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The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917by Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthyISBN 1933330104 (1-933330-10-4)
Softcover, Stone Bridge Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917'Book summary:In this important book, Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy present an enormous amount of information about 2,000 series and features, detailing their plots and relationships to other anime properties. In these areas, the book is definitive, and readers can only wish a comparable volume existed for American animation. The authors are less sure about non-Japanese influences (Cowboy Bebop owes more to noir detective films than to Route 66), and they focus more on storylines and the business of anime than on visuals. They don't discuss the influence of American Saturday morning TV on early anime designs (Speed Racer, the component series of Robotech) or the art nouveau styling in Revolutionary Girl Utena. The editorial evaluations are much harsher than McCarthy's The Anime Movie Guide: some of the most popular anime series in America--Tenchi, Evangelion, Ranma 1/2--receive sharp criticism. The result is a book that anime fans will either love or love to argue with. --Charles Solomon [via]
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The Art of Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Including the Complete Script of the Film by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucasby George Lucas, Lawrence KasdanISBN 1852865857 (1-85286-585-7)
Hardcover, Titan
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The Beachby Alex GarlandISBN 1573226521 (1-57322-652-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beach'Book summary:In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land--forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation in Alex Garland's debut novel, The Beach. Human progress has reduced Eden to a secret little beach near Thailand. In the tradition of grand adventure novels, Richard, a rootless traveler rambling around Thailand on his way somewhere else, is given a hand-drawn map by a madman who calls himself Daffy Duck. He and two French travelers set out on a journey to find this paradise.
What makes this a truly satisfying novel is the number of levels on which it operates. On the surface it's a fast-paced adventure novel; at another level it explores why we search for these utopias, be they mysterious lost continents or small island communes. Garland weaves a gripping and thought-provoking narrative that suggests we are, in fact, such products of our Western culture that we cannot help but pollute and ultimately destroy the very sanctuary we seek [via]
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Brassey's Guide to War Filmsby Alun EvansISBN 1574882635 (1-57488-263-5)
Softcover, Potomac Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brassey's Guide to War Films'Book summary:Alun Evans explores war films with alphabetically arranged entries on more than 3,000 war films, set in every period from ancient Greece through today. Entries list the date, director, cinematographer, original book (if any), and actors, with a brief description and appreciation. User-friendly appendix material cross-references entries by period and subgenre.
Includes:
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
APOCALYPSE NOW
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
THE SANDS OF IWO JIMA
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Change Your Underwear Twice a Week: Lessons from the Golden Age of Classroom Filmstripby Danny GregoryISBN 1579652638 (1-57965-263-8)
Softcover, Artisan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Change Your Underwear Twice a Week: Lessons from the Golden Age of Classroom Filmstrip'Book summary:In the pre-Internet, pre-VCRoh, go ahead, call them prehistoricdays of baby boomers' grade school, the high art of audiovisual classroom programming was the filmstrip. If you're old enough, you remember the darkened room, the hum of the projector, and the beeep that signaled the teacher to turn to the next frame.
If you weren't busy shooting spitballs, filmstrips might even have taught you something about science, hygiene, the great bounty of American farms and factories. With simple illustrations and quaint photographs that evoke a more innocent era, Change Your Underwear Twice a Week is the first book to collect dozens of these filmstrip treasures together, creating a panorama of four decades of overlooked graphic design, popular culture, and inadvertent humor.
Readers from the Internet generation will get a good chuckle over what appears to be electronic cave art. But you'll also discover one of the great subtexts of postwar American life. From the mid-1940s until the late 1960s, filmstrips were the coming attractions of capitalism and the American way, teaching youngsters how society wanted them to view the world.
Filmstrips celebrated our foundering railroads ("Tommy Takes a Train Trip"), the space program ("The Moon, Our Nearest Neighbor"), and our trusted friend the butcher, the milkman, the mailman, and the cop. They taught us not to sit too close to our new TV sets and why we should change our underwear twice a week (presumably, Commies did this only once a week).
