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An Acceptable Timeby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0312368585 (0-312-36858-5)
Softcover, Square Fish
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Acceptable Time'Book summary:It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.[via]
"Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."
A tesseract (in case the reader doesn't know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L'Engle's unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.More editions of An Acceptable Time:
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Adventures of Joseph Andrewsby Henry FieldingISBN 0192553232 (0-19-255323-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Joseph Andrews'Book summary:"The Adventures of Joseph Andrews" was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and one of the first novels in the English language. Published in 1742, Fielding defined it as a 'comic romance.' [via]
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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eightyby Charles Dickens, Iain McCalman, Jon Mee, Clive HurstISBN 0192840568 (0-19-284056-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Charles Dickenss first historical novelset during the anti-Catholic riots of 1780is an unparalleled portrayal of the terror of a rampaging mob, seen through the eyes of the individuals swept up in the chaos.
Those individuals include Emma, a Catholic, and Edward, a Protestant, whose forbidden love weaves through the heart of the story; and the simpleminded Barnaby, one of the riot leaders, whose fate is tied to a mysterious murder and whose beloved pet raven, Grip, embodies the mystical power of innocence. The story encompasses both the rarified aristocratic world and the volatile streets and nightmarish underbelly of London, which Dickens characteristically portrays in vivid, pulsating detail. But the real focus of the book is on the riots themselves, depicted with an extraordinary energy and redolent of the dangers, the mindlessness, and the possibilitiesboth beneficial and brutalof the mob.
One of the lesser-known novels, Barnaby Rudge is nonetheless among the most brilliantand most terrifyingin Dickenss oeuvre. [via]More editions of Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty:
- Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty: ISBN 0307262901 (0-307-26290-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty: ISBN 0192545132 (0-19-254513-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty: ISBN 0192840568 (0-19-284056-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty: ISBN 0307262901 (0-307-26290-1)
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Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christby David Mayer, Lew WallaceISBN 0192831992 (0-19-283199-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ'Book summary:A spiritual tale of the quest for love, the recovery of identity and patrimony, Ben-Hur never fails to delight in its detail and realism. As David Mayer's introduction makes explicit, Ben-Hur is marked by traces of contemporary issues and American Victorian concerns and tensions which shed important light on social and cultural history. [via]
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The Bird Artistby Howard NormanISBN 0312130279 (0-312-13027-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Black Dogsby Ian McEwanISBN 022403572X (0-224-03572-X)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Dogs'Book summary:In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives forever. In this highly praised national bestseller, Ian McEwan has written his most humane and compelling novel to date. [via]
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The Borrowersby Mary NortonISBN 0152000860 (0-15-200086-0)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Borrowers'Book summary:Anyone who has ever entertained the notion of "little people" living furtively among us will adore this artfully spun classic. The Borrowers--a Carnegie Medal winner, a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award book, and an ALA Distinguished Book--has stolen the hearts of thousands of readers since its 1953 publication. Mary Norton (1903-1993) creates a make-believe world in which tiny people live hidden from humankind beneath the floorboards of a quiet country house in England.
Pod, Homily, and daughter Arrietty of the diminutive Clock family outfit their subterranean quarters with the tidbits and trinkets they've "borrowed" from "human beans," employing matchboxes for storage and postage stamps for paintings. Readers will delight in the resourceful way the Borrowers recycle household objects. For example, "Homily had made her a small pair of Turkish bloomers from two glove fingers for 'knocking about in the mornings.'"
