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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 Adolescentby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0375719008 (0-375-71900-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adolescent'Book summary:"Not till J. D. Salinger created Holden Caulfield has there ever been so convincing a portrait of an adolescent."Toronto Daily Star
The fourth of Dostoevsky's five major novels, this is the story of a nineteen-year-old searching for identity amid the disorder of Russian society in the 1870s. Arkady is the illegitimate child of a landowner and the wife of his estate's gardener. He has refused to go to university, instead traveling to St. Petersburg in pursuit of a secret goaland of a relationship with his father. [via]
All's Well That Ends Wellby William Shakespeare, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451530012 (0-451-53001-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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- All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0486415937 (0-486-41593-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0415026792 (0-415-02679-2)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0416496105 (0-416-49610-5)
Softcover, Chapman & Hall - All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0451522613 (0-451-52261-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0451530012 (0-451-53001-2)
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- All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0486415937 (0-486-41593-7)
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The Analectsby Arthur Waley, ConfuciusISBN 0375412042 (0-375-41204-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Confucius is one of the most humane, rational, and lucid of moral teachers, concerned not with arcane metaphysics but with practical issues of life and conduct. What is virtue? What sort of life is most conducive to happiness? How should the state be ruled? What is the proper relationship between human beings and their environment?
In this classic translation of The Analects by Arthur Waley, the questions Confucius addressed two and a half millennia ago remain as relevant as ever. [via]More editions of The Analects:
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The Analectsby Confucius, William Edward SoothillISBN 0486284840 (0-486-28484-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Analects'Book summary:Rich distillation of the timeless precepts of extremely influential Chinese philosopher and social theorist. Includes "Concerning Fundamental Principles," "Concerning Government," "The Eight Dancers: Concerning Manners and Morals," "Concerning Virtue," "Concerning Certain Disciples and Others," "Concerning Certain Disciples and Other Subjects," "Concerning the Master Himself," and much more. Footnotes. [via]
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The Analects of Confuciusby Confucius, Simon LeysISBN 0393316998 (0-393-31699-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Analects of Confucius'Book summary:"This is the Confucius translation for our time."-Jonathan Mirsky, The Times [London] In this terse, brilliant translation, Simon Leys restores the human dimension to Confucius. He emerges a full-blooded character with a passion for politics and a devotion to the ideals of a civilization he saw in decline. Leys's notes draw Confucius into conversation with the great thinkers of the Western tradition. In all, this volume provides new readers the perfect introduction to a classic work. [via]
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The Analects of Confuciusby Arthur Waley EstateISBN 0415361729 (0-415-36172-9)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Anne Frankby Doubleday StaffISBN 038542695X (0-385-42695-X)
Softcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne Frank, B. M. Mooyaart, Eleanor RooseveltISBN 0385040199 (0-385-04019-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl'Book summary:Anne Frank's diaries have always been among the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. This new edition restores diary entries omitted from the original edition, revealing a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardships, and passions. Anne emerges as more real, more human, and more vital than ever. If you've never read this remarkable autobiography, do so. If you have read it, you owe it to yourself to read it again. [via]
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Aristotle Poeticsby S.H. ButcherISBN 0486200426 (0-486-20042-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle Poetics'Book summary:Best translation of one of the most influential books in all history. Greek and English on facing pages, plus Butcher's famed 300-page exposition and interpretation of Aristotle's ideas. Seminal discussions of art and morality, poetic truth, much more.[via]More editions of Aristotle Poetics:
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Aristotle's Poeticsby Aristotle, James HuttonISBN 0393952169 (0-393-95216-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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An Artist of the Floating Worldby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0399131191 (0-399-13119-1)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Artist of the Floating World'Book summary:In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the night life who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war. But the war is over. Japan lost, Ono's wife and son have been killed, and many young people blame the imperialists for leading the country to disaster. What's left for Ono? Ishiguro's treatment of this story earned a 1986 Whitbread Prize. [via]
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Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christby Lew Wallace, Tim F. LahayeISBN 0451528743 (0-451-52874-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ'Book summary:[via]Ben-Hur is the remarkable saga of betrayal, revenge, and redemption, played out in the bloodstained arenas of ancient Rome. Framed for attempting to murder a Roman official, Ben-Hur is robbed of his freedom, family, and fortune. Condemned to death as a galley slave, he lives only to avenge himself against the Roman tribune Messalathe boyhood friend who betrayed him.