A chronicle of America's filmstrip experience, Change Your Underwear Twice a Week is also a glimpse into the companies and eccentric pioneers who created these graphic gems and how they influenced several generations of American youth. [via]
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The Complete Book of Oscar Fashion: Variety's 75 Years of Glamour on the Red Carpetby Reeve ChaceISBN 1594290016 (1-59429-001-6)
Hardcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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Draculaby Bram Stroker, Brooke AllenISBN 1593080042 (1-59308-004-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:[via]Dracula, by Bram Stoker, 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:Count Dracula has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to Bram Stoker's original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption. Dracula chronicles the vampire's journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his frightful power.
Today's critics see Dracula as a virtual textbook on Victorian repression of the erotic and fear of female sexuality. In it, Stoker created a new word for terror, a new myth to feed our nightmares, and a character who will outlive us all.Brooke Allen is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hudson Review. A collection of her essays, Twentieth-Century Attitudes, will be published in 2003.More editions of Dracula:
- Dracula: ISBN 1593081146 (1-59308-114-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Dracula: ISBN 1840681284 (1-84068-128-4)
Softcover, Creation Books - Dracula: ISBN 185326086X (1-85326-086-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Dracula: ISBN 1897217420 (1-897217-42-0)
Softcover, Coscom Entertainment - Dracula: ISBN 159308160X (1-59308-160-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Dracula: ISBN 1933652357 (1-933652-35-7)
Hardcover, Bed Book - Dracula: ISBN 1582791872 (1-58279-187-2)
Hardcover, Trident Press International - Dracula: ISBN 159679240X (1-59679-240-X)
Hardcover, Spotlight - Dracula: ISBN 1593080042 (1-59308-004-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
- Dracula: ISBN 1593081146 (1-59308-114-6)
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The Essential Phantom of the Operaby Gaston Leroux, Leonard WolfISBN 1596871970 (1-59687-197-0)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Phantom of the Opera'Book summary:The Essential Phantom of the Opera is the most comprehensive edition ever produced of the classic 1911 novel of romance, mystery, and psychological suspense, fully annotated with thousands of fascinating facts and legends. Here is the complete, authoritative edition of literature's most bizarre tale of love, obsession, and aberration-a story that has held an irresistible fascination for audiences and readers for nearly a century. [via]
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Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds And Space Hookers In Joss Whedon's Fireflyby Glenn YeffethISBN 1932100431 (1-932100-43-1)
Softcover, Benbella Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds And Space Hookers In Joss Whedon's Firefly'Book summary:[via]** COMPLETELY UNAUTHORIZED **In this eclectic anthology of essays, former cast member Jewel Staite, "Kaylee," philosopher Lyle Zynda, sex therapist Joy Davidson, and noted science fiction and fantasy authors Mercedes Lackey, David Gerrold, and Lawrence Watt-Evans contribute to a clever and insightful analysis of the short-lived cult hit Firefly. From What went wrong with the pilot? to What's right about Reavers? and how the correspondence between the show's creator Joss Whedon and the network executives might have actually played out, the writers interrogate the show's complexity and speculate about what might have been if the show Firefly had not been cancelled.More editions of Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds And Space Hookers In Joss Whedon's Firefly:
Fortune and Glory: A True Hollywood Comic Book Storyby Brian Michael Bendis, K. C. McCrory, Jamie S. RichISBN 1929998066 (1-929998-06-6)
Softcover, Oni Press, Incorporated
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jill MullerISBN 1593082770 (1-59308-277-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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- Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 1853261041 (1-85326-104-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 1934169242 (1-934169-24-2)
Hardcover, Norilana Books - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 1577658094 (1-57765-809-4)
Hardcover, Spotlight - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 1593082770 (1-59308-277-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
- Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 1853261041 (1-85326-104-1)
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1587260883 (1-58726-088-3)
