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Anne's House of Dreamsby L. M. MontgomeryISBN 1588275795 (1-58827-579-5)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne's House of Dreams'Book summary:Gilbert has become a doctor and now Anne's wedding day has come, the first bride of Green Gables. Now has come the time for Anne to leave Green Gables and she does for her "House of Dreams."
Once again there are new friends. One new friend Captain Jim is full of tales including the moving "Lost Margaret".
Joy comes to Anne and in one day leaves again in the form of little Joyce. But time and James Mathew cure Anne of her sadness, but the memory of little Joyce never leaves.
Mark Twain described Anne as "the most moving and delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice." The "Anne" books have been best sellers since 1908. [via]
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Arden Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsorby Giorgio MelchioriISBN 190427112X (1-904271-12-X)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arden Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor'Book summary:Giorgio Melchiori is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the Università Roma Tre in Italy. His major publications include Shakespeare's Dramatic Meditations: An Experiment in Criticism; editions of King Henry IV Part 1 and King Edward III for the New Cambridge Shakespeare; an edition of Sir Thomas More (with Vittorio Gabrieli) for the Revels series; Shakespeare's Garter Plays: 'King Edward III' to 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'; and Joyce's Feast of Languages. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Life Trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He was awarded a CBE in 1990.The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's only thoroughly English comedy, created an archetypal literary figure in the shape of the devious, irrepressible John Falstaff. This edition celebrates the play as a joyous exploration of language, but also places elements of its plot firmly in a continental, specifically Italian, tradition of romantic comedy.
In the introduction, Melchiori draws out the complexities of Merry Wives as a multi-plot play, taking a fresh and challenging look at both textual and dating issues and examining the play's comic elements and influences. The book includes tables that illustrate, scene by scene, the passage of time and the sequence of events. The narrative structure and the logistics of performing the play are outlined and analyzed, and a casting and doubling chart is included. The introduction fully explores play's extensive performance history, both dramatic and operatic. A facsimile of the first Quarto is included as an appendix, along with a list of abbreviations and references, a catalog of Shakespeares works and works partly by Shakespeare, and citations for the modern productions mentioned in the text, other collated editions of The Merry Wives of Windsor, and other related reading.The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the plays foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader.[via]"This is a significant and substantive edition, in that nothing has been taken for granted, everything has been opened to reconsideration. The commentary is exceptionally detailed and attentive to questions of language and meaning."John Jowett, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, Shakespeare QuarterlyMore editions of Arden Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor:
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The Atlas of Literatureby Malcolm BradburyISBN 1899883673 (1-899883-67-3)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Atlas of Literature'Book summary:Here is a unique tour of literature through the ages and across the continents, focusing on writers and works that are intimately bound up with a place and time, and capturing towns, cities, and regions in their literary heyday. More than 80 essays explore places including Shakespeare's Stratford, Jane Austen's Bath, Hawthorne's New England, James Joyce's Dublin, Paris in the twenties, Harlem, Broadway, Hollywood, and many others. 500 illustrations, including color photos and maps. [via]
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin FranklinISBN 1595479562 (1-59547-956-2)
Softcover, Nuvision Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Ben Franklin'Book summary:This classic is Franklin's last word on his greatest literary creation--his own invented persona, the original incarnation of the American success story. [via]
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Barry Lyndonby William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 1592243746 (1-59224-374-6)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barry Lyndon'Book summary:BARRY LYNDON was to be hailed by competent critics as one of Thackeray's finest performances, though the author himself seems to have had no strong regard for the story. His daughter has recorded, "My father once said to me when I was a girl: 'You needn't read Barry Lyndon, you won't like it.' Indeed, it is scarcely a book to like, but one to admire and to wonder at for its consummate power and mastery." Another novelist, Anthony Trollope, has said of it: "In imagination, language, construction, and general literary capacity, Thackeray never did anything more remarkable than BARRY LYNDON." Mr. Leslie Stephen says: "All later critics have recognized in this book one of his most powerful performances. In directness and vigor he never surpassed it." [via]
