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The 158-Pound Marriageby John IrvingISBN 0394484142 (0-394-48414-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Age of Ironby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0394588592 (0-394-58859-2)
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Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novelby Truman CapoteISBN 0394556453 (0-394-55645-3)
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At the Bottom of the Riverby Jamaica KincaidISBN 0394736834 (0-394-73683-4)
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The Bass Saxophoneby Josef Skvorecky, Kaca Polackvoa-HenleyISBN 0394502671 (0-394-50267-1)
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Bernard Shawby Michael HolroydISBN 0394575539 (0-394-57553-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bernard Shaw'Book summary:When Michael Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was hailed as a masterpiece, and William Golding predicted that it would take its place "among the great biographies." Now the biography is available for the first time in a lively and accessible abridgment by the author. This is the quintessence of Shaw. The narrative has a new verve and pace, and the light and shade of Shaw's world are more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship.
Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian, and irresistible charmer, Bernard Shaw was the most controversial literary figure of his age, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. Born in Dublin in 1856, he grew up there, a lonely child in an unsettling ménage à trois. His father, George Carr Shaw, had turned to drink, and his mother was muse to a Svengali-like music teacher whom she followed to London. The young Shaw, anxious to escape his heritage, also left for London to reinvent himself as the legendary G.B.S.--novelist, lover, politician, music critic, and finally playwright. From his first passionate affair with a beautiful middle-aged widow, he moved on to flirtations and liaisons with young actresses and socialists before finally settling into marriage in 1898.
At the turn of the century, Shaw was in his prime, a theatrical impresario and author of those great campaigning plays--Man and Superman, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, and John Bull's Other Island--that used laughter as an anesthetic for the operation he performed on British society. By 1914 the author of Pygmalion was the most popular writer in England, and increasingly recognized throughout Europe and America. Though ready with advice to others on how to stay married, he fell painfully in love with two of the most dazzling actresses of the age, Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell.
The reluctant recipient of a Nobel Prize for literature and an Academy Award for his screenplay for Pygmalion, Shaw became an international icon between the two world wars, feted from China and Soviet Russia to India and New Zealand, though still contriving to provoke the establishment in the United States, South Africa, and Ireland. In old age he was vigorous and prolific, espousing many new and quixotic causes. He revealed himself increasingly as conjurer, fabulist, and seer through his powerful late works, including Saint Joan, the Chekhovian Heartbreak House, the modernist fantasy Back to Methuselah, and the imaginative dream plays and political extravaganzas.
Covering almost a century, from 1856 to 1950, this unparalleled life of Shaw presents the magnificent double portrait of an age and of a man who was born fifty years too soon. Holroyd magically captures the essence of Shaw's protean genius in a tragicomedy that [via]More editions of Bernard Shaw:
The Blood of Othersby Simone de Beauvoir, Roger Senhouse, Yvonne MoyseISBN 0394724119 (0-394-72411-9)
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Breathing Lessonsby Anne TylerISBN 0394572343 (0-394-57234-3)
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The Bronze Bow: New Classic Collectionby Elizabeth George SpeareISBN 0395137195 (0-395-13719-5)
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Bullet Parkby John CheeverISBN 0394418190 (0-394-41819-0)
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Caligula & Three Other Playsby Albert CamusISBN 0394702077 (0-394-70207-7)
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Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0394718917 (0-394-71891-7)
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Contemporary American Poetryby A. PoulinISBN 0395050634 (0-395-05063-4)
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Correctionby Thomas BernhardISBN 0394722108 (0-394-72210-8)
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Cultural and Imperialismby Edward W. SaidISBN 0394587383 (0-394-58738-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cultural and Imperialism'Book summary:Edward Said makes one of the strongest cases ever for the aphorism, "the pen is mightier than the sword." This is a brilliant work of literary criticism that essentially becomes political science. Culture and Imperialism demonstrates that Western imperialism's most effective tools for dominating other cultures have been literary in nature as much as political and economic. He traces the themes of 19th- and 20th-century Western fiction and contemporary mass media as weapons of conquest and also brilliantly analyzes the rise of oppositional indigenous voices in the literatures of the "colonies." Said would argue that it's no mere coincidence that it was a Victorian Englishman, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier . . ." Very highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand how cultures are dominated by words, as well as how cultures can be liberated by resuscitating old voices or creating new voices for new times. [via]
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The Divinersby Margaret LaurenceISBN 0394491564 (0-394-49156-4)
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The Engineer of Human Soulsby Josef Skvorecky, Paul WilsonISBN 039450500X (0-394-50500-X)
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Epigrams of Martialby Martial, James MichieISBN 0394718941 (0-394-71894-1)
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Eva Lunaby Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0394572734 (0-394-57273-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eva Luna'Book summary:An exotic dance that beguiles and entices... The enchanted and enchanting account of a contemporary Scheherazade, a wide-eyed American teller-of-tales who triumphs over harsh reality through the creative power of her own imagination...
