| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “literature”
books tagged “literature”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
The Age of Shakespeareby Frank KermodeISBN 0679642447 (0-679-64244-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Shakespeare'More editions of The Age of Shakespeare:
All Souls' Rising : A Novelby Madison Smartt BellISBN 0679439897 (0-679-43989-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'All Souls' Rising : A Novel'More editions of All Souls' Rising : A Novel:
-
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newtonby Jane SmileyISBN 0679450742 (0-679-45074-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton'Book summary:Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance. Her new novel, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice--the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of Lidie Harkness of Quincy, Illinois, a young woman of courage, good sense, and good heart. It carries us into an America so violently torn apart by the question of slavery that it makes our current political battlegrounds seem a peaceable kingdom. Lidie is hard to scare. She is almost shockingly alive--a tall, plain girl who rides and shoots and speaks her mind, and whose straightforward ways paradoxically amount to a kind of glamour. We see her at twenty, making a good marriage--to Thomas Newton, a steady, sweet-tempered Yankee who passes through her hometown on a dangerous mission. He belongs to a group of rashly brave New England abolitionists who dedicate themselves to settling the Kansas Territory with like-minded folk to ensure its entering the Union as a Free State. Lidie packs up and goes with him. And the novel races alongside them into the Territory, into the maelstrom of "Bloody Kansas," where slaveholding Missourians constantly and viciously clash with Free Staters, where wandering youths kill you as soon as look at you--where Lidie becomes even more fervently abolitionist than her husband as the young couple again and again barely escape entrapment in webs of atrocity on both sides of the great question. And when, suddenly, cold-blooded murder invades her own intimate circle, Lidie doesn't falter. She cuts off her hair, disguises herself as a boy, and rides into Missouri in search of the killers--a woman in a fiercely male world, an abolitionist spy in slave territory. On the run, her life threatened, her wits sharpened, she takes on yet another identity--and, in the very midst of her masquerade, discovers h [via]
More editions of The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton:
Anton Chekhov : Early Short Stories 1883-1888by Anton Chekhov, Shelby Foote, Constance GarnettISBN 0679603174 (0-679-60317-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Anton Chekhov : Early Short Stories 1883-1888'More editions of Anton Chekhov : Early Short Stories 1883-1888:
Anton Chekhov : Later Short Stories 1888-1903by Anton Chekhov, Shelby Foote, Constance GarnettISBN 0679603166 (0-679-60316-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Anton Chekhov : Later Short Stories 1888-1903'More editions of Anton Chekhov : Later Short Stories 1888-1903:
Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effronteryby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679446443 (0-679-44644-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery'More editions of Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery:
The Art of Living and Other Storiesby John GardnerISBN 0679723501 (0-679-72350-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Living and Other Stories'More editions of The Art of Living and Other Stories:
Asylumby Patrick McGrathISBN 0679452281 (0-679-45228-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Asylum'More editions of Asylum:
Audenby W. H. AudenISBN 0679443673 (0-679-44367-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Auden'More editions of Auden:
The Autobiography of a Brown Buffaloby Oscar Zeta AcostaISBN 0679722130 (0-679-72213-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo'More editions of The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo:
-
Basic Writings of Nietzscheby Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Walter KaufmannISBN 0679600000 (0-679-60000-0)
Hardcover, Modern Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Basic Writings of Nietzsche'Book summary:A collection of Walter Kauffman's masterful translations of five of Nietzsche's greatest works: The Birth of Tragedy, which forever changed assumptions about Greek culture and the nature of tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil, as comprehensive an overview of Nietzsche's thought as the delightfully aphoristic Thus Spake Zarathustra, but stated with considerably greater clarity; On the Geneaology of Morals, his major work on ethics; The Case of Wagner, a surprisingly witty piece written after Nietzsche's break with Richard Wagner; and Ecce Homo, Nietzsche's passionate and beautiful analysis of his life and work. [via]
More editions of Basic Writings of Nietzsche:
Birds of America : Storiesby Lorrie MooreISBN 0679445978 (0-679-44597-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Birds of America : Stories'More editions of Birds of America : Stories:
Blackeyesby Dennis PotterISBN 0679720472 (0-679-72047-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Blackeyes'More editions of Blackeyes:
Blue Eyes, Black Hairby Marguerite Duras, Barbara BrayISBN 0679722807 (0-679-72280-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Eyes, Black Hair'More editions of Blue Eyes, Black Hair:
The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Storiesby Gore VidalISBN 0679436995 (0-679-43699-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories'More editions of The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories:
-
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italyby Jacob BurckhardtISBN 0679601694 (0-679-60169-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy'Book summary:Published in 1860, Burckhardts great work redefined our sense of the European past, wholly reinterpreting what has since been known simply as the Italian Renaissance. With unsurpassed erudition, Burckhardt illuminates a world of artistic and cultural ferment, innovation, and discovery; of revived humanism; of fierce tensions between church and empire; and of the birth of both the modern state and the modern individual. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy remains the single most important and influential account of this crucial moment in the history of the West.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy:
-
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834by Richard HolmesISBN 0679438475 (0-679-43847-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834'Book summary:Richard Holmes concluded his first, magisterial volume on Samuel Taylor Coleridge with an image of his hero--a not-yet-ancient mariner--departing for the Continent on the Speedwell. The poet was, at this point, an unhappy man. In 1804 his marriage was in a shambles, his deeply Romantic rapport with William Wordsworth was on the wane, and he seemed no closer to shaking off his devastating opium addiction. Settling into his cramped berth with his books, lemons, shaving gear, and portable inkstand, he must have hoped for smoother sailing, in every sense of the phrase. But it's clear from the very beginning of Coleridge: Darker Reflections that English literature's greatest polymath had a turbulent time ahead of him. After an unlikely interval as a Maltese civil servant, Coleridge returned to England in 1806. He was in the latest phase of a rather flamboyant depression, which Holmes describes with typical acuity:
He was living out what many people experience, in the dark disorder of their hidden lives, but living it on the surface and with astonishing even alarming candour that many of his friends found unendurable or simply ludicrous. Moreover he continued to write about it, to witness it, in a way that makes him irreplaceable among the great Romantic visionaries. His greatness lies in the understanding of these struggles, not (like Wordsworth perhaps) in their solution.
