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4 Playsby William IngeISBN 039417075X (0-394-17075-X)
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Against the Fall of Nightby Arthur ClarkeISBN 042505974X (0-425-05974-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Michelle WigginsISBN 0394532279 (0-394-53227-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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- Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 039486915X (0-394-86915-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 039490592X (0-394-90592-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 0399222413 (0-399-22241-3)
Hardcover, Philomel Books - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 0394532279 (0-394-53227-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
- Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 039486915X (0-394-86915-X)
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Anthony Browne, Lewis CarrollISBN 0394805925 (0-394-80592-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freudby Sigmund FreudISBN 0394604008 (0-394-60400-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Best Playsby Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0394309847 (0-394-30984-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Big Sleepby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394758285 (0-394-75828-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Big Sleep'Book summary:"His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the Philip Marlowe novels. Its bursts of sex, violence, and explosively direct prose changed detective fiction forever. "She was trouble. She was tall and rangy and strong-looking. Her hair was black and wiry and parted in the middle. She had a good mouth and a good chin. There was a sulky droop to her lips and the lower lip was full." [via]
Books of Bloodby Clive BarkerISBN 0425165582 (0-425-16558-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Born With the Deadby Robert SilverbergISBN 0394488458 (0-394-48845-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Cheriby ColetteISBN 0436105039 (0-436-10503-9)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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A Child's Garden of Versesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0394837398 (0-394-83739-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Villageby ReadISBN 0395251818 (0-395-25181-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Complete Adventures of Curious Georgeby H.A. Rey, Margret ReyISBN 0395754100 (0-395-75410-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Adventures of Curious George'Book summary:Created by Margret Rey and her husband H.A. Rey, the mischievous monkey Curious George has delighted millions of readers for more than 50 years with his hilarious hijinks. After the birth of Curious George in 1941, six titles completed the series, which have since been translated into 12 languages. This wonderful 416-page collector's edition (with all seven of the original Curious George titles in one colorfully illustrated volume) features Curious George, Curious George Takes a Job, Curious George Rides a Bike, Curious George Gets a Medal, Curious George Flies a Kite, Curious George Learns the Alphabet, and Curious George Goes to the Hospital. The intrepid monkey--who represents the insatiably curious (and invariably accident-prone) soul in all of us-- captures the heart of everyone he meets. (Picture book) [via]
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Complete Plays: Blasted/Phaedra's Love/Cleansed/Crave/4.48 Psychosis/Skinby Sarah KaneISBN 0413742601 (0-413-74260-1)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Plays: Blasted/Phaedra's Love/Cleansed/Crave/4.48 Psychosis/Skin'Book summary:[via]When Sarah Kane's first play Blasted was staged at the Royal Court Theatre in 1995 it was hailed both as a "masterpiece" and as a "disgusting piece of filth" (Daily Mail). That play, and the others that followed, have been produced all over the world. This anthology includes Kane's never-before-published Channel 4 screenplay, Skin.
Plays include: Blasted, Phaedra's Love, Cleansed, Crave, 4.48 Psychosis, and Skin.
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Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 039440324X (0-394-40324-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Compiled here are over 50 of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and tales in one giant Kindle book. This includes an active table of contents to make finding stories easy.
This edition includes the following stories:
The Angel of the Odd
The Assignation
The Balloon Hoax
Berenice
Bon-Bon
The Black Cat
The Business Man
The Cask of Amontillado
Colloquy of Monos and Una
Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
A Descent Into the Maelström
The Devil in the Belfry
Diddling
The Domain of Arnheim
Duc De L'Omelette
Eleonora
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of the Usher
Four Beasts in One
The Gold-Bug
Hop Frog
How to Write a Blackwood Article
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
King Pest
Landor's Cottage
Landscape Garden
Ligeia
Lionizing
Loss of Breath
Maelzel's Chess-Player
Man of the Crowd
Man that was Used Up
The Masque of the Red Death
Mellonta Tauta
Mesmeric Revelation
Metzengerstein
Morella
Ms. Found in a Bottle
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Mystification
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Oblong Box
The Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
The Power of Words
Predicament
The Premature Burial
The Purloined Letter
Shadow -- A Parable
Silence -- A Fable
Some Words with a Mummy
Spectacles
Sphinx
System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
A Tale of Jerusalem
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Tell Tale Heart
Thou Art the Man
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
Three Sundays in a Week
The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0394716787 (0-394-71678-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 040405109X (0-404-05109-X)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc - Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe: ISBN 0404094066 (0-404-09406-6)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc - The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: ISBN 0404094007 (0-404-09400-7)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc - Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe: ISBN 040405109X (0-404-05109-X)
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- Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe: ISBN 0404051111 (0-404-05111-1)
A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monsterby Richard BrautiganISBN 0395547032 (0-395-54703-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Dean Koontz : Three Complete Novels - House of Thunder, Shadowfires, Midnightby Dean KoontzISBN 0399141251 (0-399-14125-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 0394701267 (0-394-70126-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Earth Book of Stormgateby Poul AndersonISBN 0425059332 (0-425-05933-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Endgame: A Play in One Act, Followed by Act Without Words, a Mime for One Playerby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394475003 (0-394-47500-3)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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First Men in the Moonby H. G. WellsISBN 0425044114 (0-425-04411-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Men in the Moon'Book summary:This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. [via]
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Four Novelsby Marguerite DurasISBN 0394179870 (0-394-17987-0)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Novels'Book summary:4 Novels in one book. [via]
Frontiers of Anthropologyby Ashley MontaguISBN 0399111999 (0-399-11199-9)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Game, Set and Matchby Len DeightonISBN 0394572351 (0-394-57235-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Gathering Evidence: A Memoirby Thomas Bernhard, David McLintockISBN 0394547071 (0-394-54707-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gathering Evidence: A Memoir'Book summary:Written with a dark pain and drama that recalls the novels of Dickens, Gathering Evidence is a powerful and compelling memoir of youth by one of the twentieth centurys most gifted writers.
Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and an adored grandfather in right-wing, Catholic Austria. He ran away from home at age fifteen. Three years later, he contracted pneumonia and was placed in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill, where he observed first-handand with unflinching acuitythe cruel nature of protracted suffering and death. From the age of twenty-one, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying mans testamentand where this account of his life ends, his art begins.
Included in this edition is My Prizes, a collection of Bernhards viciously funny and revelatory essays on his later literary life. Here is a portrait of the artist as a prize-winner: laconic, sardonic, shaking his head with biting amusement at the world and at himself. [via]More editions of Gathering Evidence: A Memoir:
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ; & But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: Two Novelsby Anita LoosISBN 0394714628 (0-394-71462-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Good Soldierby Ford Madox FordISBN 0394713869 (0-394-71386-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Soldier'Book summary:Set just before World War I, The Good Soldier chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks, it also makes use of the device of the unreliable narrator as the main character gradually reveals a version of events that is quite different from what the introduction leads you to believe. The novel was loosely based on two incidents of adultery and on Ford's messy personal life. [via]
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Hidden Agendasby Tom ClancyISBN 0425171396 (0-425-17139-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hidden Agendas'Book summary:In the year 2010, computers are the new superpower. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the New Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency with the FBI: the Net Force. Instructions on how to make a bomb...a list of every U.S. spy in the Euro-Asian theater...Someone with access to classified information is posting it on the Internet-and it's costing lives. Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is in the hot seat. Now, before a hostile Senate committee, he must justify the very existence of the Net Force. Meanwhile, a virus is unleashed that throws the federal financial systems into chaos. And the Net Force operatives must hunt the wily hacker through the twists and turns of cyberspace-down a path that leads them dangerously close to home... [via]
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The Hobbitby J.R.R. Tolkien, Michael HagueISBN 0395520215 (0-395-52021-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit'Book summary:"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure.
The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Hobbit: ISBN 0395362903 (0-395-36290-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Hobbit: ISBN 0395873460 (0-395-87346-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Hobbit: ISBN 0395282659 (0-395-28265-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Hobbit: ISBN 0395520215 (0-395-52021-5)
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- The Hobbit: ISBN 0395071224 (0-395-07122-4)
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The Hobbit or There and Back Againby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395177111 (0-395-17711-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Hot Bloodedby Maggie Shayne, Angela Knight, Emma Holly, Christine FeehanISBN 0425206580 (0-425-20658-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Selection from Samuel Beckett's Workby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394406699 (0-394-40669-9)
Hardcover
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Journey to the Western Islands of Scotlandby James Boswell, Samuel JohnsonISBN 0395051819 (0-395-05181-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Kinby Peter Dickson, Ian P. AndrewISBN 0399240225 (0-399-24022-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Lady in the Lakeby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394758250 (0-394-75825-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady in the Lake'Book summary:A beautiful, historically accurate edition of the modern classic first published in 1943 reproduces the original and offers an alternative for those who love great old books and want to relive Philip Marlowe's strange and puzzling search for the missing woman. [via]
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Lyonesseby Jack VanceISBN 0425058735 (0-425-05873-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lyonesse'Book summary:A monument of fantastic literature to stand beside such classics as DUNE and THE LORD OF THE RINGS, LYONESSE evokes the Elder Isles, a baroque land of pre-Arthurian myth now lost beneath the Atlantic, where powerful sorcerers, aloof faeries, stalwart champions, and nobles eccentric, magnanimous, and cruel pursue intrigue among their separate worlds. In this first book of the trilogy, Suldrun's Garden, Prince Aillas of Troicinet is betrayed on his first diplomatic voyage and cast into the sea. Before he redeems his birthright, he must pass the breadth of Hybras Isle as prisoner, vagabond, and slave, an acquaintance of faeries, wizards, and errant knights, and lover to a sad and beautiful girl whose fate sets his bitter rivalry with the tyrant Casmir, King of Lyonesse.
