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Age of Bronze 2: Sacrificeby Eric ShanowerISBN 1582402124 (1-58240-212-4)
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Atlantis: The Antediluvian Worldby Ignatius DonnellyISBN 1847027644 (1-84702-764-4)
Softcover, Echo Library
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The Book of Lost Talesby J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 0048232386 (0-04-823238-6)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
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Castlesby Alan LeeISBN 0070372802 (0-07-037280-2)
Softcover, Bdd Promotional Book Co
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The Celts: Uncovering the Mythic and Historic Origins of Western Cultureby Jean MarkaleISBN 0892814136 (0-89281-413-6)
Softcover, Inner Traditions
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The Children of Llyrby Evangeline WaltonISBN 0020264747 (0-02-026474-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Conversing With the Planets: How Science and Myth Invented the Cosmosby Anthony AveniISBN 1568360215 (1-56836-021-5)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conversing With the Planets: How Science and Myth Invented the Cosmos'Book summary:An award-winning professor takes readers on a guided tour of the stunning celestial discoveries of past cultures. Interweaving the astronomy, mythology, and anthropology of ancient peoples, Aveni shows how to discover the harmony between their beliefs and their study of the sky through naked-eye observations. 30 illustrations. [via]
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Curious Myths of the Middle Agesby Sabine Baring-GouldISBN 0879682612 (0-87968-261-2)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Curious Myths of the Middle Ages - 1867by S. Baring-GouldISBN 1564596516 (1-56459-651-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Druids, Gods and Heroes from Celtic Mythologyby Anne Ross, Roger GarlandISBN 0872269191 (0-87226-919-1)
Softcover, Peter Bedrick Books
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Egyptian Legends and Storiesby Majory Veronica Seton-WilliamsISBN 0948695080 (0-948695-08-0)
Softcover, David Brown Book Co
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The Feminist Companion to Mythologyby Carolyne LarringtonISBN 0044408501 (0-04-440850-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Fin Mac Coolby Morgan LlywelynISBN 0812524012 (0-8125-2401-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wondersby Neil GaimanISBN 0061252026 (0-06-125202-6)
Softcover, Perennial
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New York Times Book Review, Editors Choice
Dazzling tales from a master of the fantastic.
Washington Post Book WorldFragile Things is a sterling collection of exceptional tales from Neil Gaiman, multiple award-winning (the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Newberry, and Eisner Awards, to name just a few), #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Graveyard Book, Anansi Boys, Coraline, and the groundbreaking Sandman graphic novel series. A uniquely imaginative creator of wonders whose unique storytelling genius has been acclaimed by a host of literary luminaries from Norman Mailer to Stephen King, Gaimans astonishing powers are on glorious displays in Fragile Things. Enter and be amazed!
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The Furiesby John Bolton, Mike CareyISBN 1563899353 (1-56389-935-3)
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Goddesses Heroes and Shamansby David BellinghamISBN 1856979997 (1-85697-999-7)
Hardcover, Kingfisher Books
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Gods and Heroes of the Celtsby Marie Louise Sjoestedt, Myles DillonISBN 1851821791 (1-85182-179-1)
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Gods and Pharaohs from Egyptian Mythologyby Geraldine Harris, David O'Connor, John SibbickISBN 0872269078 (0-87226-907-8)
Hardcover, School Specialty Publishing
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Gods and Pharaohs from Egyptian Mythologyby David O'Connor, John Sibbick, Geraldine HarrisISBN 0856540439 (0-85654-043-9)
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The Greek Wayby Edith HamiltonISBN 1568495021 (1-56849-502-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Heroes: Easyread Large Editionby Charles KingsleyISBN 1426407106 (1-4264-0710-6)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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The Heroes Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work The World of Joseph Campbellby Joseph Campbell, Phil CousineauISBN 0062501712 (0-06-250171-2)
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The Heroes Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell Joseph Campbell on His Life and Workby Phil CousineauISBN 006250102X (0-06-250102-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heroes Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work'Book summary:The man behind the myth is lovingly revealed in this collection of interviews with the late Joseph Campbell. Using Campbell's format for the "hero's journey," editor Phil Cousineau organized these interviews so that they reflect Campbell's own chronological life quest. He begins with "The Call to Adventure," in which Campbell speaks to his fascination with Native American myth as a child, and moves through "The Road of Trials" (his years in college and as a young professor at Sarah Lawrence) and the "Meeting with the Goddess" (referring to meeting his wife of 50 years, the modern dancer Jean Erdman). Since most of the book is written in a question and answer format (with a few excerpts from lectures), much of the text is in Campbell's own words. It is a feast for any fan to hear Campbell speak so personally about his own life while also imparting his usual insight and wisdom on every topic he discusses.
