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Adventures of Tom Bombadilby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 039526801X (0-395-26801-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Alone of All Her Sex: Myth and Cult of Virgin Maryby Marina WarnerISBN 0394711556 (0-394-71155-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Amarant: The Flora and Fauna of Atlantisby Una WoodruffISBN 0399126252 (0-399-12625-2)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Anecdotes of Destinyby Isak DinesenISBN 0394711777 (0-394-71177-7)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Anecdotes of Destiny ; And, Ehrengardby Isak DinesenISBN 039474215X (0-394-74215-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Arab Folktalesby Inea BushnaqISBN 0394751795 (0-394-75179-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arab Folktales'Book summary:Out of alleys of Cairo and Bedouin tents, from the Moroccan laborers and Syrian peasants, this collection of 130 tales comes from Arab worlds from North Africa to the Holy Land. [via]
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Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destinyby Isak Dinesen, Martha LevinISBN 039475929X (0-394-75929-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny'Book summary:In the classic "Babette's Feast," a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares a sumptuous feast for a gathering of religious ascetics and, in doing so, introduces them to the true essence of grace. In "The Immortal Story," a miserly old tea-trader living in Canton wishes for power and finds redemption as he turns an oft-told sailors' tale into reality for a young man and woman. And in the magnificent novella Ehrengard, Dinesen tells of the powerful yet restrained rapport between a noble Wagnerian beauty and a rakish artist.
Hauntingly evoked and sensuously realized, the five stories read and novella collected here have the hold of "fairy stories read in childhood . . . of dreams . . . and of our life as dreams" (The New York Times). [via]More editions of Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny:
Behold the Spirit; A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religionby Alan Wilson WattsISBN 0394717619 (0-394-71761-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagnerby Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheISBN 0394703693 (0-394-70369-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner'Book summary:The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant "Attempt at a Self-Criticism" which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on tragedy ever penned. It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down through the Victorian era, and it sounded themes developed in the twentieth century by classicists, existentialists, psychoanalysts, and others.
The Case of Wagner (1888) was one Nietzsche's last books, and his wittiest. In attitude and style it is diametrically opposed to The Birth of Tragedy. Both works transcend their ostensible subjects and deal with art and culture, as well as the problems of the modern age generally.
Each book in itself gives us an inadequate idea of its author; together, they furnish a striking image of Nietzsche's thought. The distinguished new translations by Walter Kaufmann superbly reflect in English Nietzsche's idiom and the vitality of his style. Professor Kaufmann has also furnished running footnote commentaries, relevant passages from Nietzsche's correspondence, a bibliography, and, for the first time in any edition, an extensive index to each book. [via]More editions of The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner:
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Boating for Beginnersby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0413590208 (0-413-59020-8)
Hardcover, Methuen
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boating for Beginners'Book summary:Noah is a relatively ordinary man. He's a hard worker (he owns the thriving little pleasure boat company, Boating for Beginners), is slightly overweight and has a heart condition. In fact, apart from a bizarre antipathy towards frozen food, particularly Black Forest Gateau, he is Mr. Bog Standard. That doesn't stop him from recognising a good thing when he sees it though. So when he accidentally creates God "out of a piece of gateau and a giant electric toaster", he realises he's onto a winner. Within weeks, he's a cult figure, writes extravagant bestsellers-"Genesis", or How I did It and "Exodus" or Your Way Lies There--and has outlawed refrigerators and Black Forest Gateau. When Noah starts to turn his bestseller into a film, God feels left out and decides to liquidate the world. Noah has less than a week to fill his stage set (the ark) with animals and prepare for a flood. There are three women who find out what he's up to--Desi, Noah's daughter-in-law; Marlene, a transsexual potter, and Gloria, the thoughtful yet slightly unbalanced girl in charge of rounding up the animals. Gloria is the heroine of Boating for Beginners and it is her story that drives the rather fragmented narrative of this surreal satire. Bursting with ideas, Boating for Beginners rewrites religion and philosophy, while taking a pop at romantic fiction. It is perhaps Jeanette Winterson's most overlooked work and although not her best--turn to Oranges are Not the Only Fruit or Sexing the Cherry for that--Boating for Beginners is witty, playful and imaginative. --Jane Honey [via]