Ben-Hur vividly recreates the sweep of Imperial Romefrom a thrilling sea battle, to the famous chariot race, to the agony of the Crucifixion. It is the moving, personal tale of the prince who became a slave and thenthrough a unique twist of fatewas able to fight his way back to the free world as a champion gladiator.
Written by the territorial governor of New Mexico, Ben-Hur was an immediate bestseller upon its release in 1880selling over two million copiesand continues to be an enduring classic.
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Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, Gail Carson LevineISBN 0439228905 (0-439-22890-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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- Black Beauty: ISBN 0440416450 (0-440-41645-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Black Beauty: ISBN 0448170639 (0-448-17063-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Black Beauty: ISBN 0451528654 (0-451-52865-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Black Beauty: ISBN 0486275701 (0-486-27570-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Black Beauty: ISBN 0486407888 (0-486-40788-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Black Beauty: ISBN 0448409429 (0-448-40942-9)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap - Black Beauty: ISBN 0460050125 (0-460-05012-5)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Black Beauty: ISBN 0440403553 (0-440-40355-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Black Beauty: ISBN 0448110075 (0-448-11007-5)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley - Black Beauty: ISBN 0451520564 (0-451-52056-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Black Beauty: ISBN 0451522958 (0-451-52295-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Black Beauty: ISBN 0451525965 (0-451-52596-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Black Beauty: ISBN 0394865758 (0-394-86575-8)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - Black Beauty: ISBN 0448058073 (0-448-05807-3)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap - Black Beauty: ISBN 0448060078 (0-448-06007-8)
Hardcover, Price Stern Sloan - Black Beauty: ISBN 0439228905 (0-439-22890-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
- Black Beauty: ISBN 0440416450 (0-440-41645-0)
The Book of Merlynby Terence Hanbury WhiteISBN 0441070159 (0-441-07015-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Merlyn'Book summary:The New York Times bestseller...now in a beautiful new trade edition.
An evocative and exciting tale of wizardry and war, this magnificent fantasy of the last days of King Arthur, his faithful magician and his animal teachers, completes the tragedy and romance of T. H. White's masterpiece The Once and Future King.
"And so the grand epic comes full circle, 'rounded and bright and done,' as White had wished it would be."--Boston Sunday Globe [via]-
Confucius: Confucian Analects, the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Meanby ConfuciusISBN 0486227464 (0-486-22746-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confucius: Confucian Analects, the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean'Book summary:Entire text of the Analects of Confucius in large, readable characters, and beneath this Legge's full translation, which has been accepted as the definitive, standard English version. Full chinese text, standard English translation on same page. Finest edition anywhere of one of world's finest thinkers.[via]More editions of Confucius: Confucian Analects, the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean:
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Cranfordby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0460010832 (0-460-01083-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cranford'Book summary:This work provides a timeless portrait of life in a peaceful English village in the early years of the 19th century. It is the most enduringly popular of Mrs Gaskell's works. [via]
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Editionby Anne Frank, Mirjam Pressler, Otto H. FrankISBN 0385473788 (0-385-47378-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition'Book summary:Anne Frank's diaries have always been among the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. This new edition restores diary entries omitted from the original edition, revealing a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardships, and passions. Anne emerges as more real, more human, and more vital than ever. If you've never read this remarkable autobiography, do so. If you have read it, you owe it to yourself to read it again. [via]
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Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Editonby Anne Frank, Mirjam Pressler, Otto H. Frank, Susan MassottyISBN 0385480334 (0-385-48033-4)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Editon'Book summary:The basis for and official tie-in edition to the PBS Masterpiece Classic movie titled The Diary of Anne Frank , directed by Jon Jones from a screenplay by Deborah Moggach. First airing April 11, 2010. More than fifty years after its first publication, Doubleday's definitive edition of Anne Frank's famous diary generated an extraordinary amount of excitement when it was published in early 1995. Enthusiastically received by critics and readers alike, it reigned for nine weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and will remain for all time the version that millions of readers will cherish.In a handsome package with flaps, rough front, and printed endpapers, this Anchor trade paperback will be the perfect gift for anyone who seeks insight into the indestructible nature of the human spirit. [via]
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The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Editionby Anne Frank, David Barnouw, Gerrold van der Stroom, H. J. J. Hardy, Gerrold Van Der Stroom, Barnouw. David, Arnold J. Pomerans, Susan Massotty, B. M. Mooyaart-DoubledayISBN 0385508476 (0-385-50847-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition'Book summary:A comparison of the three versions of Anne Frank's diary; Anne's original entries, including never-before-published material; the diary as she herself edited it while in hiding; and the best-known version, edited by her father.
