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An American Tragedyby Theodore Dreiser, Thomas P. RiggioISBN 1931082316 (1-931082-31-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Tragedy'Book summary:A tremendous bestseller when it was published in 1925, An American Tragedy is the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art. Taking as his point of departure a notorious murder case of 1910, Dreiser immersed himself in the social background of the crime to produce a book that is both a remarkable work of reportage and a monumental study of character. Few novels have undertaken to track so relentlessly the process by which an ordinary young man becomes capable of committing a ruthless murder, and the further process by which social and political forces come into play after his arrest.
In Clyde Griffiths, the impoverished, restless offspring of a family of street preachers, Dreiser created an unforgettable portrait of a man whose circumstances and dreams of self-betterment conspire to pull him toward an act of unforgivable violence. Around Clyde, Dreiser builds an extraordinarily detailed fictional portrait of early twentieth-century America, its religious and sexual hypocrisies, its economic pressures, its political corruption. The sheer prophetic amplitude of his bitter truth-telling, in idiosyncratic prose of uncanny expressive power, continues to mark Dreiser as a crucially important American writer. An American Tragedy, the great achievement of his later years, is a work of mythic force, at once brutal and heartbreaking. [via]More editions of An American Tragedy:
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Anne of the Islandby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0140367772 (0-14-036777-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of the Island'Book summary:This volume contains "Anne of The Island" and "Anne of Windy Willows". Anne is older now, and her friends are beginning to get married and move away; meanwhile her romance with Gilbert Blythe begins to blossom, and there are developments in her career as a schoolteacher. [via]
Auto-Da-Feby Elias CanettiISBN 0140022872 (0-14-002287-2)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Meby Richard Farina, Thomas PynchonISBN 0140189300 (0-14-018930-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me'Book summary:This is the ultimate novel of college life during the first hallucinatory flowering of what has famously come to be known as The Sixties. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me follows haunted ur-hippy Gnossos Pappadopoulis upon return to his old university town that's just tilting into a new era, and Gnossos' involvement in a swirl of sixties-style drug taking and the search for love and the meaning of it all. It is a hilarious and haunting book. [via]
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Behind the Scenes at the Museumby Kate AtkinsonISBN 0312150601 (0-312-15060-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum'Book summary:"I exist!" exclaims Ruby Lennox upon her conception in 1951, setting the tone for this humorous and poignant first novel in which Ruby at once celebrates and mercilessly skewers her middle-class English family. Peppered with tales of flawed family traits passed on from previous generations, Ruby's narrative examines the lives in her disjointed clan, which revolve around the family pet shop. But beneath the antics of her philandering father, her intensely irritable mother, her overly emotional sisters, and a gaggle of eccentric relatives are darker secrets--including an odd "feeling of something long forgotten"--that will haunt Ruby for the rest of her life. Kate Atkinson earned a Whitbread Prize in 1995 for this fine first effort. [via]
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The Blue Flowerby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0006550193 (0-00-655019-3)
Hardcover, Flamingo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Flower'Book summary:Penelope Fitzgerald wrote her first novel 20 years ago, at the age of 59. Since then, she's written eight more, three of which have been short-listed for England's prestigious Booker Prize, and one of which, Offshore, won. Now she's back with her tenth and best book so far, The Blue Flower. This is the story of Friedrich von Hardenberg--Fritz, to his intimates--a young man of the late 18th century who is destined to become one of Germany's great romantic poets. In just over 200 pages, Fitzgerald creates a complete world of family, friends and lovers, but also an exhilarating evocation of the romantic era in all its political turmoil, intellectual voracity, and moral ambiguity. A profound exploration of genius, The Blue Flower is also a charming, wry, and witty look at domestic life. Fritz's family--his eccentric father and high-strung mother; his loving sister, Sidonie; and brothers Erasmus, Karl, and the preternaturally intelligent baby of the family, referred to always as the Bernhard--are limned in deft, sure strokes, and it is in his interactions with them that the ephemeral quality of genius becomes most tangible. Even his unlikely love affair with young Sophie von Kühn makes perfect sense as Penelope Fitzgerald imagines it.
The Blue Flower is a magical book--funny, sad, and deeply moving. In Fritz Fitzgerald has discovered a perfect character through whom to explore the meaning of love, poetry, life, and loss. In The Blue Flower readers will find a work of fine prose, fierce intelligence, and perceptive characterization. [via]
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The Castle of Otrantoby Horace Walpole, Michael GamerISBN 0140437673 (0-14-043767-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle of Otranto'Book summary:On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. Fearing the end of his dynasty, his father, Manfred, determines to marry Conrad's betrothed, Isabella, until a series of supernatural events stands in his way. . . .[via]
Set in the time of the crusades, The Castle of Otranto (1764) established the Gothic as a literary form in England. With its compelling blend of psychological realism and supernatural terror, guilty secrets and unlawful desires, it has influenced a literary tradition stretching from Ann Radcliffe and Bram Stoker to Daphne Du Maurier and Stephen King.
