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Ada: Or, Ardor a Family Chronicleby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0297179357 (0-297-17935-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ada: Or, Ardor a Family Chronicle'Book summary:On the country estate of his art-collecting uncle, Van Veen meets Ada, his beautiful cousin. Their relationship flourishes, but both were born into one of America's illustrious families, a vast over-extended empire, and this causes problems for the lovers. [via]
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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glassby Lewis Carroll, Kathy MitchellISBN 0307671119 (0-307-67111-9)
Hardcover, Golden Books Publishing Company, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice in Wonderland Classic Libraryby Lewis CarrollISBN 0307171116 (0-307-17111-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn GreenISBN 0192553410 (0-19-255341-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green, John TennielISBN 019283374X (0-19-283374-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Louise Shanks MaudeISBN 0192833812 (0-19-283381-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Some people say Anna Karenina is the single greatest novel ever written, which makes about as much sense to me as trying to determine the world's greatest color. But there is no doubt that Anna Karenina, generally considered Tolstoy's best book, is definitely one ripping great read. Anna, miserable in her loveless marriage, does the barely thinkable and succumbs to her desires for the dashing Vronsky. I don't want to give away the ending, but I will say that 19th-century Russia doesn't take well to that sort of thing. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Anna Karenina: ISBN 0192823655 (0-19-282365-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Anna Karenina: ISBN 0192100351 (0-19-210035-1)
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Arthur and Georgeby Julian BarnesISBN 030726310X (0-307-26310-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthur and George'Book summary:A real tour de force from masterful author Julian Barnes is Arthur & George, which was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Late-Victorian Britain is brought to vivid life in the true story of the intersection of two lives: one an internationally famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the other, an obscure country lawyer, George Edalji, son of a Parsi Midlands vicar and a Scottish mother. They start out very differently. Arthur pursues a career in medicine before he discovers that he is really a writer; George, on his way to becoming a lawyer--near-sighted, timid and friendless--is victimized by locals because he is easy to scapegoat--a half-Indian in lily-white Great Wyrley.
The victimization of George takes the form of nasty letters, the theft of a school key, and finally, the accusation that he has mutilated animals. Meanwhile, Arthur is becoming more and more famous for creating Sherlock Holmes, whom he tries to kill off once and is forced to resurrect because of his fans' outcry. He marries, fathers two children and then, when his wife is invalided by consumption, falls madly in love for the first time with Jean Leckie.
The novel's style is smoothly revelatory. We slowly come to realize that George is half-Indian, that Arthur is the famous Doyle, that the woman he loves, chastely, is not his wife and, sadly, that George will not prevail over the forces ranged against him.
When George, desperate to resume his law career after imprisonment, sends Arthur the sad chronicle of his history, Arthur sees immediately that he could not be guilty and sets out to clear his name. This case of George's lifts Arthur from the slough of despond into which he has sunk after his wife, Touie, dies. He is guilt-ridden, constantly wondering if he was attentive enough, if she could possibly have known about Jean. Realizing the immense injustice George has suffered, he is shaken out of lethargy and, in Holmesian fashion, sets out to solve the case.