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Ben Franklin America's Original Entrepreneur: Americas Original Enterpreneur Franklin's Autobiography Adapted for Modern Timesby Blaine McCormickISBN 1932531688 (1-932531-68-8)
Hardcover, Entrepreneur Pr
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Beyond Good And Evilby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 1599869934 (1-59986-993-4)
Softcover, Filiquarian Pub Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Good And Evil'Book summary:He's one of the most debated writers of the 19th century: Nietzsche and his works have been by turns vilified, lauded, and subjected to numerous contradictory interpretations, and yet he remains a figure of profound import, and his works a necessary component of a well-rounded education. This 1885 book serves as both vital introduction to and valuable summation of Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole. Here, broken down into bite-size segments are the great thinker's outlook on philosophical bias, religion, morality, virtue, nationalism, free-spiritedness, scholarship, gender relations, and other weighty topics. German psychologist and philosopher FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE (1844-1900) was appointed special professor of classical philology at the University of Basel at the precocious age of 24, but soon found himself dissatisfied with academic life and created an alternative intellectual society for himself among friends including composer Richard Wagner, historian Jakob Burckhardt, and theologian Franz Overbeck. Among his philosophical works are Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and Ecce Homo. ______________________________________ ALSO FROM COSIMO Nietzsche's The Use and Abuse of History, Thus Spake Zarathustra, and The Anti-Christ [via]
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Blade Runnerby Philip K. DickISBN 8435015955 (84-350-1595-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blade Runner'Book summary:A principios del siglo XXI, la poderosa Tyrell Corporation desarrolló un nuevo tipo de robot llamado Nexus, un ser virtualmente idéntico al hombre y conocido como Replicante. Los Replicantes Nexus-6 eran superiores en fuerza y agilidad, y al menos iguales en inteligencia, a los ingenieros de genética que los crearon. En el espacio exterior, los Replicantes fueron usados como trabajadores esclavos en la arriesgada exploración y colonización de otros planetas. Después de la sangrienta rebelión de un equipo de combate de Nexus-6 en una colonia sideral, los Replicantes fueron declarados proscritos en la Tierra bajo pena de muerte. Brigadas de policías especiales, tenían órdenes de tirar a matar al ver a cualquier Replicante invasor.
This novel hooks the reader to such extent that he comes the point of doubting whether what hes reading is really happening or its only a part of Dicks pseudo-reality. In this way, the androids of Do Android Dream on Electric sheeps? In Blade Runner called replicants. [via]More editions of Blade Runner:
Books Children Love: A Guide to the Best Children's Literatureby Elizabeth Laraway WilsonISBN 1581341989 (1-58134-198-9)
Softcover, Crossway Books
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Carry On, Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 1585673927 (1-58567-392-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carry On, Jeeves'Book summary:A full cast of Wodehouse creationsincluding tyrannical relatives, beastly acquaintances, demon children, and literary fatheadsreturn for further near catastrophes and sparkling comedy
A Gentleman of Leisure is a comic novel dedicated to Douglas Fairbankswho starred in the film versionand concerns a young man, his love life, and a burglary. Famiiliar Wodehouse characters from both sides of the ocean make appearances. Meanwhile, in Hot Water, J. Wellington Gedge is the man who has everythingbut finds himself caught in a series of international events which will, if he doesn't put a stop to it, leave him wearing the sissy uniform of the American ambassador to Paris. Summer Moonshine involves Sir Buckstone Abbott trying to sell what is probably the ugliest home in England, as well as a complicated love quadrangle and Carry On, Jeeves is a collection of stories in which Jeeves take charge and a familiar bevy of individuals appeal to him to solve their problemsand are never disappointed. [via]
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Cheriby ColetteISBN 2253013331 (2-253-01333-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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The Code of the Woostersby P.G. WodehouseISBN 158567057X (1-58567-057-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Code of the Woosters'Book summary:On the 25th anniversary of Wodehouse's death, booksellers and readers will be cheered to find the finest editions available of his classic novels--the first in a series of his best known works--by one of the greatest English comic writers of our time.
Fans devoted to the master of comic fiction P. G. Wodehouse are legion. He represents an antic high point in the world of farce and social satire. Best known for the creation of two fictional worlds based on Blandings Castle and the Wooster-Jeeves gentleman-valet duo, Wodehouse is appreciated the world over for his exceedingly clever and comically savvy send-ups of the idle rich in Edwardian England.
