books tagged “novels”

books tagged “novels”

›
› Find signed collectible books by ''

via
About a Boy
by Nick Hornby

ISBN 1573227331 (1-57322-733-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'About a Boy'
Book summary:
Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blithely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's increasingly left out in the cold. How can someone brilliantly equipped for meaningless relationships ensure that he'll continue to meet beautiful Julie Christie-like women and ensure that they'll throw him over before things get too profound? A brief encounter with a single mother sets Will off on his new career, that of "serial nice guy." As far as he's concerned--and remember, concern isn't his strong suit--he's the perfect catch for the young mother on the go. After an interlude of sexual bliss, she'll realise that her child isn't ready for a man in their life and Will can ride off into the Highgate sunset, where more damsels apparently await. The only catch is that the best way to meet these women is at single-parent get-togethers. In one of Nick Hornby's many hilarious (and embarrassing) scenes, Will falls into some serious misrepresentation at SPAT ("Single Parents-- Alone Together"), passing himself off as a bereft single dad: "There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word."
What interferes with Will's career arc, of course, is reality--in the shape of a 12-year-old boy who is in many ways his polar opposite. For Marcus, cool isn't even a possibility, let alone an issue. For starters, he's a victim at his new school. Things at home are pretty awful, too, since his musical-therapist mother seems increasingly in need of therapy herself. All Marcus can do is cobble together information with a mixture of incomprehension, innocence, self-blame and unfettered clear sight. As fans of Fever Pitch and High Fidelity already know, Hornby's insight into laddishness magically combines the serious and the hilarious. About a Boy continues his singular examination of masculine wish-fulfilment and fear. This time, though, the author lets women and children onto the playing field, forcing his feckless hero to leap over an entirely new--and entirely welcome--set of emotional hurdles. [via]
More editions of About a Boy:
via
The Adventures of Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 158279037X (1-58279-037-X)
Hardcover, Trident Reference Pub

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Oliver Twist'
Book summary:
The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens' tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, in "Oliver Twist" Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery. [via]
More editions of The Adventures of Oliver Twist:
- The Adventures of Oliver Twist: ISBN 158279037X (1-58279-037-X)
  Hardcover, Trident Reference Pub
via
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ISBN 140003471X (1-4000-3471-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold'
Book summary:
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister.
Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderersis put on trial. [via]
More editions of Chronicle of a Death Foretold:
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold: ISBN 140003471X (1-4000-3471-X)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
via
Cliffsnotes Oliver Twist
by Harry Kaste

ISBN 0822009587 (0-8220-0958-7)
Softcover, Cliff Notes

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffsnotes Oliver Twist'
Book summary:
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in the series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
In CliffsNotes on Oliver Twist, youll meet a dear, grateful, gentle orphan who, instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much. The CliffsNotes commentaries, summaries, and character analysis will show you why this sweet, sad, and moving story is considered to be one of Dickens' greatest works (and one of his more politically-charged ones). Youll also find
Life and background of the author, Charles Dickens
A short introduction to the novel
A list of characters
Essays about symbolism, style, setting, and more
A review section that tests your knowledge
Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
[via]
More editions of Cliffsnotes Oliver Twist:
- Cliffsnotes Oliver Twist: ISBN 0822009587 (0-8220-0958-7)
  Softcover, Cliff Notes
via
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess

ISBN 1568495110 (1-56849-511-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'A Clockwork Orange'
Book summary:
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A satire of the present inhumanity of man to man through a futuristic culture where teenagers rule with violence. This edition includes the final chapter deleted from the first American edition. [via]
More editions of A Clockwork Orange:
- A Clockwork Orange: ISBN 0808581945 (0-8085-8194-5)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound
- A Clockwork Orange: ISBN 1568495110 (1-56849-511-0)
  Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
via
Cronica De Una Muerte Anunciada / Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ISBN 1400034957 (1-4000-3495-7)
Softcover, Random House Espanol

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Cronica De Una Muerte Anunciada / Chronicle Of A Death Foretold'
Book summary:
Un hombre regresa al pueblo donde ocurrió un asesinato desconcertante 27 años atrás, con la determinación de descubrir la verdad. Todos parecen estar de acuerdo en que Bayardo San Román, sólo unas horas después de su matrimonio con la bella Angela Vicario, la devuelve por deshonrada a la casa paterna. La atribulada familia fuerza a la novia a revelar el nombre de su primer amante; y los hermanos gemelos de ella anuncian su intención de matar a Santiago Nasar por haber deshonrado a su hermana.