The persistent pilfering goes undetected until a boy (with a ferret!) comes to live in the country house. Curiosity drives Arrietty to commit the worst mistake a Borrower can make: she allows herself to be seen. This engaging, sometimes hair-raisingly suspenseful adventure is recounted in the kind, eloquent voice of narrator Mrs. May, whose brother might--just might--have seen an actual Borrower in the country house many years ago. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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- The Borrowers: ISBN 0152047379 (0-15-204737-9)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - The Borrowers: ISBN 0152049282 (0-15-204928-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - The Borrowers: ISBN 0152099875 (0-15-209987-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - The Borrowers: ISBN 0152099913 (0-15-209991-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt Children's Books - The Borrowers: ISBN 0152099905 (0-15-209990-5)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books - The Borrowers: ISBN 0156136007 (0-15-613600-7)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich - The Borrowers: ISBN 0152000860 (0-15-200086-0)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books
- The Borrowers: ISBN 0152047379 (0-15-204737-9)
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Borrowers Afieldby Mary Norton, Joe Krush, Beth KrushISBN 0152047328 (0-15-204732-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Borrowers Afield'Book summary:Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock's huge adventures have been thrilling children young and old for fifty years--and their appeal is as strong as ever in these handsome new paperback packages. While the original beloved interior illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush have been retained, Marla Frazee's striking cover illustrations capture these little people with a larger-than-life appeal.[via]More editions of Borrowers Afield:
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The Bridge on the Drinaby Ivo AndricISBN 0226020452 (0-226-02045-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bridge on the Drina'Book summary:The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, timely book serves as a reliable guide to its people and history.[via]
"No better introduction to the study of Balkan and Ottoman history exists, nor do I know of any work of fiction that more persuasively introduces the reader to a civilization other than our own. It is an intellectual and emotional adventure to encounter the Ottoman world through Andric's pages in its grandiose beginning and at its tottering finale. It is, in short, a marvelous work, a masterpiece, and very much sui generis. . . . Andric's sensitive portrait of social change in distant Bosnia has revelatory force."William H. McNeill, from the introduction
"The dreadful events occurring in Sarajevo over the past several months turn my mind to a remarkable historical novel from the land we used to call Yugoslavia, Ivo Andric's The Bridge on the Drina."John M. Mohan, Des Moines Sunday Register
Born in Bosnia, Ivo Andric (1892-1975) was a distinguished diplomat and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. His books include The Damned Yard: And Other Stories, and The Days of the Consuls.More editions of The Bridge on the Drina:
Briefing for a Descent into Hellby Doris May LessingISBN 0224005073 (0-224-00507-3)
Hardcover, Cape
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Cellby Stephen KingISBN 0307391337 (0-307-39133-7)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cell'Book summary:A través de los teléfonos móviles se envía un mensaje que convierte a todos en esclavos asesinos. Pocos se escapan de su fuerza y estos tendrán que sobrevivir en un mundo totalmente transformado.
Clayton Riddell no tiene teléfono móvil, su esposa, Sharon, tampoco. Están separados pero en contacto constante por su hijo Johnny Gee. Sus padres le han regalado un móvil para cosas urgentes. Saben que muy a menudo no lo lleva encima y por eso le riñen.
El uno de octubre Clay viaja a Boston por una entrevista de trabajo y de repente cuando pasea por el parque es testigo de escenas espeluznantes, escenas totalmente inexplicables: gente en la calle que hablando por el móvil se convierten repentinamente en monstruos asesinos, atacan y matan a todos los de su alrededor. Los coches chocan entre sí. Es una escena de caos sangriento, incendios, alarmas.. . incomprensible. Ya no hay canales de radio ni televisión, ni servicios de ningún tipo. Nada que pueda poner orden. Clay entiende que todo ha sido causado por un mensaje a través de los móviles. Consigue refugiarse en un hotel junto con otro hombre Tom McCourt y una adolescente, Alice, los dos sin móvil. Deciden abandonar la ciudad para averiguar si la situación es la misma en el resto del país. Para Clay, lo más importante es localizar a su hijo que, espera que hoy no lleve su móvil encima.
Los tres emprenden su viaje a pie hacia la ciudad donde vive Johnny y su madre. Andan de noche cuando los locos no se mueven. De día se esconden en casas abandonadas. En su camino se encuentran con otros que se han salvado pero son pocos y descubren que los locos se han convertido en una especie de zombies telepáticos. Estos se juntan de día en grandes masas, llamados por música transmitida por altavoces, en estadios de deportes. De noche duermen. Están controlados por los sonidos. Andan y andan hacia un solo destino.
La mujer de Clay ha sido víctima de la gran destrucción pero su hijo parece haber sobrevivido y Clay y sus dos compañeros siguen su pista. Van de ciudad en ciudad, entre cadáveres y zombies asesinos, entre el caos y la destrucción, hasta llegar a la ciudad de su destino.
