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Anansi Boys: Library Editionby Neil GaimanISBN 0060515198 (0-06-051519-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anansi Boys: Library Edition'Book summary:One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime.
Anansi Boys
God is dead. Meet the kids.When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life.
Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.
Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself.
Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."
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Animal Dreamsby Barbara KingsolverISBN 006016350X (0-06-016350-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Dreams'Book summary:From the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland, comes a powerful story of love and courage in an exotc southwestern landscape. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American myths, thisis a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's greatest commitments. [via]
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The Annie Dillard Readerby Annie DillardISBN 0060171588 (0-06-017158-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Autumn of the Patriarchby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0060114193 (0-06-011419-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autumn of the Patriarch'Book summary:"Majestic . . . Superb . . . a stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant. Garcia Marquez is as exorbitant as Melville and Dostoyevsky."New York Times Book Review [via]
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Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930by Edmund WilsonISBN 0020128711 (0-02-012871-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Beginning And the Endby Naguib MahfouzISBN 9774241126 (977-424-112-6)
Hardcover, American University in Cairo Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beginning And the End'Book summary:A powerful portrayal of a middle-class family suddenly plunged into an unending financial and social nightmare by the death of their father. [via]
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Cantares Completosby Ezra PoundISBN 8437617952 (84-376-1795-2)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Coralineby Neil Gaiman, Raquel Vazquez Ramil, Dave McKeanISBN 847888579X (84-7888-579-X)
Hardcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Cuentos De Eva Lunaby Isabel AllendeISBN 9500705869 (950-07-0586-9)
Softcover, Aims Intl Books Corp
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El Beso De La Mujer Arana / Kiss of the Spider Womanby Manuel PuigISBN 8432216143 (84-322-1614-3)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Beso De La Mujer Arana / Kiss of the Spider Woman'Book summary:"Kiss of the Spider Woman" is a sharply provocative tale of love, victimization, and fantasy, and of the friendship that develops between two strikingly different men imprisoned together in a Latin American jail. [via]
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El Libro De Arenaby BorgesISBN 9500401908 (950-04-0190-8)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Libro De Arena'Book summary:This title is out of print. [via]
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El Libro Negro/ The Black Bookby Orhan PamukISBN 8466368884 (84-663-6888-4)
Softcover, Punto De Lectura
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El Origen De Las Especies/the Origin Of Speciesby Charles DarwinISBN 9871150121 (987-1150-12-1)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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Fear of Flyingby Erica JongISBN 0030107318 (0-03-010731-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Fire Next Timeby James BaldwinISBN 003055442X (0-03-055442-X)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fire Next Time'Book summary:It's shocking how little has changed between the races in this country since 1963, when James Baldwin published this coolly impassioned plea to "end the racial nightmare." The Fire Next Time--even the title is beautiful, resonant, and incendiary. "Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?" Baldwin demands, flicking aside the central race issue of his day and calling instead for full and shared acceptance of the fact that America is and always has been a multiracial society. Without this acceptance, he argues, the nation dooms itself to "sterility and decay" and to eventual destruction at the hands of the oppressed: "The Negroes of this country may never be able to rise to power, but they are very well placed indeed to precipitate chaos and ring down the curtain on the American dream."
Baldwin's seething insights and directives, so disturbing to the white liberals and black moderates of his day, have become the starting point for discussions of American race relations: that debasement and oppression of one people by another is "a recipe for murder"; that "color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality"; that whites can only truly liberate themselves when they liberate blacks, indeed when they "become black" symbolically and spiritually; that blacks and whites "deeply need each other here" in order for America to realize its identity as a nation.
