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Abbess of Creweby Muriel SparkISBN 0399509526 (0-399-50952-6)
Softcover, Perigee
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Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0395796776 (0-395-79677-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
Arky Typesby Michelene Wandor, Sara MaitlandISBN 0413164004 (0-413-16400-4)
Hardcover, Methuen
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Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dreamchild as Seen through the Critics' Looking-Glassesby John Tenniel, Robert S. PhillipsISBN 0394723449 (0-394-72344-9)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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The Big Book of Hellby Matt GroeningISBN 0394587790 (0-394-58779-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Big Troubleby Dave BarryISBN 0425178102 (0-425-17810-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Trouble'Book summary:Dave Barry, the only newsman to win a Pulitzer for exemplary use of words like booger, will please humor and crime-fiction fans alike with this racy debut novel. The scene is Miami. In ritzy Coconut Grove, the teen son of Eliot, a newsman turned adman, sneaks up to spritz a cute girl with a Squirtmaster 9000 to win a high school game called Killer. Meanwhile, two hit men sneak up to kill the girl's abusive stepdad, Arthur. Arthur cheated his bosses at corrupt Penultimate, Inc., which equipped a Florida jail with automatic garage-opener gates that accidentally freed prisoners in a lightning storm.
Farcical confusion ensues, witnessed by a saintly bum named Puggy, camped in a tree in Arthur's yard. Puggy works at the Jolly Jackal Bar & Grill, which has no grill and actually sells guns and bombs to an offshoot of the Crips and Bloods called the Cruds, and to Penultimate (which plans to conquer Cuba). But when dim thugs Eddie and Snake rob the Jolly Jackal and Arthur tells them it's a Russian mob front selling bombs, the proprietor snorts, "Bombs, pfft! No bombs! Is bar."
Can Snake and Eddie spirit a suitcase nuke through Miami, "where most motorists obeyed the traffic and customs of their individual countries of origin"? Can Eliot and cop Monica Rodriguez save the day? And how do the 300-pound hallucinogenic Enemy Toad, the 13-foot-long python Daphne, highway goats, and the Denture Adventure seniors' theme park fit in? Everything fits perfectly, including a few dark passages new to Barry's work. But one warning: if you read this book while drinking milk, at some point it will spurt out of your nostrils. --Tim Appelo [via]
Bill the Galactic Heroby Harry HarrisonISBN 0380756641 (0-380-75664-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brainsby Harry Harrison, Robert SheckleyISBN 0380756625 (0-380-75662-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Bone 3: Eyes of the Stormby Jeff Smith, Steve HamakerISBN 0439706254 (0-439-70625-4)
Hardcover, Graphix
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Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn WaughISBN 0412501007 (0-412-50100-7)
Hardcover, Chapman & Hall
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Candideby VoltaireISBN 0394605225 (0-394-60522-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticismby VoltaireISBN 0393960587 (0-393-96058-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism'Book summary:Robert M. Adams's superlative revised translation of Candide provides the basis for this widely adopted Norton Critical Edition.
The accompanying apparatus has been revised in accordance with recent biographical and critical materials. The Backgrounds and Criticism sections provide important essays that shed light on major critical issues relevant to Candide and to the intellectual climate of the period. In addition to the reports of five English visitors to Ferney, essays by Haydn Mason, Erich Auerbach, Ernst Cassirer, and Robert M. Adams are included. The final section of the edition, "The Climate of Controversy," summarizes the debate surrounding Voltaire's works and includes essays by Peter Gay, Raymond Naves, Gustave Lanson, and John Morley. Also included are a series of quotations about Voltaire by such prominent figures as Gustave Flaubert, Frederick the Great, and Stendhal, as well as the text of "Pangloss's Song," a ballad from the 1956 Candide-based operetta by Richard Wilbur. [via]More editions of Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism:
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Castle Roognaby Piers AnthonyISBN 0345418514 (0-345-41851-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Castle Roogna'Book summary:Millie, a ghost for 800 years wants only one man--Jonathan, and he's a zombie. To prove himself, Magician Dor volunteers to get the potion that can restore Jonathan to full life. But he has to go back through time to do it, to a peril-haunted, ancient Xanth, where danger lurks at every turn....
