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The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writingsby Marquis SadeISBN 0802130127 (0-8021-3012-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Albert Camus's the Strangerby Harold BloomISBN 0791059286 (0-7910-5928-6)
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Alexander Pushkinby Walter W. Arndt, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Paul DebreczenyISBN 0804711429 (0-8047-1142-9)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Alexander Pushkin Complete Prose Fictionby Alexander Pushkin, Paul Debreczeny, Walter W. ArndtISBN 0804718008 (0-8047-1800-8)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Amerika: (The Man Who Disappeared)by Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir, Emlen EttingISBN 0805210644 (0-8052-1064-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amerika: (The Man Who Disappeared)'Book summary:Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
Foreword by E. L. Doctorow
Afterword by Max Brod
Kafkas first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself packed off to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures.
Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vast landscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the golden land. Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic and visionary tale of America as a place no one has yet seen, in a historical period that cant be identified, writes E. L. Doctorow in his new foreword. Kafka made his novel from his own minds mythic elements, Doctorow explains, and the research data that caught his eye were bent like rays in a field of gravity. [via]More editions of Amerika: (The Man Who Disappeared):
A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Nowby Aliki Barnstone, Willis BarnstoneISBN 0805209972 (0-8052-0997-2)
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 080850861X (0-8085-0861-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
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The Castle : A New Translation Based on the Restored Textby Franz Kafka, Mark HarmonISBN 0805241183 (0-8052-4118-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle : A New Translation Based on the Restored Text'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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The Castle: Classic Collectionby Franz Kafka, Mark HarmanISBN 0805211063 (0-8052-1106-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle: Classic Collection'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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The Castle: Classic Collectionby Irving Howe, Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin MuirISBN 0805210393 (0-8052-1039-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle: Classic Collection'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0808514032 (0-8085-1403-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
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The Coast of Utopiaby Tom StoppardISBN 0802140033 (0-8021-4003-3)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coast of Utopia'Book summary:The Coast of Utopia is Tom Stoppard's long-awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who came of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term intelligentsia was coined. Among them are the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx for the soul of the masses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander Herzen, a nobleman's son and the first self-proclaimed socialist in Russia, who becomes the main focus of this drama of politics, love, loss, and betrayal. In The Coast of Utopia , Stoppard presents an inspired examination of the struggle between romantic anarchy, utopian idealism, and practical reformation in this chronicle of romantics and revolutionaries caught up in a struggle for political freedom in an age of emperors.[via]More editions of The Coast of Utopia:
Country Wifeby William WycherleyISBN 0803253710 (0-8032-5371-0)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0804901228 (0-8049-0122-8)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Dialogues With Dostoevsky: The Overwhelming Questionsby Robert Louis JacksonISBN 0804721203 (0-8047-2120-3)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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A Dictionary of Symbolsby Juan Eduardo CirlotISBN 0802202500 (0-8022-0250-0)
Hardcover, Philosophical Library
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Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Campsby Tzvetan TodorovISBN 0805042644 (0-8050-4264-4)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps'Book summary:It is an understatement to call the Nazi and Soviet death camps "outposts of hell on earth," as we know from the testimony of a powerful body of witnesses. Todorov looks inside these camps, and there he finds hope for all humankind, arguing that innumerable instances of heroism, self-sacrifice, and caring show that "moral reactions are spontaneous, omnipresent, and eradicable only with the greatest violence" and that "morality cannot disappear without a radical mutation of the human species." Even in a regime of terror and depersonalization, the ordinary virtues survived and sometimes even flourished, Todorov maintains. His wide-ranging study bears him out, and it makes for fascinating reading. [via]
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Ficcionesby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0802130305 (0-8021-3030-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ficciones'Book summary:Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. Would any of David Foster Wallace's famous footnotes be possible without Borges? Or, for that matter, the syntactical games of Perec, the metafictional pastiche of Calvino? For good or for ill, the blind Argentinian paved the way for a generation's worth of postmodern monkey business--and fiction will never be simply "fiction" again.