In The Code of the Woosters, it takes all the ingenuity of Jeeves, the "gentleman's gentleman" extraordinaire, to rescue his hapless and hopelessly obtuse young employer, Bertie Wooster, from the pickle of a plot to steal a silver jug from the home of an irascible magistrate.
With each volume edited and reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth, these novels are elegant additions to any Wodehouse fan's library. [via]More editions of The Code of the Woosters:
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Complete English Poemsby John DonneISBN 1857150058 (1-85715-005-8)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete English Poems'Book summary:This text contains the complete English poems of John Donne. The detailed notes explain unfamiliar words, clarify obscure references, and refine grammatical complexities; they also give the most important variant reading from selected manuscripts. Avoided are any paraphrases, personal interpretation and unauthorized textual emendations. The book begins with an introduction to the poet and his times, including a bibliography of over 750 items. To complete the volume, Alexander Pope's versions of Donne Satyres II and IV, which are often called into comparison with the originals, have been included in an appendix. C.A. Patrides was the author of over 20 works on the literature of the Renaissance, including "The English Poems of George Herbert". [via]
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The Complete Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Kyle FreemanISBN 1593080344 (1-59308-034-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I'Book summary:[via]The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worlds most popular and influential fictional detectivethe eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmess comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to combine detailed observation and vast knowledge with brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.
Volume II of The Complete Sherlock Holmes begins with The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tired of writing about Holmes, had killed him off at the end of The Final Problem, the last tale in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (found in Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes). Public demand for new Holmes stories was so great, however, that Conan Doyle eventually resurrected him. The first story in The Return, The Adventure of the Empty House, features Conan Doyles infamously inventive explanation of how Holmes escaped what seemed like certain death.
This volume also includes two other collections of Holmes stories, His Last Bow and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes; Conan Doyles final full-length Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear; a pair of parodies, The Field Bazaar and How Watson Learned the Trick ; and two essays about the private life of the beloved sleuth.Kyle Freeman, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.More editions of The Complete Sherlock Holmes:
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Hardcover, Fine Communications - The Complete Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 1593082045 (1-59308-204-5)
Hardcover, Fine Communications - The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I: ISBN 1593080344 (1-59308-034-4)
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Die Ausgewandertenby W. G. SebaldISBN 3821840935 (3-8218-4093-5)
Hardcover, Eichborn
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The Duke's Childrenby Anthony TrollopeISBN 1870587170 (1-870587-17-0)
Hardcover, Trollope Society
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Effi Briestby Theordor Fontane, Walter SchafarschikISBN 3150500117 (3-15-050011-7)
Hardcover, P. Reclam
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Emigrantsby W. G. SebaldISBN 1860463495 (1-86046-349-5)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Evangelio Segun Jesucristo/the Gospel According to Jesus Christby Jose SaramagoISBN 8420484423 (84-204-8442-3)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Exodusby Leon UrisISBN 2221098625 (2-221-09862-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exodus'Book summary:Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era. Here is Exodus --one of the great best-selling novels of all time.
