on strategy, wisdom, and philosophy come and go, both leaders and gentle contemplators alike have embraced the writings of Sun-tzu.
Sun-Tzu is not simply another of many translations already available, but an entirely new text, based on manuscripts recently discovered in Linyi, China, that predates all previous texts by as much as one thousand years. In translating the text, researcher and interpreter J. H. Huang traced the roots of the language to before 221 B.C. to get to the original intent; Besides offering a wonderfully clear translation, Huang adds an introduction to the history behind Sun-Tzu and his own comments on the meaning of the text. In addition, Sun-Tzu includes six appendices, five of which were uncovered at Linyi and are not found in other editions.
The writings of Sun-tzu have stood the test of time, and J. H. Huang's Sun-Tzu is the edition for the next millennium and beyond. [via]More editions of Sun Tzu: The New Translation:
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Sun Tzu's Art of War: The Modern Chinese Interpretationby Yuan Shibing, Tao HangzhangISBN 0806966394 (0-8069-6639-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sun Tzu's Art of War: The Modern Chinese Interpretation'Book summary:For 2,400 years, Sun Tzu's "Art of War" has inspired some of history's greatest victories. Asian warlords for centuries have formulated their battle plans following Sun Tzu's precepts. Mao Zedong and General Eisenhower are two of the many great military leaders to adopt Sun Tzu's principles. This work is more than a military manual - its tactics of winning are applied by tough Fortune 500 executives, corporate raiders and labour union negotiators. Even computer strategy-game players and wargamers are getting in on the act. [via]
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The Swiss Family Robinsonby J.D. WyssISBN 0553214039 (0-553-21403-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Swiss Family Robinson'Book summary:The ship hits the rocks and the Swiss Family Robinson are cast onto a small island. How will they survive? Luckily, the father and mother have useful skills and they can teach their children. But will they ever be rescued? [via]
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- The Swiss Family Robinson: ISBN 0582426642 (0-582-42664-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - The Swiss Family Robinson: ISBN 0812543068 (0-8125-4306-8)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom - The Swiss Family Robinson: ISBN 0679436405 (0-679-43640-5)
Hardcover, Everymans Library - The Swiss Family Robinson: ISBN 0766607127 (0-7666-0712-7)
Hardcover, Modern Pub - The Swiss Family Robinson: ISBN 080958767X (0-8095-8767-X)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - The Swiss Family Robinson: ISBN 0590440144 (0-590-44014-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - The Swiss Family Robinson: ISBN 0804900132 (0-8049-0013-2)
Softcover, Alex m Yudkin Assoc - The Swiss Family Robinson: ISBN 0606069062 (0-606-06906-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Swiss Family Robinson: ISBN 0721405983 (0-7214-0598-3)
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- The Swiss Family Robinson: ISBN 0582426642 (0-582-42664-2)
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Tropic of Capricornby Henry MillerISBN 0802151825 (0-8021-5182-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Vision of Piers Plowmanby William Langland, Terence TillerISBN 0563179279 (0-563-17927-9)
Softcover, British Broadcasting Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vision of Piers Plowman'Book summary:One man's dream of a better society...PIERS PLOWMAN stands at the centre of medieval English literature along with Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES, which in many ways it complements. A weary wanderer falls asleep and dreams of a tower and a deep dungeon, and in between the whold of humanity pursuing its business and pleasure...but his dream becomes a profound vision of redemption, in which the corruptions and injustices that occur daily are laid open with passionate truthfulness in poetry that combines vigorous realism and probing argument with moments of epic sublimity and lyrical beauty. Edited by AVC Schmidt of Balliol College, Oxford, this is the B-Text. 'A marvel of comprehension' Derek Pearsall [via]
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Where Angels Fear to Treadby E. M. ForsterISBN 0679736344 (0-679-73634-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where Angels Fear to Tread'Book summary:"Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! Look at this letter! The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow. He's a bounder, but he's not an English bounder. He's mysterious and terrible. He's got a country behind him that's upset people from the beginning of the world."
When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian, her in-laws are not amused. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. But that Lilia should have had a baby -- and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! -- are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott.
