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3 Wise Blood th Violent Br It Awy Gd Mby O'ConnorISBN 0451081595 (0-451-08159-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: From the Winchester MSS. of Thomas Malory and Other Sourcesby John SteinbeckISBN 0374523789 (0-374-52378-9)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights : From the Winchester Manuscripts of Thomas Malory and Other Sources'Book summary:A retelling of Mallory's King Arthur legends. [via]
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- The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: From the Winchester MSS. of Thomas Malory and Other Sources: ISBN 0345273893 (0-345-27389-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: From the Winchester MSS. of Thomas Malory and Other Sources: ISBN 0374100853 (0-374-10085-3)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux - The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: From the Winchester MSS. of Thomas Malory and Other Sources: ISBN 0434740225 (0-434-74022-5)
Hardcover, Heinemann - The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights : From the Winchester Manuscripts of Thomas Malory and Other Sources: ISBN 0374523789 (0-374-52378-9)
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- The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: From the Winchester MSS. of Thomas Malory and Other Sources: ISBN 0345273893 (0-345-27389-3)
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All the Pretty Horsesby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0394574745 (0-394-57474-5)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Pretty Horses'Book summary:Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age. [via]
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August 1914by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. WillettsISBN 0374519994 (0-374-51999-4)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'August 1914'Book summary:Part of a sequence of novels about the Russian Revolution carrying the overall title of "The Red Wheel". The other titles in this series include "October 1916" and "Lenin in Zurich". Other books by Solzhenitsyn include "The Gulag Archipelago". [via]
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Bulfinch's Mythologyby BulfinchISBN 0375751475 (0-375-75147-5)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bulfinch's Mythology'Book summary:The justly famous Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch contains three volumes the major contents of which are retained in this abridgment for the student and general reader. The Age Of Fable -- The gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome, as well as the mythology of the Germanic tribes, England and the Near East. The Legend Of Charlemange -- Accounts of the reign of the first great French Emperor, his wars and conquests. The Age Of Chivalry -- King Arthur and his court, Lancelot and Guenever, and the death of Arthur. [via]
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The Chosenby Chaim PotokISBN 0449213447 (0-449-21344-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chosen'Book summary:Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom, or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, their friendship, and the chaotic times in which they live. Though on the surface it explores religious faith--the intellectually committed as well as the passionately observant--the struggles addressed in The Chosen are familiar to families of all faiths and in all nations.
In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a secular Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe), the young men form a deep, if unlikely, friendship. Together they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts, the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to emerge in the U.S., loss, love, and the journey to adulthood. The intellectual and spiritual clashes between fathers, between each son and his own father, and between the two young men, provide a unique backdrop for this exploration of fathers, sons, faith, loyalty, and, ultimately, the power of love. (This is not a conventional children's book, although it will move any wise child age 12 or older, and often appears on summer reading lists for high school students.) [via]
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- The Chosen: ISBN 0449911543 (0-449-91154-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Chosen: ISBN 0395881455 (0-395-88145-5)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin - The Chosen: ISBN 0449209628 (0-449-20962-8)
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- The Chosen: ISBN 0449911543 (0-449-91154-3)
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Claudius the Godby Robert GravesISBN 0394608127 (0-394-60812-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Claudius the God'Book summary:Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emporer in spite of himself. Captures the vitality, splendor, and decadence of the Roman world at the point of its decline.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of Claudius the God:
Complete Writings: The Peloponnesian Warby Thucydides, Richard CrawleyISBN 0394309510 (0-394-30951-0)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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Exile And the Kingdomby Albert Camus, Carol Cosman, Orhan PamukISBN 0307278581 (0-307-27858-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exile And the Kingdom'Book summary:From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and mans perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn. They display Camus at the height of his powers.
Now, on the 50th anniversary of the books publication, Carol Cosmans new translation recovers a literary treasure for our time.
Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. [via]More editions of Exile And the Kingdom:
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The Fall and Exile and the Kingdomby Albert CamusISBN 0394603524 (0-394-60352-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Fanny Hillby John Cleland, Neil PhilipISBN 0283998741 (0-283-99874-1)
Hardcover, Sidgwick & Jackson
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Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John ClelandISBN 0140432493 (0-14-043249-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'Book summary:Fanny Hill, shrouded in controversy for most of its more than 250-year life, and banned from publication in the United States until 1966, was once considered immoral and without literary merit, even earning its author a jail sentence for obscenity.
The tale of a naïve young prostitute in bawdy eighteenth-century London who slowly rises to respectability, the noveland its popularityendured many bannings and critics, and today Fanny Hill is considered an important piece of political parody and sexual philosophy on par with French libertine novels.
This uncensored version is set from the 1749 edition and includes commentary by Charles Rembar, the lawyer who defended the novel in the 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case, and newly commissioned notes. [via]More editions of Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure:
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Giovanni's Roomby James BaldwinISBN 0385334583 (0-385-33458-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Giovanni's Room'Book summary:Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. James Baldwin's brilliant narrative delves into the mystery of loving with a sharp, probing imagination, and he creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the heart. [via]
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History of the Peloponnesian Warby Thucydides, Rex Warner, M.I. FinleyISBN 0140440399 (0-14-044039-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Peloponnesian War'Book summary:Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire. [via]
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0345391802 (0-345-39180-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed, ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan), Zaphods girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens hes bought over the years.
Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? For all the answers, stick your thumb to the stars! [via]More editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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Idylls of the Kingby Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, J.M. GrayISBN 0140422536 (0-14-042253-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Idylls of the King'Book summary:Tennyson had a life-long interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem "Morte d'Arthur" he built on the theme with this series of twelve poems, written in two periods of intense creativity over nearly twenty years. "Idylls of the King" traces the story of Arthur's rule, from his first encounter with Guinevere and the quest for the Holy Grail to the adultery of his Queen with Launcelot and the King's death in a final battle that spells the ruin of his kingdom. Told with lyrical and dreamlike eloquence, Tennyson's depiction of the Round Table reflects a longing for a past age of valour and chivalry. And in his depiction of King Arthur he created a hero imbued with the values of the Victorian age - one who embodies the highest ideals of manhood and kingship. [via]
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The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar WildeISBN 0451518993 (0-451-51899-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. This book includes "Lady Windermere's Fan", "Salome", "A Woman of No Importance", "An Ideal Husband", "A Florentine Tragedy" and "The Importance of Being Earnest", which appears in full with the 'Grigsby' scene which originally made up the fourth act. [via]
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Playsby Oscar Wilde, Richard Allen CaveISBN 0140436065 (0-14-043606-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays'Book summary:Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This collection offers newly edited texts of Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal Husband, and, arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, The Importance of Being Earnest. [via]
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- The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: ISBN 0192834444 (0-19-283444-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: ISBN 0140482091 (0-14-048209-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: ISBN 0140436065 (0-14-043606-5)
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- The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: ISBN 0192834444 (0-19-283444-4)
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flowerby Marcel Proust, James GrieveISBN 0143039075 (0-14-303907-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John ClelandISBN 0440055555 (0-440-05555-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'Book summary:She was a homeless orphan of 15, resolved to make her fortune in London. Abandoned by her chaperone, destitute and friendless, the inexperienced country maid was taken in by Madam Brown. And thus began, as she has told us, "...the loose part of my life, wrote with the same liberty that I led it." [via]