Sin embargo, si todos sabían que se iba a cometer un asesinato, ¿por qué nadie trató de impedirlo? Cuanto más se sabe de este asunto, menos se comprende, y cuando la historia al fin se precipita a su inesperada conclusión, una sociedad entera no sólo un par de asesinos está siendo enjuiciada. [via]
More editions of Cronica De Una Muerte Anunciada / Chronicle Of A Death Foretold:
- Cronica De Una Muerte Anunciada / Chronicle Of A Death Foretold: ISBN 1400034957 (1-4000-3495-7)
  Softcover, Random House Espanol
via
The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon

ISBN 1568493207 (1-56849-320-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crying of Lot 49'
Book summary:
The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.
[via]
More editions of The Crying of Lot 49:
- The Crying of Lot 49: ISBN 1568493207 (1-56849-320-7)
  Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
via
Dracula
by Bram Stoker, Glennis Byron

ISBN 1551111365 (1-55111-136-5)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'
Book summary:
Faithfully reprinted from the 1897 classic, the chilling tale of Count Dracula and his insatiable thirst for blood follows a macabre trail from the lunatic asylum to the graveyard of the Un-Dead to the Count's eerie castle in Transylvania. [via]
More editions of Dracula:
Dracula
by Steven P. Jones

ISBN 0944735479 (0-944735-47-9)
Softcover, Heroes World

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'
More editions of Dracula:
- Dracula: ISBN 0944735479 (0-944735-47-9)
  Softcover, Heroes World
via
Dracula
by Tim Wynne-Jones, Bram Stoker, Laszlo Gal

ISBN 1550139002 (1-55013-900-2)
Hardcover, Key Porter Kids

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'
Book summary:
After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. [via]
More editions of Dracula:
- Dracula: ISBN 1550139002 (1-55013-900-2)
  Hardcover, Key Porter Kids
via
Early Novels and Stories
by Willa Cather, Sharon O Brien

ISBN 0940450399 (0-940450-39-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Novels and Stories'
Book summary:
"Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet." Willa Cather's remark describes her own reasons for re-creating in her powerful fiction the Nebraska frontier of her youth. The vast Great Plains, where the earth has only recently come beneath the plow and the sky is huge and open, mirrors the uniquely American ethic of her characters: their heroic aspirations and stoicism, their passion for creativity, their rebelliousness of spirit. This volume, the first in The Library of America's authoritative three-volume collected Cather, includes the story collection "The Troll Garden," her first work of fiction, along with the beloved novels "O Pioneers!," "The Song of the Lark," "My Antonia," and "One of Ours," which earned a Pulitzer Prize. [via]
More editions of Early Novels and Stories:
- Early Novels and Stories: ISBN 0940450399 (0-940450-39-9)
  Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
via
Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 1404362983 (1-4043-6298-3)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Far from the Madding Crowd'
More editions of Far from the Madding Crowd:
- Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 1404362983 (1-4043-6298-3)
  Softcover, Indypublish.Com
via
Far from the Madding Crowd/the Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 086136600X (0-86136-600-X)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Far from the Madding Crowd/the Mayor of Casterbridge'
More editions of Far from the Madding Crowd/the Mayor of Casterbridge:
- Far from the Madding Crowd/the Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 086136600X (0-86136-600-X)
  Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 0816159688 (0-8161-5968-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
More editions of For Whom the Bell Tolls:
- For Whom the Bell Tolls: ISBN 090571203X (0-905712-03-X)
  Hardcover, Heinemann : Secker and Warburg : Octopus Books
- For Whom the Bell Tolls: ISBN 0816159688 (0-8161-5968-8)
  Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
via
The Horse and His Boy
by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0881037729 (0-88103-772-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Horse and His Boy'
Book summary:
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians. [via]
More editions of The Horse and His Boy:
- The Horse and His Boy: ISBN 0816140936 (0-8161-4093-6)
  Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
- The Horse and His Boy: ISBN 0881037729 (0-88103-772-9)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound
via
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton

ISBN 1404308199 (1-4043-0819-9)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'
Book summary:
An impulse of curiosity made him turn out of his direct line to the door, and stroll past her. He knew that if she did not wish to be seen she would contrive to elude him; and it amused him to think of putting her skill to the test. [via]
More editions of The House of Mirth:
- The House of Mirth: ISBN 1419124684 (1-4191-2468-4)
  Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
- The House of Mirth: ISBN 1404308199 (1-4043-0819-9)
  Softcover, IndyPublish.com
via
The House of Mirth
by Janet Beer, Elizabeth Nolan

ISBN 1551115670 (1-55111-567-0)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'
Book summary:
"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
More editions of The House of Mirth:
- The House of Mirth: ISBN 1551115670 (1-55111-567-0)
  Softcover, Broadview Pr
via
Howards End
by E. M. Forster

ISBN 1406728713 (1-4067-2871-3)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'
Book summary:
HOWARDS ENDBY E. M. FORSTERCHAPTER I"ONE may as well begin with Helens letters to her sister,Howards End,Dearest Meg,It isnt going to be what we expected. It is old and little, andaltogether delightful red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is,and the dear knows what will happen when Paul younger sonarrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroomor drawingroom. Hall itself is practically a room. You openanother door in it, and there are the stairs going up in a sort oftunnel to the fast floor. Three bedrooms in a row there, and threeattics in a row above. That isnt all the house really, but it9s allthat one notices nine windows as you look up from the frontgarden.Then there's a very big wychelm to the left as you look upleaning a little over the house, and standing on the boundarybetween the garden and meadow. I quite love that tree already.Also ordinary elms, oaks no nastier than ordinary oaks peartrees, appletrees, and a vine. No silver birches, though. However,I must get on to my host and hostess. I only wanted to show that itisnt the least what we expected. Why did we settle that their housewould be all gables and wiggles, and their garden all gambogecoloured paths? I believe simply because we associate them withexpensive hotels Mrs Wilcox trailing in beautiful dresses downlong corridors, Mr Wilcox bullying porters, etc We fnales arethat unjust.I shall be back Saturday I will let you know train later.They are as angry as I am that you did not come too really Tibbyis too tiresome, he starts a new mortal disease tvery month. Howcould he have got hay fever in London? and even if he could, Useems hard that you should give up a visit to hear a schoolboysneeze. Tell him that Charles Wilcox the son who is here has hayfever too, but ke9s brave and gets quite cross when we inquire afterit. Men like the Wilcoxes would do Tibby a power of good. Butyou wont agree andI'd better change the subject."............. [via]
More editions of Howards End:
Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 155546016X (1-55546-016-X)
Hardcover, Facts on File

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim'
More editions of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim:
- Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim: ISBN 155546016X (1-55546-016-X)
  Hardcover, Facts on File
via
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini

ISBN 1573222453 (1-57322-245-3)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kite Runner'
Book summary:
In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his first try.
The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and the sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness that bring him back to his war-torn native land after it comes under Taliban rule. ("...I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.")
Some of the plot's turns and twists may be somewhat implausible, but Hosseini has created characters that seem so real that one almost forgets that The Kite Runner is a novel and not a memoir. At a time when Afghanistan has been thrust into the forefront of America's collective consciousness ("people sipping lattes at Starbucks were talking about the battle for Kunduz"), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating land. Perhaps the only true flaw in this extraordinary novel is that it ends all too soon. --Gisele Toueg [via]
More editions of The Kite Runner:
- The Kite Runner: ISBN 1573222453 (1-57322-245-3)
  Hardcover, Riverhead Books
via
The Kite Runner: Bookclub-in-a-box Presents the Discussion Companion for Khaled Hosseini's Novel
by Khaled Hosseini

ISBN 1417640391 (1-4176-4039-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kite Runner: Bookclub-in-a-box Presents the Discussion Companion for Khaled Hosseini's Novel'
Book summary:
The "kite runner" of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.
Narrated by Amir as a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.
The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park. --Lisa Alward [via]
More editions of The Kite Runner: Bookclub-in-a-box Presents the Discussion Companion for Khaled Hosseini's Novel:
- The Kite Runner: Bookclub-in-a-box Presents the Discussion Companion for Khaled Hosseini's Novel: ISBN 1417640391 (1-4176-4039-1)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound
via
Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy, John Sutherland

