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Abolishing Christianityby Jonathan SwiftISBN 091639753X (0-916397-53-X)
Softcover, Manic d Pr
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Adolescent Literature As a Complement to the Classicsby Joan F. KaywellISBN 0926842234 (0-926842-23-4)
Softcover, Christopher-Gordon Pub
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The Anubis Gatesby Tim Powers, Mark BilokurISBN 0929480104 (0-929480-10-4)
Hardcover, Mark V Ziesing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anubis Gates'Book summary:Author Tim Powers evokes 17th-century England with a combination of meticulously researched historic detail and imaginative flights in this sci-fi tale of time travel. Winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award for best original science fiction paperback, this 1989 edition of the book that took the fantasy world by storm is the first hardcover version to be published in the United States. In his brief introduction, Ramsey Campbell sets The Anubis Gates in an adventure context, citing Powers's achievement of "extraordinary scenes of underground horror, of comedy both high and grotesque, of bizarre menace, of poetic fantasy."
The colonization of Egypt by western European powers is the launch point for power plays and machinations. Steeping together in this time-warp stew are such characters as an unassuming Coleridge scholar, ancient gods, wizards, the Knights Templar, werewolves, and other quasi-mortals, all wrapped in the organizing fabric of Egyptian mythology. In the best of fantasy traditions, the reluctant heroes fight for survival against an evil that lurks beneath the surface of their everyday lives. [via]
Art of the Novelby Henry JamesISBN 093035060X (0-930350-60-X)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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The Art of Seeingby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0916870480 (0-916870-48-0)
Softcover, Creative Arts Book Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Seeing'Book summary:Both a document and a handbook The Art of Seeing records Aldous Huxley's victory over near-blindness and details the simple exercises anyone can follow to improve eyesight. Using the method devised by Dr. W. H. Bates, "the pioneer of visual education," as Huxley called him, and heeding the advice of Dr. Bates' disciple, Margaret D. Corbett, Aldous Huxley conquered a vision problem that had plagued him for more than a quarter century. [via]
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At the Mountains of Madnessby H. P. LovecraftISBN 0937986690 (0-937986-69-0)
Hardcover, Grant Publisher, Incorporated, Donald M.
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The Ayatollah and Iby Hadi Khorsandi, Ehssan JavanISBN 0930523377 (0-930523-37-7)
Softcover, Readers International
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Brown Girl, Brownstonesby Paule MarshallISBN 0912670967 (0-912670-96-7)
Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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The Castle of Argolby Julien Gracq, Louise VareseISBN 0932499678 (0-932499-67-8)
Hardcover, Texas Bookman
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Chuan Tsu: Inner Chaptersby Jane English, Gia-Fu FengISBN 0934747164 (0-934747-16-4)
Softcover, Amber Lotus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chuan Tsu: Inner Chapters'Book summary:Chuang Tsu/ Inner Chapters is a companion volume to Gia-fu Feng and Jane English's translation of Tao Te Ching, which has enjoyed great success since its publication in 1972, and had a 25th anniversary edition published in 1997.
Very little is known about Chuang Tsu and that little is inextricably woven into legend. It is said that he was a contemporary of Mencius, an official in the Lacquer Garden of Meng in Honan Province around the fourth century B.C. Chuang Tsu was to Lao Tsu as Saint Paul was to Jesus and Plato to Socrates.
While the other philosophers were busying themselves with the practical matters of government and rules of conduct, Chuang Tsu transcended the whang cheng, the illusory dust of the world--thus anticipating Zen Buddhism's emphasis on a state of emptiness or ego transcendence. With humor, imagery and fantasy, he captures the depth of Chinese thinking. The seven "Inner Chapters" presented in this translation are accepted by scholars as being definitely the work of Chuang Tsu. Another twenty-six chapters are of questionable origin; they are interpretations of his teaching and may have been added by later commentators.
