| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “novels”
books tagged “novels”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
English
-
Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazerby Sena Jeter Naslund, Christopher WormellISBN 0060838744 (0-06-083874-4)
Softcover, Perennial
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazer'Book summary:It has been said that one can see farther only by standing on the shoulders of giants. Ahab's Wife, Sena Naslund's epic work of historical fiction, honors that aphorism, using Herman Melville's Moby-Dick as looking glass into early-19th-century America. Through the eye of an outsider, a woman, she suggests that New England life was broader and richer than Melville's manly world of men, ships, and whales. This ambitious novel pays tribute to Melville, creating heroines from his lesser characters, and to America's literary heritage in general.
Una, named for the heroine of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, flees to the New England coast from Kentucky to escape her father's puritanism and to pursue a more exalted life. She gets whaling out of her system early: going to sea at 16 disguised as a boy, Una has her ship sunk by her own monstrous whale, and survives a harrowing shipwreck:
I was so horrified by the whale's deliberate charge that I could not move. Then my own name flew up from below like a spear: "Una!" Giles' voice broke my trance, and I scrambled down the rigging. No sooner did my foot touch the deck than there was such a lurch that I fell to my face. I heard and felt the boards break below the waterline, the copper sheathing nothing but decorative foil. The whole ship shuddered. A death throe.
The ship dies, but Una returns to land to pursue the life of the mind. The novel's opening line--"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"--also diminishes Melville's hero in the broader scheme of things. Naslund exposes the reader to the unsung, real-life heroes of Melville's world, including Margaret Fuller and her Boston salon, and Nantucket astronomer Maria Mitchell. There is a chance meeting with a veiled Nathaniel Hawthorne in the woods, and throughout the novel the story brims with references to the giants of literature: Shakespeare, Goethe, Coleridge, Keats, and Wordsworth. Although her novel runs long at nearly 700 pages, Naslund has created an imaginative, entertaining, and very impressive work. --Ted Leventhal [via]More editions of Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazer:
-
The Alexandria Quartetby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0140153179 (0-14-015317-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alexandria Quartet'Book summary:Lawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine (1957) Balthazar (1958) Mountolive (1958) Clea (1960). Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive use varied viewpoints to relate a series of events in Alexandria before World War II. In Clea, the story continues into the years during the war. One L.G. Darley is the primary observer of the events, which include events in the lives of those he loves and those he knows. In Justine, Darley attempts to recover from and put into perspective his recently ended affair with a woman. Balthazar reinterprets the romantic perspective he placed on the affair and its aftermath in Justine, in more philosophical and intellectual terms. Mountolive tells a story minus interpretation, and Clea reveals Darley's healing, and coming to love another woman. [via]
More editions of The Alexandria Quartet:
-
Angle of Reposeby Wallace StegnerISBN 014016930X (0-14-016930-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Angle of Repose'Book summary:Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discoverypersonal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.[via]More editions of Angle of Repose:
-
Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules VerneISBN 014036711X (0-14-036711-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:For a bet, Phileas Fogg sets out with his servant Passeportout to achieve an incredible journey - from London to Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco, New York and back to London again, all in just eighty days. There are many alarms and surprises along the way - and a last minute setback that makes all the difference between winning and losing. [via]
More editions of Around the World in Eighty Days:
Auto-Da-Feby Elias CanettiISBN 0140022872 (0-14-002287-2)
Hardcover, Penguin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Auto-Da-Fe'More editions of Auto-Da-Fe:
-
Autumn of the Patriarchby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0060882867 (0-06-088286-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autumn of the Patriarch'Book summary:"Majestic . . . Superb . . . a stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant. Garcia Marquez is as exorbitant as Melville and Dostoyevsky."New York Times Book Review [via]
-