Its enormous influence on writers aside, Ficciones has also--perhaps more importantly--changed the way that we read. Borges's Pierre Menard, for instance, undertakes the most audacious project imaginable: to create not a contemporary version of Cervantes's most famous work but the Quixote itself, word for word. This second text is "verbally identical" to the original, yet, because of its new associations, "infinitely richer"; every time we read, he suggests, we are in effect creating an entirely new text, simply by viewing it through the distorting lens of history. "A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," Borges once wrote in an essay about George Bernard Shaw. "All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare," he tells us in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In this spirit, Borges is not above impersonating, even quoting, himself.
It is hard, exactly, to say what all of this means, at least in any of the usual ways. Borges wrote not with an ideological agenda, but with a kind of radical philosophical playfulness. Labyrinths, libraries, lotteries, doubles, dreams, mirrors, heresiarchs: these are the tokens with which he plays his ontological games. In the end, ideas themselves are less important to him than their aesthetic and imaginative possibilities. Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park [via]
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, John Grant, Barry Jones, Anthony MarksISBN 0794500900 (0-7945-0090-0)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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Frankensteinby Harold BloomISBN 0791078825 (0-7910-7882-5)
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The Garden Party and Other Playsby Vaclav HavelISBN 080213307X (0-8021-3307-X)
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Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-Byeby Cynthia HeimelISBN 080214148X (0-8021-4148-X)
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Go Tell It on the Mountainby James BaldwinISBN 0808514164 (0-8085-1416-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Go Tell It on the Mountain'Book summary:First published in 1953 when James Baldwin was nearly 30, Go Tell It on the Mountain is a young man's novel, as tightly coiled as a new spring, yet tempered by a maturing man's confidence and empathy. It's not a long book, and its action spans but a single day--yet the author packs in enough emotion, detail, and intimate revelation to make his story feel like a mid-20th-century epic. Using as a frame the spiritual and moral awakening of 14-year-old John Grimes during a Saturday night service in a Harlem storefront church, Baldwin lays bare the secrets of a tormented black family during the depression. John's parents, praying beside him, both wrestle with the ghosts of their sinful pasts--Gabriel, a preacher of towering hypocrisy, fathered an illegitimate child during his first marriage down South and refused to recognize his doomed bastard son; Elizabeth fell in love with a charming, free-spirited young man, followed him to New York, became pregnant with his son, and lost him before she could reveal her condition.
Baldwin lays down the terrible symmetries of these two blighted lives as the ironic context for John's dark night of the soul. When day dawns, John believes himself saved, but his creator makes it clear that this salvation arises as much from blindness as revelation: "He was filled with a joy, a joy unspeakable, whose roots, though he would not trace them on this new day of his life, were nourished by the wellspring of a despair not yet discovered."
