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Beowulfby Burton RaffelISBN 0451527402 (0-451-52740-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, Beowulf was composed 400 years before the Norman Conquest. As a social document, this great epic poem reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death. As a work of art, it rings with a beauty, power, and artistry that have kept it alive for more than twelve centuries.MASS MARKET PAPER [via]
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The Betrothedby Alessandro ManzoniISBN 0460119990 (0-460-11999-0)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Betrothed'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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The Cairo Trilogy : Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Streetby Naguib Mahfouz, Edward W. SaidISBN 0375413316 (0-375-41331-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cairo Trilogy : Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street'Book summary:Naguib Mahfouzs magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prizewinning writers masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britains occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century.
The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sonsthe tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmads rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street brings Mahfouzs vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician.
Throughout the trilogy, the familys trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, The Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller.
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Catullusby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Kenneth QuinnISBN 0333017870 (0-333-01787-0)
Hardcover, Motorbooks Intl
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Catullus: A Commentaryby C.J. Fordyce, Gaius Valerius CatullusISBN 0198721471 (0-19-872147-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catullus: A Commentary'Book summary:This edition of eighty poems of Catullus is designed for college students. An introduction deals with the life of Catullus, his indebtedness to Alexandrian poetry, and the later history of the poems. The commentary interprets the poems in the light of modern linguistic and literary scholarship. The Latin text comes from the Oxford Classical Text edition edited by Roger Mynors. [via]
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Catullus (Gai Valeri Catulli Veronensis Liber)by Gaius Valerius Catullus, Louis Zukofsky, Celia Thaew ZukofskyISBN 0206614497 (0-206-61449-7)
Hardcover, Cape Goliard P.
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Collected Poems, 1934-1953by Walford Davies, Dylan Thomas, Ralph MaudISBN 0460047477 (0-460-04747-7)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent
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Collected Stories of William Faulknerby William FaulknerISBN 0394722574 (0-394-72257-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories of William Faulkner'Book summary:This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds readers of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets. Among the 42 selections in this book are such classics as "A Bear Hunt, " "A Rose for Emily, " Two Soldiers, " and "The Brooch." [via]
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The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary Volumes I-Iv, Vol 3by R. W. BurchfieldISBN 0198612117 (0-19-861211-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary Volumes I-Iv, Vol 3'Book summary:In 1971 the Compact Oxford English Dictionary made publishing and printing history by ingeniously reducing the 13 volumes of the OED to two, without losing one word of the original. Newsweek hailed the achievement "a brilliant success," while the New York Times declared that the Compact was "something of a miracle... easier to work with than the original... an extraordinary bargain." Since then it has sold over 330,000 copies in the United States alone.
But the Compact did not contain the Supplements to the OED which have been appearing at regular intervals since 1972. Now, with their completion in 1986, all four volumes are being produced in a single micrographically reproduced volume to be called Volume III of the Compact OED. So the vital addendum, which transforms the OED into an indispensable tool for the eighties, will be made available for the first time in this convenient and affordable format.
The Supplement, called the "book of the century" by Phillip Howard in the London Times, contains all the new words that have come into use during the twentieth century and includes as well the countless new meanings that have been applied to older words--over 69,000 entries altogether. It includes business terms, "computerese," space-age terminology, colloquialisms and coinages by modern authors ranging from William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf to Gore Vidal and Erica Jong. Words like G-man, yuppie, user-friendly , test-tube baby, and Zen Buddhism rub shoulders with the most recent additions to subjects like law, medicine and engineering. The wealth of Americanisms in the Supplement also reflects a new direction for the dictionary. As editor Robert Burchfield explains it, "The center of gravity for the English language is no longer Britain. American English is the greatest influence on English everywhere."
Volume III of the Compact is available in its own jndividual slipcase or combined with Volumes I and II in one slipcase. By a process of photoreduction four pages from the original work appear on each page of the Compact edition and both versions include a magnifying glass that makes the reduced type easily readable.