The Bad Beginningby Lemony Snicket, Brett HelquistISBN 0061146307 (0-06-114630-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bad Beginning'Book summary:Make no mistake. The Bad Beginning begins badly for the three Baudelaire children, and then gets worse. Their misfortunes begin one gray day on Briny Beach when Mr. Poe tells them that their parents perished in a fire that destroyed their whole house. "It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed," laments the personable (occasionally pedantic) narrator, who tells the story as if his readers are gathered around an armchair on pillows. But of course what follows is dreadful. The children thought it was bad when the well-meaning Poes bought them grotesque-colored clothing that itched. But when they are ushered to the dilapidated doorstep of the miserable, thin, unshaven, shiny-eyed, money-grubbing Count Olaf, they know that they--and their family fortune--are in real trouble. Still, they could never have anticipated how much trouble. While it's true that the events that unfold in Lemony Snicket's novels are bleak, and things never turn out as you'd hope, these delightful, funny, linguistically playful books are reminiscent of Roald Dahl (remember James and the Giant Peach and his horrid spinster aunts), Charles Dickens (the orphaned Pip in Great Expectations without the mysterious benefactor), and Edward Gorey (The Gashlycrumb Tinies). There is no question that young readers will want to read the continuing unlucky adventures of the Baudelaire children in The Reptile Room and The Wide Window. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
The Bad Beginningby Daniel Handler, Brett HelquistISBN 0064407667 (0-06-440766-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bad Beginning'Book summary:Hardcover Publisher: Harper Collins (1999) Language: English Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1" Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds [via]
More editions of The Bad Beginning:
The Bad Beginning Privateby Lemony Snicket, Brett HelquistISBN 0060837462 (0-06-083746-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bad Beginning Private'More editions of The Bad Beginning Private:
-
Bostoniansby Henry JamesISBN 0140024506 (0-14-002450-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bostonians'Book summary:From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women." She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, a veteran of the Civil War who holds rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions? A struggle to possess her, body and soul, develops between Olive and Basil.The exploitation of Verena's unregenerate innocence reflects a society whose moral and cultural values are failing to survive the new dawn of liberalism and democracy. When it was first published in 1886, The Bostonians was not welcomed by Henry James's fellow countrymen, who failed to appreciate its delicacy and wit. But over a century later, this book is widely regarded as James's finest American fiction and perhaps his comic masterpiece.[via]More editions of Bostonians:
-
The Broom of the Systemby David Foster WallaceISBN 0140098682 (0-14-009868-2)
Softcover, Penguin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Broom of the System'Book summary:[via]Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenores great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.
More editions of The Broom of the System:
-
Cannery Rowby John SteinbeckISBN 0140177388 (0-14-017738-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cannery Row'Book summary:Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America?s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers?and to the many who revisit them again and again."
[via] -
A Canticle for Leibowitzby Walter M. Miller, Mary Doria RussellISBN 0060892994 (0-06-089299-4)
Softcover, Eos
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:
-
The Clownby Heinrich Böll, Leila VennewitzISBN 014018726X (0-14-018726-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clown'Book summary:Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he wont marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his lifethe loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies of his mother, who first fought to save Germany from the Jews, then worked for reconciliation
afterwards.
Heinrich Bölls gripping consideration of how to overcome guilt and live up to idealismhow to find something to believe ingives stirring evidence of why he was such an unwelcome presence in post-War German consciousness . . . and why he was such a necessary one. [via]More editions of The Clown:
-
Colour of Magicby Terry PratchettISBN 0060855924 (0-06-085592-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Colour of Magic'Book summary:The Colour of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the bizarre land of Discworld. His entertaining and witty series has grown to more than 20 books, and this is where it all starts--with the tourist Twoflower and his hapless wizard guide, Rincewind ("All wizards get like that ... it's the quicksilver fumes. Rots their brains. Mushrooms, too."). Pratchett spoofs fantasy clichés--and everything else he can think of--while marshalling a profusion of characters through a madcap adventure. The Colour of Magic is followed by The Light Fantastic. --Blaise Selby [via]
-
Coralineby Neil Gaiman, Dave McKeanISBN 0061139378 (0-06-113937-8)
Softcover, Perennial
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Coraline'Book summary:Coraline lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house--a house so huge that other people live in it, too... round, old former actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and their aging Highland terriers ("We trod the boards, luvvy") and the mustachioed old man under the roof ("'The reason you cannot see the mouse circus,' said the man upstairs, 'is that the mice are not yet ready and rehearsed.'") Coraline contents herself for weeks with exploring the vast garden and grounds. But with a little rain she becomes bored--so bored that she begins to count everything blue (153), the windows (21), and the doors (14). And it is the 14th door that--sometimes blocked with a wall of bricks--opens up for Coraline into an entirely alternate universe. Now, if you're thinking fondly of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you're on the wrong track. Neil Gaiman's Coraline is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest fears. And, like Roald Dahl's work, it is delicious.
