| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “myth”
books tagged “myth”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
English
-
Beowulfby Kevin Crossley-Holland, Charles KeepingISBN 0192723693 (0-19-272369-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:This is the story of a young warrior who travelled far across the sea to fight two terrifying monsters--one who could rip a man apart and drink his blood, the other who lived like a sea-wolf at the bottom of a dark, blood-stained lake.
His name was Beowulf and his story, first written in Anglo-Saxon in the 8th century, has become one of the world's most famous epics. Kevin Crossley-Holland has now retold the legend for children in strong, rhythmical prose accompanied by Charles Keeping's strikingly brilliant drawings. Together they bring to life the strength and power of one of the first great English poems. [via] 
Beowulfby Charles Keeping, Kevin Crossley-HollandISBN 0192797700 (0-19-279770-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'More editions of Beowulf:
-
Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, David WrightISBN 019283360X (0-19-283360-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:They set off on an April morning with the rain dripping from the branches. Priests, nuns, tradesmen, men from the city--all pilgrims on the road to Canterbury. To pass the long journey they told each other stories of magic and trickery, of animals with blazing eyes, of people with pants on fire, of love and death and the devil. Geraldine McCaughrean retells The Canterbury Tales for children in a lively and humorous style that captures the original flair of Chaucer himself. She introduces us to the characters who told these tales: the shy, battle-hardened Knight, the Summoner whose breath smells of onions, the Widow of Bath who likes a happy ending. The stories and characters are brought to life by the brush of Victor Ambrus, with pictures of wild chases, exciting battles, and the English countryside. [via]
More editions of Canterbury Tales:
- The Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0192741810 (0-19-274181-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0192781235 (0-19-278123-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0192815970 (0-19-281597-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0192510347 (0-19-251034-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 019283360X (0-19-283360-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- The Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0192741810 (0-19-274181-0)
-
The Canterbury Talesby Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 019278109X (0-19-278109-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Canterbury Tales'Book summary:Interest age: 9+ [via]
More editions of The Canterbury Tales:
The Celts: A Very Short Introductionby Barry CunliffeISBN 0192804189 (0-19-280418-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Celts: A Very Short Introduction'More editions of The Celts: A Very Short Introduction:
Circle of Stories Twoby No FryeISBN 015333505X (0-15-333505-X)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Circle of Stories Two'More editions of Circle of Stories Two:
-
The Classic Fairy Talesby Iona Opie, Peter OpieISBN 0192115596 (0-19-211559-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Classic Fairy Tales'Book summary:Everyone has at one time been inspired or enchanted by fairy tales, with their evil witches, pure princesses, heroic princes, and happy endings. Yet over the years, most of these popular tales have undergone many transformations, as editors and storytellers have shortened and sentimentalized them, as well as slanted them to suit the demands of the time.
Now reissued, Iona and Peter Opie's magnificent The Classic Fairy Tales, presents twenty-four of the best-known fairy tales in their original written form. Drawing on years of expertise, the editors provide introductions to each fairy tale, tracing the development of each story and noting points of interest. We learn, for example, that in a 17th century version of "Sleeping Beauty", the prince actually raped the princess in her sleep. Goldilocks, it turns out, evolved from the little old woman of the original story into a young girl. Little Red Ridinghood was actually eaten by the wolf, and in an early version of the "Frog Prince," the princess had to sleep with the frog to free him from his spell.
