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1900 : A Fin-de-Siecle Readerby Mike R. Jay, Michael NeveISBN 0141180838 (0-14-118083-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: '1900 : A Fin-de-Siecle Reader'Book summary:At the turn of the 19th century, just as today, many people were terrified--or thrilled--by the seemingly unstoppable progress of science, wrestling with questions of sexual identity, turning away from traditional religions or taking refuge in spiritualism, the paranormal and "new age" philosophies.
From poetry to pulp fiction, scientific polemic to sexologicical speculation, 1900 brings together a fascinating collage of writings which encompass the amazing range of beliefs, ideas and obsessions current at the turn of the century.
"1900 offers a striking vision of the fin-de-siècle shock of the new no less than the fatigue of the old, regeneration no less than degeneration, the viewpoints of scientists and futurists as well as decadent poets" Roy Porter.
"1900" is a splendid starting point for analysis of fin-de-siècle thought and for understanding the millenium" Elaine Showalter [via]
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The Aleph and Other Storiesby Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew HurleyISBN 0142437883 (0-14-243788-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aleph and Other Stories'Book summary:[via]Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borgess most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her fathers killer, and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.
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All the King's Menby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 015101163X (0-15-101163-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All The King's Men'Book summary:This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. All the King's Men tells the story of Willie Stark, a southern-fried politician who builds support by appealing to the common man and playing dirty politics with the best of the back-room deal-makers. Though Stark quickly sheds his idealism, his right-hand man, Jack Burden -- who narrates the story -- retains it and proves to be a thorn in the new governor's side. Stark becomes a successful leader, but at a very high price, one that eventually costs him his life. The award-winning book is a play of politics, society and personal affairs, all wrapped in the cloak of history. [via]
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The Awakening and Selected Storiesby Kate Chopin, Sandra M. GilbertISBN 0142437328 (0-14-243732-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening and Selected Stories'Book summary:The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class convention are themes of this now-classic novel. The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called "vulgar," "unhealthily introspective," and "morbid," the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a "regional" woman writer. [via]
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Baudelaireby Charles Baudelaire, P.E. CharvetISBN 0140446060 (0-14-044606-0)
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Beyond Good and Evilby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, R. J. HollingdaleISBN 014044923X (0-14-044923-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Good and Evil'Book summary:From the preface to its closing pages "Beyond Good and Evil" is fired by a passion which expresses itself in an idiom of poetic metaphor. Yet this is philosophy. It covers almost the whole range of Nietzsche's philosophical interests, from the "will to power" to the psychology of religion, and belies its aphoristic structure with an idiosyncratic system of logical and linguistic links. [via]
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Beyond Good and Evil:Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Futureby Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheISBN 0140442677 (0-14-044267-7)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Good and Evil:Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future'Book summary:This work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a "slave morality." With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own "will to power" upon the world.[via]More editions of Beyond Good and Evil:Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future:
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Black Lamb And Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslaviaby Rebecca West, Christopher HitchensISBN 014310490X (0-14-310490-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Lamb And Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia'Book summary:Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics, or culture--with, in fact, any other book--is its unashamed depth of feeling: think The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire crossed with Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. West visited Yugoslavia for the first time in 1936. What she saw there affected her so much that she had to return--partly, she writes, because it most resembled "the country I have always seen between sleeping and waking," and partly because "it was like picking up a strand of wool that would lead me out of a labyrinth in which, to my surprise, I had found myself immured." Black Lamb is the chronicle of her travels, but above all it is West following that strand of wool: through countless historical digressions; through winding narratives of battles, slavery, and assassinations; through Shakespeare and Augustine and into the very heart of human frailty.