This translation of Inner Chapters was originally published in 1974. This new edition, published by Earth Heart in 1997, includes many new photographs by Jane English and an introduction by Tai Ji master Chungliang Al Huang, who has been highly successful in bringing to the West the wisdom of the East. [via]
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Collected Poemsby Basil Bunting, Jonathan WilliamsISBN 091882527X (0-918825-27-X)
Hardcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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The Collected Works of St. John of the Crossby Kieran Kavanaugh, Otilio Rodriguez, John of the CrossISBN 0935216146 (0-935216-14-6)
Softcover, Ics Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross'Book summary:The fourth centenary of the death of St. John of the Cross inspired this revised edition of the English translation of his writings. The result is an edition that preserves the true meaning of the great mystic's writings, presents them as clearly as possible, and at the same time gives the reader the doctrinal and historical information that will lead to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the teachings of the Mystical Doctor. Included in The Collected Works are St. John's poetry, The Ascent of Mount Carmel, The Dark Night, The Spiritual Canticle, and The Living Flame of Love, as well as his letters and other counsels. There is a general introduction for the entire work and brief, enlightening introductions for each specific work, explaining theme and structure. Enhancing these are the new footnotes, glossary of terms, and index. [via]
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Command a King's Shipby Alexander KentISBN 0935526501 (0-935526-50-1)
Softcover, McBooks Pr
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Couplesby John UpdikeISBN 0912604107 (0-912604-10-7)
Hardcover, Halty Ferguson
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Diedrich Knickerbocker's a History of New Yorkby Washington IrvingISBN 0912882468 (0-912882-46-8)
Hardcover, Fordham Univ Pr
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Donald Dukby Frank ChinISBN 0918273838 (0-918273-83-8)
Softcover, Coffee House Pr
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Duino Elegiesby Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert HunterISBN 0938493213 (0-938493-21-3)
Softcover, Kalapuya Books
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Earth Speaksby Steve Van MatreISBN 0917011007 (0-917011-00-7)
Softcover, Inst for Earth Education
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Eight Menby Richard WrightISBN 0938410393 (0-938410-39-3)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Ellen Fosterby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0912697520 (0-912697-52-0)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ellen Foster'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Kaye Gibbons is a writer who brings a short story sensibility to her novels. Rather than take advantage of the novel's longer form to paint her visions in broad, sweeping strokes, Gibbons prefers to concentrate on just one corner of the canvas and only a few colors to produce her small masterpieces. In Gibbons's case, her canvas is the American South and her colors are all the shades of gray.
In Ellen Foster, the title character is an 11-year-old orphan who refers to herself as "old Ellen," an appellation that is disturbingly apt. Ellen is an old woman in a child's body; her frail, unhappy mother dies, her abusive father alternately neglects her and makes advances on her, and she is shuttled from one uncaring relative's home to another before she finally takes matters into her own hands and finds herself a place to belong. There is something almost Dickensian about Ellen's tribulations; like Oliver Twist, David Copperfield or a host of other literary child heroes, Ellen is at the mercy of predatory adults, with only her own wit and courage--and the occasional kindness of others--to help her through. That she does, in fact, survive her childhood and even rise above it is the book's bittersweet victory. [via]
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Enemy in Sightby Alexander KentISBN 0935526609 (0-935526-60-9)
Softcover, McBooks Pr
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Fanchon, the Cricket: Or, La Petite Fadette with a New Chronology of Her Life and Workby George SandISBN 0915864363 (0-915864-36-3)
Softcover, Cassandra Editions
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The Federalist Papers: In Modern Language Indexed for Today's Political Issuesby Mary E. WebsterISBN 0936783214 (0-936783-21-4)