With classic tales from the likes of Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen, and the works of such famous illustrators as Gustav Dore, Kate Greenaway, and George Cruikshank, The Classic Fairy Tales brings to life the charm and beauty of these timeless favorites. [via]More editions of The Classic Fairy Tales:
The Curse of the Ringby Tudor Humphries, Michael HarrisonISBN 0192741314 (0-19-274131-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Curse of the Ring'More editions of The Curse of the Ring:
The Dark Wayby Virginia Hamilton, Lambert DavisISBN 015222341X (0-15-222341-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Way'More editions of The Dark Way:
The Dark Way: Stories from the Spirit Worldby Virginia Hamilton, Lambert DavisISBN 0152223401 (0-15-222340-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Way: Stories from the Spirit World'More editions of The Dark Way: Stories from the Spirit World:
Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classicby Alberto Manguel, Gianni GuadalupiISBN 0156008726 (0-15-600872-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic'Book summary:The Dictionary of Imaginary Places is best described as a guidebook of the make-believe. A good way to understand what Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi set out to do with their book is to imagine that you want to travel to a place like Oz, as in The Wizard of. What you remember from watching the classic movie and what you would want to know as a traveler are two very distinct things. What you'll earn in this book is that Oz is a large rectangular country where everyone works half the time and plays half the time, one that is divided into four smaller countries: Munchkin Country, Winkie Country, Quadling Country, and Gillikin Country. Flip through more of the book's alphabetized listings and you'll discover Fuddlecumjig, a town in Oz's Quadling Country whose inhabitants, the Fuddles, are among the most curious people in Oz. The main peculiarity is that they are made of many pieces, rather like jigsaw puzzles, and literally fall apart when strangers approach, and have to be reassembled with skill and patience. A travel tip for readers with vivid imaginations: put Fuddlecumjig's cook together first if you want a meal. And so go the descriptions of more than 1,200 worlds invented by storytellers throughout history, from Homer's Wandering Rocks in the Odyssey to Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park. But there's more here than just the worlds of literature and film. You can learn more about John Lennon's Nutopia from his album Mind Games. Nutopia is a country with no land, no boundaries, no passports, and no laws other than cosmic laws. And the Beatles' Pepperland from Yellow Submarine is described as a country 18,000 leagues beneath the Sea of Green, where inhabitants dress in bright colors and rainbows are frequent. Written with rich descriptions that bring places to life, The Dictionary of Imaginary Places is a wonderful, magical reference book perfect for fiction lovers. --John Russell [via]
More editions of Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic:
A Dictionary of World Mythologyby Arthur CottrellISBN 0192177478 (0-19-217747-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of World Mythology'More editions of A Dictionary of World Mythology:
-
Don Quixoteby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Michael Harrison, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 0192741829 (0-19-274182-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote'Book summary:He lived in a small village in a dusty corner of Spain, a bony man of about fifty. He had little to do, and so he read. The flickering candle flame filled the corners of his room with ghostly shadows of giants and of dragons--for the only books he read were about the knights of old who roamed the countryside seeking adventures.
The horizon stretched out an invitation. He knew that he too must be a knight, must travel on a quest, must seek adventures. So he found a suit of rusty armor, made himself a visor of cardboard and tin, and he called himself Don Quixote de la Mancha.
In this spirited, lively retelling of the famous Cervantes classic, Michael Harrison's clear and lively style is beautifully complemented by Victor Ambrus's evocative paintings of the landscape of sixteenth-century Spain. [via] -
Don Quixote De LA Manchaby E.C. Riley, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Charles Jarvis, JarvisISBN 019282726X (0-19-282726-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote De LA Mancha'Book summary:The father of the modern novel and a comic masterpiece, Don Quixote has acquired mythic status and remains as fresh today as when it first appeared nearly 400 years ago. This translation by Charles Jarvis conveys the flavor of the original Spanish, and the introduction by Milan Kundera illuminates the volume. [via]