Yet despite its edgy tone and the strong undercurrent of violence, The Fire Next Time is ultimately a hopeful and healing essay. Baldwin ranges far in these hundred pages--from a memoir of his abortive teenage religious awakening in Harlem (an interesting commentary on his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain) to a disturbing encounter with Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad. But what binds it all together is the eloquence, intimacy, and controlled urgency of the voice. Baldwin clearly paid in sweat and shame for every word in this text. What's incredible is that he managed to keep his cool. --David Laskin [via]
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Furia / Furyby Salman Rushdie, Miguel SaenzISBN 8497596420 (84-9759-642-0)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Furia / Fury'Book summary:Malik Solanka, original de Bombay, filósofo educado en Cambridge e inventor de una popular muñeca, abandona un día a su familia en Londres, sin dar ninguna explicación, y se escapa a Nueva York. Lleva la furia dentro y teme haberse convertido en un peligro para los que quiere. Llega a Nueva York en un momento de abundancia sin precedentes, el colmo de la riqueza y del poder americano. Pero la furia está a su alrededor... Un asesino en serie mata a mujeres con un trozo de cemento. Una mujer joven con un gorro de béisbol le acecha. Y otra mujer, de quien se enamorará, le atraerá con una furia diferente, una furia con raíces en un país lejano. Mientras tanto pierde el control de sus propios pensamientos, emociones y deseos. Un gran amor que se ha echado a perder, una pasión que se apoya en cimientos falsos y un tercer amor que, con un poco de suerte, a lo mejor sale bien. Furia es una obra de energía explosiva, despiadada, y a la vez una comedia negra, una investigación profundamente inquietante del lado más oscuro de la naturaleza humana y de la sociedad opulenta. Pocas veces se ha logrado captar la esencia de un lugar y de un tiempo tan intensa y exactamente en una novela. [via]
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Gorgiasby Plato, W.C. HelmboldISBN 0023529504 (0-02-352950-4)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gorgias'Book summary:Library of Liberal Arts title. [via]
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High Wind in Jamaicaby Richard HughesISBN 0002713128 (0-00-271312-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Kalevala : Epic of the Finnish Peopleby Eino FribergISBN 9511101374 (951-1-10137-4)
Hardcover, Egmont Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kalevala : Epic of the Finnish People'Book summary:National Epic of Finland. Epic narrative poetry, originally published in Finnish in 1849. [via]
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La Ignorancia / Ignoranceby Milan KunderaISBN 968772398X (968-7723-98-X)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: A Selectionby Humphrey Carpenter, J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 0048260053 (0-04-826005-3)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: A Selection'Book summary:Scholars and fans of the great mythologist will find a rich vein of information in Humphrey Carpenter's The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien was a prodigious letter writer all his life; the sheer mass of his correspondence would give pause to even the most stalwart archivist (one shudders to think what he would have done with e-mail). But with the able assistance of Tolkien's son Christopher and a healthy dose of determination, Carpenter manages find the cream of the crop--the letters that shed light on Tolkien's thoughts about his academic and literary work, as well as those that show his more private side, revealing a loving husband, a playful friend, and a doting father. The most fascinating letters are, of course, those in which he discusses Middle-Earth, and Carpenter offers plenty of those to choose from. Tolkien discussed the minutia of his legend--sometimes at great length--with friends, publishers, and even fans who wrote to him with questions. These letters offer significant insights into how he went about creating the peoples and languages of Middle-Earth.
I have long ceased to invent (though even patronizing or sneering critics on the side praise my 'inventions'): I wait till I seem to know what really happened. Or till it writes itself. Thus, though I knew for years that Frodo would run into a tree-adventure somewhere far down the Great River, I had no recollection of inventing Ents. I came at last to the point, and wrote the 'Treebeard' chapter without any recollection of any previous thought: just as it is now. And then I saw that, of course, it had not happened to Frodo at all.
