| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
› Find signed collectible books: 'Alive'
Acknowledged throughout the world as one of the most moving and inspiring stories of survival ever written. In 1973, sixteen Uruguayan boys, most of them teenagers, were rescued after surviving for ten weeks in the snowy wastes of the high Andes after their plane crashed. This is the story of their survival, told with compassion, understanding, and restraint.
First published in 1974
New afterword by the author
New material by and about the survivors
Maps, photographs [via]
More editions of Alive:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'
John Wilders - literary advisor to the BBC TV Shakespeare series - brings thorough scholarship and a practical understanding of performance needs to this new edition. Clarity, accessibility and rigour are the hallmarks of an edition which will provide invaluable guidance for all its readers. "This edition has a very helpful introduction and good clear text, as well as the exceptionally excellent and detailed notes." Dr Michael Herbert, St Andrews University 'Â&a useful treatment of a complex play' Barry Gaines, University of New Mexico, Shakespeare Quarterly [via]

› Find signed collectible books: 'Arise Sir Michael Caine: The Biography'
More editions of Arise Sir Michael Caine: The Biography:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Arrowsmith'
Written at the height of his powers in the 1920s, the three novels in this volume continue the vigorous unmasking of American middle-class life begun by Sinclair Lewis in Main Street and Babbitt. In Arrowsmith (1925) Lewis portrays the medical career of Martin Arrowsmith, a physician who finds his commitment to the ideals of his profession tested by the cynicism and opportunism he encounters in private practice, public health work, and scientific research. The novel reaches its climax as its hero faces his greatest challenges amid a deadly outbreak of plague on a Caribbean island.
Elmer Gantry (1927) aroused intense controversy with its brutal depiction of a hypocritical preacher in relentless pursuit of worldly pleasure and power. Through his satiric exposé of American religion, Lewis captured the growing cultural and political tension in the 1920s between the forces of secularism and fundamentalism.
Dodsworth (1929) follows Sam Dodsworth, a wealthy, retired Midwestern automobile manufacturer, as he travels through Europe with his increasingly restless wife, Fran. The novel intimately explores the unraveling of their marriage, while pitting the proud heritage of European culture against the rude vigor of American commercialism. [via]
More editions of Arrowsmith:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bubba Ho-Tep'
The companion book to the popular moving starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK, stuck in an East Texas old folks home, faces off against a redneck mummy. Includes the original novella that the film was based on, the shooting script, an introduction by author Joe R. Lansdale and director Don Coscarelli. Also includes several stills from the film. [via]

› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime Novels'
More editions of Crime Novels:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crow: The Story Behind the Film'
More editions of The Crow: The Story Behind the Film:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Eye: The Films of David Fincher'
An indepth guide to the work of innovative young director David Fincher, whose films include Seven, Alien 3, Fight Club, and Panic Room. Featuring 60 photos. [via]
More editions of Dark Eye: The Films of David Fincher:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Death'
More editions of Death:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deerslayer'
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Deerslayer is the culmination of James Fenimore Cooper s Leather-Stocking novels, featuring Natty Bumppo (the deer-slaying young frontiersman) and the Mohican chief, Chingachgook. Cooper portrays the hubris of the conquest of a vast territory. The action takes place during the American wars of the 1740s. Natty and his friend Harry attempt to save a trapper and two young women, whose floating fort on Lake Glimmerglass is besieged by the ruthless Iroquois. The tension steadily increases to the point at which a cruel outcome seems inevitable. The exciting action, the romantic potentialities and the knowledgeable evocation of frontier life (with its moral and racial conflicts) have made this novel a perennial favourite. The courageous Natty, with his problematic values, has set the precedent for countless American heroes. Culturally, The Deerslayer has proved to be a powerfully influential work. [via]
More editions of The Deerslayer:
![Kafka, Franz: Der Process [sic] Kafka, Franz: Der Process [sic]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/3100381300.01._SL160_SCLZZZZZZZ__.jpg)
› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Process [sic]'
More editions of Der Process [sic]:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doll's House: A Play'
Large format paper back for easy reading. Extremely influential work, a challenge to Victorian values and the beginning of realist drama [via]
More editions of The Doll's House: A Play:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Strangelove'
More editions of Dr. Strangelove:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'
On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, the only place she can go is to Ethan's farm. [via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'
