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Aeneas to Augustus: A Beginning Latin Reader for College Studentsby Mason Hammond, Anne R. AmoryISBN 0674006003 (0-674-00600-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Alienistby Caleb CarrISBN 0679417796 (0-679-41779-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alienist'Book summary:The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.
The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over.
Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences. [via]More editions of The Alienist:
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American Tabloidby James EllroyISBN 0679403914 (0-679-40391-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Tabloid'Book summary:We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . .
Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . .
Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty . . .
Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . .
James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.
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Athenaby John BanvilleISBN 0679405216 (0-679-40521-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoirby Wayne JohnstonISBN 0676971466 (0-676-97146-6)
Hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir'Book summary:In this forceful, complex memoir, Wayne Johnston returns to the setting of his 1999 novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. Johnston doesn't just come from Newfoundland, remotest of Canada's provinces; he comes from the Avalon Peninsula, the most isolated portion of Newfoundland (and confused in young Wayne's boyish imaginings with the mythical Avalon, where King Arthur sailed to be healed of mortal wounds). It's an apt metaphor for a land that "was the edge of the known world, and looked it." Avalon's natives fiercely resented the 1948 referendum that joined Newfoundland to the Canadian Confederation--especially Johnston's father, the memoir's central character, who keens for lost independence in a manner highly reminiscent of Stephen Dedalus's father in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Indeed, parallels with Ireland are evident throughout, not just because the Johnstons are descended from Irish immigrants but because the Newfoundlanders exhibit a similar passionate insularity and zest for feuding among themselves. Johnston's muscular, plainspoken prose bears little resemblance to that of James Joyce, but his themes of exile and loss, loyalty and betrayal, and an ancient culture's ambivalent relationship with modernity resonate with the great writer's most urgent concerns. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melvilleby David S. ReynoldsISBN 0674065654 (0-674-06565-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The BFGby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0679428135 (0-679-42813-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The BFG'Book summary:Evidently not even Roald Dahl could resist the acronym craze of the early eighties. BFG? Bellowing ferret-faced golfer? Backstabbing fairy godmother? Oh, oh ... Big Friendly Giant! This BFG doesn't seem all that F at first as he creeps down a London street, snatches little Sophie out of her bed, and bounds away with her to giant land. And he's not really all that B when compared with his evil, carnivorous brethren, who bully him for being such an oddball runt. After all, he eats only disgusting snozzcumbers, and while the other Gs are snacking on little boys and girls, he's blowing happy dreams in through their windows. What kind of way is that for a G to behave?
The BFG is one of Dahl's most lovable character creations. Whether galloping off with Sophie nestled into the soft skin of his ear to capture dreams as though they were exotic butterflies; speaking his delightful, jumbled, squib-fangled patois; or whizzpopping for the Queen, he leaves an indelible impression of bigheartedness. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960by Steven WatsonISBN 0679423710 (0-679-42371-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Black Birdby MICHEL BASILIERESISBN 0676975283 (0-676-97528-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Book of Nonsenseby Edward LearISBN 0679417982 (0-679-41798-2)
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Bram Stoker : A Biography of the Author of "Dracula"by Barbara BelfordISBN 0679418326 (0-679-41832-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bram Stoker : A Biography of the Author of "Dracula"'Book summary:"I am here to do Your bidding, Master. I am Your slave, and You will reward me, for I shall be faithful." These words spoken by Renfield to Dracula might have been said by Bram Stoker to his boss, the mesmerizing, domineering actor Henry Irving. Stoker was such a mild-mannered, secretive man that the real subject of this acclaimed biography turns out to be the genesis of his novel Dracula, and Irving--the man who, according to Barbara Belford, inspired its famous monster. Other fascinating characters who appear in Stoker's life are Florence Stoker (courted by Oscar Wilde before Bram married her), Ellen Terry (Irving's leading lady), Walt Whitman, the aging Lord Tennyson, W. S. Gilbert, William Gladstone, Lady Speranza Wilde, her son Oscar, Queen Victoria (who knights Irving, the first actor so honored), George Bernard Shaw, and Mark Twain. As Margot Peters writes in the New York Times Book Review, "Stoker himself is pretty much swamped in these heavy seas. But as Ms. Belford's intelligent, well-written and always interesting book makes clear, Stoker lived to serve. His revenge for lifelong self-effacement was Dracula." [via]