Julian Barnes is a gifted writer of enormous accomplishment. This novel is thoroughly engrossing, filled with Barnes's trademark themes of identity and love, longing and loss, and ultimately, an examination of man's inhumanity to man. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Baudolinoby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0156029065 (0-15-602906-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baudolino'Book summary:The most playful of historical novelists, Umberto Eco has absorbed the real lesson of history: that there is no such thing as the absolute truth. In Baudolino, he hands his narrative to an Italian peasant who has managed, through good luck and a clever tongue, to become the adopted son of the Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, and a minister of his court in the closing years of the 12th century. Baudolino's other gift is for spontaneous but convincing lies, and so his unfolding tale--as recounted in 1204 to a nobleman of Constantinople, while the fires of the Fourth Crusade rage around them--exemplifies the Cretan Liar's Paradox: He can't be believed. Why not, then, make his story as outrageous as possible? In the course of his picaresque tale, Baudolino manages to touch on nearly every major theme, conflict, and boondoggle of the Middle Ages: the Crusades; the troubadours; the legend of the Holy Grail; the rise of the cathedral cities; the position of Jews; the market in relics; the local rivalries that made Italy so vulnerable to outside attack; and the perennial power struggles between the pope and the emperor. With the help of alcohol and a mysterious Moorish concoction called "green honey," Baudolino and his ragtag friends engage in typical scholastic debates of the period, trying to determine the dimensions of Solomon's Temple and the location of the Earthly Paradise. And when the Emperor needs support in his claims for saintly lineage, who but Baudolino can craft the perfect letter of homage from the legendary Prester John, Holy (and wholly fictitious) Christian King of the East? A giddy and exasperating romp, Baudolino will draw you into its labyrinthine inventions and half-truths, even if you know better. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Bear Boyby Cynthia OzickISBN 0297848089 (0-297-84808-9)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Black Roodby Steve LawheadISBN 0310217830 (0-310-21783-0)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Bluest Eyeby Toni MorrisonISBN 0307278441 (0-307-27844-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluest Eye'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 2000: Originally published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me." Perhaps we can chalk up this verdict to modesty, or to the Nobel laureate's impossibly high standards of quality control. In any case, her debut is nothing if not sophisticated, in terms of both narrative ingenuity and rhetorical sweep. It also shows the young author drawing a bead on the subjects that would dominate much of her career: racial hatred, historical memory, and the dazzling or degrading power of language itself.
Set in Lorain, Ohio, in 1941, The Bluest Eye is something of an ensemble piece. The point of view is passed like a baton from one character to the next, with Morrison's own voice functioning as a kind of gold standard throughout. The focus, though, is on an 11-year-old black girl named Pecola Breedlove, whose entire family has been given a cosmetic cross to bear:
You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.... And they took the ugliness in their hands, threw it as a mantle over them, and went about the world with it.
There are far uglier things in the world than, well, ugliness, and poor Pecola is subjected to most of them. She's spat upon, ridiculed, and ultimately raped and impregnated by her own father. No wonder she yearns to be the very opposite of what she is--yearns, in other words, to be a white child, possessed of the blondest hair and the bluest eye.This vein of self-hatred is exactly what keeps Morrison's novel from devolving into a cut-and-dried scenario of victimization. She may in fact pin too much of the blame on the beauty myth: "Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion." Yet the destructive power of these ideas is essentially colorblind, which gives The Bluest Eye the sort of universal reach that Morrison's imitators can only dream of. And that, combined with the novel's modulated pathos and musical, fine-grained language, makes for not merely a sophisticated debut but a permanent one. --James Marcus [via]
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The Book of Merlynby Terence Hanbury WhiteISBN 029270769X (0-292-70769-X)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Merlyn'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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Breakfast of Championsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224008889 (0-224-00888-9)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast of Champions'Book summary:"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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The Bridgeby Iain BanksISBN 0312028814 (0-312-02881-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Bronte Projectby Jennifer VandeverISBN 0307236927 (0-307-23692-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Call of the Toadby Günter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 0156153408 (0-15-615340-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Cat and Mouseby Gunter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 0156155516 (0-15-615551-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Crashby J.G. BallardISBN 0224007823 (0-224-00782-3)
Hardcover, Cape
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Dark Quartetby Lynne Reid BanksISBN 0297771531 (0-297-77153-1)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Deliveranceby James DickeyISBN 0241019273 (0-241-01927-3)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deliverance'Book summary:The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.