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The Collected Editionby Graham GreeneISBN 0434305537 (0-434-30553-7)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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The Complete Beyond the Fringeby Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore, Jonathan MillerISBN 0413146707 (0-413-14670-7)
Softcover, Heinemann
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain, Daniel Carter Beard, Roy BlountISBN 0375757805 (0-375-75780-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:This edition of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court reprints the text of the first American edition, approved by Clemens and published by his own company. Accompanying the text are thirteen of the original illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard, many of which are caricatures of well-known figures of the day. Annotations point out significant textual problems and variants, as well as explaining unfamiliar references within the text.
"Backgrounds and Sources" includes selections on King Arthur from the Oxford Companion to English Literature; on the total eclipse from The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving; and on the "king's touch," the ascetic saints, and the financing of the Mansion House by W. E. H. Lecky. Selections from Clemens's letters, notebooks, autobiography, and other writings and newspaper reports of his 1886 manuscript reading at Governor's Island show how the novel developed. A section of the Beard illustrations includes material by Beard, Clemens, and Henry Nash Smith. The English edition is discussed by Dennis Welland.
Early critical views are by Sylvester Baxter, William Dean Howells, Andrew Lang, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Whibley, Albert Bigelow Paine, John B. Hoben, and anonymous reviewers in the London Daily Telegraph and the Boston Literary World. The later critical essays are by Howard G. Baetzhold, James D. Williams, Kenneth S. Lynn, James M. Cox, Louis J. Budd, Henry Nash Smith, David Ketterer, and Everett Carter.
A Selected Bibliography is also included. [via]More editions of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court:
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Cvltvre Made Stvpidby Tom WellerISBN 0395404614 (0-395-40461-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Dave Barry Slept Hereby Dave BarryISBN 0345416600 (0-345-41660-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dave Barry Slept Here'Book summary:Dave runs American history through the wringer, and comes up with some wonderfully warped formulations. (The Vikings, for example, "were extremely rugged individuals whose idea of a fun time was to sail over and set fire to England, which in those days was fairly easy to ignite because it had a very high level of thatch, this being the kind of roof favored by the local tribespeople...") Covering pre-Columbian days through the dawn of the Bush administration, Dave Barry Slept Here is the funniest thing to hit this great nation since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930. [via]
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Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United Statesby Dave BarryISBN 039456541X (0-394-56541-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States'Book summary:Dave runs American history through the wringer, and comes up with some wonderfully warped formulations. (The Vikings, for example, "were extremely rugged individuals whose idea of a fun time was to sail over and set fire to England, which in those days was fairly easy to ignite because it had a very high level of thatch, this being the kind of roof favored by the local tribespeople...") Covering pre-Columbian days through the dawn of the Bush administration, Dave Barry Slept Here is the funniest thing to hit this great nation since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930. [via]
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The Fandom of the Operatorby Robert RankinISBN 0385602561 (0-385-60256-1)
Hardcover, Transworld Pub
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Farmer Giles of Ham and Other Storiesby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395267994 (0-395-26799-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Farmer Giles of Ham: Bauer Giles Von Hamby J. R. R. Tolkien, Roger GarlandISBN 0395576458 (0-395-57645-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Gertrude and Claudiusby John UpdikeISBN 0375409084 (0-375-40908-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Giles Goat-Boy, Or, the Revised New Syllabusby John BarthISBN 0385240864 (0-385-24086-4)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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Grendelby John Champlin GardnerISBN 0394740564 (0-394-74056-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Grendelby John GardnerISBN 0394471431 (0-394-47143-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writingsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0395051231 (0-395-05123-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings'Book summary:This volume helps readers situate one of the most popular adventure novels ever written, Gulliver's Travels, within the 18th-century process of inventing and resisting Great Britain. Ideas of nationalism--both Irish and British--are questioned and explored. Gulliver's Travels is interpreted as a critique of British colonial aggression, and has special appeal for courses in British literature and Irish studies. Supplemental materials include additional writings by Swift, such as pamphlets (including the famous "A Modest Proposal"), sermons, poems, and letters. A wealth of critical essays adds further context. [via]
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House of Leavesby Mark Z. DanielewskiISBN 0375703764 (0-375-70376-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of Leaves'Book summary:Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on.
Now that we've reached the post-postmodern era, presumably there's nobody left who needs liberating from the strictures of conventional fiction. So apart from its narrative high jinks, what does House of Leaves have to offer? According to Johnny Truant, the tattoo-shop apprentice who discovers Zampanò's work, once you read The Navidson Record,
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.
