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Abbess of Creweby Muriel SparkISBN 0333177002 (0-333-17700-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abbess of Crewe'Book summary:Published in 1974 and inspired by Watergate, Muriel Spark's Abbess of Crewe is much more amusing and infinitely drier. It transpires that Alexandra, the title character, has bugged and videotaped the Abbey--except for the confessionals and chapel--with electronic "devices fearfully and wonderfully beyond the reach of a humane vocabulary." After her only rival decamps for London and the arms of a Jesuit, police and newspapers swoop in. All the while, the Abbess (an adherent of Machiavelli, The Art of War, and the Modernist poets) keeps her cool, sacrificing her confederates as necessary and trying to assure herself of helicopter-hopping Gertrude's loyalty. (Gertrude is off curing cannibals of their customs and calls in occasionally from places whose unpronounceable names will soon be replaced by other equally unpronounceable names.) Spark's nuns on the run are more than stand-ins for the sweaty American President and his operatives; the satire extends to Anglo-snobbism and -Catholicism. The Abbess explains to the Pope that "electronic surveillance (even if a convent were one day to practise it) does not differ from any other type of watchfulness, the which is a necessity of a Religious Community; we are told in the Scriptures 'to watch and to pray,' which is itself a paradox." [via]
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Alexander Popeby Alexander Pope, Pat RogersISBN 0192813463 (0-19-281346-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexander Pope'Book summary:Though critical opinion on Alexander Pope has frequently been divided, he is now regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, he devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of twenty-one. A succession of brilliant poems followed, including An Essay on Criticism (1711), Windsor Forest (1715), and his masterpiece, The Rape of the Lock. A second period of great poetry was begun in 1728 with the appearance of the first Dunciad. All these works--which exhibit Pope's astonishing human insight, his wide sympathies, and powers of social observation (displayed to greatest effect in his talent for satire)--are included in this selection of his poetry. It has been compiled by the distinguished Pope scholar and editor Pat Rodgers, who also provides an indispensable introduction that offers a new interpretation of Pope's poetry, and the philosophical ideas behind it. [via]
Annotated Casey at the Bat: A Collection of Ballads About the Mighty Caseyby Martin GardnerISBN 0226282635 (0-226-28263-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Babes and Bulletsby Jim DavisISBN 0345363396 (0-345-36339-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Best of Mylesby Flann O'BrienISBN 0261620495 (0-261-62049-5)
Hardcover, MacGibbon & Kee
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Betrayalsby Charles PalliserISBN 0345404351 (0-345-40435-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Betrayals'Book summary:At once a hypnotic murder mystery, scathing literary parody, soap opera, and brilliant pastiche, Betrayals is an astonishing virtuouso performance by a modern master of literary gamesmanship in the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov and John Barth.
The novel unforlds in a series of seemingly unrelated narratives, each written in a different style -- indeed, in a different genre. There is an obituary for a Scottish scientist and Nobel Prize winner, written by a colleague who clearly relishes his death. Early in the century, a train in the Scottish Highlands heads down the wrong track during a winter snowstorm, and the passengers are forced to abandon the train, resulting in the death -- or is it murder? -- of one of them. An inane publisher's reader summarizes the plot of a tacky hospital romance novel, which ends in a gory murder all too reminiscent of Jack the Ripper. Even a report on a contemporary academic controversy explodes into a scandal of plagiarism, shattered reputations, paranoia, and suicide -- or is it murder made to look as such?
As Palliser deftly teases out each new situation, it becomes clear that they are all variations on a single outrageous theme: a distinguished figure in some intellectual pursuit -- science, literature, academia -- becomes obsessed with the success of a rival and schemes his demise, only to botch the job out of sheer monomania. Like the scorpion that stings itself to death, each plotter becomes a victim of his own plot; each betrayer changes places with the betrayed in an intricate dance of deception, revenge, and revelation.
A challenging, engrossing, utterly original work of art, Betrayals is also pure joy to read -- a book that will make you laugh out loud, turn pages madly in pursuit of the next plot twist, and above all, marvel at the supreme ingenuity of a fictional puzzle in which the unlikeliest pieces fit together perfectly.