This eBook was assembled from the definitive Vance Integral Edition text, which was re-edited from its original publication under the supervision of Mr. Vance himself.
World Fantasy Award nominee.
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Masterpieces of Murderby Agatha ChristieISBN 039607412X (0-396-07412-X)
Hardcover, Dodd, Mead
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The Molecule Menby Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey HoyleISBN 0434349259 (0-434-34925-9)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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More Annotated Alice : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner, Peter NewellISBN 0394585712 (0-394-58571-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Murder on Boardby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396069924 (0-396-06992-4)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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Murder-Go-Roundby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396065546 (0-396-06554-6)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder-Go-Round'Book summary:Agatha Christie: 3 Complete Hercule Poirot Murder Mysteries in one book: "Thirteen at Dinner", "The A.B.C. Murders" and "Funerals are Fatal". From the jacket cover's flap: Here are three of the great Christie classics, notable for their breathtaking suspense, their deft characterizations, and for the superb detection by the incomparable Hercule Poirot. In "Thirteen at Dinner" the fatal stabbing of rich Lord Edgware was a perfect crime, until Poirot discovered the killer's one error and unraveled a super-intricate problem in murder. In "The A.B.C. Murders" Poirot received a series of leters, signed A.B.C., announcing when and where the killer would strike. In spite of the warnings, the police were powerless to save the innocent victims. Then the master detective produced a stunning surprise. In "Funerals are Fatal" Aunt Cora, one of Richard Abernethie's relatives, sugested that Richard's death was not quite natural. The next day another corpse was found. Aunt Cora had been murdered! Poirot, a stranger at the family gathering, watched and waited. Behind a mask of respectability someone was hiding a terrible secret. [via]
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Myra Breckinridge ; Myronby Gore Vidal, Edgar BoxISBN 0394754441 (0-394-75444-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Nine Plays of Eugene O'Neillby Eugene O'NeillISBN 0394604164 (0-394-60416-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Once and Future Kingby Terence Hanbury WhiteISBN 0399105972 (0-399-10597-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Once and Future King'Book summary:T.H. White, whose The Sword in the Stone has been read by hundreds of thousands, now at last has turned his hand to retelling the entire Arthurian Epic. The Once and Future King takes Arthur from the glorious lyrical phase of his youth through the disillusioning early years of his reign to the mature years in which his vision of the Round Table develops into the search for the Holy Grail and finally to his weary old age.[via]In part, T.H. White has drawn on published material which he has revised and reworked heavily to bring form and continuity to an overall work, a tetralogy which will stand as unique and vivid and quite apart from the individual effects of the various particular books. And in part the author has created new material as enchanting as any he has ever set on paper.
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, Margaret TarnerISBN 0435272527 (0-435-27252-7)
Softcover, Macmillan Heinemann ELT
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Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Pride and Prejudiceby Mark Schorer, Jane AustenISBN 0395051010 (0-395-05101-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Quest for Karlaby John Le CarreISBN 0394528484 (0-394-52848-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Quicksilverby Neal StephensonISBN 0434008931 (0-434-00893-1)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksilver'Book summary:Quicksilver is a massive, exuberant and wildly ambitious historical novel that's also Neal Stephenson's eagerly awaited prequel to Cryptonomicon--his pyrotechnic reworking of the 20th century, from World War II codebreaking and disinformation to the latest issues of Internet data privacy.
Quicksilver, "Volume One of the Baroque Cycle", backtracks to another time of high intellectual ferment: the late 17th century, with the natural philosophers of England's newly formed Royal Society questioning the universe and dissecting everything that moves. One founding member, the Rev John Wilkins, really did write science fiction and a book on cryptography--but this isn't history as we know it, for here his code book is called not Mercury but Cryptonomicon. And although the key political schemers of Charles II's government still have initials spelling the word CABAL, their names are all different...
