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American Sonby Brian Ascalon RoleyISBN 0393321541 (0-393-32154-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Son'Book summary:A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers.
Told with a hard-edged purity that brings to mind Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, American Son is the story of two Filipino brothers adrift in contemporary California. The older brother, Tomas, fashions himself into a Mexican gangster and breeds pricey attack dogs, which he trains in German and sells to Hollywood celebrities. The narrator is younger brother Gabe, who tries to avoid the tar pit of Tomas's waywardness, yet moves ever closer to embracing it. Their mother, who moved to America to escape the caste system of Manila and is now divorced from their American father, struggles to keep her sons in line while working two dead-end jobs. When Gabe runs away, he brings shame and unforeseen consequences to the family. Full of the ache of being caught in a violent and alienating world, American Son is a debut novel that captures the underbelly of the modern immigrant experience. [via]More editions of American Son:
The Annotated Hunting of the Snark: The Full Text of Lewis Carroll's Great Nonsense Epic The Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner, Henry Holiday, Adam GopnikISBN 0393062422 (0-393-06242-2)
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An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911by Stephen OwenISBN 0393038238 (0-393-03823-8)
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Arabian Jazzby Diana Abu-JaberISBN 0393324222 (0-393-32422-2)
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Arabian Nights IIby Husain HaddawyISBN 0393315177 (0-393-31517-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights II : Sindbad and Other Popular Stories'Book summary:This work presents four of the most popular stories from "The Arabian Nights": "Sinbad the Sailor"; "`Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"; "`Ala al-Din (Aladdin) and the Magic Lamp"; and "Qamar al-Zaman". [via]
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Balzac: A Biographyby Graham RobbISBN 0393313875 (0-393-31387-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Balzac: A Biography'Book summary:In the first major English biography of Honore de Balzac in over 50 years, Graham Robb has produced a compelling portrait of the great French novelist whose powers of creation were matched only by his self-destructive tendencies. Robb presents Balzac as a man whose influence both in and outside his native France has been, and is still, immense. [via]
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Bernard Shaw's Plays: Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, Too True to Be Good;by George Bernard ShawISBN 0393099423 (0-393-09942-3)
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Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyric 1965-1999by Paul McCartney, Adrian MitchellISBN 0393020495 (0-393-02049-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyric 1965-1999'Book summary:It is nearly impossible to scan any of Paul McCartney's lyrics without hearing the Beatles' music in the background, dictating rhythm, pace, and mood. But as Blackbird Singing demonstrates, the effort is worth making. This first collection brings together early and late poems, along with some of Sir Paul's greatest hits (including the words to "Yesterday," "Lady Madonna," "Penny Lane," and "Hey Jude.") In his introduction, editor and fellow Liverpudlian Adrian Mitchell urges readers to "wash out the name and the fame" and examine what's on the page. If you can do this, you're in for a pleasant surprise.
True, some of the lyrics appear trite on paper--"Heart of the Country" and "Mull of Kintyre" are notable offenders. Even "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" seems naked and frail without the rousing brass section. But McCartney's deeper vulnerability comes to the surface in "Dinner Tickets," a poem about his childhood. And "Standing Stone" recounts a gutsy fable about a man using the power of imagination to fend off the enemy: he erects a standing stone, "a weathered finger to the sky" and learns to be "at peace with peace." "Irish Language" boasts a rare streak of irony as the narrator admires the way "those Irish chappies" swill the language around in their mouths and dribble it through their fingers. The song ends with a beautifully timed punch line: "The Beatles were a bunch of Micks." Blackbird Singing closes with poems dedicated to the author's late wife that are tender, sparse, and startlingly honest. --Cherry Smyth [via]
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Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-2001by Paul McCartney, Adrian MitchellISBN 0393324095 (0-393-32409-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-2001'Book summary:Before there was "let it go", there was "let it out and let it in" as Jude was urged to begin to know what love was. It is impossible to read any of Paul McCartney's lyrics without hearing the Beatles' musical refrain as it takes over the lines, dictating rhythm, pace and mood. In Blackbird Singing, his first poetry collection, early and later poems are brought together with some of his finest lyrics, including pop classics such as "Yesterday", "Lady Madonna" and "My Love". Lyrics such as "The Long and Winding Road" retain their poignancy on paper, while others resist being presented as verse and appear banal or trite: "Heart of the Country" and "Mull of Kintyre" teeter on the edge of embarrassment. One may feel that "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" seems naked and frail without the rousing brass section.
