Novel: books tagged “novel” (92/814) @ BookFinder.com

The Annotated Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, John Leech, Michael Patrick Hearn

ISBN 0517527413 (0-517-52741-3)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Christmas Carol'

More editions of The Annotated Christmas Carol:

The Annotated Christmas Carol: ISBN 0517687801 (0-517-68780-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
The Annotated Christmas Carol: ISBN 0517527413 (0-517-52741-3)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group

ISBN 9780451191137 (0-451-19113-7, 0451191137)

via

Anthem: Library Edition

by Ayn Rand

ISBN 0451191137 (0-451-19113-7)
Softcover, Signet

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Anthem: Library Edition'

Book summary:

Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out. Despite such a restrictive environment, the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in him--a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, Equality 7-2521 dares to stand apart from the herd--to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love the woman of his choice. Now he has been marked for death for committing the ultimate sin. In a world where the great "we" reign supreme, he has rediscovered the lost and holy word--"I."

[via]

More editions of Anthem: Library Edition:

Sellers, Peter: The Book of the Goons: Incorporating a New Selection of Spike Milligan's Goon Show Scripts And, by Courtesy of Whacklow, Futtle & Crun, (Commissioners for Oaths, Threats Issued), the Authentic, Unexpurgated Inter-Goonal Correspondence of Certain...

The Book of the Goons: Incorporating a New Selection of Spike Milligan's Goon Show Scripts And, by Courtesy of Whacklow, Futtle & Crun, (Commissioners for Oaths, Threats Issued), the Authentic, Unexpurgated Inter-Goonal Correspondence of Certain...

by Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe

ISBN 0552999563 (0-552-99956-3)
Hardcover, Corgi

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the Goons: Incorporating a New Selection of Spike Milligan's Goon Show Scripts And, by Courtesy of Whacklow, Futtle & Crun, (Commissioners for Oaths, Threats Issued), the Authentic, Unexpurgated Inter-Goonal Correspondence of Certain...'

More editions of The Book of the Goons: Incorporating a New Selection of Spike Milligan's Goon Show Scripts And, by Courtesy of Whacklow, Futtle & Crun, (Commissioners for Oaths, Threats Issued), the Authentic, Unexpurgated Inter-Goonal Correspondence of Certain...:

The Book of the Goons: Incorporating a New Selection of Spike Milligan's Goon Show Scripts And, by Courtesy of Whacklow, Futtle & Crun, (Commissioners for Oaths, Threats Issued), the Authentic, Unexpurgated Inter-Goonal Correspondence of Certain...: ISBN 0552999563 (0-552-99956-3)
Hardcover, Corgi

ISBN 9780553379266 (0-553-37926-7, 0553379267)

via

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Miller, Walter M., Jr.

ISBN 0553379267 (0-553-37926-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'

Book summary:

Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funny but bleak Canticle tackles the sociological and religious implications of the cyclical rise and fall of civilization, questioning whether humanity can hope for more than repeating its own history. Divided into three sections--Fiat Homo (Let There Be Man), Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light), and Fiat Voluntas Tua (Thy Will Be Done)--Canticle is steeped in Catholicism and Latin, exploring the fascinating, seemingly capricious process of how and why a person is canonized. --Paul Hughes [via]

More editions of A Canticle for Leibowitz:

A Canticle for Leibowitz: ISBN 0553379267 (0-553-37926-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books

ISBN 9780553273816 (0-553-27381-7, 0553273817)

via

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller

ISBN 0553273817 (0-553-27381-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'

Book summary:

Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funny but bleak Canticle tackles the sociological and religious implications of the cyclical rise and fall of civilization, questioning whether humanity can hope for more than repeating its own history. Divided into three sections--Fiat Homo (Let There Be Man), Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light), and Fiat Voluntas Tua (Thy Will Be Done)--Canticle is steeped in Catholicism and Latin, exploring the fascinating, seemingly capricious process of how and why a person is canonized. --Paul Hughes [via]

More editions of A Canticle for Leibowitz:

A Canticle for Leibowitz: ISBN 0553273817 (0-553-27381-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books