Softcover, Ann Arbor Media Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 1593080050 (1-59308-005-0)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 1593081154 (1-59308-115-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 1853260231 (1-85326-023-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 1593081618 (1-59308-161-8)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 1851960775 (1-85196-077-5)
Hardcover, Pickering & Chatto Publishers, Limited - Frankenstein: ISBN 1854771175 (1-85477-117-5)
Hardcover, Woodstock Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 1577656865 (1-57765-686-5)
Hardcover, Spotlight - Frankenstein: ISBN 1587260883 (1-58726-088-3)
Softcover, Ann Arbor Media Group
- Frankenstein: ISBN 1593080050 (1-59308-005-0)
Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lynd WardISBN 1850790701 (1-85079-070-1)
Hardcover, New Orchard Editions
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Garbo Laughsby Elizabeth HayISBN 1582432929 (1-58243-292-9)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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Goldwyn: A Biographyby A. Scott BergISBN 1573227234 (1-57322-723-4)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation Films, Themes, Artistryby Helen McCarthyISBN 1880656418 (1-880656-41-8)
Softcover, Stone Bridge Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation Films, Themes, Artistry'Book summary: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]
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Hitchcock Poster Artby Mark H. Wolff, Tony NourmandISBN 1585670928 (1-58567-092-8)
Softcover, Overlook Press, The
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor Hugo, Howard Hendrix, R. Crandall, George EvansISBN 1578400678 (1-57840-067-8)
Softcover, Acclaim Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'Book summary:Kindle edition of Victor Hugo's classic work with an active table of contents. [via]
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In the Blink of an Eyeby Walter MurchISBN 1879505622 (1-879505-62-2)
Softcover, Silman-James Pr
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Kong: King of Skull Islandby Brad Strickland, Edgar Wallace, John Michlig, Merian C. Cooper, Joe DeVitoISBN 1595820213 (1-59582-021-3)
Softcover, Dh Pr
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LA Reine Des Damnesby Anne RiceISBN 2266044591 (2-266-04459-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Reine Des Damnes'Book summary:574pages. poche. Poche. [via]
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Leading Ladies: Photographs Form the Kobal Collectionby Don MacPherson, Louise BrodyISBN 1850290571 (1-85029-057-1)
Hardcover, Conran Octopus
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Les Miserablesby Victor Hugo, Charles E. Wilbour, Laurence M. PorterISBN 1593080662 (1-59308-066-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae. [via]
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- Les Miserables: ISBN 1853260509 (1-85326-050-9)
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Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Les Miserables: ISBN 1587261227 (1-58726-122-7)
Hardcover, Ann Arbor Media Group - Les Miserables: ISBN 1578400171 (1-57840-017-1)
Softcover, Acclaim Books - Les Miserables: ISBN 2011552435 (2-01-155243-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Les Miserables: ISBN 203588120X (2-03-588120-X)
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- Les Miserables: ISBN 1853260509 (1-85326-050-9)
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 185326136X (1-85326-136-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became "show pupil" - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances. Her strong character enables her to fight successfully against her new-found poverty and the scorn of her fellows. [via]
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A Little Princessby Dalmatian Press StaffISBN 1577595599 (1-57759-559-9)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett, Louise Colln, Jon Sayer, Publisher: Dalmatian Pr Keywords: children, classics, press, dalmatian, princess, little Pages: 182 Published: 2003-01 Language: English Category: Short Stories, Literature & Fiction, ISBN-10: 1577595599 ISBN-13: 9781577595595 Binding: Hardcover [via]
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Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, E. M. ForsterISBN 1573226122 (1-57322-612-2)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Flies'Book summary:William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to The Cinema Of H. P. Lovecraftby John Strysik, Andrew MiglioreISBN 1887797157 (1-887797-15-7)
Softcover, Tynes Cowan Corp
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Making Movies Work: Thinking Like a Filmmakerby Jon BoorstinISBN 1879505274 (1-879505-27-4)