B & W photographs throughout [via]More editions of The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition:
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Don Quixoteby Miguel De CervantesISBN 0460003852 (0-460-00385-2)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote'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 Edible Womanby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385491069 (0-385-49106-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Edible Woman'Book summary:Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she can't eat. First meat. Then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds--everything! Worse yet, she has the crazy feeling that she's being eaten. Marian ought to feel consumed with passion, but she really just feels...consumed. A brilliant and powerful work rich in irony and metaphor, The Edible Woman is an unforgettable masterpiece by a true master of contemporary literary fiction. [via]
The Gamblerby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Andrew R. MacAndrewISBN 0393316491 (0-393-31649-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gambler'Book summary:The Gambler brilliantly captures the strangely powerful compulsion to bet that Dostoyevsky, himself a compulsive gambler, knew so well. The hero rides an emotional roller coaster between exhilaration and despair, and secondary characters such as the Grandmother, who throws much of her fortune away at the gaming tables, are unforgettable. The book's publishing history is equally so: Under the pressure of a deadline from an unscrupulous publisher, and with rights to his entire oeuvre at stake, Dostoyevsky dictated the book in less than a month to the star pupil of Russia's first shorthand school. Then he married her. [via]
Ginger Manby James Patrick DonleavyISBN 0385283261 (0-385-28326-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0452282152 (0-452-28215-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'Book summary:With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.
In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Girl With a Pearl Earring:
The Glass Menagerieby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0451151704 (0-451-15170-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Glass Menagerie'Book summary:Dramatic script relating the interactions of Amanda, her son, and her daughter, Laura and the very important gentleman caller. [via]
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The Hobbit and the Lord of the Ringsby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395489075 (0-395-48907-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar WildeISBN 0380012774 (0-380-01277-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:The text of this Norton Critical Edition of The Importance of Being Earnest is the established three-act version. Originally in four acts, Wilde shortened it to three at the urging of George Alexander, the owner of the St. James Theatre and first actor to play Jack Worthing. The play is accompanied by explanatory annotations and by an appendix of excised portions.
"Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Joseph Donohue, Regenia Gagnier, and Karl Beckson. "Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, among them George Bernard Shaws famous dissenting view and the American assessment by H. F.
