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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English LanguageISBN 0395711460 (0-395-71146-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This BookBook summary:The third edition of the American Heritage Dictionary is a beauty--2,134 pages and 8.5 pounds--containing a lexicon of more than 200,000 entries, plus an appendix of Indo-European roots for etymology enthusiasts. The crisp white pages and sharp black print are easy on the eyes, the drawings and pictures (nearly 4,000 in all) are a delight, and along with the lucid, erudite definitions are 4,000-plus quoted illustrations of usage from the likes of Shakespeare, Melville, and Updike. Though it's the chosen reference of editors, it's more than a mere tool of the trade--it's a luxurious linguistic experience. [via]
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Languageby American Heritage Publishing Staff, American Heritage Dictionary EditorsISBN 0395825172 (0-395-82517-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'Book summary:The latest edition of the American Heritage Dictionary is out, and that's hot news--not just for the resolute followers of lexicographical minutiae, but for the general reading and writing public as well. Why? Because the American Heritage is a long-standing favorite family dictionary (never underestimate the value of pictures) and one of the prime dictionary references for magazines, newspapers, and dot.com content providers. For scads of writers and editors across the U.S., it sets the standard on matters of style and lexicographical authority.
So this new edition is exciting and noteworthy, but how good is it? In its favor, the fourth edition is as current a dictionary as you can get. It's six years fresher than the 1994 version, with 10,000 words and definitions you won't find in the still venerable but now slightly dated third edition. For example, unlike its predecessor (and also unlike the 1996 Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionary), this fourth edition covers dot-com, e-commerce, and soccer mom, Ebonics, Viagra, and a surf definition for cruising television channels and the Internet.
Its panel of special consultants includes authorities on anthropology, architecture, cinema, and law, plus military science, music, religion, and sports, and that is reflected in an impressively comprehensive coverage of the arts, culture, and technology. Sadly, however, there are no medical consultants on the panel, and that loss is felt in some substandard medical definitions. Other flaws: there's a greater than usual tendency to define a word with a form of the same word--for example, fuzzy, whose first two definitions are "1. covered with fuzz." and "2. of or resembling fuzz." And some definitions seem needlessly wordy, such as the entry for furious, which is "full of or characterized by extreme anger; raging." Compare that with the more succinct Oxford Encyclopedic entry: "1. extremely angry. 2. full of fury."
On the other hand, there are valuable entries throughout the dictionary supplying additional information on synonyms, usage, or word history, and these extras, such as the history of diatribe and the usage notes on discomfit, are interesting. The layout is easy on the eyes, with dark blue/green bold type setting the words apart from their definitions, and 4,000 color photographs, maps, and illustrations that are both useful and delightful. On one page, the margin provides color depictions of Francis Bacon, bacterium, and a Bactrian camel. Theodore Roosevelt and a rooster share another margin, while a third page offers Isak Dinesen, a dingo, and dinoflagellate. It is a fascinating book to peruse, and a compellingly scholarly addition to the American Heritage Dictionary line. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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American Heritage Dictionary: Office Editionby American Heritage StaffISBN 0395699568 (0-395-69956-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poemsby Rodney JonesISBN 0395710871 (0-395-71087-1)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through Indiaby Jonah BlankISBN 0395562678 (0-395-56267-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Autumnby Steven Schnur, Leslie EvansISBN 0395770432 (0-395-77043-2)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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Beowulf and Related ReadingsISBN 039590109X (0-395-90109-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin School
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The Best American Essays 1994by Tracy Kidder, Robert AtwanISBN 0395692539 (0-395-69253-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best American Essays 1998by Cynthia OzickISBN 0395860512 (0-395-86051-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best American Essays, 1998by Robert Atwan, Cynthia OzickISBN 0395860520 (0-395-86052-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Best American Mystery Storiesby Robert B. Parker, Otto PenzlerISBN 0395835844 (0-395-83584-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Best American Mystery Stories 1997by Otto Penzler, Robert B. ParkerISBN 0395835836 (0-395-83583-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Best American Short Stories 1992by Robert Stone, Katrina KenisonISBN 0395593530 (0-395-59353-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Best American Short Stories 1992'Book summary:In the 1992 installment in the best-selling series, twenty of the year's finest short stories from magazines large and small display the talents of Joyce Carol Oates, Denis Johnson, Alice Munro, and others. 75,000 first printing. [via]