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, Volume III (A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, Volumes I-IV) $75.00, 861211-7, 1424 pp., 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 1 volume in slipcase (adhesive strips on the slipcase allow it to be attached to the 2-volume Compact OED boxed set) with reading glass
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The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: Complete Text Reproduced Micrographicallyby R. W. BurchfieldISBN 0198612125 (0-19-861212-5)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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The Compact Oxford English Dictionaryby E.S.C. WeinerISBN 0198612583 (0-19-861258-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Compact Oxford English Dictionary'Book summary:Proper words in their proper places--and a good many improper ones, too! If the OED's many obsolete definitions tend to be the most enjoyable--shuff is dialect for "shy," dolt was once upon a time a verb as well, meaning "to befool"--everyday idiosyncrasies still abound. But, for instance, occupies nine columns of text, and who would wish a single line away? There's also the sublime pleasure of trawling through the sea of relevant quotations. The OED's initial team of "voluntary readers" was asked to cite as many phrases as possible for both archaic and ordinary terms. None seems to have found this remotely arduous, and we now reap the ubiquitous ("present or appearing everywhere; omnipresent") rewards. This huge venture is a labor of lore, love, and good humor. One caveat: If you skip over the Historical Introduction, you'll miss learning about the Unregistered Words Committee, and overlook the wry warning, "If there is any truth in the old Greek maxim that a large book is a great evil, English dictionaries have been steadily growing worse ever since their inception...." [via]
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The Complete Poetry of Catullusby David D. Mulroy, Gaius Valerius CatullusISBN 0299177742 (0-299-17774-2)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poetry of Catullus'Book summary:A wild young poet in Julius Caesar's Rome
Catullus life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesars Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consuls wife. He writes her passionate poems of love, hate, and jealousy. The consul, a vehement opponent of Caesar, dies under suspicious circumstances. The merry widow romances numerous young men. Catullus is drawn into politics and becomes a cocky critic of Caesar, writing poems that dub Julius a low-life pig and a pervert. Not surprisingly, soon after, no more is heard of Catullus.
David Mulroy brings to life the witty, poignant, and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in the Eternal City, reacting to real people and events in a Rome full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and megalomaniacal passions. Mulroys lively, rhythmic translations of the poems are enhanced by an introduction and commentary that provide biographical and bibliographical information about Catullus, a history of his times, a discussion of the translations, and definitions and notes that ease the way for anyone who is not a Latin scholar. [via]
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Cymbelineby William ShakespeareISBN 041502689X (0-415-02689-X)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cymbeline'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most perplexing and unclassifiable late plays, Cymbeline is often labelled a "Romance", due to its themes of pastoralism, exile and familial reconciliation which critics notice recur throughout Shakespeare's last plays, from Pericles to The Tempest. Set in ancient Roman Britain at the court of the British king Cymbeline, the main action of the play revolves around the relationship between Cymbeline's daughter, Imogen, and Posthumous Leonatus. Attempting to marry Imogen off to Cloten, the grotesque son of Cymbeline's second wife, the king banishes Posthumous in a rage when he discovers he has secretly married Imogen. As the personal relationships in the play deteriorate, on the public stage Rome prepares to invade Britain due to Cymbeline's failure to pay tribute to his imperial master. As the play builds to its militaristic climax, Posthumous returns to Britain, where he eventually contrives a reunion with Imogen and Cymbeline's long-lost sons, who unite in their attempt to resist the might of Rome.
The ending of the play, with its series of mystical riddles, unlikely coincidences and extraordinary reunions has baffled critics for centuries. Some read it as a heavy-handed political allegory of Jacobean national union under the new sovereign of the time, King James I, whilst others see in it Shakespeare pushing theatrical realism to its furthermost limits, with its decapitated bodies, complex staging and unlikely mistaken identities. Cymbeline remains a puzzling, enigmatic play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Daniel Derondaby George Eliot, Edmund WhiteISBN 037576013X (0-375-76013-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daniel Deronda'Book summary:George Eliots final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Deronda contrasts the moral laxity of the British aristocracy with the dedicated fervor of Jewish nationalists. Crushed by a loveless marriage to the cruel and arrogant Grandcourt, Gwendolen Harleth seeks salvation in the deeply spiritual and altruistic Daniel Deronda. But Deronda, profoundly affected by the discovery of his Jewish ancestry, is ultimately too committed to his own cultural awakening to save Gwendolen from despair.