The collection is fondly edited by populist poet and fellow Liverpudlian Adrian Mitchell who pleads that readers clean out their heads, "wash out the name and the fame" and read what's here. "Dinner Tickets", a poem written about childhood and being caught with a sexy drawing of a female nude in his pocket allows McCartney's deeper vulnerability to slip through. "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" shows off the wordplay McCartney favours--clever, simple and effective: "Sunday's on the phone to Monday,/ Tuesday's on the phone to me." The later poems reveal a more mature, sincere voice, distant from the quirky catching rhymes of "Ob-la-di Ob-la-da". "Standing Stone" unravels a strong, gutsy fable about a man using the power of imagination to fend off the enemy: He erects a standing stone, "a weathered finger to the sky" and learns to be "at peace with peace", watching a "blue sky laced with tight white webs;/ fields of high rye tickled skylarks,/ levitating stars." "Irish Language" boasts a rare streak of irony as the narrator admires the way "those Irish chappies" swill the language round their mouths and dribble it through their fingers, ending with the beautifully timed punch line: "The Beatles were a bunch of Micks". The book closes with poems dedicated to his late wife which are tender, sparse and reach for a startling honesty:
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Book of Jobby Raymond P. ScheindlinISBN 0393319008 (0-393-31900-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Job'Book summary:"An extraordinary and invaluable version of this great biblical treasure."David R. Slavitt, Philadelphia Inquirer
One of the most powerful and unsettling Bible stories, The Book of Job undermines the claim that our world is governed by justice and meaning. It does so through a poetry of unsurpassed beauty captured in Raymond Scheindlin's superb new translation. Scheindlin's Job is not a patient sufferer but a defiant man who eloquently demands an argument with God. Job's words land like a fist, but he is left speechless by God's reply from the storm a commanding survey of creation and a challenge to man's place in it. Job's acceptance of God's power comes with a dignity and freshness that makes it compelling even today. In Scheindlin's vivid translation an ancient text speaks to us directly of timeless questions and passions. A selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, History Book Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, and Jewish Book Club [via] 
The Book of the Green Manby Ronald JohnsonISBN 0393042901 (0-393-04290-1)
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C. S. Lewis: A Biographyby A. N. WilsonISBN 0393323404 (0-393-32340-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'C. S. Lewis: A Biography'Book summary:A subtle and poignant portrayal of the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia.
Brilliant. Agnostic. Prejudiced. Gregarious. Bullying. Loyal friend. Heavy drinker. One of the most learned scholars of his generation. A controversial Christian apologist. Author of a children's fantasy that has sold millions upon millions of copies. And, after his death, almost a cult figure. C. S. Lewis was an incredibly complicated man, and, as revealed in this splendid biography, a mystery to those who knew him best. "I know of no modern biographer who equals Wilson's delicacy of touch and sensitivity to human quandaries. An astonishing book."Leon Edel "The mixture presented in Wilson's biography of the life of learning...of domestic drama and bad temper, religion, and sex, is irresistible."New York Review of Books 8 pages of black and white illustrations [via]More editions of C. S. Lewis: A Biography:
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Civilization and Its Discontentsby Sigmund Freud, James StracheyISBN 0393301583 (0-393-30158-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization and Its Discontents'Book summary:For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of the seminal work with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand.
Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud elucidates the contest between aggression, indeed the death drive, and its adversary eros. He speaks to issues of human creativity and fulfillment, the place of beauty in culture, and the effects of repression.
Louis Menand, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, contributor to The New Yorker, and professor of English at Harvard University, reflects on the importance of this work in intellectual thought and why it has become such a landmark book for the history of ideas.