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Bride of the Rat Godby Barbara HamblyISBN 0345381017 (0-345-38101-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bride of the Rat God'Book summary:Chrysanda Flamande was the sultriest vamp of the silver screen in Hollywood, California, in the year 1923. Then an elderly Chinese gentleman warned her that a trinket she'd worn in her last movie had marked her to be the bride of an ancient devil-god of Manchuria. Now the Rat God is stalking closer, and Chrysanda is discovering that there's no mousetrap big enough to keep her from being dragged unwilling to the altar! [via]
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Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926345 (0-316-92634-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brideshead Revisited'Book summary:A departure from Evelyn Waugh's normally comic theater, Brideshead Revisited concerns the tale of Charles Ryder, a captain in the British Army in post-World War I England. Unlike Waugh's previous narrators, Ryder is an intelligent man, looking back on much of his life from his current post in Oxford. He strikes a special friendship with Lord Sebastian Flyte as the setting moves to the Brideshead estate and a baroque castle that recalls England's prior standing in the world. Ryder falls for Flyte's sister while families, politics and religions collide. What makes the book extraordinary is Waugh's sharp, vivid style and his use of dialect and minor characters. This is one of Waugh's finest accomplishments and a superb book. [via]
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Bridget Jones's Diaryby Helen FieldingISBN 0330332767 (0-330-33276-7)
Hardcover, Picador
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridget Jones's Diary'Book summary:In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year's resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent.
At the beginning of Helen Fielding's exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she'll have made a good start. As far as she's concerned, "We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, 'How's your marriage going? Still having sex?'"
This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people's "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones's Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don't sound half as sensible to Bridget when she's sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it's impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0198323727 (0-19-832372-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment. -
Candideby Daniel Gordon, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0312148542 (0-312-14854-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Candide, Voltaire's biting portrayal of eighteenth-century European society, is a central text of the Enlightenment and essential reading for history students today. Preserving the text's provocative nature, Daniel Gordon's new translation enhances Candide's read-ability and highlights the text's wit and satire for twentieth-century readers. The introduction places the work and its author in historical context, showing students how the complexities of Voltaire's life relate to the events, philosophy, and characters of Candide. A related documents section - with personal correspondence to and from Voltaire - gives students another lens through which to view this influential thinker. Helpful editorial features include explanatory notes throughout the text and a chronology of Voltaire's life. [via]
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Candideby Burton Raffel, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0300106556 (0-300-10655-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.More editions of Candide:
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Candide and Other Storiesby F. M. Voltaire, Roger PearsonISBN 0192817302 (0-19-281730-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide and Other Stories'Book summary:Candide, the wittiest and best-loved book of a genius who is still unequaled in his ability to spin art out of philosophy, became a huge bestseller in Europe after it was published in 1759. Voltaire, skeptical of the systems of philosophy that were floated about to explain the workings of the world, used this satirical story about the optimist Candide and his friend Dr. Pangloss to interrogate and discredit the philosophies and approach more closely the truth about human life, suffering, and happiness in the real world. Now, the short novel Candide is considered one of the most important texts of the enlightenment. [via]
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Castle Roognaby Piers AnthonyISBN 0345350480 (0-345-35048-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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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.... [via]
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Complete Works of Saint Thomas Moreby Thomas MoreISBN 0300009828 (0-300-00982-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works of Saint Thomas More'Book summary:Although numbers as Volume 4, this is the second of the Complete Works to appear, following The History of King Richard III. The Latin text is based on the editions of 1516, 1517, and 1518, fully collated and with the variant readings; the parallel English text is a thoroughly revised version of the translation by G. C. Richards. Also included are the letters on the book exchanged by More and his friends, their tributes, and the marginal glosses of the early editions. The text is followed by a commentary on the relation of Utopia to its own age and as it has been interpreted by scholars. The editors' Introduction included an outline of the genesis and composition of Utopia, edited by Father Surtz, will also appear in the Yale Paperbound format. Father Surtz is professor of English at Loyola University, and Mr. Hexter is professor of history at Yale University. Previously announced.[via]More editions of Complete Works of Saint Thomas More:
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain, M. Thomas IngeISBN 0192839020 (0-19-283902-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is one of Twain's best-loved tales. A pioneering work of science fiction, it vibrates with slapstick comedy and serious social commentary as well. In this complex and ambitious tour de force, an inventive nineteenth-century resident of Hartford named Hank Morgan travels back in time to sixteenth-century England where he tries to introduce modern technology and political ideas. Along the way he founds the first tabloid, the Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano, organizes a game of baseball between armor-clad knights, and "keeps up a steady fire of flippancies, so frequent that no reader registers all of them on the first go-around," as Louis Budd reminds us in his introduction. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Twain's most complex and disturbing meditation on technology, as well as a powerful consideration of politics and power. The original illustrations by Dan Beard, chosen by Twain himself to illustrate the book, brilliantly mix buffoonery with sharp social satire in an effective counterpoint to the text. By turns side-splittingly funny and somberly thought-provoking, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Twain at his finest. [via]
