| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “London”
books tagged “London”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
The Age of Shakespeareby Frank KermodeISBN 0679642447 (0-679-64244-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Shakespeare'More editions of The Age of Shakespeare:
-
The Alienistby Caleb CarrISBN 0679417796 (0-679-41779-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alienist'Book summary:The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.
The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over.
Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences. [via]More editions of The Alienist:
Angels & Insectsby A. S. ByattISBN 0676503187 (0-676-50318-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Angels & Insects'Book summary:In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Angels and Insects is "delicate and confidently ironic.... Byatt perfectly blends laughter and sympathy [with] extraordinary sensuality" (San Francisco Examiner).
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]-
Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Louise Shanks MaudeISBN 0679410007 (0-679-41000-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Leonard J. Kent and Nina Berberova [via]
-
The Annotated Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679727299 (0-679-72729-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Lolita'Book summary:In 1954 Vladimir Nabokov asked one American publisher to consider "a firebomb that I have just finished putting together." The explosive device: Lolita, his morality play about a middle-aged European's obsession with a 12-year-old American girl. Two years later, the New York Times called it "great art." Other reviewers staked a higher moral ground (the editor of the London Sunday Express declaring it "the filthiest book I've ever read"). Since then, the sinuous novel has never ceased to astound. Even Nabokov was astonished by its place in the popular imagination. One biographer writes that "he was quite shocked when a little girl of eight or nine came to his door for candy on Halloween, dressed up by her parents as Lolita." And when it came time to casting the film, Nabokov declared, "Let them find a dwarfess!"
The character Lolita's power now exists almost separately from the endlessly inventive novel. If only it were read as often as it is alluded to. Alfred Appel Jr., editor of the annotated edition, has appended some 900 notes, an exhaustive, good-humored introduction, and a recent preface in which he admits that the "reader familiar with Lolita can approach the apparatus as a separate unit, but the perspicacious student who keeps turning back and forth from text to Notes risks vertigo." No matter. The notes range from translations to the anatomical to the complex textual. Appel is also happy to point out the Great Punster's supposedly unintended word play: he defends the phrase "Beaver Eaters" as "a portmanteau of 'Beefeaters' (the yeoman of the British royal guard) and their beaver hats." [via]
More editions of The Annotated Lolita:
The Backward Shadowby Lynne Reid BanksISBN 0671206710 (0-671-20671-0)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Backward Shadow'More editions of The Backward Shadow:
-
The BFGby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0679428135 (0-679-42813-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The BFG'Book summary:Evidently not even Roald Dahl could resist the acronym craze of the early eighties. BFG? Bellowing ferret-faced golfer? Backstabbing fairy godmother? Oh, oh ... Big Friendly Giant! This BFG doesn't seem all that F at first as he creeps down a London street, snatches little Sophie out of her bed, and bounds away with her to giant land. And he's not really all that B when compared with his evil, carnivorous brethren, who bully him for being such an oddball runt. After all, he eats only disgusting snozzcumbers, and while the other Gs are snacking on little boys and girls, he's blowing happy dreams in through their windows. What kind of way is that for a G to behave?
The BFG is one of Dahl's most lovable character creations. Whether galloping off with Sophie nestled into the soft skin of his ear to capture dreams as though they were exotic butterflies; speaking his delightful, jumbled, squib-fangled patois; or whizzpopping for the Queen, he leaves an indelible impression of bigheartedness. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
More editions of The BFG:
Blackeyesby Dennis PotterISBN 0679720472 (0-679-72047-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Blackeyes'More editions of Blackeyes:
-
Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn Waugh, Frank KermodeISBN 0679423001 (0-679-42300-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Brideshead Revisited'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Evelyn Waughs most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waughs familiar satiric exploration of his cast of lords and ladies, Catholics and eccentrics, artists and misfits, revealing him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.
The edition reprinted here contains Waughs revisions, made in 1959, and his preface to the revised edition.
