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The Adventures of a Photographer in LA Plataby Adolfo Bioy CasaresISBN 052524803X (0-525-24803-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Aeneid of Virgilby Virgil, Allen MandelbaumISBN 0520016203 (0-520-01620-3)
Hardcover, University of California Press
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The Aeneid of Virgilby Allen MandlebaumISBN 0520045505 (0-520-04550-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid of Virgil'Book summary:This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains a new preface by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.[via]More editions of The Aeneid of Virgil:
Angel of Lightby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0525054839 (0-525-05483-9)
Hardcover, E P Dutton
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Arabesquesby Anton Shammas, Vivian EdenISBN 0520228324 (0-520-22832-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Beggar Queenby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0525441034 (0-525-44103-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Bloodsmoor Romanceby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0525241124 (0-525-24112-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Bloodsmoor Romance'Book summary:Bloodsmoor Romance, by Oates, Joyce Carol. [via]
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The Blue Starby Robert FerroISBN 0525243216 (0-525-24321-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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A Blunt Instrumentby Georgette HeyerISBN 0525069054 (0-525-06905-4)
Hardcover, Dutton
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The Brimstone Weddingby Barbara VineISBN 0517703394 (0-517-70339-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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City of the Living Deadby Jeffrey LordISBN 0523401930 (0-523-40193-0)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Clayhangerby Arnold BennettISBN 0518190935 (0-518-19093-5)
Hardcover, Books for Libraries Press
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Collected Ancient Greek Novelsby B.P. ReardonISBN 0520043065 (0-520-04306-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525457232 (0-525-45723-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh'Book summary:When Christopher Robin asks Pooh what he likes doing best in the world, Pooh says, after much thought, "What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying, 'Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing."
Happy readers for over 70 years couldn't agree more. Pooh's status as a "Bear of Very Little Brain" belies his profoundly eternal wisdom in the ways of the world. To many, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and the others are as familiar and important as their own family members. A.A. Milne's classics, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, are brought together in this beautiful edition, complete and unabridged, with recolored illustrations by Milne's creative counterpart, Ernest H. Shepard. Join Pooh and the gang as they meet a Heffalump, help get Pooh unstuck from Rabbit's doorway, (re)build a house for Eeyore, and try to unbounce Tigger. A childhood is simply not complete without full participation in all of Pooh's adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Dalvaby Jim HarrisonISBN 052524624X (0-525-24624-X)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dalva'Book summary:This novel portrays five generations of an American pioneer family. It is the story of Dalva's search for her lost son who was given away for adoption. [via]
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The Descent of Anansiby Larry Niven, Steven Barnes, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0523485425 (0-523-48542-5)
Hardcover, Tor
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Diary of an Emotional Idiotby Maggie EstepISBN 0517701790 (0-517-70179-0)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Dream of Heroesby Adolfo Bioy CasaresISBN 0525246878 (0-525-24687-8)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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Figgs and Phantomsby Ellen RaskinISBN 0525296808 (0-525-29680-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The First Quarto of Hamletby William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio, A. R. Braunmuller, Brian GibbonsISBN 0521587077 (0-521-58707-7)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Quarto of King Lear'Book summary:The first printed text of Shakespeare's Hamlet is about half the length of the more familiar second quarto and Folio versions. It reorders and combines key plot elements to present its own workable alternatives. This is the only modernized critical edition of the 1603 quarto in print. Kathleen Irace explains its possible origins, special features and surprisingly rich performance history, and while describing textual differences between it and other versions, offers alternatives that actors or directors might choose for specific productions. [via]
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The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kashaby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0525297480 (0-525-29748-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Good Newsby Edward AbbeyISBN 0525034676 (0-525-03467-6)
Softcover, Dutton
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards, Philip EdwadsISBN 0521532523 (0-521-53252-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- Hamlet: ISBN 0521618746 (0-521-61874-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0521094747 (0-521-09474-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0521293669 (0-521-29366-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0521434947 (0-521-43494-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0521646359 (0-521-64635-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 052122151X (0-521-22151-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0521532523 (0-521-53252-3)