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Framley Parsonageby Anthony TrollopeISBN 1853262153 (1-85326-215-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christby Jose SaramagoISBN 186046095X (1-86046-095-X)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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The Greek Myths and the Hebrew Mythsby Robert Graves, Michael PharandISBN 1857544803 (1-85754-480-3)
Hardcover, Carcanet Press, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Myths and the Hebrew Myths'Book summary:The Greek Myths has long been among Graves's most popular works, compendious in scope and lively in the telling. No poet of the twentieth century, not even Ezra Pound, was so compendiously learned as Graves in the origins of our Mediterranean cultures. While his approach to myth is original and sometimes contentious, his narrative is always compelling. Graves tells the myths of creation, the origins of the Gods and their lives, the exploits of the heroes and the Trojan War. The retelling is modern but the matter is not modernised: Graves is alive to the vivid otherness of the world he evokes. The Greek Myths are more than cultural archaeology: it recovers the coherence of the ancient world. Graves's organisation and comparisons of sources infer connections, common themes, synergies and tropes; his riskiest conclusions are persuasive because of the energy and penetration of his mind. He sees history, not psychology, through the myths and suggests that they have actual occasions which, in the telling and retelling, became charged spiritually, maturing into the coherence of religion. The Greek Myths, a reference book or as an exploration of our common roots is corrected in a limited edition as part of the Millennium Graves Programme. [via]
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History of Rasselasby Samuel JohnsonISBN 1840224207 (1-84022-420-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Rasselas'Book summary:This book comes with an introduction and notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. "Rasselas" is a provocative fable about 'the choice of life'. Bored by the endless contentment of 'the happy valley' in which he has been brought up, Prince Rasselas escapes with his sister. They rove the world searching for the secret of happiness and striving to find the ideal way to live. Repeatedly the pleasures they glimpse dissolve on closer acquaintance, and the great men they admire prove flawed. Where, then, are happiness and purpose to be found? These questions, of course, remain open for each generation; but none has discussed them with more wisdom and humanity than Dr. Johnson. "Rasselas" is a searching and often darkly humorous commentary on the human condition as well as a classic of English prose. [via]
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An Instance of the Fingerpostby Iain PearsISBN 1573227951 (1-57322-795-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'Book summary:An Instance of the Fingerpost is that rarest of all possible literary beasts--a mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies, and smoking guns. Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and, for once, the comparison is apt.
The year is 1663, and the setting is Oxford, England, during the height of Restoration political intrigue. When Dr. Robert Grove is found dead in his Oxford room, hands clenched and face frozen in a rictus of pain, all the signs point to poison. Rashomon-like, the narrative circles around Grove's murder as four different characters give their version of events: Marco da Cola, a visiting Italian physician--or so he would like the reader to believe; Jack Prestcott, the son of a traitor who fled the country to avoid execution; Dr. John Wallis, a mathematician and cryptographer with a predilection for conspiracy theories; and Anthony Wood, a mild-mannered Oxford antiquarian whose tale proves to be the book's "instance of the fingerpost." (The quote comes from the philosopher Bacon, who, while asserting that all evidence is ultimately fallible, allows for "one instance of a fingerpost that points in one direction only, and allows of no other possibility.")
Like The Name of the Rose, this is one whodunit in which the principal mystery is the nature of truth itself. Along the way, Pears displays a keen eye for period details as diverse as the early days of medicine, the convoluted politics of the English Civil War, and the newfangled fashion for wigs. Yet Pears never loses sight of his characters, who manage to be both utterly authentic denizens of the 17th century and utterly authentic human beings. As a mystery, An Instance of the Fingerpost is entertainment of the most intelligent sort; as a novel of ideas, it proves equally satisfying. [via]
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John Steinbeckby John SteinbeckISBN 1883011159 (1-883011-15-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Steinbeck'Book summary:This second volume in the authoritative edition of John Steinbeck (with "Novels and Stories, 1932-1937") features the Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece "The Grapes of Wrath" in a newly corrected text based on the author's manuscript, typescript, and galleys. "The Harvest Gypsies is Steinbeck's investigative report on migrant farm workers which laid the groundwork for the novel. "The Long Valley" displays his brilliance with short stories, including such classics as "The Chrysanthemums," "Flight," and "The Red Pony." "The Log from the Sea of Cortez," about a marine biological expedition, combines science, philosophy, and adventure. [via]
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Laughing Gasby P.G. WodehouseISBN 1585672327 (1-58567-232-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Laughing Gas'Book summary:Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of the hilarity borders on an obsession.[via]
When a bratty Hollywood child star and an English aristocrat exchange souls at the dentist in Laughing Gas, the result is transatlantic mayhem at its funniest.More editions of Laughing Gas:
Les Motsby Jean Paul SartreISBN 2070366073 (2-07-036607-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Familiesby Walker Evans, James AgeeISBN 1900828154 (1-900828-15-4)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families'Book summary:Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to a survey from the Partisan Review; exhaustive catalogs of furniture, clothing, objects, and smells. And then there are Walker Evans's famously stark portraits of depression-era sharecroppers--photographs that both stand apart from and reinforce James Agee's words.
Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.
Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park [via]
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Leviathanby Thomas HobbesISBN 1843710269 (1-84371-026-9)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leviathan'Book summary:In their substantial introduction, the editors examine all previous editions of Leviathan, throwing light on its history, calling into question the assumptions of previous editors, and thus providing an entirely new picture of its production. Through these new perspectives they are able to offer the first complete critical edition, one that takes proper account of the book's publishing history and of Hobbes's own wishes. The result is as definitive an edition of Leviathan as modern scholarship can provide.[via]More editions of Leviathan:
Lorna Dooneby R. D. BlackmoreISBN 1853260762 (1-85326-076-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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A Lost Ladyby Willa CatherISBN 184408373X (1-84408-373-X)
Softcover, Virago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Lost Lady'Book summary:[via]Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and to the young narrator of her story, Neil Herbert. All are bewitched by her brilliance and grace, and all are ultimately betrayed. For Marian longs for "life on any terms," and in fulfilling herself, she loses all she loved and all who loved her. This, Willa Cather's most perfect novel, is not only a portrait of a troubling beauty, but also a haunting evocation of a noble age slipping irrevocably into the past.More editions of A Lost Lady:
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Mademoiselle de Maupinby Theophile Gautier, Jacques RobichezISBN 2110807342 (2-11-080734-2)
Hardcover, Impr. nationale
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mademoiselle de Maupin'Book summary:This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. [via]
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Maggieby Stephen Crane, Robert TineISBN 1593082487 (1-59308-248-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maggie'Book summary:With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D.,
Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
During his tragically short life, Stephen Crane gained fame as a vividly distinctive writer. His stories of evolving American society are unflinchingly realistic and shrewdly ironic. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets tells of Maggies seduction and downfall into prostitution amid the harsh world of the Bronx, where life is a battlefield.
The other tales offer a diversity of insights into social hypocrisy, child psychology, and the wild violence of the frontiersmen. Such violence is ruthlessly depicted in The Blue Hotel. This collection of stories is replete with lively dialogue, ominous atmospheres, dry humour and graphic incidents.
Praised by Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Cranes memorable tales have become enduringly influential.
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The Marquise of Oby Heinrich Von Kleist, Richard StokesISBN 1843910543 (1-84391-054-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marquise of O'Book summary:An ingenious whodunit and one of the greatest works of German literature, The Marquise of O subverts the 18th-century notion of the infallibility of man and reveals the true ambiguity and caprice of humanity. Held captive by a band of unspeakable ruffians, the Marquise of O is rescued before they can subject her to a fate worse than death. So how can it be that, some months later, she finds herself pregnant? Believing herself fully innocent, although failing to convince her prudish family of her honor, she places an advertisement asking the perpetrator to identify himself. Heinrich von Kleist is the first of the great dramatists of 19th-century German literature.[via]More editions of The Marquise of O:
Memorial Del Convento/baltazar And Blimundaby Jose Saramago, Basilio LosadaISBN 8432205370 (84-322-0537-0)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hoodby Howard PyleISBN 1595406557 (1-59540-655-7)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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The Merry Wives of Windsorby William ShakespeareISBN 1853262676 (1-85326-267-6)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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Musica Para Camaleonesby Truman CapoteISBN 8433914367 (84-339-1436-7)
Softcover, Editorial Anagrama
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Poemas/ Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 8437606373 (84-376-0637-3)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Poemsby Emily Dickinson, Brenda HillmanISBN 1570620997 (1-57062-099-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Poems and Other Writingsby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J.D. McClatchyISBN 188301185X (1-883011-85-X)
Hardcover, Library of America
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to English And American Literatureby Elizabeth KantorISBN 1596980117 (1-59698-011-7)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Editionby Muriel SparkISBN 185089051X (1-85089-051-X)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Retrato En Sepiaby Isabel AllendeISBN 8401014093 (84-01-01409-3)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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The Rights of Womanby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 3829008988 (3-8290-0898-8)
Hardcover, Konemann
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Romolaby George EliotISBN 382905386X (3-8290-5386-X)
Hardcover, Konemann
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Selected Storiesby Anton ChekhovISBN 1853262889 (1-85326-288-9)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Sheby H. Rider HaggardISBN 1902058038 (1-902058-03-8)
Softcover, Pulp Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'She'Book summary:Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death.
Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that [Ayesha] had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that [H. Rider] Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverish inspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down," he later said.
This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic female figures who must be stopped before they love again." [via]
Shopgirlby Steve MartinISBN 1587240122 (1-58724-012-2)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Sir Gawain and the Green KnightISBN 1853267899 (1-85326-789-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
Find This BookBook summary:A Middle English romance about the contest between King arthur's nephew Gawain and the Green Knight who interrupts the Christmas festivities at Camelot. It signifies the testing of the Arthurian ideals of chivalry, as Gawain travels north to the final duel between the two chevaliers, with an ironic moral which follows the surprising outcome. [via]
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Summerby Edith WhartonISBN 1596058889 (1-59605-888-9)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Travels With My Auntby Graham GreeneISBN 1850890366 (1-85089-036-6)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Originally published in 1970, Travels with My Aunt gives us an intoxicating entertainment yet also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.
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U. S. A.by John DOS Passos, Daniel Aaron, Townsend LudingtonISBN 1883011140 (1-883011-14-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Deathby D. B. C. PierreISBN 1841954608 (1-84195-460-8)
Hardcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death'Book summary:The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk. His mother, endlessly awaiting the delivery of a new refrigerator, seems to exist only to twist an emotional knife in his back; her friend, Palmyra, structures her life around the next meal at the Bar-B-Chew Barn; officer Vaine Gurie has Vernon convicted of the crime before she's begun the investigation; reporter Eulalio Ledesma hovers between a comforting father-figure and a sadistic Bond villain; and Jesus, his best friend in the world, is dead--a victim of the killings. As his life explodes before him, Vernon flees his home in pursuit of a tropical fantasy: a cabin on a beach in Mexico he once saw in the movie Against All Odds. But the police--and TV crews--are in hot pursuit.
Vernon God Little is a daring novel and demands a patient reader, not because it is challenging to read--Pierre's prose flows effortlessly, only occasionally slipping from the unmistakable voice of his hero--but because the book skates so precariously between the almost taboo subject of school violence and the literary gamesmanship of postmodern fiction. Yet, as the novel unfolds, Pierre's parodic version of American culture never crosses the line into caricature, even when it climaxes in a death-row reality TV show. And Vernon, whose cynicism and smart-ass "learnings" give way to a poignant curiosity about the meaning of life, becomes a fully human, profoundly sympathetic character. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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A Vindication of the Rights of Womanby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 1576468119 (1-57646-811-9)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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Vivir Para Contarla / Live to Tellby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 8439709498 (84-397-0949-8)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Ward No. 6 and Other Storiesby Anton Chekhov, Constance Black Garnett, David PlanteISBN 1593080034 (1-59308-003-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ward No. 6 and Other Stories'Book summary:Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Anton Chekhov invented the modern short story. With writing that is concise, realistic, and evocative, he became a sort of photographer in words, less interested in plot than in the subtleties of mood and atmosphere, and the telling detail. His characters, always vividly drawn, come from all walks of life and often seem to be caught up in a world they dont quite understand.Early in his brief literary career, Chekhov outlined in a letter to his brother his idea of the ingredients of a good short story. Arguing against moral judgments and political, economic, or social commentary, he wrote, To describe . . . you need . . . to free yourself from the personal expression. . . . Subjectivity is a terrible thing. Instead, he favored objectivity, truthfulness, originality, compassion, and brevity. Although his writing developed and matured, he remained largely faithful to these principles.
This new selection of twenty-three stories explores the entire range of Chekhovs short fiction, from early sketches, such as The Cooks Wedding (1885) and On the Road (1886) to late works, such as In the Ravine (1900) and The Bishop" (1902). Ward No. 6 and Other Stories includes some of his most popular tales, such as the title story and The Lady with the Dog (1899), as well as several lesser-known works, no less masterful in their composition.
David Plante is a Professor of Writing at Columbia University. He is the author of many novels, including The Ghost of Henry James, The Family (nominated for the National Book Award), and The Woods. He has been a contributor to The New Yorker, Esquire, and Vogue, and a reviewer and features writer for the New York Times Book Review.