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Daniel Derondaby A. S. Byatt, George EliotISBN 0375411232 (0-375-41123-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daniel Deronda'Book summary:George Eliots last and most unconventional novel is considered by many to be her greatest. First published in 1876, Daniel Deronda is a richly imagined epic with a mysterious hero at its heart.
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Daniel Deronda, a high-minded young man searching for his path in life, finds himself drawn by a series of dramatic encounters into two contrasting worlds: the English country-house life of Gwendolen Harleth, a high-spirited beauty trapped in an oppressive marriage to a wealthy man, and the very different life of a poor Jewish girl, Mirah, who is searching for her family. After rescuing Mirah from an attempt to drown herself in the Thames, Deronda accompanies her on her quest into Londons Jewish community, which he finds unexpectedly appealing. Gwendolen, meanwhile, increasingly relies on his support as she suffers from the consequences of her mistakes and the terror that she has brought a curse upon herself. As Deronda uncovers the surprising secret of his own parentage, Eliots moving and suspenseful narrative opens up a world of Jewish experience previously unknown to the Victorian novel.More editions of Daniel Deronda:
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Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Wordsby Milorad PavicISBN 0394571835 (0-394-57183-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words'Book summary:A novel despite its title, this book spans five centuries and is a mixture of fable, fiction and history. This is the male edition which differs slightly but significantly from the accompanying female edition. [via]
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Dombey and Sonby Charles Dickens, E. A. HorsmanISBN 0198124910 (0-19-812491-0)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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Don Juanby George Gordon Byron Byron, T. G. Steffan, Willis Winslow Pratt, E. SteffanISBN 0300026862 (0-300-02686-2)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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Don Juanby Leslie A. Marchand, George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 039505138X (0-395-05138-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Juan'Book summary:Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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Elizabeth Costelloby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0436206161 (0-436-20616-1)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literatureby John Bartlett, Justin KaplanISBN 0316084603 (0-316-08460-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature'Book summary:This 16th edition of the book, first published in 1855, has been expanded to include more than 20,000 quotations and more than 340 new authors both historical and contemporary - from Russell Baker, The Doors, Elvis, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Hawking, Primo Levi, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, the Talmud, Alice Walker and Elie Wiesel. This edition has been revised and edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan. [via]
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A Fine Balance : A Novelby Rohinton MistryISBN 0375414819 (0-375-41481-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Fine Balance : A Novel'Book summary:With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.
As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state. [via]More editions of A Fine Balance : A Novel:
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Four Major Playsby Henrik Ibsen, Templeton, Joan (AFT), Rolf FjeldeISBN 0451530225 (0-451-53022-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Major Plays'Book summary:Among the greatest and best known of Ibsen's works, these four plays--A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder--brilliantly embody his landmark contributions to the theater. Rich in symbolism and often autobiographical, each work deals convincingly with the human emotions of greed, fear, and sexual hostility, and confronts the external conflicts between reality and illusion. Reissue. [via]
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Interpreter of Maladies: Library Editionby Jhumpa Lahiri, Janet SilverISBN 039592720X (0-395-92720-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition'Book summary:Mr. Kapasi, the protagonist of Jhumpa Lahiri's title story, would certainly have his work cut out for him if he were forced to interpret the maladies of all the characters in this eloquent debut collection. Take, for example, Shoba and Shukumar, the young couple in "A Temporary Matter" whose marriage is crumbling in the wake of a stillborn child. Or Miranda in "Sexy," who is involved in a hopeless affair with a married man. But Mr. Kapasi has problems enough of his own; in addition to his regular job working as an interpreter for a doctor who does not speak his patients' language, he also drives tourists to local sites of interest. His fare on this particular day is Mr. and Mrs. Das--first-generation Americans of Indian descent--and their children. During the course of the afternoon, Mr. Kapasi becomes enamored of Mrs. Das and then becomes her unwilling confidant when she reads too much into his profession. "I told you because of your talents," she informs him after divulging a startling secret.
I'm tired of feeling so terrible all the time. Eight years, Mr. Kapasi, I've been in pain eight years. I was hoping you could help me feel better; say the right thing. Suggest some kind of remedy.