West wrote on the brink of World War II, when she was "already convinced of the inevitability of the second Anglo-German war." The resulting book is colored by that impending conflict, and by West's search for universals amid the complex particulars of Balkan history. In the end, she saw the region's doom--and our own--in a double infatuation with sacrifice, the "black lamb and grey falcon" of her title. It's the story of Abraham and Isaac without the last-minute reprieve: those who hate are all too ready to martyr the innocent in order to procure their own advantage, and the innocent themselves are all too eager to be martyred. To West, in 1941, "the whole world is a vast Kossovo, an abominable blood-logged plain." Unfortunately, little has happened since then to prove her wrong. --Mary Park [via]
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Bouvard and Pecuchetby Gustave FlaubertISBN 0140443207 (0-14-044320-7)
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Weltyby Eudora WeltyISBN 0151189943 (0-15-118994-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty'Book summary:This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all, including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories. With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition. [via]
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, Gareth Stedman Jones, K. MarxISBN 0140447571 (0-14-044757-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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The Communist Manifestoby K. MarxISBN 0140444785 (0-14-044478-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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Complete Poemsby Dorothy ParkerISBN 0141180226 (0-14-118022-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems'Book summary:[via]As this complete collection of her short stories demonstrates, Dorothy Parkers talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her stories not only bring to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick but lay bare the uncertainties and disappointments of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
Complete Poems 1913-1962by E. E. CummingsISBN 0151210608 (0-15-121060-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
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The Confusion of Young Torlessby Robert Musil, J. M. Coetzee, Shaun WhitesideISBN 0142180009 (0-14-218000-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confusion of Young Torless'Book summary:Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational undercurrents of humanity. The Confusions of Young Törless, published in 1906 while he was a student, uncovers the bullying, snobbery, and vicious homoerotic violence at an elite boys academy. Unsparingly honest in its depiction of the author's tangled feelings about his mother, other women, and male bonding, it also vividly illustrates the crisis of a whole society, where the breakdown of traditional values and the cult of pitiless masculine strength were soon to lead to the cataclysm of the First World War and the rise of fascism. A century later, Musil's first novel still retains its shocking, prophetic power.[via]More editions of The Confusion of Young Torless:
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Crucibleby Arthur MillerISBN 0140481389 (0-14-048138-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crucible'Book summary:Based on historical people and real events, Arthur Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism. [via]
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The Crucible : A Play in Four Actsby Arthur Miller, Richard EyreISBN 014200099X (0-14-200099-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts'Book summary:The Crucible, Arthur Miller's classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, is returning to Broadway. To mark the occasion, Penguin is pleased to offer this beautiful hardcover edition.
"A powerful drama." (Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times) [via]More editions of The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts:
The Deadby James JoyceISBN 014600082X (0-14-600082-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Death in Venice and Other Talesby Thomas Mann, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0141181737 (0-14-118173-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice and Other Tales'Book summary:Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this new collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's stories and novellas reveals his artistic evolution. In this new, widely acclaimed translation that restores the controversial passages that were cut out of the original English version, "Death in Venice" tells about a ruinous quest for love and beauty amid degenerating splendor. Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but lonely author, travels to the Queen of the Adriatic in search of an elusive spiritual fulfillment that turns into his erotic doom. Spellbound by a beautiful Polish boy, he finds himself fettered to this hypnotic city of sun-drenched sensuality and eerie physical decay.[via]
Also included in this volume are eleven other stories by Mann: "Tonio Kroger," "Gladius Dei," "The Blood of the Walsungs," "The Will for Happiness," "Little Herr Friedmann," "Tobias Mindernickel," "Little Lizzy," "Tristan," "The Starvelings," "The Wunderkind," and "Harsh Hour." All of the stories collected here display Mann's inimitable use of irony, his subtle characterizations, and superb, complex plots.
@GustavaelJackson While walking in the hotel lobby, saw a little kid dressed in a sailors uniform. Went from six to midnight. No Viagra needed.
I worry that his parents have noticed me. They might issue an amber alert if the child goes missing. Look out for gondola and child.