"Essays in Criticism" includes six diverse assessments of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Camille Paglia, Christopher Craft, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Peter Raby, and Richard Haslam.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of The Importance of Being Earnest:
- The Importance of Being Earnest: ISBN 0393927539 (0-393-92753-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Importance of Being Earnest: ISBN 0413396304 (0-413-39630-4)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd - The Importance of Being Earnest: ISBN 0486264785 (0-486-26478-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Importance of Being Earnest: ISBN 0393900452 (0-393-90045-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Importance of Being Earnest: ISBN 0413310000 (0-413-31000-0)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group - The Importance of Being Earnest: ISBN 0435229508 (0-435-22950-8)
Softcover, Heinemann - The Importance of Being Earnest: ISBN 0451518993 (0-451-51899-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Importance of Being Earnest: ISBN 0380012774 (0-380-01277-4)
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- The Importance of Being Earnest: ISBN 0393927539 (0-393-92753-9)
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Jonathan Livingston Seagullby Richard BachISBN 0380012863 (0-380-01286-3)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull'Book summary:"Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again," writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. "For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening. (At one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock.) By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan gets the ultimate payoff: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of love and kindness. The dreamy seagull photographs by Russell Munson provide just the right illustrations--although the overall packaging does seem a bit dated (keep in mind that it was first published in 1970). Nonetheless, this is a spirituality classic, and an especially engaging parable for adolescents. --Gail Hudson [via]
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L'Assommoirby Emile Zola, Nicholas WhiteISBN 0460875760 (0-460-87576-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Man's Fateby Andre MalrauxISBN 0394543793 (0-394-54379-3)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man's Fate'Book summary:Man's Fate was first published in 1933. As a fictional account of the early days of the Chinese Revolution, this novel remains a powerful expression of psychological insight into the spirit of political revolution. From the opening scene, in which Chinese terrorist Ch'en Ta Erh struggles internally over his task of assassinating a sleeping man, Malraux combines gritty action with an elaboration of the existential principle that social change is powered by the actions of individuals. [via]
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The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmonyby Roberto CalassoISBN 0394581547 (0-394-58154-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony'Book summary:Presenting the stories of Zeus and Europa, Theseus and Ariadne, the birth of Athens and the fall of Troy, in all their variants, Calasso also uncovers the distant origins of secrets and tragedy, virginity, and rape. "A perfect work like no other. (Calasso) has re-created . . . the morning of our world."--Gore Vidal. 15 engravings.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony:
The Naked and the Deadby Norman MailerISBN 0394603214 (0-394-60321-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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North and Southby Alan Shelston, Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN 0393979083 (0-393-97908-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North and South'Book summary:A revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskells place in the company of Victorian Englands finest novelists.
This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston. "Contexts" includes contemporary reviews and correspondence related to North and South, along with the full text of Gaskells 1850 short story "Lizzie Leigh," which, like North and South, is set in industrial Manchester and deals with strong working women. This topic is further addressed in Bessie Rayner Parkess essay on Victorian working women. "Criticism" collects eleven assessments of the novel, among them Louis Cazamians 1904 study of industrial fiction and Hilary Schors recent study of North and South in the context of discourse analysis. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of North and South:
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North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN 0460006800 (0-460-00680-0)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North and South'Book summary:When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In "North and South", Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature. [via]
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North and Southby Elizabeth Gaskell, Jenny UglowISBN 0460872575 (0-460-87257-5)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North and South'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series, which includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the author, a plot summary and selected criticism. This is a novel of hardship, passion and hard-won wisdom among the conflicts of the Industrial Revolution. [via]
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The Norton Anthology of American LiteratureISBN 0393987167 (0-393-98716-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This BookBook summary:Firmly grounded in the core strengths that have made it the best-selling undergraduate survey in the field, The Norton Anthology of American Literature has been revitalized in this Seventh Edition through the collaboration between three new period editors and five seasoned ones.