Softcover, Merril Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist Papers: In Modern Language Indexed for Today's Political Issues'Book summary:The Federalist Papers are among the most important Founding Documents in the birth of the United States of America. The whole original debate over the Constitution is laid out here in detail for all to see. But most Americans have never read them. Why? Because they were written in the florid and complex language of 18th century politics. Now the Federalist Papers have been translated into modern American English. If you can read a newspaper, you can now read the Federalist Papers. See how the Founding Fathers foresaw the problems of impeachment, of corruption in government, of representation and all the other headline-grabbing issues we read about today! This new edition is indexed for today's political issues, a feature found no where else! The Clinton Impeachment? Regulatory excess? Bumbling bureaucracy? Gun control? Just see the index and find out what the Federalist Papers say about it! A publishing event of major importance! [via]
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enufby Ntozake ShangeISBN 0915288133 (0-915288-13-3)
Hardcover, Shameless Hussy Press
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Form Line of Battleby Alexander KentISBN 0935526595 (0-935526-59-5)
Softcover, McBooks Pr
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Foundation's Edgeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0918372100 (0-918372-10-0)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and Other Reminations About Country Life in Texasby John GravesISBN 0932012779 (0-932012-77-9)
Softcover, Taylor Wilson Pub
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Good Blonde & Othersby Jack Kerouac, Donald E. AllenISBN 0912516224 (0-912516-22-4)
Softcover, Grey Fox Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Blonde & Others'Book summary:[via]In these uncollected writings Jack Kerouac portrays himself in his life. He hitches a ride to San Francisco with a blonde, goes on the road with photographer Robert Frank, rides bus through the Northwest and Montana, records the blues of an old Negro hobo, talks about the Beats and how it all began, gives his "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and defends his novel The Subterraneans, compares Shakespeare and James Joyce, describes the cafeterias and subways of Manhattan, goes to a ballgame and a prize fight, and reflects on Christmas in New England, on Murnau's Nosferatu, on jazz & bop, and tells us what he's thinking about.
Table of ContentsWalking to Eden
Optical Terror
The Impossible Genus
On Returning from Chiapas
Alphabets and Emperors
Optical Pleasure
Haunting by Water
Mapping Paris
The Monstrous and the Marvelous
The Death Cunt of Deep Dell
Sortilege
Books of Nature
A Dream
Manifesto in Voices
Acknowledgments
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The Harp and the Shadowby Alejo CarpentierISBN 0916515710 (0-916515-71-0)
Hardcover, Mercury House
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The Holy Qur'Aan/English/Arabicby Maulana Muhammad AliISBN 091332101X (0-913321-01-X)
Hardcover, Ahamadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Holy Qur'Aan/English/Arabic'Book summary:The Holy Qur,an was the revealation given to Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) from Allah (God)by way of the Angel Gabriel (S.R.A.) approx. 1400 A.D. [via]
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If He Hollers Let Him Goby Chester B. HimesISBN 0938410326 (0-938410-32-6)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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In Gallant Companyby Alexander KentISBN 0935526439 (0-935526-43-9)
Softcover, McBooks Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Gallant Company'Book summary:As the American Revolution rages on the mainland, the British Navy prepares for action at sea. Against a growing fleet of American and French privateers, the navy must maintain its blockade of Washington's vital military supplies. Caught up in the turmoil, junior officer Richard Bolitho finds himself having to make momentous decisions in the heat of battledecisions that could affect the lives of many men and, perhaps, even the fate of nations.[via]More editions of In Gallant Company:
In His Stepsby Charles Monroe SheldonISBN 0916441237 (0-916441-23-7)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In His Steps'Book summary:ôWhat would Jesus do?ö This question was first asked many years ago when Charles Sheldon wrote the book, 'In His Steps', in 1896. The story tells of a churchÆs pledge to consider, ôWhat would Jesus do?ö before each and every decision and action. This pledge changed individual lives and their local church and community, and the story is still changing lives today! This updated edition includes classic quotes, prayers, and thought-provoking questions that will encourage readers to follow in ChristÆs footsteps in every area of their lives. [via]
In the Garden of the North American Martyrsby Tobias WolffISBN 0912946830 (0-912946-83-0)
Softcover, Ecco Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Garden of the North American Martyrs'Book summary:Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride, and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endure the offensive conviviality of the ship's social director.
Fondly yet sharply drawn, Wolff's characters stumble over each other in their baffled yet resolute search for the "right path."