Eugene Onegin is an eight-chapter novel in sonnets of Pushkin's own devising, in iambic tetrameter, which he uses to modulate, Mozartlike, between deep profundity and twinkling humour, from exquisite lyrical descriptions of nature to devastating satire, all within a twinkling of the proverbial eye. The story and plot are simple, not unlike those of Pride and Prejudice, but with an open ending. Tom Beck's new translation of Eugene Onegin captures the endless variety, sparkle and vivacity of this unique novel in verse. Poetic quality, rather than slavish fidelity to the original, has been the guiding principle in this acclaimed translation. [via]
More editions of Eugene Onegin:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Falling Angel'
"A terrific book-what might have happened if Raymond Chandler had written The Exorcist."-Stephen King
"Falling Angel combines the best of the classic detective story . . . with elements of the occult with surprising humor and wit. . . . This is the literary love-child of Raymond Chandler and Stephen King. . . . Not for the faint-of-heart."-from the foreword by Ridley Scott
Falling Angel pits a tough New York private eye against any detective's most fearsome adversary. A routine missing-persons case soon turns into a fiendish nightmare in which the shadow detective Harry Angel chases seems to be his own. [via]
More editions of Falling Angel:
› Find signed collectible books: 'From Hell'
The mad, shaggy genius of the comics world dips deeply into the well of history and pulls up a cup filled with blood in From Hell. Alan Moore did a couple of Ph.D.'s worth of research into the Whitechapel murders for this copiously annotated collection of the independently published series. The web of facts, opinion, hearsay, and imaginative invention draws the reader in from the first page. Eddie Campbell's scratchy ink drawings evoke a dark and dirty Victorian London and help to humanize characters that have been caricatured into obscurity for decades. Moore, having decided that the evidence best fits the theory of a Masonic conspiracy to cover up a scandal involving Victoria's grandson, goes to work telling the story with relish from the point of view of the victims, the chief inspector, and the killer--the Queen's physician. His characterization is just as vibrant as Campbell's; even the minor characters feel fully real. Looking more deeply than most, the author finds in the "great work" of the Ripper a ritual magic working intended to give birth to the 20th century in all its horrid glory. Maps, characters, and settings are all as accurate as possible, and while the reader might not ultimately agree with Moore and Campbell's thesis, From Hell is still a great work of literature. --Rob Lightner [via]
More editions of From Hell:

› Find signed collectible books: 'A Guide to the Passion: 100 Questions About the Passion of the Christ'
More editions of A Guide to the Passion: 100 Questions About the Passion of the Christ:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gypsy: A Memoir'
Gypsy Rose Lees memoir became a New York Times bestseller in 1957, inspiring the 1959 hit musical, two movies, and three revivals. Now a fourth, directed by Arthur Laurents and starring Patti LuPone, is lighting up New York, winning top Broadway theatre awards, including three 2008 Tony Awards, as well as raves from critics and audiences:
No matter how long you live, youll never see a more exciting production. Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
Watch out, New York! This GYPSY is a wallop-packing show of raw power. Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Not your ordinary theater experience. This is the best production of the best damn musical ever. Liz Smith, Syndicated Columnist
The memoir, which Gypsy began as a series of pieces for The New Yorker, contains photographs and newspaper clippings from her personal scrapbooks and an afterword by her son, Erik Lee Preminger. At turns touching and hilarious, Gypsy describes her childhood trouping across 1920s America through her rise to stardom as The Queen of Burlesque in 1930s New Yorkwhere gin came in bathtubs, gangsters were celebrities, and Walter Winchell was king.
Gypsys story features outrageous charactersamong them Broadways funny girl, Fanny Brice, who schooled Gypsy in how to be a star; gangster Waxy Gordon, who fixed her teeth; and her indomitable mother, Rose, who lived by her own version of the Golden Rule: Do unto others & before they do you. [via]
More editions of Gypsy: A Memoir:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Halloween Tree'
More editions of The Halloween Tree:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter'
More editions of Harry Potter:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation Films, Themes, Artistry'
Director Hayao Miyazaki ranks among the most interesting and original figures currently working in world animation. His charming children's films My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service enjoy a rapidly growing audience in the U.S., and his brilliant Princess Mononoke, which broke box-office records in Japan, was released theatrically in the U.S. in November of 1999. Although storybook adaptations and a few Japanese volumes about individual films have appeared in the U.S., a major study of his work in English is long overdue. Miyazaki's many fans will enjoy Helen McCarthy's Hiyao Miyazaki and Mark Schilling's Princess Mononoke: The Art and Making of Japan's Most Popular Film of All Time, but neither is fully satisfactory.