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195114108 (0-19-511410-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889'Book summary:One of Twain's best-loved stories next to his classic tales of Huck and Tom, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court vibrates with slapstick comedy and serious social commentary. While Hank Morgan, Twain's time-displaced Yankee traveler, keeps up a steady stream of flippancies, founding the first tabloid, the Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano, and organizing a game of baseball between armor-clad knights, he also keeps up a steady commentary on the social mores of King Arthur's court, criticizing the hereditary social classes and state church still strong in the Victorian England of Twain's own day, and championing women's suffrage and union labor organization. Widely regarded as one of the first science fiction novels, this edition also features an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut, our own twentieth century master of satiric social commentary and science fiction. It also features the original illustrations by Dan Beard, chosen by Twain himself to illustrate the book, whose drawings brilliantly mix buffoonery with sharp social satire: sharp-eyed readers, for instance, will spot that the model for Merlin, Hank's nemesis, is none other than Tennyson, whose Idylls of the King made the romantic vision of King Arthur's court nearly a sacred Victorian cult. By turns side-splittingly funny and somberly thought-provoking, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Twain at his finest. [via]
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Demons of the Dancing Godsby Jack L. ChalkerISBN 034530893X (0-345-30893-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Enormous Eggby Louis Darling, Oliver ButterworthISBN 0316119202 (0-316-11920-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Enormous Eggby Oliver Butterworth, Louis DarlingISBN 0316119040 (0-316-11904-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Expecting Someone Tallerby Tom HoltISBN 0312014260 (0-312-01426-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfactionby Ben Stiller, Janeane GarofaloISBN 0345412931 (0-345-41293-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Fire in the Johnby Alfred GingoldISBN 0312074832 (0-312-07483-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Flying Dutchby Tom HoltISBN 0312069758 (0-312-06975-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Grendelby John Champlin GardnerISBN 0345288653 (0-345-28865-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grendel'Book summary:Grendel is a beautiful and heartbreaking modern retelling of the Beowulf epic from the point of view of the monster, Grendel, the villain of the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon epic. This book benefits from both of Gardner's careers: in addition to his work as a novelist, Gardner was a noted professor of medieval literature and a scholar of ancient languages. [via]
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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writingsby Jonathan Swift, Louis A. LandaISBN 0192812068 (0-19-281206-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0241131448 (0-241-13144-8)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'Book summary:By the author of "A Wild Sheep Chase", which won the Noma Literary Award for New Writers, this novel combines science-fiction, satire and a warning of the dangerous powers of corporations. [via]
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Infinite Jestby David Foster WallaceISBN 0316066524 (0-316-06652-4)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Infinite Jest'Book summary:In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves. [via]
Jane Austen's "Sir Charles Grandison"by Jane AustenISBN 0198126379 (0-19-812637-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence Sterne, Campbell RossISBN 0192834703 (0-19-283470-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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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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Life's Little Destruction Bookby Charles Sherwood DaneISBN 0312929277 (0-312-92927-7)
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Mad About the Fifties: The Best of the DecadeISBN 0316558087 (0-316-55808-7)
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Magicianby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0330254960 (0-330-25496-0)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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The Monk: A Longman Cultural Editionby Matthew Lewis, Howard AndersonISBN 0192833944 (0-19-283394-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Monk: A Longman Cultural Edition'Book summary:The Monk shocked and titillated readers with its graphic portrayal of lust, sin, and violence when it was first published in 1796. A true classic of the Gothic novel, it has left an indelible mark on English literature and has influenced such eminent writers as Byron, Scott, Poe, Flaubert, Hawthorne, Emily Brontë, and many others over the past two centuries. Ambrosio is the abbot of the Capuchin monastery in Madrid. He is beloved by his flock, and his renowned piety has earned him the nickname The Man of Holiness. Yet beneath the veneer of this religious man lies a heart of hypocrisy; arrogant, licentious, and vengeful, he follows his sexual desires down the torturous path to ruin. Along the way, he encounters a naïve virgin who falls prey to his scheming, a baleful beauty fluent in witchcraft, the ghostly Bleeding Nun, an evil prioress, the Wandering Jew, and others.[via]More editions of The Monk: A Longman Cultural Edition:
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Mr. Bunny's Big Cup O'Javaby Carlton EgremontISBN 0201615630 (0-201-61563-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Mysteries Of Udolphoby Bonamy Dobree, Ann Ward RadcliffeISBN 0192815024 (0-19-281502-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Mysteries Of Udolphoby Terry Castle, Bonamy Dobree, Ann Ward RadcliffeISBN 0192825232 (0-19-282523-2)