This Penguin Classics edition includes a full selection of early responses to the novel, as well as a critical introduction, chronology of Walpole's life and works, suggestions for further reading, and full explanatory notes.
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- The Castle of Otranto: ISBN 0192834401 (0-19-283440-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Castle of Otranto: ISBN 0030119502 (0-03-011950-2)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub - The Castle of Otranto: ISBN 0192816063 (0-19-281606-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Castle of Otranto: ISBN 0192823515 (0-19-282351-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Castle of Otranto: ISBN 0140437673 (0-14-043767-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- The Castle of Otranto: ISBN 0192834401 (0-19-283440-1)
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Storyby Horace Walpole, W. Scott, M. MudrickISBN 0020552009 (0-02-055200-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Castle of Otranto/Vathek/the Monk/Frankenstein/4 Novels in 1 Volumeby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Horace Walpole, William Beckford, Matthew LewisISBN 0192823310 (0-19-282331-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle of Otranto/Vathek/the Monk/Frankenstein/4 Novels in 1 Volume'Book summary:Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numberous followers. These include William Beckford's Vathek (1786), which alternates grotesque comedy with scenes of exotic magnificence in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to damnation. The Monk (1796), by Matthew Lewis, is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest, set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid. Frankenstein (1818, 1831) is Mary Shelley's disturbing and perennially popular tale of a young student who learns the secret of giving life to a creature made from human relics, with horrific consequences.
This collection illustrates the range and attraction of the gothic novel. Extreme and sensational, each of the four printed here is alos a powerful psychological story of isolation and monomania. [via]More editions of The Castle of Otranto/Vathek/the Monk/Frankenstein/4 Novels in 1 Volume:
Changing Placesby David LodgeISBN 0140170987 (0-14-017098-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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A Child in Timeby Ian McEwanISBN 0140112464 (0-14-011246-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Child in Time'Book summary:The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his 3-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself: "It was a wonder there could be so much movement, so much purpose, all the time. He himself had none." This beautifully haunting book won a 1987 Whitbread Prize. [via]
Confessions of Zenoby Edouard Roditi, Italo SvevoISBN 014002171X (0-14-002171-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, in association with M. Secker & Warburg
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Cronicas Marcianasby Ray Bradbury, Francisco AbelendaISBN 8445073850 (84-450-7385-0)
Softcover, Minotauro Ediciones Avd
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Daniel Martinby John FowlesISBN 0316290394 (0-316-29039-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daniel Martin'Book summary:A new trade paperback edition of "a masterpiece of symbolically charged realism....Fowles is the only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of a Tolstoy or James" (John Gardner, Saturday Review).[via]
The eponymous hero of John Fowles's largest and richest novel is an English playwright turned Hollywood screenwriter who has begun to question his own values. Summoned home to England to visit an ailing friend, Daniel Martin finds himself back in the company of people who once knew him well, forced to confront his buried past, and propelled toward a journey of self-discovery through which he ultimately creates for himself a more satisfying existence. A brilliantly imagined novel infused with a profound understanding of human nature, Daniel Martin is John Fowles at the height of his literary powers. -
Diez Negritosby Agatha ChristieISBN 8478712089 (84-7871-208-9)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diez Negritos'Book summary:Some guests are invited to a lonely mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. First there were ten, each with something to hide and something to fear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts and, one by one, they die. This is considered by many readers the best mystery novel ever written.