McCarthy, who has written extensively about anime, offers an overview of the artist's career in animation and manga. She discusses each film in detail, with character descriptions and plot synopses, but she writes as a fan (rather than a critic or historian), and her text overflows with superlatives. Miyazaki is an exceptionally talented director, and his work merits a more discerning evaluation. McCarthy is also surprisingly careless about details: the ill-fated Japanese-American collaboration, Little Nemo, was in the works far longer than six years; and she describes the boar-god Nago in Mononoke as being wounded by a "ball of stone" when it's a actually an iron bullet. The latter may seem like nitpicking, but the hero's search for the source of the iron sets the plot of the film in motion. Finally, like Schilling's Princess Mononoke, Hiyao Miyazaki would have benefited from more careful proofreading; for example, McCarthy misspells the name of animation giant Winsor McCay. The extensive, but by no means complete, bibliography is a useful resource. --Charles Solomon [via]
More editions of Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation Films, Themes, Artistry:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Homeri Ilias'
More editions of Homeri Ilias:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Homeri Odyssea'
More editions of Homeri Odyssea:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Homo Faber'
mäßige Abnutzungsspuren, etwas bestoßen, Titelblatt mit Notizen sowie dezente Anstreichungen (alles Bleistift) [via]
More editions of Homo Faber:
› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Claudius and Claudius the God'
This text re-edits "I Claudius" and "Claudius the God" as part of the 21-volume Robert Graves Programme. [via]
More editions of I, Claudius and Claudius the God:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Man'
More editions of The Illustrated Man:

› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Blink of an Eye'
› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Peste'
" c'est moi qui remplace la peste ", s'écriait caligula, l'empereur dément. Bientôt, la " peste brune " déferlait sur l'europe dans un grand bruit de bottes. france déchirée aux coutures de somme et de loire, troupeaux de prisonniers, esclaves voués par millions aux barbelés et aux crématoires, sur le monde symbolique de melville ou de daniel def?, la peste éternise ces jours de ténèbres, cette " passion collective " d'une europe en folie, détournée comme oran de la mer et de sa mesure. Sans doute la guerre accentue-t-elle la séparation, la maladie, l'insécurité. mais ne sommes-nous pas toujours plus ou moins séparés, menacés, exilés, rongés comme le fruit par le ver ? face aux souffrances comme à la mort, à l'ennui des recommencements - orphée cent fois repris - la peste recense les conduites, elle nous impose la vision d'un univers sans avenir, ni finalité, un monde de la répétition et de l'étouffante monotonie, oú le drame même cesse de paraître dramatique et s'imprègne d'humour macabre, oú les hommes se définissent moins par leur démarche, leur langage et leur poids de chair que par leurs silences, leurs secrètes blessures, leurs ombres portées et leurs réactions aux défis de l'existence. La peste sera donc, au gré des interprétations, la " chronique de la résistance " ou un roman de la permanence, le prolongement de l'etranger ou " un progrès " sur l'etranger, le livre des " damnés " et des solitaires ou le manuel du relatif et de la solidarité - en tout cas, une oeuvre pudique et calculée qu'albert camus douta parfois de mener à bien au cours de sept années de gestation, de maturation et de rédaction difficiles, entrecoupées de combats du résistant et du journaliste. [via]
More editions of LA Peste:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lair of the White Worm'
More editions of The Lair of the White Worm:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Land That Time Forgot Deodand Classic'
A Jurassic nightmare confronts the crew of the U-boat U-33 when it surfaces in a lagoon on the uncharted island of Caprona. Yet, man-eating dinosaurs are the least of their problems. Out of fuel, lost, and with a mixed crew of English captives and German sailors struggling for control of the submarine, the castaways must co-operate or perish on the unforgiving island. Bowen Tyler enters into the uneasy arrangement with good intentions, but the Prussian captain, von Schoenvorts, bides his time, nurturing his jealousies and hatred until it is too late, and catastrophe strikes. The Land That Time Forgot remains a classic ripping yarn and fast-paced adventure story, one of Edgar Rice Burroughs' most enduringly popular tales. [via]
More editions of The Land That Time Forgot Deodand Classic:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'
More editions of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle'
More editions of Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'
C'est un tel classique qu'on a toujours l'impression de l'avoir déjà lu... ou vu : avec Michel Bouquet dans le rôle de Javert, ou bien Depardieu. Relire donc Les Misérables, publié par Victor Hugo en 1862, offre le plaisir de la reconnaissance et du recommencement. Toujours on sera emporté par la tension romanesque du livre, ses figures inoubliables, ses langues multiples - n'oublions pas que Hugo est le premier à introduire l'argot et la langue populaire dans le français écrit -, ses histoires et son temps. De la récidive malheureuse de Jean Valjean, frais libéré du bagne, à sa progressive rédemption, de l'enfance désastreuse de Cosette à son idylle avec Marius, de la figure sacrificielle de Fantine aux personnages sinistres de Thénardier et de Javert, le roman propose une belle leçon d'humanité vivante. "Je viens détruire la fatalité humaine, écrit Hugo, je condamne l'esclavage, je chasse la misère, j'enseigne l'ignorance, je traite la maladie, j'éclaire la nuit, je hais la haine. Voilà ce que je suis et voilà pourquoi j'ai fait Les Misérables." --Céline Darner [via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Rings: A Location Guidebook'
Since the first screening of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001, New Zealand has become the embodiment of "Middle-earth" to millions of moviegoers the world over. This definitive guidebook showcases the principal movie-set locations around New Zealand as seen in all three films.
Ian Brodie's guide enables fans of Peter Jackson's cinematic masterpiece to experience their own unique insight into the magic and complexity of Middle-earth. Produced with the full cooperation of New Line Productions, Inc., he presents a comprehensive review of the movie locations, useful touring information including accommodation, food and entertainment suggestions, interviews with key cast and crew, and a foreword written by Peter Jackson.
[via]More editions of Lord of the Rings: A Location Guidebook:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook'
The only authorised guide to the many New Zealand locations used in the filming of all three Lord of the Rings films. Since the first screening of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001, New Zealand has become the embodiment of Middle-earth to millions of moviegoers and Tolkien readers the world over. This definitive full-colour guidebook, completely updated and expanded since it was first published as a New Zealand exclusive edition for Christmas 2002, showcases the principal movie set locations around New Zealand as seen in all three films. A perfect book for those swept away by the beauty of the locations in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, it includes: / Maps and location directions / Useful touring information including accommodation, food and entertainment suggestions / GPS references to location sites / Exclusive movie photographs, plus stunning before-and-after photos by the author / Sections written specially by Peter Jackson (Director), Alan Lee (Designer), Richard Taylor (Special FX) and Barrie Osborne (Producer), plus contributions from all the actors [via]
More editions of The Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook: Travel Diary'
With the help of The Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook, thousands of fans worldwide have been able to follow Peter Jackson and the Fellowship as they experience the spectacular locations where the Oscar-winning The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy was created.
