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The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews and the Red Notebookby Paul AusterISBN 0140267506 (0-14-026750-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Art of the Storyby Daniel HalpernISBN 0140296387 (0-14-029638-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of the Story'Book summary:A reader doesn't want to love every story in an anthology. A collection of short fiction by various authors should be just that: various. We want all the stories to be admirable, but not necessarily lovable. This is how anthologies do their job, which is to teach us to love new forms of fiction. And this is how Daniel Halpern, editor of The Art of the Story, does his job. Halpern previously brought us the successful and far-reaching collection The Art of the Tale. Now he has taken upon himself the task of creating an international sampling of the contemporary short story. Seventy-eight writers from 35 countries--including Banana Yoshimoto, Junot Díaz, Peter Hoeg, Julian Barnes, T.C. Boyle, Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, Edwidge Danticat, and Tatyana Tolstaya--demonstrate that the story still brims with unrest and disharmony and, well, variousness. The classical form, the story that implies the world in a truncated scene or two, that implies a life in a single moment, is amply represented in this collection by writers like Ann Beattie ("In Amalfi") and Raymond Carver ("Are These Actual Miles?"). But the new story ranges farther than the personal, making inroads into the parodic, the fantastic, the speculative. As Halpern writes in the preface, "There seems to be a more investigative nature to the fiction of these stories written so close to the end of this century, a tendency, especially among writers from emerging nations, to use the story as a means of orientation, to restate for themselves their position--politically, socially, and artistically--as if for these writers there is radically less separation between reality and the imagination." Certainly this is an apt description of the fiction of Nigeria's Booker Prize winner Ben Okri ("In the Shadow of War") and of American newcomer Nathan Englander, whose "The Twenty-Seventh Man" describes the slaughter of Yiddish writers and contains the unforgettable dictate, "Never outlive your language." --Claire Dederer [via]
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At Home in Mitfordby Jan KaronISBN 014025448X (0-14-025448-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Home in Mitford'Book summary:Father Tim, a cherished small-town rector, is the steadfast soldier in this beloved slice of life story set in an American village where the grass is still green, the pickets are still white, and the air still smells sweet. The rector's forthright secretary, Emma Garret, worries about her employer, as she sees past his Christian cheerfulness into his aching loneliness. Slowly but surely, the empty places in Father Tim's heart do get filled. First with a gangly stray dog, later with a seemingly stray boy, and finally with the realization that he is stumbling into love with his independent and Christian-wise next-door neighbor. Much more than a gentle love story, this is a homespun tale about a town of endearing characters-- including a mysterious jewel thief--who are as quirky and popular as those of Mayberry, R.F.D. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Aurora Leigh, and Other Poemsby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Julia Bolton Holloway, John Robert Glorney BoltonISBN 0140434127 (0-14-043412-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aurora Leigh, and Other Poems'Book summary:Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression.[via]The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of the poems. What Edgar Allan Poe called 'her wild and magnificent genius' is abundantly in evidence. In addition to Aurora Leigh, this volume contains poetry from the several volumes of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's published poetry from 1826 to 1862, including Casa Guidi Windows (1851), Songs for the Ragged Schools of London (1854) and the British Library manuscript text of the 'Sonnets from the Portuguese' (1846) which records her courtship with Robert Browning.
