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1000 Chairsby Charlotte Fiell, Peter FiellISBN 382284103X (3-8228-4103-X)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: '1000 Chairs'Book summary:Sleek, stuffed, buttoned, or bent, in the den or the dining room, the chair is an indicator of its owner's identity. Chairs make up much of the interior landscape of our homes and workplaces, and a comfortable chair is considered a great asset in either location. A rigorous survey of the last 150 years of chairs, 1000 Chairs is a pictorial guide to the axiom "you are where you sit." Writers Charlotte and Peter Fiell argue that, as well as being an icon of identity, the chair is a form through which designers engage in social, political, and even ergonomic rhetoric. A good example is George Nelson's mass-produced modular seating system. Geometrical in design, its austere, mostly rectilinear lines are efficient and economical. The book follows developments and mutations in chair design from the days before art deco through the rise of modernity and into the mid-'90s, when designers like Philippe Starck used such materials as recycled plastic and injection molded polypropylene.
In total there are more than the 1000 advertised illustrations, and each is accompanied by a small text describing the significance of the chair and its designer. The book includes more than 100 capsule biographies of such designers as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Adolph Loos, and Marcel Breuer. The only problem with 1000 Chairs is, ironically, its own ergonomics. At about eight by six inches and nearly 800 pages, it is an unwieldy little tome. That aside, this is a great book--a must for anyone interested in sitting down. --Loren E. Baldwin [via]
Alcools Le Bestaire Vitain Insipendereby Guillaume ApollinaireISBN 2070300072 (2-07-030007-2)
Softcover, Gallimard
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The Alice B. Toklas Cookbookby Alice B. Toklas, M. F. K. FisherISBN 1558217541 (1-55821-754-1)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Press, The
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Baudelaireby Charles Baudelaire, G. ChestersISBN 1853993441 (1-85399-344-1)
Softcover, Duckbacks
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The Brothers Karamazov: Library Editionby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 159308045X (1-59308-045-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brothers Karamazov: Library Edition'Book summary:This is a translation of Dostoevsky's most widely read novel - at once a murder mystery, a mordant comedy of family intrigue, a pioneering work of psychological realism and an unblinking look into the abyss of human suffering. [via]
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Charles Baudelaire: Complete Poemsby Charles BaudelaireISBN 1857549392 (1-85754-939-2)
Softcover, Carcanet Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Baudelaire: Complete Poems'Book summary:Including all poems published in the previous three editions, this comprehensive new translation of Baudelaire's poetry is both vivid and authoritative. This dual-language volume presents both the original French poems as well as their translations.[via]More editions of Charles Baudelaire: Complete Poems:
Clement Greenberg Between the Lines: Including a Previously Unpublished Debate With Clement Greenbergby Thierry De Duve, Brian HolmesISBN 2906571539 (2-906571-53-9)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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The Collected Stories Of Elizabeth Bowenby Elizabeth BowenISBN 1400096561 (1-4000-9656-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Complete Poemsby Basil BuntingISBN 1852245271 (1-85224-527-1)
Softcover, Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Black GarnettISBN 1593080816 (1-59308-081-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Crime and Punishment (1866) is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of great physical and psychological tension, pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St Petersburg, it also has moments of wild humour. Dostoevsky's own harrowing experiences mark the novel. He had himself undergone interrogation and trial, and was condemned to death, a sentence commuted at the last moment to penal servitude. In prison he was particularly impressed by one hardened murderer who seemed to have attained a spiritual equilibrium beyond good and evil: yet witnessing the misery of other convicts also engendered in Dostoevsky a belief in the Christian idea of salvation through suffering. [via]
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Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa CatherISBN 1417904232 (1-4179-0423-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Comes for the Archbishop'Book summary:[via]In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knowsgently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Over nearly 40 years, they leave converts and enemies, crosses, and occasionally ecstasy in their wake. But it takes a death for them to make their mark on the landscape forever.More editions of Death Comes for the Archbishop:
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Decline And Fallby Evelyn WaughISBN 1417920769 (1-4179-2076-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decline And Fall'Book summary:1928. English writer, regarded by many as the leading satirical novelist of his day. Among Waugh's most popular books is Brideshead Revisited. Waugh established his literary reputation with this novel, Decline and Fall, an episodic story of the hilarious misadventures of Paul Pennyfeather, whose feckless odyssey begins when he loses his trousers. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Decorative Art 30s 40sby Charlotte Fiell, Peter FiellISBN 3822860522 (3-8228-6052-2)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Dream Storyby Arthur Schnitzler, Otto P. SchinnererISBN 1931243484 (1-931243-48-4)
Softcover, Green Integer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dream Story'Book summary:novel, Austrian, tr Otto P Schinnerer [via]
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E.M. Forster: A Passage to Indiaby Betty JayISBN 184046027X (1-84046-027-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'E.M. Forster: A Passage to India'Book summary:In this Readers' Guide, Betty Jay considers the establishment of Forster's reputation and the various attempts of critics to decipher the complex codes that are a feature of his novel. Successive chapters focus on debates around Forster's liberal-humanism, with essays from F. R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling and Malcolm Bradbury; on the indeterminacy and ambiguity of the text, with extracts from essays by Gillian Beer, Robert Barratt, Wendy Moffat and Jo-Ann Hoeppner Moran; and on the sexual politics of Forster's work, with writings from Elaine Showalter, Frances L. Restuccia and Eve Dawkins Poll. The Guide concludes with essays from Jeffrey Meyers and Jenny Sharpe, who read A Passage to India in terms of its engagement with British imperialism.[via]More editions of E.M. Forster: A Passage to India:
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The Enormous Roomby Cummings E. E.ISBN 1419161083 (1-4191-6108-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enormous Room'Book summary:At any rate I passed a few remarks calculated to wither the by this time a little nervous Übermensch; got up, put on some enormous sabots (which I had purchased from a horrid little boy whom the French Government had arrested with his parent, for some cause unknown--which horrid little boy told me that he had 'found' the sabots 'in a train' on the way to La Ferté) shook myself into my fur coat, and banged as noisemakingly as I knew how over to One-Eyed Dahveed's paillasse, where Mexique joined us. 'It is useless to sleep,' said One-Eyed Dah-veed in French and Spanish. 'True,' I agreed, 'therefore let's make all the noise we can.' [via]
Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desertby Georgia O'Keeffe, Britta BenkeISBN 3822888869 (3-8228-8886-9)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Lettersby Hart CraneISBN 1931082995 (1-931082-99-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 1404308199 (1-4043-0819-9)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:An impulse of curiosity made him turn out of his direct line to the door, and stroll past her. He knew that if she did not wish to be seen she would contrive to elude him; and it amused him to think of putting her skill to the test. [via]
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The House of Mirthby Janet Beer, Elizabeth NolanISBN 1551115670 (1-55111-567-0)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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How to Writeby Gertrude SteinISBN 1557132046 (1-55713-204-6)
Softcover, Sun & Moon Pr
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International Style: Modernist Architecture from 1925 to 1965by Hasan-Uddin KhanISBN 3822812293 (3-8228-1229-3)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'International Style: Modernist Architecture from 1925 to 1965'Book summary:"Modern architecture is not a new branch of an old tree - it is an altogether new shoot rising beside the old roots." Thus claimed Walter Gropius, one of the pioneers of modern architecture, on the radical departures of the 20th century. In the 1930s, the term "International Style" came into use to describe a new form of architecture evolved from Bauhaus and its conviction that "form follows function". Until the 1980s, international style set the standard in modern building, with its logical formal idiom and rational solutions to construction problems. Combining steel, glass and concrete, it established an aesthetic founded on the sheer thrill of pushing to the limits of technical and economic viability. Hence the exhilarating skylines of metropolises worldwide - but also the desolate anonymity of modern suburban environments. This book traces the evolution of a style while examining the individual and regional forms it took, and analyzes the ideals and realities of architectural visions of utopia. [via]