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Dog Yearsby Gunter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 015626112X (0-15-626112-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Dublinersby James Joyce, Jeri JohnsonISBN 0192839993 (0-19-283999-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:The publication of James Joyce's Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else. Although only twenty-four when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would "retard the course of civilization in Ireland." Joyce's aim was to tell the truth-- to create a work of art that would reflect life in Ireland at the turn of the last century and by rejecting euphemism, to reveal to the Irish their unromantic reality, which would lead to the spiritual liberation of the country. Each of the fifteen stories offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary Dubliners-- a death, an encounter, an opportunity not taken, a memory rekindled - and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation.
This edition is introduced and annotated by Jeri Johnson, who gives a witty and informative insight into the context, meanings, and reception of Joyce's work. [via]More editions of Dubliners:
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El Otono Del Patriarca / the Autumn of the Patriarchby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0307350525 (0-307-35052-5)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Ellis Island And Other Storiesby Mark HelprinISBN 0156030608 (0-15-603060-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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The Emperor's Childrenby Claire MessudISBN 030726419X (0-307-26419-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Empire Fallsby Richard RussoISBN 0307275132 (0-307-27513-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Estado De Miedo / State of Fearby Michael CrichtonISBN 0307376443 (0-307-37644-3)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Estado De Miedo / State of Fear'Book summary:Estado de miedo es una novela de denuncia que ya está causando mucha polémica en EEUU e Inglaterra. Michael Crichton dedicó tres años a la investigación de los datos y cifras que nos facilitan los investigadores científicos sobre el calentamiento global de la tierra, lo que llamamos el efecto invernadero. Cuestiona y descarta muchos de ellos. Según Crichton no hay pruebas claras de calentamiento global. Afirma que hay organizaciones que manipulan datos para probar lo que a ellos les interesa. Además hay personas dispuestas a convertirse en activistas, en ecoterroristas, incluso a provocar catástrofes para publicitar su causa y "confirmar" sus predicciones.
La novela es un thriller poderoso, convincente, fascinante y muy ágil. La historia es ficción pura pero lo que hay detrás es todo verdadero.
Para apoyar su tesis incluye al final del libro apéndices y una bibliografía amplísima que demuestran la seriedad y profundidad de la investigación. [via]More editions of Estado De Miedo / State of Fear:
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Everymanby Philip RothISBN 0307277712 (0-307-27771-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everyman'Book summary:Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.
The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes.
The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all. [via]More editions of Everyman:
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Family Ties: (Lacos De Familia)by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni PontieroISBN 0292724489 (0-292-72448-9)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Family Ties: (Lacos De Familia)'Book summary:The silent rage that seizes a matriarch whose family is feting her eighty-ninth year.The tangle of emotions felt by a sophisticated young woman toward her elderly mother. An adolescent girl's obsessive fear of being looked at. The "giddying sense of compassion" that a blind man introduces into a young housewife's settled existence. Of such is made the world of Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian writer whose finest work is acknowledged to be her exquisitely crafted short stories. Here, in these thirteen of Lispector's most brilliantly conceived stories, mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human condition. Her characters mirror states of mind. Alienated by their unsettling sense of life's absurdity, they seem at times absorbed in their interior lives and in the passions that dominate and usually defeat them.
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The Flanders Panelby Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0156029588 (0-15-602958-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flanders Panel'Book summary:Julia, a young Madrid art restorer, is pulled into a shadowy world of metaphor when she discovers a long-covered inscription on a Flemish painting: Who killed the knight? Art, chess and murder are intertwined in this elegant, seductive mystery in the manner of The Name of the Rose. [via]
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Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842by George MacDonald FraserISBN 0257667997 (0-257-66799-7)
Hardcover, Jenkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842'Book summary:The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of "Tom Brown's Schooldays", after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. The author has written several books about Flashman, and books of short stories, including "The General Danced at Dawn". [via]
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Foucault's Pendulumby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 015603297X (0-15-603297-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foucault's Pendulum'Book summary:[via]Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlleda point located in Paris, France, at Foucaults Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.
Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.