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Cambridgeby Caryl PhillipsISBN 0679405321 (0-679-40532-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Captain's Daughter and Other Storiesby Alexandr Pushkin, Paul DebreczenyISBN 0679413316 (0-679-41331-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Captive and the Fugitiveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 0679424776 (0-679-42477-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Captive and the Fugitive'Book summary:Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation. Each book is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge. [via]
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Catullusby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Elmer T. MerrillISBN 0674103505 (0-674-10350-5)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Cicero: Letters To Atticusby Marcus Tullius Cicero, D.R. Shackleton BaileyISBN 0674995724 (0-674-99572-4)
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A Civil Actionby Jonathan HarrISBN 0676576095 (0-676-57609-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Colony of Unrequited Dreamsby Wayne JohnstonISBN 0676972152 (0-676-97215-2)
Hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf Canada
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Complete Collected Essaysby V. S. PritchettISBN 0679411127 (0-679-41112-7)
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The Complete Poems of Andrew Marvellby Andrew MarvellISBN 067942038X (0-679-42038-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Consciousness & the Novelby David LodgeISBN 0674013778 (0-674-01377-8)
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The Cossacksby Leo TolstoyISBN 0679431314 (0-679-43131-4)
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Creation of Nikolai Gogolby Donald FangerISBN 0674175646 (0-674-17564-6)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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Daddy Long-Legsby Jean WebsterISBN 0679423125 (0-679-42312-5)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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Damageby Josephine HartISBN 0679401350 (0-679-40135-0)
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Dancing after Hours : Storiesby Andre DubusISBN 0679431071 (0-679-43107-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancing after Hours : Stories'Book summary:Over two decades, Andre Dubus has proven himself an essential American writer. "He restores faith in the survival of the short story" (Los Angeles Times), and now - with his first collection in nearly ten years - he demonstrates more powerfully than ever before both his mastery of the form and his understanding of our imperfect lives. In each of the fourteen stories in Dancing After Hours, Dubus uncovers the mystery of ordinary life as his characters - often perseverant, yet occasionally crazed by desire, loss, or disappointment - wrestle with love, faith, and luck. Whether at a roadside bar or a family camp, in the everyday rigors of domesticity or its violent extremes, these lives unfold with an inevitability that is moving, sometimes redemptive, always surprising. [via]
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0679431349 (0-679-43134-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Democracy in America has had the singular honor of being even to this day the work that polit?ical commentators of every stripe refer to when they seek to draw large conclusions about the soci?ety of the United States. Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, came to the young nation to investigate the functioning of American democracy and the social, political, and economic life of its citizens, publishing his observations in 1835 and 1840. Brilliantly written and vividly illustrated with vignettes and portraits, Democracy in America is far more than a trenchant analysis of one soci?ety at a particular point in time. What will most intrigue modern readers is how many of Tocquevilles observations still hold true: on the mixed advantages of a free press, the strained relations among the races, and the threats posed to democracies by consumerism and corruption.
So uncanny is Tocquevilles insight and so accurate are his predictions, that it seems as though he were not merely describing the American identity but actually helping to create it. [via]More editions of Democracy in America:
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Eleanor Rigbyby Douglas CouplandISBN 0679313370 (0-679-31337-0)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Euripides Bacchae Iphigenia at Aulis Rhesusby Euripides, David KovacsISBN 0674996011 (0-674-99601-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Euripides Bacchae Iphigenia at Aulis Rhesus'Book summary:One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. This volume completes the new six-volume Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays.
In Bacchae, a masterpiece of tragic drama, Euripides tells the story of king Pentheus's resistance to the worship of Dionysus and his horrific punishment. Iphigenia at Aulis recounts the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter to Artemis, the price exacted by the goddess for favorable sailing winds. Rhesus (probably not by Euripides) dramatizes a pivotal incident in the Trojan War. David Kovacs presents a faithful and skillfully worded translation of the three plays, facing a freshly edited Greek text.