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Extinctionby Thomas Bernhard, David McLintockISBN 039457253X (0-394-57253-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extinction'Book summary:From the late Thomas Bernhard, arguably Austria's most influential novelist of the postwar period, and one of the greatest artists in all twentieth-century literature in the German language, his magnum opus.
Extinction, Bernhard's last work of fiction, takes the form of the autobiographical testimony of Franz-Josef Murau, the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family. Murau lives in Rome in self-imposed exile from his family, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends. On returning from his sister's wedding to the "wine-cork manufacturer" on the family estate of Wolfsegg, having resolved never to go home again, Murau receives a telegram informing him of the death of his parents and brother in a car crash. Not only must he now go back, he must do so as the master of Wolfsegg. And he must decide its fate.
Divided into two halves, Extinction explores Murau's rush of memories of Wolfsegg as he stands at his Roman window considering the fateful telegram, in counterpoint to his return to Wolfsegg and the preparations for the funeral itself.
Written in the seamless style for which Bernhard became famous, Extinction is the ultimate proof of his extraordinary literary genius. It is his summing-up against Austria's treacherous past and -- in unprecedented fashion -- a revelation of his own incredibly complex personality, of his relationship with the world in which he lived, and the one he left behind.
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Fire from Heavenby Mary RenaultISBN 0394722914 (0-394-72291-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Alexanders beauty, strength, and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their sons loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love for the youth Hephaistion taught him trust, while Aristotles tutoring provoked his mind and Homers Iliad fueled his aspirations. Killing his first man in battle at the age of twelve, he became regent at sixteen and commander of Macedons cavalry at eighteen, so that by the time his father was murdered, Alexanders skills had grown to match his fiery ambition. [via] 
Flash for Freedom!by George MacDonald FraserISBN 0394479475 (0-394-47947-5)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Flashman at the Chargeby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0394487567 (0-394-48756-7)
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Flashman's Ladyby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0394501357 (0-394-50135-7)
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 039456152X (0-394-56152-X)
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Gather Together in My Nameby Maya AngelouISBN 0394486927 (0-394-48692-7)
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Genet: A Biographyby Edmund WhiteISBN 0394571711 (0-394-57171-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genet: A Biography'Book summary:The definitive biography of Jean Genet, the incomparable French novelist whose works echo with themes of violent hierarchies, rituals of power and powerlessness and human identities as roles to be traded and manipulated. From his birth in 1911 to his adoption by foster parents and his tumultuous life as a runaway, thief, beggar and prostitute, Genet had remarkable powers of self-transformation, ultimately turning the pain of his life into writings that attracted the attention of literary trend-setter Jean Cocteau. Genet's work covered an amazing amount of social, political and intellectual territory. By diving into that which was awkward, ugly and painful, he emerged with the truth, transforming himself and others with its beauty. White earned the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography for this fine work. [via]
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The Geographical History of America: Or, The Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mindby Gertrude SteinISBN 0394719417 (0-394-71941-7)
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Good Morning, Midnightby Jean RhysISBN 0394710428 (0-394-71042-8)
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Growth of the Soilby Knut HamsunISBN 0394717813 (0-394-71781-3)
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The History Manby Malcolm BradburyISBN 0395240859 (0-395-24085-9)
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How Does a Poem Mean?by John Ciardi, Miller WilliamsISBN 0395186056 (0-395-18605-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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How Does a Poem Meanby Joseph HarrissISBN 0395204402 (0-395-20440-2)
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I Sing the Body Electric!: And Other Storiesby Ray BradburyISBN 0394429850 (0-394-42985-0)
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In a Free Stateby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0394722051 (0-394-72205-1)
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In the Beginningby Chaim PotokISBN 0394499603 (0-394-49960-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Beginning'Book summary:The story of a boy who grows up in the Bronx through the twenties, the Depression, World War II and its aftermath, and is forced by these events into radically reassessing what it means for him to be a Jew. The author also wrote "The Chosen". [via]