Y allí Clay encontrará a Johnny, no el Johnny de antes, pero quizás algún día aprenderá de nuevo a ser un niño normal . El mensaje de los móviles va perdiendo toda su fuerza pero...el mundo nunca volverá a ser lo mismo. [via]More editions of Cell:
Codexby Lev GrossmanISBN 015602859X (0-15-602859-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Complete Worksby Thomas MaloryISBN 0192812173 (0-19-281217-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works'Book summary:This single-volume edition of the complete works of Sirhe Thomas Malory retains his 15th-century English while providing an introduction, glossary, and fifty pages of explanatory notes on each romance. [via]
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The Confessions Of Max Tivoliby Andrew Sean GreerISBN 0312423810 (0-312-42381-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions Of Max Tivoli'Book summary:Out of the womb in 1871, Max Tivoli looked to all the world like a tiny 70-year-old man. But inside the aged body was an infant. Victim of a rare disease, Max grows physically younger as his mind matures. In Andrew Sean Greer's finely crafted novel, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Max narrates his life story from the vantage point of his late fifties, though his body is that of a 12-year-old boy. He has known since a young age that he is destined to die at 70, and he wears a golden "1941" as a constant reminder of the year he will finally perish in an infant form. His mother, a Carolina belle concerned over her son's troubling appearance, curses Max with "The Rule": "Be what they think you are." Max fails to keep this Rule only a handful of times in his life, but it is the burden of living by it that wounds him and slowly alienates him from the people he loves.
Over Max's narration of the preceding decades of his life, he offers outsider's snapshots of San Francisco and all of America across the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Throughout, Greer uses the literary device of reverse aging to interrogate the evolution of social conventions, the finitude of a human life, and the decay of memory. Max wants love. But his curse destines him to deception. He loses his wife, Alice, changes his name, and remains hidden from his own son to keep his true identity secret. Only his lifelong friend, Hughie, stands by Max and can see the person inside the anachronistic body. Like the best science fiction and myth, the novel uses its central conceit to reveal human prejudice and explode all assumptions of normalcy to profound effect.
Love is a destructive force in The Confessions of Max Tivoli. But Greer recognizes that in the failure of love is also hope. He artfully captures Max's fragile world with a delicacy that never crosses into sentimentality but also avoids the monumental scale of tragedy. As Max says near the end of the novel, "It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing to waste ones life for love." A journey with Max, while brave and beautiful, is hardly a waste. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Decameronby Giovanni Boccaccio, Guido Waldman, Jonathan UsherISBN 0192836919 (0-19-283691-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decameron'Book summary:The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions. [via]
The Defenceby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0192820281 (0-19-282028-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Doctor Thorneby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192815083 (0-19-281508-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Thorne'Book summary:Doctor Thorne is the third novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", published in 1858. It is mainly concerned with the romantic problems of Mary Thorne, niece of Doctor Thomas Thorne (a member of a junior branch of the family of Mr Wilfred Thorne who appeared in Barchester Towers), and Frank Gresham, the eldest son of the local squire.
The idea of the plot was suggested to Trollope by his brother Thomas. (Quote from wikipedia.org)
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Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 - December 6, 1882) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day.
Trollope has always been a popular novelist. Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness (who never travelled without a Trollope novel), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay. Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life, but he regained the esteem of critics by the mid-twentieth century. (Quote from wikipedia.org)
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.
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The Doubleby Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0156032589 (0-15-603258-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Down and Out in Paris and Londonby George OrwellISBN 015626224X (0-15-626224-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Down and Out in Paris and London'Book summary:What was a nice Eton boy like Eric Blair doing in scummy slums instead of being upwardly mobile at Oxford or Cambridge? Living Down and Out in Paris and London, repudiating respectable imperialist society, and reinventing himself as George Orwell. His 1933 debut book (ostensibly a novel, but overwhelmingly autobiographical) was rejected by that elitist publisher T.S. Eliot, perhaps because its close-up portrait of lowlife was too pungent for comfort.
In Paris, Orwell lived in verminous rooms and washed dishes at the overpriced "Hotel X," in a remarkably filthy, 110-degree kitchen. He met "eccentric people--people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent." Though Orwell's tone is that of an outraged reformer, it's surprising how entertaining many of his adventures are: gnawing poverty only enlivens the imagination, and the wild characters he met often swindled each other and themselves. The wackiest tale involves a miser who ate cats, wore newspapers for underwear, invested 6,000 francs in cocaine, and hid it in a face-powder tin when the cops raided. They had to free him, because the apparently controlled substance turned out to be face powder instead of cocaine.