Certainly Coleridge never suffered from a shortage of struggles. On the heels of his return he had an (initially) happy reunion with Wordsworth, helping his comrade-in-arms to knock The Prelude into shape. Yet this dicey ménage--which also included Coleridge's supreme love object, Sara Hutchinson--soon fell to pieces again. (By 1812 he would be denouncing Wordsworth in print as his "bitterest Calumniator.")Now the poet veered off into publishing his own newspaper, The Friend, followed by a stint as a formidable public lecturer. In all of these ventures, he displayed his peculiar, rapid-fire brilliance. Still, just about every episode in Holmes's vast chronicle seems to end with a similar dying fall: "Coleridge took a deep breath, opened his laudanum decanter, and collapsed." Crisis follows upon crisis, opium binge upon opium binge--and by the time the poet begins his massive Biographia Literaria in 1815, you wonder at the fact that he's still alive and kicking.
The capstone of Coleridge's later years, the Biographia functioned as a confessional, autobiography, and omnium-gatherum of everything he had thought about in the preceding decades. "In all this," Holmes writes, "the Biographia has an acute psychological interest, and its shape-shifting and paradoxes, its intimacy and disguises, its frankness and its fraudulence, make up a genuine literary self-portrait. Anything less complicated, less fascinating and less maddening, would really not be Coleridge at all." The same might be said of Darker Reflections itself (minus the fraudulence, of course). The author has crammed an unbelievable amount of detail into his magnificent, double-barreled portrait, and expertly mimicked the dizzy, stop-and-start rhythms of his subject's life. But anything less complicated--and less endowed with authorial sympathy and tact--would really not be Richard Holmes at all. --James Marcus [via]
More editions of Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834:
-
Comediesby William Shakespeare, Tony Tanner, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0679447202 (0-679-44720-2)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Comedies'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Shakespeares later comedies were written at the astonishing pace of about two plays a year. In them, he moves beyond the farce of his earlier comedies to richer and more varied dramas. These range from the famous problem plays, which blend humor with tragedy, to the idyllic romances set in such timeless locales as the Forest of Arden. They contain some of his wittiest and most memorable characters, from cross-dressing heroines, bantering lovers, and wisecracking fools to the villainous but sympathetic Shylock and the boisterous and bawdy Falstaff.
This volume contains The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Alls Well That Ends Well, and Measure for Measure. The authoritatively edited text of the plays is supplemented with footnotes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeares life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tony Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeares work. [via]More editions of Comedies:
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelleyby Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0679601112 (0-679-60111-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley'More editions of The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley:
-
The Complete Stories of Truman Capoteby Reynolds Price, Truman CapoteISBN 0679643109 (0-679-64310-9)
Hardcover, Modern Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Stories of Truman Capote'Book summary:Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffanys and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, the Modern Library presents the first collection that includes all of Capotes short fictiona volume that confirms his status as one of the masters of this form.
Among the selections are A Tree of Night, in which an innocent student, sitting on a train beside a slatternly woman and her deaf-mute companion, enters a seductive nightmare that brings back the deepest fears of childhood . . . House of Flowers, the inspiration for a celebrated Broadway musical, which tells of a superstitious prostitute who learns to love in a way no one else can ever understand . . . the holiday perennial A Christmas Memory, famously adapted into a superb made-for-TV movie . . . and The Bargain, Capotes melancholy, never-before-published 1950 story about a suburban housewifes shifting fortunes.
From the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capotes oeuvre are captured in this first-ever compendium. The Collected Stories of Truman Capote should restore its author to a place above mere celebrity, to the highest levels of American letters. [via]More editions of The Complete Stories of Truman Capote:
-
The Continental Opby Dashiell Hammett, Steven MarcusISBN 0679722580 (0-679-72258-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Continental Op'Book summary:Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the color of shadows on polished silver, and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman called the Whosis Kid. [via]
More editions of The Continental Op:
The Cossacksby Peter Constantine, Cynthia Ozick, Leo TolstoyISBN 0679642919 (0-679-64291-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cossacks'More editions of The Cossacks:
Cross Channelby Julian BarnesISBN 0679446915 (0-679-44691-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cross Channel'More editions of Cross Channel:
-
Democracy in Americaby Daniel J. Boorstin, Phillips Bradley, Henry Reeve, Francis Bowen, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0679728252 (0-679-72825-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Democracy in America is the classic analysis of America's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), a French aristocrat who visited the United States in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeeded in penning this penetrating study of America's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, "I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress."
In addition to a brilliant, perceptive outline of "the philosophical method of the Americans," Volume II of Democracy in America includes the oddly modern-sounding "Why the Americans Are So Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperity," the surprising and provocative "How Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes," and the more archaic "The Study of Greek and Latin is Peculiarly Useful in Democratic Communities." This edition--which many consider the best--contains the Henry Reeve text, revised by Francis Bowen, and further edited with introduction, editorial notes, and bibliographies by Phillips Bradley. [via]
Diary of a Mad Old Manby Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Hibbett, Howard S., Jr.ISBN 0679730249 (0-679-73024-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary of a Mad Old Man'More editions of Diary of a Mad Old Man:
-
Donne Poems and Proseby John DonneISBN 067944467X (0-679-44467-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Donne Poems and Prose'Book summary:The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Donne contains Songs and Sonnets, Letters to the Countess of Bedford, The First Anniversary, Holy Sonnets, Divine Poems, excerpts from Paradoxes and Problems, Ignatius His Conclave, The Sermons, Essays and Devotions, and an index of first lines. [via]
More editions of Donne Poems and Prose:
-
Ellen Fosterby Kaye GibbonsISBN 067972866X (0-679-72866-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› 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]
More editions of Ellen Foster:
Encore Provence : New Adventures in the South of Franceby Peter MayleISBN 0679441247 (0-679-44124-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Encore Provence : New Adventures in the South of France'More editions of Encore Provence : New Adventures in the South of France:
The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviewsby Eudora WeltyISBN 0679730044 (0-679-73004-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews'More editions of The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews:
-
The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United Statesby John Fay, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, Robert SciglianoISBN 0679603255 (0-679-60325-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States'Book summary:The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to promote the ratification of the proposed Constitution, these papers stand as perhaps the most eloquent testimonial to democracy that exists. They describe the ideas behind the American system of government: the separation of powers; the organization of Congress; the respective positions of the executive, legislative, and judiciary; and much more. The Federalist remains essential reading for anyone interested in politics and government, and indeed for anyone seeking a foundational statement about democracy and America.
