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Amerika: The Man Who Disappearedby Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir, Emlen EttingISBN 0805210644 (0-8052-1064-4)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amerika: (The Man Who Disappeared)'Book summary:Newly restored to the original text: for this new translation, Hofmann returned to Kafkas manuscripts, restoring matters of substance and detail, and even the books original ending.
Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light in this highly charged and enormously nuanced translation. Kafka began the first of his three novels in 1911, but like the others, Amerika remained unfinished, and perhaps, as Klaus Mann suggested, "necessarily endless." Karl Rossman, the youthful hero of the novel, "a poor boy of seventeen," has been banished by his parents to America, following a scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into adventure after misadventure, and experiences multiply as he makes his way into the heart of the country, to The Great Nature Theater of Oklahoma. In creating this new translation, Hofmann, as he explains in his introduction, returned to the manuscript version of the book, restoring matters of substance and detail. Fragments which have never before been presented in English are now reinstated including the book's original "ending."
The San Francisco Chronicle said Hofmanns sleek translation does a wonderful job and The New York Times concurred: Anything by Kafka is worth reading again, especially in the hands of such a gifted translator as Hofmann. [via]More editions of Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared:
- Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared: ISBN 0811215695 (0-8112-1569-5)
Softcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W. - Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared: ISBN 081121513X (0-8112-1513-X)
Hardcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W. - Amerika: (The Man Who Disappeared): ISBN 0811200752 (0-8112-0075-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Amerika: (The Man Who Disappeared): ISBN 0805210644 (0-8052-1064-4)
Softcover, Schocken Books
- Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared: ISBN 0811215695 (0-8112-1569-5)
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The Castleby David Fishelson, Max Brod, Aaron LeichterISBN 082221900X (0-8222-1900-X)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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The Castle : A New Translation Based on the Restored Textby Franz Kafka, Mark HarmonISBN 0805241183 (0-8052-4118-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle : A New Translation Based on the Restored Text'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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The Castle: Classic Collectionby Franz Kafka, Mark HarmanISBN 0805211063 (0-8052-1106-3)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle: Classic Collection'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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Catch-22by Joseph HellerISBN 0808514024 (0-8085-1402-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catch-22'Book summary:There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.
Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."
"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"
"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It's a good thing, too. As long as there's a military, that engine of lethal authority, Catch-22 will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It's an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book. [via]More editions of Catch-22:
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The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeatsby W. B. YeatsISBN 1853264547 (1-85326-454-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats'Book summary:William Butler Yeats, whom many consider this century's greatest poet, began as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, reviving legends and Rosicrucian symbols. By the early 1900s, however, he was moving away from plush romanticism, his verse morphing from the incantatory rhythms of "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" into lyrics "as cold and passionate as the dawn." At every stage, however, Yeats plays a multiplicity of poetic roles. There is the romantic lover of "When You Are Old" and "A Poet to His Beloved" ("I bring you with reverent Hands / The books of my numberless dreams..."). And there are the far more bitter celebrations of Maud Gonne, who never accepted his love and engaged in too much politicking for his taste: "Why should I blame her that she filled my days / With misery, or that she would of late / Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, / Or hurled the little streets upon the great, / Had they but courage equal to desire?" There is also the poet of conscience--and confrontation. His 1931 "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" ends: "Out of Ireland have we come. / Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / I carried from my mother's womb / A fanatic heart."
Yeats was to explore several more sides of himself, and of Ireland, before his Last Poems of 1938-39. Many are difficult, some snobbish, others occult and spiritualist. As Brendan Kennelly writes, Yeats "produces both poppycock and sublimity in verse, sometimes closely together." On the other hand, many prophetic masterworks are poppycock-free--for example, "The Second Coming" ("Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...") and such inquiries into inspiration as "Among School Children" ("O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?"). And at his best, Yeats extends the meaning of love poetry beyond the obviously romantic: love becomes a revolutionary emotion, attaching the poet to friends, history, and the passionate life of the mind. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williamsby A. Walton Litz, William Carlos Williams, Christopher MacGowanISBN 0811211878 (0-8112-1187-8)
Softcover, New Directions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams'Book summary:Considered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard."
So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first. [via]More editions of The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams:
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The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williamsby William Carlos Williams, Christopher MacGowanISBN 0811210634 (0-8112-1063-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams'Book summary:Considered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard."