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The Inshore Squadronby Alexander KentISBN 0935526684 (0-935526-68-4)
Softcover, McBooks Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inshore Squadron'Book summary:Copenhagen, 1800. After seven years of cruel war against France, Britain's long-standing ally, Denmark, suddenly poses a threat. The scene of battle shifts to the Baltic where the British navy encounters the bitter hardship of blockade duty.[via]More editions of The Inshore Squadron:
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Insomniaby Stephen KingISBN 0929480376 (0-929480-37-6)
Hardcover, Mark V Ziesing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Insomnia'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Ralph Roberts, a widower suffering from insomnia, begins to experience strange visual phenomena and is unable to believe that they are merely hallucinations. [via]
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The Intimate Journalby George Sand, Marie Jenney HoweISBN 0915864509 (0-915864-50-9)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Intimate Journal'Book summary:These selections from George Sand's journals form an integrated whole and show Sand as a woman, lover, mother, artist, politician, chatelaine, and friend. Sand's journal writing is thought by many to be her most expressive and natural; here the artist's most complex and interesting character is revealed: George Sand herself. [via]
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J.R.R. Tolkein: Architect of Middle Earth A Biographyby Daniel GrottaISBN 0914294288 (0-914294-28-8)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.R.R. Tolkein: Architect of Middle Earth A Biography'Book summary:J. R. R. Tolkien is one of the most beloved and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century, yet surprisingly little is known about the personal life of the author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. After a traumatic childhood, Tolkien experienced the bloody trenches of World War I, then lived most of his life as an Oxford scholar in a cloistered academic community. In this fascinating illustrated biography, author Daniel Grotta examines how much of Tolkien's personal experience fired his incredible imagination and led to the creation of Middle-earth and its inhabitants.[via]More editions of J.R.R. Tolkein: Architect of Middle Earth A Biography:
Jean Genet in Tangierby Muhammad ShukriISBN 0912946083 (0-912946-08-3)
Hardcover, Ecco Press
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John Barleycornby Jack LondonISBN 0934136173 (0-934136-17-3)
Softcover, Great West Books
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Jorge Luis Borges: A Literary Biographyby Emir Rodriguez Monegal, Emir Rodriguez-MonegalISBN 0913729981 (0-913729-98-1)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snarkby Martin Gardner, Lewis Carroll, Charles Mitchell, Henry Holiday, James Tanis, Selwyn Hugh Goodacre, John DooleyISBN 091323236X (0-913232-36-X)
Hardcover, William Kaufmann, in cooperation with Bryn Mawr College Library
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Little Altars Everywhereby Rebecca WellsISBN 0913089257 (0-913089-25-7)
Softcover, Broken Moon Pr
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Locosby Felipe AlfauISBN 0916583309 (0-916583-30-9)
Hardcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Lolly Willowes: Or the Loving Huntsmanby Sylvia Townsend Warner, Anita MillerISBN 0915864916 (0-915864-91-6)
Hardcover, Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolly Willowes: Or the Loving Huntsman'Book summary:Sylvia Townsend Warner began her literary career as a poet, and her first novel is as nimble and precise as poetry and reads as if it might have been composed to a meter. Like some of Jane Austen's fiction, Lolly Willowes is a comedy about the perils, pleasures, and consolations of spinsterhood, and the predicament of its heroine is at first deliberately and deceptively commonplace. "Aunt Lolly, a middle-aging lady, light-footed upon stairs, and indispensable for Christmas Eve and birthday preparations," is nevertheless troubled by vague, indefinable longings, a hankering after the solitude of woods and dark rural places. At last a revelation in a greengrocer's leads her to abandon her outraged London family and take rooms in an obscure hamlet, Great Mop.