Under Nina Baym's direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and the entire apparatus to make the Shorter Edition an even better teaching tool for the one-semester and brief two-semester courses. [via]More editions of The Norton Anthology of American Literature:
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The Norton Anthology of American Literatureby Nina BaymISBN 0393977943 (0-393-97794-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of American Literature'Book summary:A survey of American literature from its 16th-century origins to its flourishing present, this sixth edition offers the work of 242 writers - 30 newly included - representing the extraordinary wealth and diversity of American literature. Among the many works included in their entirety are Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", Thoreau's "Walden", Douglass's "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", Clemens's "Huckleberry Finn", Chopin's "The Awakening", Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying", "Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire", Larsen's "Quicksand", Ginsberg's "Howl", Mamet's "Glengarry, Glen Ross" and Parks's "The America Play". Informative introductions, headnotes, footnotes and bibliographies accompany the text. [via]
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Poeticsby Aristotle, S.H. ButcherISBN 048629577X (0-486-29577-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poetics'Book summary:Among the most influential books in Western civilization, the Poetics is really a treatise on fine art. It offers seminal ideas on the nature of drama, tragedy, poetry, music and more, including such concepts as catharsis, the tragic flaw, unities of time and place and other rules of drama.[via]More editions of Poetics:
The Prisoner of Zendaby Anthony HopeISBN 0451511379 (0-451-51137-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prisoner of Zenda'Book summary:Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-moving adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land steeped in political intrigue. Rassendyll bears a striking resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania. When the rival to the throne, Black Michael of Strelsau, attempts to seize power by imprisoning Elphberg in the Castle of Zenda, Rassendyll is obliged to impersonate the King to uphold the rightful sovereignty and ensure political stability. Rassendyll endures a trial of strength in his encounters with the notorious Rupert of Hentzau, and a test of a different sort as he grows to love the Princess Flavia. Five times filmed, The Prisoner of Zenda has been deservedly popular as a classic of romance and adventure since its publication in 1894. [via]
The Romance of the Rose,by De LA Rose RomanISBN 0452010837 (0-452-01083-7)
Softcover, E P Dutton
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Seaby Yukio MishimaISBN 0399504893 (0-399-50489-3)
Softcover, Perigee Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea'Book summary:"The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea" tells of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'ojectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealize the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard their disappointment in him as an act of betrayal on his part and react violently. [via]
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Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea: ISBN 0399504893 (0-399-50489-3)
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Sayings of Confuciusby James WareISBN 0451627636 (0-451-62763-6)
Softcover, Mentor Books
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Shameby Salman RushdieISBN 0394726650 (0-394-72665-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shame'Book summary:The families of two men, one a famous warrior and the other an infamous playboy, engage in a passionate and heated rivalry that affects the political landscape of their country. By the author of The Satanic Verses. Reprint." [via]
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Sophie's Choiceby William StyronISBN 0394461096 (0-394-46109-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Subterraneansby Jack KerouacISBN 0394179528 (0-394-17952-8)
Softcover, Grove Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Subterraneans'Book summary:In "Subterraneans" Leo and Mardou live amongst the Subterraneans who haunt the bars and clubs of San Fransisco and have a bittersweet love affair. In "Pic", on the road but not yet overawed, ten-year-old Pic tells the story in the Negro dialect of the North Carolina farm country. [via]
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The Third Policemanby Flann O'BrienISBN 0452259126 (0-452-25912-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Typeeby Herman Melville, Holly Dugan, Robert SullivanISBN 0375757457 (0-375-75745-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Typee'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, chronology, notes and selected criticism. This book contains "Typee" and "Omoo" (published as a sequel), both tales of sailors, mutiny, island life and friendship. [via]
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White Fang and Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0451525582 (0-451-52558-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Mythby Robert GravesISBN 0374932395 (0-374-93239-5)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth'Book summary:Robert Graves, the late British poet and novelist, was also known for his studies of the mythological and psychological sources of poetry. With The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Graves was able to combine many of his passions into one work. While the book is so poetically written that many of the passages amount to prose poems, it is also frequently plot driven enough to feel like a novel, and it is rich with scholarly insight into the deep wells of poetry. Especially fascinating is the chapter in which Graves explores the ancient and ongoing practice of poets' invoking the muse. Graves details the practice in both the Eastern and Western literary traditions, and shows specific similarities and differences among Greek, British, and Irish tales and myths about the muse. Graves has much to offer students of history and myth, but poetry lovers will also be fascinated with The White Goddess. [via]
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Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0460011103 (0-460-01110-3)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wives and Daughters'Book summary:1865 novel from the English novelist and short story writer, whose writings can be seen as critiques of Victorian era attitudes, particularly those toward women, with complex narratives and dynamic women characters. [via]
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Wives and Daughtersby Pam Morris, Elizabeth Gaskell, Graham HandleyISBN 0460876511 (0-460-87651-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wives and Daughters'Book summary:Molly seems fated to suffer, firstly from her father's ill-conceived remarriage, and then from seeing her friend Roger Hamley infatuated with Molly's stepsister Cynthia. Everyone relies on Molly, but when will she have a fulfilling life of her own? This study edition contains commentary. [via]
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486298574 (0-486-29857-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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