We'll have to take his word for it, however. As it's presented here, the description of the spooky film isn't continuous enough to have much scare power. Instead, we're pulled back into Johnny Truant's world through his footnotes, which he uses to discharge everything in his head, including the discovery of the manuscript, his encounters with people who knew Zampanò, and his own battles with drugs, sex, ennui, and a vague evil force. If The Navidson Record is a mad professor lecturing on the supernatural with rational-seeming conviction, Truant's footnotes are the manic student in the back of the auditorium, wigged out and furiously scribbling whoa-dude notes about life.Despite his flaws, Truant is an appealingly earnest amateur editor--finding translators, tracking down sources, pointing out incongruities. Danielewski takes an academic's--or ex-academic's--glee in footnotes (the similarity to David Foster Wallace is almost too obvious to mention), as well as other bogus ivory-tower trappings such as interviews with celebrity scholars like Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom. And he stuffs highbrow and pop-culture references (and parodies) into the novel with the enthusiasm of an anarchist filling a pipe bomb with bits of junk metal. House of Leaves may not be the prettiest or most coherent collection, but if you're trying to blow stuff up, who cares? --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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Island of the Sequined Love Nunby Christopher MooreISBN 0380792737 (0-380-79273-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun'Book summary:Pilot Tucker Case has a weakness--well, Tuck really has two--and the combination of drinking and sex in the cockpit of the pink Mary Jean Cosmetics Learjet puts him on the front page of papers all over the planet. But he finds another job with a mysterious employer--someone with a brand-new Lear 45-- who's willing to pay Tuck generously and ask no questions about his record. The jet and job are on Alualu, a speck in the Pacific Ocean, and Tucker has nowhere else to go. But first he has to get to Alualu, and once there, he faces a hurricane, Shark People, atypical missionaries, and boredom ... and the responsibilities assigned to him by Capt. Vincent Bennidetti, U.S. Air Force, deceased bomber pilot and present-day deity of the Shark People. [via]
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J. Crewd : A Parodyby Justin RaczISBN 0385492804 (0-385-49280-4)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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The Jane Austen Book Clubby Karen Joy FowlerISBN 0399151613 (0-399-15161-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jane Austen Book Club'Book summary:Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable - under the guiding eye of Jane Austen a couple of them even fall in love..."I was enchanted. A charming and intelligent read, with the best appendix I've come across since Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time"" - Kate Long, author of "The Bad Mother's Handbook". [via]
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence Sterne, Robert FolkenflikISBN 0375761195 (0-375-76119-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Lunar Parkby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0375727272 (0-375-72727-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Imagine becoming a bestselling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after American Psycho your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze, and drugs.Then imagine having a second chance ten years later, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given, with a wife, children, and suburban sobriety--only to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter of days. At a fateful Halloween party he glimpses a disturbing (fictional) character driving a car identical to his late father's, his stepdaughter's doll violently "malfunctions," and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without. Connecting these aberrations to graver events--a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his sons age--Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania.
Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting horror, both psychological and supernatural, toward an astonishing resolution--about love and loss, fathers and sons--in what is surely the most powerfully original and deeply moving novel of an extraordinary career.
A Tale of Two Brets: An Amazon.com Interview with Bret Easton Ellis
In his novel Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis takes first-person narrative to an extreme, inserting himself (and a host of real characters from the publishing world) into the haunting story of a drugged-out famous writer living in the suburbs trying to reconnect with his wife and son and reconcile his damaged past. Ellis is at the top of his game in Lunar Park, his first novel since 1999's Glamorama, delivering a disturbing and delirious novel about celebrity, writers, and fathers and sons (not to mention a cameo from notorious Ellis creation, Patrick Bateman). Amazon.com senior editor Brad Thomas Parsons spoke with Ellis in a Seattle to Los Angeles phone call to talk about the fact and fiction behind Lunar Park, New York versus LA, '80s music, and the whole "American Psycho thing."
Read the Amazon.com interview with Bret Easton EllisLess Than Zero (1985)
Published when Ellis was a junior at Bennington, Less Than Zero is the mesmerizing first-person chronicle of Clay, our laconic, zoned-out guide to a subculture of over-privileged nihilism in early '80s Los Angeles. He travels back home from Camden College (a thinly veiled Bennington) for Christmas break and re-enters his circle of jaded friends--including his ex-girlfriend Blair, and his best friend Julian, who's now hustling to support his drug habit--and a parade of Porches, late-night parties, cocaine, and casual destruction.Ellis on Ellis: "I don't think it's a perfect book by any means, but it's valid. I get where it comes from. I get what it is. There's a lot of it that I wish was slightly more elegantly written. Overall, I was pretty shocked. It was pretty good writing for someone who was 19."