In London, Orwell studied begging with a crippled expert named Bozo, a great storyteller and philosopher. Orwell devotes a chapter to the fine points of London guttersnipe slang. Years later, he would put his lexical bent to work by inventing Newspeak, and draw on his down-and-out experience to evoke the plight of the Proles in 1984. Though marred by hints of unexamined anti-Semitism, Orwell's debut remains, as The Nation put it, "the most lucid portrait of poverty in the English language." --Tim Appelo [via]
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Eliot to Derrida: The Poverty of Interpretationby John HarwoodISBN 0312125593 (0-312-12559-3)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eliot to Derrida: The Poverty of Interpretation'Book summary:This is a sardonic portrait of the cult of the specialist interpreter, from I.A. Richards and the Cambridge School to Jacques Derrida and his disciples. [via]
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The Famished Roadby Ben OkriISBN 0224027018 (0-224-02701-8)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Famished Road'Book summary:You have never read a novel like this one. Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize for fiction, The Famished Road tells the story of Azaro, a spirit-child. Though spirit-children rarely stay long in the painful world of the living, when Azaro is born he chooses to fight death: "I wanted," he says, "to make happy the bruised face of the woman who would become my mother." Survival in his chaotic African village is a struggle, though. Azaro and his family must contend with hunger, disease, and violence, as well as the boy's spirit-companions, who are constantly trying to trick him back into their world. Okri fills his tale with unforgettable images and characters: the bereaved policeman and his wife, who try to adopt Azaro and dress him in their dead son's clothes; the photographer who documents life in the village and displays his pictures in a cabinet by the roadside; Madame Koto, "plump as a mighty fruit," who runs the local bar; the King of the Road, who gets hungrier the more he eats.
At the heart of this hypnotic novel are the mysteries of love and human survival. "It is more difficult to love than to die," says Azaro's father, and indeed, it is love that brings real sharpness to suffering here. As the story moves toward its climax, Azaro must face the consequences of choosing to live, of choosing to walk the road of hunger rather than return to the benign land of spirits. The Famished Road is worth reading for its last line alone, which must be one of the most devastating endings in contemporary literature (but don't skip ahead). --R. Ellis [via]
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The Far Pavilionsby M. M. KayeISBN 031215125X (0-312-15125-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Far Pavilions'Book summary:When The Far Pavilions was first published nineteen years ago, it moved the critic Edmund Fuller to write this: "Were Miss Kaye to produce no other book, The Far Pavilions might stand as a lasting accomplishment in a single work comparable to Margaret Mitchell's achievement in Gond With the Wind."[via]
From its beginning in the foothills of the towering Himalayas, M.M. Kaye's masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that ranks with the greatest panoramic sagas of modern fiction.
The Far Pavilions is itself a Himalayan achievement, a book we hate to see come to an end. it is a passionate, triumphant story that excites us, fills us with joy, move us to tears, satisfies us deeply, and helps us remember just what it is we want most from a novel.-
Ferdydurkeby Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta BorchardtISBN 0300082401 (0-300-08240-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ferdydurke'Book summary:In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Originally published in Poland in 1937, Ferdydurke became an instant literary sensation and catapulted the young author to fame. Deemed scandalous and subversive by Nazis, Stalinists, and the Polish Communist regime in turn, the novel (as well as all of Gombrowicz's other works) was officially banned in Poland for decades. It has nonetheless remained one of the most influential works of twentieth-century European literature.Ferdydurke is translated here directly from the Polish for the first time. Danuta Borchardt deftly captures Gombrowicz's playful and idiosyncratic style, and she allows English speakers to experience fully the masterpiece of a writer whom Milan Kundera describes as "one of the great novelists of our century." [via]
G. :a Novelby John BergerISBN 0297994239 (0-297-99423-9)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamonby Jorge Amado, James L. Taylor, William L. GrossmanISBN 0307276651 (0-307-27665-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon'Book summary:Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonça discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot...
No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in townleast of all Gabriela herselfwill be the agent of change. Nacib Saad has just lost the cook at his popular café and in desperation hires Gabriela. To his surprise she turns out to be a great beauty as well as a wonderful cook and an enchanting boon to his business. But what would people say if Nacib were to marry her?
Lusty, satirical and full of intrigue, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon is a vastly entertaining panorama of small town Brazilian life. [via]More editions of Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon:
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The Ghost Writerby John HarwoodISBN 0156032325 (0-15-603232-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ghost Writer'Book summary:The Cornish prayer: "From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!" is an appropriate invocation when reading The Ghost Writer, John Harwoods debut novel. It is a rousing good ghost story, with many twists and turns, rather like taking apart a Russian matryoshka nesting doll.