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French Lieutenant's Womanby John FowlesISBN 0224616544 (0-224-61654-4)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'French Lieutenant's Woman'Book summary:The story of a woman wronged, set against a backdrop of an unrelenting Victorian England. [via]
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The Futurological Congressby Stanislaw LemISBN 0156340402 (0-15-634040-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Good Soldierby Ford Madox FordISBN 019282581X (0-19-282581-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Soldier'Book summary:"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldier relates the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples, one English, one American, and the growing awareness by the American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian facade. It is the attitude of Dowell, his puzzlement, uncertainty, and the seemingly haphazard manner of his narration that make the book so powerful and mysterious. Despite its catalogue of death, insanity, and despair, the novel has many comic moments, and has inspired the work of several distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. This is the only annotated edition available. [via]
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The Good Soldierby Thomas C. Moser, Ford Madox FordISBN 019283620X (0-19-283620-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Soldier'Book summary:First published in 1915, Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier begins, famously and ominously, "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." The book then proceeds to confute this pronouncement at every turn, exposing a world less sad than pathetic, and more shot through with hypocrisy and deceit than its incredulous narrator, John Dowell, cares to imagine. Somewhat forgotten as a classic, The Good Soldier has been called everything from the consummate novelist's novel to one of the greatest English works of the century. And although its narrative hook--the philandering of an otherwise noble man--no longer shocks, its unerring cadences and doleful inevitabilities proclaim an enduring appeal.
Ford's novel revolves around two couples: Edward Ashburnham--the title's soldier--and his capable if off-putting wife, Leonora; and long-transplanted Americans John and Florence Dowell. The foursome's ostensible amiability, on display as they pass parts of a dozen pre-World War I summers together in Germany, conceals the fissures in each marriage. John is miserably mismatched with the garrulous, cuckolding Florence; and Edward, dashing and sentimental, can't refrain from falling in love with women whose charms exceed Leonora's. Predictably, Edward and Florence conduct their affair, an indiscretion only John seems not to notice. After the deaths of the two lovers, and after Leonora explains much of the truth to John, he recounts the events of their four lives with an extended inflection of outrage. From his retrospective perch, his recollections simmer with a bitter skepticism even as he expresses amazement at how much he overlooked.
Dowell's resigned narration is flawlessly conversational--haphazard, sprawling, lusting for sympathy. He exudes self-preservation even as he alternately condemns and lionizes Edward: "If I had had the courage and the virility and possibly also the physique of Edward Ashburnham I should, I fancy, have done much what he did." Stunningly, Edward's adultery comes to seem not merely excusable, but almost sublime. "Perhaps he could not bear to see a woman and not give her the comfort of his physical attractions," John surmises. Ford's novel deserves its reputation if for no other reason than the elegance with which it divulges hidden lives. --Ben Guterson [via]
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The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0241131448 (0-241-13144-8)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Ross C. MurfinISBN 0312030266 (0-312-03026-6)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Heart of Darknessby Ross C. Murfin, Joseph ConradISBN 0312007612 (0-312-00761-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness'Book summary:If asked to describe the way in which the study of literature is changing, most of us willing to venture an answer would say that it is becoming more theortical. Without some kind of theoretical underpinning, literary criticism runs the riskof being impressionistic, even illogical [via]
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Heart of Darkness and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192801724 (0-19-280172-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Hobbitby J.R.R. TolkienISBN 0261102664 (0-261-10266-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit'Book summary:Poor Bilbo Baggins! An unassuming and rather plump hobbit (as most of these small, furry- footed people tend to be ), Baggins finds himself unwittingly drawn into adventure by a wizard named Gandalf and 13 dwarves bound for the Lonely Mountain, where a dragon named Smaug hordes a stolen treasure. Before he knows what is happening, Baggins finds himself on the road to danger. Wizards, dwarves and dragons may seem the stuff of children's fairy tales, but The Hobbit is in a class of its own--light-hearted enough for younger readers, yet with a dark edge guaranteed to intrigue an older audience. In the best tradition of the archetypal hero's quest, Bilbo Baggins sets out on his fateful journey a callow, untested soul and returns--tempered by hardship, danger and loss--a better man--er, hobbit.