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, David WrightISBN 039470293X (0-394-70293-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:Based on the definitive Riverside Chaucer, this edition of The Canterbury Tales contains the complete text of all 24 Tales, thoroughly updated scholarship from the past 20 years, and extensive editorial support. This volume is ideal for instructors who want to assign only the Tales and have no need for the complete Chaucer. An overview briefly outlines the basic plot and main idea of each Tale, while a section on language and versification helps students with pronunciation. Explanatory notes provide information on sources, problematic passages, and critical interpretations. Additional pedagogy includes a glossary, a section on Chaucer's life, an index, a general bibliography, and a list of abbreviations. [via]
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Canterbury Tales and Related Readingsby Geoffery ChaucerISBN 0395893283 (0-395-89328-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin School
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The Canterbury Tales of Chaucerby Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas TyrwhittISBN 0404015506 (0-404-01550-6)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perraultby Neil Philip, Charles Perrault, Sally HolmesISBN 0395570026 (0-395-57002-6)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark TwainISBN 0396086861 (0-396-08686-1)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Creationby Gore VidalISBN 0394500156 (0-394-50015-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imaginationby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394543955 (0-394-54395-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Crying of Lot 49by Thomas PynchonISBN 0397004184 (0-397-00418-4)
Hardcover, Lippincott
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The Cure for Death by Lightningby Gail Anderson-DargatzISBN 0395771846 (0-395-77184-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Curious Myths of the Middle Agesby Sabine Baring-GouldISBN 0403063094 (0-403-06309-4)
Hardcover, Native Amer Books Distributor
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Dandelion Wineby Ray BradburyISBN 0394496051 (0-394-49605-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dandelion Wine'Book summary:World-renowned fantasist Ray Bradbury has on several occasions stepped outside the arenas of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. An unabashed romantic, his first novel in 1957 was basically a love letter to his childhood. (For those who want to undertake an even more evocative look at the dark side of youth, five years later the author would write the chilling classic Something Wicked This Way Comes.)
Dandelion Wine takes us into the summer of 1928, and to all the wondrous and magical events in the life of a 12-year-old Midwestern boy named Douglas Spaulding. This tender, openly affectionate story of a young man's voyage of discovery is certainly more mainstream than exotic. No walking dead or spaceships to Mars here. Yet those who wish to experience the unique magic of early Bradbury as a prose stylist should find Dandelion Wine most refreshing. --Stanley Wiater [via]
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A Dictionary of World Mythologyby Arthur CottrellISBN 0399506195 (0-399-50619-5)
Hardcover, Perigee Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of World Mythology'Book summary:"I am Nature, the universal Mother, mistress of all the elements, sovereign of all things spiritual....I am worshipped in many aspects, known by countless names, and propitiated with all manner of different rites, yet the whole round earth venerates me." With these words, Isis--the mother goddess of Egypt--reveals herself to her devotee, Lucius Apuleius, in his novel The Golden Ass. Just as this great goddess claimed to be universal, mythology itself exists in all cultures around the globe and extends back to the beginnings of human civilization. Plato first coined the term mythologia to mean merely the telling of stories which contain legendary figures. Since his time, and especially now with the resurgent interest in myths, mythology has come to hold greater significance and power as a crucial element of civilization as a whole.
Written by a leading scholar of ancient civilizations, A Dictionary of World Mythology presents the powerful gods of Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia, the more mystical deities of Buddhist and Hindu India, and the stern spirits of the African and American continents together in one fascinating volume. Drawing upon hundreds of myths from around the globe, Arthur Cotterell not only reveals the vast differences in these civilizations, but also demonstrates the unity of mankind in its fundamental need for explanations of the unknown.