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Death of a Salesmanby Arthur MillerISBN 0140481346 (0-14-048134-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Salesman'Book summary:Arthur miller's pulitzer prize-winning play that forever changed the meaning of the american dream and won multiple tony awards for the 2012 broadway production directed by mike nichols and starring philip seymour hoffman as the tragic hero willy loman and andrew garfield as his son biff willy loman, the protagonist of death of a salesman, has spent his life following the american way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age sixty-three, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his marriage and destroyed his relationship with biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much. arthur miller's masterpiece has steadily seen productions all over the world since its 1949 debut. As the noted miller scholar christopher bigsby states in his introduction, "if willy's is an american dream, it is also a dream shared by all those who are aware of the gap between what they might have been and what they are [via]
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Delta of Venusby Anais NinISBN 0151246564 (0-15-124656-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Delta of Venus'Book summary:Anais Nin's Delta of Venus is a stunning collection of sexual encounters from the queen of literary erotica. From Mathilde's lust-filled Peruvian opium den to the Hungarian baron driven insane by his insatiable desire, the passions and obsessions of this dazzling cast of characters are vivid and unforgettable. Delta of Venus is a deep and sensual world that evokes the very essence of sexuality. [via]
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The Descent of Manby Charles Darwin, Adrian Desmond, James MooreISBN 0140436316 (0-14-043631-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Descent of Man'Book summary:[via]In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too surrounded with prejudices. He had been reworking his notes since the 1830s, but only with trepidation did he finally publish The Descent of Man in 1871. The book notoriously put apes in our family tree and made the races one family, diversified by sexual selection Darwins provocative theory that female choice among competing males leads to diverging racial characteristics. Though less well known than The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man continues to shape the way we think about what it is that makes us uniquely human.
- First time in Penguin Classics
- Edited by the coauthors of the acclaimed biography Darwin
- Includes Introduction, suggestions for further reading, chronology, biographical register, and index
- Reproduces the book's original illustrations and Darwin's own notes
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Diary of Virginia Woolfby Virginia WoolfISBN 0151255970 (0-15-125597-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary of Virginia Woolf'Book summary:"Nothing yet published about her so totally contradicts the legend of Virginia Woolf.... [This] is a first chance to meet the writer in her own unguarded words and to observe the root impulses of her art without the distractions of a commentary" (New York Times). Includes Index in each volume. [via]
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Early Writings: Poems and Proseby Ezra Pound, Ira Bruce NadelISBN 0142180130 (0-14-218013-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Writings: Poems and Prose'Book summary:[via]Ezra Pound makes his Penguin Classics debut with this unique selection of his early poems and prose, edited with an introductory essay and notes by Pound expert Ira Nadel. The poetry includes such early masterpieces as The Seafarer, Homage to Sextus Propertius, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, and the first eight of Pounds incomparable Cantos. The prose includes a series of articles and critical pieces, with essays on Imagism, Vorticism, Joyce, and the well-known Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry.
- First time in Penguin Classics
- Includes generous selections of Pound's poetry, as well as an assortment of prose
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The Egg and Other Storiesby Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. ModlinISBN 014118079X (0-14-118079-X)
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Ezra Pound:a Critical Anthology: A Critical Anthologyby J. P. SullivanISBN 0140800336 (0-14-080033-6)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Fantomas: The Corpse Who Killsby Pierre Souvestre, John AshberyISBN 0143104845 (0-14-310484-5)
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The Fifth Queenby A. S. Byatt, Ford Madox FordISBN 0141181303 (0-14-118130-3)
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Maurice HindleISBN 0141439475 (0-14-143947-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:This critical essay of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is designed for A-level students and undergraduates. [via]
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Frankenstein : Or, the Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Maurice HindleISBN 0140433627 (0-14-043362-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World Warby Jaroslav Hasek, Josef Lada, Cecil ParrottISBN 0140449914 (0-14-044991-4)
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0143039946 (0-14-303994-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity's Rainbow'Book summary:Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Iliadby Homer, Robert FaglesISBN 0140445927 (0-14-044592-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:Newly updated by D. C. H. Rieu, son of E. V. Rieu One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, the besieged city of Ilium, the feud between the gods, and the fate of mortals. @RageAgainstTheAchaean Pissed. I am so, so very pissed. First I have to go to this beach. Then I have to kill all these dudes. And NOW - now! This prick stole my biscuit. Who does that? Am I right? Can't resolve this problem on my own - calling Mom! From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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Imagist Poetryby Peter JonesISBN 0141185708 (0-14-118570-8)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imagist Poetry'Book summary:Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as 'a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth ...half-melted, lumpy'. [via]
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The Immoralistby Andre Gide, David WatsonISBN 0142180025 (0-14-218002-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Immoralist'Book summary:With today's headlines and talk shows, it takes a lot to shock a reader--certainly more than was required in 1902, when André Gide's The Immoralist was first published. What was seen then as a story of dereliction translates today into a tale of introspection and fierce self-discovery. While traveling to Tunis with his new bride, the Parisian scholar Michel is overcome by tuberculosis. As he slowly convalesces, he revels in the physical pleasures of living and resolves to forgo his studies of the past in order to experience the present--to let "the layers of acquired knowledge peel away from the mind like a cosmetic and reveal, in patches, the naked flesh beneath, the authentic being hidden there."