What's on the other side of the door? A distorted-mirror world, containing presumably everything Coraline has ever dreamed of... people who pronounce her name correctly (not "Caroline"), delicious meals (not like her father's overblown "recipes"), an unusually pink and green bedroom (not like her dull one), and plenty of horrible (very un-boring) marvels, like a man made out of live rats. The creepiest part, however, is her mirrored parents, her "other mother" and her "other father"--people who look just like her own parents, but with big, shiny, black button eyes, paper-white skin... and a keen desire to keep her on their side of the door. To make creepy creepier, Coraline has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman cover illustrator Dave McKean. This delightful, funny, haunting, scary as heck, fairy-tale novel is about as fine as they come. Highly recommended. (Ages 11 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
Cousin Betteby Honoré de BalzacISBN 0140268219 (0-14-026821-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cousin Bette'More editions of Cousin Bette:
The Cunning Manby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140248307 (0-14-024830-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cunning Man'More editions of The Cunning Man:
-
Darkness at Noonby Arthur KoestlerISBN 0091146100 (0-09-114610-0)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkness at Noon'Book summary:This splendid novel is set in the tumultuous Soviet Union of the 1930s during the treason trials. Rubashov, the protagonist and a hero of the revolution, is arrested and jailed for things he has not done, though there is much about the current Soviet state that veered from his ideals as a revolutionary. His investigators, Ivanov and Gletkin, seek a public confession and interrogate him using a number of methods. Through the ordeal, Rubashov reaches an epiphany or two while his interrogators suffer the cruel fate of the Soviet machine. Darkness at Noon succeeds as political/historical novel, but even more so as a refreshing tale of the human spirit. [via]
More editions of Darkness at Noon:
-
A Dead Man in Deptfordby Anthony BurgessISBN 0091779774 (0-09-177977-4)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dead Man in Deptford'Book summary:Set in Elizabethan England, Burgess's first novel for four years centres on the life of Christopher Marlowe, who was killed in suspicious circumstances in a tavern brawl in Deptford 400 years ago. It portrays a theatre genius riven by sexual and political conflicts. By the author of "Any Old Iron". [via]
More editions of A Dead Man in Deptford:
-
The Dispossessedby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0061054887 (0-06-105488-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dispossessed'Book summary:Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.
[via]More editions of The Dispossessed:
-
Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novelby Rebecca WellsISBN 006075995X (0-06-075995-X)
Softcover, Perennial
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel'Book summary:Wells is a Louisiana-born Seattle actress and playwright; her loopy saga of a 40-year-old player in Seattle's hot theater scene who must come to terms with her mama's past in steamy Thornton City, Louisiana, reads like a lengthy episode of Designing Women written under the influence of mint juleps and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. The Ya-Yas are the wild circle of girls who swirl around the narrator Siddalee's mama, Vivi, whose vivid voice is "part Scarlett, part Katharine Hepburn, part Tallulah." The Ya-Yas broke the no-booze rule at the cotillion, skinny-dipped their way to jail in the town water tower, disrupted the Shirley Temple look-alike contest, and bonded for life because, as one says, "It's so much fun being a bad girl!"