This new edition of The Federalist is edited by Robert Scigliano, a professor in the political science department at Boston College. His substantive Introduction sheds clarifying new light on the historical context and meaning of The Federalist. Scigliano also provides a fresh and definitive analysis of the disputed authorship of several sections of this crucial work. [via]More editions of The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States:
The Fifth Childby Doris May LessingISBN 0679721827 (0-679-72182-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fifth Child'More editions of The Fifth Child:
-
Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel : The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Showby Michael BarsonISBN 0679720367 (0-679-72036-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel : The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Show'Book summary:This is a collection of radio scripts of the comedy series starring Groucho, Waldorf and Chico Marx which ran for six months from November 1932. They have recently been discovered and are published here for the first time. [via]
More editions of Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel : The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Show:
Freddy's Bookby John Champlin Gardner, Biamonte DanielISBN 0679721940 (0-679-72194-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Freddy's Book'More editions of Freddy's Book:
-
Gift from the Seaby Anne Morrow LindberghISBN 0679445323 (0-679-44532-3)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gift from the Sea'Book summary:I found a 1955 printing of this book in an old waterfront cabin and was struck by the care with which the previous owner had read it. Eve (the name inscribed inside the front cover and then again above the heading for chapter 3) made pencil marks on nearly every paragraph of the book, underlining a phrase, highlighting many passages with strong vertical marks, scratching out some words that she seems to have found superfluous and even x-ing out whole sections that apparently missed their mark with her altogether. Two rusting paper clips isolate several pages, absent any marking at all. Anne Morrow Lindbergh's lyrical words are still relevant and presage so many of the themes of today's most popular books: simplicity, peaceful solitude, caring for the soul, a woman finding her place in society and life. I heard that the woman who had lived in the cabin had actually passed away some time before. Thank you, Eve, for your gift... from the sea. [via]
More editions of Gift from the Sea:
-
The Glass Keyby Dashiell HammettISBN 0679722629 (0-679-72262-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Glass Key'Book summary:Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett's tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.
A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel. This classic Hammet work of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness. [via]More editions of The Glass Key:
-
The Gospel According to the Sonby Norman MailerISBN 0679457836 (0-679-45783-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gospel According to the Son'Book summary:In the two millennia since Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote their separate biographies of Jesus, only a handful of other authors have attempted renditions--Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, and D. H. Lawrence have tried their hands at it; scholars E. P. Sanders and Raymond Brown have produced academic treatises on the historical Jesus. Perhaps the best-known fictional account of the life of Jesus is Nikos Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ, which explores the Son of Man's all-too-human side. Norman Mailer joins these ranks with The Gospel According to the Son.
Not content to chronicle Jesus' life in the form of an apocryphal gospel, Mailer has the chutzpah to crawl inside his title character's head and tell the story from the first-person point of view. Here we get the Prince of Peace's personal account of his temptation by Satan, his three-year ministry, and his agony on the cross. Mailer presents an entirely new kind of passion play, one that remains faithful to the shape of Jesus' life as outlined in the gospels, while daring to imagine the inner life of this most elusive historical figure. [via]
More editions of The Gospel According to the Son:
-
The Hawthorne Treasury : Complete Novels and Selected Talesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0679603220 (0-679-60322-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hawthorne Treasury : Complete Novels and Selected Tales'Book summary:The Hawthorne Treasury is the most comprehensive selection, available in one volume, of the works of one of America's great storytellers. Beginning with Fanshawe (1828), a work published privately and anonymously, Nathaniel Hawthorne's fiction helped shape the course of American literature. Both Poe and Melville lavished praise on his next books, Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse, collections that helped establish the short story as an important American literary genre.
With the publication of The Scarlet Letter in 1850, Hawthorne's reputation was secure. Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this famous tale of an adulterous entanglement gave American literature its first heroine, Hester Prynne.
D. H. Lawrence called The Scarlet Letter "one of the greatest allegories in all literature." The House of the Seven Gables, a novel set in a mansion haunted by a centuries-old curse, followed a year later. Also included in this volume are The Blithedale Romance, the depiction of a utopian community that cannot survive the passions of its members; The Marble Faun, Hawthorne's last novel, inspired by his yearlong stay in Italy; and tales from The Snow-Image, his final collection of short stories.
Hawthorne's themes of alienation, guilt, and isolation ensure that he remains pertinent, and his writing is infused with a distinct sense of place. As Henry James wrote, "He offers the most vivid reflection of New England life that has found its way into our literature." All of his virtues are abundantly demonstrated in this most substantial representation of his work. [via]More editions of The Hawthorne Treasury : Complete Novels and Selected Tales:
In Search of J. D. Salingerby Ian HamiltonISBN 0679722203 (0-679-72220-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of J. D. Salinger'More editions of In Search of J. D. Salinger:
Indian Summerby Vincent Douglas, Library of America Staff, William Dean HowellsISBN 0679726144 (0-679-72614-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Indian Summer'More editions of Indian Summer:
-
The Informersby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0679435875 (0-679-43587-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Informers'Book summary:The City Is Los Angeles, in the very recent past. The birthplace and graveyard of American myths and dreams, it harbors a group of people trapped between the sybaritic beauty of their surroundings and their own damning moral impoverishment. The Informers is a chronicle of their voices -- fused into an intense, impressionistic narrative that spans and blurs genders, generations and even identities -- all of them suffering from nothing less than the death of the soul.