[via]More editions of Brideshead Revisited:
By the Lakeby John McGahernISBN 0679419144 (0-679-41914-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'By the Lake'More editions of By the Lake:
A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oilby V. S. PritchettISBN 0679601031 (0-679-60103-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil'More editions of A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil:
The Camomile Lawnby Mary WesleyISBN 0671504614 (0-671-50461-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Camomile Lawn'More editions of The Camomile Lawn:
-
Can You Forgive Herby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0679435956 (0-679-43595-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Can You Forgive Her'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) [via]
More editions of Can You Forgive Her:
-
Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, H. Lawrence Hoffman, David Williams, R.M. LumianskyISBN 0671727699 (0-671-72769-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
-
Canterbury Talesby LumianskyISBN 0671491288 (0-671-49128-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
More editions of Canterbury Tales:
-
The Cement Gardenby Ian McEwanISBN 0671242881 (0-671-24288-1)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cement Garden'Book summary:In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves. [via]
More editions of The Cement Garden:
-
A Closed Eyeby Anita BrooknerISBN 0679404473 (0-679-40447-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Closed Eye'Book summary:In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening.
In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of A Closed Eye:
Cocksure: A Novelby Mordecai RichlerISBN 0671139614 (0-671-13961-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cocksure: A Novel'More editions of Cocksure: A Novel:
-
Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Second Seriesby Alfred R. Ferguson, Jean Ferguson CarrISBN 0674139909 (0-674-13990-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Second Series'Book summary:Emerson's second collection of essays appeared in 1844, when he was forty-one. It includes eight essays--"The Poet," "Experience," "Character," "Manners," "Gifts," "Nature," "Politics," and "Nominalist and Realist"--and one address, the much misunderstood "New England Reformers." Essays: Second Series has a lightness of tone and an irony absent from the earlier writings, but it is no less memorable: "a sermon to me," Carlyle wrote, "a real word."
The present edition, drawing on the vast body of Emerson scholarship of the last forty years, incorporates all the textual changes Emerson made or demonstrably intended to make after 1844. It records variant wordings and recounts the development of the text before and after publication. A list of parallel passages makes it possible to trace Emerson's extensive use of material from his journals, notebooks, and lectures. Endnotes provide information about people, events, and now-obscure terms. A brief historical introduction places the book in the context of the years during which it was written, the time of Brook Farm, The Dial, and the death of Emerson's five year-old son.
Historical Introduction and Notes by Joseph Slater
[via]
Text Established by Alfred R. Ferguson and Jean Ferguson Carr
Textual Introduction and Apparatus by Jean Ferguson CarrMore editions of Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Second Series:
-
The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Vol. 2 : Essays: First Seriesby Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Slater, Alfred R. Ferguson, Jean F. CarrISBN 0674139801 (0-674-13980-1)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Vol. 2 : Essays: First Series'Book summary:Some of Emersons finest and most famous essays, such as Self-Reliance, Compensation, and The Over-Soul, appeared in his Essays of 1841, published when he was thirty-seven years old. Preceded by the slim volume Nature, it was his first full-length book.
The present edition provides for the first time an authoritative text of the Essays, together with an introduction, notes, and supplementary material of great value for the study of Emersons creative processes. A list of hundreds of parallel passages in his earlier journals and lectures makes it possible to examine in detail how he drew upon those manuscripts (now published), especially the voluminous journals, as grist for the twelve essays. His subsequent alterations of the essays, particularly in the revised edition of 1847, give evidence of the evolution of his thought and style at this stage of his career. While the text incorporates his revisions, so as to represent his final intention, the earlier versions are given at the end of the book.