Description in Spanish: Diez personas reciben sendas cartas firmadas por un desconocido Mr.Owen, invitándolas a pasar unos días en la mansión que tiene en uno de los islotes de la costa de Devon. Lo que parece ser una broma macabra se convierte en una espantosa realidad. [via]
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Drop Cityby T. C. BoyleISBN 8439710569 (84-397-1056-9)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El Testamentoby John GrishamISBN 8496581055 (84-96581-05-5)
Softcover, Zeta Bolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Testamento'Book summary:Troy Phelan, a 78-year-old, eccentric and the 10th-richest man in America, is about to read his last will and testament, divvying up an estate worth $11 billion. Phelan's three ex-wives and their grasping spawn all have their eyes glued to digital monitors as they watch the old man read his verdict. But Phelan shocks everyone by naming a mysterious woman as beneficiarya missionary living deep in the wilds of Brazil. Nate O'Rileya washed-up, alcoholic litigatoris dispatched to the Brazilian wetlands in search of the mysterious heir, setting in motion the legal morality tale of a contested will, sin, and redemption.[via]More editions of El Testamento:
Elizabeth Costelloby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0142004812 (0-14-200481-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fanny Hillby John Cleland, Neil PhilipISBN 0283998741 (0-283-99874-1)
Hardcover, Sidgwick & Jackson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanny Hill'Book summary:Fanny is a charming and good-humoured heroine, and the story of her rise through harlotry to riches and respectability is told with vigour and wit. Its cast of rakes, whores and bawds people a London familiar from the engravings of Hogarth. [via]
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Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John ClelandISBN 0140432493 (0-14-043249-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'Book summary:Memoirs of a woman of pleasure, commonly known as fanny hill, has been shrouded in mystery and controversy since john cleland completed it in 1749. The bishop of london called the work 'an open insult upon religion and good manners' and james boswell referred to it as 'a most licentious and inflaming book'. The story of a prostitute's rise to respectability, it has been recognized more recently as a unique combination of parody, sensual entertainment and a philosophical concept of sexuality borrowed from french libertine novels. Modern readers will appreciate it not only as an important contribution to revolutionary thought in the age of enlightenment, but also as a thoroughly entertaining and important work of erotic fiction, deserving of a place in the history of the english novel beside richardson, fielding and smollett [via]
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Foundation and Empireby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345336283 (0-345-33628-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation and Empire'Book summary:Although small and seemingly helpless, the Foundation had managed to survive against the greed of its neighboring warlords. But could it stand against the mighty power of the Empire, who had created a mutant man with the strength of a dozen battlefleets...? [via]
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Great Huntby Robert JordanISBN 0312851405 (0-312-85140-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Hunt'Book summary:The Wheel of Time turns and ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave it birth returns again. For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. So many tales about each of th Hunters, and so many Hunters to tell of...Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen.[via]More editions of Great Hunt:
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Humboldt's Gift: Library Editionby Saul BellowISBN 0140189440 (0-14-018944-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Humboldt's Gift: Library Edition'Book summary:For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman and involved with a neurotic mafioso. And then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowing upon Charlie an unexpected legacy that may just help him turn his life around. [via]
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The Immoralistby Andre Gide, David WatsonISBN 0142180025 (0-14-218002-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Immoralist'Book summary:With today's headlines and talk shows, it takes a lot to shock a reader--certainly more than was required in 1902, when André Gide's The Immoralist was first published. What was seen then as a story of dereliction translates today into a tale of introspection and fierce self-discovery. While traveling to Tunis with his new bride, the Parisian scholar Michel is overcome by tuberculosis. As he slowly convalesces, he revels in the physical pleasures of living and resolves to forgo his studies of the past in order to experience the present--to let "the layers of acquired knowledge peel away from the mind like a cosmetic and reveal, in patches, the naked flesh beneath, the authentic being hidden there."
But this is not the Michel his colleagues knew, nor the man Marceline married, and he must hide his new values under the patina of what he now reviles. Bored by Parisian society, he moves to a family farm in Normandy. He is happy there, especially in the company of young Charles, but he must soon return to the city and academe. Michel remains restless until he gives his first lecture and runs into Ménalque, who has long outraged society, and recognizes in him a reflection of his torment. Finally, Michel heads south, deeper into the desert, until, as he confides to his friends, he is lost in the sea of sand, under a clear, directionless sky.
What Gide's story lacks in sensationalism is fulfilled by his descriptive prose, which evokes the exotic nature of Michel's inner and outer journey: "I did not understand the forbearance of this African earth, submerged for days at a time and now awakening from winter, drunk with water, bursting with new juices; it laughed in this springtime frenzy whose echo, whose image I perceived within myself." --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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Intruder in the Dustby William FaulknerISBN 0075536625 (0-07-553662-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Kristin Lavransdatterby Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally, Brad LeithauserISBN 0143039164 (0-14-303916-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kristin Lavransdatter'Book summary:[via]In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnallys award-winning definitive translation brings this remarkable work to life with clarity and lyrical beauty.
As a young girl, Kristin is deeply devoted to her father, a kind and courageous man. But when as a student in a convent school she meets the charming and impetuous Erlend Nikulaussøn, she defies her parents in pursuit of her own desires. Her saga continues through her marriage to Erlend, their tumultuous life together raising seven sons as Erlend seeks to strengthen his political influence, and finally their estrangement as the world around them tumbles into uncertainty.
With its captivating heroine and emotional potency, Kristin Lavransdatter is the masterwork of Norways most beloved authorone of the twentieth centurys most prodigious and engaged literary mindsand, in Nunnallys exquisite translation, a story that continues to enthrall.
- A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with French flaps and rough front
- Includes a new introduction by Scandinavian literature expert Brad Leithauser especially commissioned for this edition
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La Granja / a Painted Houseby John GrishamISBN 8466602690 (84-666-0269-0)
Softcover, Downtown Book Center Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Granja / a Painted House'Book summary:A story inspired by Grisham's own childhood in rural Arkansas. Seven-year old Luke Chandler lives in a little house in the cotton fields which his family farms. When the cotton is ready for harvesting, the family hires workers to help. Luke sees and hears things which are keeps to himself and unfortunately these secrets threaten the crop.