So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first. [via]More editions of The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams:
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Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1939-1962by William Carlos Williams, Christopher MacGowanISBN 0811211886 (0-8112-1188-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1939-1962'Book summary:Considered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard."
So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first. [via]More editions of Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1939-1962:
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The Complete Storiesby Franz Kafka, Nahum N. Glatzer, Arthur SamuelsonISBN 0805210555 (0-8052-1055-5)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Stories'Book summary:How many writers get their own adjective? The work of this terminally alienated master narrator of the subconscious demanded a new descriptor; I guess they gave up and just settled on "Kafkaesque." But if you ever wonder what the original Kafkaesque work was, take a look here. The book contains all of Kafka's short and longer stories -- everything but his three novels. Most of these stories weren't even published during the author's lifetime. The widely-anthologized The Metamorphosis is here, wherein Gregor Samsa awakes from uneasy dreams to find himself insectoidally transformed, as are equally lovely pieces like A Hunger Artist, A Country Doctor and A Little Woman. [via]
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The Complete Stories : A Centennial Special Editionby Franz Kafka, Nahum N. Glatzer, Adele Grodstein, John UpdikeISBN 0805238638 (0-8052-3863-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Stories : A Centennial Special Edition'Book summary:How many writers get their own adjective? The work of this terminally alienated master narrator of the subconscious demanded a new descriptor; I guess they gave up and just settled on "Kafkaesque." But if you ever wonder what the original Kafkaesque work was, take a look here. The book contains all of Kafka's short and longer stories -- everything but his three novels. Most of these stories weren't even published during the author's lifetime. The widely-anthologized The Metamorphosis is here, wherein Gregor Samsa awakes from uneasy dreams to find himself insectoidally transformed, as are equally lovely pieces like A Hunger Artist, A Country Doctor and A Little Woman. [via]
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Complete Stories and Parablesby Franz KafkaISBN 0848808215 (0-8488-0821-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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D.H. Lawrence's Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1555460259 (1-55546-025-9)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Der Process [sic]by Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley, Hans-Gerd KochISBN 3100381300 (3-10-038130-0)
Hardcover, S. Fischer
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El Castilloby Franz KafkaISBN 8471665565 (84-7166-556-5)
Softcover, Edaf Antillas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Castillo'Book summary:El castillo es una novela de Franz Kafka. Publicada póstumamente, se trata de una obra inconclusa que Kafka había empezado a escribir en enero de 1922.
Su protagonista, conocido solamente como K., lucha para acceder a las misteriosas autoridades de un castillo que gobierna el pueblo al cual K. ha llegado a trabajar como agrimensor. En líneas generales, El castillo trata sobre la alienación, la burocracia, y la frustración, aparentemente interminable, de los intentos de un hombre de oponerse al sistema.
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El Proceso / the Processby Franz KafkaISBN 8437608562 (84-376-0856-2)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Proceso / the Process'Book summary:This brilliant writer knew how to create a nightmare world where things happen without any explanation, where the characters fight against a fate which they do´nt understand, where there are effects without any apparent cause and where all happens without any explanation, but even so, it is impossible to escape from the fascination of the plot.. [via]
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Finnegan's Wake: Fifty Yearsby Geert LernoutISBN 9051832265 (90-5183-226-5)
Softcover, Editions Rodopi
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, R. G. HampsonISBN 0140186522 (0-14-018652-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together and the brutal horror at the center of European colonialism. Conrad's crowning achievement recounts Marlow's physical and psychological journey deep into the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the mysterious trader Kurtz.[via]
@JungleFever Heading down to Africa on a boat. Too hot! I get the creeping sense this job isnt going to be as cushy as they made it sound.
The natives seem unhappy. Some are even violent! Why dont they appreciate how much weve done for them? Ungrateful welfare leeches, I say!