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Flashman and the Mountain of Lightby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0679400710 (0-679-40071-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flashman and the Mountain of Light'Book summary:Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents -- horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century, despite trying his utmost to escape them all. With the mighty Sikh Khalsa, the finest army ever seen in Asia, poised to invade India and sweep Britannia's ill-guarded empire into the sea, every able-bodied man was needed to defend the frontier -- and one at least had his answer ready when the Call of Duty came: 'I'll swim in blood first!' Alas, though, for poor Flashman, there was no avoiding the terrors of secret service in the debauched and intrigue-ridden Court of the Punjab, the attentions of its beautiful nymphomaniac Maharani (not that he minded that, really), the horrors of its torture chambers or the baleful influence of the Mountain of Light. [via]
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For Kings and Planets : A Novelby Ethan CaninISBN 0679419632 (0-679-41963-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For Kings and Planets : A Novel'Book summary:Like Philip Roth and Robert Penn Warren, Ethan Canin won the Houghton Mifflin Fellowship for rising stars whose first books hit big. His luminous 1988 story collection, Emperor of the Air remains a must-read, but his second novel, For Kings and Planets, is nonetheless recognizably part of the Canin constellation. He repeatedly features a straight guy (an accountant or other sober type) transfixed by the spectacle of an out-of-control guy (a delinquent and/or child-prodigy brother or brother figure to the main character). This time, it's Orno Tarcher, a Missouri farm boy thunderstruck by his Columbia University classmate Marshall Emerson, a theatrically bratty, sometimes suicidal Manhattan genius. "I grew up with farmers and insurance salesmen," says Orno. "I grew up with Kennedys and insurance salesmen," says Marshall. "I grew up with pigs everywhere," says Orno. "And we had that in common," Marshall replies. (In keeping with their characters, Orno becomes a sensible dentist and Marshall a cynical, coked-up Hollywood producer.)
Canin sensitively evokes Orno's prosaic world--you'd have to read Jane Smiley's The Age of Grief for better fiction about dentistry. But Orno mostly exists to relate Marshall's appealing, appalling antics: his manic raps about his childhood amid the ruins of Istanbul, his sabotage of his own (and Orno's) love life, his Oedipal strife with his chilly, brilliant parents. "Our family seal is a snake twisted in knots," says Marshall's lovely sister. And, reader, Orno marries her. Page for page, Canin's stories better show off his gift for epiphany, but the novel gives him room to develop character, entangle plots, and make a stab at the heart of the family romance. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Gentleman in Trollope: Individuality and Moral Conductby Shirley LetwinISBN 0674347552 (0-674-34755-2)
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Ghostsby John BanvilleISBN 0679405194 (0-679-40519-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghosts'Book summary:In this brilliantly haunting new novel, John Banville forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence. "A surreal and exquisitely lyrical new novel by one of the great stylists writing in English today."--Boston Globe.
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Gift from the Seaby Anne Morrow LindberghISBN 0679406832 (0-679-40683-2)
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› 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]
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Girl, Interruptedby Susanna KaysenISBN 0679423664 (0-679-42366-4)
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Hesiod: The Shield Catalogue of Women of Other Fragmentsby Hesiod, Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Glenn W. MostISBN 0674990633 (0-674-99063-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hesiod: The Shield Catalogue of Women of Other Fragments'Book summary:Hesiod (Hesiodus), an epic poet apparently of the eighth century BC, was born in Asia Minor but moved to Boeotia in central Greece. He was regarded by later Greeks as a contemporary of Homer.
Three works survive under Hesiod's name: (1) "Works and Days," addressed to his brother. In it he gives us the allegories of the two Strifes, and the myth of Pandora; stresses that every man must work; describes the accepted Five Ages of the world; delivers moral advice; surveys in splendid style a year's work on a farm; gives precepts on navigation; and propounds lucky and unlucky days. (2) "Theogony," a religious work about the rise of the gods and the universe from Chaos to the triumph of Zeus, and about the progeny of Zeus and of goddesses in union with mortal men. (3) "The Shield" (not by Hesiod), an extract from a "Catalogue of Women," the subject being Alcmena and her son Heracles and his contest with Cycnus, with a description of Heracles' shield. All three works are of great literary interest.