More editions of Don Quixote De LA Mancha:
Dread Companionby Andre NortonISBN 0152242015 (0-15-224201-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dread Companion'More editions of Dread Companion:
Eastby Edith PattouISBN 0152052216 (0-15-205221-6)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'East'-
Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introductionby Geraldine PinchISBN 0192803468 (0-19-280346-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction'Book summary:Egyptian myths articulated the core values of one of the longest lasting civilizations in history, and myths of deities such as isis and osiris influenced contemporary cultures and became part of the western cultural heritage. Egyptian mythology: a very short introduction explains the cultural and historical background to the fascinating and complex world of egyptian myth, with each chapter dealing with a particular theme.to show the variety of source material for egyptian myth, each chapter features a particular object--such as the obelisk known as cleopatra's needle, a golden statue of tutankhamun, and a papyrus containing a story in which the egyptian gods behave outrageously--which is illustrated by a photograph or line-drawing. The myth "the contendings of horus and seth" is looked at in detail, and the many interpretations it has provoked are examined. In addition to a list of major deities and myths, there are explanations of related topics such as how hieroglyphs work, royal names and titles, and the egyptian cosmos. There is also a timeline of egyptian history, a glossary of technical terms and an up-to-date bibliography [via]
More editions of Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction:
-
Elidorby Alan Garner, Tristan ElwellISBN 0152017976 (0-15-201797-6)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Elidor'Book summary:A mechanical street map, a deserted slum, a church in ruins, and a football--four ordinary things that lead the Watson children into an extraordinary adventure in the land called Elidor, a magical world one step removed from our own. In pursuit of four ancient Treasures, the forces of evil have crossed over into our world. It falls to the Watson children to find the Treasures, seal the bridge between worlds, and guard the strayed unicorn Findhorn . . . even though their heroism may cost them everything.[via] 
Fables of Identity Studies in Poetic Mythologyby Northrop FryeISBN 0156297302 (0-15-629730-2)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fables of Identity Studies in Poetic Mythology'More editions of Fables of Identity Studies in Poetic Mythology:
-
Faust, Part Twoby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David LukeISBN 0192826166 (0-19-282616-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust, Part Two'Book summary:This is a new translation of Faust, Part Two by David Luke, whose translation of Faust, Part I was the winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here, Luke expertly imitates the varied verse-forms of the original, and provides a highly readable and actable translation which includes an introduction, full notes, and an index of classical mythology. [via]
More editions of Faust, Part Two:
Flights:Readings in Magic, Mysticism, Fantasy, and Myth: Readings in Magic, Mysticism, Fantasy, and Mythby David Adams LeemingISBN 0155275569 (0-15-527556-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Flights:Readings in Magic, Mysticism, Fantasy, and Myth: Readings in Magic, Mysticism, Fantasy, and Myth'More editions of Flights:Readings in Magic, Mysticism, Fantasy, and Myth: Readings in Magic, Mysticism, Fantasy, and Myth:
-
Four Quartetsby T. S. EliotISBN 0156332256 (0-15-633225-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Quartets'Book summary:The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work
Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in The Waste Land. Here, in four linked poems ( Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding ), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism. [via]
More editions of Four Quartets:
-
The Great Code: The Bible and Literatureby Northrop FryeISBN 0156027801 (0-15-602780-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Code: The Bible and Literature'Book summary:The subject of Northrop Frye's The Great Code is "a huge, sprawling, tactless book inscrutably in the middle of our cultural heritage": the Bible. And though literary critic Frye insists on approaching this monumental book only as a "unified structure of narrative and imagery," he acknowledges that the Bible is somehow "more" than a work of literature. The Great Code tries to track down that sense of "more." The Bible, according to Frye, is at the centre of our mythical universe, establishing "the imaginative framework within which Western Literature has operated down to the eighteenth century and is to a large extent still operating."