Softcover, Silman-James Pr
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Maltese Falconby Dashiell HammettISBN 1883402158 (1-883402-15-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maltese Falcon'Book summary: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]
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Meat Is Murder!: An Illustrated Guide to Cannibal Cultureby Mikita BrottmanISBN 1840680407 (1-84068-040-7)
Softcover, Creation Books
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Monsters from the Id: The Rise of Horror in Fiction and Filmby E. Michael JonesISBN 1890626066 (1-890626-06-6)
Hardcover, Spence Pub
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The Mortal Immortalby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1892391015 (1-892391-01-5)
Softcover, Tachyon Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mortal Immortal'Book summary:This collection contains all five of Mary Shelley's supernatural stories, and will hopefully shed much needed light on an author often credited with writing the first science fiction novel. Here you will find the secrets of eternal youth, souls that exchange bodies, and ancient Englishmen and Romans newly thawed out of ice. In addition to several stories by Mary Shelley, this volume also features a brand new story by renowned science fiction author Michael Bishop. This work serves as a narrative introduction for this collection. Mary Shelley's considerable reputation rests squarely on the shoulders of her one great novel - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, published anonymously in 1818 and revised under her own byline in 1831. Her powerful tale of blasphemous creation is perhaps more familiar to modern readers through its many film adaptations as it is from the book itself. From Boris Karloff's electrifying performance as Frankenstein to Kenneth Branaugh's latest directorial rendering, the story has received numerous interpretations which have renewed interest in the book time and time again. However, Shelley's other works have not fared as well as Frankenstein. She wrote just a handful of novels, of which only The Last Man (1826) has remained sporadically in print, due to its great length and slow, ornate and often tedious use of language. A precursor to such disaster novels as George R. Stewart's Earth Abides and Richard Jeffries' After London, The Last Man follows its protagonist Lionel Verney through a distant future world which has been depopulated by plague. The shorter works of Mary Shelley have remained even more obscure. During her lifetime, she published just over two-dozen stories, only three of which were of interest to readers of science fiction and fantasy. In addition to these three supernaturally-themed stories, two additional stories were published after Shelley's death. "Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman," was printed in a volume of reminisces by a magazine editor who had commissioned the story thirty years earlier. "Valerius: The Reanimated Roman," a story in a similar vein to "Roger Dodsworth," remained unpublished until 1976, when both stories were discovered by Charles E. Robinson, a Shelley scholar and professor of English at the University of Delaware. [via]
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Movie Catby Garrison AllenISBN 1575666235 (1-57566-623-5)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Much Ado About Nothingby William ShakespeareISBN 1853262544 (1-85326-254-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado About Nothing'Book summary:The classic play, "Much Ado About Nothing," has been painstakingly restored to its original Klingon language by scholar Nick Nicholas. [via]
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- Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 1903436834 (1-903436-83-4)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 158715501X (1-58715-501-X)
Softcover, Wildside Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 190343646X (1-903436-46-X)
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Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 1853260185 (1-85326-018-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:[via]In a period of ten years, Shakespeare wrote a series of tragedies that established him, by universal consent, in the front rank of the world's dramatists. Critics have praised either Hamlet or King Lear as the greatest of these; Ernst Honigmann, in the most significant edition of the play for a generation, asks: why not Othello? The third of the mature tragedies, it contains, as Honigmann persuasively demonstrates, perhaps the best plot, two of Shakespeare's most original characters, the most powerful scene in any of the plays, and poetry second to none. Honigmann's cogent and closely argued introduction outlines the reasons both for a reluctance to recognize