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The Best American Short Stories 1993by Louise Erdrich, Katrina KenisonISBN 0395636272 (0-395-63627-2)
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The Best American Short Stories 1996by John Edgar Wideman, Katrina KenisonISBN 0395752906 (0-395-75290-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories 1996'Book summary:When a great annual collection comes out, it's hard to know the reason why. Was there a bumper crop of high-quality stories, or was this year's guest editor especially gifted at winnowing out the good ones? Either way, the 2000 edition of The Best American Short Stories is a standout in a series that can be uneven. Its editor, E.L. Doctorow, seems to have a fondness for the "what if?" story, the kind of tale that posits an imagination-prodding question and then attempts to answer it. Nathan Englander's "The Gilgul of Park Avenue" asks: What if a WASPy financial analyst, riding in a cab one day, discovers to his surprise that he is irrevocably Jewish? In "The Ordinary Son," Ron Carlson asks: What if you are the only average person in a family of certifiable geniuses? And Allan Gurganus's "He's at the Office" asks: What if the quintessential postwar American working man were forced to retire? This last story is narrated by the man's grown son, who at the story's opening takes his dad for a walk. Though it's the present day, the father is still dressed in his full 1950s businessman regalia, including camel-hair overcoat and felt hat. The two walk by a teenager. "The boy smiled. 'Way bad look on you, guy.'"
My father, seeking interpretation, stared at me. I simply shook my head no. I could not explain Dad to himself in terms of tidal fashion trends. All I said was "I think he likes you."
The exchange typifies the writing showcased in this anthology: in these stories, again and again, we find a breakdown of human communication that is sprightly, humorous, and devastatingly complete. A few more of the terrific stories featured herein: Amy Bloom's "The Story," a goofy metafiction about a villainous divorcee; Geoffrey Becker's "Black Elvis," which tells of, well, a black Elvis; and Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Third and Final Continent," a story of an Indian man who moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Like the collection itself, Lahiri's story amasses a lovely, funny mood as it goes along. --Claire Dederer [via]More editions of The Best American Short Stories 1996:
The Big Skyby A. B. GuthrieISBN 0395611539 (0-395-61153-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Birds' Christmas Carolby Kate Douglas WigginISBN 0395891108 (0-395-89110-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plathby Anne StevensonISBN 0395538467 (0-395-53846-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Blue Highways: A Journey into Americaby William Least Heat MoonISBN 0395585686 (0-395-58568-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Highways: A Journey into America'Book summary:First published in 1982, William Least Heat-Moon's account of his journey along the back roads of the United States (marked with the color blue on old highway maps) has become something of a classic. When he loses his job and his wife on the same cold February day, he is struck by inspiration: "A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity."
Driving cross-country in a van named Ghost Dancing, Heat-Moon (the name the Sioux give to the moon of midsummer nights) meets up with all manner of folk, from a man in Grayville, Illinois, "whose cap told me what fertilizer he used" to Scott Chisholm, "a Canadian citizen ... [who] had lived in this country longer than in Canada and liked the United States but wouldn't admit it for fear of having to pay off bets he made years earlier when he first 'came over' that the U.S. is a place no Canadian could ever love." Accompanied by his photographs, Heat-Moon's literary portraits of ordinary Americans should not be merely read, but savored. [via]
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The Book of Ruth : A Novelby Jane HamiltonISBN 0395866502 (0-395-86650-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Ruth : A Novel'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, November 1996: The Book of Ruth is a virtuoso performance and that's precisely why it can be excruciating to read. Author Jane Hamilton leads us through the arid life of Ruth Grey, who extracts what small pleasures and graces she can from a tiny Illinois town and the broken people who inhabit it. Ruth's prime tormentor is her mother May, whose husband died in World War II and took her future with him. More poor familial luck has given Ruth a brother who is a math prodigy; Matt sucks up any stray attention like a black hole. Ruth is left to survive on her own resources, which are meager. She struggles along, subsisting on crumbs of affection meted out by her Aunt Sid and, later, her screwed-up husband Ruby. Hamilton has perfect pitch. So perfect that you wince with pain for confused but fundamentally good Ruth as she walks a dead-end path. The book ends with the prospect of redemption, thank goodness--but the tale is nevertheless much more bitter than sweet. [via]