In this unique diary, especially created to accompany Ian Brodie's best-selling guidebook series, travelers can re-create their own journey with diary entries, photographs and even a pressed flower from Ithilien or a leaf from Rivendell. Beautifully packaged, this is a must-have item for anyone wishing to preserve special memories and thoughts as they walk in Frodo's footsteps.
[via]More editions of The Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook: Travel Diary:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Love's Labours Lost'
Another example of Shakespeare's comic fascination with the battle between and misunderstanding of the sexes, Love's Labour's Lost is a difficult play to read, but one which is extremely effective on stage. The Play opens with King Ferdinand of Navarre and his courtiers taking a vow of study and sexual abstinence for a period of three years. However, their vows are soon placed under strain with the arrival of the Princess of France and her ladies in waiting. The inevitable happens, and the different couples attempt to surreptitiously communicate, causing much hilarious confusion and embarrassment in the process. Shakespeare deploys every farcical element in the book, including impersonation, wrongly delivered letters, outrageous puns and word play, fights, drunkenness and masquerades, as Ferdinand's entourage soon learn that rather than running from women to books, it is in fact the opposite sex that "are the books, the arts, the academes/That show, contain, and nourish all the world". However, one of the most interesting aspects of the play is that it does not end with everyone marrying and living happily ever after. The women give as good as they get from the men, and in the end turn the tables in extremely interesting ways. One of Shakespeare's most linguistically challenging, but also intelligent comedies. --Jerry Brotton [via]
More editions of Love's Labours Lost:
This Arden third series edition of "Love's Labour's Lost" offers a distinctive interpretation of the play. It gives full commentary and pays close attention to its verbal and theatrical patterning and to Shakespeare's interest in linguistic innovation. The text has been edited from the 1598 Quarto, with reference to the First Folio of 1623, and sets the work in the literary context of the 1590s. [via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'Maltese Falcon'
Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (including The Dain Curse and The Glass Key), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the police, risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for his help, while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the next moment.
Spade's partner is murdered on a stakeout; the cops blame him for the killing; a beautiful redhead with a heartbreaking story appears and disappears; grotesque villains demand a payoff he can't provide; and everyone wants a fabulously valuable gold statuette of a falcon, created as tribute for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Who has it? And what will it take to get it back? Spade's solution is as complicated as the motives of the seekers assembled in his hotel room, but the truth can be a cold comfort indeed.
Spade is bigger (and blonder) in the book than in the movie, and his Mephistophelean countenance is by turns seductive and volcanic. Sam knows how to fight, whom to call, how to rifle drawers and secrets without leaving a trace, and just the right way to call a woman "Angel" and convince her that she is. He is the quintessence of intelligent cool, with a wise guy's perfect pitch. If you only know the movie, read the book. If you're riveted by Chinatown or wonder where Robert B. Parker's Spenser gets his comebacks, read the master. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
More editions of Maltese Falcon:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man With the Golden Arm'
More editions of The Man With the Golden Arm:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The MGM Story: The Complete History of Sixty-Five Roaring Years'
More editions of The MGM Story: The Complete History of Sixty-Five Roaring Years:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Moll Flanders'
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c. (1722) by Daniel Defoe is a picaresque adventure-filled life story of a tenacious, smart, beautiful, and charismatic woman who aspires to be a lady but who begins her life as the daughter of a convict in Newgate prison.
At various points engaging in prostitution, incest, theft, cons and machinations, and ultimately finding penitence, security, and true love, is Moll Flanders an amoral criminal or a sympathetic woman trying to survive harsh circumstances and better her life? [via]
More editions of Moll Flanders:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America'
In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on an ancient Norton motorbike. The journey lasted six months and took them thousands of miles, all the way from Argentina to Venezuela. En route, there was disasters and discoveries, high drama, low comedy, fights, parties and a lot of serious drinking. They met an extraordinary range of people: native indians and copper miners, lepers, police, wanderers and tourists. They became stowaways, firemen and football coaches, and joined in a strike. They sometimes fell in love, and frequently fell off the motorbike. Both of them kept diaries. One of them was a tall and good-looking medical student called Ernest Guevara de la Serna. Using the standard Argentinean nickname, others would sometimes refer to the two companions as Big Che and Little Che. In Ernesto's case, the nickname stuck. Within a decade the whole world would know Che Guevara. This is the story of that remarkable journey, eight years before the Cuban Revolution, in Che's own words, and illustrated with contemporary photographs. For Che, it was a formative experience, and amidst the humour and pathos of the tale, there are examples of his idealism and his solidarity with the poor and the oppressed. But it is far from being the diary of a militant, and sometimes very far from being "political correct", which may be the reason that the manuscript has only been made available now, a quarter century after Che's death in the Bolivian jungle. Instead, it is a record kept by an exuberant, intelligent and observant 23-year-old, describing what might have been the adventure of a lifetime - had his lifetime not turned into a much greater adventure. [via]
More editions of Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey'
The book of the popular movie
STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The young Che Guevaras lively and highly entertaining travel diary.This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the man and the icon.