the greatness of Othello and for the case against the play.This edition sheds new light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. Honigmann examines the thematic portrayal of feminism, morality, and otherness. He provides a general character criticism, but delves more deeply into Othello, Iago, Desdemona, and Emilia in individual sections. He discusses the play in performance and the relationship between reading it and seeing it. He also explores topics such as its date, sources, and the conundrum of "double time".Appendices cover date, details about and possible explanations for the textual inconsistencies, the principal and minor sources for the play, Edward Pudsey's extracts, and musical settings, reproduced from F.W. Sternfeld's Music in Shakespearean Tragedy. Finally, a reference section provides a list of abbreviations and references, a catalog of Shakespeares works and works partly by Shakespeare, and citations for the modern productions mentioned in the text, other collated editions of his work, and other related reading.The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the plays foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader. -
Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston Leroux, Isabel RocheISBN 1593082495 (1-59308-249-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Phantom of the Opera'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade. When I began to ransack the archives of the National Academy of Music I was at once struck by the surprising coincidences between the phenomena ascribed to the "ghost" and the most extraordinary and fantastic tragedy that ever excited the Paris upper classes; and I soon conceived the idea that this tragedy might reasonably be explained by the phenomena in question. The events do not date more than thirty years back; and it would not be difficult to find at the present day, in the foyer of the ballet, old men of the highest respectability, men upon whose word one could absolutely rely, who would remember as though they happened yesterday the mysterious and dramatic conditions that attended the kidnapping of Christine Daae, the disappearance of the Vicomte de Chagny and the death of his elder brother, Count Philippe, whose body was found on the bank of the lake that exists in the lower cellars of the Opera on the Rue-Scribe side. But none of those witnesses had until that day thought that there was any reason for connecting the more or less legendary figure of the Opera ghost with that terrible story. [via]
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The Phantom Of The Opera: Illustrated And Unabridged Editionby Gaston Leroux, Jean Marc Lofficier, Randy L'OfficierISBN 1932983139 (1-932983-13-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Phantom Of The Opera: Illustrated And Unabridged Edition'Book summary:Paris, 1881. A mysterious wraith-like being is terrorizing the Opera, blackmailing its Directors and murdering those who dare challenge him. Young diva Christine Daae is abducted. Can her lover, Raoul de Chagny, assisted by the mysterious Persian, the only man to know the Phantom's identity, uncover the secret of the tragic figure who lurks beneath the famous monument? This classic 1911 novel of suspense and terror has been entirely retranslated and is now UNABRIDGED AND UNCUT! The book includes a new story about Erik's past by J.-M. & Randy Lofficier and a portfolio of 45 all-new illustrations by renowned international artists. [via]
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The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Moviesby John ScalziISBN 1843535203 (1-84353-520-3)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies'Book summary:The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies is a comprehensive guide to the ''final frontier'' of film. It explores our fascination with space exploration, time travel, fantastical worlds and alternative futures. This guide explains how everything from the philosophy of Plato to classic Victorian tales and cult comic books have helped to create one of cinema''s most engaging genres. Discover the classics from Mexico, Russia and Japan, not forgetting the Anime science fiction tradition, along with everything else you need to know from Metropolis to Star Wars, via Blade Runner, 2001 and Alien. The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies is your essential guide to a galaxy of film unbounded by time or space. [via]
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The Samurai Filmby Alain SilverISBN 1585675962 (1-58567-596-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Samurai Film'Book summary:The image of a lone hero, marked by a violent past and bound by honor, has exerted an endless fascination on film audiences the world over, but nowhere more than in Japan, where Samurai films have gained legions of passionate followers.