But this is not the Michel his colleagues knew, nor the man Marceline married, and he must hide his new values under the patina of what he now reviles. Bored by Parisian society, he moves to a family farm in Normandy. He is happy there, especially in the company of young Charles, but he must soon return to the city and academe. Michel remains restless until he gives his first lecture and runs into Ménalque, who has long outraged society, and recognizes in him a reflection of his torment. Finally, Michel heads south, deeper into the desert, until, as he confides to his friends, he is lost in the sea of sand, under a clear, directionless sky.
What Gide's story lacks in sensationalism is fulfilled by his descriptive prose, which evokes the exotic nature of Michel's inner and outer journey: "I did not understand the forbearance of this African earth, submerged for days at a time and now awakening from winter, drunk with water, bursting with new juices; it laughed in this springtime frenzy whose echo, whose image I perceived within myself." --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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In Dubious Battleby John Steinbeck, Warren G. FrenchISBN 0143039636 (0-14-303963-6)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Dubious Battle'Book summary:[via]This 1936 novelset in the California apple countryportrays a strike by migrant workers that metamorphoses from principled defiance into blind fanaticism.More editions of In Dubious Battle:
In the American Grainby William Carlos WilliamsISBN 0140550925 (0-14-055092-5)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas Hardy, Dennis TaylorISBN 0140435387 (0-14-043538-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jude the Obscure'Book summary:'I'm an outsider to the end of my days!' Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking 'New Woman'. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Jude the Obscure, Hardy's last novel, caused a public furor when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships. This edition uses the unbowdlerized text of the first volume edition of 1895, and also includes a list for further reading, appendices and a glossary. In his introduction, Dennis Taylor examines biblical allusions and the critique of religion in Jude the Obscure, and its critical reception that led Hardy to abandon novel writing. [via]
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandyby Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Joan NewISBN 0141439777 (0-14-143977-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy'Book summary:The comic masterpiece Tristram Shandy is often regarded as a progenitor of the twentieth century novel. Within the resolutely tangled strands of this narrative is the life, from conception, of a gentleman cursed at birth with the name Tristram. Though everything occurs between parlor and garden, Tristram's excitable father, bewildered mother, and Uncle Toby provide ample opportunity for the digressions and madcap events that structure this seminal novel.[via]
@ACockAndBallsStory Ive just been born, and I had a tragic accident. A windowpane fell on me, and flattened my dic NOSE. My nose! That was almost embarrassing.
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Joan NewISBN 0140435050 (0-14-043505-0)
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy is a brilliant pastiche of character sketches, obscene and hilarious vignettes, parodies of scholarly treatises on theology, art, and science, comments to the reader, blank pages, playful typography and graphics, narrative threads that appear, disappear, and reappear at whim, and incidents and images that relate, at one and the same time, to the characters and to the novel itself. The technical audacity and stylistic virtuosity Sterne brought to this eccentric fiction about fiction-writing redefined the form and scope of the novel forever. Both James Joyce and Thomas Mann acknowledged their debt to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, and its influence is apparent in the works of Salman Rushdie, Carlos Fuentes, and other contemporary novelists. The text and notes in this edition are taken from the acclaimed (and definitive) Florida Edition of The Works of Laurence Sterne. [via]
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Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, Stephen Coote, G. HanscombeISBN 0140772863 (0-14-077286-3)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey WallISBN 0140449124 (0-14-044912-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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desperate love affair. A succès de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and arousing novel.