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Byron: The Flawed Angelby Phyllis GrosskurthISBN 0395693799 (0-395-69379-9)
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Children's Books and Their Creatorsby Anita SilveyISBN 0395653800 (0-395-65380-0)
Hardcover, Allen Publishers, Thomas
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The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perraultby Neil Philip, Charles Perrault, Sally HolmesISBN 0395570026 (0-395-57002-6)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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A Contemporary Guide to Literary Terms: With Strategies for Writing Essays About Literatureby Barton, Glenda A. HudsonISBN 0395742056 (0-395-74205-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Dakota: A Spiritual Geographyby Kathleen NorrisISBN 039571091X (0-395-71091-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Damballahby John Edgar WidemanISBN 0395897971 (0-395-89797-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Dead of Night: Library Editionby John MarsdenISBN 0395837340 (0-395-83734-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dead of Night: Library Edition'Book summary:Australia has been invaded. Nothing is as it was. Six teenagers are living out their nightmare in the sanctuary of a hidden valley called Hell. Alone, they make their own rules, protect what is theirs, and struggle for courage and hope in a world changed forever. Seeking supplies, allies, and information, the friends make forays into enemy territory, drawing on nerve and resourcefulness they never even knew they had. As the risks become greater, so too do the sacrifices they must make. Intense, passionate, and compulsive, The Dead of Night continues the frighteningly real story begun in Tomorrow, When the War Began.[via]More editions of The Dead of Night: Library Edition:
Dear Old Donegalby Steve Graham, John O'BrienISBN 0395681871 (0-395-68187-1)
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Decorations in a Ruined Cemeteryby John Gregory BrownISBN 039567025X (0-395-67025-X)
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Diary of Anne FrankISBN 0395833647 (0-395-83364-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Dictionary of Cultural Literacyby James S. Trefil, James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, E.D. HirschISBN 0395655978 (0-395-65597-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy'Book summary:"The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 2nd edition" is a compendium of the words, phrases, names, places, events and other items, familiar to most Americans, which combines our common knowledge as a 'collective memory' and informs our late 20th Century discourse; allows us to comprehend daily newspapers, magazines, news reports, to understand our peers, leaders and even jokes; and colors the sound of our national culture. This is not 'expert' knowledge but rather the shared 'common' knowledge which allows people to communicate, forms the basis of communities, and distinguishes our national culture as unique. [via]
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Dog Soldiersby Robert StoneISBN 0395860253 (0-395-86025-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Don't Erase Meby Carolyn FerrellISBN 0395901359 (0-395-90135-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Falcon's Eggby Luli GrayISBN 0395711282 (0-395-71128-2)
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False Godsby Louis AuchinclossISBN 0395604753 (0-395-60475-3)
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Father Christmas Lettersby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 039559698X (0-395-59698-X)
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First, Bodyby Melanie Rae ThonISBN 039578588X (0-395-78588-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Follyby Susan MinotISBN 0395603390 (0-395-60339-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Green Grass, Running Waterby Thomas KingISBN 0395623049 (0-395-62304-9)
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Hamlet and Related Readingsby William ShakespeareISBN 039577554X (0-395-77554-X)
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Images of Women in Literatureby Mary Anne FergusonISBN 0395551161 (0-395-55116-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampiresby Raymond T. McNally, Radu FlorescuISBN 0395657830 (0-395-65783-0)
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In the Loyal Mountainsby Rick BassISBN 0395877474 (0-395-87747-4)
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The Informed Writer: Using Sources in the Disciplinesby Charles BazermanISBN 0395687233 (0-395-68723-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustratorby Wayne G. Hammond, Christina ScullISBN 039574816X (0-395-74816-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator'Book summary:J.R.R. Tolkien, renowned author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, was an artist in pictures as well as in words. Though he often remarked that he had no talent for drawing, his art has charmed his readers and has been exhibited to large and appreciative audiences. In fact, his talent was greater than he admitted, and his sense of design was natural and keen. This book explores Tolkien's art at length, from his childhood paintings and drawings to his final sketches. At its heart are his illustrations for his books, especially his tales of Middle-earth. Also examined are the pictures Tolkien made for his children, notably in The Father Christmas Letters and the story Mr. Bliss; his expressive calligraphy; his love of decoration; and his contributions to the typography and design of his books. J.R.R. Tolkien, Artist & Illustrator includes 200 reproductions, many in color and over half published for the first time. [via]