Cotterell divides the chief myths of the world into seven main sections--West Asia, South and Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, America, Africa, and Oceania. Traveling through this vast array of legendary riches, we encounter Gilgamesh, the tyrannical, semi-divine king of Babylonia, who, according to the Gilgamesh Epic, rejected Ishtar and thus caused the ravaging of the earth by Anu, the bull of heaven, and the death of his lifelong friend Enkidu. We learn that Dharma--the term meaning the doctrine of duties and rights of each caste in the Hindu religion's ideal society--was an ancient Hindu sage who married thirteen of Daksha's daughters, and that, according to the Mahabharata, Daksha sprang from the right thumb of Brahma. From East Asian mythology, we discover Tsao Chun, the gentle Chinese kitchen god whose temple exists in a small niche near the cooking stove. Along with the well-known Greek and Roman deities, Europe has also brought us Dagda, the ancient Irish deity of life and death, who could, with one end of his staff, kill nine men and could, with the other end, restore them to life; and Balder, "the bleeding god" of Germanic mythology, renowned for his good looks and wisdom. According to Native American tribes living along the Xingu River in Brazil, a legendary nation called Minata-Karaia once existed with men who had holes in the top of their heads which produced high, loud whistles, and bunches of coconuts growing from their armpits. From Africa, Ogun, the Yoruban war god, descended by a spider's thread upon the marshy waste that existed prior to the formation of the earth. We also meet Papa, the ancestress of Hawaiian people, who functioned as Earth goddess and queen of the underworld, as well as mother of the gods.
Each section contains an introduction highlighting the history, lifestyle, and ideology of the particular ancient civilizations, as well as the landscape in which they lived and the reasons why different mythologies arose in different lands. [via]More editions of A Dictionary of World Mythology:
Don Quixoteby Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Samuel PutnamISBN 0394604385 (0-394-60438-5)
Hardcover, Random House, Incorporated
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The Eating of the Gods: An Interpretation of Greek Tragedyby Jan KottISBN 0394719956 (0-394-71995-6)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Elidorby Alan GarnerISBN 0399208097 (0-399-20809-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Emperor and the Kiteby Jane Yolen, Ed YoungISBN 0399214992 (0-399-21499-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Eric Carle's Dragons Dragons & Other Creatures That Never Wereby Eric Carle, Laura WhippleISBN 0399221050 (0-399-22105-0)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Folktaleby Stith ThompsonISBN 0404153739 (0-404-15373-9)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Folktales of the British Islesby Kevin Crossley-HollandISBN 039456328X (0-394-56328-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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French Folktalesby Henri Pourrat, C. G. Bjurstrom, Royall TylerISBN 039454451X (0-394-54451-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'French Folktales'Book summary:Selected from Henri Pourrat's classic Le tresor des contes, one of the finest folktale collections in the world, these one-hundred-odd legends, fairy tales, devotional pieces, jokes, and animal stories from the rural provinces of France comprise a magical volume. Fairies, changelings, giants, demons, bumpkins, knaves, bewitched and bewitching princesses, bandits, and others enact stories of perilous tests of love, contests with the devil, the beneficence of saints, and more.
Royall Tyler's translation deftly captures the vigor and resonance of the originals, and his cogent introduction illuminates for the reader the earthy, chilling, mischievous, and mystical realm these tales evoke.
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Grandfather Twilightby Barbara BergerISBN 0399209964 (0-399-20996-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grandfather Twilight'Book summary:When day is gone, and shadows begin to deepen, it is time for Grandfather Twilight to close his book, put on his jacket, and go for a walk through the forest.[via]
Little birds hush as he walks by, and the rabbits and other small creatures watch in silence as he performs his very special evening task and returns to his house among the trees. Small readers and listeners, too, will sense the serenity of this poetic story, and will be comforted to learn that the twilight is a gentle, friendly time.