The Rules of Attraction (1987)
A line-up of Camden College students share the narrating duties in The Rules of Attraction, Ellis' sex-fueled, drug-baked second novel. There's Lauren (who's in the midst of losing her virginity as the book opens), who longs for her boyfriend Victor, currently traveling through Europe; Lauren's ex, Paul, a bisexual party boy who hooks up with hard-drinking closet-case Sean (surname Bateman--that's right, younger brother of Patrick), who also has the hots for Lauren. Less than Zero's Clay makes a cameo appearance as well as a passing glimpse of Ellis' Bennington classmate Donna Tartt's murderous Classics majors from The Secret History. Ellis on Ellis: "It might be my favorite book of mine. I was writing that book while I was at college. Sort of like the best of times, the worst of times. There was a lot of elation, there was a lot of despair. It was just a really fun book to write. I loved mimicking all the different voices. The stream of conscious does get a little out of hand. I kind of like that about the book. It's kind of all over the place. It's casual. It's scruffy. That's the one book of mine that I have a very, very soft spot for."
American Psycho (1991)
Shopaholic sociopath Patrick Bateman's killer grip drags readers into a bloody, brand-name, urban nightmare as the 26-year-old Wall Street yuppie executes his grooming habits and eviscerates strangers with equal élan. Simon & Schuster dropped the too-hot-to-handle American Psycho which was then published as a paperback original by Vintage Books. Ellis received death threats while the book was boycotted, sliced up by reviewers, and went on to become a bestseller. Mary Harron's 2000 film version starred then little-known British actor Christian Bale, who would later suit up as the Dark Knight in 2005's Batman Begins. Ellis on Ellis: "It was good. It was fun. It was not nearly as pretentious as I remember I wanted it to be when I was writing it. I found it really fast-moving. I found it really funny. And I liked it a lot. The violence was... it made my toes curl. I really freaked out. I couldn't believe how violent it was. It was truly upsetting. I had to steel myself to re-read those passages."
The Informers (1994)
Ellis returns to early '80s Los Angeles ennui with The Informers, a loosely connected collection of stories of the bored, rich, and morally depraved, written around the same time as Less than Zero. Sex, drugs, and gratuitous violence take center stage, with characters including an aging, predatory anchorwoman, a debauched rock star tearing through Japan, and a pick-up artist vampire. While some of the vignettes echo better Ellis works, ultimately the stories don't add to much as a whole. Book critics are less than receptive to Ellis' post-American Psycho offering. Ellis on Ellis: "Those were written while I was at Bennington. I wrote a lot of short stories between 1981 or 1982 or so... The Informers more or less kind of represented probably the best of those stories. I wrote a lot of really bad ones, but those are the ones that worked the best together."
Glamorama (1999)
Actor-model Victor Ward (who first made an appearance in the Ellis oeuvre in The Rules of Attraction) is the narrator of Glamorama, Ellis longest novel yet. Ellis offers bold-faced names and celebrity skewering in the first half of the book as Victor tries to open a Manhattan club while cheating on his supermodel girlfriend and double-crossing his partner, but the second half takes a violent, paranoid turn as Victor is sent to England and unwittingly lured into a sadistic ring of international terrorists (posing as supermodels) leaving a bloody trail across the globe. Ellis on Ellis: "[T]he book wasn't necessarily about terrorism to me. It was about a whole bunch of other stuff. It's definitely the book that I can tell--I don't know if other people can tell but I can tell as a writer--is probably the most divisive that I've written. It has an equal number of detractors as it does fans. It doesn't really hold true with the other books. It was the one that took the longest to write, and the one that seemed the most important at the time. It's an unwieldy book... I like it."