Gerard Freeman, at age ten, sneaks into his mother's room and unlocks a secret drawer, only to find a picture of a woman he has never seen before, but one that he will find again and again. His mother discovers him and gives him the beating of his life. Why this excessive reaction? She is a worried, paranoid, thin, and fretful type with an "anxious, haunted look." By tale's end, we know why.
Phyllis Freeman, Gerard's mother, was happiest when speaking fondly of Staplefield, her childhood home, where there were things they "didnt have in Mawson [Australia], chaffinches and mayflies and foxgloves and hawthorn, coopers and farriers and old Mr. Bartholomew who delivered fresh milk and eggs to their house with his horse and cart." It's the sort of childhood idyll that the timid and lonely Gerard believes in and longs for. He strikes up a correspondence with an English "penfriend," Alice Jessel, when he is 13 and a half, living in a desolate place with a frantic mother and a silent father. She is his age, her parents were killed in an accident and she has been crippled by it. She now lives in an institution, whose grounds she describes as much the way Staplefield looked. They go through young adulthood together, in letters only, thousands of miles apart, eventuallydeclaring their love for one another.
Interwoven with the narrative of Alice and Gerard's letters are real ghost stories, the creation of Gerard's great-grandmother, Viola. At first, they seem to be scary Victorian tales of the supernatural. Then, we see that they have a spooky way of mirroring, or preceding, events in real life, off the page. Gerard comes upon them, one by one, in mysterious ways, but clearly something, or someone, is leading him. The stories seem to implicate his mother in some nefarious goings-on, but the truth is far worse than Gerard imagines.
Any more would be telling too much. Turn on all the lights in the house when you settle down with this one, and plan to spend a long time reading because you will be lost in the story immediately. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Groupby Mary McCarthyISBN 0156372088 (0-15-637208-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Group'Book summary:Written with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars.
Mary McCarthys most celebrated novel follows the lives of eight Vassar graduates, known simply to their classmates as the group. An eclectic mix of personalities and upbringings, they meet a week after graduation to watch Kay Strong get married. After the ceremony, the women begin their adult livestraveling to Europe, tackling the worlds of nursing and publishing, and finding love and heartbreak in the streets of New York City. Through the years, some of the friends grow apart and some become entangled in each other's affairs, but all vow not to become like their mothers and fathers. It is only when one of them passes away that they all come back together again to mourn the loss of a friend, a confidante, and most importantly, a member of the group. [via]
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A Happy Deathby Albert CamusISBN 0241020999 (0-241-02099-9)
Hardcover, Hamilton
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Hemingway's Chairby Michael PalinISBN 0312205503 (0-312-20550-3)
Softcover, Griffin
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The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adamsby Henry Fielding, Douglas Brooks-Davies, Tom KeymerISBN 019283343X (0-19-283343-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Ice Ageby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0297773682 (0-297-77368-2)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffmanby Angela CarterISBN 0246105453 (0-246-10545-3)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis
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The Italianby Ann RadcliffeISBN 0192815725 (0-19-281572-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitentsby Ann Radcliffe, Frederick Garber, E. J. CleryISBN 0192832549 (0-19-283254-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Joseph Andrews and Shamelaby Henry FieldingISBN 0192815504 (0-19-281550-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Keep the Aspidistra Flyingby George OrwellISBN 0156468999 (0-15-646899-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying'Book summary:London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Nearly 30 and "rather moth-eaten already," a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen "flatter than any pancake," Gordon has given up a "good" job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former salary. Always broke, but too proud to accept charity, he rarely sees his few friends and cannot get the virginal Rosemary to bed because (or so he believes), "If you have no money ... women won't love you." On the windowsill of Gordon's shabby rooming-house room is a sickly but unkillable aspidistra--a plant he abhors as the banner of the sort of "mingy, lower-middle-class decency" he is fleeing in his downward flight. In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell has created a darkly compassionate satire to which anyone who has ever been oppressed by the lack of brass, or by the need to make it, will all too easily relate. He etches the ugly insanity of what Gordon calls "the money-world" in unflinching detail, but the satire has a second edge, too, and Gordon himself is scarcely heroic. In the course of his misadventures, we become grindingly aware that his radical solution to the problem of the money-world is no solution at all--that in his desperate reaction against a monstrous system, he has become something of a monster himself. Orwell keeps both of his edges sharp to the very end--a "happy" ending that poses tough questions about just how happy it really is. That the book itself is not sour, but constantly fresh and frequently funny, is the result of Orwell's steady, unsentimental attention to the telling detail; his dry, quiet humor; his fascination with both the follies and the excellences of his characters; and his courageous refusal to embrace the comforts of any easy answer. --Daniel Hintzsche [via]
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Lanarkby Alasdair GrayISBN 0156003619 (0-15-600361-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Last Manby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Morton D. PaleyISBN 0192838652 (0-19-283865-2)