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Jakob Von Guntenby Robert WalserISBN 0394721683 (0-394-72168-3)
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Johnny Tremainby Esther Forbes, Lynd WardISBN 0395067669 (0-395-06766-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Johnny Tremain'Book summary:This story of a tragically injured young silversmith who ends up hip-deep in the American Revolution is inspiring, exciting, and sad. Winner of the prestigious Newbery Award in 1944, Esther Forbes's story has lasted these 50-plus years by including adventure, loss, courage, and history in a wonderfully written, very dramatic package. It's probably not great for little guys but mature 11-year-olds or older will find it a great adventure. [via]
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Joseph Andrews and Shamelaby Henry FieldingISBN 0395051509 (0-395-05150-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Last Talesby Isak DinesenISBN 039471752X (0-394-71752-X)
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The Little Drummer Girlby John Le CarréISBN 0394530152 (0-394-53015-2)
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The Long Goodbyeby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394757688 (0-394-75768-8)
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Lyrical and Critical Essaysby Albert CamusISBN 0394708520 (0-394-70852-0)
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Master of Middle-Earth; The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkienby Paul H. KocherISBN 0395140978 (0-395-14097-8)
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Maus : A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Beganby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0394556550 (0-394-55655-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus : A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began'Book summary:Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph"* and a "brutally moving work of art,"** the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. As the New York Times Book Review commented," [it is] a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness...an unfolding literary event."
This long-awaited sequel, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father.
Vladek's troubled remarriage, minor arguments between father and son, and life's everyday disappointments are all set against a backdrop of history too large to pacify. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale -- and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors. [via]More editions of Maus : A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began:
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Memoirs Of Hadrian: and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrianby Marguerite YourcenarISBN 0394605055 (0-394-60505-5)
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The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies--British, French, and Dutch--In the West Indies and South Americaby Vidiadhas Surajprasad NaipaulISBN 0394746740 (0-394-74674-0)
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Niccolo Rising: The First Book of the House of Niccoloby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0394531078 (0-394-53107-8)
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The Ogreby Michel Tournier, Barbara BrayISBN 0394724070 (0-394-72407-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ogre'Book summary:"The Ogre" follows the unusual life of an extraordinary Frenchman who becomes a prisoner of war in Second World War Germany, until he manages to ingratiate himself with his captors and becomes a hunting warden in Goring's private hunting domain. [via]
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The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Playby Wallace Stevens, Holly StevensISBN 0394469089 (0-394-46908-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play'Book summary:A collection that all the major long poems and sequences, and every shorter poem of lasting value in Stevens' career. Edited by Holly Stevens, it includes some poems not printed in his earlier Collected Works.
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The Pigeonby Patrick Suskind, John E. WoodsISBN 0394563158 (0-394-56315-8)
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The Players Come Againby Amanda CrossISBN 0394587855 (0-394-58785-5)
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The Plays of Oscar Wildeby Edgar Saltus, Oscar Wilde, Edgar E. SaltusISBN 0394604903 (0-394-60490-3)
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The Plays of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0394757882 (0-394-75788-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plays of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature.
Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an inaugurator and a master of modernism. In his best work, the subversive insights embedded in his wit continue to challenge our common assumptions. Wilde's ability to unsettle and startle us anew with his radical vision of the artifice inherent in the self's construction makes him our contemporary.