ISBN 9780486268651 (0-486-26865-9, 0486268659)

via

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0486268659 (0-486-26865-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'

Book summary:

In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]

More editions of A Christmas Carol:

A Christmas Carol and Other Victorian Fairy Tales

by Charles Dickens, U. C. Knoepflmacher

ISBN 0553211269 (0-553-21126-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol and Other Victorian Fairy Tales'

More editions of A Christmas Carol and Other Victorian Fairy Tales:

A Christmas Carol and Other Victorian Fairy Tales: ISBN 0553211269 (0-553-21126-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books

A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0590021028 (0-590-02102-8)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas'

More editions of A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas:

A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas: ISBN 0590021028 (0-590-02102-8)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

ISBN 9780553253917 (0-553-25391-3, 0553253913)

via

Dhalgren

by Samuel R. Delany

ISBN 0553253913 (0-553-25391-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Dhalgren'

Book summary:

What is Dhalgren? Dhalgren is one of the greatest novels of 20th-century American literature. Dhalgren is one of the all-time bestselling science fiction novels. Dhalgren may be read with equal validity as SF, magic realism, or metafiction. Dhalgren is controversial, challenging, and scandalous. Dhalgren is a brilliant novel about sex, gender, race, class, art, and identity.

A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled. But others are drawn to the devastated city, among them the Kid, a white/American Indian man who can't remember his own name. The Kid is emblematic of those who live in the new Bellona, who are the young, the poor, the mad, the violent, the outcast--the marginalized.

Dhalgren is many things, but instantly accessible isn't one of them. While most of this big, ambitious, deeply detailed novel is beautifully pellucid, the opening pages will be difficult for some: the novel starts with the second half of an incomplete sentence, in the viewpoint of a man who doesn't know who he is. If you find the early pages rough going, push on; the story soon becomes clear and fascinating. But--fair warning--the central nature of the disaster, of its strange devastations and disruptions, remains a puzzle for many readers, sometimes after several readings.

Spoiler warning: If you want to figure out the secret of the novel as you read Dhalgren, then stop reading this review right now! If you want to know the secret before you start, this is what the novel is about: the experience of existence inside a novel. Time passes differently for different characters. A river changes location. Stairs change their number. The Kid looks in a mirror and sees not himself, but someone who looks an awful lot like Samuel R. Delany. Central images include mirrors, lenses, and prisms, devices that focus, reflect--and distort. The Kid fills a notebook with a journal that may be Dhalgren, and is uncertain if he has written much, or any, of it. The characters don't know they're in a novel, but they know something is wrong. Dhalgren explores the relationship between characters and author (or, perhaps, characters, "author," and author).

The final chapter can be even tougher going than the opening pages, with its viewpoint change and its stretches of braided narrative--and the novel ends with the beginning of an unfinished sentence. But the last chapter becomes clear as you persevere; and when you get to that unfinished closing line, turn to the first line of the novel to finish the sentence and close the narrative circle. --Cynthia Ward [via]

More editions of Dhalgren:

Dhalgren: ISBN 0553253913 (0-553-25391-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books

ISBN 9780451210852 (0-451-21085-9, 0451210859)

via

The Drawing of the Three

by Stephen King

ISBN 0451210859 (0-451-21085-9)
Softcover, Signet

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drawing of the Three'

Book summary:

The second volume in Stephen Kings acclaimed, epic Dark Tower series.

After his confrontation with the man in black at the end of The Gunslinger, Roland awakes to find three doors on the beach of Mid-World's Western Seaeach leading to New York City but at three different moments in time. Through these doors, Roland must "draw" three figures crucial to his quest for the Dark Tower. In 1987, he finds Eddie Dean, The Prisoner, a heroin addict. In 1964, he meets Odetta Holmes, the Lady of Shadows, a young African-American heiress who lost her lower legs in a subway accident and gained a second personality that rages within her. And in 1977, he encounters Jack mort, Death, a pusher responsible for cruelties beyond imagining. Has Roland found new companions to form the "Ka-tet" of his quest? Or has he unleashed something else entirely?