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Whitman: Poetry and Proseby Walt WhitmanISBN 1883011353 (1-883011-35-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Works of Edmund Spenserby Edmund SpenserISBN 1853264423 (1-85326-442-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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Anos De Perroby Gunter GrassISBN 8401421071 (84-01-42107-1)
Softcover, Aims Intl Books Corp
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Ciudad de Cristalby Paul Auster, Maribel De JuanISBN 8433914766 (84-339-1476-6)
Softcover, Anagrama Editorial S. A.
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LA Daga / The Subtle Knifeby Phillip Pullman, Luces Del NorteISBN 8440684096 (84-406-8409-6)
Hardcover, Ediciones B
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Lyra and Will tumble separately into the strange tropical otherworld of Cittàgazze, where adults are curiously absent and children run wild. Their journey is plagued with obstacles, some familiar and some horribly new, but it eventually brings them closer to Will's father and to the Subtle Knife, a deadly, ancient tool that cuts windows between worlds.More editions of LA Daga / The Subtle Knife:
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Dineroby Martin AmisISBN 8433920499 (84-339-2049-9)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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Fundacion/Foundationby Isaac AsimovISBN 8401491363 (84-01-49136-3)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc
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Leviatan: O La Materia, Forma Y Poder De Un Estado Eclesistico Y Civil / the Matter, Form and Power of a Civil State and Ecclesiasticalby Thomas HobbesISBN 8420679569 (84-206-7956-9)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Mas Alla Del Bien Y Del Malby Friedrich Nietzsche, Andres Sanchez PascualISBN 8420633208 (84-206-3320-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Memorial Del Convento/baltazar And Blimundaby Jose SaramagoISBN 8420484385 (84-204-8438-5)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Shalimar El Payasoby Salman RushdieISBN 8439713797 (84-397-1379-7)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shalimar El Payaso'Book summary:Los Ángeles, 1991. El embajador Maximilian Ophuls es asesinado a plena luz del día en la puerta de la casa de India, su hija ilegítima, víctima del cuchillo de su chófer musulmán, originario de Cachemira, que se hace llamar Shalimar el payaso. Maximilian Ophuls es un héroe de la resistencia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un hombre de gran talento intelectual y fuerte atractivo erótico, ex embajador estadounidense en la India y jefe antiterrorista de Estados Unidos. A primera vista, el crimen parece ser de naturaleza política, pero pronto se descubre que el móvil no es tan simple. Esta es la historia de Max, su asesino y su hija, y de un cuarto personaje, la mujer que les une. Es un relato épico que se mueve entre California, Cachemira, Francia e Inglaterra. Por el camino encontramos historias de princesas raptadas por demonios, leyendas de reyes que defienden sus tierras del mal. En Shalimar el payaso hay bondad capaz de hacer milagros, pero también hay guerra sucia,inevitable e interminable. Y, como siempre, está el amor, conquistado y perdido, con su rara belleza y su mortal peligro. [via]
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El sueno eterno/ The Big Sleepby Raymond ChandlerISBN 8420672319 (84-206-7231-9)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Vivir Para Contarla / Living to Tell the Taleby G. Garcia MarquezISBN 8439709862 (84-397-0986-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Yo, Robotby Isaac AsimovISBN 8435015742 (84-350-1574-2)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Die Ausgewandertenby W. G. SebaldISBN 359612056X (3-596-12056-X)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Die Blendung: Romanby Elias CanettiISBN 3436006882 (3-436-00688-2)
Hardcover, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag
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Die Edda: Gotterdichtung, Sprachweisheit Und Heldengesange Der Germanenby Felix GenzmerISBN 3424007188 (3-424-00718-8)
Hardcover, Diederichs
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Jenseits Von Gut Und Boeseby Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheISBN 3895080381 (3-89508-038-1)
Hardcover, Konemann
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Jenseits Von Gut Und Bose: Vorspiel Einer Philosophie Der Zukunftby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Peter PutzISBN 3442075300 (3-442-07530-0)
Softcover, Goldmann
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Joseph Und Seine Bruderby Thomas MannISBN 3103481047 (3-10-348104-7)
Hardcover, S. Fischer
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Thomas Mann hat mit seiner vierbändigen Joseph-Geschichte einen der größten mythischen Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts geschrieben. Aus einer kurzen biblischen Erzählung entwickelt der Autor ein episches Gemälde, das durch szenischen Reichtum, durch seine menschlichen Figuren, seinen Humor und seine Weisheit gleichermaßen begeistert. Insgesamt 17 Jahre hat Thomas Mann an seinem Opus magnum gearbeitet, bis 1943 der letzte Band erschien.