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Hotel Lautreamontby John AshberyISBN 0679415122 (0-679-41512-2)
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How to Make an American Quiltby Whitney OttoISBN 0679400702 (0-679-40070-2)
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In a Different Voiceby Carol GilliganISBN 0674445449 (0-674-44544-9)
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Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women--their motives, their moral commitments, the course of their psychological growth, and their special view of what is important in life. Here she sets out to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus its view of female personality. The result is truly a tour de force, which may well reshape much of what psychology now has to say about female experience.
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Is There a Text in This Class?by Stanley FishISBN 0674467264 (0-674-46726-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Is There a Text in This Class?'Book summary:Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes numerous misleading formulations, and offers a stunning proposal for a new way of thinking about the way we read.
Fish begins by examining the relation between a reader and a text, arguing against the formalist belief that the text alone is the basic, knowable, neutral, and unchanging component of literary experience. But in arguing for the right of the reader to interpret and in effect create the literary work, he skillfully avoids the old trap of subjectivity. To claim that each reader essentially participates in the making of a poem or novel is not, he shows, an invitation to unchecked subjectivity and to the endless proliferation of competing interpretations. For each reader approaches a literary work not as an isolated individual but as part of a community of readers. 'Indeed," he writes, "it is interpretive communities, rather than either the text or reader, that produce meanings."
The book is developmental, not static. Fish at all times reveals the evolutionary aspect of his work--the manner in which he has assumed new positions, altered them, and then moved on. Previously published essays are introduced by headnotes which relate them to the central notion of interpretive communities as it emerges in the final chapters. In the course of refining his theory, Fish includes rather than excludes the thinking of other critics and shows how often they agree with him, even when he and they may appear to be most dramatically at odds. Engaging, lucid, provocative, this book will immediately find its place among the seminal works of modern literary criticism.
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Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communitiesby Stanley Eugene FishISBN 0674467256 (0-674-46725-6)
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Kangaroo Notebookby Kobo Abe, Maryellen Toman MoriISBN 0679424121 (0-679-42412-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kangaroo Notebook'Book summary:In the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan's most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. The narrator of Kangaroo Notebook wakes on morning to discover that his legs are growing radish sprouts, an ailment that repulses his doctor but provides the patient with the unusual ability to snack on himself. In short order, Kobo Abe's unraveling protagonist finds himself hurtling in a hospital bed to the very shores of hell. Abe has assembled a cast of oddities into a coherent novel, one imbued with unexpected meaning. Translated from the Japanese by Maryellen Toman Mori.
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The Last Donby Mario PuzoISBN 0679401431 (0-679-40143-1)
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Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relationby Richard A. PosnerISBN 0674514696 (0-674-51469-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857by Gustave Flaubert, Francis SteegmullerISBN 0674526368 (0-674-52636-8)
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Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journalsby Leslie A. MarchandISBN 067453915X (0-674-53915-X)
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Byron's epistolary saga continues con brio in this volume. At the start of 1818 he sends off the last canto of Childe Harold and abandons himself to the debaucheries of the Carnival in Venice. At the close of 1819 he resolves to return to England but instead follows Teresa Guiccioli to Ravenna. In the meantime he writes three long poems and two cantos of Don Juan, whose bowdlerization he violently protests; he breaks off with Marianna Segati, copes with his amorous "tigress" Margarita Cogni, then falls passionately in love with the young Countess Guiccioli; he thinks seriously of emigrating to South America; he takes custody of his little daughter Allegra and becomes increasingly fond of the child. The Shelleys visit him, as does Thomas Moore, to whom he entrusts his memoirs (burned after his death). The letters to friends are a marvelous outpouring of funny anecdotes, practical talk, discussions of his poems, statements of his beliefs. The love letters are in a class by themselves.