ISBN 0808519751 (0-8085-1975-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge'
Book summary:
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Tragic consequences result from Michael Herchard's impetuous sale of his wife and daughter. [via]
More editions of Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge:
- Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 0808519751 (0-8085-1975-1)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound
via
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
by Laurence Sterne

ISBN 1404314709 (1-4043-1470-9)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy'
Book summary:
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
More editions of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy:
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy: ISBN 1404314709 (1-4043-1470-9)
  Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
via
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Joan New

ISBN 0813005809 (0-8130-0580-9)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Florida

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'
More editions of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:
via
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad

ISBN 1419131214 (1-4191-3121-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim'
Book summary:
One of Joseph Conrad's greatest novels, Lord Jim brilliantly combines adventure and analysis. Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemnation by a Court of Inquiry. In the wake of his disgrace he travels to the exotic region of Patusan, and as the agent at this remote trading post comes to be revered as 'Tuan Jim.' Here he finds a measure of serenity and respect within himself. However, when a gang of thieves arrives on the island, the memory of his earlier disgrace comes again to the fore, and his relationship with the people of the island is jeopardized. This new Broadview edition is based on the first British edition of 1900, which provides the historical basis for the accompanying critical and contextual discussions. The appendices include a wide variety of Conrad's source material, documents concerning the scandal of the Jeddah, along with other materials such as a substantial selection of early critical comments. [via]
More editions of Lord Jim:
The Loved One
by Evelyn Waugh

ISBN 1568493584 (1-56849-358-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books, Incorporated

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Loved One'
More editions of The Loved One:
- The Loved One: ISBN 1568493584 (1-56849-358-4)
  Hardcover, Buccaneer Books, Incorporated
The Magician's Nephew
by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0871295415 (0-87129-541-5)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magician's Nephew'
Book summary:
This large, deluxe hardcover edition of the first title in the classic Chronicles of Narnia series, The Magician's Nephew, is a gorgeous introduction to the magical land of Narnia. The many readers who discovered C.S. Lewis's Chronicles through The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe will be delighted to find that the next volume in the series is actually the first in the sequence--and a step back in time. In this unforgettable story, British schoolchildren Polly and Digory inadvertently tumble into the Wood Between the Worlds, where they meet the evil Queen Jadis and, ultimately, the great, mysterious King Aslan. We witness the birth of Narnia and discover the legendary source of all the adventures that are to follow in the seven books that comprise the series.
Rich, heavy pages, a gold-embossed cover, and Pauline Baynes's original illustrations (hand-colored by the illustrator herself 40 years later) make this special edition of a classic a bona fide treasure. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
More editions of The Magician's Nephew:
- The Magician's Nephew: ISBN 0881037737 (0-88103-773-7)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound
- The Magician's Nephew: ISBN 0871295415 (0-87129-541-5)
  Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co
via
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy, Norman Page

ISBN 1551111225 (1-55111-122-5)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'
Book summary:
This 1886 novel may be Hardy's most intense and gripping narrative. We first see the central character, Michael Henchard, as a drunken and unemployed hay-trusser who sells his wife Susan and his daughter Elizabeth-Jane at a fair. When he is eventually reunited with the two, he has become the contented and prosperous mayor of a thriving market town. But the downward spiral begins. Henchard's fall is hastened by a series of coincidences and quarrels, and by his own jealousy and pride. Though the perspective on events that Hardy gives us is often that of other characters (Elizabeth-Jane in particular), Henchard remains the central focus; in the end he is a tragic figure, bankrupt, emotionally broken and a outcast from society. Prepared by one of the world's leading Hardy scholars, this edition includes a critical introduction and a range of background materials from the period. Historical documents (concerning such topics as the corn laws and the practice of wife-selling) and contemporary reviews help set this remarkable novel in the context out of which it emerged. [via]
More editions of The Mayor of Casterbridge:
- The Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 1551111225 (1-55111-122-5)
  Softcover, Broadview Pr
via
My Antonia
by Willa Cather

ISBN 1419135937 (1-4191-3593-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'
Book summary:
It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
More editions of My Antonia:
via
My Antonia
by Joseph R. Urgo

