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About a Boyby Nick HornbyISBN 0786216069 (0-7862-1606-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'About a Boy'Book summary:Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient, and blithely living off his father's novelty-song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children, and he's increasingly left out in the cold. How can someone brilliantly equipped for meaningless relationships ensure that he'll continue to meet beautiful Julie Christie-like women and ensure that they'll throw him over before things get too profound? A brief encounter with a single mother sets Will off on his new career, that of "serial nice guy." As far as he's concerned--and remember, concern isn't his strong suit--he's the perfect catch for the young mother on the go. After an interlude of sexual bliss, she'll realize that her child isn't ready for a man in their life and Will can ride off into the Highgate sunset, where more damsels apparently await. The only catch is that the best way to meet these women is at single-parent get-togethers. In one of Nick Hornby's many hilarious (and embarrassing) scenes, Will falls into some serious misrepresentation at SPAT ("Single Parents--Alone Together"), passing himself off as a bereft single dad: "There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word."
What interferes with Will's career arc, of course, is reality--in the shape of a 12-year-old boy who is in many ways his polar opposite. For Marcus, cool isn't even a possibility, let alone an issue. For starters, he's a victim at his new school. Things at home are pretty awful, too, since his musical therapist mother seems increasingly in need of therapy herself. All Marcus can do is cobble together information with a mixture of incomprehension, innocence, self-blame, and unfettered clear sight. As fans of Fever Pitch and High Fidelity already know, Hornby's insight into laddishness magically combines the serious and the hilarious. About a Boy continues his singular examination of masculine wish-fulfillment and fear. This time, though, the author lets women and children onto the playing field, forcing his feckless hero to leap over an entirely new--and entirely welcome--set of emotional hurdles. [via]
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The Adventures of Pinocchioby Carlo CollodiISBN 0804901015 (0-8049-0101-5)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Pinocchio'Book summary:During the 1970s, the collaborative art of twin brothers Greg and Tim Hildebrandt captivated a generation with vivid depictions of characters from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Today, both are acclaimed fantasy and comic book illustrators, and Greg Hildebrandt has turned his focus to children's books. His gorgeous images bring to life the story of Pinocchio, the marionette who longs to be a real boy. This new illustrated classic edition is closely adapted from the most widely accepted translation of the enchanting folk tale by the 19th-century Italian journalist Carlo Collodi, first published in 1883.[via]More editions of The Adventures of Pinocchio:
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The Adventures of Pinocchioby Carlo Lorenzini, Carlo CollodiISBN 0816704643 (0-8167-0464-3)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Pinocchio'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child Centuries ago there lived - "A king!" my little readers will say immediately. [via]
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The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Versionby EuripidesISBN 0803251947 (0-8032-5194-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Version'Book summary:[via]This new translation of The Bacchaethat strange blend of Aeschylean grandeur and Euripidean finesseis an attempt to reproduce for the American stage the play as it most probably was when new and unmutilated in 406 B.C. The achievement of this aim involves a restoration of the "great lacuna" at the climax and the discovery of several primary stage effects very likely intended by Euripides. These effects and controversial questions of the composition and stylistics are discussed in the notes and the accompanying essay.
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Between the Actsby Virginia WoolfISBN 0701209917 (0-7012-0991-7)
Softcover, Hogarth
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Black Springby Henry MillerISBN 0802131824 (0-8021-3182-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Bloomsbury Good Reading Guideby Kenneth McLeishISBN 0747500797 (0-7475-0079-7)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub
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The Bone Peopleby Keri HulmeISBN 0807130729 (0-8071-3072-9)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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The Book of Fairy & Folk Tales of Irelandby W. B. YeatsISBN 0765197030 (0-7651-9703-0)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Brokeback Mountain : Now a Major Motion Pictureby E. Annie ProulxISBN 0743275306 (0-7432-7530-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brokeback Mountain : Now a Major Motion Picture'Book summary:Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece.
Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.
Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.
The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of "Brokeback Mountain," and the story was included in Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards. In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance. [via]
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Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplayby Annie ProulxISBN 0743271327 (0-7432-7132-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.
Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.