A few morsels of this feast can be found in the following tidbits: for example, readers may be surprised to discover that Campbell considered his half-mile track races in college to be the "peak" experiences of his life. (Campbell was an esteemed track star at Columbia University in the mid-1920s.) Or that it was the famous Paris-dweller and bookseller Sylvia Beach who helped Campbell understand the meaning behind Ulysses in 1928 and was influential in steering Campbell into the realm of mythology and heroes. Or that Campbell believed that his uncanny ability to relate myths to contemporary life came from teaching female students at Sarah Lawrence. "They always wanted the material to relate to themselves, to life," he explained to interviewer Stuart Brown. "I attribute the popular aspects of my writing to the training I got from these students." Or that The Hero with a Thousand Faces inspired numerous artists, including George Lucas of Star Wars fame and Richard Adams, author of Watership Down.
This is also a generously illustrated book, with numerous photos of Campbell, many of which are shown in their authentic sepia tones. Numerous full-color images of famous artwork and images speak to each mythological theme in the book, such as the "Death of Socrates" (Jacques Louis David, 1787) and the painting of "Sacred and Profane" (Titan, circa 1514). --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Heroes of the Greeksby C. KerenyiISBN 0844669474 (0-8446-6947-4)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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The Heroes: Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Childrenby Charles KingsleyISBN 1404307133 (1-4043-0713-3)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Interview With the Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 0899667813 (0-89966-781-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interview With the Vampire'Book summary:In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.
While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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James Joyce's Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 1555460216 (1-55546-021-6)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrellby Susanna ClarkeISBN 1582346038 (1-58234-603-8)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell'Book summary:It's 1808 and that Corsican upstart Napoleon is battering the English army and navy. Enter Mr. Norrell, a fusty but ambitious scholar from the Yorkshire countryside and the first practical magician in hundreds of years. What better way to demonstrate his revival of British magic than to change the course of the Napoleonic wars? Susanna Clarke's ingenious first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, has the cleverness and lightness of touch of the Harry Potter series, but is less a fairy tale of good versus evil than a fantastic comedy of manners, complete with elaborate false footnotes, occasional period spellings, and a dense, lively mythology teeming beneath the narrative. Mr. Norrell moves to London to establish his influence in government circles, devising such powerful illusions as an 11-day blockade of French ports by English ships fabricated from rainwater. But however skillful his magic, his vanity provides an Achilles heel, and the differing ambitions of his more glamorous apprentice, Jonathan Strange, threaten to topple all that Mr. Norrell has achieved. A sparkling debut from Susanna Clarke--and it's not all fairy dust. --Regina Marler [via]
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Larousse World Mythologyby Pierre GrimalISBN 0831754214 (0-8317-5421-4)
Hardcover, Gallery Books
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Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samsonby David Grossman, Stuart SchoffmanISBN 1841959138 (1-84195-913-8)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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Mabon and the Mysteries of Britain: An Exploration of the Mabinogionby Caitlin MatthewsISBN 1850630526 (1-85063-052-6)
Softcover, Arkana
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The Mythic Dimension : Selected Essays 1959-1987by Joseph CampbellISBN 0060966122 (0-06-096612-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Myths & Legends of Indiaby D.A. MacKenzieISBN 9971491265 (9971-4-9126-5)
Softcover, Heian Intl Pub Co
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Myths and Myth-makersby John FiskeISBN 1426400500 (1-4264-0050-0)
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Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythologyby John FiskeISBN 0893413046 (0-89341-304-6)
Hardcover, Longwood Press
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The Myths of Mexico and Peruby Lewis SpenceISBN 0893410314 (0-89341-031-4)
Hardcover, Hollowbrook Pub
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The New Book of Goddesses & Heroinesby Patricia MonaghanISBN 1567184650 (1-56718-465-0)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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The Pink Fairy Bookby Andrew LangISBN 1419177532 (1-4191-7753-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Prince Of Ayodhyaby Ashok BankerISBN 1841491861 (1-84149-186-1)
Softcover, Orbit Books
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Sandman Presents: The Furiesby Mike CareyISBN 1401200931 (1-4012-0093-1)
Softcover, Vertigo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sandman Presents: The Furies'Book summary:At the close of Nail Gaiman's series The Sandman, we witnessed Lyta Hall's young son become the new Dream King. But what became of Lyta?