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The Jump-Off Creekby Molly GlossISBN 0395560012 (0-395-56001-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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A Killing Frostby John MarsdenISBN 0395837359 (0-395-83735-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Kowloon Tongby Paul TherouxISBN 0395901413 (0-395-90141-3)
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Language of Literatureby Littell McDougalISBN 0395737036 (0-395-73703-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Letters from Father Christmasby J. R. R. Tolkien, Baillie TolkienISBN 0395741327 (0-395-74132-7)
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The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooperby Artemis CooperISBN 0395562651 (0-395-56265-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waughby Charlotte Mosley, Nancy Mitford, Evelyn WaughISBN 0395740150 (0-395-74015-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh'Book summary:Charlotte Mosley's careful collection of Nancy Mitford's and Evelyn Waugh's delightfully careless letters immerses one in a lost whirl. The two writers met in London in the late 1920s, but their correspondence didn't take off until mid-World War II, when it quickly became an exaggeration-fest. Mitford, for example, matches Waugh's surreal reports from Europe with one about an M.P. swelling up before his fellow politicians' eyes: "Well, it took 2 ambulances to get him away & now he lies on 4 beds with his trunk hanging out the window. Let nobody say that war time London lacks fantasy."
For the next 21 years, these gifted gossips would render the ridiculous sublime and vice versa, turning (and then only mildly) serious in discussions of reading and writing, preferring to glide over the problematic and emotional. Throughout, Mitford likes to play the euphoric, lazy pupil, Waugh the master grammarian, theologian, and meanie. The exchanges on their own works in progress--particularly on Brideshead Revisited and The Pursuit of Love--are an important addition to literary history, but the book's true exhilaration lies in Mitford and Waugh's knowing--and knowingly vile--comic timing. Irresistibly offensive. [via]
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Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitfordby Nancy Mitford, Charlotte MosleyISBN 0395570417 (0-395-57041-7)
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The Man Behind the Book: Literary Profilesby Louis AuchinclossISBN 0395827485 (0-395-82748-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Martha Speaksby Susan MeddaughISBN 0395729521 (0-395-72952-1)
Softcover, Walter Lorraine
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Martin Bauman: Or, A Sure Thingby David LeavittISBN 0395902436 (0-395-90243-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Morgoth's Ringby J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 0395680921 (0-395-68092-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morgoth's Ring'Book summary:In Morgoth's Ring, the tenth volume of The History of Middle-earth and the first of two companion volumes, Christopher Tolkien describes and documents the legends of the Elder Days, as they were evolved and transformed by his father in the years before he completed The Lord of the Rings. The text of the Annals of Aman, the "Blessed Land" in the far West, is given in full. And in writings never before published, we can see the nature of the problems that J.R.R. Tolkien explored in his later years as new and radical ideas, portending upheaval in the heart of the mythology. At this time Tokien sought to redefine the old legends, and wrote of the nature and destiny of Elves, the idea of Elvish rebirth, the origins of the Orcs, and the Fall of Men. His meditation of mortality and immortality as represented in the lives of Men and Elves led to another major writing at this time, the "Debate of Finrod and Andreth," which is reproduced here in full. "Above all," Christopher Tolkien writes in his foreward, "the power and significance of Melkor-Morgoth...was enlarged to become the ground and source of the corruption of Arda." This book indeed is all about Morgoth. Incomparably greater than the power of Sauron, concentrated in the One Ring, Morgoth's power (Tolkien wrote) was dispersed into the very matter of Arda: "The whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring."[via]More editions of Morgoth's Ring:
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The Night Before Christmasby Clement Clarke Moore, Wendy WatsonISBN 0395665086 (0-395-66508-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Before Christmas'Book summary:The familiar verse about a visit from Saint Nick is depicted in a late-twentieth-century small town setting, which brings to life the traditional American celebration of a beloved holiday. [via]