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May Sarton : A Biographyby Margot PetersISBN 0679415211 (0-679-41521-1)
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The Meaning of: The Glorious Koran/an Explanatory Translation by Marmaduke Pickthallby Marmaduke William PickthallISBN 0679417362 (0-679-41736-2)
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While in the service of Indias Nizam of Hyderabad, Marmaduke Pickthall converted to Islam and, with the help of Muslim theologians and linguists, produced this clear and lovingly precise English interpretation of the Holy Koran. His work is honored by believer and non-believer alike for its unique combination of piety, scholarly rigor in its translation and explanatory notes, and deep feeling for the poetic beauty and moral grandeur of its Arabic original.
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, Frank Justus MillerISBN 0674990463 (0-674-99046-3)
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Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.
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Mystery Ride : A Novelby Robert BoswellISBN 0679412921 (0-679-41292-1)
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A New History of French Literatureby Denis Hollier, R. Howard BlochISBN 0674615662 (0-674-61566-2)
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The Night in Question : Storiesby Tobias WolffISBN 0679402187 (0-679-40218-7)
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Night of January 16thby Ayn RandISBN 0679390510 (0-679-39051-0)
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The Odysseyby Homer, A.T. Murray, George E. DimockISBN 0674995619 (0-674-99561-9)
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The works attributed to Homer include the two oldest and greatest European epic poems, the Odyssey and Iliad. These texts have long stood in the Loeb Classical Library with a faithful and literate prose translation by A. T. Murray. George Dimock now brings the Loeb's Odyssey up to date, with a rendering that retains Murray's admirable style but is worded for today's readers. The two-volume edition includes a new introduction, notes, and index.
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Oleannaby David MametISBN 0679424113 (0-679-42411-3)
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One Writer's Beginningsby Eudora WeltyISBN 0674639278 (0-674-63927-8)
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The Palace Thiefby Ethan CaninISBN 0679419624 (0-679-41962-4)
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Passions of the Mindby A. S. ByattISBN 0679405119 (0-679-40511-9)
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The Pied Piper of Hamelinby Robert Browning, Kate GreenawayISBN 0679428127 (0-679-42812-7)
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The Pit: A Story Of Chicagoby Frank NorrisISBN 0675093686 (0-675-09368-6)
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The Poetry of Pablo Nerudaby Rene De Costa, Pablo NerudaISBN 0674679814 (0-674-67981-4)
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Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of TroyISBN 0674990226 (0-674-99022-6)
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Find This BookBook summary:Quintus was a poet who lived at Smyrna some four hundred years after Christ. His work, in fourteen books, is a bold and generally underrated attempt in Homer's style to complete the story of Troy from the point at which the Iliad closes. Quintus tells us the stories of Penthesilea, the Amazonian queen; Memnon, leader of the Ethiopians; the death of Achilles; the contest for Achilles' arms between Ajax and Odysseus; the arrival of Philoctetes; and the making of the Wooden Horse. The poem ends with the departure of the Greeks and the great storm which by the wrath of heaven shattered their fleet.
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Placeby Terry Tempest WilliamsISBN 067940516X (0-679-40516-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place'Book summary:The only constants in nature are change and death. Terry Tempest Williams, a naturalist and writer from northern Utah, has seen her share of both. The pages of Refuge resound with the deaths of her mother and grandmother and other women from cancer, the result of the American government's ongoing nuclear-weapons tests in the nearby Nevada desert. You won't find the episode in the standard history textbooks; the Feds wouldn't admit to conducting the tests until women and men in Utah, Nevada, and northwestern Arizona took the matter to court in the mid-1980s, and by then thousands of Americans had fallen victim to official technology. Parallel to her account of this devastation, Williams describes changes in bird life at the sanctuaries dotting the shores of the Great Salt Lake as water levels rose during the unusually wet early 1980s and threatened the nesting grounds of dozens of species. In this world of shattered eggs and drowned shorebirds, Williams reckons with the meaning of life, alternating despair and joy. [via]
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Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmenby Charles RosenISBN 0674779517 (0-674-77951-7)
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Rossettiby Christina Georgina RossettiISBN 0679429085 (0-679-42908-5)
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Saint Maybeby Anne TylerISBN 0679403612 (0-679-40361-2)
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Selected Letters of John Keats: Based on the Texts of Hyder Edward Rollinsby John KeatsISBN 0674018419 (0-674-01841-9)
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Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwandaby Romeo DallaireISBN 0679311726 (0-679-31172-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda'Book summary:It was one of the fastest, most efficient, most evident genocides of modern history. And it could have been avoided. But the United States and France were content to sit back and watch as Hutu extremists slaughtered 800,000 Rwandans in ethnic pogroms in 1994. Roméo Dallaire, then a brigadier general in the Canadian Forces, was the commander of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda and witnessed first-hand the "unfolding apocalypse," as he calls it in his stunning book Shake Hands with the Devil. The gruesome experience and his futile attempts to convince the international community to intervene left him with emotional scars that still haven't healed. He tried to commit suicide, was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, got a medical release from the military, and has had extensive therapy.