Not available in hardcover for decades, this beautifully rendered anniversary edition will be a welcome addition to readers' shelves. [via]More editions of Civilization and Its Discontents:
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivanby W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Seymour SullivanISBN 0393316882 (0-393-31688-2)
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The David Storyby Robert AlterISBN 0393320774 (0-393-32077-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The David Story'Book summary:There are countless good reasons to read The David Story, Robert Alter's new translation of the story of King David (beginning in I Samuel and ending in I Kings 2). In the book's introduction, Alter contends that the story of David is "probably the greatest single narrative representation in antiquity of a human life evolving by slow stages through time, shaped and altered by the pressures of political life, public institutions, family, the impulses of body and spirit, the eventual sad decay of the flesh. It also provides the most unflinching insight into the cruel processes of history and into human behavior warped by the pursuit of power." Alter's translation is more literal than the King James version, which makes his rendering of Scripture newly immediate and jarring. (When Samuel anoints David in I Samuel 16, for instance, "the spirit of the LORD gripped David from that day onward.") This David Story is worth reading for the footnotes alone, which describe in vivid detail the mechanics of sheep-shearing festivals, sacrificial feasts, and other cultural phenomena that add depth and life to this familiar story. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Death and the Kings Horsemanby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0393322998 (0-393-32299-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death and the Kings Horseman'Book summary:A Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture.
Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England; and Simon Pilkings, the colonial district officer. The king has died and Elesin, his chief horseman, is expected by law and custom to commit suicide and accompany his ruler to heaven. The stage is set for a dramatic climax when Pilkings learns of the ritual and decides to intervene and Elesin's son arrives home. "Soyinka both entertains and asks subtle questions about mass psychology, individual psychology, and universal human struggles of the will."Chicago Tribune [via]More editions of Death and the Kings Horseman:
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Desperate Charactersby Paula FoxISBN 039331894X (0-393-31894-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desperate Characters'Book summary:Meet the Bentwoods, Sophie and Otto, "both just over forty," living in Brooklyn sometime in the '60s with neither hope nor children to encourage them to work on their suffocating marriage. Such are the central subjects of Paula Fox's enthralling Desperate Characters, first published to much acclaim in 1970. The novel's action unfolds in a single weekend, and includes Otto's torturous breakup with his longtime business partner, Charlie, and a visit the Bentwoods make to their country home, which they find vandalized. Everything pivots around an occurrence so ordinary as to make us marvel at the power it wields under Fox's brilliant pressure: a cat bite.
Despite Otto's protests, Sophie puts out a dish for a stray that roams the Bentwoods' neighborhood--an area which is also home to enormous poverty, and in which they, in their renovated townhouse, sit like distant royalty. The cat sinks its teeth into her hand and instantly we are plunged into the heart of what plagues every aspect of this couple's lives: the threat of rabies. Where the cat is concerned, it's literal rabies, but the book is also steeped in the sense that a kind of social rabies lurks just outside the Bentwoods' and indeed the whole world's door. As Sophie suddenly realizes at one point: "Ticking away inside the carapace of ordinary life and its sketchy agreements was anarchy."
Throughout Fox's gorgeously crafted, unflinching portrait of a dying marriage and a country at war with itself, the Bentwoods fight the desire to self-destruct like everything around them. At one point, Otto screams at Sophie: "What in God's name do you want? Do you want Charlie to murder me? Do you wish the farmhouse had been burned down?... Do you want to be rabid?" She doesn't, of course, but in a certain way, that outcome makes sense. "'God, if I am rabid, I am equal to what is outside,' she said out loud, and felt an extraordinary relief as though, at last, she'd discovered what it was that could create a balance between the quiet, rather vacant progression of the days she spent in this house, and those portents that lit up the dark at the edge of her own existence." How fortunate and rare to discover such a perfect articulation of the human condition. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Dramaby Carl E. BainISBN 0393093662 (0-393-09366-2)
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Dvorak in Loveby Josef SkvoreckyISBN 0393305481 (0-393-30548-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dvorak in Love'Book summary:In 1892, at the height of his prodigious powers, Anton Dvorak was persuaded to leave his native Bohemia to come to New York to be director of the National Conservatory for Music. This splendid novel tells the story of Dvorak's utterly requited love affair with America. [via]
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The Eve of Saint Venusby Anthony BurgessISBN 039308602X (0-393-08602-X)
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A Fine Madnessby Elliott BakerISBN 0393303950 (0-393-30395-0)
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The Fly-Trufflerby Gustaf SobinISBN 0393321797 (0-393-32179-7)
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The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary Franceby Robert DarntonISBN 0393314421 (0-393-31442-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France'Book summary:More popular than the canon of the great Enlightenment philosophers were other books, also banned by the regime, written and sold "under the cloak." These formed a libertine literature that was a crucial part of the culture of dissent in the Old Regime. Robert Darnton explores the cultural and political significance of these "bad" books and introduces readers to three of the most influential illegal best-sellers, from which he includes substantial excerpts. Winner of the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. [via]
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Glueby Irvine WelshISBN 0393322157 (0-393-32215-7)
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A Great Loveby Alexander KollontaiISBN 0393300285 (0-393-30028-5)
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Honey for the Bearsby Anthony BurgessISBN 0393314413 (0-393-31441-3)
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The Horned Manby James LasdunISBN 0393324389 (0-393-32438-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Horned Man'Book summary:Penzler Pick, April 2002: Already a sensation in his native England, this first novel by expatriate James Lasdun is one of the most disturbing and compelling books you are likely to read this year.