Exquisite pictures extend and illuminate the text, to reveal the nightly miracle so faithfully performed by Grandfather Twilight. Perfect for reading aloud and for sharing at bedtime, this beautiful and reassuring book will be cherished by old and young alike. 
Grandfather Twilight/Mini Editionby Barbara BergerISBN 0399219994 (0-399-21999-4)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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The Grass Dancerby Susan PowerISBN 0399139117 (0-399-13911-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Great Classical Mythsby Francis R. GodolphinISBN 0394604172 (0-394-60417-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Guardian of the Word: Kouma Lafolo Koumaby Camara Laye, Laye CamaraISBN 0394724410 (0-394-72441-0)
Softcover, Daedalus Books
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A History of the World in 10 and Half Chaptersby Julian BarnesISBN 0394580613 (0-394-58061-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the World in 10 and Half Chapters'Book summary:This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!
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The Holy Sinnerby Thomas MannISBN 0394717414 (0-394-71741-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Interesting Timesby Stephen BriggsISBN 0413772195 (0-413-77219-5)
Softcover, Methuen Publishing Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interesting Times'Book summary:Marvelous Discworld, which revolves on the backs of four great elephants and a big turtle, spins into Interesting Times, the 17th outing in Terry Pratchett's rollicking fantasy series. The gods are playing games again, and this time the mysterious Lady opposes Fate in a match of "Destinies of Nations Hanging by a Thread." --Blaise Selby [via]
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Japanese Talesby Royall TylerISBN 0394756568 (0-394-75656-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Japanese Tales'Book summary:Here are two hundred and twenty dazzling tales from medieval Japan, tales that welcome us into a fabulous, faraway world populated by saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these tales reflect the Japanese worldview during a classic period in Japanese civilization. Masterfully edited and translated by the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, these stories ably balance the lyrical and the dramatic, the ribald and the profound, offering a window into a long-vanished though perennially fascinating culture. [via]
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round-Tableby Antonia Fraser, Rebecca FraserISBN 0394921569 (0-394-92156-9)
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Labyrinthby Kate MosseISBN 0399153446 (0-399-15344-6)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Labyrinth'Book summary:In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth; between the skeletons, a stone ring, and a small leather bag. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade to stamp out heresy that will rip apart southern France, Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father as he leaves to fight the crusaders. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. As crusading armies led by Church potentates and nobles of northern France gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take great sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe. In the present, another woman sees the find as a means to the political power she craves; while a man who has great power will kill to destroy all traces of the discovery and everyone who stands in his way. [via]
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Labyrinths : Selected Stories and Other Writingsby Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James E. Irby, Andre MauroisISBN 0394604490 (0-394-60449-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Labyrinths : Selected Stories and Other Writings'Book summary:If Jorge Luis Borges had been a computer scientist, he probably would have invented hypertext and the World Wide Web.
Instead, being a librarian and one of the world's most widely read people, he became the leading practitioner of a densely layered imaginistic writing style that has been imitated throughout this century, but has no peer (although Umberto Eco sometimes comes close, especially in Name of the Rose).