This new edition of letters has an extensive index, and Carpenter has included a brief blurb at the beginning of each letter to explain who the correspondent was and what was being discussed. Still, we strongly recommend buying the companion volume, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, in order to better understand the place these correspondents had in Tolkien's life and get a better context for the letters. --Perry M. Atterberry [via]
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Lighthousekeepingby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0007181515 (0-00-718151-5)
Hardcover, Fourth Estate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lighthousekeeping'Book summary:'A child born of chance might imagine that Chance was its father, in the way that gods fathered children, and then abandoned them, without a backward glance, but with one small gift. I wondered if a gift had been left for me. I had no idea where to look, or what I was looking for, but I know now that all important journeys start that way. 'Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life, Babel Dark's, a nineteenth century clergyman, opens like a map that Silver must follow. Caught in her own particular darknesses, she embarks on an Ulyssean sift through the stories we tell ourselves, stories of love and loss, of passion and longing, stories of unending journeys that move through places and times, and the bleak finality of the shores of betrayal. But finally, "I love you. The most difficult words in the world. But what else can I say?" A story of mutability, of talking birds and stolen books, of Darwin and Stevenson and of the Jekyll and Hyde in all of us. [via]
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Literature of the Western Worldby James Hurt, Brian WilkieISBN 0024277002 (0-02-427700-2)
Softcover, Macmillan
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Literature of the Western World: The Ancient World Through the Renaissanceby Brian Wilkie, James HurtISBN 0024278254 (0-02-427825-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writingby Laurie G. KirsznerISBN 0030137683 (0-03-013768-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt School
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Little House on the Prairieby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0060000465 (0-06-000046-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little House on the Prairie'Book summary:Going West The promise of a new life on the Western frontier beckons Laura Ingalls and her family as they make the long journey across unsettled territory. The vast Kansas prairie is beautiful, but holds hidden dangers as well. The Osage Indians want the settlers to leave the land, and the wild wolves and hungry panthers threaten the Ingalls family. Faced with danger and uncertainty, Laura's family must decide if the pioneer life is right for them.
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Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - The Little House on the Prairie: ISBN 0060264462 (0-06-026446-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Little House on the Prairie: ISBN 0060277238 (0-06-027723-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Little House on the Prairie: ISBN 0060282444 (0-06-028244-4)
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Little Town on the Prairieby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060264500 (0-06-026450-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Town on the Prairie'Book summary:The little settlement that weathered the long, hard winter of 1880-81 is now a growing town. Laura is growing up, and she goes to her first evening social. Mary is at last able to go to a college for the blind. Best of all, Almanzo Wilder asks permission to walk home from church with Laura. And Laura, now fifteen years old, receives her certificate to teach school.
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Living by Fictionby Annie DillardISBN 0060149604 (0-06-014960-4)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Los Amores Dificilesby Italo CalvinoISBN 8472231097 (84-7223-109-7)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Los De Abajoby Mariano Azuela, Jorge RuffinelliISBN 9505571321 (950-557-132-1)
Hardcover, ALLCA XX
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Los De Abajo: Novela De LA Revolucion MexicanaISBN 9681603206 (968-16-0320-6)
Softcover, Fondo De Cultura Economica USA
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Los De Abajo: Novela de la Revolucion Mexicanaby Mariano AzuelaISBN 8495311127 (84-95311-12-7)
Softcover, Jorge a Mestas Ediciones
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Matildaby Roald Dahl, Pedro Barbadillo, Quentin BlakeISBN 9681903269 (968-19-0326-9)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matilda'Book summary:Matilda es una lectora empedernida con sólo cinco años. Sensible e inteligente, todos la admiran menos sus mediocres padres, que la consideran una inútil. Además tiene poderes extraños y maravillosos... Un día, Matilda decide desquitarse y empieza a emplearlos contra la abominable y cruel señorita Trunchbull. [via]
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Men Without Womenby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0020518900 (0-02-051890-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Men Without Women'Book summary:CLASSIC SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF AMERICAN FICTION