In his first novel, E. M. Forster anticipated the themes of cultural collision and the sterility of the English middle class that he would develop in A Room with a View and A Passage to India. Where Angels Fear to Tread is an accomplished, harrowing, and malevolently funny book, in which familiar notions of vice and virtue collapse underfoot and the best intentions go mortally awry. [via]More editions of Where Angels Fear to Tread:
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Wide Sargasso Seaby Jean RhysISBN 0613175972 (0-613-17597-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wide Sargasso Sea'Book summary:In 1966 Jean Rhys reemerged after a long silence with a novel called Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys had enjoyed minor literary success in the 1920s and '30s with a series of evocative novels featuring women protagonists adrift in Europe, verging on poverty, hoping to be saved by men. By the '40s, however, her work was out of fashion, too sad for a world at war. And Rhys herself was often too sad for the world--she was suicidal, alcoholic, troubled by a vast loneliness. She was also a great writer, despite her powerful self-destructive impulses.
Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched."
The novel is Rhys's answer to Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë's book had long haunted her, mostly for the story it did not tell--that of the madwoman in the attic, Rochester's terrible secret. Antoinette is Rhys's imagining of that locked-up woman, who in the end burns up the house and herself. Wide Sargasso Sea follows her voyage into the dark, both from her point of view and Rochester's. It is a voyage charged with soul-destroying lust. "I watched her die many times," observes the new husband. "In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty."
Rhys struggled over the book, enduring rejections and revisions, wrestling to bring this ruined woman out of the ashes. The slim volume was finally published when she was 70 years old. The critical adulation that followed, she said, "has come too late." Jean Rhys died a few years later, but with Wide Sargasso Sea she left behind a great legacy, a work of strange, scary loveliness. There has not been a book like it before or since. Believe me, I've been searching. --Emily White [via]
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William Langland's Piers Plowman: The C Version A Verse Translationby William Langland, George EconomouISBN 0812215613 (0-8122-1561-3)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Langland's Piers Plowman: The C Version A Verse Translation'Book summary:William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372 and 1389, the poem survives in three distinct versions. It is known to modern readers largely through the middle of the three, the so-called B-text. Now, George Economou's verse translation of the poet's third version makes available for the first time in modern English the final revision of a work that many have regarded as the greatest Christian poem in our language.
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Langland's remarkable powers of invention and his passionate involvement with the spiritual, social, and political crises of his time lay claim to our attention, and demand serious comparison with Dante's Divine Comedy. Economou's translation preserves the intensity of the poet's verse and the narrative energy of his alliterative long line, the immediacy of the original's story of the quest for salvation, and the individuality of its language and wordplay.More editions of William Langland's Piers Plowman: The C Version A Verse Translation:
The Wings of the Doveby Henry JamesISBN 0678028206 (0-678-02820-6)
Hardcover, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, clandestine love affair. Croy is desperately in love with Densher, who has all the qualities of a potentially excellent husband: he's handsome, witty, and idealistic--the one thing he lacks is money, which ultimately renders him unsuitable as a mate. By chance, Croy befriends a young American heiress, Milly Theale. When Croy discovers that Theale suffers from a mysterious and fatal malady, she hatches a plan that can give all three characters something that they want--at a price. Croy and Densher plan to accompany the young woman to Venice where Densher, according to Croy's design, will seduce the ailing heiress. The two hope that Theale will find love and happiness in her last days and--when she dies--will leave her fortune to Densher, so that he and Croy can live happily ever after. The scheme that at first develops as planned begins to founder when Theale discovers the pair's true motives shortly before her death. Densher struggles with unanticipated feelings of love for his new paramour, and his guilt may obstruct his ability to avail himself of Theale's gift. James deftly navigates the complexities and irony of such moral treachery in this stirring novel. [via]
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- The Wings of the Dove: ISBN 0679455124 (0-679-45512-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Wings of the Dove: ISBN 0786882514 (0-7868-8251-4)