Here her neighbors keep curiously late and noisy hours, but otherwise allow her to pass the time "in perfect idleness and contentment." She is eventually pursued into her idyll, however, by her nephew, and Titus's familiar small demands drive her to rage and despair: "No! You shan't get me. I won't go back. I won't.... Oh! Is there no help?" She is promptly visited by a mysterious black kitten, who fastens its claws upon her hand and draws blood. At once she understands. The kitten is her familiar, and has been sent by dark forces. "She, Laura Willowes, in England, in the year 1922, had entered into a compact with the Devil."
She has, in short, become a witch--or, rather, she has rediscovered her own slumbering diabolical potential, in the unlikely setting of a Buckinghamshire hamlet that--as she now realizes--is peopled entirely by witches. Laura soon attends a rollicking but ultimately rather disappointing midnight Sabbath; she is visited by Satan in the shape of a pleasant-faced man in a corduroy coat and gaiters who rids her of Titus and restores her to privacy and peace. She is left with a vision of the women "all over England, all over Europe ... as common as blackberries, and as unregarded" to whom he has offered the promise of adventure, "the dangerous black night to stretch your wings in." It is this vision that lends the novel its subversive edge, that ultimately allies it less with the work of Austen than with that of Virginia Woolf, and with later feminists. They "know they are dynamite," says Laura of Satan's women, "and long for the concussion that may justify them." --Sarah Waters [via]
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The Lords of Disciplineby Pat ConroyISBN 0937036013 (0-937036-01-3)
Hardcover, Old New York Book Shop Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lords of Discipline'Book summary:This powerful and breathtaking novel is the story of four cadets who have become bloodbrothers. Together they will encounter the hell of hazing and the rabid, raunchy and dangerously secretive atmosphere of an arrogant and proud military institute. They will experience the violence. The passion. The rage. The friendship. The loyalty. The betrayal. Together, they will brace themselves for the brutal transition to manhood... and one will not survive. With all the dramatic brilliance he brought to The Great Santini, Pat Conroy sweeps you into the turbulent world of these four friends - and draws you deep into the heart of his rebellious hero, Will McLean, an outsider forging his personal code of honor, who falls in love with a whimsical beauty... and who undergoes a transition more remarkable then he ever imagined possible. [via]
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Madeleineby Andre Gide, Justin O'BrienISBN 0929587197 (0-929587-19-7)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madeleine'Book summary:Madeleine is the story of a great writers marriage, a deeply disturbing account of André Gides feelings towards his beloved and long-suffering wife. It was a relationship which Gide exaltedhe termed it the central drama of his existenceyet deliberately shrouded in mystery. This was no ordinary marriage. Madeleine Rondeaux, two years older than her cousin André Gide, became his wife after Gides first visit to Algeria. In his Journal, Gide refers to her as Emmanuèle or as Em. Only in this book, published a few months after his death, does Gide call her by her real name and painfully reveal the nature of their life together. All of Gides vast work may be viewed as a confession, impelled by his need to write what he believed to be true about himself. In Madeleine this act of confession reaches a crowning point. It is a complex tale by a complex man about a complex relationship. Ranks among the masterpieces of Gides vibrating prose. It is also the most tragic personal document to have emanated from Gides pen. New York Times. [via]
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Maupratby George SandISBN 0915864436 (0-915864-43-6)
Hardcover, Cassandra Editions
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Meditations on First Philosophyby Rene DescartesISBN 0915144573 (0-915144-57-3)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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The Natural Manby Ed McClanahanISBN 0917788567 (0-917788-56-7)
Softcover, Gnomon Distribution
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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 5by Hayao MiyazakiISBN 0929279581 (0-929279-58-1)
Softcover, Viz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 5'Book summary:Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (???????? Kaze no Tani no Naushika?) is a post-apocalyptic manga written and illustrated by acclaimed anime director Hayao Miyazaki. It was serialised intermittently from 1982 to 1994 in Japan. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is published by Viz Media in North America. It tells the story of Nausicaä, a princess of small kingdom that is pulled into a war between mighty empires as a looming environmental apocalypse threatens the very survival of humankind. On her journey she seeks to find peaceful coexistence between the nations of men, as well as between man and nature. [via]
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Nazarinby Benito Perez Galdos, Robert S. Rudder, Gloria Chacon De ArjonaISBN 0935480757 (0-935480-75-7)
Softcover, Bilingual Review Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nazarin'Book summary:Is Nazarin a latter-day Christ or a Quixotic fool? Saintly, mysterious, irritating, he attampts to set up an alternative society based on non-resistance to evil and the rejection of private property--often with hilarious results.