Arranged in two parts, the first setting forth critical principles under the headings of "language," "myth," "metaphor" and "typology," and the second focusing primarily on the application of those principles, The Great Code adopts the "double mirror" structure of the Bible's Old and New Testaments. The book grew out of a course Frye taught at the University of Toronto for half a century, and so, he insists, it addresses not the Biblical or even the literary scholar so much as the general reader, including those without much prior knowledge of the Bible or any particular religious faith. With its successor, Words with Power, The Great Code forms perhaps the most ambitious and most personal project of this great literary man's career. Though he was himself ordained in the United Church of Canada in his early 20s, Frye decided to leave the religious for the academic life; what he took with him was a fierce fascination with this sacred text and a deep sense of its literary and cultural importance. It is the one book that, Frye says, "all my critical work has revolved" around. --Russell Prather [via]
More editions of The Great Code: The Bible and Literature:
-
Hamletby JenkinsISBN 0174434693 (0-17-443469-3)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:This edition offers a detailed insight into the work of Shakespeare expanding the individual's knowledge and appreciation of his work. [via]
-
Hamletby William Shakespeare, G. R. HibbardISBN 0192814486 (0-19-281448-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the text currently accepted is not, in fact, the most authoritative version of the play, this new edition turns to the First Folio of 1623--Shakespeare's "fair copy"--that has been preserved for us in the Second Quarto. Introducing fresh theatrical momentum, this revision provides, as Shakespeare intended, a better, more practical acting script. [via]
More editions of Hamlet:
-
The Heart of the Hunter: Customs and Myths of the African Bushmanby Laurens van der PostISBN 0156400030 (0-15-640003-0)
Softcover, SPCK Publishing
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of the Hunter: Customs and Myths of the African Bushman'Book summary:The authors passionate concern for Africa and for the human spirit is evident in this portrait of the First People of southern Africa, the Bushmen. Van der Post describes his desert travels, the splendid landscape and wildlife, and his encounters with the Bushman, an elusive culture. Drawings by Maurice Wilson.[via]More editions of The Heart of the Hunter: Customs and Myths of the African Bushman:
-
Heracles and Other Playsby Euripides, Robin Waterfield, Edith HallISBN 019283259X (0-19-283259-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Heracles and Other Plays'Book summary:Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick humor that characterized the genre. Alcestis shows various reactions to death with pathos and grim humor while the blood-soaked Heracles portrays deep emotional pain and undeserved suffering. Children of Heracles deals with the effects of war on refugees and the consequences of sheltering them. [via]
More editions of Heracles and Other Plays:
-
The Homeric Hymnsby Michael CruddenISBN 0192802402 (0-19-280240-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Homeric Hymns'Book summary:Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with Homer's two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive that were attributed to Homer in ancient times. The Homeric Hymns are now known to be the work of various poets working in the same tradition, probably during the seventh and sixth centuries BC. They honor the Greek gods, and recount some of the most attractive of the Greek myths. Four of them (Hymns 2-5) stand out by reason of their length and quality. The Hymn to Demeter tells what happened when Hades, lord of the dead, abducted Persephone, Demeter's daughter. The Hymn to Apollo describes Apollo's birth and the foundation of his Delphic oracle. In the Hymn to Hermes Apollo's cattle are stolen by a felonious infant--Hermes, the god of thieves. In the Hymn to Aphrodite the goddess of love herself becomes infatuated with a mortal man, the Trojan prince Ankhises.
This volume offers a faithful verse translation of all the hymns, Explanatory Notes, and a Glossary of Names. [via]More editions of The Homeric Hymns:
Indian Tales and Legendsby J. E. Gray, Joan Kiddell-MonroeISBN 0192741381 (0-19-274138-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Indian Tales and Legends'More editions of Indian Tales and Legends:
-
Just So Stories for Little Childrenby Rudyard Kipling, Lisa LewisISBN 0192822764 (0-19-282276-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories for Little Children'Book summary:How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables of India, and they are full of jokes, subtexts, and exotic references. This fully illustrated edition of this classic includes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title. [via]
More editions of Just So Stories for Little Children:
-
Kama Sutraby Vatsyayana, Wendy Doniger, Sudhir Kakar, Mallanaga VatsyayanaISBN 0192802704 (0-19-280270-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Kama Sutra'Book summary:The Kamasutra is the oldest extant textbook of erotic love. But it is more than a book about sex. It is about the art of living--about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs--and also, of course, about the many and varied positions available to lovers in sexual intercourse and the pleasures to be derived from each.
The Kamasutra was composed in Sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India, sometime in the third century, probably in North India. It combines an encyclopedic coverage of all imaginable aspects of sex with a closely observed sexual psychology and a dramatic, novelistic narrative of seduction, consummation, and disentanglement. Best known in English through the highly mannered, padded, and inaccurate nineteenth-century translation by Sir Richard Burton, the text is newly translated here into clear, vivid, sexually frank English. This edition also includes a section of vivid Indian color illustrations along with three uniquely important commentaries: translated excerpts from the earliest and most famous Sanskrit commentary (thirteenth century) and from a twentieth-century Hindi commentary, and explanatory notes by the two translators.