The slaughter could have been quite easily prevented, Dallaire writes in his memoir, if the United Nations and western countries had sent in a small number of soldiers and resources at a crucial point when Hutu extremists were still plotting the killings and training death squads. But at critical moments, U.S. and French officials dismissed Dallaire's pleadings for action, even though they had solid intelligence about what was happening on the ground. A U.S. military staffer explained to Dallaire that it would take the deaths of 85,000 Rwandans to justify risking the life of one American soldier. Meanwhile, France had long-standing links with elite Rwandan army units closely tied to the Hutu death squads and refused to acknowledge Dallaire's warnings until it was too late.
As painful as it was for Dallaire to write this book, the final result is gripping, expertly crafted, and soul bearing. It gives a taut, riveting hour-by-hour account of the international and human drama he witnessed and the "unimaginable evil [that] had turned Rwanda's gentle green valleys and mist-capped hills into a stinking nightmare of rotting corpses." Dallaire traveled back through his blood-soaked memories, he says, in order to retrieve his soul, and has since thrown himself into giving talks about his experiences. He recounts that after one talk a Canadian military padre asked him how he could still believe in God. "I know there is a God," he replied, "because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil." --Alex Roslin [via]
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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick : Selected Literary and Philosophical Writingsby Philip K. Dick, Lawrence Sutin, Sutin LawrenceISBN 0679426442 (0-679-42644-2)
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Shih Ching: The Classic Anthology Defined by Confuciusby Ezra PoundISBN 0674133978 (0-674-13397-8)
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Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughesby Janet MalcolmISBN 0679431586 (0-679-43158-6)
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Six American Poets: An Anthologyby Joel ConarroeISBN 0679406891 (0-679-40689-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six American Poets: An Anthology'Book summary:Here are the most enduring works of six great American poets, collected in a single authoritative volume. From the overflowing pantheism of Walt Whitman to the exquisite precision of Emily Dickinson; from the democratic clarity of William Carlos Williams to the cerebral luxuriance of Wallace Stevens; and from Robert Frost's deceptively homespun dramatic monologues to Langston Hughes's exuberant jazz-age lyrics, this anthology presents the best work of six makers of the modern American poetic tradition. Six American Poets includes 247 poems, among them such famous masterpieces as "I Hear America Singing," "The Idea of Order at Key West," "The Dance," and "Mending Wall," as well as lesser-known works. With perceptive introductory essays by the distinguished scholar Joel Conarroe and selections that capture the distinctive voices and visions of its authors, this volume is an invaluable addition to any poetry library.
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Stevensby Wallace Stevens, Helen Hennessy VendlerISBN 0679429115 (0-679-42911-5)
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This Craft of Verseby Jorge Luis Borges, Calin Andrei MihailescuISBN 0674008200 (0-674-00820-0)
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Through a twist of fate that the author of Labyrinths himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the English language. Transcribed from tapes only recently discovered, This Craft of Verse captures the cadences, candor, wit, and remarkable erudition of one of the most extraordinary and enduring literary voices of the twentieth century. In its wide-ranging commentary and exquisite insights, the book stands as a deeply personal yet far-reaching introduction to the pleasures of the word, and as a first-hand testimony to the life of literature.