First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. In "Banal Story," Hemingway offers a lasting tribute to the famed matador Maera. "In Another Country" tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. "The Killers" is the hard-edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. Nick Adams makes an appearance in "Ten Indians," in which he is presumably betrayed by his Indian girlfriend, Prudence. And "Hills Like White Elephants" is a young couple's subtle, heartwrenching discussion of abortion. Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America's finest short story writer. [via]
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Midaq Alleyby Naguib Mahfouz, Trevor LegassickISBN 9774240588 (977-424-058-8)
Hardcover, American University in Cairo Press
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OS Lusiadasby Luis De Camoes, Amelia Pinto PaisISBN 972627043X (972-627-043-X)
Hardcover, Areal
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Paulaby Isabel AllendeISBN 8484505545 (84-8450-554-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paula'Book summary:Paula es el libro más conmovedor, más personal y más íntimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en que moría su hija Paula, la gran narradora chilena escribió la historia de su familia y de si misma con el propósito de regalársela a Paula cuando ésta superara la enfermedad. [via]
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Pedro Paramoby Juan RulfoISBN 9685208557 (968-5208-55-7)
Softcover, Editorial Rm Rio Panuko
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pedro Paramo'Book summary:Dentro de su brevedad, determinada por el rigor y la concentración expresiva, Pedro Páramo sintetiza la mayor parte de los temas que han interesado siempre a los mexicanos, ese misterio nacional que el talento de Juan Rulfo ha sabido condensar por medio de los cotidianos habitantes de Comala, región inscrita ya en la mitología literaria universal. [via]
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Philosophical Letters: Voltaireby Ernest Dilworth, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0023306106 (0-02-330610-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Place of Dead Roadsby William S. BurroughsISBN 0030632560 (0-03-063256-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Place of Dead Roads'Book summary:A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom." The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in the trilogy with "Cities of the Red Night and" The Western Lands.
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Poema De Mio Cidby AnonimoISBN 9684321937 (968-432-193-7)
Softcover, Continental Book Co Inc
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Rosshaldeby Hermann HesseISBN 9500725959 (950-07-2595-9)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rosshalde'Book summary:Hermann Hesse's Rosshalde is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of conventional society.[via]
Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged from his wife and stifled by the unhappy union. Veraguths love for his young son and his fear of drifting rootlessly keep him bound within the walls of his opulent estate, Rosshalde. Yet, when he is shaken by an unexpected tragedy, Veraguth finally finds the courage to leave the desolate safety of Rosshalde and travels to India to discover himself anew.More editions of Rosshalde:
Spoon River Anthologyby Edgar Lee MastersISBN 0020700105 (0-02-070010-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Taras Bul'Baby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 8475251463 (84-7525-146-3)
Hardcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc
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Testaments Betrayedby Milan Kundera, Linda AsherISBN 0060171456 (0-06-017145-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Testaments Betrayed'Book summary:Milan Kundera, one of the twentieth century's masters of fiction and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, offers a brilliant and thought provoking essay, following in the tradition of his highly regarded The Art of the Novel. Testaments Betrayed is written like a novel: the same characters appear and reappear throughout the nine parts of the book, as do the principal themes that preoccupy the author. Kundera once again celebrates the art of the novel, from its birth in a spirit of humor unique to European culture and sensibility - illustrated by some wonderful examples from the work of Rabelais and Cervantes - through its flowering in successive centuries. He celebrates the particular wisdom the novel offers about human existence. [via]
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Un Mal Principioby Lemony SnicketISBN 9685958300 (968-5958-30-0)
Softcover, Montena
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Valisby Philip K. DickISBN 8445074466 (84-450-7446-6)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Valis'Book summary:The first of Dick's three final novels (the others are Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). Known as science fiction only for lack of a better category, "Valis" takes place in our world and may even be semi-autobiographical.