Each of the characters in this extraordinary book describes connections between people (classmates and best friends, sometimes dead; a decrepit rock star and his retinue; estranged or ex-husbands and wives, as well as their current, often improbable partners; sex dates and vampires) who remain in every important way strangers. A father inveigles his distant son into a holiday jaunt to Hawaii ... a car crashes in the desert, a plane goes down in the mountains ... a girl returns home to her future by cross-country train, while another spends her final days on the beach ... a couple visits the zoo, for the last time or not. In telling these stories, they escape or condemn or resign themselves, knowing that the bright veneer of their lives, blinding as sunshine, is not enough to help them; knowing also that they have little else to justify their presence in the world.
Bret Easton Ellis writes with absolute clarity and great depth of feeling about the struggle to find coherence in an environment that might well have lost it entirely. Savagely funny, poignant and uncompromising, The Informers unmasks both a city and an age. [via]More editions of The Informers:
-
The Interpretation of Dreamsby Sigmund Freud, A.A. BrillISBN 067960121X (0-679-60121-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Interpretation of Dreams'Book summary:Whether we love or hate Sigmund Freud, we all have to admit that he revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. Much of this revolution can be traced to The Interpretation of Dreams, the turn-of-the-century tour de force that outlined his theory of unconscious forces in the context of dream analysis. Introducing the id, the superego, and their problem child, the ego, Freud advanced scientific understanding of the mind immeasurably by exposing motivations normally invisible to our consciousness. While there's no question that his own biases and neuroses influenced his observations, the details are less important than the paradigm shift as a whole. After Freud, our interior lives became richer and vastly more mysterious.
These mysteries clearly bothered him--he went to great (often absurd) lengths to explain dream imagery in terms of childhood sexual trauma, a component of his theory jettisoned mid-century, though now popular among recovered-memory therapists. His dispassionate analyses of his own dreams are excellent studies for cognitive scientists wishing to learn how to sacrifice their vanities for the cause of learning. Freud said of the work contained in The Interpretation of Dreams, "Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime." One would have to feel quite fortunate to shake the world even once. --Rob Lightner [via]
More editions of The Interpretation of Dreams:
Jane Austen: A Lifeby Claire TomalinISBN 0679446281 (0-679-44628-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen: A Life'More editions of Jane Austen: A Life:
Joe Gould's Secretby Joseph MitchellISBN 0679601848 (0-679-60184-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Joe Gould's Secret'Book summary:Joseph Ferdinand Gould--better known as Joe Gould--was a member of one of the oldest families in Massachusetts and a graduate of Harvard, and his parents took it for granted that he would go on to medical school and become a surgeon and a distinguished civic leader, as many of his ancestors, including his father and grandfather, had. Instead, in 1916, in his middle twenties, he abruptly broke with his background and went to New York City and spent the next forty years living from hand to mouth in Greenwich Village as a kind of half outcast, half bohemian. He panhandled in Village hangouts, wore cast-off clothes, slept in flophouses or doorways, and often went hungry for days at a time. He said that he lived this way so that he could wander around the city at will, listening to people and writing down some of the astonishing things he heard them say. He had become obsessed with the idea that talk is history and that even offhand remarks may have eerie and prophetic historical import. He wrote in dime-store composition books, filling hundreds of them, and said that these books, when eventually joined together, would become an enormous book (a dozen times longer than the Bible, he estimated) that would be called An Oral History of Our Time. (Historians at Columbia University have given Gould credit for originating the term "oral history.")
In 1942, Joseph Mitchell, impressed by Gould's concept, wrote a profile of him for The New Yorker. Twenty-two years later, some time after Gould's death, he wrote another profile of him, and the two have been combined in Joe Gould's Secret. "When I found out Gould's secret," Mitchell said, "I was appalled, but I soon regained my respect for him, and through the years my respect has grown, though I must confess that he is still an enigma to me. Nowadays, in fact, when his name comes into my mind, it is followed instantly by another name--the name of Bartleby the Scrivener--and then I invariably recall Bartleby's haunting, horrifyingly lonely remark 'I would prefer not to.' " [via]
Journey to the Land of the Flies and Other Travelsby Aldo Buzzi, Ann GoldsteinISBN 0679448101 (0-679-44810-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to the Land of the Flies and Other Travels'More editions of Journey to the Land of the Flies and Other Travels:
The Killby Emile Zola, Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0679642749 (0-679-64274-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kill'More editions of The Kill:
The Knight of Maison-Rouge : A Novel of Marie Antoinetteby Alexandre Dumas, Lorenzo Carcaterra, Julie RoseISBN 0679642986 (0-679-64298-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Knight of Maison-Rouge : A Novel of Marie Antoinette'More editions of The Knight of Maison-Rouge : A Novel of Marie Antoinette:
Latecomersby Anita BrooknerISBN 0679726683 (0-679-72668-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Latecomers'More editions of Latecomers:
Lieutenant-Colonel De Maumortby Timothy Crouse, Roger Martin Du Gard, Luc BrebionISBN 067943397X (0-679-43397-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lieutenant-Colonel De Maumort'More editions of Lieutenant-Colonel De Maumort:
-
The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jeffersonby Thomas JeffersonISBN 0679600620 (0-679-60062-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson'Book summary:"Jefferson aspired beyond the ambition of a nationality,
and embraced in his view the whole future of man."