Siddalee must repair her busted relationship with Vivi by reading a half-century's worth of letters and clippings contained in the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's packet of "Divine Secrets." It's a contrived premise, but the secrets are really fun to learn. [via]
More editions of Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel:
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel: ISBN 0061015075 (0-06-101507-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel: ISBN 0060928336 (0-06-092833-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel: ISBN 006075995X (0-06-075995-X)
Softcover, Perennial
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel: ISBN 0061015075 (0-06-101507-5)
-
Everything Is Illuminatedby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0060792175 (0-06-079217-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything Is Illuminated'Book summary:The simplest thing would be to describe Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Holocaust. It is, but that really fails to do justice to the sheer ambition of this book. The main story is a grimly familiar one. A young Jewish American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his search by Alex Perchov, a naïve Ukrainian translator, Alex's grandfather (also called Alex), and a flatulent mongrel dog named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. On their journey through Eastern Europe's obliterated landscape they unearth facts about the Nazi atrocities and the extent of Ukrainian complicity that have implications for Perchov as well as Safran Foer. This narrative is not, however, recounted from (the character) Jonathan Safran Foer's perspective. It is relayed through a series of letters that Alex sends to Foer. These are written in the kind of broken Russo-English normally reserved for Bond villains or Latka from Taxi. Interspersed between these letters are fragments of a novel by Safran Foer--a wonderfully imagined, almost magical realist, account of life in the shtetl before the Nazis destroyed it. These are in turn commented on by Alex, creating an additional metafictional angle to the tale.
If all this sounds a little daunting, don't be put off; Safran Foer is an extremely funny as well as intelligent writer who combines some of the best Jewish folk yarns since Isaac Bashevis Singer with a quite heartbreaking meditation on love, friendship, and loss. --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk [via]
More editions of Everything Is Illuminated:
Five Little Peppers and How They Grewby Margaret SidneyISBN 0140351272 (0-14-035127-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Little Peppers and How They Grew'More editions of Five Little Peppers and How They Grew:
-
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 0070212570 (0-07-021257-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe'Book summary:The day IdgieThreadgoode and Ruth Jamison opened the Whistle Stop Cafe, the town took a turn for the better. It was the Depression and that cafe was a home from home for many of us. You could get eggs, grits, bacon, ham, coffee and a smile for 25 cents. Ruth was just the sweetest girl you ever met. And Idgie, she was a character, all right. You never saw anyone so headstrong. But how anybody could have thought she murdered that man is beyond me. "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" is a mouth-watering tale of love, laughter and mystery. It will lift your spirits and above all it'll remind you of the secret to life: friends and best friends. [via]
More editions of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe:
-
Gaudy Nightby Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 0061043494 (0-06-104349-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gaudy Night'Book summary:Obscene graffiti, poison pen letters and a disgusting effigy greeted Harriet Vane on her return to Oxford. A graduate of ten years before and now a successful novelist, this should have been a pleasant, nostalgic visit for her. She asks her lover, Lord Peter Wimsey, for help. [via]
-
Giants in the Earthby O.E. RolvaagISBN 0060931930 (0-06-093193-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Giants in the Earth'Book summary:The classic story of a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. [via]
More editions of Giants in the Earth:
The Gold Bug Variationsby Richard PowersISBN 0060975008 (0-06-097500-8)
Softcover, Perennial
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gold Bug Variations'More editions of The Gold Bug Variations:
-
The Green Knightby Iris MurdochISBN 0140243372 (0-14-024337-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Knight'Book summary:Full of suspense, humor, and symbolism, this magnificently crafted and magical novel replays biblical and medieval themes in contemporary London. An attempt by the sharp, feral, and uncommonly intelligent Lucas Graffe to murder his sensual and charismatic half-brother Clement is interrupted by a strangerwhom Lucas strikes and leaves for dead. When the stranger mysteriously reappears, with specific demands for reparation, the Graffes circle of idiosyncratic family and friends is disruptedfor the demands are bizarre, intrusive, and ultimately fatal.[via]More editions of The Green Knight:
-