The stunning Plume edition features full-color illustrations by Phil Hale and is a collectors item for years to come.

[via]

More editions of The Drawing of the Three:

ISBN 9780613176347 (0-613-17634-0, 0613176340)

via

Eye of the World

by Robert Jordan

ISBN 0613176340 (0-613-17634-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Eye of the World'

Book summary:

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Relates a tale of the bestial Trollocs, the witch Moiraine, and three boys, one of whom is fated to become the Dragon--the World's only hope and the sure means of its destruction. [via]

More editions of Eye of the World:

Eye of the World: ISBN 0613176340 (0-613-17634-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

The Eyes of the Dragon

by Stephen King

ISBN 0517001810 (0-517-00181-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eyes of the Dragon'

Book summary:

A kingdom is in turmoil as the old king dies and his successor must do battle for the throne. Pitted against an evil wizard and a would-be rival, Prince Peter makes a daring escape and rallies the forces of Good to fight for what is rightfully his. This is a masterpiece of classic dragons-and-magic fantasy that only Stephen King could have written! [via]

More editions of The Eyes of the Dragon:

ISBN 9780553268478 (0-553-26847-3, 0553268473)

via

The Farthest Shore

by Ursula K. Le Guin

ISBN 0553268473 (0-553-26847-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Farthest Shore'

Book summary:

Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea cycle has become one of the best-loved fantasies of our time. The windswept world of Earthsea is one of the greatest creations in all fantasy literature, frequently compared with J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth or C.S. Lewis' Narnia. The magnificent saga begins with A Wizard Of Earthsea, continues in The Tombs Of Atuan and The Farthest Shore, and concludes with Tehanu --each book a treasure of wisdom, wonder, and literary wizardry. The magic had gone out of the world. All over Earthsea the mages had forgotten their spells, the springs of wizardry were running dry. Ged, Dragonlord and Archmage, set out with Arren, a highborn young prince, to seek the source of the darkness. This is the tale of their harrowing journey beyond the shores of death to heal a wounded land. [via]

More editions of The Farthest Shore:

The Farthest Shore: ISBN 0553268473 (0-553-26847-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books

ISBN 9780451529763 (0-451-52976-6, 0451529766)

via

Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott, Valerie M. Smith

ISBN 0451529766 (0-451-52976-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'

Book summary:

Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension. Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. [via]

More editions of Flatland:

ISBN 9780606298438 (0-606-29843-6, 0606298436)

via

Fourth Hand

by John Irving

ISBN 0606298436 (0-606-29843-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Fourth Hand'

More editions of Fourth Hand:

Fourth Hand: ISBN 0606298436 (0-606-29843-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media

Going Postal

by Terry Pratchett

ISBN 0606344446 (0-606-34444-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Going Postal'

More editions of Going Postal:

Going Postal: ISBN 0606344446 (0-606-34444-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media

The Golden Bowl

by Henry James

ISBN 046011400X (0-460-11400-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bowl'

More editions of The Golden Bowl:

ISBN 9780521338400 (0-521-33840-9, 0521338409)

via

Homer, Odyssey Books Vi-VIII

by A.F. Garvie

ISBN 0521338409 (0-521-33840-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer, Odyssey Books Vi-VIII'

Book summary:

This is the first self-contained edition of Books VI-VIII of the Odyssey--the account of Odysseus' time among the Phaeacians, and a popular introduction to Homer. While not neglecting matters of language and formulaic composition, the Commentary aims to provide guidance on questions of literary and narrative technique and poetic artistry. The Introduction deals with the problem of Homeric composition in general, and with the place of the Phaeacian books in the poem as a whole. There are also brief sections on Homeric meter and the text. [via]

More editions of Homer, Odyssey Books Vi-VIII:

Homer, Odyssey Books Vi-VIII: ISBN 0521338409 (0-521-33840-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

ISBN 9780670779642 (0-670-77964-4, 0670779644)

via

Iliad and Odyssey Gift Set

by Homer

ISBN 0670779644 (0-670-77964-4)
Hardcover, Viking Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad and Odyssey Gift Set'

Book summary:

This is a boxed gift edition of Fagles's two widely acclaimed translations of Homer.