The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of "Brokeback Mountain," and the story was included in Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards. In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance. [via]
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C.P. Cavafy Collected Poemsby C.P. Cavafy, Philip Sherrard, Edmund KeeleyISBN 0691069840 (0-691-06984-0)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poemsby Edmund Keeley, George Savidis, Philip SherrardISBN 0691015376 (0-691-01537-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Camilleby Alexandre Dumas filsISBN 080959501X (0-8095-9501-X)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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The Coast of Utopiaby Tom StoppardISBN 0802140033 (0-8021-4003-3)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coast of Utopia'Book summary:The Coast of Utopia is Tom Stoppard's long-awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who came of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term intelligentsia was coined. Among them are the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx for the soul of the masses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander Herzen, a nobleman's son and the first self-proclaimed socialist in Russia, who becomes the main focus of this drama of politics, love, loss, and betrayal. In The Coast of Utopia , Stoppard presents an inspired examination of the struggle between romantic anarchy, utopian idealism, and practical reformation in this chronicle of romantics and revolutionaries caught up in a struggle for political freedom in an age of emperors.[via]More editions of The Coast of Utopia:
The Collected Poemsby Constantine Cavafy, Georgios P. Savvides, Philip Sherrard, Edmund KeeleyISBN 0691013209 (0-691-01320-9)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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The Collected Poemsby Sylvia Plath, Ted HughesISBN 0808595040 (0-8085-9504-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafyby Constantine Cavafy, Rae DalvenISBN 0701200278 (0-7012-0027-8)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Complete Poems of John Milton: Harvard Classics 1909by John Milton, Charles W. EliotISBN 0766182118 (0-7661-8211-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Dandelion Wineby Ray BradburyISBN 0808520717 (0-8085-2071-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dandelion Wine'Book summary:World-renowned fantasist Ray Bradbury has on several occasions stepped outside the arenas of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. An unabashed romantic, his first novel in 1957 was basically a love letter to his childhood. (For those who want to undertake an even more evocative look at the dark side of youth, five years later the author would write the chilling classic Something Wicked This Way Comes.)
Dandelion Wine takes us into the summer of 1928, and to all the wondrous and magical events in the life of a 12-year-old Midwestern boy named Douglas Spaulding. This tender, openly affectionate story of a young man's voyage of discovery is certainly more mainstream than exotic. No walking dead or spaceships to Mars here. Yet those who wish to experience the unique magic of early Bradbury as a prose stylist should find Dandelion Wine most refreshing. --Stanley Wiater [via]
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The Dante Clubby Matthew PearlISBN 0812971043 (0-8129-7104-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dantes Inferno. Only an elite group of Americas first Dante scholarsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fieldscan solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dantes literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer. [via]More editions of The Dante Club:
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 0753818817 (0-7538-1881-7)
Softcover, Phoenix
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire'Book summary:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, edited with introduction, notes, and appendices by J.B. Bury, D.Litt., LL.D., in seven volumes. This is volume 1. [via]
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Earthly Powersby Anthony BurgessISBN 0786700262 (0-7867-0026-2)
Softcover, Timber Press, Incorporated
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The Essential Rumiby Coleman Barks, John MoyneISBN 078580871X (0-7858-0871-X)
Hardcover, Book Sales, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Rumi'Book summary:No translator could do greater justice to the gorgeous simplicity of Rumi's poetry than Coleman Barks has done here. These exquisite renderings of the 13th-century Persian mystic's words into American free verse capture all the "inner searching, the delicacy, and simple groundedness" that characterize Rumi's poetry while remaining faithful to the images, tone, and spiritual message of the originals. Barks's introductions to each of the 27 sections (described as "playful palimpsests spread over Rumi's imagination," and "meant to confuse scholars who would divide Rumi's poetry into the accepted categories") are themselves wonderful achievements of a poetic imagination; searching explanations of unfamiliar concepts and funny stories provide colorful background and frame the selections as no dry historical exegesis could.