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Not Where I Started fromby Kate WheelerISBN 0395860326 (0-395-86032-6)
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The Old Lifeby Donald HallISBN 0395856000 (0-395-85600-0)
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The Old Pirate of Central Parkby Robert PriestISBN 0395905052 (0-395-90505-2)
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One World of Literatureby Shirley LimISBN 0395588804 (0-395-58880-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One World of Literature'Book summary:One World of Literature addresses students' concerns about social relevance in their reading, and their growing interest in the literature of other cultures. This provocative anthology brings together fiction, poetry, and drama by twentieth-century authors from around the world. [via]
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Pages Passed from Hand to Handby Mark Mitchell, David LeavittISBN 0395837057 (0-395-83705-7)
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Pagooby Holling C. Holling, Clancy Holling Holling, Lucille Webster HollingISBN 0395539641 (0-395-53964-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pagoo'Book summary:An intricate study of tide pool life is presented in text and pictures through the story of Pagoo, a her-mit crab.[via]More editions of Pagoo:
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The Patron Saint of Liarsby Ann PatchettISBN 039561306X (0-395-61306-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Patron Saint of Liars'Book summary:Pregnant and alone, Rose seeks sanctuary at St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, where she at last finds a place to put down the roots she has never felt she had. A first novel. 10,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
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Platero and I/Platero Y Yoby Juan Ramon Jimenez, Antonio FrasconiISBN 0395623650 (0-395-62365-0)
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Platte Riverby Rick BassISBN 0395680808 (0-395-68080-8)
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A Raisin In The Sun: And Related Storiesby Not AvailableISBN 0395775523 (0-395-77552-3)
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Reading and Writing from Literatureby John SchwiebertISBN 0395741254 (0-395-74125-4)
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The Riverside Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans, J. M. M. TobinISBN 0395858224 (0-395-85822-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riverside Shakespeare'Book summary:After more than a generation and despite its many imitators, The Riverside Shakespeare remains the Shakespeare of choice for scholars and general readers alike. Recently revised to reflect the last quarter century of literary scholarship, it is now available in a deluxe edition - two volumes, bound in full cloth, in a handsome, four-color slipcase. The new, revised version of The Riverside Shakespeare retains all the features that made the first edition so popular - the invaluable notes, the wide-ranging introduction, and the brilliant critical prefaces to the individual works. Additions include the history play Edward IIIand the poem "A Funeral Elegy," both recently claimed for Shakespeare by computer-aided textual analysis. The original appendices have been updated and expanded and are joined by two new essays, "Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Criticism" and "Shakespeare's Plays in Performance: From 1970," the latter accompanied by eight pages of full-color photographs. [via]
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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verseby Mary OliverISBN 039585086X (0-395-85086-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse'Book summary:Just as dancing is "the art of moving in accord with a pattern," says Mary Oliver, so is writing metrical verse. "One sorts out the pattern, one relies on it, and relaxes from effort to pleasure." The rules (concerning rhyme, line length, and pattern) are made if not to be deliberately flouted, then at least to be toyed with. Oliver claims to have written this book for both writers and readers of metrical verse, but it is an odd sort of fit for either. A writer might wish for a little more detail; a reader might find too much. The book works best as a kind of refresher course, for those who have forgotten the difference between metaphysical and Petrarchan conceits, between masculine and feminine rhymes, and would like to brush up a bit. Oliver does a wonderful job of explaining why the most common forms of metrical verse came to prevail (for instance, the five-foot line is "the line which is the closest to the breathing capacity of our lungs"), and of nudging us into reading more metrical poetry (nearly half this volume is devoted to works by John Donne, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and others). Blessedly, Oliver reminds us that, though one could get carried away trying new meters and forms, one shouldn't expect to be writing a lot of double ionics anytime soon. "Expect to use one hypersyllabic foot in ten years, perhaps," she says. "Anacrusis, rarely. Catalexis: often. The double ionic: when the next comet flies over." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Scarlet Letter and Related Readingsby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0395775477 (0-395-77547-7)