Of course, Mr. Kapasi has no cure for what ails Mrs. Das--or himself. Lahiri's subtle, bittersweet ending is characteristic of the collection as a whole. Some of these nine tales are set in India, others in the United States, and most concern characters of Indian heritage. Yet the situations Lahiri's people face, from unhappy marriages to civil war, transcend ethnicity. As the narrator of the last story, "The Third and Final Continent," comments: "There are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept." In that single line Jhumpa Lahiri sums up a universal experience, one that applies to all who have grown up, left home, fallen in or out of love, and, above all, experienced what it means to be a foreigner, even within one's own family. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition:
Life and Times of Michael Kby Michael CoetzeeISBN 0436102978 (0-436-10297-8)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Little Menby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0316031046 (0-316-03104-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Men'Book summary:[via]The beloved sequel to Little Women, this classic continues the story of Jo March, who goes on to get married and inherit an estate with which she creates an experimental school for boys.
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- Little Men: ISBN 0451529359 (0-451-52935-9)
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Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Little Men: ISBN 0451522753 (0-451-52275-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Little Men: ISBN 0316031089 (0-316-03108-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - Little Men: ISBN 0448060183 (0-448-06018-3)
Hardcover, Price Stern Sloan - Little Men: ISBN 0316031046 (0-316-03104-6)
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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boysby Louisa May Alcott, Charles DickensISBN 0448110180 (0-448-11018-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Man Without Qualitiesby Robert MusilISBN 0394510526 (0-394-51052-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Mason & Dixonby Thomas PynchonISBN 0312423209 (0-312-42320-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mason & Dixon'Book summary:A sprawling, complex, and comic work from one of the country's most celebrated and idiosyncratic authors, Mason & Dixon is Thomas Pynchon's Most Magickal reinvention of the 18th-century novel. It follows the lifelong partnership and adventures of the English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (of Mason-Dixon Line fame) as they travel the world mapping and measuring through an uncharted pre-Revolutionary America of Native Americans, white settlers, taverns, and bawdy establishments of ill-repute. Fans of the postmodern master of paranoia will recognize Pynchon's personality in the novel's first phrase: "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs," a brief echo of the rockets that curve across the skies in the writer's masterpiece Gravity's Rainbow. [via]
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Master and Commanderby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393307050 (0-393-30705-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Master and Commander'Book summary:An attractive movie-tie-in jacket for the release of the motion picture Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World starring Russell Crowe: "The best sea story I have ever read."--Sir Francis Chichester This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war are faultless rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle. It is the dawn of the nineteenth century; Britain is at war with Napoleon's France. When Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson's navy, is promoted to captain, he inherits command of HMS Sophie , an old, slow brig unlikely to make his fortune. But Captain Aubrey is a brave and gifted seaman, his thirst for adventure and victory immense. With the aid of his friend Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and secret intelligence agent, Aubrey and his crew engage in one thrilling battle after another, their journey culminating in a stunning clash with a mighty Spanish frigate against whose guns and manpower the tiny Sophie is hopelessly outmatched. [via]
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McTeagueby Frank Norris, Donald PizerISBN 0393970132 (0-393-97013-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'McTeague'Book summary:The novelist Frank Norris is almost forgotten today, but in books like "McTeague," published in 1899, he paved the way for a whole generation of American writers--a generation that included Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis and, less directly, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. McTeague is a dentist saddled with a grasping wife, and the book chronicles his rise and fall in awkward but powerful prose. This type of social realism, so contrary to the uplifting entertainment of the day (and to Mark Twain's more fanciful, comic novels), provided turn-of-the-century America a disturbing mirror in which to view itself. [via]