--Henry Adams
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson:
Life Turns Man up and Down : High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English: African Market Literatureby Kurt ThometzISBN 0679450211 (0-679-45021-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Turns Man up and Down : High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English: African Market Literature'More editions of Life Turns Man up and Down : High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English: African Market Literature:
-
Lincolnby Gore VidalISBN 0679600485 (0-679-60048-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lincoln'Book summary:Lincoln is a masterwork of historical fiction, in which Gore Vidal combines a comprehensive knowledge of Civil War America with 20th-century literary technique, probing the minds and motives of the men surrounding Abraham Lincoln, including personal secretary John Hay and scheming cabinet members William Seward and Salmon P. Chase, as well as his wife, Mary Todd. It is a book monumental in scope that never loses sight of the intimate and personal in its depiction of the power struggles that accompanied Lincoln's efforts to preserve the Union at all costs--efforts in which the eradication of slavery was far from the president's main objective. As usual, there's plenty of room for Vidal's wickedly humorous deflation of American icons, including a comic interlude in a Washington bordello in which Lincoln's former law partner informs Hay that Lincoln had contracted syphilis as a young man and had, just before marrying Mary Todd, suffered what can only be described as a nervous breakdown. (Protestors should note that Vidal is only passing along what that former partner had written in his own biography of Lincoln.) Don't be intimidated by the size of Lincoln; if you like historical fiction, you should read this book at the first opportunity. --Ron Hogan [via]
Little Lord Fauntleroyby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles E. BrockISBN 0679444742 (0-679-44474-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Lord Fauntleroy'More editions of Little Lord Fauntleroy:
Living Well Is the Best Revengeby Calvin TomkinsISBN 0679603085 (0-679-60308-5)
Hardcover, Modern Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Living Well Is the Best Revenge'More editions of Living Well Is the Best Revenge:
Locosby Felipe AlfauISBN 0679728465 (0-679-72846-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Locos'More editions of Locos:
-
Losing Battlesby Eudora WeltyISBN 0679728821 (0-679-72882-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Losing Battles'Book summary:Three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her 90th birthday. Possessed of the true storyteller's gift, the members of this clan cannot resist the temptation to swap tales. [via]
More editions of Losing Battles:
-
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reasonby Michel FoucaultISBN 067972110X (0-679-72110-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason'Book summary:Perhaps the French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordinary question: What does it mean to be mad? [via]
More editions of Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason:
-
Making History : A Novelby Stephen FryISBN 0679459553 (0-679-45955-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Making History : A Novel'Book summary:Those of us who have already discovered Stephen Fry know him as the brilliant British comedian behind TV series such as Jeeves & Wooster and Blackadder, and the author of two enormously funny novels, The Liar and The Hippopotamus. But his new film (in which he plays Oscar Wilde) and his new novel (this one) represent a somewhat alarming departure from his previous work: They're more serious. Though humor is still an essential ingredient of both, Fry's fans are finally getting to witness the emotional depth that this brilliant polymath usually keeps hidden.
In Making History, Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an at first deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, one would reason--and so an earnest history grad student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to bring this about by preventing Adolf's conception. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours--but in most ways even worse. Fry's experiment in history makes for his most ambitious novel yet, and his most affecting. His first book to be set mostly in America, it is a thriller with a funny streak, a futuristic fantasy based on one of mankind's darkest realities. It is, in every sense, a story of our times. [via]More editions of Making History : A Novel:
Micklesson's Ghostsby John GardnerISBN 0679723080 (0-679-72308-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Micklesson's Ghosts'More editions of Micklesson's Ghosts:
The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, Matthew PearlISBN 0679643427 (0-679-64342-7)
Softcover, Modern Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales'More editions of The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales:
The Namesby Don DelilloISBN 0679722955 (0-679-72295-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Names'More editions of The Names:
-
The Necklace and Other Talesby Guy de Maupassant, Adam Gopnik, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0679641726 (0-679-64172-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Necklace and Other Tales'Book summary:Ranging from poignant scrutiny of social pretension, to wicked tales of lust and love, to harrowing stories of terror and madness, the genius of Guy de Maupassant, Frances greatest short-story writer, is on full display in this enthralling new translation by Joachim Neugroschel. The stories Neugroschel has gathered vividly reveal Maupassants remarkable range, his keen eye, his technical perfection, his sexual realism, his ability to create whole worlds and sum up intricate universes of feeling in a few pages.
Adam Gopniks Introduction incisively explores the essence of Maupassants unique style and his tremendous, if unjustly unacknowledged, influence (on everything from the American short story to contemporary cinema), bearing eloquent testimony to Maupassants continuing and vital appeal. [via]More editions of The Necklace and Other Tales:
Numbers in the Dark and Other Storiesby Italo Calvino, Tim Parks, Erroll McDonaldISBN 0679442057 (0-679-44205-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories'More editions of Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories:
The Old Testament: King James Versionby George SteinerISBN 0679451021 (0-679-45102-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Testament: King James Version'More editions of The Old Testament: King James Version:
-
Original Sinby P. D. JamesISBN 0679438890 (0-679-43889-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Original Sin'Book summary:Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of seemingly impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the venerable Peverell Press. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm's fortunes. Etienne was clearly a man with enemies-a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues, one of whom apparently killed herself a short time earlier. Yet Etienne's death, which occurred under bizarre circumstances, is for Dalgliesh only the beginning of the mystery, as he desperately pursues the search for a killer prepared to strike and strike again.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of Original Sin:
A Pirate Looks at Fiftyby Jimmy BuffettISBN 0679435271 (0-679-43527-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pirate Looks at Fifty'More editions of A Pirate Looks at Fifty:
Playersby Don DelilloISBN 0679722939 (0-679-72293-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Players'More editions of Players:
-
Plutarch's Lives Vol. 2 : The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romansby Arthur Hugh Clough, John Dryden, PlutarchISBN 0679600094 (0-679-60009-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Plutarch's Lives Vol. 2 : The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans'Book summary:Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of Plutarch's Lives Vol. 2 : The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans:
-
Postman Always Rings Twiceby James M. CainISBN 0679723250 (0-679-72325-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Postman Always Rings Twice'Book summary:Penzler Pick, April 2000: It is sometimes easy to trace a literary genre to its source, and James M. Cain's first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, is the noir novel that paved the way for all the noir fiction that followed. The famous film starring Lana Turner and John Garfield is notoriously dark, but the novel is even more full of despair and devoid of hope. It is a short book--little more than a novella--but its searing characterization and depiction of tawdry greed and lust is branded into every reader's memory.