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- Hamlet: ISBN 0521618746 (0-521-61874-6)
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skatesby Mary Mapes Dodge, Edna Cooke, Maginel Wright BarneyISBN 0517687984 (0-517-68798-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Hornblower During the Crisisby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0523421109 (0-523-42110-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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House of Stairsby William SleatorISBN 052532335X (0-525-32335-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Hundred Brothersby Donald AntrimISBN 0517703106 (0-517-70310-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Interstellar Pigby William SleatorISBN 0525440984 (0-525-44098-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen : A Novelby Barbara LachmanISBN 0517883902 (0-517-88390-2)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen : A Novel'Book summary:Hildegard of Bingen is everyone's secret passion these days. Here is a tumultuous year in the life of the great twelfth-century Benedictine abbess, mystic, composer, healer, writer, and advocate of women's full participation in the life of the spirit. Considered a saint in Germany, Hildegard left us three books of her visions in which she often saw the creation as a living, pulsing being, 77 liturgical songs, the first morality play, a book on the healing arts, a catalog of the flora of her native Rhineland, and a wealth of correspondence with monarchs, several popes, and clergy at all levels of society. In conveying the full breadth of Hildegard's inner and outer experience, Barbara Lachman has created a document that rings with truth about this singular woman and her world. Rarely does a literary work succeed as well in letting readers see the world through such illuminated eyes. [via]
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The Kestrelby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0525451102 (0-525-45110-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kestrel'Book summary:With war in Westmark and the assumption of the throne by Mickle, all Theo's talents are needed, as well as those of his former companions. [via]
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The Keys to the Streetby Ruth RendellISBN 0517706857 (0-517-70685-7)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Keys to the Street'Book summary:Set in and around London's Regents Park, where the city's wealthiest, poorest, kindest, and most vicious citizens all cross paths, this newest novel by the Edgar and Gold Dagger-winning author of Crocodile Bird tells of the deadly thanks a young woman risks receiving in return for an act of selfless generosity. [via]
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King Learby William Shakespeare, Jonathan Morris, Elsbeth Bain, Rob SmithISBN 0521466970 (0-521-46697-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Landscape With Travelerby Barry GiffordISBN 0525143440 (0-525-14344-0)
Hardcover, Dutton
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The Law of Similarsby Chris BohjalianISBN 0517705869 (0-517-70586-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Leaving Homeby Garrison KeillorISBN 0517685167 (0-517-68516-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austenby Fay Weldon, Judith Baxter, Jenifer SmithISBN 0521589282 (0-521-58928-2)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen'Book summary:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended, and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times. Letters to Alice by Fay Weldon is edited by Jenifer Smith, English Advisor, Suffolk LEA. [via]
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The Lost Girlby D. H. Lawrence, John Worthen, J. WorthenISBN 0521294231 (0-521-29423-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Lotte in Weimarby Thomas Mann, H.T. Lowe-PorterISBN 0520070070 (0-520-07007-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Machine Dreamsby Jayne Anne PhillipsISBN 052524252X (0-525-24252-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Mastro-Don Gesualdoby Giovanni VergaISBN 0520050770 (0-520-05077-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Nine & A Half Weeksby Elizabeth McNeillISBN 0525167153 (0-525-16715-3)
Hardcover, Dutton
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No Night Is Too Longby Barbara VineISBN 0517799642 (0-517-79964-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Nobody Lives Forever/James Bondby John E. GardnerISBN 0517653966 (0-517-65396-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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On the Far Side of the Mountainby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0525445633 (0-525-44563-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Far Side of the Mountain'Book summary:Life in the wilderness has just become a lot thornier for young Sam Gribley. For the last two years he's been living in a hollowed-out tree in the Catskill Mountains, hunting and gathering his food supply and befriending the critters in his "neighborhood." Sam's peaceful existence is abruptly shattered when an environmental conservation officer confiscates his peregrine falcon, Frightful. To make matters worse, Sam's sister Alice, who has been living with him for the past year, has disappeared. This double blow quickly puts Sam on the trail to the far side of his mountain, pursuing a multifaceted mystery that, ultimately, will force him to make the biggest decision of his life.