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"&¿Quién piensa en abogados? Grisham no, desde luego, al menos en esta cautivadora novela. Aquí, en lugar de abogados, encontramos sufridos granjeros, jornaleros miserables y un niño que va creciendo a lo largo de un libro tan rico en incidentes y conflictos como es habitual en Grisham, y más dotado de matices que nunca... Unos personajes inolvidables, un estilo más limpio y poderoso que en ninguna novela anterior, y una impresionante evocación de un tiempo y de un lugar que convierten esta historia en un clásico americano."& Publisher&s Weekly [via]
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Le Testament / the Testamentby John GrishamISBN 2266110594 (2-266-11059-4)
Softcover, Presse Pocket
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Testament / the Testament'Book summary:Troy Phelan n'aura réussi qu'une chose : bâtir une fortune de onze milliards de dollars. Quand pour lui sonne le glas, ses trois ex-femmes et ses six enfants se frottent les mains... Mais le vieillard a déshérité tout ce beau monde au profit d'une septième enfant adultérine, Rachel. Problème : celle qui devient potentiellement une des femmes les plus riches du monde est en mission humanitaire au Pantanal, Brésil, une des régions les plus reculées du globe. Nate O'Riley, un avocat alcoolique et suicidaire est envoyé à sa recherche.
Sur le thème "l'argent rend fou, l'alcool aussi", John Grisham livre un nouveau best-seller. A mi-chemin entre le roman d'aventures et ses habituels thrillers inspirés de son expérience d'avocat, l'auteur de L'affaire Pélican tisse la toile d'un récit passionnant, marqué par les délires des familles légitimes et surtout par les personnalités de l'avocat alcoolique et de l'héritière, la seule justement à être désintéressée ! La description du Pantanal est hallucinante. --Bruno Ménard [via]
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewitby Charles Dickens, Patricia InghamISBN 0140436146 (0-14-043614-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit'Book summary:'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel. [via]
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Lincolnby Gore Vidal, Edgar BoxISBN 034531221X (0-345-31221-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Martin Chuzzlewitby Charles Dickens, Margaret CardwellISBN 0192834614 (0-19-283461-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Martin Chuzzlewit'Book summary:This edition of one of Dicken's earlier novels is based on the accurate Clarendon edition of the text and includes the prefaces to the 1850 and 1867 editions and Dicken's Number Plans. [via]
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Softcover, Penguin USA - Martin Chuzzlewit: ISBN 0192816764 (0-19-281676-4)
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John ClelandISBN 0192835653 (0-19-283565-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'Book summary:Peter Sabor presents both the first critical edition and the first accurate, wholly unexpurgated text of the most famous erotic novel in English, better known as Fanny Hill. [via]
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Moon Is a Harsh Mistressby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0312863551 (0-312-86355-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moon Is a Harsh Mistress'Book summary:Tom Clancy has said of Robert A. Heinlein, "We proceed down the path marked by his ideas. He shows us where the future is." Nowhere is this more true than in Heinlein's gripping tale of revolution on the moon in 2076, where "Loonies" are kept poor and oppressed by an Earth-based Authority that turns huge profits at their expense. A small band of dissidents, including a one-armed computer jock, a radical young woman, a past-his-prime academic and a nearly omnipotent computer named Mike, ignite the fires of revolution despite the near certainty of failure and death. [via]
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Parable of the Sowerby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 1888363258 (1-888363-25-8)
Hardcover, Seven Stories Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parable of the Sower'Book summary:Octavia E. Butler, the grande dame of science fiction, writes extraordinary, inspirational stories of ordinary people. Parable of the Sower is a hopeful tale set in a dystopian future United States of walled cities, disease, fires, and madness. Lauren Olamina is an 18-year-old woman with hyperempathy syndrome--if she sees another in pain, she feels their pain as acutely as if it were real. When her relatively safe neighborhood enclave is inevitably destroyed, along with her family and dreams for the future, Lauren grabs a backpack full of supplies and begins a journey north. Along the way, she recruits fellow refugees to her embryonic faith, Earthseed, the prime tenet of which is that "God is change." This is a great book--simple and elegant, with enough message to make you think, but not so much that you feel preached to. [via]
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Peter Panby J. M. BarrieISBN 1933652071 (1-933652-07-1)
Softcover, Bed Book