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Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Seaby Carl Plasa, Nicolas TredellISBN 184046268X (1-84046-268-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea'Book summary:In this Reader's Guide, Carl Plasa provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the most stimulating critical responses to Wide Sargasso Sea. The opening chapter outlines initial reactions to the novel from English and Caribbean critics, charting the differences between them. Chapter Two explores Wide Sargasso Sea 's dialogue with Jane Eyre and the theoretical questions it has raised. Succeeding chapters examine how critics have assessed the racial politics of Rhys's text, discuss the novel's African Caribbean cultural legacy, and explore how critics read the work both in terms of its moment of production and the early Victorian period in which it is set.[via]More editions of Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea:
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John Steinbeckby John SteinbeckISBN 1883011159 (1-883011-15-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Steinbeck'Book summary:This second volume in the authoritative edition of John Steinbeck (with "Novels and Stories, 1932-1937") features the Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece "The Grapes of Wrath" in a newly corrected text based on the author's manuscript, typescript, and galleys. "The Harvest Gypsies is Steinbeck's investigative report on migrant farm workers which laid the groundwork for the novel. "The Long Valley" displays his brilliance with short stories, including such classics as "The Chrysanthemums," "Flight," and "The Red Pony." "The Log from the Sea of Cortez," about a marine biological expedition, combines science, philosophy, and adventure. [via]
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Kafka Americanaby Jonathan Lethem, Carter ScholzISBN 189228443X (1-892284-43-X)
Hardcover, Subterranean
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L Etrangerby Albert CamusISBN 207030602X (2-07-030602-X)
Softcover, Gallimard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L Etranger'Book summary:185 pages. Imprimé en Belgique. [via]
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Landmarks of Twentieth-Century Design: An Illustrated Handbookby George Marcus, Kathryn B. HiesingerISBN 1558592792 (1-55859-279-2)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Les Fleurs Du Malby Charles BaudelaireISBN 2040283129 (2-04-028312-9)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Fleurs Du Mal'Book summary:Maîtriser les connaissances et les outils nécessaires à l'étude d'une Suvre intégrale, voilà l'objectif de cette collection. L'élève doit avoir une vision synthétique de l'Suvre : connaître sa genèse et sa structure, appréhender les personnages à travers leur portrait, leur rôle et leur dimension symbolique, retenir les différents thèmes évoqués. Par ailleurs, l'ouvrage procure des informations d'ordre paratextuel qui enrichissent la culture du lecteur : détails sur la vie de l'auteur et le contexte dans lequel il s'inscrit, remarques sur son style, sur ses écrits théoriques, jugements de critiques contemporains. Enfin, le souci des auteurs est de montrer à l'élève comment ces informations peuvent être utilisées efficacement dans les exercices du bac : des études d'extraits et des sujets d'entretien sont proposés à titre d'exemples. L'intérêt de cette collection est donc de baliser chaque Suvre de sorte que l'élève dispose des éléments indispensables pour réussir l'écrit comme l'oral. L'étude n'est pas exhaustive mais elle a le mérite d'être claire et structurée. --Claire Mazurel [via]
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The Longest Journeyby E. M. ForsterISBN 141917066X (1-4191-7066-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Longest Journey'Book summary:Trilling described THE LONGEST JOURNEY as "perhaps the most brilliant, the most dramatic, and the most passionate" of E.M. Forster's works. Certainly it's the most autobiographical -- but its form confuses many. Full of sudden death, hopeless love, and quaintly doomed relationships -- and yet for all that, it's an enormously engaging work. It was Forster's own favorite of his works; he felt that in Stephen he had created a living being. [via]
Modernism Rediscovered: Die Wiederentdeckte Moderne = LA Redecouverte De'UN Modernismeby Julius Shulman, Pierluigi SerrainoISBN 3822864153 (3-8228-6415-3)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 1419135937 (1-4191-3593-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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My Antoniaby Joseph R. UrgoISBN 1551114917 (1-55111-491-7)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:Willa Cather's My ÃÂntonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows ÃÂntonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects of American social ideals and history, particularly the centrality of migration to American culture.