This book is the predecessor to Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, and though that trilogy can be thoroughly enjoyed without first reading The Hobbit, much that happens in the later novels is foreshadowed here. A word of caution, however: as Bilbo discovers early on, travel and adventure are addictive things; embark on this journey to the Lonely Mountain with Tolkien's reluctant hero, and you might not be able to stop there. And the road taken to the distant mountains of Mordor in the ensuing trilogy is an even more perilous one. [via]
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The House of Doctor Deeby Peter AckroydISBN 0241125006 (0-241-12500-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The House of the Spiritsby Isabel AllendeISBN 0224022318 (0-224-02231-8)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of the Spirits'Book summary:We begin - at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country - in the childhood home of the woman who will be the mother and grandmother of the clan, Clara del Valle. A warm-hearted, hypersensitive girl, Clara has distinguished herself from an early age with her telepathic abilities - she can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, the fabled Rosa the Beautiful, Clara has been mute for nine years, resisting all attempts to make her speak. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon. Her husband-to-be is Esteban Trueba, a stern, willful man, given to fits of rage and haunted by a profound loneliness. At the age of thirty-five, he has returned to the capital from his country estate to visit his dying mother and to find a wife. (He was Rosa's fiance, and her death has marked him as deeply as it has Clara.) This is the man Clara has foreseen - has summoned - to be her husband; Esteban, in turn, will conceive a passion for Clara that will last the rest of his long and rancorous life. We go with this couple as they move into the extravagant house he builds for her, a structure that everyone calls "the big house on the corner," which is soon populated with Clara's spiritualist friends, the artists she sponsors, the charity cases she takes an interest in, with Esteban's political cronies, and, above all, with the Trueba children: Blanca, a practical, self-effacing girl who will, to the fury of her father, form a lifelong liaison with the son of his foreman, and the twins, Jaime and Nicolas, the former a solitary, taciturn boy who becomes a doctor to the poor and unfortunate; the latter a playboy, a dabbler in Eastern religions and mystical disciplines and, in the third generation, the child Alba, Blanca's daughter (the family does not recognize the real father for years, so great is Esteban's anger), a child who is fondled and indulged and instructed by them all. For all their good fortune, their natural (and supernatural) talents, and their powerful attachments to one another, the inhabitants of "the big house on the corner" are not immune to the larger forces of the world. And, as the twentieth century beats on, as Esteban becomes more strident in his opposition to Communism, as Jaime becomes the friend and confidant of the Socialist leader known as the Candidate, as Alba falls in love with a student radical, the Truebas become actors - and victims - in a tragic series of events that gives The House of the Spirits a deeper resonance and meaning. [via]
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If on a Winter's Night a Travelerby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156439611 (0-15-643961-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler'Book summary:If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration--"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: "Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.