Her story unfolds in the pages of "The Sandman Presents: The Furies." In the three years since Daniel left to fulfill his destiny, Lyta has suffered greatly from the loss of her only son. Born half-human and half-fury, she has always connected more with her human side. But now the bloodline of the Furies - a terrifying trio of spirits who weild an inimitable brand of vengence = has token over her senses ...and her sanity. [via]
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The Sea of Monstersby Rick RiordanISBN 1423103343 (1-4231-0334-3)
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After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tysona six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any normal friends.
But things dont stay quiet for long. Percy soon discovers there is trouble at Camp Half-Blood: the magical borders which protect Half-Blood Hill have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and the only safe haven for demigods is on the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters. To save the camp, Percy needs the help of his best friend, Grover, who has been taken prisoner by the Cyclops Polyphemus on an island somewhere in the Sea of Monsters, the dangerous waters Greek heroes have sailed for millenniaonly today, the Sea of Monsters goes by a new name&the Bermuda Triangle.
Now Percy and his friendsGrover, Annabeth, and Tysonmust retrieve the Golden Fleece from the Island of the Cyclopes by the end of the summer or Camp Half-Blood will be destroyed. But first, Percy will learn a stunning new secret about his familyone that makes him question whether being claimed as Poseidons son is an honor or simply a cruel joke.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby J.A. BurrowISBN 0140422951 (0-14-042295-1)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'Book summary:Although the date of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is uncertain, and we know nothing about the author, its composition is roughly contemporary with Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in the latter part of the fourteenth century.[via]It is a remarkably subtle and accomplished poem, in which the hero's knightly virtues of courage, courtesy and fidelity are put to the test in a strange adventure involving a huge green knight on a green horse, a winter journey, a lady in a mysterious castle and a challenge answered. It ranks as one of the greatest works of the English Middle Ages and perhaps the greatest triumph of the English alliterative tradition.
Unlike The Canterbury Tales, however, Sir Gawain is written in a dialect belonging to Cheshire, Lancashire or Staffordshire, and this seems more remote to the modern reader than Chaucer's London language. The aim of this edition has been to remove unnecessary impediments while retaining the integrity of the original. Notes and a glossary have been provided to assist an informed, critical reading of the text.
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All seemed fine until Ichabod Crane here fell to the floor, stood up, and picked up his head. His head, in his hands. In HIS HANDS!
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby James KreuzerISBN 0030088801 (0-03-008880-1)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby W. R. J. BarronISBN 0064903117 (0-06-490311-7)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeoby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0048210358 (0-04-821035-8)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo'Book summary:Throughout his life, Professor J.R.R. Tolkien held alliterative poetry in particular affection, and over many years he endeavored to perfect translations into current speech of those middle-English poems of which he was most fond.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, two major and long-neglected poems by an unknown author, derive from the West Midlands, an area of England with which Professor Tolkien felt a strong affinity, and where the alliterative tradition survived strongly in the fourteenth century. Sir Orfeo is a slighter, but no less attractive, poem from a different tradition, and was a special favorite of its translator.
These three translations represent with great skill the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals. They constitute a triumphant memorial to a life-long love of language and its expression in metre and verse·form. No scholar who reads them with attention will fail to find illumination, and no reader of Professor Tolkien's widely known imaginative works will feel disappointed, or fail to perceive in every page flashes of familiarity. It was, indeed, to the general reader that he wished to interpret these poems, and in doing so to lose neither the narrataive skill nor the heightened poetic expression of the originals.
Translation of this quality creates and recreates a work of great intrinsic value, and Professor Tolkien would rejoice if his part in this process contributes to a more general recognition that Gawain and Pearl is poetry of the highest attainment, coeval with Chaucer's and in no sense inferior.
This book has been prepared for publication by Christopher Tolkien, who is a fellow and tutor in English of New College, Oxford.