The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to call it a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the 10th and final year of the Greek siege of Troy. The Odyssey is, quite simply, the story of Odysseus, who wants to go home. But Poseidon, god of oceans, doesn't want him to make it back across the wine-dark sea to his wife, Penelope, son, Telemachus, and their high-roofed home at Ithaca. The story is told in easy-going, beautiful poetry; the characters speak naturally, the action happens briskly. Even the gods come across as real people, despite the divine powers they exercise constantly. Both works have been hailed by scholars and the public for the powerful language that brings clashing, pulsing life to these ancient masterpieces. [via]

More editions of Iliad and Odyssey Gift Set:

Iliad and Odyssey Gift Set: ISBN 0670779644 (0-670-77964-4)
Hardcover, Viking Pr

ISBN 9780452286535 (0-452-28653-0, 0452286530)

via

The Jane Austen Book Club

by Karen Joy Fowler

ISBN 0452286530 (0-452-28653-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jane Austen Book Club'

Book summary:

In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships. Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy. [via]

More editions of The Jane Austen Book Club:

The Jane Austen Book Club: ISBN 0452286530 (0-452-28653-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

ISBN 9780553377811 (0-553-37781-7, 0553377817)

Lady Oracle

by Margaret Atwood

ISBN 0553377817 (0-553-37781-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Oracle'

Book summary:

Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto, Italy. In this remarkable, poetic, and magical novel, Margaret Atwood proves yet again why she is considered to be one of the most important and accomplished writers of our time. [via]

More editions of Lady Oracle:

Last Orders

by Graham Swift

ISBN 0517304813 (0-517-30481-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Orders'

More editions of Last Orders:

Last Orders: ISBN 0517304813 (0-517-30481-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

ISBN 9780553012668 (0-553-01266-5, 0553012665)

via

Little, Big

by John Crowley

ISBN 0553012665 (0-553-01266-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Little, Big'

Book summary:

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.]

Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award

[*The text of Little, Big used for this recording is the Author's Preferred Text, as revised, restored, and corrected for a new, museum-quality edition of Little, Big edited by Ron Drummond.]

Edgewood--which is not found on any map--is many houses, all put inside each other or across each other. It's filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment; the further in you go, the bigger it gets.

Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, travels from the City on foot to Edgewood, her family home. There he finds himself on the magical border of an otherworld.

Crowley's work has a special alchemy--mixing the world we know with an imagined world that seems more true and real. Winner of the World Fantasy Award, Little, Big is elegant, sensual, funny, and unforgettable. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss, of impossible things and unshakable destinies, and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder. [via]

More editions of Little, Big:

ISBN 9780521402316 (0-521-40231-X, 052140231X)

via

Love of the Last Tycoon

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

ISBN 052140231X (0-521-40231-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Love of the Last Tycoon'

Book summary:

Cecilia Brady, the daughter of a great motion-picture producer, reminisces about events that began five years earlier when she was an undergraduate at Bennington College, starting with a flight home to Hollywood on a plane whose other passengers included Wylie White, a script writer down on his luck, Manny Schwartz, once an influential producer, and Monroe Stahr, another producer and partner of Cecilia's father, Pat Brady. Cecilia is attracted to Stahr, and he turns to her at the very time that he has a falling out with her father. Each of the partners conceives the idea of murdering the other. On the way to New York to establish an alibi, Stahr repents and decides to revoke his orders that will result in Brady's death, but his plane crashes before he can carry out his new plan and Cecilia loses both her father and the man she loves. Even in its incomplete form, The Love of The Last Tycoon: A Western has achieved a reputation as the best Hollywood novel. When F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940 he had written seventeen of thirty projected episodes. In 1941 the "unfinished novel" was published in a text for general readers by Edmund Wilson under the title The Last Tycoon. For more than fifty years this edition has been the only one available. This critical edition of The Love of the Last Tycoon utilizes Fitzgerald's manuscript drafts, revised typescripts, and working notes to establish the first authoritative text of the work. This volume includes a detailed history of the gestation, composition, and publication of the novel; full textual apparatus with editorial notes; facsimiles of the drafts; and explanatory notes on topical allusions and historical references for contemporary readers. The reconstruction of Fitzgerald's plan for the thirteen unwritten episodes is particularly useful. F. Scott Fitzgerald's incomplete masterpiece is restored to its 1940 state, and thus made fully accessible for the first time. [via]