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Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/a Woman of No Importance/an Ideal Husband/the Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde, Peter RabyISBN 0192822462 (0-19-282246-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/a Woman of No Importance/an Ideal Husband/the Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This collection offers newly edited texts of Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal Husband, and, arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, The Importance of Being Earnest. [via]
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0140366881 (0-14-036688-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Sara Crewe seemed just like a real princess... When Sara Crewe arrives at Miss Minchin's London boarding school, she seems just like a real little princess. She wears beautiful clothes, has gracious manners, and tells the most wonderful stories. Then one day, Sara suddenly becomes penniless. Now she must wear rags, sleep in the school's dreary attic, and work for her living. Sara is all alone, but keeps telling herself that she can still be a princess inside, if only she tries hard enough. [via]
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- A Little Princess: ISBN 0397306938 (0-397-30693-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - A Little Princess: The Story of Sara Crewe: ISBN 0448409496 (0-448-40949-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - A Little Princess: ISBN 0140350284 (0-14-035028-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA - A Little Princess: ISBN 0141312033 (0-14-131203-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - A Little Princess: ISBN 0194229440 (0-19-422944-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - A Little Princess: ISBN 0439101379 (0-439-10137-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - A Little Princess: ISBN 0440403863 (0-440-40386-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - A Little Princess: ISBN 0440447674 (0-440-44767-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - A Little Princess: ISBN 039731339X (0-397-31339-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - A Little Princess: ISBN 0448092999 (0-448-09299-9)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap - A Little Princess: ISBN 0448400839 (0-448-40083-9)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap - A Little Princess: ISBN 0140366881 (0-14-036688-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- A Little Princess: ISBN 0397306938 (0-397-30693-8)
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A Little Princessby U. C. Knoepflmacher, Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0142437018 (0-14-243701-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess, one of the best-loved stories in all of children's literature.[via]
This unique and fully annotated edition appends excerpts from Frances Hodgson Burnett's original 1888 novella Sara Crewe and the stage play that preceded the novel, as well as an early story, "Behind the White Brick," allowing readers to see how A Little Princess evolved. In his delightful introduction, U. C. Knoepflmacher considers the fairy-tale allusions and literary touchstones that place the book among the major works of Victorian literature, and shows it to be an exceptionally rich and resonant novel.More editions of A Little Princess:
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John ClelandISBN 0192835653 (0-19-283565-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'Book summary:Peter Sabor presents both the first critical edition and the first accurate, wholly unexpurgated text of the most famous erotic novel in English, better known as Fanny Hill. [via]
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Memoirs of Fanny Hillby John ClelandISBN 0451524187 (0-451-52418-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Mind-Body Problemby Rebecca GoldsteinISBN 0394524748 (0-394-52474-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mind-Body Problem'Book summary:Wonderful book from perhaps the greatest living author today. Volume One of his "Border Trilogy." Hardcover. Original jacket. Stated First Edition. Light bumping. PO writing on front end page. Jacket price intact. Looks great. Very Good/Near Fine condition. [via]
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Norton Anthology of Literature by Womenby Sandra GilbertISBN 0393953912 (0-393-95391-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Norton Anthology of Literature by Women'Book summary:Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of womens writing in English.
Now, the much-anticipated Third Edition responds to the wealth of writing by women across the globe with the inclusion of 61 new authors (219 in all) whose diverse works span six centuries. A more flexible two-volume format and a versatile new companion reader make the Third Edition an even better teaching tool.
"As diversity itself has shaped the evolution of feminist criticism, from its early preoccupation with women's shared experiences to its more recent absorption in the complex issues and assumptions informing English-language texts by women writers of diverse geographical, cultural, racial, sexual, religious, and class origins and influences, so diversity has shaped the revisions of this anthology." From the Preface [via]More editions of Norton Anthology of Literature by Women:
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Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in Englishby Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan GubarISBN 0393968251 (0-393-96825-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English'Book summary:Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of womens writing in English.
Now, the much-anticipated Third Edition responds to the wealth of writing by women across the globe with the inclusion of 61 new authors (219 in all) whose diverse works span six centuries. A more flexible two-volume format and a versatile new companion reader make the Third Edition an even better teaching tool.