Frank Chambers, a drifter, is dropped from the back of a truck at a rundown rural diner. When he spots Cora, the owner's wife, he instantly decides to stay. The sexy young woman, married to Nick, a violent and thuggish boor, is equally attracted to the younger man and sees him as her way out of her hopeless, boring life. They begin a clandestine affair and plot to kill Nick, beginning their own journey toward destruction.
Horace McCoy, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, and the other notable noir writers never achieved Cain's spare brilliance. Virtually all of his major works have been filmed, though several Hollywood studios refused to make the films, directors refused to be involved, and actors turned down roles because of their repugnance at the lack of morality inherent in all Cain's characters. Reading him may not be fit for a Sunday school class, but once you begin you will be unable to resist continuing, like picking at a painful scab or watching a tarantula inside a glass dome. --Otto Penzler [via]
More editions of Postman Always Rings Twice:
Pushkin Houseby Andrei Bitov, Susan BrownsbergerISBN 0679730095 (0-679-73009-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Pushkin House'More editions of Pushkin House:
-
The Radetzky Marchby Joachim Neugroschel, Joseph Roth, Alan BanceISBN 0679451005 (0-679-45100-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Radetzky March'Book summary:Joseph Roth's 1932 novel, The Radetzky March, starts with an accident that creates a dynasty. When an infantry lieutenant steps in front of a bullet intended for the young Franz Joseph, the Austro-Hungarian emperor rewards him with wealth, promotion, and a knighthood. Almost overnight, Joseph Trotta is "severed" from his ancestors, and his family is transformed from unremarkable soldiers and peasants living in the outer reaches of the empire to barons and high-ranking officials living near the imperial palace. As long as Franz Joseph is the Kaiser, their status is secure. But when Trotta happens upon a schoolbook account of the event that exaggerates his heroism, he is shaken:
He had been driven from the paradise of simple faith in Emperor and Virtue, Truth, and Justice, and, now fettered in silence and endurance, he may have realized that the stability of the world, the power of laws, and the glory of majesties were all based on deviousness.
As World War I approaches and the monarchy's limitations become apparent, Trotta's son and grandson become even further removed from this paradise. They continue to follow the codes of honor and duty, though such behavioral guides become pointless, even burdensome, in a world shorn of simple faith in an emperor. Trotta's grandson Carl Joseph finds his military career overwhelmed by bad horsemanship, alcohol dependency, frivolous roulette and baccarat debts, and misguided love affairs--the kinds of flaws, he thinks, that are inevitable without the self-assurance and practical knowledge that he would have gained had he earned (rather than inherited) his position. Not long ago, he thinks wistfully, his family lived as peasants "in dwarfed huts, making their wives fertile by night and their fields by day." It is here that the Trottas' demise is at its most poignant, as the focus of the narrative shifts from the loss of status to the far more devastating loss of purpose.In both style and temperament, Roth's novel stands between the 19th and 20th centuries, and the three Trottas could be seen as part of a progression that stretches back to Tolstoy's Prince Andrei and looks ahead to the Mathieu of Sartre's Les Chemins de la Liberté trilogy. Although The Radetzky March illustrates why the monarchy was doomed, and isn't blind to the new nations and ideologies on the horizon, Roth is more interested in his characters' psychology than their politics. And their central difficulty--the bewildering meaninglessness that follows the dissolution of an ideal--has been a fundamental 20th-century dilemma. The Trottas are, in Roth's stunning phrase, "homesick for the Kaiser." One need only substitute "the Chairman" or "Marxism" or "God" to understand the novel's lasting resonance. --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
More editions of The Radetzky March:
-
Remember Me to Harlem : The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964by Emily Bernard, Langston Hughes, Carl Van VechtenISBN 0679451137 (0-679-45113-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Remember Me to Harlem : The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964'Book summary:When their correspondence began in 1925, Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was the nation's leading Caucasian enthusiast for African American culture, and Langston Hughes (1902-67) was a struggling poet who lived with his mother in Washington, D.C., and plaintively closed one letter, "Remember me to Harlem." Over the four-decade-long friendship that's captured engagingly in these warm, funny letters, Hughes would become more famous, and Van Vechten less so, but their mutual affection and respect only would deepen. Editor Emily Bernard, a professor at Smith College, sensibly decided to include only a fraction of the letters that the pair exchanged, but to print those in their entirety, so that readers might get a vivid sense of each man's personality. Van Vechten is lighthearted, flirtatious, gossipy, effusive in his appreciation for Hughes' writing, and frank when he finds it not to his taste. Despite his unflinching commitment to civil rights, he's considerably less political than Hughes, whose equally witty correspondence has an underlying seriousness that's commensurate with a personal history that's far more turbulent and painful than that of his affluent friend. They share a dislike for "uplift-the-race" sanctimoniousness and a zest for African American folk culture; their letters are rife with references to the music of Bessie Smith and other great blues singers, as well as to the many Harlem Renaissance artists who were their personal acquaintances. The correspondence also provides a sustained chronicle of the working writer's life: they swap news of assignments and story ideas; Van Vechten generously makes his book-publishing and magazine contacts available to Hughes; and the poet loyally defends his friend's controversial novel, Nigger Heaven, against its numerous detractors. Helpfully, everyone is identified in Bernard's copious footnotes, which make this a handy reference work, as well as a delightful record of an extraordinary relationship between two uniquely gifted figures in American letters. --Wendy Smith [via]
More editions of Remember Me to Harlem : The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964:
-
Rilke: Poemsby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 067945098X (0-679-45098-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rilke: Poems'Book summary:The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Rilke contains poems from The Book of Images; New Poems; Requiem for a Friend; Poems, 1906-1926; French Poems; The Life of Mary; Sonnets to Orpheus; The Duino Elegies; Letters to a Young Poet; and an index of first lines. [via]
More editions of Rilke: Poems:
-
Rimbaudby Arthur RimbaudISBN 067943321X (0-679-43321-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rimbaud'Book summary:The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Rimbaud contains selections from Rimbaud's work, including over 100 poems, selected prose, "Letter to Paul Demeny, May 15, 1871," and an index of first lines. [via]
More editions of Rimbaud:
Scandalby Shusaku Endo, Van C. GesselISBN 0679723552 (0-679-72355-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Scandal'More editions of Scandal:
Season in Hell, And, the Illuminationsby Wyatt Alexander Mason, Jean Nicolas Arthur RimbaudISBN 0679643273 (0-679-64327-3)
Softcover, Modern Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Season in Hell, And, the Illuminations'More editions of Season in Hell, And, the Illuminations:
Selected Poems of Langston Hughesby Langston HughesISBN 067972818X (0-679-72818-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems of Langston Hughes'More editions of Selected Poems of Langston Hughes:
-
The Selected Poetryby Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nancy MilfordISBN 0679642374 (0-679-64237-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Selected Poetry'Book summary:"These are the poems that made Edna St. Vincent Millays reputation when she was young. Saucy, insolent, flip, and defiant, her little verses sting the page," writes Nancy Milford in the Introduction to The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. As one of Americas most beloved poetsand the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923Millay defined a generation with her intoxicating voice of liberation. Most remembered for her passionate, lyrical voice and mastery of the sonnet form, Millay explores love, death, and nature in her poetry while deftly employing allusions to the classical and the romantic. In 1917, at the age of twenty, she burst onto the New York literary scene with the publication of her first book of poetry, Renascence and Other Poems, which is included in this volume.