The protagonist, Lawrence Miller, is himself an expat teaching gender studies at a small college located just outside New York City. He is a member of the sexual harassment committee which meets on a regular basis to walk that fine line between the sublime and the ridiculous of political correctness.
Miller's well-ordered life starts to disintegrate one day when he takes a book from the shelf in his office to find that the bookmark has been moved several pages although, as far as he knows, nobody has visited his office. An easily explained lapse of memory perhaps, but Miller decides he will discuss it with the therapist he has been seeing in Manhattan since his wife left him. He is shocked as he approaches her office to see the therapist walking towards him, but she turns off towards Central Park before he can speak to her and he then loses sight of her. When he arrives at her office, however, she is waiting for him as usual and assures him that she has not left her office; in fact, she is always with another patient before Miller's appointment.
So begins the disorientation of Lawrence Miller. He has his little obsessions, of course--he won't pick up the messages on his answering machine, for instance, in order to convince himself that while he was out his wife tried to call him. Still in love with her, he hopes that she will call and want to return to him. But this is just a game he plays, part of his very human nature. He is in no way the sort of man who is paranoid or imagines conspiracies, but the unexplained incidents seem to be increasing.
Miller tries to rationalize what is happening, but he can't help thinking, nor can we, that he has become the target of somebody who wishes him harm. And when a series of murders takes place, Miller begins to suspect that he is being set up to take the blame for these murders by a devious and diabolical mind.
Lawrence Miller struggles to loosen the hold his pursuers have on him, but the more he struggles the more he appears to be drowning. Try to sleep after reading his terrifying story. --Otto Penzler [via]
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The Hundred Daysby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393319792 (0-393-31979-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hundred Days'Book summary:The year is 1815, and Europe's most unpopular (not to mention tiniest) empire-builder has escaped from Elba. In The Hundred Days, it's up to Jack Aubrey--and surgeon-cum-spymaster Stephen Maturin--to stop Napoleon in his tracks. How? For starters, Aubrey and his squadron have been dispatched to the Adriatic coast, to keep Bonapartist shipbuilders from beefing up the French navy. Meanwhile, one Sheik Ibn Hazm is fomenting an Islamic uprising against the Allies. The only way to halt this maneuver is to intercept the sheik's shipment of gold--because in the Napoleonic era, as in our own, even the most ardent of mercenaries requires a salary.
The Hundred Days is the 19th (and, we are told, the penultimate) installment of O'Brian's epic. Like many of its predecessors, it features a fairly swashbuckling plot, complete with cannon fire, exotic disguises, and Aubrey's suspenseful, slow-motion pursuit of an Algerian xebek. Yet it never turns into a mere exercise in Hornblowerism. Partly this is due to O'Brian's delicate touch with character--the relationship between extroverted Aubrey and introverted Maturin has deepened with each book, and even Aubrey's reunion with his childhood companion Queenie Keith is full of novelistic nuance: "They sat smiling at one another. An odd pair: handsome creatures both, but they might have been of the same sex or neither." Nor does the author focus too exclusively on his dynamic duo. Indeed, The Hundred Days is very much a chronicle of a floating community, which Maturin describes as "his own village, his own ship's company, that complex entity so much more easily sensed than described: part of his natural habitat."