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The Basketball Diariesby Jim CarrollISBN 0140249990 (0-14-024999-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Meby Richard Farina, Thomas PynchonISBN 0140189300 (0-14-018930-0)
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Big Fishby Daniel WallaceISBN 0140282777 (0-14-028277-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Fish'Book summary:In Big Fish, Daniel Wallace angles in search of a father and hooks instead a fictional debut as winning as any this year. From his son's standpoint, Edward Bloom leaves much to be desired. He was never around when William was growing up; he eludes serious questions with a string of tall tales and jokes. This is subject matter as old as the hills, but Wallace's take is nothing if not original. Desperate to know his father before he dies, William recreates his father's life as the stuff of legend itself. In chapters titled "In Which He Speaks to Animals," "How He Tamed the Giant," "His Immortality," and the like, Edward Bloom walks miles through a blizzard, charms the socks off a giant, even runs so fast that "he could arrive in a place before setting out to get there." In between these heroic episodes, Bloom dies not once but four times, working subtle variations on a single scene in which he counters his son's questions with stories--some of which are actually very witty, indeed. After all, he admits, "...if I shared my doubts with you, about God and love and life and death, that's all you'd have: a bunch of doubts. But now, see, you've got all these great jokes." The structure is a clever conceit, and the end product is both funny and wise. At the heart of both legends and death scenes live the same age-old questions: Who are you? What matters to you? Was I a good father? Was I a good son? In mapping the territory where myth meets everyday life, Wallace plunges straight through to fatherhood's archaic and mysterious heart. --Mary Park [via]
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Boyby Roald DahlISBN 0140318909 (0-14-031890-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boy'Book summary:In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's, Roald Dahl's boyhood was as full of excitement and the unexpected as are his world-famous, best-selling books. Packed with anecdotes -- some funny, some painful, all interesting -- this is a book that's sure to please. [via]
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Byron - Selected Proseby George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 0140430806 (0-14-043080-6)
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Chocolatby Joanne HarrisISBN 0140282033 (0-14-028203-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chocolat'Book summary:Vianne Rocher and her 6-year-old daughter, Anouk, arrive in the small village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes--"a blip on the fast road between Toulouse and Bourdeaux"--in February, during the carnival. Three days later, Vianne opens a luxuriant chocolate shop crammed with the most tempting of confections and offering a mouth-watering variety of hot chocolate drinks. It's Lent, the shop is opposite the church and open on Sundays, and Francis Reynaud, the austere parish priest, is livid.
One by one the locals succumb to Vianne's concoctions. Joanne Harris weaves their secrets and troubles, their loves and desires, into her third novel, with the lightest touch. There's sad, polite Guillame and his dying dog; thieving, beaten-up Joséphine Muscat; schoolchildren who declare it "hypercool" when Vianne says they can help eat the window display--a gingerbread house complete with witch. And there's Armande, still vigorous in her 80s, who can see Anouk's "imaginary" rabbit, Pantoufle, and recognizes Vianne for who she really is. However, certain villagers--including Armande's snobby daughter and Joséphine's violent husband--side with Reynaud. So when Vianne announces a Grand Festival of Chocolate commencing Easter Sunday, it's all-out war: war between church and chocolate, between good and evil, between love and dogma.
Reminiscent of Herman Hesse's short story "Augustus," Chocolat is an utterly delicious novel, coated in the gentlest of magic, which proves--indisputably and without preaching--that soft centers are best. --Lisa Gee, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Complete Storiesby Dorothy Parker, Colleen BreeseISBN 0140189394 (0-14-018939-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Stories'Book summary:Dorothy Parker's quips and light verse have become part of the American literary landscape, but, as this new collection of her complete short stories demonstrates, Parker's talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Many of the stories, originally written for magazines, have never been collected before. [via]
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Complete Poemsby Marianne MooreISBN 0140188517 (0-14-018851-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems'Book summary:This definitive edition contains sixty years of Marianne Moore's poems, incorporating her text revisions and her own entertaining notes that reveal the inspiration for complete poems and individual lines. [via]
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Complete Poems of Marianne Mooreby Marianne MooreISBN 0140423001 (0-14-042300-1)
Softcover, Macmillian
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Robin WaterfieldISBN 0140373535 (0-14-037353-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:The Count of Monte Cristo was inspired by an anecdote from the Parisian police archives, a pearl of a story, Dumas called it, 'A rough, shapeless pearl, of no value, waiting for its jeweller'. Edmond Dantè's betrayal, his incarceration in the fortress-prison of If, his search for Abbé Faria's hidden treasure, and his reappearance, now fabulously rich, as the brooding, Byronic and vengeful Count of Monte-Cristo - these are the bare outlines of a book which Thackeray, for one, found impossible to put down. Dumas set his magnificent novel of L'action et l'amour in nineteenth-century metropolitan Paris with interludes in Marseilles and Rome. In it he gave free rein to the sensational - hashish-smoking, vampirism and sex - and to his interest in travel, classical myth, the orient, human psychology and disguises. The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-46) is one of the great popular novels of all time, and a landmark in the development of modern popular fiction.[via]More editions of Count of Monte Cristo:
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadiaby Maurice Evans, Philip SidneyISBN 014043111X (0-14-043111-X)
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Damnation of Theron Wareby Harold FredericISBN 0140390251 (0-14-039025-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Danish Girlby David EbershoffISBN 0140298487 (0-14-029848-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Danish Girl'Book summary:Though the title character of David Ebershoff's debut novel is a transsexual, the book is less concerned with transgender issues than the mysterious and ineffable nature of love. Loosely based on the life of Danish painter Einar Wegener who, in 1931, became the first man to undergo a sex-change operation, The Danish Girl borrows the bare bones of his story as a jumping-off point for an exploration of how Wegener's decisions affected the people around him. Chief among these is his Californian wife, Greta, also a painter, who unwittingly sets her husband's feet on the path to transformation. While trying to finish a portrait of an opera singer who has cancelled a sitting, she asks Einar to stand in for her subject, putting on her dress, stockings, and shoes. The moment silk touches his skin, he is shaken:
Einar could concentrate only on the silk dressing his skin, as if it were a bandage. Yes, that was how it felt the first time: the silk was so fine and airy that it felt like a gauze--a balm-soaked gauze lying delicately on healing skin. Even the embarrassment of standing before his wife began to no longer matter, for she was busy painting with a foreign intensity in her face. Einar was beginning to enter a shadowy world of dreams where Anna's dress could belong to anyone, even to him.