The proponent of the novel, Horselover Fat, is thrust into a theological quest when he receives communion in a burst of pink laser light. From the cancer ward of a bay area hospital to the ranch of a fraudulent charismatic religious figure who turns out to have a direct com link with God, Dick leads us down the twisted paths of Gnostic belief, mixed with his own bizarre and compelling philosophy. Truly an eye opening look at the nature of consciousness and divinity. [via]
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The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plainsby Owen WisterISBN 0026305801 (0-02-630580-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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The Yearlingby Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsISBN 0020449313 (0-02-044931-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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2001 Una Odisea Espacial / 2001. A Space Odysseyby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 8497599292 (84-9759-929-2)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: '2001 Una Odisea Espacial / 2001. A Space Odyssey'Book summary:Una expedición a los confines del universo y a los del alma, en la que pasado, presente y futuro se amalgaman en un continuo enigmático. ¿Qué esencia última nos rige? ¿Qué lugar ocupa el hombre en el complejo entramado del infinito? ¿Qué es el tiempo, la vida, la muerte? Una grandiosa novela de dimensiones épicas cuyo amplio abanico de interpretaciones ofrece una visión totalizadora. Arthur C.Clarke colaboró estrechamente con Stanley Kubrick en la producción de la célebre película homónima. [via]
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Anabasis: LA Retirada De Los Diez Milby JenofonteISBN 8476406843 (84-7640-684-3)
Softcover, Edaf Antillas
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El Ano De LA Muerte De Ricardo Reis/the Year of the Death of Ricardo ReisISBN 8466308474 (84-663-0847-4)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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El Arbol Generosoby Shel Silverstein, Carla Pardo ValleISBN 9806053443 (980-6053-44-3)
Hardcover, Lectorum Pubns
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El Beso De La Mujer Arana/ the Kiss of the Spiderwomanby Manuel PuigISBN 8432217271 (84-322-1727-1)
Softcover, Booket
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El Callejon De Los Milagrosby Naguib Mahfouz, Helena ValentiISBN 8483270005 (84-8327-000-5)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Cantar de Mio CidISBN 8471663856 (84-7166-385-6)
Softcover, Edaf Antillas
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Cantares Completosby Ezra PoundISBN 8437612551 (84-376-1255-1)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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Canto a Mi Mismo / Song of Myselfby Walt WhitmanISBN 9500362414 (950-03-6241-4)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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El Catalejo Lacadoby Philip Pullman, Maria Dolores Gallart Iglesias, Camila BatllesISBN 8440699476 (84-406-9947-6)
Hardcover, Ediciones B
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Startling revelations arrive in this conclusion to the trilogy. Lyra must pay a price to walk through the land of the dead. Dr. Malone's amber spyglass exerts a haunting power. Most shocking of all, someone knows the names of who will liveand who will diefor love. All the while war rages with the Kingdom of Heaven, a brutal battle that will uncover the secret of Dust.More editions of El Catalejo Lacado:
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El Color De La Magia/ The Colour of Magicby Random House MondadoriISBN 849759679X (84-9759-679-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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En esta serie de novelas se dan cita todos los temas y situaciones del género fantástico, visto a través del personalismo y corrosivo sentido de la comicidad del autor inglés Terry Pratchett, que se ha convertido en uno de los escritores de humor de mayor éxito y fama en el mundo. [via]More editions of El Color De La Magia/ The Colour of Magic:
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Conde Ceroby William GibsonISBN 8445074024 (84-450-7402-4)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Cuentos De Eva Luna/ Eva Luna Storiesby Isabel AllendeISBN 8497592522 (84-9759-252-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Los De Abajoby Mariano AzuelaISBN 8437602262 (84-376-0226-2)
Hardcover, Ediciones Cátedra
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En El Otro Vientoby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 8445074733 (84-450-7473-3)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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El Fin De LA Infancia/Childhood's Endby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 9684460422 (968-446-042-2)
Softcover, Minotauro Mexico