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- McTeague: ISBN 0451528913 (0-451-52891-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - McTeague : A Story of San Francisco: ISBN 0375761292 (0-375-76129-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - McTeague: ISBN 0393091368 (0-393-09136-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - McTeague: ISBN 0451524217 (0-451-52421-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - McTeague: ISBN 0393044602 (0-393-04460-2)
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The Mystery of Edwin Droodby Charles DickensISBN 0452006880 (0-452-00688-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'Book summary:A tale of entangled loves and thwarted desires,THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD(1870) has at its heart an ill-starred engagement and a suspected murder,the victim of which has disappeared.Dickens's last novel is the natural culmination of his life's work.It is populated by memorable characters such as the fatuous Mr Sapsea and the bullying ' philanthropist'Mr Honeythunder,and it exhibits Dickens's dazzling talent for atmosphere and social observation.Various attempts have been madeby authors such as Leon Garfield(1980) and C.Forsyte(1980) to resolve the mystery at the heart of this,Dickens's intriguing unfinished masterpiece. [via]
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- The Mystery of Edwin Drood: ISBN 0460876635 (0-460-87663-5)
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Hardcover, Penguin USA - The Mystery of Edwin Drood: ISBN 0394519183 (0-394-51918-3)
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- The Mystery of Edwin Drood: ISBN 0460876635 (0-460-87663-5)
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The Namesakeby Jhumpa LahiriISBN 0395927218 (0-395-92721-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Namesake'Book summary:Any talk of The Namesake--Jhumpa Lahiri's follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, Interpreter of Maladies--must begin with a name: Gogol Ganguli. Born to an Indian academic and his wife, Gogol is afflicted from birth with a name that is neither Indian nor American nor even really a first name at all. He is given the name by his father who, before he came to America to study at MIT, was almost killed in a train wreck in India. Rescuers caught sight of the volume of Nikolai Gogol's short stories that he held, and hauled him from the train. Ashoke gives his American-born son the name as a kind of placeholder, and the awkward thing sticks.
Awkwardness is Gogol's birthright. He grows up a bright American boy, goes to Yale, has pretty girlfriends, becomes a successful architect, but like many second-generation immigrants, he can never quite find his place in the world. There's a lovely section where he dates a wealthy, cultured young Manhattan woman who lives with her charming parents. They fold Gogol into their easy, elegant life, but even here he can find no peace and he breaks off the relationship. His mother finally sets him up on a blind date with the daughter of a Bengali friend, and Gogol thinks he has found his match. Moushumi, like Gogol, is at odds with the Indian-American world she inhabits. She has found, however, a circuitous escape: "At Brown, her rebellion had been academic ... she'd pursued a double major in French. Immersing herself in a third language, a third culture, had been her refuge--she approached French, unlike things American or Indian, without guilt, or misgiving, ore expectation of any kind." Lahiri documents these quiet rebellions and random longings with great sensitivity. There's no cleverness or showing-off in The Namesake, just beautifully confident storytelling. Gogol's story is neither comedy nor tragedy; it's simply that ordinary, hard-to-get-down-on-paper commodity: real life. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Norwegian Woodby Haruki Murakami, Jay RubinISBN 0375704027 (0-375-70402-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Norwegian Wood'Book summary:In 1987, when Norwegian Wood was first published in Japan, it promptly sold more than 4 million copies and transformed Haruki Murakami into a pop-culture icon. The horrified author fled his native land for Europe and the United States, returning only in 1995, by which time the celebrity spotlight had found some fresher targets. And now he's finally authorized a translation for the English-speaking audience, turning to the estimable Jay Rubin, who did a fine job with his big-canvas production The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Readers of Murakami's later work will discover an affecting if atypical novel, and while the author himself has denied the book's autobiographical import--"If I had simply written the literal truth of my own life, the novel would have been no more than fifteen pages long"--it's hard not to read as at least a partial portrait of the artist as a young man.
Norwegian Wood is a simple coming-of-age tale, primarily set in 1969-70, when the author was attending university. The political upheavals and student strikes of the period form the novel's backdrop. But the focus here is the young Watanabe's love affairs, and the pain and pleasure and attendant losses of growing up. The collapse of a romance (and this is one among many!) leaves him in a metaphysical shambles:
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it.