The lively and entertaining introduction by translator Wendy Doniger, one of the world's foremost Sanskrit scholars, discusses the history of The Kamasutra and its reception in India and Europe, analyses its attitudes toward gender and sexual violence, and sets it in the context of ancient Indian social theory, scientific method, and sexual ethics. [via]More editions of Kama Sutra:
-
King Learby William Shakespeare, R. A. FoakesISBN 017443460X (0-17-443460-X)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:This edition of King Lear provides a clear a nd authoritative text, edited to the highest standards of sc holarship, and includes an in-depth survey of critical appro aches to the play. ' [via]
-
Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Richard HowardISBN 0156012073 (0-15-601207-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Prince'Book summary:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket." And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions.
The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. It's a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy as Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. And despite his tone of gentle bemusement, Saint-Exupéry pulls off some fine satiric touches, too. There's the king, for example, who commands the Little Prince to function as a one-man (or one-boy) judiciary:
I have good reason to believe that there is an old rat living somewhere on my planet. I hear him at night. You could judge that old rat. From time to time you will condemn him to death. That way his life will depend on your justice. But you'll pardon him each time for economy's sake. There's only one rat.
The author pokes similar fun at a businessman, a geographer, and a lamplighter, all of whom signify some futile aspect of adult existence. Yet his tale is ultimately a tender one--a heartfelt exposition of sadness and solitude, which never turns into Peter Pan-style treacle. Such delicacy of tone can present real headaches for a translator, and in her 1943 translation, Katherine Woods sometimes wandered off the mark, giving the text a slightly wooden or didactic accent. Happily, Richard Howard (who did a fine nip-and-tuck job on Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma in 1999) has streamlined and simplified to wonderful effect. The result is a new and improved version of an indestructible classic, which also restores the original artwork to full color. "Trying to be witty," we're told at one point, "leads to lying, more or less." But Saint-Exupéry's drawings offer a handy rebuttal: they're fresh, funny, and like the book itself, rigorously truthful. --James Marcus [via]More editions of Little Prince:
- The Little Prince: ISBN 0156465116 (0-15-646511-6)
Softcover, Harcourt - The Little Prince: ISBN 0156528207 (0-15-652820-7)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Little Prince: ISBN 0152438203 (0-15-243820-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Little Prince: ISBN 0152465030 (0-15-246503-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Little Prince: ISBN 0156012073 (0-15-601207-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
- The Little Prince: ISBN 0156465116 (0-15-646511-6)
-
The Little Princeby Richard Howard, Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0156012197 (0-15-601219-7)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Prince'Book summary:You could be excused for thinking that this book is one containing a simple story for young children about a Little Prince. How wrong you would be! This is far from the truth: it is much more. It is a complex story containing lots of ambiguities about a child with golden hair. These are all eruditely discussed before the actual story begins, in a section entitled "How It All Began". "Is The Little Prince a story written for children or is it a meditation intended for adults?"
The Art of Living is discussed, along with a system of values, and the train of thought behind them is the unifying element. You are invited to "look at the book, and allow yourself to travel from one image to the next... " It was written and published more than 50 years ago in the USA, and the author was a Frenchman who illustrated the book himself; it was later translated by Kathryn Woods. The Little Prince is still very popular and has now been translated into many languages. Shortly after it was first written, the author died--disappearing together with his plane somewhere over the Mediterranean. This Gift edition contains all the original illustrations, plus some more original drawings that came to light later and have been published here for the first time.--Susan Naylor