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:"All children, except one, grow up." Thus begins a great classic of children's literature that we all remember as magical. What we tend to forget, because the tale of Peter Pan and Neverland has been so relentlessly boiled down, hashed up, and coated in saccharine, is that J.M. Barrie's original version is also witty, sophisticated, and delightfully odd. The Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, live a very proper middle-class life in Edwardian London, but they also happen to have a Newfoundland for a nurse. The text is full of such throwaway gems as "Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter Pan when she was tidying up her children's minds," and is peppered with deliberately obscure vocabulary including "embonpoint," "quietus," and "pluperfect." Lest we forget, it was written in 1904, a relatively innocent age in which a plot about abducted children must have seemed more safely fanciful. Also, perhaps, it was an age that expected more of its children's books, for Peter Pan has a suppleness, lightness, and intelligence that are "literary" in the best sense. In a typical exchange with the dastardly Captain Hook, Peter Pan describes himself as "youth... joy... a little bird that has broken out of the egg," and the author interjects: "This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form." A book for adult readers-aloud to revel in--and it just might teach young listeners to fly. (Ages 5 and older) --Richard Farr [via]
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Peter Pan and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardensby J. M. BarrieISBN 1853261203 (1-85326-120-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens'Book summary:The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a crocodile, who, as Captain Hook explains 'liked me arm so much that he has followed me ever since, licking his lips for the rest of me'. After lots of adventures, the story reaches its exciting climax as Peter, Wendy and the children do battle with Captain Hook and his band. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is the magical tale that first introduces Peter Pan, the little boy who never grows any older. He escapes his human form and flies to Kensington Gardens, where all his happy memories are, and meets the fairies, the thrushes, and Old caw the crow. The fairies think he is too human to be allowed to stay in after Lock-out time, so he flies off to an island which divides the Gardens from the more grown-up Hyde Park... Peter s adventures, and how he eventually meets Mamie and the goat, are delightfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. [via]
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Pompeiiby Robert HarrisISBN 0345475674 (0-345-47567-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pompeii'Book summary:All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii. But the carefree lifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, and only one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared. Springs are failing for the ?rst time in generations. And now there is a crisis on the Augusta's sixty-mile main line-somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Attilius-decent, practical, and incorruptible-promises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travel to Pompeii and put together an expedition, then head out to the place where he believes the fault lies. But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at work-both natural and man-made-threatening to destroy him. With his trademark elegance and intelligence, Robert Harris, bestselling author of Archangel and Fatherland , re-creates a world on the brink of disaster. From the Hardcover edition. [via]
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The Queen of the Damnedby Anne RiceISBN 0345351525 (0-345-35152-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Queen of the Damned'Book summary:Did you ever wonder where all those mischievous vampires roaming the globe in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles came from? In this, the third book in the series, we find out. That raucous rock-star vampire Lestat interrupts the 6,000-year slumber of the mama of all bloodsuckers, Akasha, Queen of the Damned.
Akasha was once the queen of the Nile (she has a bit in common with the Egyptian goddess Isis), and it's unwise to rile her now that she's had 60 centuries of practice being undead. She is so peeved about male violence that she might just have to kill most of them. And she has her eye on handsome Lestat with other ideas as well.
If you felt that the previous books in the series weren't gory and erotic enough, this one should quench your thirst (though it may cause you to omit organ meats from your diet). It also boasts God's plenty of absorbing lore that enriches the tale that went before, including the back-story of the boy in Interview with the Vampire and the ancient fellowship of the Talamasca, which snoops on paranormal phenomena. Mostly, the book spins the complex yarn of Akasha's eerie, brooding brood and her nemeses, the terrifying sisters Maharet and Mekare. In one sense, Queen of the Damned is the ultimate multigenerational saga. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Shameby Salman Rushdie, Salman RudhdieISBN 0312270933 (0-312-27093-3)
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A Star Called Henryby Roddy DoyleISBN 0143034618 (0-14-303461-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Star Called Henry'Book summary:Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Henry Smart lives through the evolution of modern Ireland, and in this extraordinary novel he brilliantly tells his story. From his own birth and childhood on the streets of Dublin to his role as soldier (and lover) in the Irish Rebellion, Henry recounts his early years of reckless heroism and adventure.
At once an epic, a love story, and a portrait of Irish history, A Star Called Henry is a grand picaresque novel brimming with both poignant moments and comic ones, and told in a voice that is both quintessentially Irish and inimitably Roddy Doyle's.