This account of a young man's sentimental education sometimes reads like a cross between Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Stephen Vizinczey's In Praise of Older Women. It is less complex and perhaps ultimately less satisfying than Murakami's other, more allegorical work. Still, Norwegian Wood captures the huge expectation of youth--and of this particular time in history--for the future and for the place of love in it. It is also a work saturated with sadness, an emotion that can sometimes cripple a novel but which here merely underscores its youthful poignancy. --Mark Thwaite [via]More editions of Norwegian Wood:
Our Town: A Play in Three Actsby Thornton Niven WilderISBN 0380005573 (0-380-00557-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Oxford English DictionaryISBN 019861117X (0-19-861117-X)
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The Oxford English Dictionaryby J. A. SimpsonISBN 0198611862 (0-19-861186-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford English Dictionary'Book summary:The Oxford English Dictionary has long been considered the ultimate reference work in English lexicography. Compiled by the legendary editor James Murray and a staff of brilliant philologists and lexicographers (not to mention one homicidal maniac), the OED was originally conceived in 1857 as a four-volume set, but by the time the last volume was published in 1928, it had swelled to 10 volumes containing over 400,000 entries. In the years since, the staff of the OED has continued to keep pace with our ever-evolving language, and today the dictionary weighs in at a whopping 20 volumes. The great joy of this dictionary lies in its extensive cross-references and word etymologies, which can run a full page or more. These features not only make the OED the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of the English language, but a delight to browse. [via]
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Oxford English Dictionary Additions Seriesby John A. Simpson, J. A. Simpson, E.S.C. WeinerISBN 0198612990 (0-19-861299-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series'Book summary:The second in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, OED Additions Volume 2 contains, 3,000 new words and meanings presented in OED style, and represents work-in-progress from across the alphabetic range. Its contents include: 3,000 new words and senses; cumulative index of volumes 1 and 2; world coverage of English including the UK (exclusion order), North America (enrollee), and Australia (grummet), a wide variety of subjects, including science (superstring), literary theory (epiphanic), and sport (strokeless); all registers of English, including colloquial (everyplace) and slang (dweeb); full historical documentation, and dates of first appearance. [via]
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The Oxford English Dictionary: Being a Corrected Re-Issue with an Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principlesby Philological Society (Great Britain), R. W. Burchfield, James Augustus Henry MurrayISBN 0198611013 (0-19-861101-3)
Hardcover, At the Clarendon Press
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Palace Walkby Naguib MahfouzISBN 0385264666 (0-385-26466-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Palace Walk'Book summary:Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s. [via]
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Parzivalby Wolfram Von EschenbachISBN 0394701887 (0-394-70188-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parzival'Book summary:Parzival, an Arthurian romance completed by Wolfram von Eschenbach in the first years of the thirteenth century, is one of the foremost works of German literature and a classic that can stand with the great masterpieces of the world. The most important aspects of human existence, worldly and spiritual, are presented in strikingly modern terms against the panorama of battles and tournaments and Parzival's long search for the Grail. The world of knighthood, of love and loyalty and human endeavor despite the cruelty and suffering of life, is constantly mingling with the world of the Grail, affirming the inherent unity between man's temporal condition and his quest for something beyond human existence. [via]
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Parzival of Wolfram Von Eschenbackby Von Eschenbach WolframISBN 0404509053 (0-404-50905-3)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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The Poems of Catullusby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Lee GuyISBN 0198147430 (0-19-814743-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Satires of Juvenalby Decimus Junis JuvenalisISBN 0253200202 (0-253-20020-2)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Satires: With the Satires of Persiusby Juvenal, Richard Stoneman, John Warrington, William GiffordISBN 0460871714 (0-460-87171-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Satires: With the Satires of Persius'Book summary:The famous trilogy which describes the murder of Agamemnon by his wife and his son's subsequent vengeance. [via]
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The Secret History : A Novelby Donna TarttISBN 0449911519 (0-449-91151-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret History : A Novel'Book summary:"Powerful...Enthrallling...A ferociously well-paced entertainment."THE NEW YORK TIMESRichard Papen arrived at Hampden College in New England and was quickly seduced by an elite group of five students, all Greek scholars, all worldly, self-assured, and, at first glance, all highly unapproachable. As Richard is drawn into their inner circle, he learns a terrifying secret that binds them to one another...a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night where an ancient rite was brought to brutal life...and led to a gruesome death. And that was just the beginning...."A smart, craftsman-like, viscerally compelling novel."TIMESelected by the Book-of-the-Month ClubA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKFrom the Paperback edition. [via]
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokovby Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri NabokovISBN 0394586158 (0-394-58615-8)
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0394701534 (0-394-70153-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'Book summary:Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of immigrant women who had no occupational choice but to become domestic workers. This collection of documents from the history of women's suffrage, medical history, modernist art, and literature enables readers to see how radical Stein's subject was.[via]More editions of Three Lives:
Three Livesby Linda Wagner-Martin, Gertrude SteinISBN 0312183569 (0-312-18356-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Three Talesby Gustave FlaubertISBN 0452010020 (0-452-01002-0)
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The Travels Of Marco Poloby Marco Polo, William Marsden, Manuel Komroff, Jason GoodwinISBN 0375758186 (0-375-75818-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Travels Of Marco Polo'Book summary:[via]His pilgrimage through the East began in 1271 when, still a teenager, he found himself traversing the most exotic lands-from the dazzling Mongol empire to Tibet and Burma. This fascinating chronicle still serves as the most vivid depiction of the mysterious East in the Middle Ages.