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The Nacirema: Readings on American Cultureby James P. SpradleyISBN 0316807532 (0-316-80753-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Nietzscheby John Richardson, Brian LeiterISBN 0198752709 (0-19-875270-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nietzsche'Book summary:The latest volume in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series, this work brings together some of the best and most influential recent philosophical scholarship on Nietzsche. Opening with a substantial introduction by John Richardson, it covers: Nietzsche's views on truth and knowledge, his 'doctrines' of the eternal recurrence and will to power, his distinction between Apollinian and Dionysian art, his critique of morality, his conceptions of agency and self-creation, and his genealogical method. For each of these issues, the papers show Nietzsche's continuing philosophical importance. Giving a clear and accessible overview, while retaining an analytical philosophical approach throughout, this volume is essential reading for all students of Nietzsche. [via]
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Claudia L. Johnson, John N. DavieISBN 0192840827 (0-19-284082-7)
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Claude Rawson, Jane Austen, John DavieISBN 0192833685 (0-19-283368-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon'Book summary:Northanger Abbey is the earliest of Jane Austen's great comedies of female enlightenment and combines literary burlesque - making fun of the excesses of the Gothic novel - with larger moral, philosophical, and social issues: the folly of letting literature get in the way of life, the inexcusability of not thinking for oneself, and the painful difficulties (especially for women) involved in growing up. Lady Susan and The Watsons are early compositions that reflect many of the qualities of Northanger Abbey. The first is an epistolary novel centring on the intrigues of the villainous Lady Susan; the second is an unfinished example of Jane Austen's most characteristic form - a story where the heroine is outstanding for her sense and goodness, virtues notably lacking in the other characters, who are here part of an altogether bleaker vision. Sanditon, too, is tragically incomplete, and it signals the achievement of a new depth and breadth of comic insight on the part of its author. [via]
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On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript The Post-Italianate Editionby Robert K. MertonISBN 0226520862 (0-226-52086-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality: Reading from the Journal of Polymorphous Perversityby Glenn C. EllenbogenISBN 0345347005 (0-345-34700-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Orlando: A Biographyby Virginia WoolfISBN 0192834738 (0-19-283473-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orlando: A Biography'Book summary:Virginia Woolf's "biography" tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the 16th century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the life that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virginia Woolf's own day-to-day existence; it is also Woolf's light-hearted and light-handed teasing out of the assumptions that lie behind the normal conventions for writing about a fictional or historical life. [via]
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Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0321427130 (0-321-42713-0)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Talesby Jack D. ZipesISBN 0198601158 (0-19-860115-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Talesby Jack David ZipesISBN 0198605099 (0-19-860509-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Perfect Parents Handbookby Jennifer ConlinISBN 0312329911 (0-312-32991-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Perfect Parents Handbook'Book summary:With a classification system that has every parenting style down to a 't', The Perfect Parents Handbook is unputdownable reading for anyone who's ever forked over major three figures for the "must have" stroller or agonized over what their children's school says about them as parents. The real facts and details in this book gently skewer modern mothers and fathers and will at the same time delight them with dead-on accuracy in describing the habits and accouterments of nine types, including:[via]
--The Neo-Trads: Dad makes the cupcakes and kids' artwork is everywhere (not just on the fridge); the family's taste always exceeds its wallet
--The Martyr Parents: They've sacrificed so much for the kids that the kids have taken over the asylum
--The Power Parents: The IV sessions that led to triplets were coordinated on mom and dad's Blackberries and the real British nanny swabs the babies' Burberry button-downs on the way to their five bedroom Park Avenue apartment
--The Classic Parents: Everybody's in LL Bean and their 2.3 children all climb into a little red wagon to get to the SUV
Laced with titillating facts about our child-centric culture (unique baby announcements! nursery decorators! mandatory volunteering at preschool!), The Perfect Parents Handbook decodes the complex and terrifying (smothering doulas! educational vacations to the rainforest!) world of raising kids.,More editions of The Perfect Parents Handbook:
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0192815539 (0-19-281553-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Place of Dead Roadsby William S. BurroughsISBN 0312278659 (0-312-27865-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Place of Dead Roads'Book summary:A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom. The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in the trilogy with Cities of the Red Night and The Western Lands.[via]More editions of The Place of Dead Roads:
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Poemsby Alexander Pope, John Everett ButtISBN 0300003404 (0-300-00340-4)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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The Primal Whimperby Glenn C. EllenbogenISBN 0345364740 (0-345-36474-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Private Eye Story: The First 21 Yearsby Patrick MarnhamISBN 0233974903 (0-233-97490-3)
Hardcover, Harper & Collins
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Rape of the Lockby Alexander PopeISBN 0198319584 (0-19-831958-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rape of the Lock'Book summary:Alexander Pope's classic poem "The Rape of the Lock," edited and with an introduction by Thomas Marc Parrott.