A New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, New York Post, and Independent bestseller
A Star Called Henry--one of only four works of fiction--was chosen by the editor's of The New York Times Book Review as one of the eleven Best Books of the Year
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, Publishers Weekly, Esquire, Newsday, Miami Herald, Seattle Times, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Talking It overby Julian BarnesISBN 0224031570 (0-224-03157-0)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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Titus Groanby Mervyn Laurence PeakeISBN 0345270967 (0-345-27096-7)
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Under Western Eyesby Joseph ConradISBN 1857150430 (1-85715-043-0)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under Western Eyes: Library Edition'Book summary:Espionage novel. Conrad's other novel of this same kind is "The Secret Agent." According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Conrad (1857 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English languagea fact that is remarkable, as he did not learn to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a strong Polish accent). He became a naturalized British subject in 1886. Conrad is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, V.S. Naipaul, Italo Calvino and J. M. Coetzee." [via]
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The Vampire Lestatby Anne RiceISBN 0345313860 (0-345-31386-0)
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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]
What's Bred in the Boneby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140097112 (0-14-009711-2)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry JamesISBN 0140432639 (0-14-043263-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, clandestine love affair. Croy is desperately in love with Densher, who has all the qualities of a potentially excellent husband: he's handsome, witty, and idealistic--the one thing he lacks is money, which ultimately renders him unsuitable as a mate. By chance, Croy befriends a young American heiress, Milly Theale. When Croy discovers that Theale suffers from a mysterious and fatal malady, she hatches a plan that can give all three characters something that they want--at a price. Croy and Densher plan to accompany the young woman to Venice where Densher, according to Croy's design, will seduce the ailing heiress. The two hope that Theale will find love and happiness in her last days and--when she dies--will leave her fortune to Densher, so that he and Croy can live happily ever after. The scheme that at first develops as planned begins to founder when Theale discovers the pair's true motives shortly before her death. Densher struggles with unanticipated feelings of love for his new paramour, and his guilt may obstruct his ability to avail himself of Theale's gift. James deftly navigates the complexities and irony of such moral treachery in this stirring novel. [via]
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The Winter of Our Discontentby John SteinbeckISBN 0140187537 (0-14-018753-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Winter of Our Discontent'Book summary:Steinbeck's story set in small-town New England early in the century. Its inhabitants include Ethan Hawley, to whom the rat-race beckons enticingly, Marullo, a razor-sharp Sicilian store owner, and Marge, a good-time girl, alluring in body, warped in soul. [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 1894998138 (1-894998-13-8)
Softcover, Jack Lake Prod Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:The well loved tale of Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion and Toto as they travel through the Land of Oz in search of the Wizard of Oz. Beautiful illustrations by Sekowsky and Giacoia, reprinting one of the original classic OZ comic book adaptations. Also includes back-ups Aesop's Fables The Fox and the Lion, Old Mother Hubbard and The Koala with a color me page on the back inside cover. 32 full color pages. Beautifully remastered and recolored by the art team at Jack Lake Productions. [via]
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Wonder Boysby Michael ChabonISBN 0312140940 (0-312-14094-0)
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Michael ForemanISBN 186205343X (1-86205-343-X)
Hardcover, Pavilion Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:[via]When a cyclone whisked Dorothy far from the gray prairies of Kansas to the colorful Land of Oz, it not only set a courageous and determined little girl on a series of unforgettable adventuresit blew fresh air into childrens literature. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is what the author called "a modern fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartache and nightmares left out." It's now more than a hundred years since Dorothy and her endearing companionsher mischievous dog Toto, the brainless but practical-minded Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, and the kindly Tin Woodsman who longs for a heartfirst marched along the yellow brick road into storybook history. In this edition, Michael Foreman's bright, whimsical watercolors of Dorothy and her friends capture the enchanting essence of L. Frank Baum's "wondertale."More editions of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
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Wyrd Sistersby Terry PratchettISBN 0061020664 (0-06-102066-4)
Softcover, Harper Prism
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wyrd Sisters'Book summary:Terry's Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.
Meet Granny Weatherwx, the most highly regarded non-leader a coven of non-social witches could ever have. Generally, these loners don't get involved in anything, mush less royal intrigue. but then there are those times they can't help it. As Granny Weatherwzx is about to discover, though, it's a lot harder to stir up trouble in the castle than some theatrical types would have you think. Even when you've got a few unexpected spells up your sleave.
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Carter Engana Al Diabloby David Gold GlenISBN 842533814X (84-253-3814-X)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori
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Diez Negritosby Agatha ChristieISBN 8427200153 (84-272-0015-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Dineroby Martin AmisISBN 8433920499 (84-339-2049-9)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinero'Book summary:Magistral y divertida novela que creo un personaje antologico, John Self, y recrea como ninguna otra dos ciudades del fin de siglo pasado: Londres y Nueva York. El inefable antihéroe, John Self, es hombre de numerosas adicciones que consume en cantidades industriales, el dinero la principal de ellas, unica forma de cultura que conoce. Este es un magnifico e hilarante retrato de uno de los tipos mas pecualiares que haya producido la humanidad en este fin de siglo: un hombre hecho a si mismo que, pese a triunfar en su vida profesional, y aunque se consiente todos sus caprichos, carece de un sistema que le permita comprender el mundo en que vive y, consciente de que es asi, acaba siendo victima de su dramatica y desolada situacion. [via]
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Encuentros Con Morrieby Mitch AlbomISBN 9580448671 (958-04-4867-1)
Softcover, Grupo Editorial Norma USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Encuentros Con Morrie'Book summary:En marzo de 1995, el escritor Mitch Albom viajó cerca de mil kilómetros para pasar una tarde con un hombre moribundo -Morrie Schwartz, su antiguo profesor de sociología- y encontró algo que no se esperaba. Aunque Schwartz estaba reducido a una silla de ruedas y se encontraba en las fases finales de una terrible enfermedad, estaba viviendo uno de los momentos más productivos de su vida: trabajando en un libro de aforismos, rodeado de amigos y estudiantes, difundiendo su sabiduría a través de un conocido programa de televisión. "Entonces pensé", dice Albom, "yo tengo 37 años y estoy en perfecto estado de salud. Él tiene 78 y se está muriendo; sin embargo, él parece definitivamente más feliz y satisfecho".