Borges's stories are redolent with an intelligence, wealth of invention, and a tight, almost mathematically formal style that challenge with mysteries and paradoxes revealed only slowly after several readings. Highly recommended to anyone who wants their imagination and intellect to be aswarm with philosophical plots, compelling conundrums, and a wealth of real and imagined literary references derived from an infinitely imaginary library. [via]
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Le Petit Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0395240050 (0-395-24005-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollowby Washington Irving, Will MosesISBN 0399226877 (0-399-22687-7)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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Lion of Irelandby Morgan LlywelynISBN 0395285887 (0-395-28588-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Mask of Apolloby Mary RenaultISBN 0394751051 (0-394-75105-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mask of Apollo'Book summary:Set in fourth-century B.C. Greece, The Mask of Apollo is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he finds himself at the center of a political crisis in which the philosopher Plato is also involved. Much of the action is set in Syracuse, where Plato's friend Dion is trying to persuade the young tyrant Dionysios the Younger to accept the rule of law. Through Nikeratos' eyes, the reader watches as the clash between the two looses all the pent-up violence in the city. [via]
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Memory of Fireby Eduardo H. GaleanoISBN 0394548051 (0-394-54805-1)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Memory of Fire: Genesisby Eduardo GaleanoISBN 0394747305 (0-394-74730-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0395051088 (0-395-05108-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Moby Dick is a vast and dangerous white whale. An enemy for many years after the whale bit off his leg, the crazed Captain Ahab is obsessed with his quarry. Together with his extraordinary crew, Ahab braves the oceans of the world to hunt the fearsome Moby Dick. Geraldine McCaughrean is one of the most distinguished living children's authors. She has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award (twice), and The Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Geraldine's most recent best-selling novel "The Kite Rider" was published to universal acclaim in March 2001. [via]
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Monstrous Regimentby Terry Pratchett, Stephen BriggsISBN 0413774457 (0-413-77445-7)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monstrous Regiment'Book summary:What do you get when you cross a vampire, a troll, Igor, a collection of misfits, and a young woman who shoves a pair of socks down her pants to join the army? The answer's simple. You have Monstrous Regiment, the characteristically charming novel by Terry Pratchett.
Polly becomes Private Oliver Perks, who is on a quest to find her older brother, who's recently MIA in one of the innumerable wars the tiny nation of Borogravia has a habit of starting with its neighbors. This peevish tendency has all but expended Borogravia's ranks of cannon fodder. Whether Sergeant Jackrum knows her secret or not, he can't afford to be choosy, as Perks and her/his comrades are among the last able-bodied recruits left in Borogravia. This collection of misfits includes the aforementioned vampire (reformed and off the blood, thank you), troll, and macabre Igor, who is only too happy to sew you a new leg if you aren't too particular about previous ownership. Off to war, Polly/Oliver learns that having a pair of, um, socks is a good way to open up doors in this man's army.
For those who haven't made this underrated author's acquaintance, Monstrous Regiment is as good a place to start as any. Readers will encounter Pratchett's subtle and disarming wit, his trademark footnoted asides along with a not-too-shabby tale of honor, courage, and duty in the face of absurd circumstances. --Jeremy Pugh [via]
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Moon, Moonby Anne K. RushISBN 0394732308 (0-394-73230-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Mythology of the British Islesby Geoffrey AsheISBN 0413665402 (0-413-66540-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Mythology; the Voyage of the Heroby David Adams LeemingISBN 0397472765 (0-397-47276-5)
Hardcover, Lippincott
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Night Watchby Terry Pratchett, Stephen BriggsISBN 0413774449 (0-413-77444-9)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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Set in Ankh-Morpork one of the most thoroughly imagined cities in fantasy, Night Watch is the story of Sam Vimes, running hero of the Guards sequence, who finds himself cast back in time to the Ankh-Morpork of his youth. With a psychopath from his own time rising in the vile ranks of the Cable Street Unmentionables complicating things, Vimes has to ensure that history takes its course so that he will have the right future to go back to, and to keep his younger self alive.More editions of Night Watch:
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The Perilous Gardby Elizabeth Marie Pope, Richard CuffariISBN 0395185122 (0-395-18512-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Perilous Gard'Book summary:In 1558 while imprisoned at Elwenwood Hall, a remote castle in northern England, teenaged Kate Sutton finds herself involved in a series of mysterious events that eventually bring her to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic. [via]