Have His Carcaseby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0061043524 (0-06-104352-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Have His Carcase'Book summary:The mystery writer Harriet Vane, recovering from an unhappy love affair and its aftermath, seeks solace on a barren beach -- deserted but for the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut.From the moment she photographs the corpse, which soon disappears with the tide, she is puzzled by a mystery that might have been suicide, murder or a political plot. With the appearance of her dear friend Lord Peter Wimsey, she finds a reason for detective pursuit -- as only the two of them can pursue it. [via]
The Heat of the Dayby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0140018441 (0-14-001844-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books in association with J. Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heat of the Day'
The Infinite Planby Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0060924985 (0-06-092498-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Infinite Plan'More editions of The Infinite Plan:
Intruder in the Dustby William FaulknerISBN 0075536625 (0-07-553662-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Intruder in the Dust'More editions of Intruder in the Dust:
-
The Jungle Bookby Rudyard Kipling, Daniel KarlinISBN 0140183167 (0-14-018316-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Books'Book summary:This is the classic story of friendship between man and beast. Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther. The adventures of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the snake-fighting mongoose, little Toomai and the elephant's secret dance, and Kotick the white seal are all part of Mowgli's extraordinary journey with his animal friends. [via]
More editions of The Jungle Book:
-
Junkyby William S. Burroughs, Allen GinsbergISBN 0140043519 (0-14-004351-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Junky'Book summary:Burroughs' tale of Life as a Junky [via]
More editions of Junky:
-
Justineby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0140153195 (0-14-015319-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Justine'Book summary:[via]The time is the eve of the World War II. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are dedicated to knowledge. But for the obsessed characters in this mesmerizing novel, their pursuits lead only to bedrooms in which each seeks to knowand possessthe other. Since its publication in 1957, Justine has inspired an almost religious devotion among readers and critics alike.
More editions of Justine:
-
Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0140366903 (0-14-036690-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Kidnapped'Book summary:When he sets off into the world to seek his last remaining kinsman, Uncle Ebenezer, young David Balfour has no idea of the dangers that the encounter will bring. He finds his uncle to be an old, miserly man, but before he can grasp his intrigues, David is kidnapped. [via]
-
Life Is Elsewhereby Milan Kundera, Aaron AsherISBN 0060997028 (0-06-099702-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Is Elsewhere'Book summary:The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him figuratively to his love bed and literally to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent "innocence with its bloody smile"! , Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a somber farce. [via]
More editions of Life Is Elsewhere:
Making Historyby Stephen FryISBN 0091791413 (0-09-179141-3)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Making History'More editions of Making History:
-
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmareby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0140183884 (0-14-018388-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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:
-
The Metamorphosis and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Malcolm PasleyISBN 0140283366 (0-14-028336-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphosis and Other Stories'Book summary:"Had one to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relations to our age as Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of." W. H. Auden[via]
More editions of The Metamorphosis and Other Stories:
-
The Ministry Of Fear: An Entertainmentby Graham GreeneISBN 0140185364 (0-14-018536-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ministry Of Fear: An Entertainment'Book summary:Set in the torn landscape of the Blitz, this book is a phantasmagoric study in terror. Arthur Rowe was hamstrung by guilt, the guilt of having murdered his sick wife. He was standing aside from the war until the day when he happened to guess the true weight of a cake at a charity fete. [via]
More editions of The Ministry Of Fear: An Entertainment:
The Moon Is Downby John SteinbeckISBN 0140187464 (0-14-018746-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moon Is Down'-
The Naturalby Bernard MalamudISBN 0060958294 (0-06-095829-4)
Softcover, Perennial