The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches--stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition--with explorations of how and why we read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space." [via]
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The Iron Lanceby Stephen LawheadISBN 0310217822 (0-310-21782-2)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transitby Catherine A. BarnesISBN 0231053800 (0-231-05380-0)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis Stevenson, Clare West, William RowsellISBN 0194230066 (0-19-423006-6)
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Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrowby Sarah Adams, Fanza GuFneISBN 0156030489 (0-15-603048-9)
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Let's Go Play at the Adams'by Mendal W. JohnsonISBN 0246107901 (0-246-10790-1)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon
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The Light of Day: Library Editionby Graham SwiftISBN 0241142040 (0-241-14204-0)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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Like the Red Pandaby Andrea SeigelISBN 0156030241 (0-15-603024-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Local Anaestheticby Günter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 0156529408 (0-15-652940-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Moon Tigerby Penelope LivelyISBN 0233981071 (0-233-98107-1)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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Mr. Sammler's Planetby Saul BellowISBN 0297000403 (0-297-00040-3)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Mules and Menby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0253202086 (0-253-20208-6)
Softcover, Indiana University Press
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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Lessby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0224013092 (0-224-01309-2)
Hardcover, Cape
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On the Black Hillby Bruce ChatwinISBN 0224019805 (0-224-01980-5)
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A Passage to India: Library Editionby E. M. ForsterISBN 0156711427 (0-15-671142-7)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Passage to India: Library Edition'Book summary:Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century and the basis for director David Lean's Academy Award-winning film, A Passage to India tells of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century. In exquisite prose, Forster reveals the menace that lurks just beneath the surface of ordinary life, as a common misunderstanding erupts into a devastating affair. [via]
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Passing onby Penelope LivelyISBN 0233983880 (0-233-98388-0)
Hardcover, Harper & Collins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passing on'Book summary:Booker-Prize winning author Penelope Lively is that rare writer who goes from strength to strength in book after perfectly assured book. In Passing On, she applies her distinctive insight and consummate artistry to the subtle story of a domineering and manipulative mother's legacy to her children. With their mother's death, Helen and Edward, both middle-aged and both unmarried, are left to face the ramifications of their mother's hold on their lives for all of these years. Helen and Edward slowly learn to accept what has been lost in their own lives and embrace what can yet be retrieved. "The richest and most rewarding of her novels." - The Washington Post Book World[via]More editions of Passing on:
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, Joseph BristowISBN 0192807293 (0-19-280729-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Presumptionby Julia BarrettISBN 0226038130 (0-226-03813-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Qby Luther BlissettISBN 0156031965 (0-15-603196-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Q'Book summary:Something of a publishing sensation elsewhere in Europe, Q is a convoluted historical thriller by a consortium of young pseudonymous authors, who, it has to be said, are a little too in love with their own cleverness. Q is the working name of a papal spy trying to keep a lid on the Reformation, particularly on the Anabaptist radicalism which is its form most dangerous to the social order, and for decades he watches, and occasionally gets in close and betrays. The man sometimes known as Gert is his opposite--all the more so because he hardly knows of Q's existence--the idealist who is caught up in the same events: Luther's sermons, the rise and fall of Thomas Muntzer, the disastrous People's Republic of Munster.
Parallels are being struck all over the place with radicalism in the 20th century--part of what makes Gert a memorable voice is a combination of zeal, pragmatism and survival instinct that keeps him one step ahead of the Inquisitors for 30 years and enables him to, for example, do serious damage to the Holy Roman Emperor's favourite bankers. In the end, Gert and Q are left with more in common than the past they share--the rules are changing and the board is being cleared, and there is time for one last crucial intervention... This is ingeniously plotted, and full of vividly realised scenes of 16th century life; if it has a fault, it is that we live through every day of three tumultuous decades, every sermon and theological treatise, in exhausting detail. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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The Realms of Goldby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0297769790 (0-297-76979-0)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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The Screenplay of The French Lieutenant's Womanby John Fowles, Harold PinterISBN 022401983X (0-224-01983-X)
Hardcover, Cape
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Shameby Salman RushdieISBN 0224029525 (0-224-02952-5)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Shell Seekersby Rosamunde PilcherISBN 0312010583 (0-312-01058-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shell Seekers'Book summary:Set in London and Cornwall between World War II and the present, this is the story of the Keeling family, and of the passions and heart-break that have held them together for three generations--a story of life, hope, children and death. [via]
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Slaughter House Fiveby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224618016 (0-224-61801-6)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaughter House Five'Book summary:Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.
Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor. [via]
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Sons and Loversby D. H. Lawrence, David TrotterISBN 0192838601 (0-19-283860-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, which further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."
The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers."