Greta soon recognizes her husband's affinity for feminine attire, and encourages him not only to dress like a woman, but to take on a woman's persona, as well. "Why don't we call you Lili?" she suggests. What starts out as a harmless game soon evolves into something deeper, and potentially threatening to their marriage. Yet Greta's love proves to be enduring if not immutable. As Einar inexorably transforms, he steps beyond "that small dark space between two people where a marriage exists" and Greta lets him go.Ebershoff does a remarkable job of historical prestidigitation, creating the sights and sounds and smells of 1930s Denmark and making it seem easy. Even more remarkable is his treatment of Greta: he gets inside her head and heart, and renders her in such loving detail that her reactions make perfect sense. Einar is more of a cipher, and ultimately less interesting than his wife. But in the end, this is Greta's book and David Ebershoff has done her proud. The Danish Girl marks a promising fictional debut. --Sheila Bright [via]
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The Deep End of the Oceanby Jacquelyn MitchardISBN 0140286276 (0-14-028627-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deep End of the Ocean'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1996: The horror of losing a child is somehow made worse when the case goes unsolved for nearly a decade, reports Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Jacquelyn Mitchard in this searing first novel. In it, 3-year-old Ben Cappadora is kidnapped from a hotel lobby where his mother is checking into her 15th high school reunion. His disappearance tears the family apart and invokes separate experiences of anguish, denial, and self-blame. Marital problems and delinquency in Ben's older brother (in charge of him the day of his kidnapping) ensue. Mitchard depicts the family's friction and torment--along with many gritty realities of family life--with the candor of a journalist and compassion of someone who has seemingly been there. International publishing and movie rights sold fast on this one: It's a blockbuster. [via]
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The Diary of Lady Murasakiby Richard Bowring, Murasaki ShikibuISBN 014043576X (0-14-043576-X)
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Dr. Wortle's Schoolby Anthony Trollope, Mick ImlahISBN 0140434046 (0-14-043404-6)
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Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hillby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140374566 (0-14-037456-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hill'Book summary:Orphaned Rose Campbell is overwhelmed when she arrives at the "Aunt Hill" to live with her six aunts and seven boy cousins. Life is certainly more exciting, but will she ever feel at home with this noisy family? [via]
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Essaysby Francis BaconISBN 0140432167 (0-14-043216-7)
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Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literatureby Iris MurdochISBN 0140264922 (0-14-026492-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature'Book summary:Iris Murdoch is a poet, philosopher, novelist, and playwright, and in this collection of her most careful thinking and writing on the relationship between art and philosophy, we are treated to the fruits of decades of good work. Murdoch's changing ideas about the search for meaning in literature and life lead us down a richly rewarding path. Along the way she discusses T. S. Eliot, Dante Alighieri, Matthew Arnold, and many other major literary figures. For cognitive power, a sweeping overview of Western thought and art, and a respectful engagement with the reader, put it on the shelf beside the collected works of Kenneth Burke. [via]
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Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew/a Midsummer Night's Dream/As You Like It/Twelfth Nightby William Shakespeare, G. R. HibbardISBN 0140434542 (0-14-043454-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew/a Midsummer Night's Dream/As You Like It/Twelfth Night'Book summary:Shakespearean comedy has as much to do with the structure and movement of the drama as with the wit of its dialogue or the humour of its characters. In these four comedies there is a near-tragic crisis at which disaster or happiness may ensue, but the overriding force of goodwill and the power of understanding, love and generosity brings us through to a joyful conclusion. In comedy, 'sweet are the uses of adversity', so that the most bitter circumstances - exile, oppression, unrequited love - can give rise to higher feelings of friendship, respect, sympathy and acceptance. In this collection of Shakespeare's four most spirited comedies, each text comes complete with notes and an introduction, making this edition of particular value to students, scholars and theatre-goers. [via]
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From Blake to Byron: Volume Five of the New Pelican Guide to English Literatureby Boris FordISBN 0140222685 (0-14-022268-5)
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The Garden Party and Other Storiesby Lorna Sage, Katherine MansfieldISBN 0140188800 (0-14-018880-0)
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George Eliot: A Lifeby Rosemary AshtonISBN 0140242910 (0-14-024291-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'George Eliot: A Life'Book summary:George Eliot, née Marian Evans, was born before her time; a liberated woman and an agnostic in the sexually repressive and pious Victorian era, Eliot has long been a favorite of modern feminist critics. Biographer Rosemary Ashton also admires Eliot's independence and her refusal to bend to the mores of the society and age in which she lived, but in George Eliot: A Life she proves that Eliot was more a product of her time than some might think. Though Eliot was unconventional enough to enter into a series of sexual relationships without benefit of marriage, her choice of men was curiously traditional, illustrated by her attraction to George Lewes, a man several years her senior who loved her, protected her, bolstered her ego, and managed her affairs.
