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Anthem: Library Edition
by Ayn Rand

ISBN 0451191137 (0-451-19113-7)
Softcover, Signet

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Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out. Despite such a restrictive environment, the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in him--a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, Equality 7-2521 dares to stand apart from the herd--to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love the woman of his choice. Now he has been marked for death for committing the ultimate sin. In a world where the great "we" reign supreme, he has rediscovered the lost and holy word--"I."
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera

ISBN 0571203876 (0-571-20387-6)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd

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In one of the finer modern ironies of the life-imitates-art sort, the country that Kundera seemed to be writing about when he talked about Czechoslovakia is, thanks to the latest political redefinitions, no longer precisely there. This kind of disappearance and reappearance is, partly, what Kundera explores in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In this polymorphous work -- now a novel, now autobiography, now a philosophical treatise -- Kundera discusses life, music, sex, philosophy, literature and politics in ways that are rarely politically correct, never classifiable but always original, entertaining and definitely brilliant. [via]
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- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ISBN 0394508963 (0-394-50896-3)
  Hardcover, A. A. Knopf
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The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
by Jacob Grimm, Lily Owens

ISBN 0517229250 (0-517-22925-0)
Hardcover, Gramercy

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More than 200 tales by the Brothers Grimm. [via]
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The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
by Lily Owens

ISBN 051709293X (0-517-09293-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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L. Owens, ed. Presents all 215 stories recorded by the Brothers Grimm, many not available elsewhere, illustrated by renowned artists. Includes such timeless favorites as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and The Frog Prince. A delight for young and old alike. 100 b&w illustrations. 704 pages. [via]
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
by Jack D. Zipes, Johnny Gruelle, Jacob W. Grimm

ISBN 0553212389 (0-553-21238-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of Once Upon A Time, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Bothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. Volume II contains 142 unabridged tales, including such bedtime favorites as "Snow White and Rose Red" and "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes," as well as 32 little-known tales that the Brothers Grimm omitted during the course of their many revisions. These wonderful tales of life, passion, and make-believe appeal not only to children--who unabashedly love them--but to readers of any age. [via]
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  Softcover, Bantam Books
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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
by Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Jack David Zipes, John B. Gruelle

ISBN 0553382160 (0-553-38216-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
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- Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: ISBN 0553051849 (0-553-05184-9)
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
by John B. Gruelle, Jack Zipes

ISBN 0553371010 (0-553-37101-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of once upon a time, the fairly tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Brothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. [via]
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Josef Scharl

ISBN 0394709306 (0-394-70930-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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210 traditional tales with accompanying explanatory and historical material. [via]
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm

ISBN 0613718933 (0-613-71893-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A definitive compilation of more than 200 traditional fairy tales, compiled by the Brothers Grimm, is accompanied by explanatory and historical material, as well as commentary by Joseph Campbell. [via]
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales: Illustrations by Joseph Scharl
by Joseph Campbell

ISBN 0415104416 (0-415-10441-6)
Softcover, Routledge

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This is the complete English-language edition, first published by Routledge in 1948 and re-issued in its current form. All of the 210 stories are included here, precisely translated and including illustrations and explanatory texts by the editors. [via]
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Doctor Faustus
by Thomas Mann, H.T. Lowe-Porter

ISBN 0679409963 (0-679-40996-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Tells the story of Adrian Leverkuhn, a theological student turned composer, who symbolically enters into a pact with the Devil, selling his soul and body in return for twenty-four years of musical genius. [via]
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- Doctor Faustus: ISBN 067973905X (0-679-73905-X)
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Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer, Adrian Leverkuhn, As Told by a Friend
by Thomas Mann

ISBN 0394422244 (0-394-42224-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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"The thorn was in my flesh," Mann said about the genesis of Doctor Faustus, which was composed during World War II. "I knew what I was setting out to do and what task I was imposing upon myself: to write nothing else than the novel of my era, disguised as the story of an artist's life, a terribly imperilled and sinful artist."
Adrian Leverkuhn, a former theological student who has become a composer, enters symbolically into a pact with the devil in exchange for two and a half decades of inspired work. Narrated by Serenus Zeitblom, Leverkuhn's faithful friend, this retelling of the Faust legend turns on the composer's slow descent into syphilitic paralysis. Densely orchestrated with musical constructions and what Mann called historical "montage", the book discourses on the tragedy of Germany, the Schonbergian twelve-tone system, Nietzche, the life of Tchaikovsky, and the introduction of syphilis into Europe. Mann described Doctor Faustus as "difficult, weird, uncanny, sad as life." [via]
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Dr. Faustus
by Thomas Mann

ISBN 0394603656 (0-394-60365-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Fairy Tales
by Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Arthur Rackham

ISBN 0679417966 (0-679-41796-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Snow White are among the jewels we owe to the German brothers Grimm, who began in the first decade of the 19th century to seek out and listen to village storytellers. The best-loved of the tales they discovered are now brought together with the marvelous pictures that in 1900 first established the reputation of one of the greatest children's illustrators of all time, Arthur Rackham. [via]
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  Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
by Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Kay Rasmus Nielsen