While Barks's stamp on this collection is clear, it in no way interferes with the poems themselves; Rumi's voice leaps off these pages with an ecstatic energy that leaves readers breathless. There are poems of love, rage, sadness, pleading, and longing; passionate outbursts about the torture of longing for his beloved and the sweet pleasure that comes from their union; amusing stories of sexual exploits or human weakness; and quiet truths about the beauty and variety of human emotion. More than anything, Rumi makes plain the unbridled joy that comes from living life fully, urging us always to put aside our fears and take the risk to do so. As he says: "The way of love is not / a subtle argument. / The door there is devastation. / Birds make great sky-circles / of their freedom. / How do they learn it? / They fall, and falling, / they're given wings." --Uma Kukathas [via]
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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantryby W. B. YeatsISBN 0809564904 (0-8095-6490-4)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry'Book summary:"At sea, when the nets are out and the pipes are lit, then will some ancient hoarder of tales become loquacious, telling his histories to the tune of the creaking of the boats. Holy-eve night, too, is a great time, and in old days many tales were to be heard at wakes. But the priest have set their faces against wakes. . . . " From the celebrated poet, William Butler Yeats, a volume of folk and fairy tales to stir the Irish soul. [via]
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Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, Rosemary E. WilliamsISBN 0831739061 (0-8317-3906-1)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Heart of a Dogby Mikhail Afanasevich BulgakovISBN 0822205076 (0-8222-0507-6)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of a Dog'Book summary:This early novella from Mikhail Bulgakov, published in 1925, already shows the surreal comic genius that later produced The Master and Margarita, the writer's masterpiece. A kind of Frankenstein parable, Heart of a Dog is the story of a stray dog that gains a human intelligence after a prominent Moscow professor transplants human glands into the unfortunate canine's body. [via]
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Heart of a Dogby Mikhail BulgakovISBN 0802150594 (0-8021-5059-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Hero With A Thousand Facesby Joseph CampbellISBN 0691017840 (0-691-01784-0)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces'Book summary:Originally written by Campbell in the '40s-- in his pre-Bill Moyers days -- and famous as George Lucas' inspiration for "Star Wars," this book will likewise inspire any writer or reader in its well considered assertion that while all stories have already been told, this is *not* a bad thing, since the *retelling* is still necessary. And while our own life's journey must always be ended alone, the travel is undertaken in the company not only of immediate loved ones and primal passion, but of the heroes and heroines -- and myth-cycles -- that have preceded us. [via]
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, David WomersleyISBN 0713991240 (0-7139-9124-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:This edition of Gibbon's classic history returns to manuscript and original sources. [via]
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The Holy Terrorsby Jean Cocteau, Rosamond LehmannISBN 0811200213 (0-8112-0021-3)
Softcover, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Holy Terrors'Book summary:Cocteau's novel Les Enfants Terribles, which was first published in 1929, holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction.
Written in a French style that long defied successful translationCocteau was always a poet no matter what we was writingthe book came into its own for English-language readers in 1955 when this translation was completed by Rosamund Lehmann. It is a masterpiece of the art of translation of which the Times Literary Supplement said: "It has the rare merit of reading as though it were an English original." Lehrmann was able to capture the essence of Cocteau's strange, necromantic imagination and to bring fully to life in English his story of a brother and sister, orphaned in adolescence, who build themselves a private world out of one shared room and their own unbridled fantasies. What started in games and laughter because for Paul and Elisabeth a drug too magical to resist. The crime which finally destroys them has the inevitability of Greek tragedy. Illustrated with twenty of Cocteau's own drawings. [via]More editions of The Holy Terrors:
I Am a Catby Soseki NatsumeISBN 0698111443 (0-698-11144-3)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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I Am a Catby Aiko Ito, Graeme Wilson, Soseki NatsumeISBN 080483265X (0-8048-3265-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Illuminationsby Walter BenjaminISBN 0805202412 (0-8052-0241-2)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illuminations'Book summary:Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and Benjamin's theses on the philosophy of history.
Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in dark times. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times. [via]More editions of Illuminations:
Irish Fairy and Folk Talesby W. B. YeatsISBN 0812968557 (0-8129-6855-7)
Softcover, Modern Library
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The Jungle Book IIby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0812522788 (0-8125-2278-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Book II'Book summary:Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each titleoffering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.[via]
This edition of The Jungle Book II includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Jane Yolen.