As his journey progresses, Guevaras voice seems to deepen, to darken, colored by what he witnesses in his travels. He is still poetic, but now he comments on what he sees, though still poetically, with a new awareness of the social and political ramifications of whats going on around him.January Magazine
A journey, a number of journeys. Ernesto Guevara in search of adventure, Ernesto Guevara in search of America, Ernesto Guevara in search of Che. On this journey of journeys, solitude found solidarity, I turned into we. Eduardo Galeano
When I read these notes for the first time, I was quite young myself and I immediately identified with this man who narrated his adventures in such a spontaneous manner& To tell you the truth, the more I read, the more I was in love with the boy my father had been& Aleida Guevara
Our film is about a young man, Che, falling in love with a continent and finding his place in it. Walter Salles, director of The Motorcycle Diaries.
Also available in Spanish: DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA (978-1-920888-11-4)
Features of this edition include:
Published in association with the Che Guevara Studies Center, Havana
More editions of The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'
More editions of The Odyssey:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Pain & Fear'
More editions of Pain & Fear:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Partnership'
Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth's first novel, published for the first time in the United States.
Foley and Moss are partners in a successful small business, making plaster pixies for the tourist trade. Foley is the artistic member of the partnership; he thinks up the ideas and designs and has pretensions to even greater artistry in his cherub lamps and fixtures. Moss, the seemingly quiet one who supplied the capital for the venture, manufactures them. Barry Unsworth sets his scene magnificentlya Cornish village, Lanruan, thriving on specious tourism, and its local characters: Graham, the primitive painter; Bailey, the loud-mouthed Northerner who comes to Lanruan to make his fortune; Barbara, the nearest thing the village possesses to a bad girl; and above all Gwendoline, who, inadvertently, begins the rift in the partnership between Foley and Moss. The Partnership is a disquieting, darkly funny tale about hidden desires and the unspoken attachments we have for one another. [via]More editions of The Partnership:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Greenaway: The Pillow Book'
More editions of Peter Greenaway: The Pillow Book:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Phantom of the Opera : Film Companion'
More editions of Phantom of the Opera : Film Companion:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Pollyanna'
More editions of Pollyanna:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Badge of Courage'
First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this powerful psychological study of a young soldier's struggle with the horrors, both within and without, that war strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and with its masterful descriptions of the moment-by-moment riot of emotions felt by me under fire. Ernest Hemingway called the novel an American classic, and Crane's genius is as much apparent in his sharp, colorful prose as in his ironic portrayal of an episode of war so intense, so immediate, so real that the terror of battle becomes our own ... in a masterpiece so unique that many believe modern American fiction began with Stephen Crane.
"The Red Badge Of Courage" has long been considered the first great 'modern' novel of war by an American--the first novel of literary distinction to present war without heroics and this in a spirit of total irony and skepticism." -- Alfred Kazin [via]
More editions of The Red Badge of Courage:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Rocky Horror: From Concept to Cult'
More editions of Rocky Horror: From Concept to Cult:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rough Guide to Cult Movies'
The Rough Guide to Cult Movies is like no other film guide. Embracing Westerns to film school classics to Mexican wrestling movies, the guide will include a synopsis, review and inside information on each film. Full of movie facts, the book also explains how films have evolved, tracing the rise of the star and the director, and examines how the industry may change further with the advent of the Internet. [via]
More editions of The Rough Guide to Cult Movies:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Sculpting a Galaxy: Inside the Star Wars Model Shop'
More editions of Sculpting a Galaxy: Inside the Star Wars Model Shop:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Serenity Role Playing Game'
Here's How It Is... The Earth got used up, and we found a new solar system and used terraforming technology to create hundreds of new Earths. The central planets formed the Alliance and decided that all worlds should unite under their rule. There was some disagreement on that point. After the Unification War, many of the Independents who had fought and lost drifted to the edges of the system, far from Alliance control. Out here, people struggled to get by with the most basic technologies. A ship would bring you work, a gun would help you keep it. A captain's goal was simple: find a crew, find a job, keep flying. The Serenity Role Playing Game lets you re-create the action of the 'Verse, the science-fiction setting created by writer/director Joss Whedon. Fly a ship out in the black, take jobs as they come, and always make sure you get paid. Everything you need to get started is right here! All you need is dice, friends, and your imagination. - A self-contained role playing game. All the rules are provided for both players and Game Masters! - Full character creation rules, plus fifteen sample characters-including the crew of Serenity. - Complete details on spaceships, guns, and technology. - Emphasis on story, action, and character development with easy-to-learn rules. - Game details and descriptions of the characters and settings of the film! [via]
More editions of Serenity Role Playing Game:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sheltering Sky'
Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important composer when at age 39 he published The Sheltering Sky and became recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. From his base in Tangier he produced globally ranging novels, stories, and travel writings that set exquisite surfaces over violent undercurrents. His elegantly spare novels chart the unpredictable collisions between "civilized" exiles and a Morocco they never grasp, achieving effects of extreme horror and dislocation.