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Le Morte D'Arthurby Helen Cooper, Thomas MaloryISBN 0192824201 (0-19-282420-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Morte D'Arthur'Book summary:The greatest English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte D'Arthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, "knight prisoner." This edition is the first designed for the general reader to be based on the "Winchester manuscript" which represents what Malory wrote more closely than the version printed by William Caxton. Extensively annotated, this edition is highly user-friendly. [via]
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Le Morte D'Arthurby John Matthews, Thomas Malory, Anna-Marie FergusonISBN 0304353671 (0-304-35367-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Morte D'Arthur'Book summary:A blessed king who strives for peace and justice; the round table where only the most gallant knights may sit; the dramatic quest for the Holy Grail; a fateful romance that destroys a dream: the epic story of King Arthur never fails to stir the imaginations of readers everywhere. This outstanding illustrated version adds to Sir Thomas Malory's skillful recounting with original artwork that creates a unique vision of Camelot. Some of these breathtaking, elaborate watercolors and pens-and-inks have hung in museums, including the depiction of the Tintagel Castle, the Sword in the Stone, Merlin and Nimue, and Guenevere rescued from the stake. With remarkable accuracy, Anna-Marie Ferguson captures every nuance of the historical period-the knights' shining armor, the intricate architecture, and the English forests with their abundant flora and fauna. Yet she also revels in the fantasy, with mysterious and magical landscapes, misty and moonlit. These legends have always been a treat for the mind-and now they are a feast for the eyes, too.[via]
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The Man in the Iron Maskby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192838423 (0-19-283842-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Man Who Loved Childrenby Christina SteadISBN 0312280440 (0-312-28044-0)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Matildaby Roald Dahl, Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress), Quentin BlakeISBN 0224025724 (0-224-02572-4)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matilda'Book summary:Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Mrs. ("The") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.
She warms up with some practical jokes aimed at her hapless parents, but the true test comes when she rallies in defense of her teacher, the sweet Miss Honey, against the diabolical Trunchbull. There is never any doubt that Matilda will carry the day. Even so, this wonderful story is far from predictable--the big surprise comes when Matilda discovers a new, mysterious facet of her mental dexterity. Roald Dahl, while keeping the plot moving imaginatively, also has an unerring ear for emotional truth. The reader cares about Matilda because in addition to all her other gifts, she has real feelings. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Talesby David Coward, Marquis De SadeISBN 0192836951 (0-19-283695-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales'Book summary:The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is most foul in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, no human affection, and no hope. This selection of his early writings, some making their first appearance in English in this new translation by David Coward, reveals the full range of Sade's sobering moods and considerable talents. This is a fully annotated edition including an introduction, a biographical study, and a history of the censorship of these writings. [via]
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The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Talesby Marquis De Sade, Translator, David CowardISBN 0192828630 (0-19-282863-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales'Book summary:Revered by Enlightenment and Victorian thinkers, de Sade was recognized as a founding father by the Surrealists, and holds a prominent place in the history of modernism and post-modernism. This selection of his early writings, some appearing in English translation for the first time, reveals the full range of his sobering moods and considerable talents. This book is intended for students of eighteenth-century French literature; the Enlightenment; the French Revolution; European cultural studies. Translated and edited by: Coward, David (University of Leeds); [via]
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Moon Tigerby Penelope LivelyISBN 0233981071 (0-233-98107-1)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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New Grub Streetby George Gissing, John GoodeISBN 0192829637 (0-19-282963-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Night Trainby Martin AmisISBN 0224050184 (0-224-05018-4)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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The Nonexistent Knight & the Cloven Viscountby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156659751 (0-15-665975-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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On Gold Mountainby Lisa SeeISBN 0312119976 (0-312-11997-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Gold Mountain'Book summary:Lisa See, daughter of novelist Carolyn See, brings a novelist's skill to this sprawling ancestral history. Books tracing the roots of overseas Chinese writers are not uncommon these days, but See uncovered in her family tree a capsule history of the Sino-American diaspora: her great-grandfather, Fong See, founded a California business, married a Caucasian woman and fathered many offspring, and returned periodically to China to redistribute some of his wealth and launch another family. See, a Publishers Weekly writer, has conducted extensive interviews and drawn on family lore for an enthralling saga of ambition, prejudice, love, loyalty, and sorrow--social history at its best. [via]
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Over Sea, Under Stoneby Susan Cooper, Margery GillISBN 015259034X (0-15-259034-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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The Poor Mouth (An Beal Bocht)by Flann O'BrienISBN 0246106123 (0-246-10612-3)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon
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S.by John UpdikeISBN 0233982558 (0-233-98255-8)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Sheby H. Rider Haggard, Daniel KarlinISBN 0192835505 (0-19-283550-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'She'Book summary:Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death.
Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that [Ayesha] had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that [H. Rider] Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverish inspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down," he later said.
This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic female figures who must be stopped before they love again." [via]
Soldier of the Great Warby Mark HelprinISBN 0156031132 (0-15-603113-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Spiesby Michael FraynISBN 0312421176 (0-312-42117-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spies'Book summary:In Michael Frayn's novel Spies an old man returns to the scene of his seemingly ordinary suburban childhood. Stephen Wheatley is unsure of what he is seeking but, as he walks once-familiar streets he hasn't seen in 50 years, he unfolds a story of childish games colliding cruelly with adult realities. It is wartime and Stephen's friend Keith makes the momentous announcement that his mother is a German spy. The two boys begin to spy on the supposed spy, following her on her trips to the shops and to the post, and reading her diary. Keith's mother does have secrets to conceal but they are not the ones the boys suspect. Frayn skilfully manipulates his plot so that the reader's growing awareness of the truth remains just a few steps beyond Stephen's dawning realisation that he is trespassing on painful and dangerous territory. The only false notes occur in the final chapter when the central revelation (already cleverly signposted) is too swiftly followed by further disclosures about Stephen and his family that seem somehow unnecessary and make the denouement less satisfyingly conclusive. This is a much sparer and less expansive book than Headlong, Frayn's Booker Prize-shortlisted 1999 novel, more understated in its wit, but it is, in many ways, more compelling.--Nick Rennison [via]
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Star Of The Seaby Joseph O'ConnorISBN 0156029669 (0-15-602966-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Stone Angelby Margaret LaurenceISBN 0226469360 (0-226-46936-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stone Angel'Book summary:The Stone Angel, The Diviners, and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's renowned "Manawaka series," named for the small Canadian prairie town in which they take place. Each of these books is narrated by a strong woman growing up in the town and struggling with physical and emotional isolation.[via]
In The Stone Angel, Hagar Shipley, age ninety, tells the story of her life, and in doing so tries to come to terms with how the very qualities which sustained her have deprived her of joy. Mingling past and present, she maintains pride in the face of senility, while recalling the life she led as a rebellious young bride, and later as a grieving mother. Laurence gives us in Hagar a woman who is funny, infuriating, and heartbreakingly poignant.
"This is a revelation, not impersonation. The effect of such skilled use of language is to lead the reader towards the self-recognition that Hagar misses."Robertson Davies, New York Times
"It is [Laurence's] admirable achievement to strike, with an equally sure touch, the peculiar note and the universal; she gives us a portrait of a remarkable character and at the same time the picture of old age itself, with the pain, the weariness, the terror, the impotent angers and physical mishaps, the realization that others are waiting and wishing for an end."Honor Tracy, The New Republic
"Miss Laurence is the best fiction writer in the Dominion and one of the best in the hemisphere."Atlantic
"[Laurence] demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. . . . As [Hagar Shipley] daydreams and chatters and lurches through the novel, she traces one of the most convincingand the most touchingportraits of an unregenerate sinner declining into senility since Sara Monday went to her reward in Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth."Time
"Laurence's triumph is in her evocation of Hagar at ninety. . . . We sympathize with her in her resistance to being moved to a nursing home, in her preposterous flight, in her impatience in the hospital. Battered, depleted, suffering, she rages with her last breath against the dying of the light. The Stone Angel is a fine novel, admirably written and sustained by unfailing insight."Granville Hicks, Saturday Review
"The Stone Angel is a good book because Mrs. Laurence avoids sentimentality and condescension; Hagar Shipley is still passionately involved in the puzzle of her own nature. . . . Laurence's imaginative tact is strikingly at work, for surely this is what it feels like to be old."Paul Pickrel, Harper'sMore editions of Stone Angel:
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Timbuktu: A Novelby Paul AusterISBN 0312263996 (0-312-26399-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Timbuktu: A Novel'Book summary:In Timbuktu Paul Auster tackles homelessness in America using a dog as his point-of-view character. Strange as the premise seems, it's been done before, in John Berger's King, and it actually works. Filtering the homeless experience through the relentlessly unsentimental eye of a dog, both writers avoid miring their tales in an excess of melodrama. Whereas Berger's book skips among several characters, Timbuktu remains tightly focused on just two: Mr. Bones, "a mutt of no particular worth or distinction," and his master, Willy G. Christmas, a middle-aged schizophrenic who has been on the streets since the death of his mother four years before. The novel begins with Willy and Mr. Bones in Baltimore searching for a former high school English teacher who had encouraged the teenage Willy's writerly aspirations. Now Willy is dying and anxious to find a home for both his dog and the multitude of manuscripts he has stashed in a Greyhound bus terminal. "Willy had written the last sentence he would ever write, and there were no more than a few ticks left in the clock. The words in the locker were all he had to show for himself. If the words vanished, it would be as if he had never lived."