Though Eliot's sexual liaisons are certainly interesting, Ashton, a thorough researcher and perceptive critic, also delves into Eliot's novels, analyzing them in light of the social and intellectual milieu in which they were written; this milieu forms one of the most fascinating aspects of Ashton's biography: Victorian intellectuals' struggle to find an alternative to Christian orthodoxy in a time when science and philosophy were exploding long-held religious beliefs. From the details of George Eliot's personal life to the attitudes of the society in which she lived, Rosemary Ashton has done a fine job of conveying not only a life but an entire world. [via]
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Girl in Hyacinth Blueby Susan VreelandISBN 014029628X (0-14-029628-X)
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George FrazerISBN 0140189319 (0-14-018931-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Draws on myths, rituals, totems and taboos fo ancient European and primitive cultures throughout the world. the third edition of this monumental study of folklore, magic, and religion was abridged by the authour into this single volume in 1922.[via]More editions of The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion:
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Good Wivesby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140366954 (0-14-036695-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Wives'Book summary:This is the second story about the March family. Three years on from "Little Women", the March girls and their friend Laurie are young adults with their futures ahead of them. Although they all face painful trials along the way - from Meg's sad lesson in housekeeping to Laurie's disappointment in love and a tragedy which touches them all - each of the girls finally finds happiness, if not always in the way they expect. [via]
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Gothic Talesby Elizabeth Gaskell, Laura KranzlerISBN 014043741X (0-14-043741-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gothic Tales'Book summary:[via]'"The cursethe curse!" I looked up in terror. In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked, fearful self'
An encounter with the supernatural in an everyday setting accentuates its strangeness; a truth used to eerie effect in Gaskell's Gothic tales. A portrait turned to the wall, a hidden manuscript, a mysterious child that lives on the freezing moors, a doppelganger formed by a woman's bitter curse: all of these things hint at male tyranny and woman as avenging angelor devil.
Gaskell was fascinated by the dualities in women's lives and the way in which fact and fiction merge. 'Disappearances', a mix of gossip, legend and fact, relates stories of mysterious vanishings, 'Lois the Witch', based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to communal hysteria and persecution, while 'The Grey Woman' explores a common Gothic theme, the way in which the ghosts of the past always return to haunt us.
This edition includes an introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and an appendix giving a reader's response to 'Disappearances'.