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Perrault's Complete Fairy Talesby Charles Perrault, W. Heath Robinson, A. E. JohnsonISBN 0396081088 (0-396-08108-8)
Softcover, Dodd Mead
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Phenomena: A Book of Wondersby John F. Michell, Robert J. M. RickardISBN 0394733894 (0-394-73389-4)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romansby Thomas NorthISBN 0404518702 (0-404-51870-2)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Plutarch's Lives : The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romansby Arthur Hugh Clough, John Dryden, PlutarchISBN 0394604075 (0-394-60407-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Prometheus Boundby Aeschylus, George Derwent ThomsonISBN 0405114516 (0-405-11451-6)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Putnam's Concise Mythological Dictionaryby Joseph KasterISBN 0399500502 (0-399-50050-2)
Softcover, Perigee
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The Riverside Chaucerby Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. BensonISBN 0395290317 (0-395-29031-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Scapegoat:Ritual and Literature: Ritual and Literatureby John B. Vickery, J'nan M. SelleryISBN 0395112567 (0-395-11256-7)
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Sherwoodby Jane Yolen, Dennis NolanISBN 039923182X (0-399-23182-X)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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Somewhere Is Such a Kingdom: Poems 1952-1971by Geoffrey HillISBN 0395207134 (0-395-20713-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Sophocles 2by SophoclesISBN 0413628809 (0-413-62880-9)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophocles 2'Book summary:Sophocles' greatest plays reissued in the new Classical Greek Dramatists series. Introduced by series editor J Michael Walton[via]
Includes the surviving complete plays: Ajax which plots the downfall of Odysseus's greatest Trojan enemy - who slaughters a whole herd of cattle before killing himself; Women of Trachis in which the seemingly docile Deianira prepares a lethal homecoming for her womanising husband Heracles; in Electra the son and daughter of the ill-starred Agamemnon plan their revenge on their usurping stepfather and mother and finally Philoctetes in which Sophocles brilliantly explores the themes of pain, love and the betrayal of trust. 
Sound of Wavesby Yukio MishimaISBN 0399504877 (0-399-50487-7)
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Spindle's Endby Robin McKinleyISBN 0399234667 (0-399-23466-7)
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Swedish Folktales and Legendsby Lone T. Blecher, George BlecherISBN 0394547918 (0-394-54791-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Sword in the Stoneby T.H. White, Dennis NolanISBN 0399225021 (0-399-22502-1)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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The Tales of Canterbury: Completeby Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert A. PrattISBN 0395140528 (0-395-14052-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticismby Fritjof CapraISBN 0394716124 (0-394-71612-4)
Softcover, Shambhala
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism'Book summary:First published in 1975, The Tao of Physics rode the wave of fascination in exotic East Asian philosophies. Decades later, it still stands up to scrutiny, explicating not only Eastern philosophies but also how modern physics forces us into conceptions that have remarkable parallels. Covering over 3,000 years of widely divergent traditions across Asia, Capra can't help but blur lines in his generalizations. But the big picture is enough to see the value in them of experiential knowledge, the limits of objectivity, the absence of foundational matter, the interrelation of all things and events, and the fact that process is primary, not things. Capra finds the same notions in modern physics. Those approaching Eastern thought from a background of Western science will find reliable introductions here to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism and learn how commonalities among these systems of thought can offer a sort of philosophical underpinning for modern science. And those approaching modern physics from a background in Eastern mysticism will find precise yet comprehensible descriptions of a Western science that may reinvigorate a hope in the positive potential of scientific knowledge. Whatever your background, The Tao of Physics is a brilliant essay on the meeting of East and West, and on the invaluable possibilities that such a union promises. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Terry Pratchett's the Fifth Elephantby Terry Pratchett, Stephen BriggsISBN 0413771156 (0-413-77115-6)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Terry Pratchett's the Fifth Elephant'Book summary:Terry Pratchett has a seemingly endless capacity for generating inventively comic novels about the Discworld and its inhabitants, but there is in the hearts of most of his admirers a particular place for those novels that feature the hard-bitten captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Samuel Vimes. Sent as ambassador to the Northern principality of Uberwald where they mine gold, iron, and fat--but never silver--he is caught up in an uneasy truce between dwarfs, werewolves, and vampires in the theft of the Scone of Stone (a particularly important piece of dwarf bread) and in the old werewolf custom of giving humans a short start in the hunt and then cheating.