Though his avowed topic is poetry, Borges explores subjects ranging from prose forms (especially the novel), literary history, and translation theory to philosophical aspects of literature in particular and communication in general. Probably the best-read citizen of the globe in his day, he draws on a wealth of examples from literature in modern and medieval English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese, speaking with characteristic eloquence on Plato, the Norse kenningar, Byron, Poe, Chesterton, Joyce, and Frost, as well as on translations of Homer, the Bible, and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Whether discussing metaphor, epic poetry, the origins of verse, poetic meaning, or his own "poetic creed," Borges gives a performance as entertaining as it is intellectually engaging. A lesson in the love of literature and in the making of a unique literary sensibility, this is a sustained encounter with one of the writers by whom the twentieth century will be long remembered.
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Virgil: Aeneid 7-12 Appendix Vergilianaby H. R. FaircloughISBN 0674995864 (0-674-99586-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virgil: Aeneid 7-12 Appendix Vergiliana'Book summary:Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts. All his undoubted extant work is written in his perfect hexameters. Earliest comes the collection of ten pleasingly artificial bucolic poems, the Eclogues, which imitated freely Theocritus's idylls. They deal with pastoral life and love. Before 29 BCE came one of the best of all didactic works, the four books of Georgics on tillage, trees, cattle, and bees. Virgil's remaining years were spent in composing his great, not wholly finished, epic the Aeneid, on the traditional theme of Rome's origins through Aeneas of Troy. Inspired by the Emperor Augustus's rule, the poem is Homeric in metre and method but influenced also by later Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, and learning, and deeply Roman in spirit. Virgil died in 19 BCE at Brundisium on his way home from Greece, where he had intended to round off the Aeneid. He had left in Rome a request that all its twelve books should be destroyed if he were to die then, but they were published by the executors of his will.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Virgil is in two volumes.
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Virgil Aeneid Minor Poems Loeb 64by FaircloughISBN 0674990714 (0-674-99071-4)
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Virgil: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid I-VIby Virgil, G.P. GooldISBN 067499583X (0-674-99583-X)
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The Loeb Classical Library edition of Virgil is in two volumes.
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Virgil: Eclogues-Georgics-Aeneid Books I-VIby Virgil, Fairclough, H. Rushton FaircloughISBN 0674990706 (0-674-99070-6)
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The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith ; Introduction by Alan B. Krueger ; Edited, With Notes and Marginal Summary, by Edwin Cannanby Adam Smith, D. D. RaphaelISBN 067940564X (0-679-40564-X)
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Published in 1776, in the same year as the Declaration of Independence, The Wealth of Nations has had an equally great impact on the course of modern history. Adam Smiths celebrated defense of free market economies was written with such expressive power and clarity that the first edition sold out in six months. While its most remarkable and enduring innovation was to see the whole of economic life as a unified system, it is notable also as one of the Enlightenments most eloquent testaments to the sanctity of the individual in his relation
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The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causesby Adam SmithISBN 0679424733 (0-679-42473-3)
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Witness of Poetryby Czeslaw MiloszISBN 0674953835 (0-674-95383-5)
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The World, the Text, and the Criticby Edward SaidISBN 0674961870 (0-674-96187-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World, the Text, and the Critic'Book summary:This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new departure for contemporary literary theory. Author of Beginnings and the controversial Orientalism, Edward Said demonstrates that modern critical discourse has been impressively strengthened by the writings of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, for example, and by such influences as Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysis. He argues, however, that the various methods and schools have had a crippling effect through their tendency to force works of literature to meet the requirements of a theory or system, ignoring the complex affiliations binding the texts to the world.
The critic must maintain a distance both from critical systems and from the dogmas and orthodoxies of the dominant culture, Said contends. He advocates freedom of consciousness and responsiveness to history, to the exigencies of the text, to political, social, and human values, to the heterogeneity of human experience. These characteristics are brilliantly exemplified in his own analyses of individual authors and works.
Combining the principles and practice of criticism, the book offers illuminating investigations of a number of writers--Swift, Conrad, Lukacs, Renan, and many others--and of concepts such as repetition, originality, worldliness, and the roles of audiences, authors, and speakers. It asks daring questions, investigates problems of urgent significance, and gives a subtle yet powerful new meaning to the enterprise of criticism in modern society.
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Nowby Maya AngelouISBN 0679427430 (0-679-42743-0)
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Xenophonby XenophonISBN 0674990587 (0-674-99058-7)
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