This edition is introduced by John Lahr, author of Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton. The plays included are Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest. [via]More editions of The Plays of Oscar Wilde:
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Plexusby Henry MillerISBN 0394623703 (0-394-62370-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plexus'Book summary:Second volume in the Rosy Crucifixion series. More about Henry and June, also chronicling the author's travels to the deep South, and his work as an encyclopedia salesmen (after he'd left personnel). [via]
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The Poems of Francois Villonby Francois Villon, Galway KinnellISBN 0395257174 (0-395-25717-4)
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The Poems, Prose and Plays by Alexander Pushkinby Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0394607627 (0-394-60762-7)
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The Praise Singerby Mary RenaultISBN 0394751027 (0-394-75102-7)
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The Professor's Houseby Willa CatherISBN 0394719131 (0-394-71913-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Professor's House'Book summary:A study in emotional dislocation and renewal--Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels. [via]
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Rabbit Is Richby John UpdikeISBN 0394520874 (0-394-52087-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rabbit Is Rich'Book summary:The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last -- until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness. [via]
Reading in the Darkby Seamus DeaneISBN 0394574400 (0-394-57440-0)
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The Real Life of Alejandro Maytaby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0394747763 (0-394-74776-3)
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Requiem for a Nun: Playscript Materialsby William FaulknerISBN 0394714121 (0-394-71412-1)
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The Russia Houseby John Le Carré, David CornwellISBN 0394577892 (0-394-57789-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Russia House'Book summary:When London publisher Barley Blair receives an important smuggled document from Moscow, the English spymasters are forced to use him to establish the document's veracity. His collusion with Katya, the Moscow intermediary, may represent the way of the future, to the distaste of espionage professionals on both sides. [via]
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Scaramoucheby Rafael SabatiniISBN 0395081424 (0-395-08142-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Selected Poemsby W. H. AudenISBN 0394725069 (0-394-72506-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Selected Poems and Prefacesby WordsworthISBN 0395051797 (0-395-05179-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Sibylby Par LagerkvisISBN 0394702409 (0-394-70240-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sibyl'Book summary:In this powerful, poetic, and moving parable, the Wandering Jew of medieval Christian legend journeys to Delphi to consult the famed oracle of the pagans. He is turned away but not before learning that one of the most adept of the old priestesses, or sibyls, lives in disgrace in the mountains above the temple. In her rude goat-hut he seeks the meaning of his disastrous brush with the son of God. She reveals that she, too, has been touched by the son of a god, a very different son, not quite human, born of her own body. He dwells with her as a constant reminder of the betrayal of her mystical and erotic union with the divine, her punishment, andperhapsher redemption. [via]
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Side Effectsby Woody AllenISBN 0394511042 (0-394-51104-2)
Hardcover, Random House
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Somewhere Is Such a Kingdom: Poems 1952-1971by Geoffrey HillISBN 0395207134 (0-395-20713-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Sound of Wavesby Yukio MishimaISBN 0394446291 (0-394-44629-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Sourceby James A. MichenerISBN 0394446305 (0-394-44630-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Sportswriterby Richard FordISBN 0394743253 (0-394-74325-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Staring at the Sunby Julian BarnesISBN 0394558219 (0-394-55821-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Staring at the Sun'Book summary:From the Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides. [via]
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The Stories of Heinrich Bollby Heinrich Böll, Leila VennewitzISBN 039451405X (0-394-51405-X)
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The Sunlight Dialoguesby John Champlin GardnerISBN 039447144X (0-394-47144-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sunlight Dialogues'Book summary:[via]John Gardners sweeping portrait of the collision of opposing philosophical perspectives in 1960s America, centering on the appearance of a mysterious stranger in a small upstate New York townOne summer day, a countercultural drifter known only as the Sunlight Man appears in Batavia, New York. Jailed for painting the word LOVE across two lanes of traffic, the Sunlight Man encounters Fred Clumly, a sixty-four-year-old town sheriff. Throughout the course of this impressive narrative, the dialogue between these two men becomes a microcosm of the social unrest that epitomized America during this significant historical periodand culminates in an unforgettable ending.Beautifully expansive and imbued with exceptional social insight, The Sunlight Dialogues is John Gardners most ambitious work andestablished him as one of the most important fiction writers in postWorld War II America.This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.More editions of The Sunlight Dialogues:
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The Sunlight Dialoguesby John GardnerISBN 0394743946 (0-394-74394-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sunlight Dialogues'Book summary:[via]John Gardners sweeping portrait of the collision of opposing philosophical perspectives in 1960s America, centering on the appearance of a mysterious stranger in a small upstate New York townOne summer day, a countercultural drifter known only as the Sunlight Man appears in Batavia, New York. Jailed for painting the word LOVE across two lanes of traffic, the Sunlight Man encounters Fred Clumly, a sixty-four-year-old town sheriff. Throughout the course of this impressive narrative, the dialogue between these two men becomes a microcosm of the social unrest that epitomized America during this significant historical periodand culminates in an unforgettable ending.Beautifully expansive and imbued with exceptional social insight, The Sunlight Dialogues is John Gardners most ambitious work andestablished him as one of the most important fiction writers in postWorld War II America.This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.More editions of The Sunlight Dialogues:
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The Swimming-Pool Libraryby Alan HollinghurstISBN 0394570251 (0-394-57025-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Swimming-Pool Library'Book summary:A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. "Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything" (Harpers & Queen), it focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, an old Africa hand, searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.