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Georgicasby VirgilioISBN 8437612667 (84-376-1266-7)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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LA Historia Interminableby Michael Ende, Miguel SaenzISBN 9681902548 (968-19-0254-8)
Softcover, Aguilar
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Historia Interminable'Book summary:Small Bastian is nobody's idea of a hero; but in an ancient, mysterious book, he discovers an enchanted world only he can save. It begins as a "will-o'-the-wisp" goes to ask the Childlike Empress for help against the Nothing, which is spreading all over. The Empress is ill, which may be the cause of the Nothing. She then reveals that the only thing that can save Fantastica is a human child, who must give her a new name to restart the cycle of life. Thus, Bastian re-names the Empress 'Moon Child'; and helps re-build Fantastica with his imagination. Description in Spanish: El Reino de la Fantasia esta en un serio peligro: pronto va a desaparecer sin que sus habitantes puedan evitarlo. Solo hay un ser que podria ayudarles. Un nino llamado Bastian. Un nino que habita al otro lado, en la realidad. Lanzandose a una mravillosa aventura que cambiara para siempre su vida y la de sus peculiares companeros de fatigas -el valiente guerrero Atreyu y un dragon de la suerte volador-, Bastian y todo aquel que quiera acompanarle comprenderan que el destino de todos los seres esta unido y que si fantasia se extingue con ella se ira toda la inocencia del mundo, todas las esperanzas, suenos e ilusiones. [via]
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Hoyos: El libro de la pelicula, la maldicion de los hoyosby Louis Sachar, Elena AbosISBN 8434878607 (84-348-7860-7)
Softcover, Ediciones Sm
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LA Ignorancia/Ignoranceby Milan KunderaISBN 8483101319 (84-8310-131-9)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Ignorancia/Ignorance'Book summary:Una mujer y un hombre se encuentran por casualidad durante su viaje de regreso al pais natal del que emigraron hace veinte años. ¿Podran reemprender una extraña historia de amor, apenas iniciada entonces en su tierra? El caso es que, tras tan larga ausencia, «sus recuerdos no se parecen». Porque «nuestra memoria, la pobre, ¿que puede hacer? Solo es capaz de retener del pasado una miserable pequeña parcela sin que nadie sepa por que precisamente esa y no otra». Vivimos sumidos en un inmenso olvido, y no queremos saberlo. Solo aquellos que, como Ulises, vuelven despues de veinte años a su Itaca natal pueden ver de cerca, atonitos y deslumbrados, a la diosa de la ignorancia. / Bypassing the question of whether you can ever go home again, Milan Kundera's Ignorance tackles instead what happens when you actually get there. Ignorance is the story of two Czechs who meet by chance while traveling back to their homeland after 20 years in exile. Irena, who fled the country in 1968 with her now-deceased husband Martin, returns to Prague only to find coldness and indifference on the part of her former friends. [via]
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Leviatanby Paul Auster, Maribel De JuanISBN 8433966456 (84-339-6645-6)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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El Libro Negro/the Black Bookby Orhan PamukISBN 8466316329 (84-663-1632-9)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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El Malentendido / the Misunderstood - Caligulaby Albert CamusISBN 9500302756 (950-03-0275-6)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Paulaby Not AvailableISBN 849759388X (84-9759-388-X)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Pedro Paramoby Juan Rulfo Vizcaino, Jose Carlos Boixo GonzalezISBN 8437604184 (84-376-0418-4)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Pedro Paramoby Not AvailableISBN 9681104315 (968-11-0431-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Pedro Paramoby Rulfo JISBN 8433920707 (84-339-2070-7)
Softcover, Editorial Anagrama
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El Regreso De Conejo / Rabbit Reduxby John UpdikeISBN 8483108852 (84-8310-885-2)
Softcover, Tusquets
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La Tabla De Flandes/the Flanders Panelby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 9681903722 (968-19-0372-2)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Una Odisea Espacial 2001, Usa/2001: A Space Odysseyby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 8434580926 (84-345-8092-6)
Softcover, Editorial Bruno
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Il Deserto Dei Tartariby Dino BuzzatiISBN 8804327030 (88-04-32703-0)
Hardcover, A. Mondadori
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Frken Smillas Fornemmelse for Sne: Romanby Peter HegISBN 8716149629 (87-16-14962-9)
Hardcover, Rosinante
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De Ontdekking Van De Hemel: Romanby Harry MulischISBN 9023461231 (90-234-6123-1)
Hardcover, De Bezige Bij
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