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- The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0140281630 (0-14-028163-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0312114915 (0-312-11491-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0393926362 (0-393-92636-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0460874772 (0-460-87477-2)
Softcover, Everyman - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0486264645 (0-486-26464-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0486419347 (0-486-41934-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0312159013 (0-312-15901-3)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0140180907 (0-14-018090-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0140240179 (0-14-024017-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0140431683 (0-14-043168-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0393955524 (0-393-95552-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0312030266 (0-312-03026-6)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0393043479 (0-393-04347-9)
Hardcover, Norton - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0140186522 (0-14-018652-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0140281630 (0-14-028163-0)
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Heart of Darknessby Ross C. Murfin, Joseph ConradISBN 0312007612 (0-312-00761-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness'Book summary:If asked to describe the way in which the study of literature is changing, most of us willing to venture an answer would say that it is becoming more theortical. Without some kind of theoretical underpinning, literary criticism runs the riskof being impressionistic, even illogical [via]
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Heart of Darkness & Selections from the Congo Diaryby Joseph Conrad, Caryl PhillipsISBN 037575377X (0-375-75377-X)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness & Selections from the Congo Diary'Book summary:Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip GourevitchOriginally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad's Congo Diary of 1890-the first notes, in effect, for the novel, which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad: "His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life." [via]
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Heart of Darkness and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192801724 (0-19-280172-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and Other Tales'Book summary:Set in an atmosphere of mystery, this novel tells of Marlow's journey up the Congo River to meet the remarkable Mr Kurtz. The other three tales also appraise the glamour and rapacity of imperial adventure and display insights into human nature and the bases of civilization. [via]
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0451526570 (0-451-52657-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Featuring a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, the author's two best-known stories tell of encounters with moral depravity in the wilds of the Congo and second selves on a voyage into the Gulf of Siam. Reprint." [via]
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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flowerby Marcel Proust, James GrieveISBN 0143039075 (0-14-303907-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Jacob's Roomby Virginia Woolf, Sue RoeISBN 0140185704 (0-14-018570-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jacob's Room'Book summary:Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob's life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach, through his years in Cambridge, then in artistic London, and finally making a trip to Greece, but this is no orthodox Bildungsroman. Jacob is presented in glimpses, in fragments, as Woolf breaks down traditional ways of representing character and experience.
The novel's composition coincided with the consolidation of Woolf's interest in feminism, and she criticizes the privilege thoughtless smugness of patriarchy, "the other side," "the men in clubs and Cabinets." Her stylistic innovations are conscious attempts to realize and develop women's writing and the novel dramatizes her interest in the ways both language and social environments shape differently the lives of men and women. [via]More editions of Jacob's Room:
- Jacob's Room: ISBN 0156457423 (0-15-645742-3)
Softcover, Harcourt - Jacob's Room: ISBN 0192836579 (0-19-283657-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Jacob's Room: ISBN 039392632X (0-393-92632-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Jacob's Room: ISBN 0451530055 (0-451-53005-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Jacob's Room: ISBN 048640109X (0-486-40109-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Jacob's Room: ISBN 0451526651 (0-451-52665-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Jacob's Room: ISBN 0140185704 (0-14-018570-4)
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- Jacob's Room: ISBN 0156457423 (0-15-645742-3)
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. Lawrence, Michael SquiresISBN 0140187863 (0-14-018786-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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- Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0141441496 (0-14-144149-6)
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0375758003 (0-375-75800-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451528883 (0-451-52888-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0486452344 (0-486-45234-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451515196 (0-451-51519-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451517873 (0-451-51787-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451522478 (0-451-52247-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451524985 (0-451-52498-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0140014845 (0-14-001484-5)
Hardcover, Penguin - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0394601483 (0-394-60148-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 039460430X (0-394-60430-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0517385872 (0-517-38587-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0517436264 (0-517-43626-4)
Hardcover, Chatham River Press - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0140187863 (0-14-018786-3)
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- Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0141441496 (0-14-144149-6)
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Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'by Michael Squires, D. H. Lawrence, M. H. Black, James T. Boulton, Lindeth VaseyISBN 0521007178 (0-521-00717-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover''Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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Mientras Agonizo / As I Lay Dyingby William Faulkner, Javier Coy, Mariano Antolin RatoISBN 8437608341 (84-376-0834-1)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Novels 1930-1935by William Faulkner, Joseph BlotnerISBN 0940450267 (0-940450-26-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novels 1930-1935'Book summary:Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him America's greatest writer of the twentieth century. "As I Lay Dying" is a dark comedy, full of horror and compassion, of a rural Mississippi family bearing the corpse of their matriarch to burial in town. "Sanctuary," a violent novel of sex and social class that moves from Mississippi back roads to the flesh-pots of Memphis, features a sadistic gangster named Popeye and a debutante with an affinity for evil. "Light in August," a near-religious vision of the hopeful stubbornness of ordinary life, is perhaps Faulkner's most moving work. "Pylon," a tale of barnstorming aviators, examines the bonds of loyalty and desire among three men and a woman. All are presented in restored texts as part of The Library of America's new, authoritative edition of Faulker's complete works. [via]
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Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Groveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 0394711823 (0-394-71182-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove'Book summary:Here are the first two volumes of Prousts monumental achievement, Swanns Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann's Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, exquisite memories, long since passedhis mothers good-night kiss, the water lilies on the Vivonne, his love for Swanns daughter Gilbertespring vividly into being. In Within a Budding Grovewhich won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, bringing the author instant famethe narrator turns from his childhood recollections and begins to explore the memories of his adolescence. As his affections for Gilberte grow dim, the narrator discovers a new object of attention in the bright-eyed Albertine. Their encounters unfold by the shores of Balbec. One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin.