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Sir Thomas Malory's Tales of King Arthurby Michael Senior, Thomas MaloryISBN 0002223732 (0-00-222373-2)
Hardcover, Collins
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The Songlinesby Bruce ChatwinISBN 0140094296 (0-14-009429-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Songlines'Book summary:The late Bruce Chatwin carved out a literary career as unique as any writer's in this century: his books included In Patagonia, a fabulist travel narrative, The Viceroy of Ouidah, a mock-historical tale of a Brazilian slave-trader in 19th century Africa, and The Songlines, his beautiful, elegiac, comic account of following the invisible pathways traced by the Australian aborigines. Chatwin was nothing if not erudite, and the vast, eclectic body of literature that underlies this tale of trekking across the outback gives it a resonance found in few other recent travel books. A poignancy, as well, since Chatwin's untimely death made The Songlines one of his last books. [via]
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Sophocles: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby David R. Slavitt, Palmer BovieISBN 0812216660 (0-8122-1666-0)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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A Thousand Shipsby Eric ShanowerISBN 1582402000 (1-58240-200-0)
Softcover, Image Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Thousand Ships'Book summary:Daring heroes, breathtaking women, betrayals, love and death--the most spectacular war story ever told: The Trojan War. When a lustful Trojan prince abducts the beautiful Queen Helen of Sparta, Helen`s husband vows to recover her no matter the cost. So begins the Trojan War. From far and wide the ancient kings of Greece bring their ships to join the massive force to pledge their allegiance to High King Agamemnon. Featuring the greatest of the Greek heroes: Achilles, Odysseus, and Herakles, along with a cast of thousands. AGE OF BRONZE: A THOUSAND SHIPS reveals hidden secrets of the characters` pasts, serving up joy and sorrow, leading up to the brink of war, and foreshadowing the terror to come. Age of Bronze will be included in a major international exhibition travelling to three German museums in 2002. The exhibit is centered on the current excavations at Troy and features Age of Bronze in an exhibit devoted to modern interpretations of Troy. Age of Bronze has been nominated for numerous Eisner (The comic industry's Oscar) Awards. Rack it in your mythology and historical fiction sections for even more sales success. [via]
The Tragedies of Sophoclesby Sophocles, Richard Claverhouse JebbISBN 0836968115 (0-8369-6811-5)
Hardcover, Books for Libraries
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Ulises / Ulyssesby James Joyce, Francisco Garcia TortosaISBN 8437617251 (84-376-1725-1)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 1404336877 (1-4043-3687-7)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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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]
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Hardcover, Orchises Pr - Ulysses: ISBN 0824047486 (0-8240-4748-6)
Softcover, Taylor & Francis - Ulysses: ISBN 0824043758 (0-8240-4375-8)
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Vellumby Hal DuncanISBN 1405052082 (1-4050-5208-2)
Hardcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vellum'Book summary:It's 2017 and the end days are coming, beings that were once human gathering to fight in one last great war for control of the Vellum - the vast realm of eternity on which our world is just a scratch. But to a draft-dodging Irish angel and a trailer-trash tomboy called Phreedom, it's about to become brutally clear that there's no great divine or diabolic plan at play here, just a vicious battle between the hawks of Heaven and Hell, with humanity stuck in the middle, and where the easy rhetoric of Good and Evil, Order versus Chaos just doesn't apply. Here there are no heroes, no darlings of destiny struggling to save the day, and there are no villains, no dark lords of evil out to destroy the world. Or at least if there are, it's not quite clear which is which. Here, the most ancient gods and the most modern humans are equally fate's fools, victims of their own hubris, struggling to save their own skins, their own souls, but sometimes...just sometimes...sacrificing everything in the name of humanity. [via]
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The Wandering Fireby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0877957851 (0-87795-785-1)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wandering Fire'Book summary:The second volume in Guy Gavriel Kay's stunning fantasy masterwork, now reissued with the beautiful original cover art by Martin Springett. As the evil of Rakoth Maugrim threatens the very existence of Fionavar, the five from our own world must cross over once again to play out their given roles: Kimberly to summon the dead from their rest and the undead to their doom; Dave to take his place in battle among the Dalrei of the Plain; Paul, Lord of the Summer Tree, once more to weave his own bright thread through the tapestry; Jennifer to become the agent of a timeless destiny; and Kevin to discover finally the part he is to play in the struggle to save the Weaver's worlds from the Unraveller. Guy Gavriel Kay's classic epic fantasy plays out on a truly grand scale, and has already been delighting fans of imaginative fiction for twenty years. [via]