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Happy Prince and Other Storiesby Oscar WildeISBN 0140350500 (0-14-035050-0)
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The Heart of a Goofby Pelham Grenville WodehouseISBN 0140284079 (0-14-028407-9)
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The History of Pendennisby William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 0140430768 (0-14-043076-8)
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The Homeric Hymnsby Homer, Nicholas RichardsonISBN 0140437827 (0-14-043782-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Homeric Hymns'Book summary:From the abduction of Persephone by Hades to Hermes' theft of Apollo's cattle, the Homeric Hymns recount some of the most compelling and significant episodes in Greek mythology. They were recited at festivals to honor the Olympian gods and goddesses, to pray for divine favor, and for victory in singing contests. They stand now as works of great poetic force, full of grace and lyricism, ranging in tone from irony to solemnity, ebullience to grandeur. Enhanced with an informative introduction that explores the hymns' authorship, performance, literary qualities, and influence on later writers, this collection gives an intriguing view of the ancient Greek relationship between humans and the divine.[via]More editions of The Homeric Hymns:
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Houseboat Days: Poemsby John AshberyISBN 0140422021 (0-14-042202-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Houseboat Days: Poems'Book summary:This reissue of a book of thirty-nine poems, first collected in 1977, reminds us of Ashbery's astonishing explorations (to use Donald Barthelme's words) of places where no one has ever been. "Wet Casements," "Syringa," "Loving Mad Tom," and the long "Fantasia on 'The Nut-Brown Maid,'" which concludes the book, are among the riches in a collection of dazzling eloquence and power.[via]More editions of Houseboat Days: Poems:
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In a German Pensionby Katherine MansfieldISBN 0140188754 (0-14-018875-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In a German Pension'Book summary:At the age of 20, Katherine Mansfield left England for the Bavarian spa town of Bad Worishofen. Alone and detached, she coolly observed the absurd posturings and affectations of the German bourgeoisie at leisure. There she began to write the stories that appeared in this, her first collection. [via]
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Jackson's Dilemmaby Iris MurdochISBN 0140261893 (0-14-026189-3)
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John Donne: Selected Poemsby John Donne, Ilona BellISBN 0140424407 (0-14-042440-7)
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John Keatsby John KeatsISBN 0140424474 (0-14-042447-4)
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Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should be among the English poets after my death. This wide-ranging selection of Keatss poetry contains youthful verse, such as his earliest known poem Imitation of Spenser; poems from his celebrated collection of 1820 - including Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, Ode to a Nightingale and Hyperion - and later celebrated works such as La Belle Dame sans Merci. Also included are many poems considered by Keats to be lesser work, but which illustrate his more earthy, playful side and superb ear for everyday language.
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John Keats : Selected Poemsby John Barnard, John KeatsISBN 0140437258 (0-14-043725-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Keats : Selected Poems'Book summary:John Keats survives today as the archetypal Romantic genius who died tragically early. The rapid development of Keats's poetic skills is powerfully displayed in this selection, which includes his first major poem, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", as well as "Endymion", "The Eve of St. Agnes", "La Belle Dame sans Merci", and "The Fall of Hyperion". Throughout, Keats's preoccupying themes of love, art, sorrow, the natural world, and the nature of the imagination magnificently emerge. In his superb Introduction, John Barnard discusses the focus of the anthology, which emphasizes Keats's place as a "second-generation Romantic". [via]
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Letters from an American Farmer ; And, Sketches of Eighteenth-Century Americaby J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur, Albert E. StoneISBN 0140390065 (0-14-039006-5)
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Lord Byronby George Gordon Byron, Susan J. Wolfson, Peter J. ManningISBN 0140423818 (0-14-042381-8)
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Marius the Epicureanby Michael Levey, Walter PaterISBN 0140432361 (0-14-043236-1)
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The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Booksby Robertson DaviesISBN 014027586X (0-14-027586-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Monkey Bridgeby Lan CaoISBN 0140263616 (0-14-026361-6)
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My Side of the Mountainby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0140348107 (0-14-034810-7)
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Jean Craighead George, author of more than 80 children's books, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves, created another prizewinner with My Side of the Mountain--a Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Notable Book, and a Hans Christian Andersen Award Honor Book. Astonishingly, she wrote its sequel, On the Far Side of the Mountain, 30 years later, and a decade after that penned the final book in the trilogy, Frightful's Mountain, told from the falcon's point of view. George has no doubt shaped generations of young readers with her outdoor adventures of the mind and spirit. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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News from Nowhere and Other Writingsby William Morris, Clive WilmerISBN 0140433309 (0-14-043330-9)
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The Notebooks of Don Rigobertoby Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith GrossmanISBN 0140283595 (0-14-028359-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto'Book summary:"It is not the world of cunning cattle that you and I are part of which interests me and brings me joy or suffering, but the myriad of beings animated by imagination, desire and artistic skill, the beings present in the paintings, books, and prints that I have collected with the patience and love of many years."
Near the beginning of The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, the title character writes these words to the architect designing his new home, thus setting the theme for this slightly fantastical, wholly erotic novel that celebrates the ascendancy of imagination over real life. Readers familiar with Vargas Llosa's work will recognize Don Rigoberto from the earlier In Praise of the Stepmother, in which the author first introduced the middle-aged insurance executive, his beautiful second wife, Lucrecia, and his preternaturally sensual son, Alfonsito. In that book, the pubescent "Fonsito" manages to seduce his stepmother and then writes an essay about the experience that he lets his father read. The novel ends with Lucrecia's expulsion from the household and the revelation that Fonsito had orchestrated the whole thing from the beginning for reasons of his own. Now, in The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto Vargas Llosa picks up where he left off, with Alfonsito's reappearance on the doorstep of Lucrecia's new home. Once again, this "Beelzebub, a viper with the face of an angel" has a hidden agenda--this time, apparently, to reunite his father and stepmother.