Mowgli was once the little man-cub raised by Mother Wolf. Now Mowgli is the Jungle Lord ruling over the elephant and the panther, the python and the crocodile. All obey him and he fears no one...not even Man....
Jungle Book II tells of the further adventures of Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves in the jungle. Through his cunning and fearlessness, Mowgli earns the respect of the animals of the jungle. He leads his wolf-brothers into battle against a threatening pack of red dogs. And when Mowgli's human parents are persecuted by a violent group of villagers, he comes to their aid. This is the story of how Mowgli must come face-to-face with himself as a man and decide whether he will leave his jungle kingdom to join the society of man.More editions of The Jungle Book II:
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The Kitchen God's Wifeby Amy TanISBN 080410753X (0-8041-0753-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events tha led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.
"The kind of novel that can be read and reread with enormous pleasure."
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Storiesby Leo TolstoyISBN 0809593300 (0-8095-9330-0)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kreutzer Sonata And Other Stories'Book summary:When Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder -- "You imagine that I am wandering from my story. Not at all. I am always giving you an account of the events that led to the murder of my wife. The imbeciles! They think that I killed my wife on the 5th of October. It was long before that that I immolated her, just as they all kill now. Understand well that in our society there is an idea shared by all that woman procures man pleasure (and vice versa, probably, but I know nothing of that, I only know my own case). Wein, Weiber und Gesang. So say the poets in their verses: Wine, women, and song!" Also included in this collection are "Ivan the Fool," "A Lost Opportunity," "'Polikushka,'" and "The Candle." [via]
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La-Basby J.K. HuysmansISBN 0781800072 (0-7818-0007-2)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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Lady Audley's Secretby Mary E. BraddonISBN 0760763046 (0-7607-6304-6)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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The Lady With the Dog and Other Storiesby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0809566478 (0-8095-6647-8)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Last Orders: Library Editionby Graham SwiftISBN 0786209429 (0-7862-0942-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Lonesome Doveby Larry McMurtryISBN 0684857529 (0-684-85752-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lonesome Dove'Book summary:Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. The subject of Lonesome Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive, seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry bravely tackles the task of creating meaningful literature out of it. At first the novel seems the kind of anti-mythic, anti-heroic story one might expect: the main protagonists are a drunken and inarticulate pair of former Texas Rangers turned horse rustlers. Yet when the trail begins, the story picks up an energy and a drive that makes heroes of these men. Their mission may be historically insignificant, or pointless--McMurtry is smart enough to address both possibilities--but there is an undoubted valor in their lives. The result is a historically aware, intelligent, romantic novel of the mythic west that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. [via]
Love in the Ruinsby Walker PercyISBN 080410378X (0-8041-0378-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Actsby Robert BoltISBN 0808508687 (0-8085-0868-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Consciences of Sir Thomas More and Henry VIII are poles apart in the religious conflict over the king's marriage to Anne Boleyn. [via]
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The Master of Ballantraeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0804900477 (0-8049-0047-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master of Ballantrae'Book summary:Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English crown, to inherit the title of Lord Durrisdeer. But he is to return years later, embittered by battles and a savage life of piracy on the high seas, to demand his inheritance. Turning the people against the Lord, he begins a savage feud with his brother that will lead the pair from the Scottish Highlands to the American Wilderness. Satanic and seductive, the Master was regarded by Stevenson as 'all I know of the devil'; his darkly manipulative schemes dominate this subtle and compelling tragedy.This edition takes as its text the Edinburgh Edition of the novel, the last approved by the author. The introduction considers the novel's inspiration and its place as one of Stevenson's greatest studies in cruelty. [via]
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Mother Courage and Her Childrenby Bertolt Brecht, Michael Hofmann, John WillettISBN 0713684666 (0-7136-8466-6)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Murphyby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802150373 (0-8021-5037-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglassby Frederick Douglass, Cynthia Johnson, Alyssa HaradISBN 074348777X (0-7434-8777-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass'Book summary:ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