-
Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 0192781537 (0-19-278153-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas. This edition includes passages from Melville's correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which the two discussed the philosophical depths of the novel's plot and imagery. [via]
More editions of Moby Dick:
Modern Man in Search of a Soulby Carl Gustav JungISBN 0156612062 (0-15-661206-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern Man in Search of a Soul'More editions of Modern Man in Search of a Soul:
Moon Of Gomrathby Alan GarnerISBN 0152056300 (0-15-205630-0)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Moon Of Gomrath'More editions of Moon Of Gomrath:
-
The Moon of Gomrath: A Tale of Alderleyby Alan GarnerISBN 0152017968 (0-15-201796-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moon of Gomrath: A Tale of Alderley'Book summary:The Moon of Gomrath is the name of the one night of the year when the Old Magic is at its most powerful. Had Colin and Susan known this, they would have never obeyed the strange compulsion that drove them to light a fire on the Beacon. But now it is too late--the horsemen called the Wild Hunt are awake and on the ride, and no one is safe.Colin is captured, Susan falls under the sway of the hideous Brollachan, and all along Alderley Edge the forces of evil rally for the conflict to come. For there will be a battle, the likes of which cannot be imagined by mortals. The outcome--and all the hopes of the world--will depend on three unlikely champions: Susan, Colin, and their ally, the wizard Cadellin.[via]More editions of The Moon of Gomrath: A Tale of Alderley:
![[???]: The New Standard Version: Revised Angelicized Text](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0191070343.01._SL160_SCLZZZZZZZ__.jpg "[???]: The New Standard Version: Revised Angelicized Text")
New English Bible Standard With ApocryphaISBN 0191070343 (0-19-107034-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This BookMore editions of New English Bible Standard With Apocrypha:
- New English Bible Standard With Apocrypha: ISBN 019180004X (0-19-180004-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The New English Bible:the Old Testament: The Old Testament: ISBN 0191800104 (0-19-180010-4)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P./Cambridge U.P. - The New English Bible:the Apocrypha: The Apocrypha: ISBN 0191800112 (0-19-180011-2)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P./Cambridge U.P. - The New English Bible:the New Testament: The New Testament: ISBN 0191800139 (0-19-180013-9)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P./Cambridge U.P. - The New Standard Version: Revised Angelicized Text: ISBN 0191070343 (0-19-107034-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- New English Bible Standard With Apocrypha: ISBN 019180004X (0-19-180004-X)
The Oxford Guide To Arthurian Literature And Legendby Alan LupackISBN 0192802879 (0-19-280287-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Guide To Arthurian Literature And Legend'More editions of The Oxford Guide To Arthurian Literature And Legend:
Perilous Journeyby Jewkes W. T.ISBN 0153335203 (0-15-333520-3)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Perilous Journey'More editions of Perilous Journey:
-
The Pilgrim's Progressby John Bunyan, W. R. OwensISBN 0192803611 (0-19-280361-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:One of the best-selling books of all time, The Pilgrim's Progress holds a unique place in the history of English literature. Bunyan captures the speech of ordinary people as accurately as he depicts their behavior and appearance and as firmly as he realizes their inner emotional and spiritual life. [via]
More editions of The Pilgrim's Progress:
-
Plato Phaedrusby Plato, Robin WaterfieldISBN 0192802771 (0-19-280277-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Plato Phaedrus'Book summary:Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerotic love. Socrates reveals it to be a kind of divine madness that can allow our souls to grow wings and soar to their greatest heights. Then the conversation changes direction and turns to a discussion of rhetoric, which must be based on truth passionately sought, thus allying it to philosophy. The dialogue closes by denigrating the value of the written word in any context, compared to the living teaching of a Socratic philosopher.