Paul Auster is a cerebral writer, preferring to get to his reader's gut through the brain. When Willy dies, he goes out on a sea of words; as for Mr. Bones, this is a dog who can think about metaphysical issues such as the afterlife--referred to by Willy as "Timbuktu":
What if no pets were allowed? It didn't seem possible, and yet Mr. Bones had lived long enough to know that anything was possible, that impossible things happened all the time. Perhaps this was one of them, and in that perhaps hung a thousand dreads and agonies, an unthinkable horror that gripped him every time he thought about it.
Once Willy dies and Mr. Bones is on his own, things go from bad to worse as the now masterless dog faces a series of betrayals, rejections, and disappointments. By stepping inside a dog's skin, Auster is able to comment on human cruelties and infrequent kindnesses from a unique world view. But reader be warned: the world in Timbuktu is a bleak one, and even the occasional moments of grace are short lived. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Timbuktu: A Novel:
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The Travelerby JOHN TWELVE HAWKSISBN 030727859X (0-307-27859-X)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Traveler'Book summary:In London, Maya, a young woman trained to fight by her powerful father, uses the latest technology to elude detection when walking past the thousands of surveillance cameras that watch the city. In New York, a secret shadow organization uses a victims own GPS to hunt him down and kill him. In Los Angeles, Gabriel, a motorcycle messenger with a haunted past, takes pains to live "off the grid" free of credit cards and
government IDs. Welcome to the world of The Traveler a world frighteningly like our own.
In this compelling novel, Maya fights to save Gabriel, the only man who can stand against the forces that attempt to monitor and control society. From the back streets of Prague to the skyscrapers of Manhattan, The Traveler portrays an epic struggle between tyranny and freedom. Not since 1984 have readers witnessed a Big Brother so terrifying in its implications and in a story that so closely reflects our lives. [via]More editions of The Traveler:
The Trumpet-majorby Thomas Hardy, Richard NemesvariISBN 0192827189 (0-19-282718-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trumpet-major'Book summary:Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. In The Trumpet Major, the tale of a woman courted by three competing suitors during the Napoleonic wars, he explores the subversive effects of ordinary human desire and conflicting loyalties on systematized versions of history. This edition restores Hardy's original punctuation and removes the bowdlerisms forced upon the text on its initial publication. [via]
Twenty Years Afterby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192838431 (0-19-283843-1)
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The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plainsby Owen Wister, Robert ShulmanISBN 0192832263 (0-19-283226-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The War of Dreamsby Angela CarterISBN 0151443750 (0-15-144375-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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The Way We Live Nowby Anthony Trollope, John SutherlandISBN 0192835610 (0-19-283561-0)
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What Was She Thinkingby Zoe HellerISBN 0312421990 (0-312-42199-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Wives and Daughtersby Angus Easson, Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0192817027 (0-19-281702-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0192838393 (0-19-283839-3)
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The Woodlandersby Thomas Hardy, Dale Kramer, Penny BoumelhaISBN 0192840681 (0-19-284068-1)
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Works [of] Maloryby Thomas Malory, Eugene VinaverISBN 0192541633 (0-19-254163-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The Works of Sir Thomas Maloryby Eugene Vinaver, Thomas MaloryISBN 0198118384 (0-19-811838-4)
Hardcover, Clarendon P.
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Yellow Dogby Martin AmisISBN 0224050613 (0-224-05061-3)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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