Frederick Douglass's powerful autobiographical account of life in bondage and his triumphant escape to freedom.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: " A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
" A chronology of the author's life and work
" A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
" An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
" Detailed explanatory notes
" Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
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On Libertyby John Stuart MillISBN 0742542467 (0-7425-4246-7)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Liberty'Book summary:Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support of the value of liberty. Mill's passionate advocacy of spontaneity, individuality and diversity, along with his contempt for compulsory uniformity and the despotism of popular opinion, has attracted both admiration and condemnation. [via]
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Oscar and Lucindaby Peter CareyISBN 0702221163 (0-7022-2116-3)
Hardcover, University of Queensland Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oscar and Lucinda'Book summary:Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher's kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees. Lucinda Leplastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. In the early parts of this lushly written book, author Peter Carey renders the seminal turning points in his protagonists' childhoods as exquisite 19th-century set pieces. Young Oscar, denied the heavenly fruit of a Christmas pudding by his cruelly stern father, forever renounces his father's religion in favor of the Anglican Church. "Dear God," Oscar prays, "if it be Thy will that Thy people eat pudding, smite him!" Lucinda's childhood trauma involves a beautiful doll bought by her struggling mother with savings from the jam jar; in a misguided attempt to tame the doll's unruly curls, young Lucinda mutilates her treasure beyond repair. Neither of these coming-of-age stories quite explains how the grownup Oscar and Lucinda each develop a guilty passion for gambling. Oscar plays the horses while at school, and Lucinda, now an orphaned heiress, finds comfort in a game of cards with an odd collection of acquaintances. When the two finally meet, on board a ship bound for New South Wales, they are bound by their affinity for risk, their loneliness, and their awkwardly blossoming (but unexpressed) mutual affection. Their final high-stakes folly--transporting a crystal palace of a church across (literally) godforsaken terrain--strains plausibility, and events turn ghastly as Oscar plays out his bid for Lucinda's heart. Yet even the unconvincing plot turns are made up for by Carey's rich prose and the tale's unpredictable outcome. Although love proves to be the ultimate gamble for Oscar and Lucinda, the story never strays too far from the terrible possibility that even the most thunderstruck lovers can remain isolated in parallel lives. [via]
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Otter Nonsenseby Norman Juster, Michael WitteISBN 0688122825 (0-688-12282-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Otter Nonsense'Book summary:We've got some great gnus for ewe here--lots of other hilarious animal puns that are sure to shark you. In this brilliantly illustrated book you can see the seal of approval, and meet a moose with a mousetache. The 80 outrageous puns in the collection will make this just the condor book you'll gopher. Full color. [via]
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The Passionby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0802135226 (0-8021-3522-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Passion'Book summary:In 1985 Jeanette Winterson won the Whitbread Award for best first fiction for the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, an often wry exploration of lesbian possibility bumping up against evangelical fanaticism. She was 25. Two years later, The Passion, her third novel, appeared, the fantastical tale of Henri--Napoleon's cook--and Villanelle, a Venetian gondolier's daughter who has webbed feet (previously an all-male attribute), works as a croupier, picks pockets, cross-dresses, and literally loses her heart to a beautiful woman. Written in a lyrical and jolting combination of fairy tale diction and rhythm and the staccato, the book would be a risky proposition in lesser hands. Winterson has said that she wanted to look at people's need to worship and examine what happens to young men in militaristic societies. The question was, how to do so without being polemical and didactic? Only she could have come up with such an exquisite answer. In the end, Henri, incarcerated on an island of madmen, becomes aware that his passion, "even though she could never return it, showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else." [via]
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Peer Gyntby Henrik IbsenISBN 0816609152 (0-8166-0915-2)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Phaedraby Jean Racine, GrebanierISBN 0812001435 (0-8120-0143-5)
Softcover, Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
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The Phantom Tollboothby Jules Feiffer, Norton JusterISBN 0816148015 (0-8161-4801-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Phantom Tollbooth'Book summary:"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored, bored young protagonist who can't see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.
Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by Maurice Sendak for the 35th anniversary edition, he states, "The Phantom Tollbooth leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.