As in its predecessor, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto filters erotic passions and desires through art and artifice; Alfonsito uses the life and work of painter Egon Schiele to seduce his stepmother's imagination if not her body; Don Rigoberto and Lucrecia fan the flames of sexual passion through elaborate fantasies that they present as reality. It is almost as if no act, thought, or feeling can be real unless it has first existed in the imagination; even as Rigoberto and Lucrecia make love on their first night back together he informs her that, in his notebooks, she "'has gone to bed with many people all year.' 'I want details,' Dona Lucrecia gasp[s], speaking with difficulty. 'All of them, even the tiniest. What I did, what I ate, what was done to me.'"
The novel is the literary equivalent of matryoshki, those nests of dolls within dolls that Russian toymakers made to enthrall young children. Egon Schiele's life story, Lucrecia's erotic encounters, Rigoberto's notebooks, the 20 anonymous letters that reunite Rigoberto and his wife--all unfold, stories within stories and fantasies within fiction, until Vargas Llosa arrives, at last, at his happy ending, with a twist. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto is erotic without being graphic, so fantastical that even the seduction of a 40-year-old matron by a pubescent boy reads more like myth (think Cupid and Psyche) than today's headlines. Vargas Llosa's cool, wry prose helps to elevate the hijinks above the merely prurient, making this fable of love, art, and manipulation a pleasure without guilt. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Notes on the State of Virginiaby Thomas Jefferson, Frank ShuffeltonISBN 0140436677 (0-14-043667-7)
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Frank Shuffleton includes in this edition with selections from relevant correspondence and discusses the work's origins, composition, and initial reception. He focuses particularly on Jefferson's response to contemporary scientific writings on "New World degeneracy"; his differing treatment of Blacks and Native Americans; and his influential (and problematic) role in creating a mythicized American self-image. [via]
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The Odysseyby Homer, Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 0140383093 (0-14-038309-3)
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On Readingby Marcel Proust, John SturrockISBN 0140389032 (0-14-038903-2)
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On the Far Side of the Mountainby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0140342486 (0-14-034248-6)
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Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Worksby Aphra Behn, Janet ToddISBN 0140433384 (0-14-043338-4)
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A Pair of Blue Eyesby Thomas Hardy, Pamela DalzielISBN 0140435298 (0-14-043529-8)
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The Pelican Guide to English Literatureby Boris FordISBN 0140204652 (0-14-020465-2)
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The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Storiesby Margaret ReynoldsISBN 0140240187 (0-14-024018-7)
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The Penguin Book of Women Poetsby Carol Cosman, Joan Keefe, Kathleen WeaverISBN 0140422250 (0-14-042225-0)
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Pigs Have Wingsby P. G. WodehouseISBN 014028463X (0-14-028463-X)
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Pollyannaby Eleanor H. Porter, Neil ReedISBN 0140366822 (0-14-036682-2)
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Pope, the Complete Poems of Alexanderby Alexander PopeISBN 0140423508 (0-14-042350-8)
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Princess and Curdieby George MacDonald, Helen StrattonISBN 0140367624 (0-14-036762-4)
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Rachel Rayby Anthony Trollope, John SutherlandISBN 0140434100 (0-14-043410-0)
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The Railway Childrenby E. Nesbit, C. E. BrockISBN 0140366717 (0-14-036671-7)
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Rascalby Sterling North, John SchoenherrISBN 0140344454 (0-14-034445-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rascal'Book summary:[via]Skunks, woodchucks, a crow named Poe, an absent-minded father, aneighteen foot, half-finished canoe in the living roomwelcome to the North home! Nothing's surprising at the North residence. Not even eleven-year-old Sterling's new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when young Sterling brings him home to join his unusual family. The mischievous raccoon and Sterling are partners and best friends for a perfect year of adventureswimming, fishing, exploring the countryside togetheruntil the spring day when everything suddenly changes and Sterling realizes he must let Rascal go. This heartwarming and delightful memoir of a boy's friendship with a wild animal, and his growing awareness of the world around him, has become a treasured classic. Rascal has taken his place among literature's most captivating and endearing animals.