This Library of America Bowles set, the first annotated edition, offers the full range of his achievement: the portrait of an outsider who was one of the essential American writers of the last century. In addition to his novels-The Sheltering Sky (1949), Let It Come Down (1952), The Spider's House (1955), Up Above the World (1966)-and his collected stories-including such classics as "A Distant Episode" and "Pages from Cold Point"-they contain his masterpiece of travel writing, Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963). Throughout, Bowles shows himself a master of gothic terror and a diabolically funny observer of manners as well as a prescient guide to everything from the roots of Islamist politics to the world of Moghrebi music. With a hallucinatory clarity as dry and unforgiving as the desert air, Bowles sends his characters toward encounters with unknown and terrifying forces both outside them and within them. [via]
More editions of The Sheltering Sky:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sliding Doors'
More editions of Sliding Doors:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Snatch!'
More editions of Snatch!:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time'
More editions of Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and the Religion in the Matrix'
More editions of Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and the Religion in the Matrix:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'
More editions of The Taming of the Shrew:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'
The Tempest has long dazzled readers and audiences with its intricate blend of magic, music, humour, intrigue and tenderness, its vibrant but ambiguous central characters. As Virginia and Alden Vaughan show, in their wide-ranging new edition of this established favourite, such antithetical extremes exemplify the playÂ's endlessly arguable nature, its appeal to diverse eras and cultures. The Vaughans situate The Tempest at the centre of changing cultural attitudes towards colonialism, power politics and patriarchal hierarchies, and demonstrate how the play both shaped and reflected those changing attitudes. Informed by the concerns of a post-colonial international community, their edition emphasizes the play's world-wide cultural appropriation, and includes an extensive discussion of the play's after-life as well as an appendix of selected appropriations. The interdisciplinary editorial approach contributes a distinctively blended cultural and historical focus. Â'The Vaughans have provided a valuable new edition of the play, one whose expanded contextualisation, especially, will contribute to The TempestÂ's lively and varied afterlife both within and beyond the classroom.Â' Barbara Fuchs, University of Washington, Seattle, Shakespeare Quarterly [via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Time Traveler's Wife'
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel. [via]
More editions of The Time Traveler's Wife:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Titus Andronicus'
More editions of Titus Andronicus:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Titus Andronicus'
Shakespeare's most violent and gory play, Titus Andronicus was written in 1592, and represents the dramatist's first foray into the popular genre of revenge tragedy (many editors argue with at least one other collaborator). The result was spectacular, including scenes of murder, human sacrifice, rape, bodily mutilation and cannibalism. Set in late-imperial Rome, the action begins with the Roman general Titus Andronicus and his triumphant return from wars with the Goths. Leading Queen Tamora and her sons as prisoners, Titus stumbles into a power struggle between Saturninus and his brother Bassianus. Titus fatally backs Saturninus, who rapidly turns on the old general and marries Tamora. The implications for the Andronicus family are disastrous. More of Titus' sons are killed, his daughter Lavinia is brutally raped by Tamora's sons, and as Titus begins his descent into madness and despair he even has his own hand cut off in an act of awful trickery. As Titus plots his bloody revenge, he reflects that "Rome is but a wilderness of tigers". The ending is one of the most gruesome conclusions to any dramatic tragedy, and leaves Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs looking quite restrained. Although the play has put audiences off for centuries due to its apparently gratuitous violence, more recently critics have discerned something more to it than pure shock, but that might say more about us than the Elizabethans. .--Jerry Brotton [via]
More editions of Titus Andronicus:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Treasure Island'
Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'Twentyfourseven: Including Left (Small Time) and Where's the Money Ronnie'
More editions of Twentyfourseven: Including Left (Small Time) and Where's the Money Ronnie:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ugly Dachshund'
More editions of The Ugly Dachshund:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real'
A stuffed toy rabbit (with real thread whiskers) comes to life in Margery Williams's timeless tale of the transformative power of love. Given as a Christmas gift to a young boy, the Velveteen Rabbit lives in the nursery with all of the other toys, waiting for the day when the Boy (as he is called) will choose him as a playmate. In time, the shy Rabbit befriends the tattered Skin Horse, the wisest resident of the nursery, who reveals the goal of all nursery toys: to be made "real" through the love of a human. "'Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'" This sentimental classic--perfect for any child who's ever thought that maybe, just maybe, his or her toys have feelings--has been charming children since its first publication in 1922. (A great read-aloud for all ages, but children ages 8 and up can read it on their own.) [via]
More editions of The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real:

› Find signed collectible books: 'War and Peace'