Softcover, Hyperion Books - The Wings of the Dove: ISBN 0678028192 (0-678-02819-2)
Hardcover, Scholars Book Shelf - The Wings of the Dove: ISBN 0679600671 (0-679-60067-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Wings of the Dove: ISBN 0678028206 (0-678-02820-6)
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- The Wings of the Dove: ISBN 0679455124 (0-679-45512-4)
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The Winter's Taleby William ShakespeareISBN 0563178558 (0-563-17855-8)
Softcover, Bbc Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Winter's Tale'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most haunting and enigmatic late plays, The Winter's Tale is a fine example of Shakespeare's fascination with the dramatic genre of "romance": the portrayal of magical lands, familial conflict and exile, and final reunion and reconciliation. Drawing on Robert Green's story Pandosto, Shakespeare play tells the story of the middle-aged Leontes, king of Sicilia, and his childhood friend Polixenes, the king of Bohemia. Leontes mistakenly believes that his friend is having an affair with his wife, Hermione. In his jealousy, and consumed by "tremor cordis", he tries to murder Polixenes, who flees, and accuses his wife of adultery. Hermione gives birth to a baby girl, Perdita, who Leontes denounces as illegitimate, and casts her out into the wilderness. Hermione is ultimately proved innocent, but her son, Mamillius, dies of grief. Hermione collapses, apparently dead, and Leontes is left to pick up the tragic consequences of his actions. Time passes, and the action moves to Bohemia, where the lost child Perdita has grown up a shepherdess in the midst of "great creating nature". The final scenes of the play draw towards resolution and reconciliation between Leontes, Hermione and their lost daughter, culminating in one of Shakespeare's most moving final scenes. One of Shakespeare's most consummate plays, The Winter's Tale is a fascinating study of male insecurity and the relations between art and nature. --Jerry Brotton. [via]
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- The Winter's Tale: ISBN 0743484894 (0-7434-8489-4)
Softcover, Pocket Classics - The Winter's Tale: ISBN 0669222100 (0-669-22210-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - The Winter's Tale: ISBN 0671669176 (0-671-66917-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Winter's Tale: ISBN 0671421956 (0-671-42195-6)
Hardcover, Washington Square Press - The Winter's Tale: ISBN 0563178558 (0-563-17855-8)
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The Winter's Tale : Texts and Contextsby William ShakespeareISBN 0671722972 (0-671-72297-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Winter's Tale : Texts and Contexts'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most haunting and enigmatic late plays, The Winter's Tale is a fine example of Shakespeare's fascination with the dramatic genre of "romance": the portrayal of magical lands, familial conflict and exile, and final reunion and reconciliation. Drawing on Robert Green's story Pandosto, Shakespeare play tells the story of the middle-aged Leontes, king of Sicilia, and his childhood friend Polixenes, the king of Bohemia. Leontes mistakenly believes that his friend is having an affair with his wife, Hermione. In his jealousy, and consumed by "tremor cordis", he tries to murder Polixenes, who flees, and accuses his wife of adultery. Hermione gives birth to a baby girl, Perdita, who Leontes denounces as illegitimate, and casts her out into the wilderness. Hermione is ultimately proved innocent, but her son, Mamillius, dies of grief. Hermione collapses, apparently dead, and Leontes is left to pick up the tragic consequences of his actions. Time passes, and the action moves to Bohemia, where the lost child Perdita has grown up a shepherdess in the midst of "great creating nature". The final scenes of the play draw towards resolution and reconciliation between Leontes, Hermione and their lost daughter, culminating in one of Shakespeare's most moving final scenes. One of Shakespeare's most consummate plays, The Winter's Tale is a fascinating study of male insecurity and the relations between art and nature. --Jerry Brotton. [via]
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Las Cenizas De Angela: Una Memoria/Angela's Ashes a Memoirby Frank McCourtISBN 0684859335 (0-684-85933-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las Cenizas De Angela: Una Memoria/Angela's Ashes a Memoir'Book summary:En cada pagina abunda el incomparable sentido del humor y la compasion de Frank McCourt. Con todas las cualidades de una obra clasica, "Las cenizas de Angela" esta ahora disponible en edicion rustica en espanol. Esta autobiografia ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y de gran exito de ventas internatcional trasciende las fronteras culturales y linguisticas con su narracion sobre la infancia, la pobreza y las relaciones familiares. [via]
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