Though it was hailed at publication for its groundbreaking use of black idiom, what is most striking about Go Tell It on the Mountain today is its structure and its scope. In peeling back the layers of these damaged lives, Baldwin dramatizes the story of the great black migration from rural South to urban North. "Behind them was the darkness," Baldwin writes of Gabriel and Elizabeth's lost generation, "nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" This is Baldwin's music--a music in which rhapsody is rooted anguish--and there is none finer in American literature. --David Laskin [via]
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The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiadby Roger BoylanISBN 0802140327 (0-8021-4032-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad'Book summary:Roger Boylan's first novel, Killoyle, established him as a brilliant successor to such Irish masters as Joyce, Beckett, and J. P. Donleavy. Now his new farce follows the hapless inhabitants of Killoyle, Ireland, through the frenetic week of the Pint-Pulling Olympiad. After local lush Mick McCreek gets into a car crash with a cross-dressing church sexton, he enlists a lawyer, Tom O'Mallet. As it turns out, the lawyer's real gig is selling missiles to the IRA, and he plans to use his clueless client as a patsy. O'Mallet also hoodwinks Anil, an Indian waiter who has found himself the unlikely target of a manhunt. What Tom doesn't know is that his lucrative weapons are destined for a massive terrorist attack on the Pint-Pulling Olympiad, and that Anil's sexy cousin Rashmi a sweatshop worker turned intelligence operative is hot on the bombers' trail. With a wink and a nudge, Boylan's pyrotechnic prose brings to life Ireland at its manic extremes, proving the author a dazzling and distinctive talent in American fiction.[via]More editions of The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad:
Greek Lyric Poetry : Including the Complete Poetry of Sapphoby Willis Barnstone, William E. McCullohISBN 0805208313 (0-8052-0831-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killersby Dorothy Otnow LewisISBN 0804118876 (0-8041-1887-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers'Book summary:"We met no Jimmy Cagneys or Robert Mitchums among the inmates in the prisons we visited. We found ourselves, rather, in the company of a pathetic crew of intellectually limited, dysfunctional, half-mad, occasionally explosive losers. Long before these men wound up on death row, their similarly limited, primitive, impulsive parents had raised them in the only fashion they knew.... These brutish parents had set the stage on which our condemned subjects now found themselves playing out the final act. It was a drama generations in the making."
Psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis, working in a professional partnership with neurologist Jonathan Pincus, has been steadily accumulating and publishing (in medical journals) evidence that almost all vicious criminals have some combination of (1) a childhood of abuse and/or neglect, (2) brain injuries through accident or abuse, and (3) psychotic symptoms, especially paranoia. This fascinating and well-written book, aimed at a wide audience, takes the form of a memoir in which Lewis tells us about the events that led her to study violent patients and about some of her more interesting cases, especially those on death row. Far from being another shallow "oh wow" book about conversations with horrifying killers, this is a thoughtful, humane examination of the horrible experiences that most murderers have endured, and a penetrating analysis of how subtle signs of brain damage in these people have been missed by other researchers. Lewis has an engagingly humble and personal way of writing about her experiences, which makes her findings all the more credible. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Heart of a Dogby Mikhail BulgakovISBN 0802150594 (0-8021-5059-4)
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0804901120 (0-8049-0112-0)
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Hedda Gablerby Henrik Ibsen, Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey, Susan Faludi, Jon Robin BaitzISBN 0802138063 (0-8021-3806-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hedda Gabler'Book summary:In 1890, Henrik Ibsen premiered Hedda Gabler, a play questioning the role of women in Victorian society. Some audiences have viewed Gabler as a woman driven to desperation simply because her world has turned out to be less charmed than she hoped. For others, she is a victim of her times, unwilling to devote herself, as was expected of her, to the duties of home. Jon Robin Baitz has brushed away the cobwebs, and he serves as an ambassador from Ibsen's age to our own, preserving the intensity of the original but translating it into a spare, contemporary idiom. His adaptation provides an opportunity to understand the play through a lens shaped by feminism and a theatrical tradition beginning with Beckett. Trapped by the conventions of her age, Gabler is both a martyr and a female incarnation of Vladimir and Estragon, longing for a salvation that will likely never arrive.[via]More editions of Hedda Gabler:
Idylls of the Kingby Alfred Tennyson TennysonISBN 0804901805 (0-8049-0180-5)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yetby Cynthia HeimelISBN 0802139507 (0-8021-3950-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet'Book summary:Cynthia Heimel has been described by the Chicago Tribune as "perhaps our funniest war correspondent on the war between the sexes"; her wisdom on dating includes such gems as: "My new rule is to never believe a person is interested until you feel his tongue down your throat." If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?! shows Heimel at her wicked best. When sex pales in comparison to watching sports, when ostensibly adult men still don't understand why women need to work, when city-chic black and arugula salads have been taken over by Middle America, Cynthia Heimel is there to remind us that if we can't remake the world (or even the loved ones who are driving us crazy), we can at least laugh at it. Like a hip Erma Bombeck or a Dorothy Parker for today, she is an antidote to an absurd world for smart, sane women. If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?! -- now a national best-seller -- has caused The Boston Globe to hail Cynthia Hiemel as "a goddess and a role model." "Brilliant, ballsy ... wise and loving ... She makes me feel militantly on my own side. What pleasure; what relief." -- Mademoiselle[via]More editions of If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet:
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The Infernoby Alighieri Dante, Allen MandelbaumISBN 0808509578 (0-8085-0957-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An informative introduction and commentary accompany this classic translation of Dante's epic poem about a spiritual pilgrim being led by Virgil through the nine circles of hell, available in a dual-language edition. [via]
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J. D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Ryeby Harold BloomISBN 0791056643 (0-7910-5664-3)
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The title, J.D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on J.D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on J.D. Salinger, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Jonathan Livingston Seagullby Richard BachISBN 0802724698 (0-8027-2469-8)
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Julietteby Marquis De Sade, Austryn WainhouseISBN 0802130852 (0-8021-3085-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Juliette'Book summary:An amazing sequence of imaginatively bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological digression. Mlle. De Maupin, Lolita, Candyall pale beside Juliette. Library Journal[via]More editions of Juliette:
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Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writingsby Marquis De SadeISBN 0802132189 (0-8021-3218-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings'Book summary:This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugénie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine.[via]More editions of Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings:
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Kabir: Ecstatic Poemsby William ShakespeareISBN 0807063800 (0-8070-6380-0)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kabir: Ecstatic Poems'Book summary:Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir's immense importance to the contemporary reader and praises Bly's intuitive translations.
By making every reader consider anew their religious thinking, the poems of Kabir seem as relevant today as when they were first written. [via]More editions of Kabir: Ecstatic Poems:
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King Learby William ShakespeareISBN 080850892X (0-8085-0892-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en/Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark, and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Letters to Olga: June 1979-September 1982by Vaclav Havel, Paul WilsonISBN 0805009736 (0-8050-0973-6)
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The Man in the Iron Maskby Alexandre DumasISBN 0804901503 (0-8049-0150-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Man's Search for Meaningby Viktor E. FranklISBN 0807014273 (0-8070-1427-3)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man's Search for Meaning'Book summary:Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos "meaning" -holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America. Born in Vienna in 1905 Viktor E. Frankl earned an M.D. and a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. He published more than thirty books on theoretical and clinical psychology and served as a visiting professor and lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, and elsewhere. In 1977 a fellow survivor, Joseph Fabry, founded the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy. Frankl died in 1997. Harold S. Kushner is rabbi emeritus at Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, and the author of several best-selling books, including When Bad Things Happen to Good People.William J. Winslade is a philosopher, lawyer, and psychoanalyst at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston. [via]
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The Marquis De Sade: A New Biographyby Donald ThomasISBN 0806513381 (0-8065-1338-1)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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The Marquis De Sade: An Essay by Simone De Beauvoirby Marquis De SadeISBN 0802131034 (0-8021-3103-4)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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The Messianic Legacyby Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry LincolnISBN 0805005684 (0-8050-0568-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Messianic Legacy'Book summary:Holy Blood, Holy Grail rocked the very foundations of Christianity. Now four more years of research have uncovered shocking material and its earthshaking consequences.
" What extraordinary meaning lies behind Jesus' title "King of the Jews"?
" Was there more than one Christ?
" Who really constituted Jesus' following and what were the real identities of Simon Peter and Judas Iscariot?
" Who now has the ancient treasure of the Temple of Jerusalem?
" What is the true source of today's Christian "Fundamentalism"?
" What links the Vatican, the CIA, the KGB, the Mafia, Freemasonry, and the Knights Templar?