Perhaps no other great poet in English Literature has been so differently judged at different times as Alexander Pope. Accepted almost on his first appearance as one of the leading poets of the day, he rapidly became recognized as the foremost man of letters of his age. He held this position throughout his life, and for over half a century after his death his works were considered not only as masterpieces, but as the finest models of poetry. With the change of poetic temper that occurred at the beginning of the nineteenth century Pope's fame was overshadowed. The romantic poets and critics even raised the question whether Pope was a poet at all. And as his poetical fame diminished, the harsh judgments of his personal character increased. It is almost incredible with what exulting bitterness critics and editors of Pope have tracked out and exposed his petty intrigues, exaggerated his delinquencies, misrepresented his actions, attempted in short to blast his character as a man.
Both as a man and as a poet Pope is sadly in need of a defender to-day. And a defense is by no means impossible. The depreciation of Pope's poetry springs, in the main, from an attempt to measure it by other standards than those which he and his age recognized. The attacks upon his character are due, in large measure, to a misunderstanding of the spirit of the times in which he lived and to a forgetfulness of the special circumstances of his own life. Tried in a fair court by impartial judges Pope as a poet would be awarded a place, if not among the noblest singers, at least high among poets of the second order. And the flaws of character which even his warmest apologist must admit would on the one hand be explained, if not excused, by circumstances, and on the other more than counterbalanced by the existence of noble qualities to which his assailants seem to have been quite blind. [via]
The Rape of the Lock: A Cultural Editionby Pope, Cynthia WallISBN 0312115695 (0-312-11569-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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The River of Dancing Godsby Jack L. ChalkerISBN 0345345010 (0-345-34501-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymesby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0224029320 (0-224-02932-0)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Samurai Cat Goes to Hellby Mark E. RogersISBN 0312866429 (0-312-86642-9)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Samurai Cat Goes to the Moviesby Mark E. RogersISBN 0312857446 (0-312-85744-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Second Coming Attractionsby David PrillISBN 0312181736 (0-312-18173-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Seven-Percent Solutionby John H. Watson, Nicholas MeyerISBN 0345331567 (0-345-33156-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345325818 (0-345-32581-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Skymaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy from the Planeby Dan Klein, John Reichmuth, James ReichmuthISBN 0312357478 (0-312-35747-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Star Wreck IIIby Leah RewolinskiISBN 0312928912 (0-312-92891-2)
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Star Wreck Vby Leah Rewolinski, Harry TrumboreISBN 0312951221 (0-312-95122-1)
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Starship Titanicby Terry Jones, Douglas AdamsISBN 0345368436 (0-345-36843-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Sword of Samurai Catby Mark RogersISBN 0312851561 (0-312-85156-1)
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Teen Angst: A Celebration Of Really Bad Poetryby Sara BynoeISBN 0312334745 (0-312-33474-5)
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A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Formsby Linda HutcheonISBN 0252069382 (0-252-06938-2)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Three Early Modern Utopiasby Thomas More, Henry Neville, Susan BruceISBN 0192838857 (0-19-283885-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Early Modern Utopias'Book summary:With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a satire on unrealistic idealism. Enormously influential, it remains a challenging as well as a playful text. This edition reprints Ralph Robinson's 1556 translation from More's original Latin together with letters and illustrations that accompanied early editions of Utopia.