The Broadview edition includes a rich selection of primary source materials: the revised introduction for the 1926 edition; Cather's "Mesa Verde Wonderland is Easy to Reach...," "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," "Peter", and her comments on the novel; contemporary reviews and photographs. [via]
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph ConradISBN 1593081936 (1-59308-193-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway College, University of London Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressures? Nostromo is an extraordinary illustration of the impact of foreign commercial exploits on a young developing nation, and the problems of reconciling individual identity with a social role. [via]
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Oeuvres Completesby Arthur RimbaudISBN 2070104761 (2-07-010476-1)
Hardcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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On Being Illby Virginia Woolf, Hermione LeeISBN 1930464061 (1-930464-06-1)
Hardcover, Paris Pr
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The Outsiderby Albert CamusISBN 1857151399 (1-85715-139-9)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outsider'Book summary:Set in Camus'' native Algeria, this story cen tres around Meursault. The young French-Algerian leads an ap parently unremarkable bachelor life until his involvment in a violent incident calls into question the fundamental value s of society ' [via]
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Panby Knut HamsunISBN 1419140051 (1-4191-4005-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pan'Book summary:I fancy I can read a little in the souls of those about me--but perhaps it is not so. Oh, when my good days come, I feel as if I could see far into others' souls, though I am no great or clever head. We sit in a room, some men, some women, and I, and I seem to see what is passing within them, and what they think of me. I find something in every swift little change of light in their eyes; sometimes the blood rises to their cheeks and reddens them; at other times they pretend to be looking another way, and yet they watch me covertly from the side. There I sit, marking all this, and no one dreams that I see through every soul. For years past I have felt that I could read the souls of all I met. But perhaps it is not so... [via]
Posthumous Papers of a Living Authorby Robert Musil, Peter WortsmanISBN 0941419010 (0-941419-01-0)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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Seven Pillars of Wisdomby T. E. Lawrence, Angus CalderISBN 1853264695 (1-85326-469-5)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'Book summary:This is the exciting and highly literate story of the real Lawrence of Arabia, as written by Lawrence himself, who helped unify Arab factions against the occupying Turkish army, circa World War I. Lawrence has a novelist's eye for detail, a poet's command of the language, an adventurer's heart, a soldier's great story, and his memory and intellect are at least as good as all those. Lawrence describes the famous guerrilla raids, and train bombings you know from the movie, but also tells of the Arab people and politics with great penetration. Moreover, he is witty, always aware of the ethical tightrope that the English walked in the Middle East and always willing to include himself in his own withering insight. [via]
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The Strangerby Albert CamusISBN 1406711284 (1-4067-1128-4)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stranger'Book summary:The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its time. Alienation, the fear of anonymity, spiritual doubt--all could have been given a purely modern inflection in the hands of a lesser talent than Camus, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957 and was noted for his existentialist aesthetic. The remarkable trick of The Stranger, however, is that it's not mired in period philosophy.
The plot is simple. A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. The trial's proceedings are absurd, a parsing of incidental trivialities--that Meursault, for instance, seemed unmoved by his own mother's death and then attended a comic movie the evening after her funeral are two ostensibly damning facts--so that the eventual sentence the jury issues is both ridiculous and inevitable.