Edited by Millay biographer Nancy Milford, The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay also includes the collections A Few Figs from Thistles and Second April, as well as "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" and eight of Millays sonnets from the early twenties. [via]More editions of The Selected Poetry:
The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emersonby Brooks Atkinson, Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0679600183 (0-679-60018-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson'More editions of The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Sick Puppyby Carl HiaasenISBN 0679454454 (0-679-45445-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sick Puppy'More editions of Sick Puppy:
-
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmasby Maya AngelouISBN 0679457771 (0-679-45777-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas'Book summary:In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou moves into the adult world, and the white world as well, as she marries, enters show business, and tours Europe and Africa in Porgy and Bess.
As the book opens, Maya, in order to support herself and her young son, gets a job in a record shop run by a white woman. Suspicious of almost any kindness shown her, she is particularly confused by the special attentions of a young white customer. Soon the relationship grows into love and then marriage, and Maya believes a permanent relationship is finally possible. But it is not to be, and she is again forced to look for work.
This time she finds a job as a dancer in a sleazy San Francisco bar. Her remarkable talent, however, soon brings her attention of a different kind, and before long she is singing in one of the most popular nightclubs on the coast. From there, she is called to New York to join the cast of Porgy and Bess, which is just about to begin another tour abroad.
The troupe's joyous and dramatic adventure through Italy, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Egypt becomes the centerpiece of Singin' and Swingin'. This remarkable portrayal of one of the most exciting and talented casts ever put together, and of the encounters between these larger-than-life personalities and audiences who had rarely seen black people before, makes a hilarious and poignant story. The excitement of the journey -- full of camaraderie, love affairs, and memorable personalities -- is dampened only by Maya's nagging guilt that she has once again abandoned the person she loves most in life, her son.
Back home, and driven close to suicide by her guilt and concern, she takes her son with her to Hawaii, where she discovers that devotion and love, in spite of forced absence, have the power to heal and sustain.
As always, Maya Angelou's writing is charged with that remarkable sense of life and love and unique celebration of the human condition that have won her such a loyal following. [via]More editions of Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas:
-
The Size of Thoughts : Essays and Other Lumberby Nicholson BakerISBN 0679439323 (0-679-43932-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Size of Thoughts : Essays and Other Lumber'Book summary:Novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker has had a small but well-deserved cult following since his first book, The Mezzanine, and the publication of the literary sex-bomb Vox saw his popularity mushroom. Baker's great gift is a precision of observational detail that has a peculiarly incisive effect on a reader's consciousness. Here is over a decade's worth of his essays and articles, including the much-praised card catalogue article first published in the New Yorker. The Size of Thoughts, through its varied forays into the realms of the overlooked, the underfunded, and the wrongfully scrapped, is a funny and thought-provoking book by one of the most distinctive stylists and thinkers of our time. [via]
More editions of The Size of Thoughts : Essays and Other Lumber:
Sleepless Nightsby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0679724265 (0-679-72426-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sleepless Nights'More editions of Sleepless Nights:
Sleepwalker in a Fogby Tatyana Tolstaya, Jamey GambrellISBN 067973063X (0-679-73063-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sleepwalker in a Fog'More editions of Sleepwalker in a Fog:
-
Slouching Towards Bethlehem : Essaysby Joan Didion, Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0679640266 (0-679-64026-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem : Essays'Book summary:Upon its publication in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem confirmed Joan Didion as one of the most prominent writers on the literary scene. Her unblinking vision and deadpan tone have influenced subsequent generations of reporters and essayists, changing our expectations of style, voice, and the artistic possibilities of nonfiction.
"In her portraits of people," The New York Times Book Review wrote, "Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naïve acid-trippers, left-wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful. . . . A rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country."
In essay after essay, Didion captures the dislocation of the 1960s, the disorientation of a country shredding itself apart with social change. Her essays not only describe the subject at hand--the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion--but also offer a broader vision of America, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own.
Joyce Carol Oates has written, "Joan Didion is one of the very few writers of our time who approaches her terrible subject with absolute seriousness, with fear and humility and awe. Her powerful irony is often sorrowful rather than clever. . . . She has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control." [via]More editions of Slouching Towards Bethlehem : Essays:
-
A Sport and a Pastimeby James SalterISBN 0679601562 (0-679-60156-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sport and a Pastime'Book summary:"A Sport and a Pastime is as nearly perfect as any American fiction
I know," Reynolds Price wrote of James Salter's 1967 novel that tells of the mismatched love affair between Phillip Dean, a Yale dropout adrift in Europe, and Anne-Marie Costallat, a young French shopgirl. An erotic tour de force, licentious yet pure, it is also a hymn to provincial France and has been admired and quoted from since its first publication. Its stunning knowledge and insight have the power to change lives.