This edition also includes two other, hitherto less accessible, utopian narratives. New Atlantis (1627) offers a fictional illustration of Francis Bacon's visionary ideal of the role that science should play in the modern society. Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines (1668), a precursor of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, engages with some of the sexual, racial, and colonialist anxieties of the end of the early modern period. Bringing together these three New World texts, and situating them in a wider Renaissance context, this edition--which includes letters, maps, and alphabets that accompanied early editions--illustrates the diversity of the early modern utopian imagination, as well as the different purposes to which it could be put. [via]More editions of Three Early Modern Utopias:
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Utopiaby Thomas MoreISBN 0300002386 (0-300-00238-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utopia'Book summary:First published in 1516, Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveller Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly five centuries after it was written, and it remains a foundational text in philosophy and political theory. Precminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More's rhetoric in this new translation. Professor Miller includes a helpful introduction that outlines some of the important problems and issues that Utopia raises, and also provides informative commentary to assist the reader throughout this challenging and rewarding exploration of the meaning of political community. [via]
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Villains by Necessityby Eve ForwardISBN 0312857896 (0-312-85789-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Warning Label Bookby Joey Green, Tim Nyberg, Tony XISBN 0312195346 (0-312-19534-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Warning Label Book'Book summary:Warnings-they're everywhere.[via]
On toys. On hair dryers. On compact discs. On take-out coffee cups. Almost everything for sale today comes with a warning. Why? Now, most people have enough common sense not to take a bath with an electric blender, but thanks to a few morons out there who sued big companies and won huge settlements, products now come with warnings that treat consumers like a bunch of slack-jawed yokels.
So here's a collection of more than a hundred of the most ridiculous real warning labels on today's products. For example:
CAUTION: DO NOT ON USE THIS HAMMER TO STRIKE ANY SOLID OBJECT.
Such as, perhaps, the head of the idiot who came up with this warning in the first place?
In addition, the book includes two dozen hilarious peel-off fake warning labels you can stick on real products to keep you, your friends, and your loved ones safe. Just don't read this book while driving a car or operating heavy machinery.More editions of The Warning Label Book:
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Wild Angelby Pat MurphyISBN 0312866267 (0-312-86626-7)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Angel'Book summary:Though Wild Angel, Pat Murphy's frontier fantasy, deals with both wolves and westward expansion, readers of her lycanthrope novel Nadya should not expect a retread. This playful homage to the Tarzan books and American tall tales travels a lighter, more sparkling road.
Set in the California gold country between 1850 and 1863, the novel follows the adventures of Sarah McKensie, orphaned at age 3 by a stagecoach robber. Sarah is adopted and nursed by the she-wolf Wauna (who has lost her litter of pups to the same brutal man) and is accepted into the wolf pack. As she matures, Sarah learns to assist in the pack's well-being by contributing human tools--a found knife, a bow and arrow, and a lariat stolen from a would-be cowpoke--to the hunt.
With her best friend and pack-sister Beka at her side, Sarah becomes a local legend--the Wild Angel of the Sierras, rescuer of imperiled travelers. Sarah's altruism is motivated less by compassion than by curiosity, bafflement by the settlers' inability to perceive the world around them, and a passion for biscuits.
Surrounding Sarah is a kaleidoscopic cast: an artist with a shady past; a young Indian shaman; a mesmerist-cum-temperance crusader; a circus impresario with a pack of poodles and an elephant named Ruby; a young woman on the lam from her strait-laced aunt; the hilarious fraternal order E Clampus Vitus (or "Clampers"); Samuel Clemens (in a brief and thwarted cameo); and, of course, two hiss-worthy villains--one human, one lupine.
Throughout this tale of coincidence, chance reunions, heroism, villainy, romance, revenge, and adventure, Murphy weaves deft comedic touches--including Sarah's unforgettable improvisation during a staging of "The Drunkard." Even the one continuity blip near the end of the novel reads not as authorial carelessness but as a knowing wink to the plot-and-character-juggling serial writers of the past.
Murphy has written Wild Angel as a novel by alter-ego/imaginary friend Max Merriwell written as Mary Maxwell. The conceit isn't necessary for enjoyment of the novel, but the three explanatory afterwords, by Maxwell, Merriwell, and Murphy, are pure jam.
Before embarking upon this delightful novel, readers would be well advised to check their realism at the door and adopt the motto of the Clampers--Credo Quia Absurdum, "I believe because it is absurd." --Eddy Avery [via]
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