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Recollections of the Lakes and Lake Poetsby Thomas De QuinceyISBN 0140430563 (0-14-043056-3)
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Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Authorby Edward John TrelawnyISBN 0140430881 (0-14-043088-1)
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Rewards & Fairies.by Rudyard KiplingISBN 0140350810 (0-14-035081-0)
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Riceby Su TongISBN 014025644X (0-14-025644-X)
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Roderick Hudsonby Henry JamesISBN 0140432647 (0-14-043264-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roderick Hudson'Book summary:'I had but hugged the shore' until Roderick Hudson, wrote Henry James. This is his first full-length novel and executed with such blazing, confident, thirty-one-year-old talent that even if he had produced nothing else, his fame would have been assured.[via]Roderick Hudson, egotistical, beautiful and an exceptionally gifted sculptor, but poor, is taken from New England to Rome by Rowland Mallet, a rich man of fine appreciative sensibilities, who intends to give Roderick the scope to develop his genius. Together they seem like twins or lovers, opposing halves of what should have been an ideal whole.
Roderick Hudson contains the obsessions that inspired all James's fiction but put across with a simple force and fire that he never quite caught again. 'Whatever the merits of "The Master" who wrote The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl,' observes Geoffrey Moore, 'they are not those of the "young Harry"for whom the writing of Roderick Hudson was such a pleasure, and a triumph.'
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Roderick Randomby Tobias Smollett, David BlewettISBN 0140433325 (0-14-043332-5)
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The Saturdays: Library Editionby Elizabeth EnrightISBN 0140383956 (0-14-038395-6)
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The School for Scandal and Other Playsby Richard Brinsley SheridanISBN 014043240X (0-14-043240-X)
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Selected Poemsby Byron, Susan J. Wolfson, Peter J. ManningISBN 0140424504 (0-14-042450-4)
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Selected Poemsby Thomas Hardy, Robert MezeyISBN 0140436995 (0-14-043699-5)
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Selected Poems of Thomas Hardyby Thomas Hardy, David WrightISBN 0140422544 (0-14-042254-4)
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Selected Poems: Robert Frostby Robert Frost, Ian HamiltonISBN 0140421726 (0-14-042172-6)
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Selected Talesby Henry James, John LyonISBN 0140436944 (0-14-043694-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Tales'Book summary:Throughout his writing life, Henry James was drawn to the short-story form for the freedom it offered himand he made the genre his own. This new selection comprises both brief tales and longer works that explore James's concerns with the old world and the new, and with money, fame, class, and art. "Daisy Miller," "The Lesson of the Master," "The Real Thing," "The Figure in the Carpet," "In the Cage," "The Beast in the Jungle," and "The Jolly Corner" are included here, along with twelve others. Haunting, witty, and beautifully drawn, these stories are as rich and resonant as James's novels.[via]More editions of Selected Tales:
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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poemsby John AshberyISBN 0140422013 (0-14-042201-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems'Book summary:'Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror'was the first of John Ashbery's books to be published in Britain by Carcanet, and this is its third printing. Since it originally appeared here in 1977, three further collections have followed: 'As We Know', 'Shadow Train' and 'A Wave'. 'Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror'was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. The long title poem, a meditation on Parmigianino's famous self-portrait, has become Ashbery's best-known poem. It is accompanied here by a number of shorter pieces - playful, witty, elusive. [via]
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Shadow Train Paradoxes and Oxymorons 50 Lyricsby John AshberyISBN 0140422889 (0-14-042288-9)
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The Snow Leopardby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0140255087 (0-14-025508-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Snow Leopard'Book summary:In the autumn of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen set out in the company of zoologist George Schaller on a hike that would take them 250 miles into the heart of the Himalayan region of Dolpo, "the last enclave of pure Tibetan culture on earth." Their voyage was in quest of one of the world's most elusive big cats, the snow leopard of high Asia, a creature so rarely spotted as to be nearly mythical; Schaller was one of only two Westerners known to have seen a snow leopard in the wild since 1950.
Published in 1978, The Snow Leopard is rightly regarded as a classic of modern nature writing. Guiding his readers through steep-walled canyons and over tall mountains, Matthiessen offers a narrative that is shot through with metaphor and mysticism, and his arduous search for the snow leopard becomes a vehicle for reflections on all manner of matters of life and death. In the process, The Snow Leopard evolves from an already exquisite book of natural history and travel into a grand, Buddhist-tinged parable of our search for meaning. By the end of their expedition, having seen wolves, foxes, rare mountain sheep, and other denizens of the Himalayas, and having seen many signs of the snow leopard but not the cat itself, Schaller muses, "We've seen so much, maybe it's better if there are some things that we don't see."