ISBN 0670305650 (0-670-30565-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy

ISBN 0679309411 (0-679-30941-1)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd

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"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. " The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . . Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family--their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts). When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river "graygreen." With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it. The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it. The God of Small Things takes on the Big Themes--Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic. [via]
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Grimm Fairy Tales
by Arthur Rackman

ISBN 043495862X (0-434-95862-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Twenty tales collected from German folklore and immortalized by the Brothers Grimm. [via]
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Fritz Kredel, Marian Edwardes, E.V. Lucas, Lucy Crane

ISBN 0448409410 (0-448-40941-0)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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An illustrated collection of fifty-five traditional tales collected by the Grimm brothers. [via]
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm

ISBN 0681403128 (0-681-40312-8)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr

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A collection of fairy tales collected in Germany by two brothers. [via]
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Grimm's Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Stories
by Wilhelm Grimm, Ralph Manheim, Jacob Grimm

ISBN 0575025077 (0-575-02507-7)
Hardcover, Gollancz

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Grimms Fairy Tal/Spec
by Jacob Grimm

ISBN 0448424363 (0-448-42436-3)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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I, Claudius
by Robert Graves

ISBN 067972477X (0-679-72477-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Having never seen the famous 1970s television series based on Graves' historical novel of ancient Rome and being generally uneducated about matters both ancient and Roman, I wasn't prepared for such an engaging book. But it's a ripping good read, this fictional autobiography set in the Roman Empire's days of glory and decadence. As a history lesson, it's fabulous; as a novel it's also wonderful. Best is Claudius himself, the stutterer who let everyone think he was an idiot (to avoid getting poisoned) but who reveals himself in the narrative to be a wry and likable observer. His story continues in Claudius the God. [via]
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The Illustrated Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
by Arthur Rackham, Wilhelm K. Grimm, Jacob W. Grimm

ISBN 0517285258 (0-517-28525-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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Sixty tales from the collections of the Grimm brothers. [via]
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The Immoralist
by Andre Gide, Stantley Appelbaum

ISBN 0486292371 (0-486-29237-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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With today's headlines and talk shows, it takes a lot to shock a reader--certainly more than was required in 1902, when André Gide's The Immoralist was first published. What was seen then as a story of dereliction translates today into a tale of introspection and fierce self-discovery. While traveling to Tunis with his new bride, the Parisian scholar Michel is overcome by tuberculosis. As he slowly convalesces, he revels in the physical pleasures of living and resolves to forgo his studies of the past in order to experience the present--to let "the layers of acquired knowledge peel away from the mind like a cosmetic and reveal, in patches, the naked flesh beneath, the authentic being hidden there."
But this is not the Michel his colleagues knew, nor the man Marceline married, and he must hide his new values under the patina of what he now reviles. Bored by Parisian society, he moves to a family farm in Normandy. He is happy there, especially in the company of young Charles, but he must soon return to the city and academe. Michel remains restless until he gives his first lecture and runs into Ménalque, who has long outraged society, and recognizes in him a reflection of his torment. Finally, Michel heads south, deeper into the desert, until, as he confides to his friends, he is lost in the sea of sand, under a clear, directionless sky.
What Gide's story lacks in sensationalism is fulfilled by his descriptive prose, which evokes the exotic nature of Michel's inner and outer journey: "I did not understand the forbearance of this African earth, submerged for days at a time and now awakening from winter, drunk with water, bursting with new juices; it laughed in this springtime frenzy whose echo, whose image I perceived within myself." --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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The Immoralist
by Richard Howard, Andre Gide

ISBN 0679741917 (0-679-74191-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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With today's headlines and talk shows, it takes a lot to shock a reader--certainly more than was required in 1902, when André Gide's The Immoralist was first published. What was seen then as a story of dereliction translates today into a tale of introspection and fierce self-discovery. While traveling to Tunis with his new bride, the Parisian scholar Michel is overcome by tuberculosis. As he slowly convalesces, he revels in the physical pleasures of living and resolves to forgo his studies of the past in order to experience the present--to let "the layers of acquired knowledge peel away from the mind like a cosmetic and reveal, in patches, the naked flesh beneath, the authentic being hidden there."
But this is not the Michel his colleagues knew, nor the man Marceline married, and he must hide his new values under the patina of what he now reviles. Bored by Parisian society, he moves to a family farm in Normandy. He is happy there, especially in the company of young Charles, but he must soon return to the city and academe. Michel remains restless until he gives his first lecture and runs into Ménalque, who has long outraged society, and recognizes in him a reflection of his torment. Finally, Michel heads south, deeper into the desert, until, as he confides to his friends, he is lost in the sea of sand, under a clear, directionless sky.
What Gide's story lacks in sensationalism is fulfilled by his descriptive prose, which evokes the exotic nature of Michel's inner and outer journey: "I did not understand the forbearance of this African earth, submerged for days at a time and now awakening from winter, drunk with water, bursting with new juices; it laughed in this springtime frenzy whose echo, whose image I perceived within myself." --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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A Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne

ISBN 0451528964 (0-451-52896-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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An adventurous geology professor mounts an expedition that descends into a subterranean world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic marine life a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of human existence. Jules Verne's 19th-century action classic has the added appeal of a psychological quest, in which the journey is as significant as the destination.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Billy Aronson

ISBN 0613052846 (0-613-05284-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Monarch Notes on Plato's the Republic and Selected Dialogues
by Leo Rauch

ISBN 0671005057 (0-671-00505-7)
Hardcover, Peterson's

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A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 068482499X (0-684-82499-X)
Softcover, Scribner

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In the preface to A Moveable Feast, Hemingway remarks casually that "if the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction"--and, indeed, fact or fiction, it doesn't matter, for his slim memoir of Paris in the 1920s is as enchanting as anything made up and has become the stuff of legend. Paris in the '20s! Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, lived happily on $5 a day and still had money for drinks at the Closerie des Lilas, skiing in the Alps, and fishing trips to Spain. On every corner and at every café table, there were the most extraordinary people living wonderful lives and telling fantastic stories. Gertrude Stein invited Hemingway to come every afternoon and sip "fragrant, colorless alcohols" and chat admit her great pictures. He taught Ezra Pound how to box, gossiped with James Joyce, caroused with the fatally insecure Scott Fitzgerald (the acid portraits of him and his wife, Zelda, are notorious). Meanwhile, Hemingway invented a new way of writing based on this simple premise: "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."
Hemingway beautifully captures the fragile magic of a special time and place, and he manages to be nostalgic without hitting any false notes of sentimentality. "This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy," he concludes. Originally published in 1964, three years after his suicide, A Moveable Feast was the first of his posthumous books and remains the best. --David Laskin [via]
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature
by M. H. Abrams

ISBN 0393950514 (0-393-95051-4)
Softcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.

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The Middle Ages, The Sixteenth Century, The Seventeenth Century and the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, all in the First Volume. [via]
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Platon's Republic
by Platon

ISBN 071484408X (0-7148-4408-X)
Hardcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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A collection of unique portraits by British born, New York based, fashion photographer Platon, which includes over 120 photographs constituting a unique and dynamic cross-section through the cult of fame and power. Platon's subjects are all leaders in their field and include Al Pacino, Bill Clinton, Vivienne Westwood, Leonard Cohen and David Beckham. A collection of unique portraits by British born, New York based, fashion photographer Platon. Over 120 photographs have been selected from an enormous range of powerful images taken over the last decade and together they constitute a unique and dynamic cross-section through the cult of fame and power. Platon's Republic is a window into today's media-led culture that bombards, and sometimes overwhelms, us with images of world-wide importance juxtaposed with frivolity. Platon's Republic replicates the same intense and sometimes surreal experience with portraits of Al Pacino, Bill Clinton, Vivienne Westwood, Leonard Cohen as well as more documentary photographs of Jesse Jackson and Bianca Jagger demonstrating against the death penalty and football supporters. Granted extraordinary access to some of the west's most powerful people, Platon's subjects are all leaders in their field. Whether they are from the TV industry, politicians, actors, fashion designers, writers or musicians, they all wield enormous influence within their arena. Platons' portraits are graphic and intimate, but the unusual angles and revealing expressions are his hallmark. [via]
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The Republic
by Plato, Benjamin Jowett

ISBN 0486411214 (0-486-41121-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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This is a completely new translation of one of the great works of Western political thought. In addition to Tom Griffith's vivid, dignified and accurate rendition of Plato's text, this edition is suitable for students at all levels. It contains an introduction that assesses the cultural background to the Republic, its place within political philosophy, and its general argument; succinct notes in the text; an analytical summary of content; a full glossary of proper names; a chronology of important events; and a guide to further reading. [via]
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The Republic
by John Hall, Plato, Terence Irwin

ISBN 0460873822 (0-460-87382-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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A newly designed second edition of the classic translation of Plato's timeless work, "The Republic," by the author of "The Closing of the American Mind." [via]
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The Republic of Plato
by Plato, Allan David Bloom

ISBN 0465069347 (0-465-06934-7)
Softcover, Basic Books

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"What is at stake is far from insignificant: it is how one should live one's life."Plato's The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: What is goodness? What is reality? What is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the roles of both women and men as "guardians" of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by "philosopher kings." [via]
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The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx

ISBN 0671510053 (0-671-51005-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Proulx creates a simple and compelling tale of Quoyle's psychological and spiritual growth. Along the way, we get to look in on the maritime beauty of what is probably a disappearing way of life. [via]
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Bronte

ISBN 0708989519 (0-7089-8951-9)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books

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First published in 1848, a novel in which a woman flees from a disastrous marriage with her child to a desolate moorland mansion. It portrays one woman's struggle for independence at a time when law and society defined a married woman as her husband's property. [via]
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