More editions of Love of the Last Tycoon:

Love of the Last Tycoon: ISBN 052140231X (0-521-40231-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

ISBN 9780486251219 (0-486-25121-7, 0486251217)

via

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

by G. K. Chesterton

ISBN 0486251217 (0-486-25121-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare'

Book summary:

In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."

But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:

He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.

Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]

More editions of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare:

ISBN 9780452280205 (0-452-28020-6, 0452280206)

via

Marya : A Life

by Joyce Carol Oates

ISBN 0452280206 (0-452-28020-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Marya : A Life'

Book summary:

Successful author and famous intellectual Marya Knauer did not always occupy such a secure and comfortable position in life. Her memories of her childhood in Innisfail, New York are by turns romantic and traumatic. The early violent death of her father and abandonment by her mother have left her with a permanent sense of dislocation and loss. After decades apart, Marya becomes determined to find the mother who gave her away. In searching for her past, Marya changes her present life more than she could ever have imagined. Vividly evoking the natural beauty of rural upstate New York, and the complex emotions of a woman artist, Marya: A Life is one of Joyce Carol Oates's most deeply personal and fully-realized novels. [via]

More editions of Marya : A Life:

Marya : A Life: ISBN 0452280206 (0-452-28020-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

ISBN 9780553281743 (0-553-28174-7, 0553281747)

via

Mona Lisa Overdrive

by William Gibson

ISBN 0553281747 (0-553-28174-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Mona Lisa Overdrive'

Book summary:

Into the cyber-hip world of William Gibson comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled...or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes.

An over-the-top thrill ride sequel to Neuromancer and Count Zero. [via]

More editions of Mona Lisa Overdrive:

ISBN 9780451527363 (0-451-52736-4, 0451527364)

via

The Odyssey

by Homer, W. H. D. Rouse

ISBN 0451527364 (0-451-52736-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'

Book summary:

Excellent prose translation of the ancient epic poem recounts the adventures of Odysseus on his homeward voyage from the Trojan War. The clever hero circumvents the wrath of Poseidon to overcome an incredible array of obstacles, including a fantastic cast of adversaries Cyclops, the one-eyed giant; the enchantress Circe; plus cannibals, sirens, and many other monstrous creatures. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

[via]

More editions of The Odyssey:

ISBN 9780520070219 (0-520-07021-6, 0520070216)

via

The Odyssey of Homer

by Allen Mandelbaum

ISBN 0520070216 (0-520-07021-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey of Homer'

Book summary:

The most popular epic of Western culture springs to life in Allen Mandelbaum's magnificent translation.

Homer's masterpiece tells the story of Odysseus, the ideal Greek hero, as he travels home to Ithaca after the Trojan Wara journey of ten years and countless thrilling adventures. Rich in Greek folklore and myth, featuring gods and goddesses, monsters and sorceresses, The Odyssey has enchanted listeners around the world for thousands of years.

Mandelbaum's robust, romantic, lyrical translation has an openness and immediacy unsurpassed by any other. Read aloud, it is a wonderful way to experience this enduring classic. [via]

More editions of The Odyssey of Homer:

The Odyssey of Homer: ISBN 0520070216 (0-520-07021-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr

ISBN 9780553213997 (0-553-21399-7, 0553213997)

via

The Odyssey of Homer

by Homer, Allen Mandelbaum

ISBN 0553213997 (0-553-21399-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey of Homer'

Book summary:

Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult challenge at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his kingdom and his loyal wife, Penelope. Favorite of the gods, Odysseus embodies the energy, intellect, and resourcefulness that were of highest value to the ancients and that remain ideals in out time.In this new verse translation, Allen Mandelbaum--celebrated poet and translator of Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy --realizes the power and beauty of the original Greek verse and demonstrates why the epic tale of The Odyssey has captured the human imagination for nearly three thousand years. [via]

More editions of The Odyssey of Homer:

The Odyssey of Homer: ISBN 0553213997 (0-553-21399-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

ISBN 9780606310925 (0-606-31092-4, 0606310924)

via

Seize The Day

by Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick

ISBN 0606310924 (0-606-31092-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Seize The Day'

Book summary:

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.]