Introduction and Notes by Joseph Slater
[via]
Text Established by Alfred R. Ferguson and Jean Ferguson CarrMore editions of The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Vol. 2 : Essays: First Series:
-
The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. MarxISBN 0671678817 (0-671-67881-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:Check out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, free audiobook download link at the end of the book, navigable Table of Contents, and are fully formatted. Browse our library collection by typing in ngims or ngims plus the title you're looking for, e.g. ngims Gulliver's Travels. Free ebooks on the web are not organized for easy reading, littered with text errors and often have missing contents. You will not find another beautifully formatted classic literature ebook that is well-designed with amazing artworks and illustrations and a link to download free audiobook for a very low price like this one. The nominal price of this ebook covers the time and effort in formatting the materials and putting everything together in one place for your convenience. As a reader, you would want everything readily available at your fingertips because you many not have the time, interest or know where to look for your favorite book. The Communist Manifesto, originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) is a short 1848 book written by the German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League, it laid out the League's purposes and program. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. The book contains Marx and Engels' Marxist theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism, and then eventually communism. FEATURES ? Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations [via]
More editions of The Communist Manifesto:
The Communist Manifestoby K. MarxISBN 0671443879 (0-671-44387-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'More editions of The Communist Manifesto:
The Daughter of Timeby Josephine TeyISBN 0671413260 (0-671-41326-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Daughter of Time'Book summary:Josephine Tey is often referred to as the mystery writer for people who don't like mysteries. Her skills at character development and mood setting, and her tendency to focus on themes not usually touched upon by mystery writers, have earned her a vast and appreciative audience. In Daughter of Time, Tey focuses on the legend of Richard III, the evil hunchback of British history accused of murdering his young nephews. While at a London hospital recuperating from a fall, Inspector Alan Grant becomes fascinated by a portrait of King Richard. A student of human faces, Grant cannot believe that the man in the picture would kill his own nephews. With an American researcher's help, Grant delves into his country's history to discover just what kind of man Richard Plantagenet was and who really killed the little princes. [via]
More editions of The Daughter of Time:
- The Daughter of Time: ISBN 0671435221 (0-671-43522-1)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Daughter of Time: ISBN 0671452207 (0-671-45220-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Daughter of Time: ISBN 0671497596 (0-671-49759-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Daughter of Time: ISBN 0671808370 (0-671-80837-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Daughter of Time: ISBN 0671821229 (0-671-82122-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Daughter of Time: ISBN 0671413260 (0-671-41326-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
- The Daughter of Time: ISBN 0671435221 (0-671-43522-1)
-
The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, Allen MandelbaumISBN 0679433139 (0-679-43313-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.
Mandelbaums astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.
This Everymans editioncontaining in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisoincludes an introduction by Nobel Prizewinning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.
[via]More editions of The Divine Comedy:
-
Enigmaby Robert HarrisISBN 0679428879 (0-679-42887-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Enigma'Book summary:"LITERATE AND SAVVY . . . BRIMS WITH WARTIME INTRIGUE."
--The Washington Post Book World
England 1943. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Allied vessels. Feeling that the blood of Allied sailors is on their hands, a top-secret team of British cryptographers works feverishly around the clock to break Shark. And when brilliant mathematician Tom Jericho succeeds, it is the stuff of legend. . . .
"A TENSE AND THOUGHTFUL THRILLER."
--San Francisco Chronicle
Until the unthinkable happens: the Germans have somehow learned that Shark has been cracked. And they've changed the code. . . .
"SUSPENSEFUL AND FASCINATING."
--The Orlando Sentinel
As an Allied convoy crosses the U-boat infested North Atlantic . . . as Jericho's ex-lover Claire disappears amid accusations that she is a Nazi collaborator . . . as Jericho strains his last resources to break Shark again, he cannot escape the ultimate truth: There is a traitor among them. . . .
"GRIPPING . . . CAPTIVATING ."
--New York Daily News
"ELEGANTLY RESEARCHED . . . Readers will find themselves perfectly placed to experience one of Britain's finest hours."
--People
"SATISFYING . . . Harris does a crackerjack job here, playing his characters' lives off historical events in surprising ways."
--Entertainment Weekly
"SUSPENSEFUL . . . FIENDISHLY CLEVER."
--Detroit Free Press
From the Paperback edition. [via]More editions of Enigma:
-
Essaysby Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0679726128 (0-679-72612-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Essays'Book summary:Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called "the great and crescive self," he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. Here is a collection of his classic essays, including the exhortation to "Self-Reliance" and the embattled realizations of "Circles" and "Experience." Here, too, are his wide-ranging discourses on history, art, politics, nature, friendship, love, and much more.