" What is the stunning goal of the European secret society that traces its lineage back to Christ and the House of David?
The Messianic Legacy. Here is the book that reveals the answers to these intriguing, potentially explosive questions. Utilizing the same meticulous research that catapulted their first book onto the best seller lists, the authors again bring an enlighteneing message of truth and urgent importance to Christians and non-Christians the world over.
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910057 (0-8049-1005-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby Lesley Sims, Serena RigliettiISBN 0794510779 (0-7945-1077-9)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:An entertaining retelling of one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, beautifully illustrated by Serena Riglietti. - Young readers will treasure this gift edition, which is published in hardback with a ribbon marker. - The Young Reading Series is designed to encourage independent reading and covers a range of subject matter, including the retelling of children's classics, fairytales, and a wide variety of narrative non-fiction. [via]
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Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 0808509012 (0-8085-0901-2)
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The Pictorial Key to the Tarotby Arthur E. Waite, Pamela C. SmithISBN 0806507152 (0-8065-0715-2)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Poetry of Robert Frostby Robert Frost, Edward Connery LathemISBN 0805069860 (0-8050-6986-0)
Softcover, Owl Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poetry of Robert Frost'Book summary:Listening to these time-honored poems, it's difficult to imagine the young Frost struggling to find a publisher for his work. In fact, he was nearly 40 (and living in England, of all places) when A Boy's Will, his first collection, appeared. Over the next 50 years he would become the quintessential American poet, securing a well-cushioned catbird seat in the literary canon.
Performers Susan Anspach, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Elliott Gould, among others, heighten the conversational cadences of a writer who seldom strayed from his beloved iambs. Included are "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," "The Death of the Hired Man," "The Fear," and much more, all complete and unabridged. (Running time: 1 hour, 1 cassette) --Martha Silano [via]
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The Princeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0804900566 (0-8049-0056-6)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Race Mattersby Cornel WestISBN 0807009725 (0-8070-0972-5)
Hardcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Race Matters'Book summary:First published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters has since become an American classic. Beacon Press is proud to present this hardcover edition with a new introduction by Cornel West. The issues that it addresses are as controversial and urgent as before, and West's insights remain fresh, exciting, and timely. Now more than ever, Race Matters is a book for all Americansone that will help us build a genuine multiracial democracy. [via]
The Retreatby Aharon Appelfeld, Dalya BiluISBN 0805210962 (0-8052-1096-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Ruined by Readingby Lynne Sharon SchwartzISBN 0807070823 (0-8070-7082-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ruined by Reading'Book summary:From the author of the acclaimed novels Disturbances in the Field and The Fatigue Artist, this wonderfully written and enchanting meditation explores what the act of reading means--an act that is in danger of being lost today. Lynne Sharon Schwartz of course isn't "ruined" by reading anymore than Tarzan was by apes; it's her life. She was a child prodigy who, beginning at age 3, was summoned to read for guests and has been immersed in the written word ever since, developing into a writer and novelist. In this essay she defends the magic of reading and its place in the development of the mind and ideas. "There is good reason for the addictive cravings of readers. The only thing new under the sun is the sound of another voice," she writes. [via]
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Ruined by Reading : A Life in Booksby Lynne Sharon SchwartzISBN 0807070831 (0-8070-7083-1)
Softcover, Beacon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ruined by Reading : A Life in Books'Book summary:From the author of the acclaimed novels Disturbances in the Field and The Fatigue Artist, this wonderfully written and enchanting meditation explores what the act of reading means--an act that is in danger of being lost today. Lynne Sharon Schwartz of course isn't "ruined" by reading anymore than Tarzan was by apes; it's her life. She was a child prodigy who, beginning at age 3, was summoned to read for guests and has been immersed in the written word ever since, developing into a writer and novelist. In this essay she defends the magic of reading and its place in the development of the mind and ideas. "There is good reason for the addictive cravings of readers. The only thing new under the sun is the sound of another voice," she writes. [via]
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0804900078 (0-8049-0007-8)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Sexual Life of Catherine M.by Catherine Millet, Adriana HunterISBN 0802139868 (0-8021-3986-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sexual Life of Catherine M.'Book summary:A publishing sensation upon its original publication in France, Catherine Millets The Sexual Life of Catherine M is one of the most sexually explicit books ever written by a woman. Ostensibly a semi-autobiographical account of the sexual life of the author, the editor of an influential Parisian art magazine, the book is a frank and detailed account of Millets development from an awkward, guilt-ridden Catholic teenager to sophisticated Parisian intellectual and enthusiastic member of the singles bars, orgies and public sex spaces of Paris.