Very likely the world's most astute Western analyst of this genre, Alain SIlver deconstructs the key aspects of this vital fim genre, from its focus on violence and death as a means of understanding life and the significance of swords and weaponry to key elements and motifs such as hara-kiri, rebellion, and nostalgia for Japan's feudal past. With comprehensive filmographies of the major directors and films, a survey of the history and myths of the Samurai, a glossary of Japanese terms, and extensively illustrated with more than two hundred photos, this revised and expanded edition of The Samurai Film is the ultimate resource for one of world cinema's most influential and compelling genres. [via]
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Screams & Nightmares: The Films of Wes Cravenby Brian J. RobbISBN 1585670901 (1-58567-090-1)
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The Secret Gardenby Dalmatian Press StaffISBN 1577595556 (1-57759-555-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Garden'Book summary:Product Details Reading level: Ages 5 and up Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Dalmatian Press (November 2001) Language: English [via]
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Serenityby Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews, Will ConradISBN 1593074492 (1-59307-449-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Serenity'Book summary:Penned by Whedon and Brett Matthews, who wrote several episodes of Firefly as well as Dark Horse''s final Angel comics series and the animated Chronicles of Riddick feature "Dark Fury," Serenity follows a ship full of mercenaries, fugitives and one law-abiding prostitute in their pursuit for fast cash and a little peace along the fringes of space. The ragtag crew of Serenity take on a scavanger mission with the hopes of earning enough dough to disappear for a while. Only too late do they realize the whole gig is orchestrated by an old enemy eager remake their aquanitance with the help of some covert-operatives known only as the Blue Gloves. Artist Will Conrad (Marvel''s Elektra and Witches) and colorist Laura Martin (Astonishing X-Men and The Ultimates) paint a rough and wild world of adventure across a strange and dangerous universe, in this not-to-be-missed tale straight from the brain of pop-culture mastermind Joss Whedon! [via]
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Shakespeare's Othelloby Harold BloomISBN 1594480761 (1-59448-076-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Othello'Book summary:The exciting new series that began in Fall 2004 with Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Henry IV continues...
"Negative charisma is an odd endowment; Iago represents it uniquely in Shakespeare, and most literary incarnations of it since owe much to Iago." - Harold Bloom
Each edition in the Harold Bloom Shakespeare series will include the full text of the play, with editorial revisions and commentary by Harold Bloom. [via]More editions of Shakespeare's Othello:
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Spawn of Skull Islandby George Turner, Michael H. Price, Orville Goldner, Douglas TurnerISBN 1887664459 (1-887664-45-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spawn of Skull Island'Book summary:In its day, George E. Turner's The Making of King Kong was the last word on an American Classicthe definitive primary-source history, written with authority and reverence and an enduring sense of wonder.
The book's UK/US publication in 1975 opened many doors for the author, including access to additional insider knowledge that Turner could only wish he had possessed during the writing of The Making of King Kong. He began compiling notes for a revision. These amendments and adjustments had grown to fill several fil cabinets by the time of his death in 1999.
Spawn of Skull Island is the result of that long-term follow-throughdeveloped from George Turner's original work and all those raw-material revelations by fellow reseracher Michael H. Price and George's son, Douglas Turner. The source-book is contained here, intact but for the occasional correction, along with the generous expansion that the author had envisioned.
By whichever nameSpawn of Skull Island or The Making of King Kongthe volume remains what historian John Michlig has termed "the best source for information on the classic 1933 film and its sequels." To say nothing of Kong's earliest ancestors and it's many takeoffs, knockoff and rip-offs. [via]
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Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and the Religion in the Matrixby Glenn Yeffeth, David GerroldISBN 1932100024 (1-932100-02-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and the Religion in the Matrix'Book summary:[via]** COMPLETELY UNAUTHORIZED **This thought-provoking examination of The Matrix explores the technological challenges, religious symbolism, and philosophical dilemmas the film presents. Essays by renowned scientists, technologists, philosophers, scholars, social commentators, and science fiction authors provide engaging and provocative perspectives. Explored in a highly accessible fashion are issues such as the future of artificial intelligence and virtual reality. The symbolism hidden throughout The Matrix and a few glitches in the film are revealed. Discussions include Finding God in The Matrix, The Reality Paradox in The Matrix, and Was Cypher Right?: Why We Stay in Our Matrix. The fascinating issues posed by the film are handled in an intelligent but nonacademic fashion.More editions of Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and the Religion in the Matrix:
Tales from Development Hell: Hollywood Film-Making the Hard Wayby David HughesISBN 1840236914 (1-84023-691-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre Dumas, Sherwood Smith, George EvansISBN 1578400295 (1-57840-029-5)
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The Ultimate Guide to Lesbian & Gay Film & Videoby Jenni OlsonISBN 1852423390 (1-85242-339-0)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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Videohound's Cult Flicks & Trash Picsby Carol A. Schwartz, Jim OlenskiISBN 1578591139 (1-57859-113-9)
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Videohound's Epics: Giants of the Big Screenby Glenn HoppISBN 1578590744 (1-57859-074-4)
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VideoHound's War Movies : Classic Conflict on Filmby Mike MayoISBN 1578590892 (1-57859-089-2)
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De Si Jolis Cheveauxby McCarthyISBN 2020309610 (2-02-030961-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'De Si Jolis Cheveaux'Book summary:338pages. poche. Broché. [via]
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Les Films De Ma Vieby Francois TruffautISBN 2080607758 (2-08-060775-8)
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LA Ligne Verteby Stephen KingISBN 2290301868 (2-290-30186-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Ligne Verte'Book summary:Octobre 1932, pénitencier d'État, Cold Mountain, Louisiane. Le bloc E, celui des condamnés à mort, reçoit un nouveau pensionnaire : John Caffey rejoint ceux qui attendent de franchir la ligne verte pour rencontrer la chaise électrique, Miss Cent Mille Volts. Mais Caffey n'est pas comme les autres. D'accord, on l'a retrouvé auprès des cadavres ensanglantés de deux petites filles, mais il est étrangement absent. Jusqu'au jour où Paul, le gardien-chef, tombe malade et alors une terrible vérité semble s'esquisser. Qui est ce prétendu meurtrier aux pouvoirs étranges ? Qui dresse Mister Jingles, l'étrange souris, bien trop intelligente ? Quand Paul commence à répondre à ces questions, il sent que personne dans le bloc E ne sortira indemne de la rencontre avec John Caffey.
Renouant avec la tradition des feuilletonistes, Stephen King, le prolifique auteur de fantastique, propose un récit troublant, initialement en six volumes, entre roman noir et conte de fées, dont a été tiré un film, La Ligne verte, avec Tom Hanks. --Lisa B. [via]
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 2070102645 (2-07-010264-5)
Hardcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary: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]
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LA Plageby Alex GarlandISBN 225314651X (2-253-14651-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Plage'Book summary:480pages. poche. broché. [via]
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Prisonniers Du Tempsby Micheal CrichtonISBN 2266115227 (2-266-11522-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prisonniers Du Temps'Book summary:601pages. poche. Broché. Au beau milieu du désert d'Arizona, un couple trouve sur la route un vieil homme en robe de bure. Il n'a plus sa tête, parle sans cesse d'écume quantique et ses doigts semblent gelés. Il meurt quelques heures plus tard à l'hôpital de Gallup. On ne retrouve sur lui que le plan d'un monastère français du XIVème siècle et un objet fabriqué par la société ITC -entreprise de haute technologie spécialisée dans la recherche en physique quantique -pour laquelle il travaillait. ITC est dirigée par Robert Doniger, un brillant -et non moins arrogant -physicien qui, depuis quinze ans, est à la pointe des recherches, et dont la plus récente et secrète entreprise est de recréer, grâce à une équipe de chercheurs, une communauté médiévale du XIVème siècle en Dordogne. Quelle n'est pas l'extrême surprise de ces historiens de l'université de Yale lorsqu'ils vont comparer le plan des fondations du monastère trouvé sur le vieillard et les résultats de leurs propres investigations: celui-là est plus riche d'informations que toutes leurs recherches! Mais ce n'est que la première de leurs surprises: quelques jours plus tard sont mis au jour des parchemins remontant à six cent cinquante ans: l'un d'entre eux, daté très précisément du 4 juillet 1357, dit "A l'aide". Il est signé par le professeur Johnson, leur propre directeur de recherches, parti deux jours plus tôt rencontrer Robert Doniger. [via]
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The Green Mileby Stephen KingISBN 3404139585 (3-404-13958-5)
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