Thirty years after the publication of her Newbery Honor Book, My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George rewarded her many fans with an exciting sequel. This remarkable author of over 80 books and recipient of more than 20 literary awards (including the Newbery Medal for Julie of the Wolves) is a passionate advocate for the environment. Her knack for naturalist writing that crackles with life will have readers of all ages chomping at the bit for the third novel in her trilogy, Frightful's Mountain. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Philadelphia Adventureby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0525445641 (0-525-44564-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Philadelphia Adventure'Book summary:In 1876, on the eve of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, twenty-year-old Vesper Holly and her friends clash yet again with the archfiend Dr. Helvitius, whose evil schemes plunge them into danger in the wild Pennsylvania countryside. [via]
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Redburn/ White-Jacket/ Moby-Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0521262186 (0-521-26218-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Road into the Openby Arthur Schnitzler, Roger ByersISBN 0520077741 (0-520-07774-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road into the Open'Book summary:A finely drawn portrayal of the disintegration of Austrian liberal society under the impact of nationalism and anti-semitism, The Road into the Open (Der Weg ins Freie, 1908) is a remarkable novel by a major Austrian writer of the early twentieth century. Set in fin-de-siècle Austria--the cafés, salons, and musical concerts frequented by the Viennese elite--Schnitzler's perceptive exploration of the creative process and the private lives and public aspirations of urban Jewish intellectuals ranks with the highest achievements of Karl Kraus and Robert Musil.[via]
The novel's central character, Baron Georg von Wergenthin, is a handsome young composer whose troubled relations with women, musical collaborators, and representatives of the old social order make Schnitzler's book a revealing investigation of individual psychology and social allegory. In his comprehensive introduction, Russell Berman situates the book within the literary and political history of Central Europe and analyzes its relation to psychoanalysis, Marxism, musical aesthetics, and the legacy of European modernism. 
Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore EvansISBN 0521532531 (0-521-53253-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521825466 (0-521-82546-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521094976 (0-521-09497-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521294053 (0-521-29405-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521395747 (0-521-39574-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521634970 (0-521-63497-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521222230 (0-521-22223-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521661153 (0-521-66115-3)
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The Seventh Secretby Irving WallaceISBN 0525243828 (0-525-24382-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sixteen Short Novelsby Wilfrid SheedISBN 0525243704 (0-525-24370-4)
Hardcover, E.P. Dutton
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Sleepers of Erinby Jonathan GashISBN 0525241639 (0-525-24163-9)
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Stanley Elkin's the Magic Kingdomby Stanley ElkinISBN 0525243046 (0-525-24304-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Technicolor Time Machineby Harry HarrisonISBN 0523485069 (0-523-48506-9)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, David LindleyISBN 052129374X (0-521-29374-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.