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Tolkien's Worldby Randel HelmsISBN 0395184908 (0-395-18490-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Townby William FaulknerISBN 0394424522 (0-394-42452-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Town'Book summary:This is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South.
Like its predecessor The Hamlet and its successor The Mansion, The Town is completely self-contained, but it gains resonance from being read with the other two. The story of Flem Snopes' ruthless struggle to take over the town of Jefferson, Mississippi, the book is rich in typically Faulknerian episodes of humor and of profundity.
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Vox : A Novelby Nicholson BakerISBN 0394589955 (0-394-58995-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Waterworksby E. L. DoctorowISBN 0394587545 (0-394-58754-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A Way in the Worldby V. S. NaipaulISBN 0394564782 (0-394-56478-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Ways of White Folksby Langston HughesISBN 0394451163 (0-394-45116-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Wild Boys: A Book of the Deadby William S. BurroughsISBN 0394475860 (0-394-47586-0)
Hardcover, Grove Press
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Wiltby Tom SharpeISBN 0394724186 (0-394-72418-6)
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The Witches of Eastwickby John UpdikeISBN 0394537602 (0-394-53760-2)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Witches of Eastwick'Book summary:Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwickand through the even darker fantasies of the towns collective psyche.
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The Works of Platoby Plato, Irwin EdmanISBN 0394604202 (0-394-60420-2)
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World's Fairby E. L. DoctorowISBN 0394525280 (0-394-52528-0)
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A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literatureby Margaret Drabble, Jorge LewinskiISBN 039450819X (0-394-50819-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Year in Provenceby Peter MayleISBN 0394572300 (0-394-57230-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Year in Provence'Book summary:Who hasn't dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Provençal cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies, but is it really all Côtes-du-Rhône and fleur-de-lis? Author Peter Mayle answers that question with wit, warmth, and wicked candor in A Year in Provence, the chronicle of his own foray into Provençal domesticity.
Beginning, appropriately enough, on New Year's Day with a divine luncheon in a quaint restaurant, Mayle sets the scene and pits his British sensibilities against it. "We had talked about it during the long gray winters and the damp green summers," he writes, "looked with an addict's longing at photographs of village markets and vineyards, dreamed of being woken up by the sun slanting through the bedroom window." He describes in loving detail the charming, 200-year-old farmhouse at the base of the Lubéron Mountains, its thick stone walls and well-tended vines, its wine cave and wells, its shade trees and swimming pool--its lack of central heating. Indeed, not 10 pages into the book, reality comes crashing into conflict with the idyll when the Mistral, that frigid wind that ravages the Rhône valley in winter, cracks the pipes, rips tiles from the roof, and tears a window from its hinges. And that's just January.
In prose that skips along lightly, Mayle records the highlights of each month, from the aberration of snow in February and the algae-filled swimming pool of March through the tourist invasions and unpredictable renovations of the summer months to a quiet Christmas alone. Throughout the book, he paints colorful portraits of his neighbors, the Provençaux grocers and butchers and farmers who amuse, confuse, and befuddle him at every turn. A Year in Provence is part memoir, part homeowner's manual, part travelogue, and all charming fun. --L.A. Smith [via]
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