Éste fue el inicio de la serie de encuentros que dieron lugar a este libro y que constituyen la mayor lección que alguien puede recibir. En sus encuentros, que siempre tienen lugar los martes, Morrie y Mitch hablan sobre todas las cosas importantes de la vida, pero sobre todo Morrie comparte con su antiguo alumno lo que ha aprendido de la vida desde el momento en que supo que iba a morir. Y su mensaje, para sorpresa de todos, es una lección de optimismo, entereza, amor y generosidad. Al final, como dice Albom, "Encuentros con Morrie no es en absoluto un libro acerca de la muerte. Es un libro acerca de cómo vivir bien y encontrar la satisfacción".
"Mientras nos queramos unos a otros y tengamos presente el sentimiento del amor que tuvimos, podemos morir sin irnos del todo. Todo el amor que uno creó queda allí. Todos los recuerdos siguen allí. Uno sigue viviendo en los corazones de todos los que tocó y quiso mientras estuvo aquí... La muerte es el final de una vida, pero no de una relación", le dice Morrie a Mitch, en uno de sus últimos encuentros. [via]
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La Granja / a Painted Houseby John GrishamISBN 8466305920 (84-663-0592-0)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Granja / a Painted House'Book summary:A story inspired by Grisham's own childhood in rural Arkansas. Seven-year old Luke Chandler lives in a little house in the cotton fields which his family farms. When the cotton is ready for harvesting, the family hires workers to help. Luke sees and hears things which are keeps to himself and unfortunately these secrets threaten the crop.
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"&¿Quién piensa en abogados? Grisham no, desde luego, al menos en esta cautivadora novela. Aquí, en lugar de abogados, encontramos sufridos granjeros, jornaleros miserables y un niño que va creciendo a lo largo de un libro tan rico en incidentes y conflictos como es habitual en Grisham, y más dotado de matices que nunca... Unos personajes inolvidables, un estilo más limpio y poderoso que en ninguna novela anterior, y una impresionante evocación de un tiempo y de un lugar que convierten esta historia en un clásico americano."& Publisher&s Weekly [via]
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Guardias! Guardias!by Terry Pratchett, Cristina MaciaISBN 8401479460 (84-01-47946-0)
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Juego de Patriotasby Tom ClancyISBN 8401495229 (84-01-49522-9)
Hardcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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LA Montana Del Almaby Gao XingjianISBN 8484539598 (84-8453-959-8)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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La Montana Del Almaby Xingjian GaoISBN 8484530442 (84-8453-044-2)
Hardcover, Ediciones del Bronce
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Panico Nuclearby Tom ClancyISBN 8401491509 (84-01-49150-9)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Pompeyaby Robert HarrisISBN 0307348113 (0-307-34811-3)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pompeya'Book summary:Año 79 A.D.El joven ingeniero romano Marcus Attilius ha sido llamado al sur de Italia, a la bahía de Nápoles, para reparar el gran acueducto Aqua Augusta -que suministra agua a más de 250.000 personas en nueve ciudades-, tras la misteriosa desaparición del ingeniero responsable durante veinte años. El equipo de trabajadores encargados de la custodia del acueducto que atraviesa la región de Campania dominada por el monte Vesubio- lo tratan con desconfianza y recelo. Cuando el caudal de agua se ve de pronto interrumpido en la ciudad costera de Misenium, y Attilius detecta además presencia de sulfuro en las piscinas de cría de peces del millonario Ampliatus, convence al almirante de la flota romana Plinio el Viejo- que le suministre una nave veloz para ir a Pompeya, donde descubre que la fuente del problema se halla en un conducto del acueducto.
Una novela espectacular en la cual Harris despliega un escenario histórico impresionante, en el que combina una recreación histórica minuciosa, buena investigación en vulcanología, una escritura eficaz y que te atrapa, e intriga y acción a ritmo cinematográfico. [via]More editions of Pompeya:
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L' Associeby John GrishamISBN 2266078615 (2-266-07861-5)
Softcover, Presses Pocket
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L' Associe'Book summary:Les avocats Rapley, Ravarac, Vitrano et Bogan sont très mécontents : leur associé Patrick Lanigan a disparu avec la bagatelle de 90 millions de dollars. Lanigan est donné pour mort dans l'incendie de sa propre voiture, mais ce dramatique accident s'avère n'être qu'une mise en scène. L'escroquerie de Lanigan a-t-elle échoué ? Oui, si l'on considère qu'il sera retrouvé au Brésil, torturé, remis à la justice et jugé. Non, si l'on imagine que l'astucieux voleur avait pu prévoir cette éventualité... Le FBI, qui le soupçonne aussi de meurtre, et toutes les victimes de son manège ne sont pas au bout de leurs surprises... Le lecteur non plus.