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Nathaniel PhilbrickISBN 0142000086 (0-14-200008-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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The Moon And Sixpenceby Robert Calder, W. MaughamISBN 0143039342 (0-14-303934-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moon And Sixpence'Book summary:[via]The Moon and Sixpence, published in 1919, was one of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maughams reputation as a literary master. It follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his home, wife, and children to devote himself slavishly to painting. In a tiny studio in Paris, he fills canvas after canvas, refusing to sell or even exhibit his work. Beset by poverty, sickness, and his own intransigent, unscrupulous nature, he drifts to Tahiti, where, even after being blinded by leprosy, he produces some of his most extraordinary works of art. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is an unforgettable study of a man possessed by the need to createregardless of the cost to himself and to others.
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The Morgesonsby Lawrence Buell, Sandra A. Zagarell, Elizabeth StoddardISBN 0140436510 (0-14-043651-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Morgesons'Book summary:[via]Elizabeth Stoddard combines the narrative style of the popular nineteenth-century male-centered bildungsroman with the conventions of women's romantic fiction in this revolutionary exploration of the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion, and will, and the social taboos, family allegiances, and traditional New England restraint that inhibit her. Set in a small seaport town (1862), The Morgesons is the dramatic story of Cassandra Morgeson's fight against social and religious norms in a quest for sexual, spiritual, and economic autonomy. An indomitable heroine, Cassandra not only achieves an equal and complete love with her husband and ownership of her family's property, but also masters the skills and accomplishments expected of women.
Counterpointed with the stultified lives of her aunt, mother, and sister, Cassandra's success is a striking and radical affirmation of women's power to shape their own destinies. Embodying the convergence of the melodrama and sexual undercurrents of gothic romance and Victorian social realism, The Morgesons marks an important transition in the development of the novel and evoked comparisons during Stoddard's lifetime with such masters as Balzac, Tolstoy, Eliot, the Brontes, and Hawthorne.
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Mysteriesby Sverre Lyngstad, Knut HamsunISBN 0141186186 (0-14-118618-6)
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Notes from Underground the Doubleby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0140442529 (0-14-044252-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from Underground the Double'Book summary:'It is best to do nothing! The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!' Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter sarcasm, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'ant-hill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in The Double when a government clerk encounters a man who exactly resembles him - his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly study of human consciousness. Jessie Coulson's introduction discusses the stories' critical reception and the themes they share with Dostoyevksy's great novels. @TweetsFromUndegrnd An officer pushed me at a bar. I will find this pizda son of a bitch and maybe murder him slowly. I'm a bit of a sociopath, aren't I? From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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The Odysseyby Homer, D. C. H. Rieu, E. V. RieuISBN 0140449116 (0-14-044911-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:With the Trojan war finally over after many long years, Odysseus wants nothing more than a swift journey home where his throne and beloved wife, Penelope, await him. But Poseidon, the sea god, bears a grudge against him and plans to prevent his return across the wine-dark sea to Ithaca. Many tests of strength and character ensue as Odysseus's journey stretches out over the years, taking in a multitude of strange and wonderful places and creatures. That's the basic plot of the epic poem Homer told nearly 3,000 years ago, but, even now, a new English translation is a true literary event. The ancient story is told in easy-going, beautiful poetry, the characters speak naturally and the action moves along briskly. Even the gods come across as real people, despite the divine powers they constantly exercise. The Odyssey really is a gripping, fast-moving read. [via]
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On Suicideby Emile Durkheim, Alexander Riley, Robin Buss, Richard SennettISBN 0140449671 (0-14-044967-1)
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Émile Durkheim, one of the fathers of modern sociology, was the first to suggest that suicide might be as much a response to society as an act of individual despair. When he looked at social, religious, or racial groups that had high incidences of suicide, he discovered that abnormally high or low levels of social integration increase the likelihood of suicide. More than a century after its initial publication, Durkheim?s groundbreaking work continues to fascinate and challenge those seeking to understand one of the least understandable of human acts.More editions of On Suicide:
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On the Roadby Jack Kerouac, Ann ChartersISBN 0142437255 (0-14-243725-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Road'Book summary:On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture. [via]
Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1880-1940by George Heard HamiltonISBN 0140561293 (0-14-056129-3)