A strikingly modern work, it is at once a serious discussion of the roots of Christianity, an exploration of abnormal psychology, a critique of bourgeois materialism, and a brilliant exercise in comedy. This new translation does full justice to the richness and rhythm of Galdos's style, and makes available for the first time in English this important late work of Spain's greatest nineteenth-century novelist. [via]More editions of Nazarin:
New York: A Literary Companionby William ColeISBN 0916366596 (0-916366-59-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Okhota Za"Krasnym Oktiabrem"by Tom ClancyISBN 0914481274 (0-914481-27-4)
Hardcover, Time & We
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Old Christmasby Washington IrvingISBN 0912882301 (0-912882-30-1)
Softcover, Fordham Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old Christmas'Book summary:There is something in the very season of the year that gives a charm to the festivity of Christmas. At other times we derive a great portion of our pleasures from the mere beauties of nature. Our feelings sally forth and dissipate themselves over the sunny landscape, and we "live abroad and everywhere." The dreariness and desolation of the landscape, the short gloomy days and darksome nights, while they circumscribe our wanderings, shut in our feelings also from rambling abroad, and make us more keenly disposed for the pleasures of the social circle. . . . The pitchy gloom without makes the heart dilate on entering the room filled with the glow and warmth of the evening fire. The ruddy blaze diffuses an artificial summer and sunshine through the room, and lights up each countenance into a kindlier welcome. Where does the honest face of hospitality expand into a broader and more cordial smile -- where is the shy glance of love more sweetly eloquent -- than by the winter fireside? [via]
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Passage to Mutinyby Alexander KentISBN 0935526587 (0-935526-58-7)
Softcover, McBooks Pr
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The Path to the Nest of Spidersby Italo CalvinoISBN 0912946318 (0-912946-31-8)
Hardcover, Ecco Press
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Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful With an Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste: And Several Other Additionsby Edmund BurkeISBN 0935005285 (0-935005-28-5)
Softcover, Lincoln Rembrandt Pub
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Philosophy in the Bedroomby Marquis De SadeISBN 0916201147 (0-916201-14-7)
Softcover, Mip Co
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The Pied Piper of Hamelinby Robert Browning, Jane E. CookISBN 0914108034 (0-914108-03-4)
Softcover, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University
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Plato's Phaedoby G.M. GrubeISBN 0915144182 (0-915144-18-2)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plato's Phaedo'Book summary:The book is written for anyone seriously interested in Plato's thought and in the history of literary theory or of rhetoric. No knowledge of Greek is required. The focus of this account is on how the resources both of persuasive myth and of formal argument, for all that Plato sets them in strong contrast, nevertheless complement and reinforce each other in his philosophy. [via]
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Plato's Phaedoby Plato, G.M.A. GrubeISBN 0915144301 (0-915144-30-1)
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The Prisoner of Sexby Norman MailerISBN 0917657594 (0-917657-59-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Renoir, My Fatherby Jean RenoirISBN 0916515397 (0-916515-39-7)
Softcover, Mercury House
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Rotten Reviews : A Literary Companionby Bill HendersonISBN 0916366405 (0-916366-40-5)
Hardcover, Pushcart Press, The
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A Sand County Almanac Illustratedby Aldo LeopoldISBN 0915024152 (0-915024-15-2)
Hardcover, Trails Media Group Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sand County Almanac Illustrated'Book summary:Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." Leopold's road-to-Damascus change of view would find its fruit some years later in his so-called land ethic, in which he held that nothing that disturbs the balance of nature is right. Much of Almanac elaborates on this basic premise, as well as on Leopold's view that it is something of a human duty to preserve as much wild land as possible, as a kind of bank for the biological future of all species. Beautifully written, quiet, and elegant, Leopold's book deserves continued study and discussion today. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Sandman Libraryby Neil GaimanISBN 0930289595 (0-930289-59-5)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sandman Library'Book summary:The immense popularity of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series is due in large part to the development of his characters. In The Doll's House, the second book of the Sandman magnum opus, Gaiman continues to build the foundation for the larger story, introducing us to more of the Dream King's family of the Endless.