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The Wanderings of Odysseusby Rosemary SutcliffISBN 1417739525 (1-4177-3952-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Way of - The Celtic Traditionby Caitlin MatthewsISBN 000715433X (0-00-715433-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Canada
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Women in Celtic Myth: Tales of Extraordinary Women from Ancient Celtic Traditionby Moyra CaldecottISBN 0892813571 (0-89281-357-1)
Softcover, Destiny Books
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Women's Mysteries: Ancient & Modernby M. Esther HardingISBN 1570626294 (1-57062-629-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women's Mysteries: Ancient & Modern'Book summary:Here is a classic study of the feminine principle in myths, dreams, and religious symbolism. In presenting the archetypal foundations of feminine psychology, the author shows how the ancient religious initiations of the moon goddess symbolized the development of the emotions. Understanding the psychological meaning of these initiations, she believes, can help to heal the troubled relations between men and women today. [via]
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Entrevista Con El Vampiroby Anne Rice, Marcelo CovianISBN 8466616209 (84-666-1620-9)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Entrevista con el Vampiro'Book summary:The archetypal vampire myth is refreshed for a modern audience in this narrative of an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac and the charismatic and powerful vampire Lestat who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. In Louis's first-person confession to a skeptical boy, this novel transforms the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and human figure. The life of immortal Lestat, raised with a deep Catholic faith, provides a background for the novel's philosophical discussions of the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception.[via]La mitología del vampiro es reinventado para lectores del siglo 20 en esta historia de Louis Pointe du Lac, el dueño de una plantación en el Louisiana del siglo 18, y el vampiro poderoso y dinámico Lestat quien adopta a Louis como discípulo. El voz de Louis narra la novela, y este punto de vista trasforma el vampiro de un monstruo a una figura simpática, seductiva, y humana. La vida de inmortal Lestat, quien tiene profunda fe católica, provee una arena para discursos filosóficos de la natura del malo, la realidad de la muerte, y las limitaciones de la percepción humana.More editions of Entrevista Con El Vampiro:
Entrevista Con El Vampiro / Interview With The Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 8495501252 (84-95501-25-2)
Softcover, Distal USA Inc
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Jonathan Strange Y El Senor Norrelby Susanna ClarkeISBN 8478889736 (84-7888-973-6)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Tragedias Completas/ Complete Tragediesby SofoclesISBN 8437605075 (84-376-0507-5)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Ulises / Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 8472234339 (84-7223-433-9)
Hardcover, Tusquets
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Interview Mit Einem Vampirby Anne RiceISBN 3442430534 (3-442-43053-4)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Tragodienby Sophocles, Bernhard Zimmermann, Wolfgang SchadewaldtISBN 3760841023 (3-7608-4102-3)
Hardcover, Artemis & Winkler
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Animaux Fantastiques / Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Themby J. K. RowlingISBN 2070549283 (2-07-054928-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animaux Fantastiques / Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'Book summary:Voilà rien de moins que l'un des livres de classe de Harry, ou du moins sa copie conforme. Celui-là, c'est marqué sur la première page, il le partage avec son copain Ron Weasley, "parce que les pages du sien sont décollées". La préface est due à Aldous Dumbledore en personne. Ce manuel est précieux pour quiconque s'aventurerait au pays des sorciers, et évidemment passionnant pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent à l'univers de Harry. L'auteur, Newt Scamander (Norbert Dragonneau pour nous autres Moldus), présente tous les animaux auquel ce bon vieil Hagrid est tellement attaché : hippogriffe, horklump, loup-garou et autre manticore, de l'acromantula au yeti ! Chacun fait l'objet d'une présentation détaillée qui comporte une description de l'animal, ses principales particularités et sa classification par le ministère de la magie, selon sa dangerosité. Évidemment, comme nombre d'écoliers, Harry et son copain Ron n'ont pas pu s'empêcher d'écrire sur les pages, émaillant la lecture de leurs commentaires facétieux&
Indispensable pour les fans de Harry, cet ouvrage leur permettra, de plus, de participer à une bonne action, puisque le produit de sa vente sera intégralement reversé à l'association humanitaire Comic Reflief, qui finance des projets destinés à aider les enfants des pays les plus pauvres du monde. Ainsi donc, comme le fait remarquer Aldous Dumbledore, l'argent qui aura servi à l'acheter aura "un pouvoir magique plus grand encore que celui des sorciers". --Pascale Wester [via]
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