More editions of War and Peace:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bonsoir Lune'
Book Details:
More editions of Bonsoir Lune:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlie Et LA Grand Ascenseur'
More editions of Charlie Et LA Grand Ascenseur:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter'
More editions of Harry Potter:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Journal'
De juillet 1942 à août 1944, une petite fille juive partage le sort précaire de sept personnes contraintes de se cacher pour échapper à la gestapo. Tandis que les nazis ajoutent un chapitre capital et sanglant au "Bréviaire de la haine", elle note dans son journalier les menus faits et gestes de la communauté. Anne Frank tient la chronique d'une microsociété clandestine, sans rien abandonner de sa propre subjectivité. Malgré la réclusion, la peur, le monde extérieur en feu, elle reproduit fidèlement la gamme des sentiments que lui inspirent son âge et son coeur : tour à tour irritée, tendre, injuste, amoureuse. Comme si, se sentant menacée par l'imminence d'un destin tragique, elle voulait vivre en accéléré l'histoire de sa sensibilité. [via]
More editions of Journal:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'
1779pages. in8. Relié. C'est un tel classique qu'on a toujours l'impression de l'avoir déjà lu. ou vu : avec Michel Bouquet dans le rôle de Javert, ou bien Depardieu. Relire donc Les Misérables, publié par Victor Hugo en 1862, offre le plaisir de la reconnaissance et du recommencement. Toujours on sera emporté par la tension romanesque du livre, ses figures inoubliables, ses langues multiples - n'oublions pas que Hugo est le premier à introduire l'argot et la langue populaire dans le français écrit -, ses histoires et son temps. De la récidive malheureuse de Jean Valjean, frais libéré du bagne, à sa progressive rédemption, de l'enfance désastreuse de Cosette à son idylle avec Marius, de la figure sacrificielle de Fantine aux personnages sinistres de Thénardier et de Javert, le roman propose une belle leçon d'humanité vivante. "Je viens détruire la fatalité humaine, écrit Hugo, je condamne l'esclavage, je chasse la misère, j'enseigne l'ignorance, je traite la maladie, j'éclaire la nuit, je hais la haine. Voilà ce que je suis et voilà pourquoi j'ai fait Les Misérables. " -Céline Darner [via]
More editions of Les Miserables:
› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Part Des Tenebres/the Dark Half'
broché poche en bon etat d'occasion - terreur - [via]
More editions of LA Part Des Tenebres/the Dark Half:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Tour Des Anges'
À la fin du premier volet, Les Royaumes du Nord, on avait quitté la jeune Lyra au moment où elle franchissait le pont entre deux mondes édifié par son père. On la retrouve donc dans un autre univers, où elle est rejointe par Will, débarqué, lui, d'un troisième monde très semblable au nôtre. On retrouve aussi la glaçante Mme Coulter, l'intrépide Lee Scoresby, entre autres personnages découverts dans le premier tome et désormais familiers. Apparaissent de nouveaux amis, mais aussi de nouveaux ennemis redoutables : des spectres qui vampirisent les adultes et sont invisibles aux yeux des enfants. Peu à peu, le mystère de la Poussière s'éclaircit tout en révélant sa complexité.
Il est question d'ésotérisme, de théologie, de destin, au fil d'aventures palpitantes narrées dans un style éblouissant. À ne surtout pas réserver aux enfants à partir de 11 ans, l'oeuvre envoûtante de Philip Pullman est appelée à devenir un classique de la littérature fantastique. --Pascale Wester [via]
More editions of Tour Des Anges:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Frischs Homo Faber'
More editions of Frischs Homo Faber:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Gangs Von New York'
More editions of Der Gangs Von New York:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ilias'
Die Serie "Meisterwerke der Literatur" beinhaltet die Klassiker der deutschen und weltweiten Literatur in einer einzigartigen Sammlung für Ihren eBook Reader. Lesen Sie die besten Werke großer Schriftsteller,Poeten, Autoren und Philosophen auf Ihrem Kindle Reader. Digital überarbeitet und in allerbester Qualität und bei den allermeisten Titeln inklusive eines interaktiven Inhaltsverzeichnisses für einfache Orientierung.
Die Ilias (altgriechisch 8»¹¬Â Iliás, vermutlich Troerin), eines der ältesten schriftlich fixierten Werke Europas, schildert einen Abschnitt des troianischen Krieges. Das Epos umfasst 24 Bücher bzw. Gesänge, wie diese Abschnitte seit der Übersetzung durch Johann Heinrich Voß bezeichnet werden. Die Ilias beruht auf frühgeschichtlichen Mythen und Erzählungen und wird Homer zugeschrieben (zur Verfasserschaft, auch hinsichtlich der Odyssee, siehe Homerische Frage). Die Ilias-Darstellung der Olympischen Götter dürfte erheblich zur Entwicklung einer nationalen griechischen Religion beigetragen haben und prägt bis in die Gegenwart die europäische Kunst- und Geisteswissenschaft. (aus wikipedia.de) [via]
More editions of Ilias:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Krieger + Die Kaiserin'
Lola rennt hatte Erfolg -- und was für einen! Sogar im nicht gerade nach deutschen Filmen lechzenden englischsprachigen Ausland erhielt der Film Anerkennung. Jeder wartete nun gespannt, was Regisseur Tom Tykwer denn als Nächstes auf die Leinwand bringen würde. Und, kleiner Tusch, es wurde Der Krieger und die Kaiserin.
Mit diesem zwischen Romantik und Thriller angesiedelten Film hat sich Tykwer so ziemlich jeder Erwartungshaltung entzogen, die man auf ihn angesetzt hatte. Filmtechnisch nicht so stürmisch wie Lola kommt der im eher unglamourösen Wuppertal angesiedelte Streifen in ruhigerem Erzähltempo daher. Einzig die Besetzung der weiblichen Hauptrolle hatte man wohl so vermutet (sie ist schließlich seine Lebensgefährtin): Franka Potente gibt die Kaiserin, eine zurückhaltende Krankenschwester in einer Nervenheilanstalt. Bei einem Autounfall lernt sie den Krieger (Benno Fürmann) kennen, der ihr das Leben rettet. Ein bislang ungekanntes Gefühl entsteht in der Frau, das wohl Liebe sein muss.