Meursault remains a cipher nearly to the story's end--dispassionate, clinical, disengaged from his own emotions. "She wanted to know if I loved her," he says of his girlfriend. "I answered the same way I had the last time, that it didn't mean anything but that I probably didn't." There's a latent ominousness in such observations, a sense that devotion is nothing more than self-delusion. It's undoubtedly true that Meursault exhibits an extreme of resignation; however, his confrontation with "the gentle indifference of the world" remains as compelling as it was when Camus first recounted it. --Ben Guterson [via]
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U. S. A.by John DOS Passos, Daniel Aaron, Townsend LudingtonISBN 1883011140 (1-883011-14-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'U. S. A.'Book summary:Unique for its epic scale and panoramic social sweep, Dos Passos' masterpiece comprises three novels--"The 42nd Parallel," "1919," and "The Big Money"--which create an unforgettable collective portrait of modern America. This one-volume edition includes detailed notes and a chronicle of the world events which serve as a backdrop. [via]
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Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings Etten, April 1881-Paris, February 1888by F. WaltherISBN 3822896438 (3-8228-9643-8)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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Wide Sargasso Seaby Jean Rhys, Charlotte BronteISBN 1568497296 (1-56849-729-6)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wide Sargasso Sea'Book summary:In 1966 Jean Rhys reemerged after a long silence with a novel called Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys had enjoyed minor literary success in the 1920s and '30s with a series of evocative novels featuring women protagonists adrift in Europe, verging on poverty, hoping to be saved by men. By the '40s, however, her work was out of fashion, too sad for a world at war. And Rhys herself was often too sad for the world--she was suicidal, alcoholic, troubled by a vast loneliness. She was also a great writer, despite her powerful self-destructive impulses.
Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched."
The novel is Rhys's answer to Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë's book had long haunted her, mostly for the story it did not tell--that of the madwoman in the attic, Rochester's terrible secret. Antoinette is Rhys's imagining of that locked-up woman, who in the end burns up the house and herself. Wide Sargasso Sea follows her voyage into the dark, both from her point of view and Rochester's. It is a voyage charged with soul-destroying lust. "I watched her die many times," observes the new husband. "In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty."
Rhys struggled over the book, enduring rejections and revisions, wrestling to bring this ruined woman out of the ashes. The slim volume was finally published when she was 70 years old. The critical adulation that followed, she said, "has come too late." Jean Rhys died a few years later, but with Wide Sargasso Sea she left behind a great legacy, a work of strange, scary loveliness. There has not been a book like it before or since. Believe me, I've been searching. --Emily White [via]
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Die Aufzeichnungen Des Malte Laurids Briggeby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 1406808679 (1-4068-0867-9)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Die Blendung: Romanby Elias CanettiISBN 3436006882 (3-436-00688-2)
Hardcover, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag
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Georgia O'Keeffe : 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desertby Britta BenkeISBN 3822858617 (3-8228-5861-7)
Hardcover, Taschen America, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Georgia O'Keeffe : 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desert'Book summary:This volume traces the career of American painter, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986). The illustrations document the most important periods in her life. [via]
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Die Geschichte Vom Franz Biberkopf: Horspiel Nach D. Roman Berlin Alexanderplatzby Alfred Doblin, Heinz SchwitzkeISBN 3150098106 (3-15-009810-6)
Hardcover, Reclam
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Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften: Romanby Robert Musil, Adolf FriseISBN 3498092855 (3-498-09285-5)
Hardcover, Rowohlt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften: Roman'Book summary:Musils Protagonist Ulrich ist gar kein Mann ohne Eigenschaften. Der Romantitel führt da ein wenig in die Irre. Tatsächlich ist es eine "Welt von Eigenschaften ohne Mann", die im Buch nichts Charakteristisches mehr zu bieten hat. Bereits die umwerfende Eingangssequenz macht diesen Leerlauf anschaulich, indem sie den Leserblick trichterförmig von metereologischen Banalitäten zu einem Verkehrsunfall in Wien an "einem schönen Augusttag des Jahres 1913" hinunterlenkt, dessen vermeintliche Tragik technische Erklärungen (Bremsversagen) bagatellisieren. Wie in Samuel Becketts Murphy darf auch hier die Sonne zunächst "auf nichts Neues" und Besonderes mehr scheinen. Diese Erkenntnis bringt Ulrich letztlich dazu, "Urlaub vom Leben" zu nehmen und sich in Reflexionen über eben dieses Leben zu ergehen. Die selbstgewählte "Eigenschaftslosigkeit" der Figur erweist sich so als ihre herausragendste Eigenschaft.