"As diversity itself has shaped the evolution of feminist criticism, from its early preoccupation with women's shared experiences to its more recent absorption in the complex issues and assumptions informing English-language texts by women writers of diverse geographical, cultural, racial, sexual, religious, and class origins and influences, so diversity has shaped the revisions of this anthology." From the Preface [via]More editions of Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English:
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The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in Englishby Susan Gubar, Sandra M. GilbertISBN 0393930130 (0-393-93013-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English'Book summary:Minimal shelfwear w/beginning to curl corners, stamp inside front cover, and bookstore label on back cover. No markings. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. [via]
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Notes from Underground White Nights the Dream of a Ridiculous Man and Selections from the House of the Deadby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0451523768 (0-451-52376-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Peloponnesian Warby Thucydides, Walter Blanco, Jennifer Tolbert RobertsISBN 0393971678 (0-393-97167-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Peloponnesian War: A New Translation, Backgrounds, Interpretations'Book summary:The classic history of war between Athens and Sparta. On 5/30/2009, I added links from the table of contents to each of the 26 chapters. If you bought a copy before that date, you should be able to download the new version at no extra charge. According to Wikipedia: "Thucydides (c. 460 B.C. c. 395 B.C.) was a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century B.C. war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 B.C. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" due to his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods. He has also been called the father of the school of political realism, which views the relations between nations as based on might rather than right. His classical text is still studied at advanced military colleges worldwide, and the Melian dialogue remains a seminal work of international relations theory. More generally, Thucydides showed an interest in developing an understanding of human nature to explain behaviour in such crises as plague and civil war." [via]
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The Peloponnesian War: Thucydidesby Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, David GreneISBN 0226801063 (0-226-80106-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Peloponnesian War: Thucydides'Book summary:"Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers of history in any language. . . . For every reason, the current availability of this great work is a boon."Joseph Cropsey, University of Chicago[via]More editions of The Peloponnesian War: Thucydides:
Poems by Robert Frostby Robert Frost, William PritchardISBN 0451524136 (0-451-52413-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Poetry of Robert Frostby Robert FrostISBN 0224618148 (0-224-61814-8)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Portable Beat Readerby Ann ChartersISBN 0142437530 (0-14-243753-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Beat Reader'Book summary:The Portable Beat Reader is an excellent and thorough study of the Beat Generation, compiled and edited by Ann Charters, biographer of Jack Kerouac and one of our most notable experts on Beat literature and ideas. This lively work of scholarship goes deeply into the history of the Beat movement, investigating events such as the discovery (by writer William Burroughs) of the word beat to describe this literary generation. The reader includes essays on all the major prose and poetry writers, such as Allen Ginsberg, and offers rare insight into the literary-historical context of the movement. [via]
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Princess Brideby William GoldmanISBN 0345348036 (0-345-34803-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess Bride'Book summary:The Princess Bride is a true fantasy classic. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern's original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. Morgenstern's mostly complimentary views of the text. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles."
Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.
Is The Princess Bride a critique of classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers, that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you'll put it on your "keeper" shelf. --Nona Vero [via]
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- Princess Bride: ISBN 0345418263 (0-345-41826-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Princess Bride: ISBN 034543014X (0-345-43014-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Princess Bride: ISBN 0151730857 (0-15-173085-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt - The Princess Bride: ISBN 0345348036 (0-345-34803-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
- Princess Bride: ISBN 0345418263 (0-345-41826-3)
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Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Groveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 0394711823 (0-394-71182-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove'Book summary:Here are the first two volumes of Prousts monumental achievement, Swanns Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann's Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, exquisite memories, long since passedhis mothers good-night kiss, the water lilies on the Vivonne, his love for Swanns daughter Gilbertespring vividly into being. In Within a Budding Grovewhich won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, bringing the author instant famethe narrator turns from his childhood recollections and begins to explore the memories of his adolescence. As his affections for Gilberte grow dim, the narrator discovers a new object of attention in the bright-eyed Albertine. Their encounters unfold by the shores of Balbec. One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin.