While towering geniuses like Newton and Leibniz decode nature itself, bizarre adventures (merely beginning with the Great Plague and Great Fire) happen to the fictional Royal Society member Daniel Waterhouse, who knows everyone but isn't quite bright enough for cutting-edge science. Two generations of Daniel's family appear in Cryptonomicon, as does a descendant of the Shaftoes who here are soldiers and vagabonds. Other links include the island realm of Qwghlm with its impossible language and the mysterious, seemingly ageless alchemist Enoch Root.
As the reign of Charles II gives way to that of James II and then William of Orange, Stephenson traces the complex lines of finance and power that form the 17th-century Internet. Gold and silver, lead and (repeatedly) mercury or quicksilver flow in glittering patterns between centres of marketing and intrigue in England, Germany, France and Holland. Paper flows as well: stocks, shares, scams and letters holding layers of concealed code messages. Binary code? Yes, even that had already been invented and described by Francis Bacon.
Quicksilver is crammed with unexpected incidents, fascinating digressions and deep-laid plots. Who'd believe that Eliza, a Qwghlmian slave girl liberated from a Turkish harem by mad Jack Shaftoe (King of the Vagabonds) could become a major player in European finance and politics? Still less believable, but all too historically authentic, are the appalling medical procedures of the time--about which we learn a lot. There are frequent passages of high comedy, like the lengthy description of a foppish earl's costume which memorably explains that someone seemed to have been painted in glue before "shaking and rolling him in a bin containing thousands of black silk doilies".
This is a huge, exhausting read, full of rewards and quirky insights that no other author could have created. Fantastic or farcical episodes sometimes clash strangely with the deep cruelty and suffering of 17th-century realism. Recommended, though not to the faint-hearted. --David Langford [via]
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The Riverside Chaucerby Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. BensonISBN 0395290317 (0-395-29031-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riverside Chaucer'Book summary:This peerless new edition of Chaucer's complete works is the fruit of many years' study, and replaces Robinson's famous edition, long regarded as the standard text. Freshly edited and annotated, the "Riverside Chaucer" is now the indispensable edition for students and readers of Chaucer. [via]
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Robert Louis Stevenson's a Child's Garden of Versesby Robert Louis Stevenson, Henriette Willebeek Le MairISBN 0399218181 (0-399-21818-1)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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Robert Louis Stevenson's a Child's Garden of Verses to Colorby Diane DegroatISBN 0394872754 (0-394-87275-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Scoop and Behind the Screenby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425096963 (0-425-09696-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Sleeping Murderby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396073735 (0-396-07373-5)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sleeping Murder'Book summary:Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs. [via]
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Smith of Wootton Majorby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395268001 (0-395-26800-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smith of Wootton Major'Book summary:Two of Tolkien's most popular and charming stories, full of wit and humour, available together for the first time on CD. Smith of Wooton Major tells of the preparation of the Great Cake to mark the Feast of Good Children and the magical events which follow. Leaf by Niggle recounts the strange adventures of the painter, Niggle. [via]
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Starsilkby Sydney J. Van ScyocISBN 042507207X (0-425-07207-X)
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Stories and Talesby Hans Christian Andersen, H. W. Dulcken, A. W. BayesISBN 0415285984 (0-415-28598-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stories and Tales'Book summary:A true classic of Western literature, Stories and Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, arguably the most notable children's writer of all, has delighted young and old for generations. This unique collection was first translated for George Routledge over 130 years ago. Completely reset, but preserving the original, beautiful illustrations by A.W. Bayes, engraved by the masters of Victorian book illustration, the Brothers Dalziel, this marvellous book will be treasured by young and old alike. [via]
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The Stories of John Cheeverby John CheeverISBN 0394500873 (0-394-50087-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stories of John Cheever'Book summary:Think of John Cheever's fiction, and a whole world springs to mind--a world of leafy suburbs, summer houses, commuter trains, boarding schools, and inevitably, his own chosen territory, the cocktail hour among WASPs. But it's a mistake to approach Cheever as if he were merely some sort of anthropologist documenting the customs of an obscure and vanishing tribe. Nostalgia and class issues aside, his true subject is the darkness hidden beneath the surface of postwar American life. A case in point is his famous story "The Swimmer," in which an ebullient Neddy Merrill decides to swim home across the backyard pools of his neighbors. In the course of his journey, however, summer gives way to autumn, his neighbors turn against him, there are troubling intimations of disgrace and financial ruin, and he arrives to find his house both locked and empty.