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Maybe He's Dead: And Other Hilarious Results of New York Magazine Competitionby Mary Ann MaddenISBN 0394747070 (0-394-74707-0)
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The Monkby Matthew G. Lewis, Hugh ThomasISBN 0375759166 (0-375-75916-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Monty Python and the Holy Grailby Terry Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry GilliamISBN 0413741206 (0-413-74120-6)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail Bookby Graham Chapman, John CleeseISBN 0413773906 (0-413-77390-6)
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Monty Python's Second Film: A First Draftby Graham ChapmanISBN 0413385205 (0-413-38520-5)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen
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More Items from Our Catalogby Alfred GingoldISBN 0380846578 (0-380-84657-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Naked Came the Manateeby Tananarive Due, James W. Hall, Les Standiford, Elmore Leonard, Dave Barry, Edna Buchanan, Paul Levine, John Dufresne, Vicki Hendricks, Brian Antoni, Carolina Hospital, Evelyn Mayerson, Carl HiaasenISBN 0399141928 (0-399-14192-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Came the Manatee'Book summary:Dave Barry starts the madness in Naked Came the Manatee, introducing a 102-year-old environmentalist named Coconut Grove and a manatee saddled with one of Barry's favorite monikers, Booger. Carl Hiaasen closes down the party, and in between, 11 of Florida's literati, including Elmore Leonard, John Dufresne, and Edna Buchanan, make twisted offerings to the affair: three severed heads, all bearing a remarkable resemblance to Fidel Castro; four murders; some sex; some espionage; even an appearance by Jimmy Carter and one by Castro himself.
Originally published as a serial novel in the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine, Naked Came the Manatee resembles a literary game of telephone, with each writer contributing a chapter and passing it on to the next, who then makes the most of what he or she is given. The result is a novel with wildly fluctuating styles and more crazy plot curves than a daytime drama, but thanks to these 13 masters of the craft this roller coaster of a book is almost as much fun to read as it obviously was to write. [via]
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Naked Lunchby William S. BurroughsISBN 0394538838 (0-394-53883-8)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Lunch'Book summary:"He was," as Salon's Gary Kamiya notes, "20th-century drug culture's Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland into a parallel universe, one as thoroughly and obsessively rendered as Blake's."
Why has this homosexual ex-junkie, whose claim to fame rests entirely on one book--the hallucinogenic ravings of a heroine addict--so seized the collective imagination? Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch in a Tangier, Morocco, hotel room between 1954 and 1957. Allen Ginsberg and his beatnik cronies burst onto the scene, rescued the manuscript from the food-encrusted floor, and introduced some order to the pages. It was published in Paris in 1959 by the notorious Olympia Press and in the U.S. in 1962; the landmark obscenity trial that ensued served to end literary censorship in America.
Burroughs's literary experiment--the much-touted "cut-up" technique--mirrored the workings of a junkie's brain. But it was junk coupled with vision: Burroughs makes teeming amalgam of allegory, sci-fi, and non-linear narration, all wrapped in a blend of humor--slapstick, Swiftian, slang-infested humor. What is Naked Lunch about? People turn into blobs amidst the sort of evil that R. Crumb, in the decades to come, would inimitably flesh out with his dark and creepy cartoon images. Perhaps the most easily grasped part of Naked Lunch is its America-bashing, replete with slang and vitriol. Read it and see for yourself. [via]
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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Out from Bonevilleby Jeff SmithISBN 0439706238 (0-439-70623-8)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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In OUT FROM BONEVILLE, volume 1 of this 9-book epic, the three Bone cousins -- Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone -- are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. Eventually, the cousins are reunited at a farmstead run by tough Gran'ma Ben and her spirited granddaughter Thorn. But little do the Bones know, there are dark forces conspiring against them, and their adventures are only just beginning!More editions of Out from Boneville:
Parallel Botanyby LionniISBN 0394733029 (0-394-73302-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Parodyby Simon DentithISBN 0415182212 (0-415-18221-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0375751513 (0-375-75151-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition is the only edition available that includes both the 1890 Lippincotts and the 1891 book versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, allowing students to compare the two published versions with the editorial guidance of Michael Patrick Gillespie.
Backgrounds and Reviews and Reactions allow readers to gauge the novels sensational reception and to consider the heated public debate over art and morality that the novel engendered.
Criticism includes seven new essays on the novel that reflect key changes in interpretive theory in recent years and reveal the broad range of interpretive perspectives on Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Michael Patrick Gillespie, Simon Joyce, Donald L. Lawler, Sheldon W. Liebman, Maureen OConnor, Elli Ragland-Sullivan, and John Paul Riquelme provide their varied assessments.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of The Picture of Dorian Gray:
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Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Picture of Dorian Gray: ISBN 0394605144 (0-394-60514-4)
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Pninby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0385191162 (0-385-19116-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pnin'Book summary:Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding-house; and, the trials of taking the wrong train. [via]
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The Poems of Alexander Popeby John Everett ButtISBN 0415040000 (0-415-04000-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Politics of Postmodernismby Linda HutcheonISBN 0415280168 (0-415-28016-8)
Softcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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Rape of the Lockby Alexander Pope, Geoffrey TillotsonISBN 0415039991 (0-415-03999-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rape of the Lock'Book summary:This seminal edition includes comprehensive annotation, the 1712 version of the poem as well as the 1714 version, and substantial critical material in appendices. No student of Pope can afford to be without this classic edition. [via]
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Riders on the Storm: My Life With Jim Morrison and the Doorsby John DensmoreISBN 0385304471 (0-385-30447-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymesby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0375815562 (0-375-81556-2)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes'Book summary:I guess you think you know this story.