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The Robber Brideby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385491034 (0-385-49103-4)
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Robert Frosts Poemsby Louis UntermeyerISBN 0312983328 (0-312-98332-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robert Frosts Poems'Book summary:A proven bestseller time and time again, Robert Frost's Poems contains all of Robert Frost's best-known poems-and dozens more-in a portable anthology. Here are "Birches," "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Two Tramps at Mudtime," "Choose Something Like a Star," and "The Gift Outright," which Frost read at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy." An essential addition to every home library, Robert Frost's Poems is a celebration of the New England countryside, Frost's appreciation of common folk, and his wonderful understanding of the human condition. These classic verses touch our hearts and leave behind a lasting impression.[via]
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The Sagas of the Icelandersby Robert Kellogg, Jane SmileyISBN 0141000031 (0-14-100003-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sagas of the Icelanders'Book summary:A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured further west--to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of North America itself.[via]The 10 Sagas and seven shorter tales in this volume include the celebrated "Vinland Sagas," which recount Leif Eiriksson's pioneering voyage to the New World and contain the oldest descriptions of the North American continent.
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Sanctuaryby William FaulknerISBN 0394747445 (0-394-74744-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sanctuary'Book summary:First published in 1931, this classic psychological melodrama has been viewed as more of a social document in his tragic legend of the South than mere story. From Popeye, a moonshining racketeer with no conscience and Temple Drake, beautiful, bored and vulnerable, to Harace Benbow, a lawyer of honor and decency wishing for more in his life, and Gowan Stevens, college student with a weakness for drink, Faulkner writes of changing social values and order. A sinister cast peppered with social outcasts and perverts perform abduction, murder, and mayhem in this harsh and brutal story of sensational and motiveless evil. Students of Faulkner have found an allegorical interpretation of "Sanctuary" as a comment on the degradation of old South's social order by progressive modernism and materialistic exploitation. Popeye and his co-horts represent this hurling change that is corrupting the historic traditions of the South, symbolized by Horace Stevens, which are no longer able to protect the victimized Negro and poor white trash due to middle-class apathy and inbred violence. [via]
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Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 0375415351 (0-375-41535-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sula'Book summary:In Sula, Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, tells the story of two women--friends since childhood, separated in young adulthood, and reunited as grown women. Nel Wright grows up to become a wife and mother, happy to remain in her hometown of Medallion, Ohio. Sula Peace leaves Medallion to experience college, men, and life in the big city, an exceptional choice for a black woman to make in the late 1920s.
As girls, Nel and Sula are the best of friends, only children who find in each other a kindred spirit to share in each girl's loneliness and imagination. When they meet again as adults, it's clear that Nel has chosen a life of acceptance and accommodation, while Sula must fight to defend her seemingly unconventional choices and beliefs. But regardless of the physical and emotional distance that threatens this extraordinary friendship, the bond between the women remains unbreakable: "Her old friend had come home.... Sula, whose past she had lived through and with whom the present was a constant sharing of perceptions. Talking to Sula had always been a conversation with herself."