The shifts of topic and register have given rise to doubts about the unity of the dialogue, doubts which are addressed in the introduction to this volume. Full explanatory notes also elucidate issues throughout the dialogue that might puzzle a modern reader. [via]More editions of Plato Phaedrus:
-
Regulusby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0156014041 (0-15-601404-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Regulus'Book summary:In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard, this timeless classic was embraced by critics and readers across the country for its purity and beauty of expression. And Saint-Exupéry's beloved artwork was restored and remastered to present his work in its original and vibrant colors.[via]
Now Harcourt is issuing uniform full-color foreign language editions. The restored artwork glows like never before. These affordable and beautiful editions are sure to delight an entire new generation of readers, students, children, and adults for whom Saint-Exupéry's story will open the door to a new understanding of life.More editions of Regulus:
-
Regulus Vel Pueri Soli Sapiunt/the Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0156763001 (0-15-676300-1)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Regulus Vel Pueri Soli Sapiunt/the Little Prince'Book summary:The Latin edition of The Little Prince. Black-and-white illustrations by the Author. Translated by Auguste Haury.[via]More editions of Regulus Vel Pueri Soli Sapiunt/the Little Prince:
-
The Rise of Rome: Books One to Fiveby Livy, T. James LuceISBN 0192822969 (0-19-282296-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five'Book summary:The first five books of Livy's history of early Rome recount the great stories and moments of Roman history. From Romulus and Remus, to the rape of Lucretia, to Horatius at the bridge, Livy's massive work immortalizes the events which both defined early Roman civilization and helped to shape our cultural heritage. This new annotated translation includes both maps and an index, making it the most complete and up-to-date edition available. [via]
More editions of The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five:
Rob Royby Walter Scott, Ian DuncanISBN 0192817639 (0-19-281763-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rob Roy'More editions of Rob Roy:
Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatryby O. BarfieldISBN 015679490X (0-15-679490-X)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry'More editions of Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry:
Shakespeare in Performance: An Introduction through Six Major Playsby William Shakespeare, John Russell BrownISBN 015580829X (0-15-580829-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare in Performance: An Introduction through Six Major Plays'More editions of Shakespeare in Performance: An Introduction through Six Major Plays:
-
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Verse Translationby Helen Cooper, Keith HarrisonISBN 0192833340 (0-19-283334-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Verse Translation'Book summary:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is probably the most skillfuly told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west midlands of England, it is based on two ancient Celtic motifs--the Beheading and the Exchange of Winnings--brought together by the anonymous 14th century author. Acclaimed poet Keith Harrison's new translation uses a modern alliterative pattern which subtly echoes the music of the original at the same time it strives for fidelity. This is the most generously annotated edition available, complete with a detailed introduction which situates the work in the context of Arthurian Romance and analyzes its poetics and narrative structure. [via]
More editions of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Verse Translation:
Somaby Robert Gordon WassonISBN 0156838001 (0-15-683800-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Soma'More editions of Soma:
-
The Sonnetsby William ShakespeareISBN 0174434731 (0-17-443473-1)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sonnets'Book summary:Poetry [via]
More editions of The Sonnets:
-
Tales from Perraultby Charles Perrault, Ann Lawrence, Tony James ChanceISBN 0192741756 (0-19-274175-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales from Perrault'Book summary:A captivating retelling of the best-loved tales of master storyteller Charles Perrault. In this edition, cleverly set as stories within a story, Perrault writes for a little girl during her summer in the country. Old favorites--"Tom Thumb," "Sleeping Beauty," "Puss in Boots," and "Bluebeard," among others--are joined by tales about fairies and giants, about wishes come true, and about why little girls with red hoods shouldn't walk through the woods alone. Lawrence adds insights into the life and times of Perrault, and stunning illustrations bring the tales vividly to life. [via]
More editions of Tales from Perrault:
-
Tam Linby Jane Yolen, Charles MikolaycakISBN 015201697X (0-15-201697-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Tam Lin'Book summary:A young girl triumphs over the Queen of Faeries to reclaim her ancestral home and free her true love in this haunting retelling of an old Scottish ballad. Mikolaycaks illustrations...attract attention yet do not overpower the story, making the book one that could be easily used as a picture story book presentation for middle- and upper-grade or even adult audiences. -The Horn Book[via] -
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For Everyone And Nobodyby Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Graham ParkesISBN 0192805835 (0-19-280583-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For Everyone And Nobody'Book summary:hus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche's own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this book he addresses the problem of how to live a fulfilling life in a world without meaning, in the aftermath of "the death of God." His solution lies in the idea of eternal recurrence, which he calls "the highest formula of affirmation that can ever be attained." A successful engagement with this profoundly Dionysian idea enables us to choose clearly among the myriad possibilities that existence offers, and thereby to affirm every moment of our lives with others on this "sacred" earth.