Can one man come to terms with his past in one of the greatest short novels ever written?

Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children; at odds with his vain, successful father; failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as ''the type that loses the girl''); and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious, philosophizing con man grants him a glorious, illuminating moment of truth and understanding and offers him one last hope. [via]

More editions of Seize The Day:

Seize The Day: ISBN 0606310924 (0-606-31092-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media

Seize the Day, With Three Short Stories and a One-Act Play.

by Saul Bellow

ISBN 0670000914 (0-670-00091-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Seize the Day, With Three Short Stories and a One-Act Play.'

More editions of Seize the Day, With Three Short Stories and a One-Act Play.:

Seize the Day, With Three Short Stories and a One-Act Play.: ISBN 0670000914 (0-670-00091-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr

ISBN 9780613013284 (0-613-01328-X, 061301328X)

via

Shogun

by James Clavell

ISBN 061301328X (0-613-01328-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Shogun'

Book summary:

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A narrative of conflicting cultures, loyalties, motivations, and traditions in early 17th-century Japan, involving the power-hungry Lord Toranaga, the Lady Mariko, and the ambitious Englishman, Blackthorne. [via]

More editions of Shogun:

Shogun: ISBN 061301328X (0-613-01328-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

ISBN 9780451169532 (0-451-16953-0, 0451169530)

via

The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition

by Stephen King

ISBN 0451169530 (0-451-16953-0)
Softcover, Signet

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition'

Book summary:

In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.

The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.

"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."

There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster [via]

More editions of The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition:

ISBN 9780553348972 (0-553-34897-3, 0553348973)

via

Still Life With Woodpecker

by Tom Robbins

ISBN 0553348973 (0-553-34897-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Still Life With Woodpecker'

Book summary:

Still Life with Woodpecker is sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads. [via]

More editions of Still Life With Woodpecker:

ISBN 9780553377804 (0-553-37780-9, 0553377809)

via

Surfacing

by Margaret Atwood

ISBN 0553377809 (0-553-37780-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Surfacing'

Book summary:

First published in 1972, Surfacing was Margaret Atwood's second novel, following the critically acclaimed The Edible Woman. Atwood had already made her mark as a one of the most exciting new voices in Canadian poetry, winning the Governor General's Award in 1966 for The Circle Game, while her groundbreaking book of criticism, Survival, had started the process of redefining the meaning of Canadian literature.

In Surfacing, poetry and prose brilliantly come together in a heart-wrenching novel that focuses on a woman's desperate attempt to put the ghosts of her past to rest. With three friends, she's returned to the remote cabin in Northern Quebec where she spent her childhood. She's overwhelmed, almost to the point of emotional paralysis, by memories of her father and his death by drowning, her failed marriage and painful divorce, and an abortion that haunts her waking dreams. While she appears to be ambivalent about the landscape, it is the landscape that in fact will provide her with the means of healing herself and her broken spirit. Like Atwood's poetry of this period, Surfacing is a deeply psychological novel. Atwood uses the recurring image of surfacing from beneath the waves of an icy northern lake as a symbol of this woman's struggle to regain control of her life, to refuse to be a victim of her past. Surfacing is a poignant novel filled with the power of the Canadian wilderness to cleanse the soul, an image of the wilderness that has remained a preoccupation for Atwood throughout her writing career. --Jeffrey Canton [via]

More editions of Surfacing:

That Hideous Strength

by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0613071832 (0-613-07183-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'That Hideous Strength'

More editions of That Hideous Strength:

That Hideous Strength: ISBN 0613071832 (0-613-07183-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Timequake

by Kurt Vonnegut

ISBN 0613281039 (0-613-28103-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Timequake'

More editions of Timequake:

Timequake: ISBN 0613281039 (0-613-28103-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

The Tortilla Curtain

by T. C. Boyle

ISBN 0670856045 (0-670-85604-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tortilla Curtain'

More editions of The Tortilla Curtain:

The Tortilla Curtain: ISBN 0670856045 (0-670-85604-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

ISBN 9780451526069 (0-451-52606-6, 0451526066)

via

Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

ISBN 0451526066 (0-451-52606-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Turn of the Screw'

Book summary:

For lucidity and compactness of style, James's short novels, or novelles, are shining examples of his genius. Few other writings of the century have so captured the American imagination. When "Daisy Miller," the tale of the girl from Schenectady, first appeared in 1878, it was an extraordinary success. James had discovered nothing less than "the American girl"--free spirited, flirtatious, an innocent abroad determined to defy European convention even if it meant scandal . . . or tragedy. But the subtle danger lurking beneath the surface in "Daisy Miller" evolves into a classic tale of terror and obsession in "The Turn Of The Screw." "The imagination, " Henry James said to Bernard Shaw, "has a life if its own." In this blood-curdling story, that imagination weaves the lives of two children, a governess in love with her employer, and a sprawling country house into a flawless story, still unsurpassed as the prototype of modern horror fiction.

" "The Turn Of The Screw" seems to have proved more fascinating to the general reading public than anything else of James's except "Daisy Miller.""--Edmund Wilson [via]

More editions of Turn of the Screw:

The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction

by Henry James

ISBN 0553210599 (0-553-21059-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction'

More editions of The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction:

The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction: ISBN 0553210599 (0-553-21059-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

ISBN 0452255953 (0-452-25595-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Volcano'

More editions of Under the Volcano:

Under the Volcano: ISBN 0452255953 (0-452-25595-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

We Were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates

ISBN 0452282829 (0-452-28282-9)
Softcover, Plume

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'We Were the Mulvaneys'

Book summary:

Oprah Book Club® Selection, January 2001: A happy family, the Mulvaneys. After decades of marriage, Mom and Dad are still in love--and the proud parents of a brood of youngsters that includes a star athlete, a class valedictorian, and a popular cheerleader. Home is an idyllic place called High Point Farm. And the bonds of attachment within this all-American clan do seem both deep and unconditional: "Mom paused again, drawing in her breath sharply, her eyes suffused with a special lustre, gazing upon her family one by one, with what crazy unbounded love she gazed upon us, and at such a moment my heart would contract as if this woman who was my mother had slipped her fingers inside my rib cage to contain it, as you might hold a wild, thrashing bird to comfort it."

But as we all know, Eden can't last forever. And in the hands of Joyce Carol Oates, who's chronicled just about every variety of familial dysfunction, you know the fall from grace is going to be a doozy. By the time all is said and done, a rape occurs, a daughter is exiled, much alcohol is consumed, and the farm is lost. Even to recount these events in retrospect is a trial for the Mulvaney offspring, one of whom declares: "When I say this is a hard reckoning I mean it's been like squeezing thick drops of blood from my veins." In the hands of a lesser writer, this could be the stuff of a bad television movie. But this is Oates's 26th novel, and by now she knows her material and her craft to perfection. We Were the Mulvaneys is populated with such richly observed and complex characters that we can't help but care about them, even as we wait for disaster to strike them down. --Anita Urquhart [via]

More editions of We Were the Mulvaneys:

ISBN 9780670888788 (0-670-88878-8, 0670888788)

via

Whole Story Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, William Geldart

ISBN 0670888788 (0-670-88878-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Whole Story Christmas Carol'

More editions of Whole Story Christmas Carol:

Whole Story Christmas Carol: ISBN 0670888788 (0-670-88878-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

		Search \| About \| Preferences \| Interact \| Help

150 million books. 1 search engine.	Search Author, Title or ISBN