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Poemsby D. H. Lawrence, Keith SagarISBN 0140585400 (0-14-058540-0)
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The Portable Dorothy Parkerby Dorothy Parker, Marion MeadeISBN 0143039539 (0-14-303953-9)
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The Portable Faulknerby Malcolm CowleyISBN 014243728X (0-14-243728-X)
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, George Anthony Bull, Anthony GraftonISBN 0140447520 (0-14-044752-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on statecraft. While Machiavelli was only one of the many Florentine "prophets of force," he differed from the ruling elite in recognizing the complexity and fluidity of political life. [via]
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The Quiet Americanby Graham GreeneISBN 0142001384 (0-14-200138-4)
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Caught between French colonialists and the Vietminh, Fowler, the narrator and seasoned foreign correspondent, observes: "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused." As young Pyle's policies blunder on into bloodshed, the older man finds it impossible to stand aside as an observer. But Fowler's motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and to himself: for Pyle has robbed him of his Vietnamese mistress. -
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)by Karel Capek, Claudia Novack, Ivan KlimaISBN 0141182083 (0-14-118208-3)
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The Return of the Nativeby Thomas HardyISBN 0140435182 (0-14-043518-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of the Native'Book summary:'You are ambitious, Eustacia - no not exactly ambitious, luxurious. I ought to be of the same vein, to make you happy, I suppose' Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets her heart on marrying him, believing that through him she can leave rural life and find fulfilment elsewhere. But she is to be disappointed, for Clym has dreams of his own, and they have little in common with Eustacia's. Their unhappy marriage causes havoc in the lives of those close to them, in particular Damon Wildeve, Eustacia's former lover, Clym's mother and his cousin Thomasin. The Return of the Native illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies. Penny Boumelha's introduction examines the classical and mythological references and the interplay of class and sexuality in the novel. This edition, essentially Hardy's original book version of the novel, also includes notes, a glossary, chronology and bibliography. [via]
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A Season in Hellby Arthur Rimbaud, Oliver BernardISBN 0146001656 (0-14-600165-6)
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Selected Poemsby John AshberyISBN 0140585532 (0-14-058553-2)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Selected Poemsby Jules Laforgue, Graham Dunstan MartinISBN 014043626X (0-14-043626-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Deeply nihilistic yet full of yearning, tender yet savagely self-mocking, Laforgue has a unique voice and vision that nonetheless mark him out as one of the founding fathers of modernism. Like Charles Baudelaire before him, he was determined to face up to the ugly and decadent as well as the conventionally poetic aspects of himself and the world about him. In a career that rivals Arthur Rimbaud's for its tragically brief, accelerated development, he pioneered the use of coarse colloquialism, startling rhymes, and astonishing invented words. His greatest achievement, the posthumous Derniers Vers (1890), was the first complete French volume of free verse. Partly influenced by his translation of Walt Whitman -- the first in the French language -- Derniers Vets is brilliantly effective in capturing the truth of fleeting impressions and inner sensations. It is also, writes Graham Dunstan Martin, "one of the musical masterpieces of literature." This bilingual edition features a generous selection of poems in the original French from Laforgue's Le Sanglot de la Terre, Les Complaintes, L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune, Des Fleurs de Bonne Volonte, and Derniers Vers, with running prose translations at the bottom of each page. [via]
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Selected Writings on Art and Artists [Of] Baudelaireby P.E. Charvet, Charles BaudelaireISBN 0140442766 (0-14-044276-6)
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Sentimental Educationby Gustave Flaubert, Robert Baldick, Geoffrey WallISBN 0140447970 (0-14-044797-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sentimental Education'Book summary:Based on Flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as "the moral history of the men of my generation." It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and as their paths cross and re-cross over the years, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau's life. Blending love story, historical authenticity, and satire, Sentimental Education is one of the great French novels of the nineteenth century.[via]
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Snap Shots of the Century Utopias : Russian Modernist Texts, 1905-1940by Catriona KellyISBN 0141180811 (0-14-118081-1)
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The Song of the Larkby Willa Cather, Sherrill HarbisonISBN 0141181044 (0-14-118104-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Song of the Lark'Book summary:Beautiful and lyrical, this third novel by Willa Cather follows the life of Thea Kronberg from her childhood in 19th-century Nebraska to her career as a renowned opera singer.[via]Since the time of its publication in 1915, this novel had captivated readers with its sharp observations, shimmering descriptions, sly humor, and its provocative heroine--a feisty young woman who strives to create her own destiny, regardless of social restrictions.