Im Mann ohne Eigenschaften passiert nur wenig. Aber es wird unendlich viel gedacht im Buch, und am Ende wird sogar noch intensiv gefühlt: In der Geschwisterliebe Ulrichs zu Agathe realisiert sich die Utopie eines "anderen Zustands" jenseits der absurden Welt. Hierfür findet der Mann ohne Eigenschaften dann poetisch präzise Bilder ohne intellektuelle Schwere, so in meinem Lieblingskapitel Atemzüge eines Sommertags: "Die Sonne war unterdessen höher gestiegen, die Stühle hatten sie wie gestrandete Boote in dem flachen Schatten beim Haus zurückgelassen. Ein geräuschloser Strom glanzlosen Blütenschnees schwebte, von einer abgeblühten Baumgruppe kommend, durch den Sonnenschein; und der Atem, der ihn trug, war so sanft, daß sich kein Blatt regte. Kein Schatten fiel davon auf das Grün des Rasens, aber dieses schien sich von innen zu verdunkeln wie ein Auge". Gäbe es nur diese wunderschöne Stelle, so hätte sich die Lektüre der weit über 1000 vorangegangenen Seiten schon gelohnt. --Thomas Köster [via]
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Rilkes Aufzeichnungen Des Malte Laurids Briggeby Rainer Maria Rilke, Hartmut EngelhardtISBN 3518385518 (3-518-38551-8)
Softcover, Suhrkamp
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Die Schlafwandler: E. Romantrilogieby Hermann BrochISBN 3518024914 (3-518-02491-4)
Hardcover, Suhrkamp
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Der Tod Des Vergilby Hermann BrochISBN 3518067966 (3-518-06796-6)
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Vincent Van Gogh: Samtliche Gemaldeby Rainer Metzger, Ingo F. WaltherISBN 3822803960 (3-8228-0396-0)
Hardcover, B. Taschen
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Apollinaire : Alcoolsby A. PilkingtonISBN 1853993735 (1-85399-373-5)
Softcover, Bristol Classical Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apollinaire : Alcools'Book summary:A complete collection of the 'Alcools' poems with commentary [via]
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L' Etranger: Profil D'une Oeuvreby Pierre Louis ReyISBN 2218740729 (2-218-74072-9)
Softcover, Continental Book Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L' Etranger: Profil D'une Oeuvre'Book summary:L ouvrage fournit toutes les clés pour analyser le roman de Camus.
Le résumé détaillé est suivi de l étude des problématiques essentielles, parmi lesquelles :
Sources et parentés de Camus
Meursault, un personnage de nouveau roman
Les autres personnages
Les principaux thèmes
Le sens du roman
L écriture de Camus.
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Les Fleurs du Malby Charles BaudelaireISBN 2038717141 (2-03-871714-1)
Softcover, Librairie Larousse
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Fleurs du Mal'Book summary:Maîtriser les connaissances et les outils nécessaires à l'étude d'une Suvre intégrale, voilà l'objectif de cette collection. L'élève doit avoir une vision synthétique de l'Suvre : connaître sa genèse et sa structure, appréhender les personnages à travers leur portrait, leur rôle et leur dimension symbolique, retenir les différents thèmes évoqués. Par ailleurs, l'ouvrage procure des informations d'ordre paratextuel qui enrichissent la culture du lecteur : détails sur la vie de l'auteur et le contexte dans lequel il s'inscrit, remarques sur son style, sur ses écrits théoriques, jugements de critiques contemporains. Enfin, le souci des auteurs est de montrer à l'élève comment ces informations peuvent être utilisées efficacement dans les exercices du bac : des études d'extraits et des sujets d'entretien sont proposés à titre d'exemples. L'intérêt de cette collection est donc de baliser chaque Suvre de sorte que l'élève dispose des éléments indispensables pour réussir l'écrit comme l'oral. L'étude n'est pas exhaustive mais elle a le mérite d'être claire et structurée. --Claire Mazurel [via]
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Le Vers Lui-Meme: Probleme De La Langue Du Versby Henri Deluy, IUrii Nikolaevich Tynianov, Leon Robel, Yvan MignotISBN 2264001496 (2-264-00149-6)
Hardcover, Union generale d'editions
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