Nicht als Roman, sondern als Drehbuch findet sich diese Story im Filmband wieder. Um dieses Shooting Script herum erblickt man massenweise Filmfotos in ausgezeichneter Qualität und als Beilage neben den obligatorischen Schauspieler-Filmografien noch ein langes Interview mit Tom Tykwer. Hier berichtet der Filmemacher beispielsweise von seiner Recherche in einer geschlossenen psychiatrischen Klinik oder begründet die Auswahl des Schauplatzes Wuppertal (Tykwers Heimatstadt).
Kritik gibt es an diesem Band wenig, wer ein Drehbuch kauft, weiß in der Regel, was ihn erwartet. Ein Abdruck der kompletten Schlusscredits wäre noch nett gewesen, die dürften aber tatsächlich nur die hart gesottensten Fans vermissen. Ansonsten bleibt der Band einfach ein schönes Büchlein zu einem interessanten Film. --Joachim Hohwieler [via]
More editions of Der Krieger + Die Kaiserin:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Zähne zeigen'
Zähne zeigen, monumental im Ausmaß und intim im Ansatz, ist ein ehrgeiziger Roman. Seine Themen drehen sich um Herkunft, Religion, Geschlechterbeziehungen, Hautfarbe, gesellschaftliche Stellung und Geschichte, aber Zadie Smith ist mit einem Witz und einem Einfallsreichtum gesegnet, die diese gewichtigen Ideen mühelos leicht erscheinen lassen.
Die Handlung führt uns nach Jamaika, die Türkei, Bangladesch und Indien und bringt uns schließlich in einen schäbigen Vorort von North London, in dem die zwei merkwürdigen Helden dieses Buches zu Hause sind: Archie Jones, der es mit der Wahrheit nicht so genau nimmt, und Samad Iqbal, der im hohen Maße dem Alkohol zuspricht. Sie begegneten sich erstmals im Zweiten Weltkrieg als Mitglieder eines vom Pech verfolgten Bataillons und sind seitdem unzertrennlich. Archie heiratet die schöne Clara mit den vorstehenden Zähnen, die sich auf der Flucht vor ihrer Mutter befindet, einer Zeugin Jehovas, und mit der er eine Tochter hat, Irie. Samad heiratet die pampige Alsana, die ihm zwei stramme Jungs schenkt -- Zwillinge: "Kinder mit Vor- und Zunamen, die sich auf direktem Kollisionskurs befinden; Namen, hinter denen sich Massenexodus, überfüllte Boote und Flugzeuge, unfreundliche Ankünfte und ärztliche Untersuchungen verbergen."
Große Fragen verlangen nach kühn gezeichneten Charakteren. Zadie Smiths Helden sind nicht heroisch; sie sind einfach echt: warmherzig, komisch, fehlgeleitet und absolut vertraut. Wenn man ihre Unterhaltungen liest, kommt man sich vor, als würde man sie heimlich belauschen. In einer ganz einfachen Szene unterhalten sich Alsana und Clara im Park über ihre Schwangerschaften: "Eine Frau muss ihre privaten Dinge haben -- ein Ehemann sollte sich nicht in die körperlichen Angelegenheiten einmischen, in den Intimbereich einer Frau."
Samad ist verärgert über seine Söhne: "Sie sind beide vom Weg abgekommen; so weit weg von dem, was ich für sie geplant hatte. Es gibt wohl keinen Zweifel, dass sie beide irgendwann weiße Frauen heiraten werden, die Sheila heißen, und mich früh unter die Erde bringen." Hier spiegeln sich "die Ängste des Einwanderers -- Identitätsverlust, Auflösung" -- deutlich wider, die Samad mehr als alles andere geprägt haben.
Die Lektüre von Zähne zeigen ist eine wahre Freude. In diesem Buch wimmelt es vor Leben und Überschwänglichkeit, und doch besitzt es genug Schläue und despektierliche Seriosität, um ihm eine gewisse Bissigkeit zu geben. --Eithne Farry [via]
More editions of Zähne zeigen:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Diarios De Motocicleta :Notas De Viaje / Motorcycle Diaries: Notas De Viaje'
When I read these notes for the first time, I was quite young myself and I immediately identified with this man who narrated his adventures in such a spontaneous manner . . .
There were moments when I literally took over Granados place on the motorbike and clung to my dads back, journeying with him over the mountains and around the lakes . . .
To tell you the truth, the more I read, the more I was in love with the boy my father had been . . . from Aleida Guevaras preface
A journey, a number of journeys. Ernesto Guevara in search of adventure, Ernesto Guevara in search of America, Ernesto Guevara in search of Che. On this journey of journeys, solitude found solidarity, I turned into we.Eduardo Galeano
More editions of Diarios De Motocicleta :Notas De Viaje / Motorcycle Diaries: Notas De Viaje:
Results page: PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101-115 NEXT