The book has no sequential narrative. Instead, it offers a frank and extremely graphic celebration of the pursuit and gratification of sex. Millet praises the virtues of anonymous sex, admitting that "I can account for forty-nine men whose sexual organs have penetrated mine and to whom I can attribute a name or, at least, in a few cases, an identity. But I cannot put a number on those that blur into anonymity". Nevertheless, she proceeds to offer page after page of exhausting descriptions of sexual couplings in groups in houses, car parks, offices, toilets, museums--the list and the permutations are endless, as are Millets descriptions of her own sexual organs and her ability to perform oral sex. Millet wants to celebrate the personal freedom and physical pleasure that casual, anonymous sex offers a woman, but this is never fully explored beyond her assertion that "the certainty that I could have sexual relations in any situation with any willing party" was "the lungfuls of fresh air you inhale as you walk to the end of the pier". Much of the books language is equally prosaic. Ultimately, this is a book about sexual fantasy, but as Millet herself admits, "sexual fantasies are far too personal for them ever really to be shared". Millet is too busy describing the literal nuts and bolts, the grunts and bumps of (resolutely heterosexual) sex to produce eroticism on a par with her obvious models, Pauline Reages Story of O and Georges Batailles Story of the Eye, which leaves The Sexual Life of Catherine M feeling rather naughty, but strangely dated.--Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Sonsby Franz KafkaISBN 0805208860 (0-8052-0886-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sons'Book summary:I have only one request," Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. "'The Stoker,' 'The Metamorphosis,' and 'The Judgment' belong together, both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obvious connection among the three, and, even more important, a secret one, for which reason I would be reluctant to forego the chance of having them published together in a book, which might be called The Sons." [via]
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Sophie's Choiceby William StyronISBN 0791071707 (0-7910-7170-7)
Softcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophie's Choice'Book summary:Set in Brooklyn in 1947, this is the story of Sophie, a Polish Catholic immigrant who is haunted by her memories of the concentration camp in wartime Europe, and the terrible choice she was forced to make. [via]
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The Sufferings of Young Wertherby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0804461902 (0-8044-6190-2)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sufferings of Young Werther'Book summary:J.W. von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther [via]
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The Tempestby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910073 (0-8049-1007-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Temptation: A Play in Ten Scenes/Translation of Pokouseniby Vaclav Havel, Marie WinnISBN 080213100X (0-8021-3100-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godotby Samuel Beckett, James Knowlson, Douglad McMillanISBN 0802115489 (0-8021-1548-9)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot'Book summary:A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity . . . like a sharp stab of beauty and pain".--The London Times. [via]
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Time Machineby H. G. WellsISBN 0804900442 (0-8049-0044-2)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Machine'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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The Tragedy of King Learby William ShakspeareISBN 080491012X (0-8049-1012-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Tragedy of Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910138 (0-8049-1013-8)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Trialby Franz Kafka, Breon MitchellISBN 0805209999 (0-8052-0999-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trial'Book summary:A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life--including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door--becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral. [via]
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Softcover, Schocken Books - The Trial : A New Translation Based on the Restored Text: ISBN 0805241655 (0-8052-4165-5)
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Under the Frog: A Novelby Tibor FischerISBN 0805052453 (0-8050-5245-3)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Frog: A Novel'Book summary:Shortlisted for the Booker Prize[via]
Tibor Fischer's brilliant and hilarious first novel follows the fortunes and picaresque adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956.More editions of Under the Frog: A Novel:
The Vampire: In Legend, Fact and Artby Basil CopperISBN 0806511265 (0-8065-1126-5)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitantsby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat AvseyISBN 0801420512 (0-8014-2051-2)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants: From the Notes of an Unknownby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0801494575 (0-8014-9457-5)