As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm clock for a body). The brilliant satire and double entendre intensifies in the Word Market, where after a brief scuffle with Officer Short Shrift, Milo and Tock set off toward the Mountains of Ignorance to rescue the twin Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Anyone with an appreciation for language, irony, or Alice in Wonderland-style adventure will adore this book for years on end. (Ages 8 and up) [via]
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Pinnochioby Carlo CollodiISBN 0785788530 (0-7857-8853-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Pinocchio: Library Editionby Carlo Collodi, Margaret Hillert, Laurie HamiltonISBN 0813656036 (0-8136-5603-6)
Softcover, Modern Curriculum Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pinocchio'Book summary:Once there was a lonely woodcutter named Geppetto-who dreamed of having a boy of his own. So one day he carved a boy out of wood and named him Pinocchio.[via]
When the puppet comes to life, it's Geppetto's dream come true.
Except Pinocchio turns out to be not such a nice boy after all. Pinocchio enjoys nothing better than creating mischief and playing mean tricks. As he discovers, being bad is much more fun than being good.
For a while, anyway.
Happily for Pinocchio, he will learn that there is much more to being a real boy than having fun.
A magical tale that has entertained children of all ages for more than a hundred years, this lavishly and gorgeously illustrated new edition is the perfect introduction of a timeless classic to a new generation of readers.
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Softcover, Tor Books - Pinocchio: Library Edition: ISBN 068812450X (0-688-12450-X)
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Pinocchioby Karen Dolby, Katie Daynes, Mauro EvangelistaISBN 0794508871 (0-7945-0887-1)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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Pinocchioby Ladybird SeriesISBN 0721405894 (0-7214-0589-4)
Hardcover, Ladybird Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pinocchio'Book summary:This fairytale tells the story of Geppetto, a poor wood-carver, and his creation Pinochio, a puppet who could walk, talk and have many adventures until he earned the thing he most desired - to be a real boy. [via]
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The Pinocchio of Carlo Collodiby Carlo Collodi, James T. Teahan, Alexa JaffursISBN 080523912X (0-8052-3912-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Preludeby William WordsworthISBN 0822010755 (0-8220-1075-5)
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The Professorby Charlotte BronteISBN 0809589877 (0-8095-8987-7)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Professor'Book summary:This little book was written before either _Jane Eyre_ or _Shirley,_ and yet no indulgence can be solicited for it on the plea of a first attempt. A first attempt it certainly was not, as the pen which wrote it had been previously worn a good deal in a practice of some years. I had not indeed published anything before I commenced _The Professor,_ but in many a crude effort, destroyed almost as soon as composed, I had got over any such taste as I might once have had for ornamented and redundant composition, and come to prefer what was plain and homely. At the same time I had adopted a set of principles on the subject of incident, &c., such as would be generally approved in theory, but the result of which, when carried out into practice, often procures for an author more surprise than pleasure. [via]
Quo Vadisby Henryk Sienkiewicz, W.S. KuniczakISBN 0781805503 (0-7818-0550-3)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quo Vadis'Book summary:"Quo Vadis" is a powerful historical novel about the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Through a romance between a high-born Roman pagan and a Christian woman, Henryk Sienkiewicz masterfully brings to life the decadence of imperial Rome during the reign of Nero Claudius Caesar (AD 54-68), the bloodthirsty persecutor of the early Christians. "Quo Vadis" has been translated into more than forty languages, as well as adapted into several movies. Jeremiah Curtin's accurate and lively English translation of the novel successfully conveys Sienkiewicz's muted portrayal of the beginnings of Christianity and his spectacular, apocalyptic vision of the Roman Empire in decline. [via]
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Quo Vadisby W.S. Kuniczak, Henryk SienkiewiczISBN 0781807638 (0-7818-0763-8)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quo Vadis'Book summary:Translated by Stanley F Conrad. Set around the dawn of Christianity with amazing historical accuracy Quo Vadis? won Sienkiewicz the Nobel Prize. Written nearly a century ago and translated into over 40 languages, Quo Vadis, has been the greatest best-selling novel in the history of literature. Now in a sparkling new translation which restores the original glory and splendour of this masterpiece, W S Kuniczak, the most acclaimed translator of Sienkiewicz in this century, combines his special knowledge of Sienkiewicz's fiction with his own considerable talents as a novelist. An epic saga of love, courage and devotion in Nero's time, Quo Vadis portrays the degenerate days leading to the fall of the Roman Empire and the glory and the agony of early Christianity. [via]
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The Readerby Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown JanewayISBN 0783886462 (0-7838-8646-2)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Real Life of Sebastian Knightby Vladimir Nabokov, C. BrennerISBN 0811203271 (0-8112-0327-1)
Hardcover, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Real Life of Sebastian Knight'Book summary:"I am very happy that you liked that little book," wrote Vladimir Nabokov to Edmund Wilson in 1941. "As I think I told you, I wrote it five years ago, in Paris, on the implement called bidet as a writing desk--because we lived in one room and I had to use our small bathroom as a study." The book in question was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. And despite its humble origins, Nabokov's first novel in English showed him to be in absolute command of his adopted language.