You dont. The real ones much more gory.
The phoney one, the one you know,
Was cooked up years and years ago. . . .
With his famous wicked humor and the cunning of a big bad wolf, master storyteller and satirist Roald Dahl retells his six favorite fairy tales. Get ready for Dahls diabolical version of what really happened to Cinderella, Goldilocks, the Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, and Little Red Riding Hood.
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Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes: ISBN 039495422X (0-394-95422-X)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes: ISBN 0375815562 (0-375-81556-2)
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solutionby Henry F. Ledgard, Nicholas MeyerISBN 0393311198 (0-393-31119-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rollsby Robert RankinISBN 0385600569 (0-385-60056-9)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. Tolkien, Ted Nasmith, Christopher TolkienISBN 0395939461 (0-395-93946-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Silmarillion'Book summary:The background to the entire Lord of the Rings epic, and the world of middle-earth. The Silmarillion is Tolkien's first book and his last, the core of his imaginative work that underlies all his writings about Middle-earth. Here are the legends of the Elder Days, the central stories that give meaning to the events of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Tolkien began The Silmarillion in 1917 and worked on it, changed it, and continued it throughout his life. Edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, the book finally appeared four years after the author's death, in 1977. The three Silmarils were jewels created by Feonor, the most gifted of the Elves, and within them gleamed the light of the Two Trees of Valinor. But they were stolen by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, setting off the major war of the First Age. The Silmarillion includes several other works besides the main story: Ainulindale, the myth of Creation; Valaquenta, on the nature and power of the gods; Allakabeth, recounting the downfall of Numenor; and "Of the Rings of Power and the third Age," the link to The Lord of the Rings. As Christopher Tolkien describes it: "The entire history is set forth from the Music of the Ainur in which the world began to the passing of the ringbearers from the Havens of Mithlond at the end of the Third Age." [via]
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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Spy High '91 : The Yearbook of America's Rich and Famousby Spy Magazine Editors, Jamie MalanowskiISBN 0385411006 (0-385-41100-6)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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Spy Notes on McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, Ellis's Lees Than Zero, Janowitz's Slaves of New York...& All Those Other Hip Urban Novels of the 1980'sby Spy Magazine EditorsISBN 0385247451 (0-385-24745-1)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Tao of Poohby Benjamin HoffISBN 0416195113 (0-416-19511-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Formsby Linda HutcheonISBN 0415065879 (0-415-06587-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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Thus Spake Zarathustraby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0394608089 (0-394-60808-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Travestiesby Tom StoppardISBN 039417884X (0-394-17884-X)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Tremor of Intentby Anthony BurgessISBN 0393004163 (0-393-00416-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Denis Hillier is an aging British agent based in Yugoslavia. His old school friend Roper has defected to the USSR to become one of the evil empire's great scientific minds. Hillier must bring Roper back to England or risk losing his fat retirement bonus. As thoughtful as it is funny, this morality tale of a Secret Service gone mad features sex, gluttony, violence, treachery, and religion. Anthony Burgess's cast of astonishing characters includes Roper's German prostitute wife; Miss Devi and her Tamil love treatise; and the large Mr. Theodorescu, international secret monger and lascivious gourmand. A rare combination of the deadly serious and the absurd, the lofty and the lusty, Tremor of Intent will hold you in its thrall. [via]More editions of Tremor of Intent:
Tristram Shandyby Laurence Sterne, Howard AndersonISBN 0393950344 (0-393-95034-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Unofficial Gay Manual: Living the Lifestyle or at Least Appearing toby Kevin Dilallo, Jack KrumholtzISBN 0385474458 (0-385-47445-8)
Softcover, Doubleday
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Utopiaby Thomas More, Robert M. AdamsISBN 0393961451 (0-393-96145-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Watching With the Simpsons: Television, Parody, And Intertextualityby Jonathan GrayISBN 0415362032 (0-415-36203-2)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Web Site Storyby Robert RankinISBN 0385600585 (0-385-60058-5)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Wishbringerby Craig Shaw GardnerISBN 0380753855 (0-380-75385-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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