Finally, O'Brian shows his usual expertise in balancing the great events with the most minuscule ones. Other authors have written about battles at sea, and still others have recorded the rapid rise and fall of Napoleon's fortunes after his escape from confinement. But who else would give equal time--and an equal charge of delight--to Maturin's discovery of an anomalous nuthatch? --James Marcus [via]
I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiographyby May SartonISBN 0393312488 (0-393-31248-8)
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In Memoriam: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticismby Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Robert H. RossISBN 0393043657 (0-393-04365-7)
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The Ionian Missionby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393308219 (0-393-30821-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ionian Mission'Book summary:Aubrey and Maturin return to the choppy Mediterranean waters where they first served together, enforcing the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon. Then the two companions are sent to the Greek Islands, where another series of maritime cliff-hangers awaits them. O'Brian performs his peculiar narrative magic as adeptly as ever, putting (as The Observer would have it) the "spark of character into the sawdust of time." [via]
Iris and Her Friendsby John BayleyISBN 0393320790 (0-393-32079-0)
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Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeodby Alistair MacLeodISBN 0393050351 (0-393-05035-1)
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Jewish American Literatureby Jules Chametzky, John Felstiner, Kathryn Hellerstein, Hilene FlanzbaumISBN 0393048098 (0-393-04809-8)
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Journal of a Solitudeby May SartonISBN 0393309282 (0-393-30928-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journal of a Solitude'Book summary:In this, her bestselling journal, May Sarton writes with keen observation and emotional courage of both inner and outer worlds: a garden, the seasons, daily life in New Hampshire, books, people, ideasand throughout everything, her spiritual and artistic journey.
"I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' life again at last. That is what is strangethat friends, even passionate love,are not my real life, unless there is time alone in which to explore what is happening or what has happened." In this journal, she says, "I hope to break through into the rough, rocky depths,to the matrix itself. There is violence there and anger never resolved. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there."
In this book, we are closer to the marrow than ever before in May Sarton's writing. [via]More editions of Journal of a Solitude:
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The Letter of Marqueby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393309053 (0-393-30905-3)
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Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship's surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf of British Intelligence, has bought for Aubrey his former ship the Surprise to command as a privateer, more politely termed a letter of marque. Together they sail on a desperate mission against the French, which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from the private hell of his disgrace. [via] 
Little Britchesby Ralph MoodyISBN 0393074218 (0-393-07421-8)
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Maria: Or, The Wrongs of Womanby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0393311694 (0-393-31169-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maria or the Wrongs of Woman'Book summary:THE PUBLIC are here presented with the last literary attempt of an author whose fame has been uncommonly extensive and whose talents have probably been most admired by the persons by whom talents are estimated with the greatest accuracy and discrimination. [via]
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More Latin Lyrics: From Virgil to Miltonby Helen WaddellISBN 0393302326 (0-393-30232-6)
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A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriageby Mark Twain, Peter De Seve, Roy BlountISBN 0393043762 (0-393-04376-2)
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The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetryby Richard Ellmann, Jahan Ramazani, Robert O'ClairISBN 039332429X (0-393-32429-X)
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The Norton Anthology of Poetry: Revised Shorter Editionby Not AvailableISBN 0393092518 (0-393-09251-8)
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The Norton Anthology of Poetryby W. W. NortonISBN 0393092402 (0-393-09240-2)
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The Norton Book of Personal Essaysby Joseph EpsteinISBN 0393036545 (0-393-03654-5)
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Now All We Need Is a Title: Famous Book Titles and How They Got That Wayby Andre BernardISBN 0393314367 (0-393-31436-7)
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Nutmeg of Consolationby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393309061 (0-393-30906-1)
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Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they are truly marooned. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the whimsy and ingenuity of Patrick O'Brianor Stephen Maturincould devise.
In command now of a new ship, the Nutmeg, Aubrey pursues his interrupted mission. The dreadful penal colony in New South Wales, harrowingly described, is the backdrop to a diplomatic crisis provoked by Maturin's Irish temper, and to a near-fatal encounter with the wildlife of the Australian outback. [via]
Pascali's Islandby Barry UnsworthISBN 0393317218 (0-393-31721-8)
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Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writingby Joseph EpsteinISBN 0393303322 (0-393-30332-2)
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Pornoby Irvine WelshISBN 0393057232 (0-393-05723-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Porno'Book summary:Porno, Irvine Welsh's highly entertaining--though completely unnecessary--sequel to his cult classic, Trainspotting, reunites the gang as they pursue another big-payoff scheme. It's been 10 years since Mark Renton walked away with the cash from a drug sale perpetrated by himself and his mates, Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson, Danny "Spud" Murphy, and Francis Begbie. The megalomaniacal Sick Boy has returned to Edinburgh, where stag film producer "Juice" Terry Lawson has given him the idea for a bold new scam: to locally produce a high-end adult film. Lawson introduces Sick Boy to the beautiful and egocentric Nikki Fuller-Smith, a student and aspiring star. Passivity and self-destructive tendencies have left well-meaning junkie Spud poor and alone, while time has only intensified the anger of the psychotic Begbie, who's fresh out of prison, back in Edinburgh, and obsessed with taking revenge on Renton. Sick Boy locates and persuades Renton, a successful club owner in Amsterdam, to help him steal money for his new production company. From the book's multiple points of view, it's soon clear that everyone's running their own scam, making conflicts--and long-awaited confrontations--inevitable.