Softcover, Cornell University Press
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Visitby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0802130666 (0-8021-3066-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visit'Book summary:Dürrenmatt once wrote of himself: I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness, and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. The play takes place somewhere in Central Europe and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, swiftly turns a depressed area into a boom town. But the condition attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder. Dürrenmatt has fashioned a macabre and entertaining parable that is a scathing indictment of the power of greed.[via]More editions of Visit:
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Waiting for Godotby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802118216 (0-8021-1821-6)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting for Godot'Book summary:From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment by American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. Now in honor of the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth, Grove Press is publishing a bilingual edition of the play. Originally written in French, Beckett translated the work himself, and in doing so chose to revise and eliminate various passages. With side-by-side text the reader can experience the mastery of Beckett's language and explore the nuances of his creativity.[via]
Upon being asked who Godot is, Samuel Beckett told Alan Schneider, "If I knew, I would have said so in the play." Although we may never know who we are waiting for, in this special edition we can rediscover one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.More editions of Waiting for Godot:
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Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Actsby Samuel BecketISBN 0802130348 (0-8021-3034-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Acts'Book summary:A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone-or something-named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett's language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existentialism of post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time. [via]
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William ShakespeareISBN 0791076555 (0-7910-7655-5)
Hardcover, Facts on File
Find This BookBook summary:In creating workds such as Hamlet and Macbeth, Shakespeare became the quintessential dramatist of the Western canon. This comprehensive volume places critical focus on Shakespeare's major comedies, histories, romances, and tragedies.
This title, William Shakespeare, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of William Shakespeare through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on William Shakespeare, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Marina KastanISBN 0806943440 (0-8069-4344-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:He was the greatest poet and playwright who ever lived, the dramatist who penned lines that we quote without even realizing their origin. Shakespeare's glorious works have even inspired animated films--like Disney's The Lion King. Introduce children to the Bard with this wonderful, fully annotated collection of sonnets and soliloquies, enhanced with beautiful, highly realistic color paintings that bring each excerpt to vivid life. Here are Shakespeare's most famous speeches: "To be or not to be" from Hamlet, with the melancholy Dane pictured in front of the castle, his face pensive and gazing into the distance; Portia's gentle plea for mercy in The Merchant of Venice; Macbeth's witches' cackling "Double, double, toil and trouble"; and Marc Antony's sarcastic address to "Friends, Romans, Countrymen," in Julius Caesar. A golden-robed Henry V, kneeling and bowed from the weight of the world, ponders how rulers must bear the burden of their subjects' needs. Mercutio, seen here in a bright red background as fiery and explosive as his personality, gently teases his lovesick friend Romeo. From the tender sonnets (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) to the humorous songs sung by his jesters in comedies such as Twelfth Night, every page contains pure verbal and visual magic.[via]
"...the most delicate challenge in introducing poetry to children [is]...making all the necessary allowances for accessibility without completely throwing felicity and mystery to the winds. In this respect...it is particularly heartening to come upon...The Poetry for Young People Series [which] should be commended for recognizing that secure stepping stones hold infinitely more hope than forced marches."--Washington Post Book World.More editions of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Venice:
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William Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, Bruce Coville, Dennis NolanISBN 0803717849 (0-8037-1784-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Year of the Frogby Martin M. Simecka, Peter PetroISBN 0807118699 (0-8071-1869-9)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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