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Natural'Book summary:Considered by many to be the greatest baseball novel ever written, this classic morality tale features one of the most memorable characters in all of literature, Roy Hobbs -- a talented athlete whose promising career is derailed by a youthful indiscretion. When Roy makes a comeback as an aging player, his struggle to achieve greatness in the midst of recreant temptations becomes the subject of an epic story about our national need for heroes and our simultaneous desire to see them fail. [via]
More editions of The Natural:
-
The Pearlby John SteinbeckISBN 014017737X (0-14-017737-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pearl'Book summary:Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers-and to the many who revisit them again and again." [via]
The Pearl the Red Ponyby John SteinbeckISBN 0140042326 (0-14-004232-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pearl the Red Pony'More editions of The Pearl the Red Pony:
-
Preyby Michael CrichtonISBN 0061015725 (0-06-101572-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Prey'Book summary:In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey. As fresh as today's headlines, Michael Crichton'smost compelling novel yet tells the story of a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it. Drawing on up-to-the-minute scientific fact, Prey takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and artificial distributed intelligence -- in a story of breathtaking suspense. Prey is a novel you can't put down. Because time is running out. [via]
The Rebel Angelsby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140062718 (0-14-006271-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rebel Angels'More editions of The Rebel Angels:
Russell Banks Reading Continental Driftby Russell BanksISBN 0060854944 (0-06-085494-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Russell Banks Reading Continental Drift'More editions of Russell Banks Reading Continental Drift:
The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 014037454X (0-14-037454-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'-
Son of a Witchby Gregory MaguireISBN 0060899042 (0-06-089904-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Son of a Witch'Book summary:> 11/11/2011 3:47:53 PM: 9780060899042, SON OF A WITCH INTL, PB [via]
More editions of Son of a Witch:
-
Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0140042172 (0-14-004217-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, which further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."
The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers."
The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spirit. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner. --Melanie Rehak [via]
More editions of Sons and Lovers:
- Sons and Lovers: ISBN 0140066829 (0-14-006682-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Sons and Lovers: ISBN 014015504X (0-14-015504-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Sons and Lovers: ISBN 0140182152 (0-14-018215-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Sons and Lovers: ISBN 0140188320 (0-14-018832-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Sons and Lovers: ISBN 0140042172 (0-14-004217-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
- Sons and Lovers: ISBN 0140066829 (0-14-006682-9)
-
Stardustby Neil GaimanISBN 0060934719 (0-06-093471-9)
Softcover, Perennial
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Stardust'Book summary:De Féerie, le pays magique, les habitants du petit village de Wall savent peu de choses. Il faut dire qu'un grand mur les en séparent. Un mur dans lequel est ouvert une brèche, une brèche bien gardée, par laquelle ils n'ont droit de passer qu'une fois l'an, le jour de la grande foire de Wall. C'est ce jour-là, justement, que le jeune Tristram Thorn, décidé à conquérir le cSur de sa belle, part pour le pays de fée afin de lui ramener une étoile filante. Mais dans un pays magique, rien n'est comme ailleurs. Les distances sont immenses, on y croise nains et licornes, des chasseurs d'éclairs naviguent sur des bateaux volants et l'on est jamais à l'abri d'un mauvais sort qui pourra vous transformer en arbre, en chèvre ou en rat. Un monde plein de dangers et de merveilles que Tristram est loin d'imaginer, comme il est loin d'imaginer que son étoile filante est une belle et pure jeune fille, dont la présence ici-bas va éveiller la concupiscence des sept seigneurs de Sromhold comme de quelques vilaines sorcières...
Neil Gaiman est aussi à l'aise dans la BD (Sandman), que dans le roman (Neverwhere). Un talent inépuisable qu'il confirme une fois de plus ici en revisitant avec bonheur l'univers des contes de fées. À la fois drôle, merveilleux et volontairement naïf, Stardust est une réussite. --Georges Louhans [via]
-
Strong Poisonby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0061043508 (0-06-104350-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Strong Poison'Book summary:Hardcover book [via]
-
Thief of Timeby Terry PratchettISBN 0061031321 (0-06-103132-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Thief of Time'Book summary:If you were helpless with laughter over Shanghai Noon, enjoy satirical British humor and terrible puns, or just need your Pratchett fix, grab this book. Unfamiliar with Terry Pratchett and his Discworld series? It's time to discover one of the funniest, most literate, and most thought-provoking authors writing today.