However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton [via]
They Found Him Deadby Georgette HeyerISBN 0525216758 (0-525-21675-8)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Three Kingdomsby Moss Roberts, Kuan-Chung Lo, Guanzhong Luo, John S. ServiceISBN 0520215850 (0-520-21585-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Kingdoms'Book summary:Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories, dramas, and poems portraying the crisis to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. This abridged edition captures the novel's intimate and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be widely influential in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, and remains a great work of world literature.This abridged edition is particularly useful for undergraduate courses. For the complete text, see the unabridged edition, now available in two parts: Part One; Part Two [via]
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Three Kingdomsby Kuan-Chung Lo, Moss Roberts, John S. ServiceISBN 0520225031 (0-520-22503-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Kingdoms'Book summary:Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 b.c.-a.d. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. This decisive period in Chinese history became a subject of intense and continuing interest to historians, poets, and dramatists. Writing some 1,200 years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on this rich literary heritage to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. Luo's novel offers a startling and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought; it has influenced the ways the Chinese think about power, diplomacy, and war even to this day. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be widely influential in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, and remains a great work of world literature. The University of California Press is pleased to make the complete and unabridged translation available again.[via]More editions of Three Kingdoms:
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Three Kingdoms: Chinese-Englishby Luo Guanzhong, Moss RobertsISBN 0520215842 (0-520-21584-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Kingdoms: Chinese-English'Book summary:Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories, dramas, and poems portraying the crisis to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. This abridged edition captures the novel's intimate and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be widely influential in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, and remains a great work of world literature.[via]
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The Tragedy of King Learby William Shakespeare, William ShakspeareISBN 0521847915 (0-521-84791-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Tragedy of King Learby Jay L. HalioISBN 0521612632 (0-521-61263-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of King Lear'Book summary:For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Jay Halio has added a new introductory section on recent stage, film, and critical interpretations of the play. He provides a comprehensive account of Shakespeare's sources and the literary, political and folkloric influences at work in the play; a detailed reading of the action; and a substantial stage history of major productions. An updated reading list completes the edition. First Edition Hb (1992) 0-521-33111-0 First Edition Pb (1992) 0-521-33729-1 [via]
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The Trial Begins and on Socialist Realismby Abram TertzISBN 0520046773 (0-520-04677-3)
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The West End Horrorby Nicholas MeyerISBN 0525231021 (0-525-23102-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The West End Horror'Book summary:"As authentically, irresistibly gripping as anything Conan Doyle ever wrote. . . . Don't miss it."Cosmopolitan
March 1895. London. A month of strange happenings in the West End. First there is the bizarre murder of theater critic Jonathan McCarthy. Then the lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry for libel; the public is scandalized. Next, the ingenue at the Savoy is discovered with her throat slashed. And a police surgeon disappears, taking two corpses with him.
Some of the theater district's most fashionable and creative luminaries have been involved: a penniless stage critic and writer named Bernard Shaw; Ellen Terry, the gifted and beautiful actress; a suspicious box office clerk named Bram Stoker; an aging matinee idol, Henry Irving; an unscrupulous publisher calling himself Frank Harris; and a controversial wit by the name of Oscar Wilde.
Scotland Yard is mystified by what appear to be unrelated cases, but to Sherlock Holmes the matter is elementary: a maniac is on the loose. His name is Jack.
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Westmarkby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0525423354 (0-525-42335-4)
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The White Peacockby D. H. Lawrence, Andrew RobertsonISBN 0521294274 (0-521-29427-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Peacock'Book summary:Lawrence's first novel The White Peacock was begun in 1906, rewritten three times, and published in 1911. The Cambridge edition uses the final manuscript as base-text, and faithfully recovers Lawrence's words and punctuation from the layers of publishers' house-styling and their errors; original passages, changed for censorship reasons, are reinstated. Andrew Robertson's introduction sets out the history of Lawrence's writing and revision, and the generally favourable reception by friends and reviewers. Lawrence incorporated much of his own experience and reading on to the novel which is set just north-east of Eastwood, and modelled characters on his friends and family. The notes identify real-life places and people, explain dialect forms, literary allusions, and historical references, and include sensitive passages deleted before publication. The textual apparatus records all the variant readings and the appendix prints the two surviving fragments from the earliest manuscripts of the novel, then entitled 'Laetitia'. [via]
Why Shoot a Butler?by Georgette HeyerISBN 052523375X (0-525-23375-X)
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The Widow's Childrenby Paula FoxISBN 0525233776 (0-525-23377-6)
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The World of Poohby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525444475 (0-525-44447-5)
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The World of Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. MilneISBN 0525444521 (0-525-44452-1)
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Zoot-Suit Murdersby Thomas SanchezISBN 0525240608 (0-525-24060-8)
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