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia Woolf, Susan Gubar, Mark HusseyISBN 0156030411 (0-15-603041-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:Virginia Woolf's landmark inquiry into women's role in society
In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister-a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, she takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one: women must have a fixed income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create. [via]
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Samtliche Erzahlungenby Franz Kafka, Paul RaabeISBN 3436010626 (3-436-01062-6)
Softcover, Fischer-Bucherei
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Samtliche Erzahlungen'Book summary:Franz Kafka.Sämtliche Erzählungen. [via]
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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 Trial : A New Translation Based on the Restored Textby Franz Kafka, Breon MitchellISBN 0805241655 (0-8052-4165-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trial : A New Translation Based on the Restored Text'Book summary:The story of The Trial's publication is almost as fascinating as the novel itself. Kafka intended his parable of alienation in a mysterious bureaucracy to be burned, along with the rest of his diaries and manuscripts, after his death in 1924. Yet his friend Max Brod pressed forward to prepare The Trial and the rest of his papers for publication. When the Nazis came to power, publication of Jewish writers such as Kafka was forbidden; Kafka's writings, many of which have distinctively Jewish themes, did not find a broad audience until after World War II. (Hannah Arendt once observed that although "during his lifetime he could not make a decent living, [Kafka] will now keep generations of intellectuals both gainfully employed and well-fed.") Among the current crop of Kafka heirs is Breon Mitchell, the translator of this edition of The Trial. Rather than tidying up Kafka's unconventional grammar and punctuation (as previous translators have done), Mitchell captures the loose, uneasy, even uncomfortable constructions of Kafka's original story. His translation technique is the only way to convey the comedy and confusion of this narrative, in which Josef K., "without having done anything truly wrong," is arrested, tried, convicted and executed--on a charge that is never disclosed to him. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Trial ; Metamorphosis ; In the Penal Colony: Three Theatre Adaptations from Franz Kafkaby Franz Kafka, Steven BerkoffISBN 090639984X (0-906399-84-X)
Hardcover, Amber Lane Press
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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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The Waste Land and Other Poemsby T. S. Eliot, Frank KermodeISBN 014243731X (0-14-243731-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Poems'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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The Waste Land and Other Writingsby T. S. EliotISBN 0375759344 (0-375-75934-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Writings'Book summary:Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
First published in 1922, The Waste Land, T. S. Eliots masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliots poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a potent new poetic language. As Kenneth Rexroth wrote, Eliot articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression. As commanding as his verse, Eliots criticism also transformed twentieth-century letters, and this Modern Library edition includes a selection of Eliots most important essays. [via]More editions of The Waste Land and Other Writings:
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The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poemsby T. S. Eliot, Frank KermodeISBN 0141180722 (0-14-118072-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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Wavesby Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey, Molly HiteISBN 0156031574 (0-15-603157-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waves'Book summary:One of Woolfs most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts.[via] 
Within a Budding Groveby Marcel ProustISBN 0375752196 (0-375-75219-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1419194801 (1-4191-9480-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:[via]Women in Love, by D. H. Lawrence, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:One of the most versatile and influential figures in twentieth-century literature, D. H. Lawrence was a master craftsman and profound thinker whose celebration of sexuality in an over-intellectualized world opened the door to that topic for countless writers after him.