The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spirit. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Successby Martin AmisISBN 0224015710 (0-224-01571-0)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Success'Book summary:Success is Martin Amis' third novel, published in 1978 by Jonathan Cape. PlotSuccess tells the story of two foster brothers-Terence Service and Gregory Riding, narrating alternate sections-and their exchange of position during one calendar year as each slips towards, and away from, success. ThemesSuccess is Amis' first statement of the doppleganger theme that would also preoccupy the novels Money, London Fields, and, especially, 1995's The Information. [via]
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Terroristby John UpdikeISBN 0307264653 (0-307-26465-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Testament of Gideon Mackby James RobertsonISBN 024114325X (0-241-14325-X)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia Woolf, Mark HusseyISBN 0156030470 (0-15-603047-0)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, And Life's Greatest Lessonby Mitch AlbomISBN 0307275639 (0-307-27563-9)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, And Life's Greatest Lesson'Book summary:No one but Mitch Albom could have read Tuesdays with Morrie so effectively. As the author of this inspirational true story, Albom uses verbal inflection in exactly the right places to evoke humor, empathy, and emotion. It's an honest reading, and the underlying timbre of private memory pushes it past mere recitation to pure storytelling.
The titular Morrie was Morrie Schwartz, Albom's university professor 20 years before the events being narrated. An accidental viewing of an interview with Morrie on Nightline led Albom to become reunited with his old teacher, friend, and "coach" at a time when Albom, a successful sportswriter, was struggling to define dissatisfactions with his own life and career. Morrie, on the other hand, after a rich life filled with friends, family, teaching, and music, was dying from Lou Gehrig's disease, a crippling illness that diminished his activities daily. Albom was one of hundreds of former students and acquaintances who traveled great distances to visit Morrie in the final months of his life.
The 14 Tuesday visits that followed their reunion took Albom--and will take listeners with him--on a journey of reawakening to life's best rewards. The story is told in a journalistic style that never crosses into pathos. That a professional writer can write well is not surprising, but Albom also reads well, with clear enunciation and a talent for mimicry. Another reader might have interpreted the professor's aphorisms as droll humor or wrung a wrong note at an inappropriate moment, making the story a maudlin tearjerker; instead it is read for what it is, a tribute to a remarkable teacher. (Running time: four hours, three cassettes) --Brenda Pittsley [via]
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Storiesby Henry James, Tim LustigISBN 0192834045 (0-19-283404-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Carrieby Stephen KingISBN 0307348075 (0-307-34807-5)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carrie'Book summary:El escalofriante caso de una joven de apariencia insignificante que se transformó en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en la ciudad. Con pulso mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una serie de descubrimientos hasta llegar al terrible momento de la venganza. Esta novela fue llevada al cine con un inmenso éxito de público y crítica. [via]
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Noticia De Un Secuestro / News of a Kidnappingby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0307350509 (0-307-35050-9)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Pompeyaby Robert HarrisISBN 0307348113 (0-307-34811-3)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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Sin Remordimientosby Tom ClancyISBN 0307347966 (0-307-34796-6)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sin Remordimientos'Book summary:Sin remordimientos ofrece una historia que es dinamita pura. John Kelly vive una frenética odisea personal ambientada en el ojo del huracán del mundo actual: por un lado, inicia una implacable cruzada contra los narcotraficantes que han arruinado la vida de la mujer a la que ama. Por el otro, recibe el encargo de una peligrosísima misión: rescatar a un grupo de oficiales norteamericanos prisioneros en un campamento secreto situado en las selvas de Vietnam... Una gran novela por partida doble; dos guerras, dos misiones y un protagonista de excepción.
El escritor toma sus argumentos por asalto y los conquista con la eficiencia de un batallón de comandos.
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Sushi Para Principiantes / Sushi For Beginnersby Marian Keyes, Gemma Rovira Ortega, Gemma RoviraISBN 0307209474 (0-307-20947-4)
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