Welsh's brutally honest prose and gallery of likeable ne'er-do-wells are in full display here, but the novel feels somewhat superfluous. Porno adds little insight into the characters or events of Trainspotting and fails to match its invention or sense of purpose. However, the author's obvious affection for these characters and dedication to authentically rendered dialogue and setting elevate Porno above mere slapdash reworking. As the novel builds momentum, Welsh wonderfully communicates the intense bravado driving his reckless characters. During such moments of vitality and humor, Porno is superficial but undeniably charming. --Ross Doll [via]
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The Rendezvous and Other Storiesby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393313808 (0-393-31380-8)
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The Reverse of the Medalby Patrick O'BrienISBN 0393309606 (0-393-30960-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reverse of the Medal'Book summary:"An overwhelming, outstanding novel...!"Irish Times
Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionagethe province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot? This dark tale is a fitting backdrop to the brilliant characterization and sparkling dialogue which O'Brian's readers have come to expect.
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Saints and Villainsby Denise GiardinaISBN 0393045714 (0-393-04571-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saints and Villains'Book summary:Sometimes the universe produces a man or woman whose life seems ready-made for fiction: Joan of Arc, for example, or Robert Falcon Scott; John Brown, Martin Luther King Jr., or Jesus of Nazareth. Fiction writers are attracted to larger-than-life personalities and each of the above-mentioned luminaries have indeed appeared in fictional works. Now German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins their ranks in Denise Giardina's novel Saints and Sinners. Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in Breslau, Germany. As a young man, he found his vocation in the church, and his theological education took him to England, Spain, and eventually New York, where he spent a year in post-doctoral studies at Union Theological Seminary. He returned to Germany imbued with both the ideals of ecumenicalism and of the Church's responsibility to participate in social and political debate. These ideals, unfortunately, were hardly compatible with the rise of Nazism in the Germany of the '30s and '40s. Bonnhoeffer, true to his beliefs, spoke out against the Nazi regime, and participated in Germany's small Protestant resistance. He was eventually arrested for helping Jews escape to Switzerland and was hanged in the concentration camp in Flossenberg in the waning days of the war.
Denise Giardina knows the stuff of drama when she sees it, and in writing this fictionalized account of Bonhoeffer's life and death, she has drawn heavily on his own writings. Though she sticks to the facts where chronology is concerned, she does introduce three fictional characters into her protagonist's life as a means of illuminating his most private aspects. There is Elisabeth Hildebrant, Bonhoeffer's Jewish lover; Alois Bauer, his Nazi nemesis; and Fred Bishop, a black American seminarian Bonhoeffer meets during his year in New York who serves to politicize and radicalize the German theologian. After reading Saints and Sinners, readers might want to take a look at Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison, written during the last two years of his life, for a taste of the real man. [via]
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The Siege of Isfahanby Jean-Christophe Rufin, Willard WoodISBN 0393323390 (0-393-32339-0)
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The Siege of Isfahanby Willard Wood, Jean-Christophe RufinISBN 0393049884 (0-393-04988-4)
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The Songs of the Kingsby Barry UnsworthISBN 0393322831 (0-393-32283-1)
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Stevie Smith: A Biographyby Frances SpaldingISBN 0393026728 (0-393-02672-8)
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Stories of Godby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0393308820 (0-393-30882-0)
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Rainer Maria Rilke felt that the world and all its joys most truly belonged to the young, and in Stories of God he captured for them the magic, charm and wisdom of fairy and folk tales. [via]More editions of Stories of God:
The Storm and Other Thingsby Eugenio MontaleISBN 0393302490 (0-393-30249-0)
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Sudden Fiction Internationalby Robert Shapard, James ThomasISBN 0393306135 (0-393-30613-5)
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Tales of Henry Jamesby Henry James, Christof WegelinISBN 0393018245 (0-393-01824-5)
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The Thirteen Gun Saluteby Patrick O'BrianISBN 039330907X (0-393-30907-X)
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Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploits as a privateer, brilliantly chronicled in The Letter of Marque. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturinhis friend, ship's surgeon, and sometimes intelligence agenton a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes which would put English merchant shipping at risk.