The Monks of History live in a Tibetan sort of area known as "enlightenment country." Their job: "to see that tomorrow happens at all." A mysterious Lady wants time-obsessed Jeremy Clockson to build a totally accurate glass clock. It will trap time and stop it, eliminating humanity's irritating unpredictability. This would make the Auditors, who observe the universe and enforce the rules governing it, very happy. It would also put Death out of a job, which the Grim Reaper isn't happy about. Fortunately, the History Monks have encountered this situation before; in fact, Lu Tze, the Sweeper, has personally dealt with it before. Even better, he has a new, gifted apprentice, Lobsang Ludd, the "thief of time." This time, they'll stop trouble before it can start! To add chaos to the mix, there's the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse--the one who quit before they became famous.
Although there are 25 other Discworld novels and many of the characters appeared first in previous books, you don't need to have read even one to enjoy The Thief of Time. (If you're the sort of reader who hates to miss any references, you might want to track down a copy of The Discworld Companion.) As a bonus, this book is a painless introduction to what quantum physics says about the nature of time. --Nona Vero [via]
More editions of Thief of Time:
The Thirty-Nine Stepsby John BuchanISBN 0140011307 (0-14-001130-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'More editions of The Thirty-Nine Steps:
-
The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre DumasISBN 0140367470 (0-14-036747-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel'Book summary:The classic historical adventure novel, set in the 1620s at the court of Louis XIII, where the musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, together with their companion, the headstrong d'Artagnan, are engaged in a battle against Richelieu, the King's minister, and a beautiful, unscrupulous spy. [via]
More editions of The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel:
- The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel: ISBN 0140350543 (0-14-035054-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel: ISBN 0140367470 (0-14-036747-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel: ISBN 0140350543 (0-14-035054-3)
-
Three-Penny Novelby Bertolt BrechtISBN 0140015159 (0-14-001515-9)
Hardcover, Penguin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Three-Penny Novel'Book summary:Translated by Desmond I Vesey. Verses Translated by Christopher Isherwood. Ex-library Sticker on the Front..Softback,Ex-Library,with usual stamps markings, ,in fair to good all-round condition, ,365pages. [via]
More editions of Three-Penny Novel:
Vby Thomas PynchonISBN 0060930217 (0-06-093021-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'V'Book summary:Having just been released from the Navy, Benny Profane is content to lead a slothful existence with his friends, where the only real ambition is to perfect the art of "schlemihlhood," or being a dupe, and where "responsibility" is a dirty word. Among his pals--called the Whole Sick Crew--is Slab, an artist who can't seem to paint anything other than cheese danishes. But Profane's life changes dramatically when he befriends Stencil, an active ambitious young man with an intriguing mission--to find out the identity of a woman named V., who knew Stencil's father during the war, but who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. [via]
-
The White Hotelby D. M. ThomasISBN 0140231730 (0-14-023173-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Hotel'Book summary:It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, The White Hotel is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate.[via]More editions of The White Hotel:
Spanish
-
Cartas Del Diablo a Su Sobrinoby C. S. Lewis, Miguel MariasISBN 006114004X (0-06-114004-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cartas Del Diablo a Su Sobrino'Book summary:El eterno clásico sobre "las últimas novedades del Infierno y las irrebatibles respuestas del Cielo"
Esta clásica obra maestra de sátira ha entretenido e iluminado a lectores alrededor del mundo con su irónica y astuta representación de la vida y las debilidades humanas desde el punto de vista de Escrutopo, el asistente de alto rango de "Nuestro Padre de Abajo." En este divertidísimo, muy serio y excepcionalmente original libro, C. S. Lewis comparte con nosotros la correspondencia entre el viejo diablo y su sobrino Orugario, un novato demonio encargado de asegurarse de la condenación de un joven hombre.
Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino es la historia más atractiva acerca de la tentación -- y el triunfo sobre ella -- jamás escrita.
[via]More editions of Cartas Del Diablo a Su Sobrino:
El Plan Infinito / The Infinite Planby Isabel AllendeISBN 0060951273 (0-06-095127-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'El Plan Infinito / The Infinite Plan'More editions of El Plan Infinito / The Infinite Plan:
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
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}