That sentiment, as well as the sense of wonder at the world's beauty that pervades Matthiessen's book, ought to inform any journey into the wild. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Tales of Greek Heroesby Roger Lancelyn Green, Alan LangfordISBN 0140366830 (0-14-036683-0)
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The Tortilla Curtainby T. C. BoyleISBN 014023828X (0-14-023828-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tortilla Curtain'Book summary:[via]Winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger
Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Candido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britainby Daniel Defoe, Pat RogersISBN 0140430660 (0-14-043066-0)
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The Tragic Museby Henry James, Philip HorneISBN 0140433899 (0-14-043389-9)
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Unto This Last: And Other Writingsby John Ruskin, Clive WilmerISBN 0140432116 (0-14-043211-6)
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The War of the End of the Worldby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0140262601 (0-14-026260-1)
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The White Hotelby D. M. ThomasISBN 0140231730 (0-14-023173-0)
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Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquistby Charles Brockden Brown, Jay FliegelmanISBN 0140390790 (0-14-039079-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist'Book summary:Set in rural Pennyslvania in the 1760s, this tale of horror and mystery is based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family. The author employs Gothic devices and sensational features such as spontaneous combustion, ventriloquism, and religious fanaticism. Fiendish Carwin uses his influence over Clara Wieland and her family, destroying the order and authority of the small community in which they live. The novel examines some fundamental issues crucial to the survival of democracy in the new American republic. The unfinished sequel, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, traces Carwin's career as a follower of the utopist Ludloe. [via]
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William Hazlitt Selected Writingsby Ronald BlytheISBN 0140430504 (0-14-043050-4)
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Wobegon Boyby Garrison KeillorISBN 0140274782 (0-14-027478-2)
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For the author, John's job is a handy pulpit, allowing him to fulminate against radio, New Age affectation, and campus politicking. Keillor remains a master of the cantankerous one-liner, yet there's a romance here, too--between John and a historian named Alida Freeman. And while Keillor can't resist roping Alida into his own pan-Scandinavian schtick--she's writing a scholarly study of a 19th-century Norwegian neuropath who administered high colonics to Lincoln himself--the love story is genuinely touching and gives the novel an extra emotional ballast.
So, too, does the magnetic pull of Lake Wobegon. John keeps describing life back in Minnesota as one long exercise in sensory (and emotional) deprivation: "We were not brought up to experience pleasure, so it doesn't register with us, like writing on glass with a pencil. Dullness is our stock-in-trade, dullness honed to its keenest edge." Nonetheless, he returns twice in the course of the novel, and his sojourns among the Lutherans are the source of not only comedy but home truths. [via]
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Work: A Story of Experienceby Louisa May Alcott, Joy S. KassonISBN 014039091X (0-14-039091-X)
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Los Cuadernos De Don Rigoberto / The Notebooks of Don Rigobertoby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0140274723 (0-14-027472-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los Cuadernos De Don Rigoberto / The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto'Book summary:Set in Lima, Peru this is the story of a bizarre love triangle whose participants may be the creations of Don Rigoberto's fertile imagination. The central characters are Rigoberto himself, a dull insurance executive by day, a pornogapher and sexual enthusiast by night; Lucrecia, his second wife; and Alfonso, his angel-faced young son. Husband and wife have been separated for a year because of a sexual encounter between the boy and his stepmother. Rigoberto misses Lucrecia desperately--filling notebooks with his memories, fantasies, and letters he will never send. Meanwhile, Alfonso visits Lucrecia, attempting to both win her love and reunite her with his father. A companion volume to In Praise of the Stepmother--where we were first introduced to these passionate characters--The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto is a compelling mix of fantasy and reality that always keep the reader guessing.[via]More editions of Los Cuadernos De Don Rigoberto / The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto:
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Mi Rincon En LA Montana / My Side of the Mountainby Jean Craighead George, Carmen Gomez De AgueroISBN 0140381813 (0-14-038181-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mi Rincon En LA Montana / My Side of the Mountain'Book summary:The adventures of teenager Sam Gribley, living alone in the vast wilderness of the Catskill Mountains with his falcon, Faithful, have thrilled and inspired readers since 1959. A Newbery Honor book. ALA Notable Children's Books. [via]
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