For the first time, the authoritative editions of works by major American novelists, poets, scholars, and essayists collected in the hardcover volumes of The Library of America are being published singly in a series of handsome and durable paperback books. A distinguished author has contributed an introduction for each volume, which also includes a detailed chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the choice of the text, and notes. [via]More editions of Essays:
The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emersonby Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jean Ferguson Carr, Alfred Riggs FergusonISBN 0674267206 (0-674-26720-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson'More editions of The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The Eustace Diamondsby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0679417451 (0-679-41745-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eustace Diamonds'More editions of The Eustace Diamonds:
Family and Friendsby Anita BrooknerISBN 0671625756 (0-671-62575-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Family and Friends'More editions of Family and Friends:
-
The Family Arsenalby Paul TherouxISBN 067149824X (0-671-49824-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Family Arsenal'Book summary:"The Family Arsenal" is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux. In South London terrorists plot...Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in the opium for of his room. He flirts with terrorists, hoping to win their trust and respect. Mayo, his sometime bedmate, has just made a political statement - stealing a "Flemish" painting and negotiating publicity over this act with "The Times". Murf the bomb-maker leaves his mark in red, scrawling 'Arsenal Rule' across half the city's walls, whilst his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Brodie, bombs Euston and afterwards worries about her complexion. A novel of London lowlife and the dispossessed, and a powerful and violent thriller of disenchanted people. "A pleasure ...with Theroux the thrills are never cheap and obvious". ("Guardian"). "One of the most evocative, intelligently crafted suspense novels in years - like the early fiction of Graham Greene...London has rarely looked dingier or more sinister ...an assured success". ("The New York Times"). "Brilliant and haunting ...the ingenious of the plot, the London setting ...the trapped and interwoven people, and the balefully witty observation, have an undistracted force". ("Observer"). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, "My Other Life", "The Collected Stories", "My Secret History", "The Lower River", "The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro", "A Dead Hand", "Millroy the Magician", "The Elephanta Suite", "Saint Jack", "The Consul's File", "The Mosquito Coast", and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic "The Great Railway Bazaar" are available from Penguin. [via]
More editions of The Family Arsenal:
-
Fatherlandby Robert HarrisISBN 0679412735 (0-679-41273-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fatherland'Book summary:Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb.
As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth -- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
From the Paperback edition. [via]More editions of Fatherland:
-
First Among Equalsby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0671504061 (0-671-50406-1)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'First Among Equals'Book summary:In the 1960s four new mps take their seats at westminster. Over three decades they share the passions of the race for power with their wives and families, men and women caught up in a game for the highest stakes of all. But only one man can gain the ultimate goal - the office of prime minster [via]
Fodor's 95: London/the Complete Guide With the Best Walking Tours and Excursions to Oxford, Stratford and Bathby Kate SekulesISBN 0679027319 (0-679-02731-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fodor's 95: London/the Complete Guide With the Best Walking Tours and Excursions to Oxford, Stratford and Bath'More editions of Fodor's 95: London/the Complete Guide With the Best Walking Tours and Excursions to Oxford, Stratford and Bath:
Fodor's 96: London/the Complete Guide With Great Dining, the Best Walking Tours and Country Day Tripsby Linda CabasinISBN 0679030379 (0-679-03037-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fodor's 96: London/the Complete Guide With Great Dining, the Best Walking Tours and Country Day Trips'More editions of Fodor's 96: London/the Complete Guide With Great Dining, the Best Walking Tours and Country Day Trips:
-
Fodor's Citypack Londonby Fodor'sISBN 0679004823 (0-679-00482-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fodor's Citypack London'Book summary:Plan 68 great days with kids in a flash! For this smart, cheerful little book, Fodor's parent-experts have hand-picked 68 simply fabulous things to do around the city with a child in tow. It's a perfect idea book for every city parent and grandparent, and indispensable for families on vacation.
Each book focuses on 68 terrific ideas for family days -- check out the table of contents for specifics!
Written by parents who live in the cities they cover, these books are smart about what kids like -- and about what parents need.
All the details for planning are included: addresses, phone numbers, admission prices, and age-appropriateness.
"Hey Kids!" info boxes provide fun facts and interesting trivia about the destination.
"Kid-Friendly Eats" features recommend three or four places to grab a bite to eat nearby.
The cool "Games" section will keep everyone happily occupied on the road or while waiting in line.
Colorful graphics and flip art that animates as you turn the pages -- fun for both parents and kids. [via]More editions of Fodor's Citypack London:
Fodor's Exploring Londonby Fodor'sISBN 0679034676 (0-679-03467-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fodor's Exploring London'More editions of Fodor's Exploring London:
Fraudby Anita BrooknerISBN 0679416064 (0-679-41606-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fraud'More editions of Fraud:
A Gathering of Saintsby Christopher HydeISBN 0671875817 (0-671-87581-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Gathering of Saints'More editions of A Gathering of Saints:
The Giftby Julie GarwoodISBN 0671702505 (0-671-70250-5)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gift'More editions of The Gift:
-
Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 0679722556 (0-679-72255-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
Kleinzeitby Russell HobanISBN 0671495488 (0-671-49548-8)
Softcover, Summit Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Kleinzeit, a Novel'-
Lion's Ladyby Julie GarwoodISBN 067173783X (0-671-73783-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lion's Lady'Book summary:Christina Bennett had taken London society by storm. The ravishing beauty guarded the secret of her mysterious past until the night Lyon, Marquis of Lyonwood, stole a searching, sensuous kiss. An arrogant nobleman with a pirate's passions, he tasted the wild fire smoldering beneath Christina's cool charm and swore to posess her...