Lyrical and gripping, Sula is an honest look at the power of friendship amid a backdrop of family, love, race, and the human condition. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionaryby Simon WinchesterISBN 0140271287 (0-14-027128-7)
Softcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary'Book summary:The making of the "Oxford English Dictionary" was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the "OED's" editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language. [via]
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Swann's Wayby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 0141180587 (0-14-118058-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way'Book summary:Swann's Way begins with one of the most famous incidents in all of literature -- the taste of a madeleine and tea that reawakens the elusive childhood memories of the narrator, Marcel. An image of Charles Swann, a wealthy and fashionable neighbor, precipitates Marcel's recollection of Swann's marriage to Odette de Crecy, a beautiful, manipulative woman far beneath him in social standing, and of the jealousy, aroused by Odette's many affairs with both men and women, that eventually destroys Swarm. Marcel recounts, too, his own initiation into the aesthetic pleasures and sexual intrigues of belle-epoque Paris. The themes introduced in Swann's Way -- the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories -- form the threads that unite all the volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. [via]
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Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian Warby Richard LivingstoneISBN 0195002180 (0-19-500218-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War'Book summary:Thucydides wrote the story of the first democracy in history, and of the fortunes and fall of its empire, but his pages contain the modern world-scene in miniature. The tale is told by a great political thinker, whose penetrating insight and dramatic power caused Macaulay to call him the 'greatest historian that ever lived.' His work, slightly abridged, is here presented in translation with an introduction and notes. [via]
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Troilus and Cressida in Modern English Verseby Geoffrey Chaucer, George P. KrappISBN 0394701429 (0-394-70142-9)
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Troilus and Criseydeby Geoffrey Chaucer, B. A. WindeattISBN 0140424210 (0-14-042421-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Troilus and Criseyde'Book summary:Set against the epic backdrop of the battle of Troy, Troilus and Criseyde is an evocative story of love and loss. When Troilus, the son of Priam, falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde, he is able to win her heart with the help of his cunning uncle Pandarus, and the lovers experience a brief period of bliss together. But the pair are soon forced apart by the inexorable tide of war and - despite their oath to remain faithful - Troilus is ultimately betrayed. Regarded by many as the greatest love poem of the Middle Ages, Troilus and Criseyde skilfully combines elements of comedy and tragedy to form an exquisite meditation on the fragility of romantic love, and the fallibility of humanity. [via]
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0345453743 (0-345-45374-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adamss beloved Hitchiker series.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Facing annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat.
Life, the Universe and Everything
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals can avert Armageddon: mild-mannered Arthur Dent and his stalwart crew.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Back on Earth, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription conspires to thrust him back to reality. So to speak.
Mostly Harmless
Just when Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, all hell breaks loose. Can he save the Earth from total obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter from herself? [via]More editions of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
Under the Volcanoby Malcolm LowryISBN 0451132130 (0-451-13213-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Waiting for the Barbariansby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0140283358 (0-14-028335-8)
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White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 0140366679 (0-14-036667-9)
Softcover, Puffin
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White Fangby Pauline FrancisISBN 0237525321 (0-237-52532-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Fang'Book summary:This illustrated version of the classic novel "White Fang", is one of a series of shortened stories which aims to lose none of the strength and flavour of the original. It also contains biographical details of the original author, and a glossary of unusual words. [via]
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White Teeth: Reader's Companionby Zadie SmithISBN 0375703861 (0-375-70386-1)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Teeth: Reader's Companion'Book summary:Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again.
Still, the book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion during World War II. In the ensuing decades, both have gone forth and multiplied: Archie marries beautiful, bucktoothed Clara--who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother--and fathers a daughter. Samad marries stroppy Alsana, who gives birth to twin sons. Here is multiculturalism in its most elemental form: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."
Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided, and entirely familiar. Reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. Even a simple exchange between Alsana and Clara about their pregnancies has a comical ring of truth: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's... parts." And the men, of course, have their own involvement in bodily functions:
The deal was this: on January 1, 1980, like a New Year dieter who gives up cheese on the condition that he can have chocolate, Samad gave up masturbation so that he might drink. It was a deal, a business proposition, that he had made with God: Samad being the party of the first part, God being the sleeping partner. And since that day Samad had enjoyed relative spiritual peace and many a frothy Guinness with Archibald Jones; he had even developed the habit of taking his last gulp looking up at the sky like a Christian, thinking: I'm basically a good man.
Not all of White Teeth is so amusingly carnal. The mixed blessings of assimilation, for example, are an ongoing torture for Samad as he watches his sons grow up. "They have both lost their way," he grumbles. "Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave." These classic immigrant fears--of dilution and disappearance--are no laughing matter. But in the end, they're exactly what gives White Teeth its lasting power and undeniable bite. --Eithne Farry [via]More editions of White Teeth: Reader's Companion:
Within a Budding Groveby Marcel ProustISBN 0375752196 (0-375-75219-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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