Perhaps his finest novel, Women in Love (1920) continues the story of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, who first appeared in Lawrences novel The Rainbow (1915). The story contrasts the passionate love affairs of Ursula and Rupert Birkin, a character often seen as a self-portrait of Lawrence, with that of Gudrun and Gerald Crich, an icily handsome mining industrialist. Birkin, an introspective misanthrope, struggles to reconcile his metaphysical drive for self-fulfillment with Ursulas practical view of sentimental passion. As they fight their way through to a mutually satisfying relationshipand eventual marriageGudrun and Crichs sadomasochistic love affair careens toward a disastrous conclusion.
A dark, disturbing, yet beautiful exploration of love in an increasingly violent and destructive world, Women in Love nevertheless holds out the hope of individual and collective rebirth through human intensity and passion.Norman Loftis is a poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher, and filmmaker. His works include Exiles and Voyages (poetry, 1969), Black Anima (poetry, 1973), Life Force (novel, 1982), From Barbarism to Decadence (1984), and Condition Zero (1993). His feature films include Schaman (1984), the award-winning Small Time (1989), and Messenger (1995). He is currently Chair of the Department of Literature at the Brooklyn Campus of the College of New Rochelle and is on the faculty at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, where he has taught since 1970.
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Americaby Franz KafkaISBN 8420633534 (84-206-3353-4)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America'Book summary:ublicada en 1927 como obra postuma, Franz Kafka (1883-1924) escribio los siete capitulos iniciales de America en el otono de 1912, el primero de los cuales -El fogonero- aparecio como libro independiente en mayo de 1913. El relato de las aventuras de Karl Rossmann -un muchacho de dieciseis anos que embarca para el Nuevo Continente en busca de fortuna- constituye una de las piezas magistrales del gran escritor praguense. [via]
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El Desaparecidoby Franz KafkaISBN 8497932749 (84-9793-274-9)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Desaparecido'Book summary:El desaparecido es la primera y menos conocida de las tres novelas -todas inacabadas- que Kafka emprendio en el transcurso de su vida. Escrita en su mayor parte entre finales de 1912 y comienzos de 1913, fue publicada postumamente por Max Brod bajo el titulo de America, sugerido sin duda por el hecho de que la novela entera transcurre en Est ados Unidos. Kafka, sin embargo, dejo claro su proposito de titularla El desaparecido, indicativo de la condicion que determina la atribulada andadura de su protagonista, el joven Karl Rossman, que desde su llegada a Nueva York, expulsado del seno de su familia, se encuentra ya perdido, «desaparecido», no identificable para los demas ni para si mismo. El propio Kafka declaraba a Max Brod que esta peculiar novela de formacion, escrita bajo el ascendente indisimulado de Charles Dickens, era mas esperanzadora y «luminosa» que todo cuanto habia escrito. [via]
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Esperando a Godot / Waiting for Godotby Samuel BeckettISBN 8472238652 (84-7223-865-2)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Frank Kafka: Americaby Franz KafkaISBN 8420613444 (84-206-1344-4)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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El Proceso / the Trialby Franz KafkaISBN 8495311313 (84-95311-31-3)
Softcover, Jorge a Mestas Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Proceso / the Trial'Book summary:This brilliant writer knew how to create a nightmare world where things happen without any explanation, where the characters fight against a fate which they do´nt understand, where there are effects without any apparent cause and where all happens without any explanation, but even so, it is impossible to escape from the fascination of the plot.. [via]
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En Attendant Godotby Samuel BeckettISBN 2707301485 (2-7073-0148-5)
Softcover, Editions de Minuit
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› Find signed collectible books: 'En Attendant Godot'Book summary:Cette pièce de théâtre en deux actes de Samuel Beckett est parue en 1952 aux Editions de Minuit et a été créée le 5 janvier 1953 au théâtre de Babylone à Paris, dans une mise en scène de Roger Blin. C'est la première pièce de Beckett écrite directement en français. Elle met en scène deux couples de personnages - les clochards Estragon et Vladimir, les maître et esclave Pozzo et Lucky - et répète le même scénario sur deux actes. L'action se déroule le soir sur une route de campagne. Le seul élément de décor est un arbre dénudé. [via]
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Samtliche Erzahlungenby Franz Kafka, Paul RaabeISBN 3103381050 (3-10-338105-0)
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