The journey of the Diane encompasses a great and satisfying diversity of adventures. Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans; a killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef; and in the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds: the French envoys, well entrenched in the Sultan's good graces, against the savage cunning of Stephen Maturin. [via] 
Tolstoyby A. N. WilsonISBN 0393321223 (0-393-32122-3)
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The Trueloveby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393310167 (0-393-31016-7)
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A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over and indeed strongly attracted to this woman who will not speak of her past. But only Aubrey's friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, can fathom Clarissa's secrets: her crime, her personality, and a clue identifying a highly placed English spy in the pay of Napoleon's intelligence service.
In a thrilling finale, Patrick O'Brian delivers all the excitement his many readers expect: Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise impose a brutal pax Britannica upon the islanders in a pitched battle against a band of headhunting cannibals. [via] 
The Ugly Americanby William J. Lederer, Eugene BurdickISBN 0393318672 (0-393-31867-2)
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Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literatureby Richard Daniel AltickISBN 039309376X (0-393-09376-X)
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The reputation of the Victorian age in England has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now higher than ever. In this important study, Richard D. Altick moves us toward an understanding of the social, intellectual, and theological crises that Carlyle and Dickens, Tennyson and Arnold were daily struggling to solve. And the issues were many: the revolution in class structure and class attitudes; the rise of utilitarianism and the evangelical spirit; the crisis in religion, including the Oxford movement and Darwinism; the democratization of culture; the place of art and the artist in an industrial, bourgeois society; the effects of industrialism, especially on the way people live. Altick brings to the discussion of these complicated questions the lively and sensitive intelligence that his many readers have come to expect. He includes contemporary illustrations and a full reference index. [via]More editions of Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature:
Voyage in the Darkby Jean RhysISBN 0393311465 (0-393-31146-5)
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Waiting for an Angelby Helon HabilaISBN 0393051935 (0-393-05193-5)
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Walking Wordsby Eduardo Galeano, Mark Fried, Jose Francisco BorgesISBN 0393315142 (0-393-31514-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walking Words'Book summary:These stories of ghouls and fools are found in the folklore of rural and urban Latin America, but are far more than an exercise in literary anthropology. Instead, these tales, riddles, aphorisms and paradoxes become testaments to the power of stories to make and remake and enchant the world. Woodcut illustrations. [via]
We Never Make Mistakes: Two Short Novelsby Paul W. Blackstock, Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 039331474X (0-393-31474-X)
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Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Womenby Susan Neunzig CahillISBN 0393316793 (0-393-31679-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women'Book summary:Spiritual experience has always been, and is especially today, a liberating source of women's identity and their resistance to oppression. These selections feature centuries of this tradition's most intuitive writing: women ancient, medieval, and modern articulate the spiritual dimension of life. From Ishtar of Babylonia and Isis of Egypt to the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen, the contemporary African American poet Lucille Clifton, and the Buddhist shaman Joan Halifax, these visionaries see justice and love, loss, aging, and freedom; and it inspires artistic expression and political action. This deeply moving collection of poetry, essays, prayers, letters, memoirs, stories, and theologies by wise women is a source of empowering and uplifting thought for women in any time, at any age. [via]
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Writer's Voiceby A. AlvarezISBN 039305795X (0-393-05795-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writer's Voice'Book summary:FOR A WRITER, voice is the problem that never lets you go. For a reader, voice is a profound mystery. What is it? How does it develop and why should it even matter? How does the reader hear and respond to an authentic voice, and what happens when the cult of personality threatens to subvert it? These are some of the slippery questions "The Writer's Voice addresses with confidence and clarity. Aspiring young writers often confuse voice with stylishness, but the voice that matters has the whole weight of a life, however young, behind it. In this compelling book, renowned poet, author, and critic A. Alvarez defines "voice" as the vehicle by which a writer expresses his aliveness, hooks his readers, and keeps them listening. These powerful reflections from a lifetime's experience belong alongside John Gardner's "The Art of fiction, E.M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel, and William Zinsser's "On Writing Well. [via]
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Yeats: The Man and the Masksby Richard EllmannISBN 0393075222 (0-393-07522-2)
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