ISBN 1551114917 (1-55111-491-7)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'
Book summary:
Willa Cather's My ÃÂntonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows ÃÂntonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects of American social ideals and history, particularly the centrality of migration to American culture.
The Broadview edition includes a rich selection of primary source materials: the revised introduction for the 1926 edition; Cather's "Mesa Verde Wonderland is Easy to Reach...," "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," "Peter", and her comments on the novel; contemporary reviews and photographs. [via]
More editions of My Antonia:
- My Antonia: ISBN 1551114917 (1-55111-491-7)
  Softcover, Broadview Pr
via
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 0808519328 (0-8085-1932-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Man and the Sea'
Book summary:
Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work: "The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords." Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame:
Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: "The old man was dreaming about the lions." Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career. --James Marcus [via]
More editions of The Old Man and the Sea:
- The Old Man and the Sea: ISBN 0808519328 (0-8085-1932-8)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound
via
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 1551117584 (1-55111-758-4)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'
Book summary:
The orphaned Oliver Twist falls in with thieves and pickpockets in Charles Dickens' novel of adventure, escapades, and some of the most beloved characters in literature. Full color illustrations. [via]
More editions of Oliver Twist:
via
Oliver Twist
by Dalmatian Press Staff

ISBN 1577595548 (1-57759-554-8)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'
More editions of Oliver Twist:
- Oliver Twist: ISBN 1577595548 (1-57759-554-8)
  Hardcover, Dalmatian Press
via
Oliver Twist / Arabic
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0866851380 (0-86685-138-0)
Softcover, Intl Book Centre

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist / Arabic'
More editions of Oliver Twist / Arabic:
- Oliver Twist / Arabic: ISBN 0866851380 (0-86685-138-0)
  Softcover, Intl Book Centre
via
Oliver Twist: Retold From The Charles Dickens Original
by Charles Dickens, Kathleen Olmstead, Dan Andreasen

ISBN 1402726651 (1-4027-2665-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist: Retold From The Charles Dickens Original'
Book summary:
Dickens timeless novel transports young readers to a colorful Victorian England filled with mistreated orphans, grim workhouses, and gangs of thieving children. The hero finds himself in dire circumstances after he dares to beg for more food in the orphanage. Determined to make his way in the world, he escapes to London, where he becomes involved with criminalsand finally finds a real home.
[via]
More editions of Oliver Twist: Retold From The Charles Dickens Original:
- Oliver Twist: Retold From The Charles Dickens Original: ISBN 1402726651 (1-4027-2665-1)
  Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
via
The Once and Future King
by Terence Hanbury White

ISBN 0808576852 (0-8085-7685-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Once and Future King'
Book summary:
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Describes King Arthur's life from childhood to coronation, the creation of the Round Table, and the search for the Holy Grail. [via]
More editions of The Once and Future King:
- The Once and Future King: ISBN 0808576852 (0-8085-7685-2)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 1421926261 (1-4219-2626-1)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pickwick Papers'
Book summary:
Charles Dickenss satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 183637. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief. Laugh-out-loud funny and endlessly entertaining, the book also reveals Dickenss burgeoning interest in the parliamentary system, lawyers, the Poor Laws, and the ills of debtors prisons. As G. K. Chesterton noted, Before [Dickens] wrote a single real story, he had a kind of vision . . . a map full of fantastic towns, thundering coaches, clamorous market-places, uproarious inns, strange and swaggering figures. That vision was Pickwick. [via]
More editions of The Pickwick Papers:
via
Pnin
by Vladimir Nabokov, David Lodge

ISBN 1400041988 (1-4000-4198-8)
Hardcover, Everymans Library

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Pnin'
Book summary:
Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding-house; and, the trials of taking the wrong train. [via]
More editions of Pnin:
- Pnin: ISBN 0837604656 (0-8376-0465-6)
  Hardcover, Bentley Pub
- Pnin: ISBN 1400041988 (1-4000-4198-8)
  Hardcover, Everymans Library
via
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James