Grahm Parkes's new translation is more accurate than previous versions, and is the first to retain the musicality of the original, by paying attention to the rhythms and cadences of the German. His introduction examines the work's three most important philosophical ideas and for the first time annotates the abundance of allusions to the Bible and other classic texts with which Nietzsche's masterpiece is in conversation. [via]More editions of Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For Everyone And Nobody:
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, G. B. HarrisonISBN 0156384108 (0-15-638410-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt, Brace & World
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'More editions of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark:
Troilus and Cressidaby William ShakespeareISBN 0174434790 (0-17-443479-0)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Troilus and Cressida'Book summary:This edition of Troilus and Cressida provide s a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and comment ary on the same pages as the text and an in-depth survey of critical approaches to the play. ' [via]
-
Ulyssesby James Joyce, Jeri JohnsonISBN 0192828665 (0-19-282866-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› 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]
More editions of Ulysses:
-
Weirdstone of Brisingamenby Alan GarnerISBN 015205636X (0-15-205636-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Weirdstone of Brisingamen'Book summary:Readers who love E. Nesbit or Susan Cooper may discover a new favorite in Alan Garner, winner of many awards for literary excellence including the Carnegie Medal. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, first published in 1960, is the story of two children, Susan and Colin, who are sent to rural England to stay with Bess Mossock, their mother's childhood nurse. The Mossocks' farm is delightfully old-fashioned, and the Alderley area is dotted with interesting woods to explore as well as treacherous disused mines. Susan and Colin encounter a frightening local woman, and feel they are being watched by crows. The air of menace quickly becomes acute danger as the children are pursued by small goblinlike beings, who truss them in cobwebby ropes. An ancient wizard named Cadellin comes to their rescue. As they learn more of the dark forces that threaten Alderley, Susan and Colin find themselves on the run through the abandoned mine tunnels, aided by a pair of heroic dwarfs.
Garner's knowledge of folklore and the Alderley area--his characters' dialect sounds realistic instead of like rote fantasy-speak--imbues his story with a thoughtful depth. His writing is as clear as poetry: "And they passed between the stones, only to stop short a couple of paces later, with despair in their hearts, cold as the east wind." There is a sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, called The Moon of Gomrath, and both books are superbly written, absorbing tales of wizardry and adventure. --Blaise Selby [via]
More editions of Weirdstone of Brisingamen:
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderleyby Alan GarnerISBN 0152017666 (0-15-201766-6)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley'More editions of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley:
Spanish
-
El Principitoby Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Bonifacio Del CarrilISBN 0156284502 (0-15-628450-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'El Principito'Book summary:The little prince discovers the secrets of friendship while traveling through the universe. [via]
More editions of El Principito:
-
El Principito / The Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Bonifacio Del CarrilISBN 0156013924 (0-15-601392-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'El Principito / The Little Prince'Book summary:In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard, this timeless classic was embraced by critics and readers across the country for its purity and beauty of expression. And Saint-Exupéry's beloved artwork was restored and remastered to present his work in its original and vibrant colors.[via]
Now Harcourt is issuing uniform full-color foreign language editions. The restored artwork glows like never before. These affordable and beautiful editions are sure to delight an entire new generation of readers, students, children, and adults for whom Saint-Exupéry's story will open the door to a new understanding of life.More editions of El Principito / The Little Prince:
French
-
Le Petit Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0156013983 (0-15-601398-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Petit Prince'Book summary:Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, et face à un petit garçon tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcroît ce petit garçon vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voilà plus qu'étonné ! À partir de là, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'où vient cet étrange petit bonhomme et connaître son histoire.
S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naïveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Très vite, vous découvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.
Cette évocation onirique, à laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, où l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura à coeur de raconter à son enfant, page après page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne ! --Xavier Marciniak [via]
More editions of Le Petit Prince:
- Le Petit Prince: ISBN 0152164154 (0-15-216415-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Le Petit Prince: ISBN 015650300X (0-15-650300-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Le Petit Prince: ISBN 0152438181 (0-15-243818-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Le Petit Prince: ISBN 0156013983 (0-15-601398-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
- Le Petit Prince: ISBN 0152164154 (0-15-216415-4)
German
-
Der Kleine Prinzby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 015601386X (0-15-601386-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Kleine Prinz'Book summary:The German edition of The Little Prince. Black-and-white illustrations by the Author. Translated by Grete and Josef Leitgeb.[via]More editions of Der Kleine Prinz:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}