Pratchett is always at his best when the comedy is combined with a real sense of jeopardy that even favorite characters might be hurt if there was a good joke in it. As always, the most unlikely things crop up as the subjects of gags--Chekhov, grand opera, the Caine Mutiny--and as always there are remorselessly funny gags about the inevitability of story:
They say that the fifth elephant came screaming and trumpeting through the atmosphere of the young world all those years ago and landed hard enough to split continents and raise mountains.
No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical question: when millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there is no one to hear it, does it--philosophically speaking--make a noise?
As for the dwarfs, whose legend it is, and who mine a lot deeper than other people, they say that there is a grain of truth in it.
All this, the usual guest appearances, and Gaspode the Wonder Dog. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Terry Pratchett's the Truthby Terry Pratchett, Stephen BriggsISBN 0413771164 (0-413-77116-4)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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There's been a murder. Allegedly. William de Worde is the Discworld's first investigative journalist. He didn't mean to be - it was just an accident. But, as William fills his pages with reports of local club meetings and pictures of humorously shaped vegetables, dark forces high up in Ankh-Morpork's society are plotting to overthrow te city's ruler, Lord Vetinari.More editions of Terry Pratchett's the Truth:
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Thus Spake Zarathustraby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0394608089 (0-394-60808-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'Book summary:Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religiouspieties or meek submission, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic & free. [via]
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Tolkien's Worldby Randel HelmsISBN 0395184908 (0-395-18490-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Trojan Horseby Emily Little, Michael EagleISBN 0394896742 (0-394-89674-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trojan Horse'Book summary:Illus. in full color. "An ancient history lesson emerges from this account of the way the Greeks tricked the Trojans and rescued Helen of Troy. The book is well tailored to younger readers with careful explanations and short sentences; a pronunciation guide is appended. Drawings portray the story's main events. A nice supplement to units on ancient Greece or mythology."--Booklist. [via]
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The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the Warby Emily Little, Michael EagleISBN 0394996747 (0-394-99674-7)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0394743121 (0-394-74312-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
The Vampire Chronicles/the Queen of the Damned/the Vampire Lestat/Interview With the Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 0394581865 (0-394-58186-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Vampire Lestatby Anne RiceISBN 0394534433 (0-394-53443-3)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vampire Lestat'Book summary:After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in Cry to Heaven and the Free People of Color in The Feast of All Saints. But Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in Interview, finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel, The Vampire Lestat.
As with the first book in the series, the novel begins with a frame narrative. After over a half century underground, Lestat awakens in the 1980s to the cacophony of electronic sounds and images that characterizes the MTV generation. Particularly, he is captivated by a fledgling rock band named Satan's Night Out. Determined both to achieve international fame and end the centuries of self-imposed vampire silence, Lestat takes command of the band (now renamed "The Vampire Lestat") and pens his own autobiography. The remainder of the novel purports to be that autobiography: the vampire traces his mortal youth as the son of a marquis in pre-Revolutionary France, his initiation into vampirism at the hands of Magnus, and his quest for the ultimate origins of his undead species.
While very different from the first novel in the Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat has proved to be the foundation for a broader range of narratives than is possible from Louis's brooding, passive perspective. The character of Lestat is one of Rice's most complex and popular literary alter egos, and his Faustian strivings have a mythopoeic resonance that links the novel to a grand tradition of spiritual and supernatural fiction. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legendsby Katharine Mary BriggsISBN 0394502485 (0-394-50248-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Victorian Fairy Tale Bookby Michael Patrick HearnISBN 0394565940 (0-394-56594-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Witching Hourby Anne RiceISBN 0394587863 (0-394-58786-3)
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Words from the Mythsby Isaac AsimovISBN 0395065682 (0-395-06568-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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