ISBN 1404325794 (1-4043-2579-4)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of a Lady'
Book summary:
"The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama. [via]
More editions of The Portrait of a Lady:
via
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 1417917334 (1-4179-1733-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club'
Book summary:
This new high-quality, hardcover series of timeless classics features the finest works of world literature. This standard edition has an attractive jacket design. Each title chosen for it's literary quality and for the untold pleasure it will give readers of all ages. [via]
More editions of Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club:
- Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: ISBN 1582790663 (1-58279-066-3)
  Hardcover, Trident Press International
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: ISBN 1417917334 (1-4179-1733-4)
  Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
via
Prince Caspian: Lucy's Journey
by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0881037710 (0-88103-771-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Prince Caspian: Lucy's Journey'
Book summary:
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Prince Caspian must battle the evil Telemarines to protect his right to Narnia's throne and gathers together an army of Talking Beasts to help him in his quest. [via]
More editions of Prince Caspian: Lucy's Journey:
- Prince Caspian: Lucy's Journey: ISBN 0881037710 (0-88103-771-0)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound
via
Red and the Black
by Stendhal, Diane Johnson, Burton Raffel

ISBN 0812972074 (0-8129-7207-4)
Softcover, Modern Library

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Red and the Black'
Book summary:
The classic, elegant translation of Stendhal's masterful novel of ambition, desire, and politics in post-Napoleonic France.
A brilliant portrait of one of the most ruthlessly charming heroes in literature, The Red and the Black chronicles the rise and fall of Julian Sorel. Born into the peasantry, Sorel connives his way into the highest Parisian aristocratic circles. But his powers of seduction lead to his downfall when he commits a crime of passion. [via]
More editions of Red and the Black:
- Red and the Black: ISBN 0871401487 (0-87140-148-7)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Red and the Black: ISBN 0812972074 (0-8129-7207-4)
  Softcover, Modern Library
via
Tender Is The Night, 1934
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN 0808514601 (0-8085-1460-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Tender Is The Night, 1934'
Book summary:
In the wake of World War I, a community of expatriate American writers established itself in the salons and cafes of 1920s Paris. They congregated at Gertrude Stein's select soirees, drank too much, married none too wisely, and wrote volumes--about the war, about the Jazz Age, and often about each other. F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, were part of this gang of literary Young Turks, and it was while living in France that Fitzgerald began writing Tender Is the Night. Begun in 1925, the novel was not actually published until 1934. By then, Fitzgerald was back in the States and his marriage was on the rocks, destroyed by Zelda's mental illness and alcoholism. Despite the modernist mandate to keep authors and their creations strictly segregated, it's difficult not to look for parallels between Fitzgerald's private life and the lives of his characters, psychiatrist Dick Diver and his former patient turned wife, Nicole. Certainly the hospital in Switzerland where Zelda was committed in 1929 provided the inspiration for the clinic where Diver meets, treats, and then marries the wealthy Nicole Warren. And Fitzgerald drew both the European locale and many of the characters from places and people he knew from abroad.
In the novel, Dick is eventually ruined--professionally, emotionally, and spiritually--by his union with Nicole. Fitzgerald's fate was not quite so novelistically neat: after Zelda was diagnosed as a schizophrenic and committed, Fitzgerald went to work as a Hollywood screenwriter in 1937 to pay her hospital bills. He died three years later--not melodramatically, like poor Jay Gatsby in his swimming pool, but prosaically, while eating a chocolate bar and reading a newspaper. Of all his novels, Tender Is the Night is arguably the one closest to his heart. As he himself wrote, "Gatsby was a tour de force, but this is a confession of faith." [via]
More editions of Tender Is The Night, 1934:
- Tender Is The Night, 1934: ISBN 0808514601 (0-8085-1460-1)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound
via
The Trial ; Metamorphosis ; In the Penal Colony: Three Theatre Adaptations from Franz Kafka
by Franz Kafka, Steven Berkoff

ISBN 090639984X (0-906399-84-X)
Hardcover, Amber Lane Press

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trial ; Metamorphosis ; In the Penal Colony: Three Theatre Adaptations from Franz Kafka'
More editions of The Trial ; Metamorphosis ; In the Penal Colony: Three Theatre Adaptations from Franz Kafka:
- The Trial ; Metamorphosis ; In the Penal Colony: Three Theatre Adaptations from Franz Kafka: ISBN 090639984X (0-906399-84-X)
  Hardcover, Amber Lane Press

Results page: PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101-200 201-300 301-349 NEXT