But the fiesty and defiant Christina would not be so easily conquered. Mistress of her heart and of her fortune, she resisted Lyon's sensuous caresses. She dared not surrender to his love...for then, she must also forsake her precious secret...and her promised destiny! [via]
More editions of Lion's Lady:
-
Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679723161 (0-679-72316-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via] 
Londonby Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. StaffISBN 0676901662 (0-676-90166-2)
Softcover, Fodor's Travel Publications
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'London'More editions of London:
London 2002 : The Guide for All Budgets, Updated Every Year, with a Pullout Map and Color Photosby Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. StaffISBN 0679008535 (0-679-00853-5)
Softcover, Fodor's Travel Publications
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'London 2002 : The Guide for All Budgets, Updated Every Year, with a Pullout Map and Color Photos'More editions of London 2002 : The Guide for All Budgets, Updated Every Year, with a Pullout Map and Color Photos:
London : The Buzz on Shopping, Restaurants and Royals, Doing the Town, What's Worth It, What's Not, Top Hotels, Rock-Bottom to Ritzyby Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. StaffISBN 0679003827 (0-679-00382-7)
Softcover, Fodor's Travel Publications
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'London : The Buzz on Shopping, Restaurants and Royals, Doing the Town, What's Worth It, What's Not, Top Hotels, Rock-Bottom to Ritzy'More editions of London : The Buzz on Shopping, Restaurants and Royals, Doing the Town, What's Worth It, What's Not, Top Hotels, Rock-Bottom to Ritzy:
-
Martin Chuzzlewitby Charles DickensISBN 067943884X (0-679-43884-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Martin Chuzzlewit'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)At The Center of Martin Chuzzlewit -- the novel Angus Wilson called "one of the most sheerly exciting of all Dickens stories" -- is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of Iris close and distant relations. now converging in droves on the country inn where they believe he is dying, will stop at nothing to become the inheritor of Iris great fortune.Having unjustly disinherited Iris grandson, young Martin, the old fellow now trusts no one but Mary Graham, the pretty girl hired as Iris companion. Though she has been made to understand she will not inherit a penny, she remains old Chuzzlewit's only ally. As the viperish relations and hangers-on close in on him, we meet some of Dickens's most marvelous characters -- among them Mr. Pecksniff (whose name has entered the language as a synonym for ultimate hypocrisy and self-importance); the fabulously evil Jonas Chuzzlewit; the strutting reptile Tigg Montague; and the ridiculous, terrible, comical Sairey Gamp.Reluctantly heading for America in search of opportunity, the penniless young Martin goes west, rides a riverboat, and is overtaken by bad company and mortal danger -- while the battle for his grandfather's gold reveals new depths of family treachery, cunning, and ruthlessness. And in scene after wonderful scene of conflict and suspense, of high excitement and fierce and hilarious satire, Dickens's huge saga of greed versus decency comes to its magnificent climax. [via]
More editions of Martin Chuzzlewit:
A Masquerade in the Moonlightby Kasey MichaelsISBN 067179339X (0-671-79339-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Masquerade in the Moonlight'More editions of A Masquerade in the Moonlight:
-
A Matter Of Honorby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0671624342 (0-671-62434-2)
Hardcover, Linden Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Matter Of Honor'Book summary:When Colonel Scott dies, his will points the way to clearing the unspoken secret that shadowed his retirement and turned him from a WW II hero into a disgraced and broken man. It is up to Adam to follow. The path leads to a Swiss bank and a vault, strongly guarded. It contains a priceless Russian icon, smuggled out of Russia by the last Czar, before passing into the hands of a Nazi war criminal. As Adam works to clear his father's name, he stumbles across a revelation so explosive, so charged, so unexpected that it could change the balance of power between America and the Soviet Union. Suddenly, Adam is in great danger. Slightly edited for radio presentation. [via]
More editions of A Matter Of Honor:
-
The Most of P. G. Wodehouseby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0671203495 (0-671-20349-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Most of P. G. Wodehouse'Book summary:The most lavish P. G. Wodehouse collection ever published. In addition to Wodehouse's best known and beloved Jeeves and Bertie stories, The Most of P. G. Wodehouse features delightful stories about The Drones Club and its affable, vacuous members: Mr. Mulliner, whose considered judgment on any and all topics is drawn from the experiences of his innumerable relatives; Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, the man of gilt-edged schemes; and Lord Emsworth, ruler of all he surveys at Blanding's Castle. Rounding out the collection are Wodehouses's witty golf stories and a complete and completely hilarious novel, Quick Service. As Jeeves would say, "The mind boggles, sir." [via]
More editions of The Most of P. G. Wodehouse:
The Mystery of the Blue Trainby Agatha ChristieISBN 0671702645 (0-671-70264-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mystery of the Blue Train'More editions of The Mystery of the Blue Train:
The Next Big Thingby Anita BrooknerISBN 0670913022 (0-670-91302-2)
Hardcover, Viking
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Next Big Thing'More editions of The Next Big Thing:
-
Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 067941715X (0-679-41715-X)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
Nothing Naturalby Jenny DiskiISBN 0671634593 (0-671-63459-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Nothing Natural'More editions of Nothing Natural:
-
Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Laneby Jeremy LewisISBN 0670914851 (0-670-91485-1)
Hardcover, Viking
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane'Book summary:A stocky, dapper Bristolian who left school at the age of sixteen to work for his uncle at The Bodley Head and went on to found Penguin Books, Allen Lane was the greatest publisher of the twentieth century, and a major influence on the cultural and political life of post-war Britain. He did not invent the paperback, but he revolutionised our reading habits by his insistence that the best writing in the world should be made available for the price of a packet of cigarettes. Though never a bookish man himself, Lane was adept at sensing the spirit of the age and always ready to follow his hunches: he commissioned Nikolaus Pevsner to write the Buildings of England, gave his backing to John Lehmann's Penguin New Writing, arguably the finest literary magazine of its times, risked prosecution by publishing James Joyce's Ullyses for the first time in this country, and a quarter of a century later appeared at the Old Bailey to defend Penguin's publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, thereby anticipating the liberal reforms of the 1960s. A mischievous, quixotic, oddly endearing figure who loathed meetings and paperwork a German visitor was shocked to find an editorial meeting taking place in a rowing boat, and well lubricated with gin Lane combined ruthlessness with affability, courage with moral cowardice, loyalty with unpredictability. Few publishers are remembered after their lifetimes: Allen Lane is a rare exception to the rule. [via]
More editions of Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane:
-
Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0679409866 (0-679-40986-6)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Of all Jane Austens great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance.
Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish, spendthrift Sir Walter Elliot, is a woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen, she fell in love withand was engaged toa naval officer, the fearless and headstrong Captain Wentworth. But the young man had no fortune, and Anne allowed herself to be persuaded, against her profoundest instinct, to give him up.Now, at twenty-seven, and believing that she has lost her bloom, Anne is startled to learn that Captain Wentworth has returned to the neighborhood, a rich man and still unwed. Her never-diminished love is muffled by her pride. He seems cold and unforgiving. Even worse, he appears to be infatuated by the flighty and pretty Louisa Musgrove.
What happens as Anne and Wentworth are thrown together in the social world of Bathand as an eager new suitor appears for Anneis touchingly and wittily told in a masterpiece that is also one of the most entrancing novels in the English language. [via] -
Peter Panby J. M. Barrie, F. D. BedfordISBN 0679417923 (0-679-41792-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:Peter, Wendy, Captain Hook, the lost boys, and Tinker Bell have filled the hearts of children ever since Barrie's play first opened in London in 1904 and became an immediate sensation. Now this funny, haunting modern myth is presented with Bedford's wonderful illustrations, which first appeared in the author's own day, have long been out of print, and have never been equaled. [via]
More editions of Peter Pan:
Picture Palaceby Paul TherouxISBN 0671638440 (0-671-63844-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Picture Palace'More editions of Picture Palace:
-
Plays, Prose Writings & Poemsby Oscar WildeISBN 0679405836 (0-679-40583-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays, Prose Writings & Poems'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Introduction by Terry Eagleton
Oscar Wilde has been acknowledged as the wittiest writer in the English language. This collection proves that he was also one of the most versatile. Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the plays, prose writings, and poems gathered here support Wildes belief that entertainment provides the best kind of edification. The works gathered here include Wildes once-controversial and now classic novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the rioutously (sic) comic plays The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermeres Fan, and the famous poem he wrote after being released from prison, The Ballad of Reading Gaol. This expanded new edition now includes the complete version of Wildes moving letter from prison, De Profundis, and his teasing parable about Shakespeare, The Portrait of Mr. W. H. Other notable included writings are the semi-comic mystery story Lord Arthurs Saviles Crime and the essay The Soul of Man Under Socialism. [via]More editions of Plays, Prose Writings & Poems:
Prince Charmingby Julie GarwoodISBN 0671870963 (0-671-87096-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Prince Charming'Book summary:** This is a gently used book in excellent condition. Beautiful Taylor Baker, whose fiance+a7 has eloped with her odious cousin and whose greedy uncle has his own plans for her, escapes to Montana with rough-edged American Lucas Ross. By the author of Saving Grace. 265,000 first printing. [via]
-
Sacred Countryby Rose TremainISBN 0671886096 (0-671-88609-6)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred Country'Book summary:"I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."
Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all. [via]
More editions of Sacred Country:
The Shopper's Guide to Londonby Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. StaffISBN 0679021205 (0-679-02120-5)
Softcover, Fodor's Travel Publications
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shopper's Guide to London'More editions of The Shopper's Guide to London:
The Singing Sandsby Josephine TeyISBN 0671494562 (0-671-49456-2)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Singing Sands'More editions of The Singing Sands:
-
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fishby Douglas AdamsISBN 0671745530 (0-671-74553-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish'Book summary:Arthur Dent is out of his bathrobe, in love, and wondering why the dolphins said...So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. Was the earth really demolished? Why did all the dolphins disappear? What is God's final message to His creatures? Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and the new voivoid gang are off (by commercial airline) on a wacked-out quest to answer these truly unimportant questions. [via]
More editions of So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish:
Something Wonderfulby Judith McNaughtISBN 0671737635 (0-671-73763-5)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Something Wonderful'More editions of Something Wonderful:
-
Step Across This Line : Collected Nonfiction, 1992-2002by Salman RushdieISBN 0679463348 (0-679-46334-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Step Across This Line : Collected Nonfiction, 1992-2002'Book summary:To cross a frontier is to be transformed....The frontier is a wake-up call. At the frontier, we cant avoid the truth; the comforting layers of the quotidian, which insulate us against the worlds harsher realities, are stripped away and, wide-eyed in the harsh fluorescent light of the frontiers windowless halls, we see things as they are.
In Salman Rushdies latest collection of nonfiction, he crosses over the frontier and sees and tells things as they are, inviting readers to step across this line with him.
The essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in Step Across This Line, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. The collection chronicles Rushdies intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writers psyche. With the same fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and very strong opinions that distinguish his fiction, Rushdie writes about his fascination with The Wizard of Oz, his obsession with soccer, and the state of the novel, among many other topics. Most notably, delving into his unique personal experience fighting the Iranian fatwa, he addresses the subject of militant Islam in a series of challenging and deeply felt responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book ends with the eponymous Step Across This Line, a lecture Rushdie delivered at Yale in the spring of 2002, which has never been published before and is sure to prompt discussion.
Rushdies first collection of nonfiction, Imaginary Homelands, offered a unique vision of politics, literature, and culture for the 1980s. Step Across This Line does the same and more for the last decade of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. [via]More editions of Step Across This Line : Collected Nonfiction, 1992-2002:
The Story of Greenwichby Clive AsletISBN 0674000765 (0-674-00076-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Greenwich'More editions of The Story of Greenwich:
-
The Time Traveler's Wifeby Audrey NiffeneggerISBN 0676976336 (0-676-97633-6)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Time Traveler's Wife'Book summary:AUDREY NIFFENEGGER [via]
More editions of The Time Traveler's Wife:
-
Tristram Shandyby Laurence SterneISBN 0679405607 (0-679-40560-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Tristram Shandy'Book summary:Tristram Shandy provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in a series of installments between 1759 and 1767. The ribald, high-spirited book prompted Diderot to hail Sterne as 'the English Rabelais.' An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, Tristram Shandy is both a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction and a wry demonstration of its limitations. Many view this picaresque masterpiece as the precursor of the modern novel.