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The Spoils of Poyntonby Henry JamesISBN 0140432884 (0-14-043288-4)
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Stranger Shoresby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0142001376 (0-14-200137-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stranger Shores'Book summary:Two-time Booker Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. This thought-provoking collection gathers twenty-six of his essays on books and writing. In his opening piece, "What Is a Classic?", Coetzee asks, "What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?" He explores the answer by way of T. S. Eliot, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Zbigniew Herbert. Coetzee goes on to discuss eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors such as Defoe and Turgenev, the German modernists such as Rilke, Kafka, and Musil, and the giants of late-twentieth-century literature, among them Brodsky, Gordimer, Rushdie, and Lessing.[via]More editions of Stranger Shores:
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Swann's Wayby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 0141180587 (0-14-118058-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way'Book summary:Swann's Way begins with one of the most famous incidents in all of literature -- the taste of a madeleine and tea that reawakens the elusive childhood memories of the narrator, Marcel. An image of Charles Swann, a wealthy and fashionable neighbor, precipitates Marcel's recollection of Swann's marriage to Odette de Crecy, a beautiful, manipulative woman far beneath him in social standing, and of the jealousy, aroused by Odette's many affairs with both men and women, that eventually destroys Swarm. Marcel recounts, too, his own initiation into the aesthetic pleasures and sexual intrigues of belle-epoque Paris. The themes introduced in Swann's Way -- the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories -- form the threads that unite all the volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. [via]
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'The Wolfman' and Other Casesby Sigmund Freud, Louise Adey HuishISBN 014243745X (0-14-243745-X)
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Three Playsby Peter Watts, August StrindbergISBN 0140440828 (0-14-044082-8)
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Travels With Charleyby John SteinbeckISBN 0142000701 (0-14-200070-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels With Charley'Book summary:In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. A picaresque tale, this chronicle of their trip meanders through scenic backroads and speeds along anonymous superhighways, moving from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley in Search of America is animated by Steinbeck's attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature-to weather, geography, the cycle of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way. Travels with Charley in Search of America, originally published in 1962, provides an intimate and personal look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life-a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. It was written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South-which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand-and is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. [via]
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despairby Pablo Neruda, Pablo Picasso, W.S. Merwin, Cristina GarciaISBN 0143039962 (0-14-303996-2)
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The Nobel Prizewinning poets most popular workWhen it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwins incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world.
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despairby W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda, Pablo Picasso, Cristina GarciaISBN 0142437700 (0-14-243770-0)
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First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada remains among Pablo Nerudas most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passion with the desolation of grief. Drawn from the poets most intimate and personal associations, the poems combine eroticism and the natural world with the influence of expressionism and the genius of a master poet. This edition features the newly corrected original Spanish text, with masterly English translations by award-winning poet W. S. Merwin on facing pages.
- Includes twelve sketches by Pablo Picasso
- New introduction by Cristina García
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The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry: The Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1926, and the Turnbull Lectures at the Johns Hopkins Universby T. S. Eliot, Ronald SchuchardISBN 0151000964 (0-15-100096-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The Voyages of Odysseusby Homer, D. C. H. Rieu, E. V. RieuISBN 0146001516 (0-14-600151-6)
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Where Angels Fear to Treadby E. M. Forster, Oliver Stallybrass, Ruth PadelISBN 0141441453 (0-14-144145-3)
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The Winter of Our Discontentby John Steinbeck, Susan ShillinglawISBN 0143039482 (0-14-303948-2)
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The Marquise of O and Other Storiesby Heinrich Von Kleist, David Luke, Nigel ReevesISBN 0140443592 (0-14-044359-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marquise of O and Other Stories'Book summary:In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this happened, she must prove her innocence to her doubting family and discover whether the perpetrator is an assailant or lover. Michael Kohlhaas depicts an honourable man who feels compelled to violate the law in his search for justice, while other tales explore the singular realm of the uncanny, such as The Beggarwoman of Locarno, in which an old woman's ghost drives a heartless nobleman to madness, and St Cecilia, which portrays four brothers possessed by an uncontrollable religious mania. The stories collected in this volume reflect the preoccupations of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) with the deceptiveness of human nature and the unpredictability of the physical world. [via]
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