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Sent for You Yesterdayby John Edgar WidemanISBN 0395877296 (0-395-87729-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sent for You Yesterday'Book summary:Reimagining the black neighborhood of his youth Homewood, Pittsburgh -Wideman creates a dazzling and evocative milieu. From the wild and uninhibited 1920s to the narcotized 1970s, "he establishes aamythological and symbolic link between character and landscape, language and plot, that in the hands of a less visionary writer might be little more than stale sociology" (New York Times Book Review).[via]More editions of Sent for You Yesterday:
Sheep in a Jeepby Nancy Shaw, Margot AppleISBN 039586786X (0-395-86786-X)
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Silent Springby Rachel CarsonISBN 0395683297 (0-395-68329-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silent Spring'Book summary:Product Details Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company (1994) Language: English ISBN-10: 0395683297 ISBN-13: 978-0395683293 Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces Rachel Carson (1907-1964) spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical, popular books about the sea, including the bestselling The Sea Around Us, and had become the most respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history. [via]
Sir Vidia's Shadowby Paul TherouxISBN 0395907284 (0-395-90728-4)
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The Sky, the Stars, the Wildernessby Rick BassISBN 0395717582 (0-395-71758-2)
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Sweet and Sour: Tales from Chinaby Carol Kendall, Yao-Wen LiISBN 0395547989 (0-395-54798-9)
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Takao and Grandfatherby Houghton Mifflin Company Staff, Yoshiko Uchida, William M. HutchinsonISBN 0395618150 (0-395-61815-0)
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Tea With Milkby Allen SayISBN 0395904951 (0-395-90495-1)
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Tomorrow, When the War Beganby John MarsdenISBN 0395706734 (0-395-70673-4)
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The Triumph of Loveby Geoffrey HillISBN 0395912350 (0-395-91235-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Triumph of Love'Book summary:The Triumph of Love is a swan song for our most violent and turbulent of centuries. Geoffrey Hill has a reputation as a difficult poet, and it's true that this volume is no easy read, but it's by no means inaccessible, either. Forming a book-length poem divided into 150 sections, its free verse is rich with allusions from Petrarch to the Scott expedition and dense with the weight of history and philosophy. Hill takes nothing less than suffering as his subject, and his poems aren't shy about staring evil straight in the face--in particular, the Holocaust, an evil compounded by our inability to distinguish one of its victims from the next: "this, and this, / the unique face, indistinguishable, this, these, choked in a cess-pit of leaking Sheol." If the subject matter is uniformly somber, the style is not. Fragmented, colloquial, often interrupted by editorial asides, parodies, and snatches of song, The Triumph of Love marks something of a departure from the stately formalism of Hill's earlier books. Through it all runs the self-interrogating, self-mocking voice of the poet, questioning his right to write about such matters as well as the language he uses to do so. In the end, however, Hill finds that the elegy itself is the only answer to the questions history poses. "What / Ought a poem to be?" he asks himself, and answers (three times), "a sad and angry consolation." Widely recognized as one of Britain's distinguished poets, here Hill has produced a memorably sad and angry consolation for "a nation / with so many memorials but no memory." [via]
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Typical Americanby Gish JenISBN 0395546893 (0-395-54689-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Typical American'Book summary:A Chinese American's tale of boom and bust and the changes that take their toll. [via]
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Where the Sea Used to Beby Rick BassISBN 0395770157 (0-395-77015-7)
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The Whipping Boyby Sid FleischmanISBN 0395732603 (0-395-73260-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Whipping Boy'Book summary:For kids to get their dose of action and thrills, they need not always go to the local multiplex for the latest bang 'em up film. They could try such books as The Whipping Boy, which relies not on exploding spaceships and demonic robots but mythic story, humorous characters and, ready or not, a moral. The plot involves the orphan Jemmy, who must take the whippings for the royal heir, Prince Brat. Jemmy plans to flee this arrangement until Prince Brat beats him to it, and takes Jemmy along. Jemmy then hears he's charged with the Prince's abduction as this Newbery Medal winning book turns toward a surprising close. [via]
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Mike Mulligan y su maquina maravillosa/ Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovelby Virginia Lee Burton, Yanitzia CanettiISBN 0395861349 (0-395-86134-9)
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