A Sentimental Journey, which came out in 1768, begins as a travelogue. Yet it ends as a treasury of portraits, sketches, and philosophical musings, for as Virginia Woolf observed: 'A Sentimental Journey, for all its levity and wit, is based upon something fundamentally philosophic--the philosophy of pleasure.' [via] 
Turtle Diaryby Russell HobanISBN 0671618334 (0-671-61833-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Turtle Diary'More editions of Turtle Diary:
Twelfth Night : Or, What You Willby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722948 (0-671-72294-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Twelfth Night : Or, What You Will'More editions of Twelfth Night : Or, What You Will:
Two Is Lonelyby Lynne Reid BanksISBN 0671217321 (0-671-21732-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Is Lonely'More editions of Two Is Lonely:
The Unlikely Spyby Daniel SilvaISBN 0679455620 (0-679-45562-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unlikely Spy'More editions of The Unlikely Spy:
-
A Vindication of the Rights of Womanby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0679413375 (0-679-41337-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating midcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In the latter part of this curious masterwork, a certain Jacques Moran is deputized by anonymous authorities to search for the aforementioned Molloy. In the trilogy's second novel, Malone, who might or might not be Molloy himself, addresses us with his ruminations while in the act of dying. The third novel consists of the fragmented monologue -- delivered, like the monologues of the previous novels, in a mournful rhetoric that possesses the utmost splendor and beauty -- of what might or might not be an armless and legless creature living in an urn outside an eating house. Taken together, these three novels represent the high-water mark of the literary movement we call Modernism. Within their linguistic terrain, where stories are taken up, broken off, and taken up again. where voices rise and crumble and are resurrected, we can discern the essential lineaments of our modern condition, and encounter an awesome vision, tragic yet always compelling and always mysteriously invigorating, of consciousness trapped and struggling inside the boundaries of nature. [via]More editions of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:
-
Virginia Woolfby Hermione LeeISBN 0679447075 (0-679-44707-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Virginia Woolf'Book summary:"Woolf's story is reformulated by each generation," writes Hermione Lee, a professor of English literature. But her richly human portrait, so respectful of the complexities of her subject's life, seems unlikely to be surpassed. Lee extricates Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) from clichés about madness and modernism to reveal a vigorous artist whose work is politically probing as well as psychologically delicate. She makes brilliant use of the formidable Woolf archives to let the writer speak directly to us, then comments shrewdly on her words' hidden significances. Biographies don't get much better than this. [via]
More editions of Virginia Woolf:
-
The Voyage Outby Virginia Woolf, Michael CunninghamISBN 0679640282 (0-679-64028-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage Out'Book summary:The Modern Library is proud to include Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out--together with a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham. Published to acclaim in England in 1915 and in America five years later, The Voyage Out marks Woolf's beginning as one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and prolific writers.
Less formally experimental than her later novels, The Voyage Out none-theless clearly lays bare the poetic style and innovative technique--with its multiple figures of consciousness, its detailed portraits of characters' inner lives, and its constant shifting between the quotidian and the profound--that are the signature of Woolf's fiction.
Rachel Vinrace, Woolf's first heroine, is a motherless young woman who, at twenty-four, embarks on a sea voyage with a party of other English folk to South America. Guileless, and with only a smattering of education, Rachel is taken under the wing of her aunt Helen, who desires to teach Rachel "how to live."Arriving in Santa Marina, a village on the South American coast, Rachel and Helen are introduced to a group of English expatriates. Among them is the young, sensitive Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer, with whom Rachel falls in love. But theirs is ultimately a tale of doomed love, set against a chorus of other stories and other points of view, as the narrative shifts focus between its central and peripheral characters. E. M. Forster praised The Voyage Out as "a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a different path."
This edition includes a new Introduction by Michael Cunningham, bestselling author of The Hours. Cunningham at once unfolds an engaging short essay of Woolf's early life and career, an insightful exploration of the themes to which Woolf returns again and again in her fiction, and a spirited defense of the relevance and lasting importance of her art. Katherine Anne Porter wrote of Woolf: "The world of arts was her native territory; she ranged freely under her own sky, speaking her mother tongue fearlessly." [via]More editions of The Voyage Out:
-
The Waste Land and Other Writingsby T. S. Eliot, Mary KarrISBN 0679641017 (0-679-64101-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Writings'Book summary:First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression."
As influential as his verse, T.S. Eliot's criticism also exerted a transformative effect on twentieth-century letter, and this new edition of The Waste Land and Other Writings includes a selection of Eliot's most important essays.
In her new Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the great poem's inaccessibility and sheds fresh light on the ways in which "The Waste Land" illuminates contemporary experience. [via]More editions of The Waste Land and Other Writings:
Writing Homeby Alan BennettISBN 0679444890 (0-679-44489-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Home'More editions of Writing Home:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}