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Travels of Marco Poloby Milton RugoffISBN 0451517172 (0-451-51717-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels of Marco Polo'Book summary:First published in 1931. None of the manuscripts which have come down to us represents the original form of Marco Polo's narrative, but it is clear that certain texts are closer to the lost original than others. Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto discovered many unknown manuscripts. He carefully edited the most famous of the manuscripts (the Geographic text) and collated it with the other best known ones.
· An invaluable index has been added to Aldo Ricci's of Benedetto's text, which includes all the identifications made in the Geographic text and also later editions by Marsden (1818), Pauthier (1865) and Yule (1871).
· The difficulty of following Polo on his many journeys has also been simplified by the process of distinguishing between those places on his main route to China and his return journey by sea to Persia and those places which he visited during his stay in China and those he never visited at all.
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Vile Bodiesby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926116 (0-316-92611-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Virgin Suicidesby Jeffrey EugenidesISBN 0446670251 (0-446-67025-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Wandererby Henri Alain-FournierISBN 0452010101 (0-452-01010-1)
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When We Were Orphansby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0375724400 (0-375-72440-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When We Were Orphans'Book summary:When 9-year-old Christopher Banks's father--a British businessman involved in the opium trade--disappears from the family home in Shanghai, the boy and his friend Akira play at being detectives: "Until in the end, after the chases, fist-fights and gun-battles around the warren-like alleys of the Chinese districts, whatever our variations and elaborations, our narratives would always conclude with a magnificent ceremony held in Jessfield Park, a ceremony that would see us, one after another, step out onto a specially erected stage ... to greet the vast cheering crowds."
But Christopher's mother also disappears, and he is sent to live in England, where he grows up in the years between the world wars to become, he claims, a famous detective. His family's fate continues to haunt him, however, and he sifts through his memories to try to make sense of his loss. Finally, in the late 1930s, he returns to Shanghai to solve the most important case of his life. But as Christopher pursues his investigation, the boundaries between fact and fantasy begin to evaporate. Is the Japanese soldier he meets really Akira? Are his parents really being held in a house in the Chinese district? And who is Mr. Grayson, the British official who seems to be planning an important celebration? "My first question, sir, before anything else, is if you're happy with the choice of Jessfield Park for the ceremony? We will, you see, require substantial space."
In When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro uses the conventions of crime fiction to create a moving portrait of a troubled mind, and of a man who cannot escape the long shadows cast by childhood trauma. Sherlock Holmes needed only fragments--a muddy shoe, cigarette ash on a sleeve--to make his deductions, but all Christopher has are fading recollections of long-ago events, and for him the truth is much harder to grasp. Ishiguro writes in the first person, but from the beginning there are cracks in Christopher's carefully restrained prose, suggestions that his version of the world may not be the most reliable. Faced with such a narrator, the reader is forced to become a detective too, chasing crumbs of truth through the labyrinth of Christopher's memory.
Ishiguro has never been one for verbal pyrotechnics, but the unruffled surface of this haunting novel only adds to its emotional power. When We Were Orphans is an extraordinary feat of sustained, perfectly controlled imagination, and in Christopher Banks the author has created one of his most memorable characters. --Simon Leake [via]
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?by Edward AlbeeISBN 0451158717 (0-451-15871-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'Book summary:[via]Twelve times a week, answered Uta Hagen when asked how often shed like to play Martha in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albees masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evenings end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the plays razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as a brilliantly original work of artan excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire [that] will be igniting Broadway for some time to come.
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