It brings a kind of splendor to the life that refuses to bow to conven-
tion or mores, and, like Cavafy's poems, evokes the illicit in a way that endows it with an astonishing beauty. Brilliantly written and overwhelming in its effect, it remains a triumph on every level. [via]More editions of A Sport and a Pastime:
The Story of My Wifeby Milan FustISBN 0679722173 (0-679-72217-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of My Wife'More editions of The Story of My Wife:
The Tailor of Panamaby John Le CarreISBN 0679454462 (0-679-45446-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tailor of Panama'More editions of The Tailor of Panama:
-
Tales from Watership Downby Richard Adams, Susan RalstonISBN 0679451250 (0-679-45125-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales from Watership Down'Book summary:Watership Down was one of this century's best-loved works of imaginative literature. Now Richard Adams returns, to tell us what happened to the rabbits after their defeat of General Woundwort. Tales From Watership Down begins with some of the great folk stories well known to all rabbits. Then we listen in as Dandelion, the rabbits' master storyteller, relates the thrilling adventures experienced by Al-ahrairah, the mythical rabbit hero, and his stalwart, Rabscuttle, during the long journey home after their terrible encounter with the Black Rabbit of Inlé (as narrated in Watership Down ). Finally, in the principal part of the book, we are told eight enchanting stories about the rabbits of the Down-- Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and their companions--including the impact on the warren of the obsessive doe Flyairth, and the appointment of Hyzenthlay as a female Chief Rabbit and partner to Hazel. All readers-- the millions who remember Watership Down with the deepest affection, and also those for whom this volume will be their first encounter with the rabbits-- will find these nineteen tales utterly compelling, the fruit of Richard Adam's spellbinding narrative power and ability to conjure up a world that is at the same time both real and unreal. [via]
More editions of Tales from Watership Down:
-
Timelineby Michael CrichtonISBN 0679444815 (0-679-44481-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Timeline'Book summary:When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole," and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. On the social front, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with a swoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in "Milady's Bath," a brackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then for prisoners to eat.
This is the plight of the heroes of Timeline, Michael Crichton's thriller. They're historians in 1999 employed by a tech billionaire-genius with more than a few of Bill Gates's most unlovable quirks. Like the entrepreneur in Crichton's Jurassic Park, Doniger plans a theme park featuring artifacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edge science. When the project's chief historian sends a distress call to 1999 from 1357, the boss man doesn't tell the younger historians the risks they'll face trying to save him. At first, the interplay between eras is clever, but Timeline swiftly becomes a swashbuckling old-fashioned adventure, with just a dash of science and time paradox in the mix. Most of the cool facts are about the Middle Ages, and Crichton marvelously brings the past to life without ever letting the pulse-pounding action slow down. At one point, a time-tripper tries to enter the Chapel of Green Death. Unfortunately, its custodian, a crazed giant with terrible teeth and a bad case of lice, soon has her head on a block. "She saw a shadow move across the grass as he raised his ax into the air." I dare you not to turn the page!
Through the narrative can be glimpsed the glowing bones of the movie that may be made from Timeline and the cutting-edge computer game that should hit the market in 2000. Expect many clashing swords and chase scenes through secret castle passages. But the book stands alone, tall and scary as a knight in armor shining with blood. --Tim Appelo [via]
More editions of Timeline:
-
Tripmaster Monkeyby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0679727892 (0-679-72789-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Tripmaster Monkey'Book summary:Driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novelsWittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late '60s. [via]
More editions of Tripmaster Monkey:
The Tunnelby William H. GassISBN 0679437673 (0-679-43767-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tunnel'More editions of The Tunnel:
The Vintage Bradburyby Ray BradburyISBN 0679729461 (0-679-72946-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vintage Bradbury'More editions of The Vintage Bradbury:
A Virtuous Womanby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0679728449 (0-679-72844-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Virtuous Woman'More editions of A Virtuous Woman:
-
Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrisonby Jim MorrisonISBN 0679726225 (0-679-72622-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison'Book summary:Compiled from the literary estate of the singer who brought a wildly lyrical poetry of the damned to the world of rock 'n' roll. Includes unpublished poems, drawings, photos, and a candid self-interview. [via]
More editions of Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison:
-
The Wonders of the Invisible World : Storiesby David GatesISBN 0679436685 (0-679-43668-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonders of the Invisible World : Stories'Book summary:David Gates writes practically perfect American stories. Perfect, first of all, in their staid adherence to American short-story tradition. There will be no rioting in the cafés over his first collection, The Wonders of the Invisible World, with its glimpses of characters daunted by love. Here are creatures we know well: Manhattan quasi professionals taking their lumps; urbane fortysomethings trying out small-town life. It's all Updikean adultery, Cheeveresque drinking, some drugs, a life-altering accident or two. But Gates's stories step beyond being perfect examples of their form to become something fresh, compassionate, and witty. He has an astonishing handle on the way people talk, not just to each other, but to themselves. In the title story, a husband remembers the day his wife left him: "She appeared holding a tall glass in each hand as if she were--forget it, no stupid similes. She was a vision. A vision of herself." In "Beating," a Jewish woman is fed up with her Leftist, activist husband, who owns Pound's collected works. "I fantasize sometimes about making a big stink and demanding that he at least put Ezra Pound away where I won't have to see it every day of my life. I'd be like, Hey hey, ho ho, Ezra Pound has got to go."
This kind of attention to the goofy music of interior dialogue is normally found in comic fiction. But Gates is concerned, too, with the little failures of language, and so the failures of relationships. His territory is not comedy, it's the tragedy of failed optimism. In this way, too, he is a perfectly American writer. --Claire Dederer [via]
More editions of The Wonders of the Invisible World : Stories:
Results page: PREV 1-100 101-200 201-300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401-500 501-600 601-700 701-743 NEXT
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}