Avocat de formation, John Grisham maîtrise à fond les rouages de la justice américaine et il sait tenir le lecteur en haleine jusqu'au bout du récit. Pas étonnant que l'auteur de La Firme et de L'Affaire Pélican compte de par le monde des dizaines de milliers de fans et que les studios d'Hollywood s'arrachent les droits de ses romans. --Bruno Ménard [via]
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Le Magicien D'Ozby L. Frank Baum, Yvette MetralISBN 2277216526 (2-277-21652-6)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Magicien D'Oz'Book summary:« Dorothée poussa un cri d'admiration et regarda autour d'elle, ses yeux s'écarquillaient à chaque merveille qu'elle découvrait... » C'est vers un pays bien étrange et merveilleux que Dorothée et Toto, son petit chien, se trouvent emportés par un cyclone. Mais malgré la beauté des lieux, la fillette n'a qu'une envie : rentrer chez elle au plus tôt. Lorsqu'elle apprend que seul le Grand Magicien de ce fabuleux pays d'Oz peut l'aider, elle part à sa recherche. En chemin, l'Épouvantail, le Bûcheron-en-fer-blanc et le Lion Poltron qu'elle rencontre décident de l'accompagner jusqu'à la mystérieuse Cité d'Émeraude. Et là? Le Grand Oz qu'ils découvrent ensemble se révélera encore plus énigmatique qu'ils ne l'imaginaient... Sur les traces de Dorothée, Lisbeth Zwerger nous emporte dans le monde enchanteur du célèbre « Magicien d'Oz » qu'elle réinvente aujourd'hui pour nous. Et grâce aux lunettes vertes qui accompagnent ce livre, l'illusion devient parfaite. Ses illustrations, à la fois magiques et capricieuses, nous livrent une approche nouvelle et fantastique de ce conte moderne de Lyman Frank Baum, un grand classique de la littérature enfantine américaine. [via]
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Die Bruderschaft / the Brethrenby John GrishamISBN 3453210697 (3-453-21069-7)
Softcover, Heyne Wilhelm Verlag Gmbh
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Die Bruderschaft / the Brethren'Book summary:Die Romane von John Grisham sind alle auf so geradezu systematische Weise erfolgreich gewesen, dass man leicht vergisst, dass er auch nur ein Schriftsteller ist, der sich still mit seinem Kugelschreiber abmüht, herumexperimentiert und mit jedem Buch besser wird. Wenn er als Prosa-Stilist auch nicht so begabt ist wie ein Scott Turow, so ist Grisham doch einer der besten Storyschreiber im Krimigeschäft. Seine Bücher sind von einer moralischen Anziehungskraft und einer kreativen Vision, die sie deutlich von denen seiner Kollegen abheben.
Die Bruderschaft ist in vielerlei Hinsicht sein bisher kühnstes Werk. Die Geschichte entwickelt sich aus zwei unterschiedlichen Nebenhandlungen heraus. In der ersten hecken drei inhaftierte ehemalige Richter (die im Titel erwähnte "Bruderschaft"), frustriert von ihrem Verlust von Macht und Einfluss, einen ausgeklügelten Erpressungsplan aus, der wohlhabende, verdeckt homosexuelle Männer zum Opfer haben soll. Die zweite Geschichte zeichnet den Aufstieg des Präsidentschaftskandidaten Aaron Lake nach, einer Marionette des machtgierigen CIA-Chefs Teddy Maynard.
Beide Erzählstränge werden im im Laufe der Handlung zusammengeführt. Grishams sorgfältige Personenbeschreibungen sind besonders beeindruckend. Ex-Richter Hatlee Beech beispielsweise ist ein faszinierender, tragischer Antiheld: ein Millionär mit lebenslanger Berufung auf sein Richteramt, der sich nach seiner Verurteilung wegen Trunkenheit am Steuer mit Todesfolge als einsamer, von Ehefrau und Freunden verlassener Mann wieder findet und obendrein noch pleite ist.
Die zynische Betrachtung der präsidialen Politik und des Strafrechts Amerikas wirft einen düsteren Schatten auf die Geschichte. CIA-Direktor Maynard ist ein allmächtiger Dämon, der sich bestens mit dem öffentlichen Willen und den öffentlichen Geldern auskennt und auch Macht über sie ausübt. Sogar sein Präsidentschaftskandidat, der Kongressabgeordnete Lake, ist eine Schachfigur in Maynards egomanischem Spiel um Anzeigenkampagnen, illegale Spenden und internationale Intrigen. Spannung bis zum Schluss! --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Hazarski Recnikby Milorad PavicISBN 8644101560 (86-441-0156-0)
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