Like many of the author's later triumphs, this one revolves around a question of identity. The late Sebastian Knight, we discover, was a transplanted Russian novelist whose taste for linguistic trickery bears a certain resemblance to Nabokov's. Now his half-brother is attempting to reconstruct the existence of this elusive figure. As he readily admits, the raw material isn't exactly the stuff of melodrama: "Sebastian's life, though far from being dull, lacked the terrific vigour of his literary style." But even the most mundane facts prove difficult for the narrator to nail down. He does, on the other hand, describe Sebastian's creative processes in exquisite and accurate detail:
His struggle with words was usually painful and this for two reasons. One was the common one with writers of his type: the bridging of the abyss lying between expression and thought; the maddening feeling that the right words, the only words are awaiting you on the opposite bank in the misty distance, and the shudderings of the still unclothed thought clamouring for them on this side of the abyss.
Sebastian's real life--or anybody's, for that matter--refuses to yield up a verbal equivalent. Still, the narrator manages a kind of fraternal fusion with his subject on the book's final page, which suggests a fluid and very Nabokovian view of identity itself. For this reason, and for the splendors of its prose, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a necessary read. It's also safe to say that it's the very best novel ever written on a bidet. --James Marcus [via]More editions of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight:
The Rum Diaryby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0684856476 (0-684-85647-6)
Softcover, Scribner
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Seven Nightsby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0811209059 (0-8112-0905-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Nights'Book summary:A collection drawn from Jorge Luis Borges' lectures.
The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges erudition on the following topics: Dantes The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.
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Sophoclesby Sophocles, David R. Slavitt, Palmer BovieISBN 0812216539 (0-8122-1653-9)
Softcover, University of Pennsylvania Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophocles'Book summary:The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.
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Sylvia Plath: Collected Poemsby Aylvia PlathISBN 0809590573 (0-8095-9057-3)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 0812533410 (0-8125-3341-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turn of the Screw'Book summary:The story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories 'round the fire on Christmas Eve. One of the guests tells about a governess at a country house plagued by supernatural visitors. But in the hands of Henry James, the master of nuance, this little tale of terror is an exquisite gem of sexual and psychological ambiguity. Only the young governess can see the ghosts; only she suspects that the previous governess and her lover are controlling the two orphaned children (a girl and a boy) for some evil purpose. The household staff don't know what she's talking about, the children are evasive when questioned, and the master of the house (the children's uncle) is absent. Why does the young girl claim not to see a perfectly visible woman standing on the far side of the lake? Are the children being deceptive, or is the governess being paranoid? By leaving the questions unanswered, The Turn of Screw generates spine-tingling anxiety in its mesmerized readers. [via]
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Visitby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0802130666 (0-8021-3066-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visit'Book summary:Dürrenmatt once wrote of himself: I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness, and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. The play takes place somewhere in Central Europe and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, swiftly turns a depressed area into a boom town. But the condition attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder. Dürrenmatt has fashioned a macabre and entertaining parable that is a scathing indictment of the power of greed.[via]More editions of Visit:
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