Though these stories deal with bright, prosperous, ostensibly happy people, a cold wind blows through them. Age, illness, financial embarrassment, sex, alcohol, death--all of these threaten his suburban Eden. (Is it himself Cheever is mocking in his ironic "The Worm in the Apple"? "Everyone in the community with wandering hands had given them both a try but they had been put off. What was the source of this constancy? Were they frightened? Were they prudish? Were they monogamous? What was at the bottom of this appearance of happiness?") Inanimate objects carry the residue of their past owners' unhappiness and cruelty ("Seaside Houses," "The Lowboy"); expatriates long for but cannot quite find their way home ("The Woman Without A Country," "Boy in Rome"); children vanish or turn out badly (too many stories to count).
All of this is conveyed in prose both graceful and tender. No one is better than Cheever at describing a character's appearance: "He was a cheerful, heavy man with a round face that looked exactly like a pudding. Everyone was glad to see him, as one is glad to see, at the end of a meal, the appearance of a bland, fragrant, and nourishing dish made of fresh eggs, nutmeg, and country cream." Given his uncanny eye (and ear) for realistic description, it's easy to forget how experimental Cheever could be. His later stories pioneered authorial intrusions in the best postmodern style, and from the beginning, he wrote what would much later be called magical realism. (Think of the sinister broadcasts in "The Enormous Radio," or the phantom love interest in "The Chimera.") A literary event at its publication and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Stories of John Cheever remains a stunning and enormously influential book. --Mary Park [via]
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Suth's Storyby Peter DickinsonISBN 039923327X (0-399-23327-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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T. A. Barron Collectionby T. A. BarronISBN 0399237348 (0-399-23734-8)
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Three Complete Novelsby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0399146261 (0-399-14626-1)
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Time Travelers Strictly Cashby Spider RobinsonISBN 0425097226 (0-425-09722-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0394847253 (0-394-84725-3)
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Triplanetaryby E. E. "Doc" SmithISBN 0425090558 (0-425-09055-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Triplanetary'Book summary:This is the first of E. E. "Doc" Smith's six Lensman books, and although it isn't as fast-paced as later Lensman novels, it sets the stage for what is perhaps the greatest space-opera saga ever told. Through a series of vignettes spanning millions of years, readers will learn how the titanic struggle between the good Arisians and the evil Eddorians first came to pass, and about how humanity was chosen (and bred) to assume the awesome power of the lens. A short foreword by science fiction scholar John Clute puts the entire series into perspective. [via]
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Twice Shyby Dick FrancisISBN 0425198774 (0-425-19877-4)
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U. S. A.by John DOS PassosISBN 0395076277 (0-395-07627-7)
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What If?by Stephen E. Ambrose, Robert CowleyISBN 0425176428 (0-425-17642-8)
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Win, Place, or Show: Odds Against / WhipHand / Come To Griefby Dick FrancisISBN 042519972X (0-425-19972-X)
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Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson: Annotatedby Alfred Tennyson TennysonISBN 0404063705 (0-404-06370-5)
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Works of Geoffrey Chaucerby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 0395055687 (0-395-05568-7)
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World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Beenby Robert Cowley, Stephen E. Ambrose, John Keegan, David McCullough, James M. McPhersonISBN 0399145761 (0-399-14576-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been'Book summary:Counterfactuals--what-if scenarios--fueled countless bull sessions in smoke-filled dorm rooms in the 1960s. What if Sitting Bull had had a machine gun at Little Big Horn? What if Attila the Hun had had a time machine? What if Columbus had landed in India after all? Some of those dorm-room speculators grew up to be historians, and their generation (along with a few younger and older scholars) makes a strong showing in this anthology of essays, in which the what-ifs are substantially more plausible. What if Hitler had not attacked Russia when he did? He might have moved into the Middle East and secured the oil supplies the Third Reich so badly needed, helping it retain its power in Europe. What if D-Day had been a failure? The Soviet Union might have controlled all of Europe. What if Sennacherib had pressed the siege of Jerusalem in 701 B.C.? Then the nascent, monotheistic Jewish religion might never have taken hold among the people of Judah--and the daughter religions of Christianity and Islam would never have been born.
So suggest some of the many first-rate contributors to this collection, which grew from a special issue of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. One of them is classicist Josiah Ober, who suggests that if Alexander the Great had died at the age of 21 instead of 32, Greece would have been swallowed up by Persia and Rome, and the modern Western world would have a much different sensibility--and probably little idea of democratic government. Still other contributors are Stephen E. Ambrose, Caleb Carr, John Keegan, David McCullough, and James McPherson, who examine a range of scenarios populated by dozens of historical figures, including Sir Walter Raleigh, Chiang Kai-shek, Robert E. Lee, Benito Mussolini, and Themistocles. The result is a fascinating exercise in historical speculation, one that emphasizes the importance of accident and of roads not taken in the evolution of human societies across time. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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