The Sandman returns to his kingdom of the Dreaming after nearly a century of imprisonment, finding several things out of place; most importantly, an anomaly called a dream vortex has manifested itself in the form of a young girl who unknowingly threatens to rip apart the Dreaming. And there's the smaller matter of a few nightmares having escaped. Among them is Gaiman's creepiest creation: the Corinthian, a serial killer with a miniature set of teeth in each eye socket. Because later volumes concentrate so much on human relationships with Gaiman's signature fair for fantasy and mythology, it is sometimes easy to forget that the Sandman series started out as a horror comic. This book grabs you and doesn't let you forget that so easily. --Jim Pascoe [via]
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Season in Hell, And, the Illuminationsby Jean Nicolas Arthur RimbaudISBN 0918526892 (0-918526-89-2)
Softcover, Boa Editions
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Signal-Close Actionby Alexander KentISBN 0935526676 (0-935526-67-6)
Softcover, McBooks Pr
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The Silent Partner a Novel, and the Tenth of January, a Short Storyby Elizabeth Stuart PhelpsISBN 0935312080 (0-935312-08-0)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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Sloop of Warby Alexander KentISBN 093552648X (0-935526-48-X)
Softcover, McBooks Pr
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The Son of the Wolfby Jack LondonISBN 0932458025 (0-932458-02-5)
Softcover, Lexikos Pub
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Sophocles Philoctetesby Sophocles, Roberto TorettiISBN 0929524888 (0-929524-88-8)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Stand into Dangerby Alexander KentISBN 0935526420 (0-935526-42-0)
Softcover, McBooks Pr
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Stephen Kingby Douglas E. WinterISBN 0916732436 (0-916732-43-6)
Softcover, Starmont House
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The Storm and Other Poemsby Charles WrightISBN 0932440010 (0-932440-01-0)
Softcover, Oberlin College Pr
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Success to the Braveby Alexander KentISBN 0935526714 (0-935526-71-4)
Softcover, McBooks Pr
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Three Playsby John AshberyISBN 091599013X (0-915990-13-X)
Softcover, Inland Book Co
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To Glory We Steerby Alexander KentISBN 0935526498 (0-935526-49-8)
Softcover, McBooks Pr
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A Tradition of Victoryby Alexander KentISBN 0935526706 (0-935526-70-6)
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Two More Stories of the Port William Membershipby Wendell BerryISBN 0917788710 (0-917788-71-0)
Softcover, Gnomon Distribution
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two More Stories of the Port William Membership'Book summary:Fiction. Two stories of rural life from the author of WATCH WITH ME and FIDELITY, newly available in paperback from Gnomon. As a celebrator of the land and the turning of the seasons that govern us still, Wendell Berry is, indeed, our writer for all seasons -- Wade Hall, Lexington Herald-Leader. Wallace Stegner writes, It's hard to say whether I like [Berry] better as a poet, an essayist, or a novelist. He is all three, at a high level. [via]
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The Unpossessedby Tess SlesingerISBN 0935312218 (0-935312-21-8)
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A View of My Own: Essays in Literature and Societyby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0912946911 (0-912946-91-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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A Woman of Means: A Novelby Peter TaylorISBN 0913720445 (0-913720-44-5)
Hardcover, Beil Publisher, Incorporated, Frederic C.
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Zami, a New Spelling of My Nameby Audre LordeISBN 0930436156 (0-930436-15-6)
Softcover, Persephone Press
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