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Kassandra: Erzahlungby Christa WolfISBN 3472865741 (3-472-86574-1)
Hardcover, Luchterhand
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Das Magische Messerby Philip PullmanISBN 3551352372 (3-551-35237-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Das Magische Messer'Book summary:Mit Das magische Messer stellt Philip Pullman nach Der Goldene Kompaß den zweiten Band der His-Dark-Materials-Trilogie vor. Die Hauptrollen spielen der zwölfjährige Will Parry und die gleichaltrige Lyra Listenreich, Heldin der ersten Folge.
Der junge Parry will das Geheimnis um seinen Vater lösen, der vor zehn Jahren bei einer Polarexpedition verschwunden ist. Durch Zufall findet er einen Zugang zu einer anderen Welt, als er vor geheimnisvollen Männern flieht. Hier trifft er auf Lyra, die ebenfalls durch ein Dimensionstor aus ihrer Heimat, die der Erde ähnelt, in diese fremde Welt gelangt ist. Auch sie ist auf der Suche nach ihrem Vater, Lord Asriel. Es stellt sich heraus, daß das Schicksal der beiden eng miteinander verknüpft ist. Gemeinsam müssen sie in den verschiedenen Welten um ihr Leben kämpfen und viele Abenteuer überstehen. Im Verlauf der Geschichte wird es immer deutlicher, daß den beiden Kindern eine Hauptrolle zugedacht ist in der anstehenden entscheidenden Schlacht zwischen Gut und Böse.
Pullman greift in diesem Buch das in Film und Literatur immer wiederkehrende Prinzip von parallelen, sich in vielerlei Hinsicht ähnelnden Welten auf. Es ist etwas schwierig, den Einstieg zu finden. Die verschiedenen Handlungsstränge scheinen zu Beginn etwas verwirrend und ohne Zusammenhang zu sein. Doch je mehr man weiterliest und sich in den Inhalt vertieft, desto besser enthüllen sich diese Zusammenhänge. Man wird immer mehr in die von Pullman geschaffenen Welten von Hexen, Technik und Magie hineingezogen. Nach Beendigung des Buches bleibt nur zu hoffen, daß der Folgeband bald auf den deutschen Markt kommt. --Markus Hofstetter [via]
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Theodor Fontane:Effi Briest: Effi Briestby Walter SchafarschikISBN 315008119X (3-15-008119-X)
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Tour Des Angesby Phillip PullmanISBN 2070541894 (2-07-054189-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tour Des Anges'Book summary:À la fin du premier volet, Les Royaumes du Nord, on avait quitté la jeune Lyra au moment où elle franchissait le pont entre deux mondes édifié par son père. On la retrouve donc dans un autre univers, où elle est rejointe par Will, débarqué, lui, d'un troisième monde très semblable au nôtre. On retrouve aussi la glaçante Mme Coulter, l'intrépide Lee Scoresby, entre autres personnages découverts dans le premier tome et désormais familiers. Apparaissent de nouveaux amis, mais aussi de nouveaux ennemis redoutables : des spectres qui vampirisent les adultes et sont invisibles aux yeux des enfants. Peu à peu, le mystère de la Poussière s'éclaircit tout en révélant sa complexité.
Il est question d'ésotérisme, de théologie, de destin, au fil d'aventures palpitantes narrées dans un style éblouissant. À ne surtout pas réserver aux enfants à partir de 11 ans, l'oeuvre envoûtante de Philip Pullman est appelée à devenir un classique de la littérature fantastique. --Pascale Wester [via]
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