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The Aeneid of Virgilby VirgilISBN 0553210416 (0-553-21041-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid of Virgil'Book summary:Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. The Aeneid is a book for all the time and all people. [via]
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After Margritteby Tom StoppardISBN 0571096573 (0-571-09657-3)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber Ltd
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Alan Ayckbourn: Plays A Chorus of Disapproval, a Small Family Business, Henceforward..., Man of the Momentby Alan AyckbournISBN 0571176801 (0-571-17680-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Albee : Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?by Stephen J. Bottoms, Michael RobinsonISBN 0521635608 (0-521-63560-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Anna Kareninaby Leo TolstoyISBN 0553213466 (0-553-21346-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband (and Russian high society) would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Anna and Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman Konstantine Levin unfolds. In doubt about the meaning of life, haunted by thoughts of suicide, Levin's struggles echo Tolstoy's own spiritual crisis. But Anna's inner turmoil mirrors the own emotional imprisonment and mental disintegration of a woman who dares to transgress the strictures of a patriarchal world. In Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy brought to perfection the novel of social realism and created a masterpiece that bared the Russian soul. [via]
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Attempts on Her Lifeby Martin CrimpISBN 0571192157 (0-571-19215-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Partby Michael ShurtleffISBN 0553272950 (0-553-27295-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Beckett: Waiting for Godotby Lawrence GraverISBN 052184004X (0-521-84004-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Beowulf and Other Old English Poemsby Constance R. HieattISBN 0553213474 (0-553-21347-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf and Other Old English Poems'Book summary:Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf, the loathsome man-eater Grendel, his vengeful water-hag mother, and a treasure-hoarding dragon. The earliest surviving epic poem in any modern European language. Beowulf is a stirring portrait of a heroic worldsomber, vast, and magnificent. [via]
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The Brass Butterflyby William Gerald GoldingISBN 0571090737 (0-571-09073-7)
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Carringtonby Christopher HamptonISBN 0571153364 (0-571-15336-4)
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Cheaper by the Dozenby Gilbreth, Frank B., Jr., Ernestine Gilbreth CareyISBN 0553272500 (0-553-27250-0)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Cock-Upsby Simon MossISBN 0571130801 (0-571-13080-1)
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Collected Poemsby W. H. Auden, Edward MendelsonISBN 0571108334 (0-571-10833-4)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Collected Playsby Steven BerkoffISBN 0571169031 (0-571-16903-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Coming Cleanby Kevin ElyotISBN 0571132286 (0-571-13228-6)
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Communicating Doorsby Alan AyckbournISBN 0571176828 (0-571-17682-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Communicating Doors'Book summary:How Ms. Poopay Dayseer, a twenty-first century Specialist Sexual Consultant, while peddling her 'services' to an elderly hotel room client unexpectedly finds herself running for her life. How her flight through a communicating door brings her face to face with her own past and with Ruella who apparently died under suspicious circumstances twenty years earlier. And how Poopay's gradual friendship with that remarkable woman changes the future for both of them...[via]
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Darkness at Noonby Arthur Koestler, Daphne HardyISBN 0553265954 (0-553-26595-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkness at Noon'Book summary:Darkness At Noon stands as an unequaled fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. Almost unbearably vivid in its depiction of one man's solitary agony, Darkness At Noon asks questions about ends and means that have relevance not only for the past but for the perilous present. It isas the Times Literary Supplement has declared"A remarkable book, a grimly fascinating interpretation of the logic of the Russian Revolution, indeed of all revolutionary dictatorships, and at the same time a tense and subtly intellectualized drama..." [via]
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Death in Venice and Other Storiesby Thomas MannISBN 0553213334 (0-553-21333-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice and Other Stories'Book summary:This superb translation of Death in Venice and six other stories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, deserving to be the definitive text for English-speaking readers. These seven stories represent Manns early writing career and a level of literary quality Mann himself despaired of ever again matching. In these stories he began to grapple with themes that were to recur throughout his work. In Little Herr Friedemann, a characters carefully structured way of life is suddenly threatened by an unexpected sexual passion. In Gladius Dei, puritanical intellect clashes with beauty. In Tristan, Mann presents an ironic and comic account of the tension between an artist and bourgeois society.
All seven of these stories are accomplished and memorable, but it is Death in Venice that truly forms the centerpiece of the collection. The themes that Mann weaves through the shorter pieces come to a climax in this stunning novella, one of the most hauntingly magnificent tales of art and self-destruction ever written. [via]More editions of Death in Venice and Other Stories:
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Emmaby Jane AustenISBN 0553212737 (0-553-21273-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues/My Own Private Idaho/2 Screen Plays in 1 Volumeby Gus Van Sant, Tom RobbinsISBN 0571169201 (0-571-16920-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Even Cowgirls Get the Blues/My Own Private Idaho/2 Screen Plays in 1 Volume'Book summary:Gus Van Sant is fascinated by fanaticism and the isolated societies that fanatics create. My Own Private Idaho, loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry IV plays, is perhaps the most critically acclaimed of his films. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, adapted from the Tom Robbins novel, did not fare well at the box office, but the version printed here is not the one seen in theatres. It is Van Sant's original draft, the cut he had to pare down for general distribution. Rejecting traditional technical markings, dotted by his own personal notes and comments, Van Sant's screenplays are essential companions to his finished films. [via]
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Film Scenes for Actorsby Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), Joshua KartonISBN 0553226029 (0-553-22602-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Film Scenes for Actorsby Joshua KartonISBN 0553254340 (0-553-25434-0)
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Goya's Last Portrait: The Painter Played Todayby John Berger, Nella BielskiISBN 0571151485 (0-571-15148-5)
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Grimm Tales: Adapted from the Brothers Grimmby Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Carol Ann Duffy, Tim SuppleISBN 0571176771 (0-571-17677-1)
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Guards! Guards!: The Playby Stephen BriggsISBN 0552144312 (0-552-14431-2)
Softcover, Transworld Pub
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Heading Home, Wetherby and Dreams of Leavingby David HareISBN 0571162444 (0-571-16244-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Heartbreak House and Misallianceby George Bernard ShawISBN 055321442X (0-553-21442-X)
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Henceforwardby Alan AyckbournISBN 057115185X (0-571-15185-X)
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In the Native Stateby Tom StoppardISBN 0571164641 (0-571-16464-1)
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Invisible Friendsby Alan AyckbournISBN 0571144764 (0-571-14476-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invisible Friends'Book summary:This play is about a very ordinary teenager called Lucy, who revives her childhood fantasy friend, Zara, who in turn materializes, bringing with her an idealized father and brother, and shows Lucy how to make her real family vanish. [via]
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The Life and Work of Harold Pinterby Michael BillingtonISBN 0571190650 (0-571-19065-0)
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Look Back in Anger: And Other Playsby John OsborneISBN 0571169082 (0-571-16908-2)
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Lord Malquist and Mr. Moonby Tom StoppardISBN 0571115292 (0-571-11529-2)
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0553212761 (0-553-21276-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
A Map of the Worldby David HareISBN 0571119964 (0-571-11996-4)
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The Martian Chroniclesby Ray BradburyISBN 0553278223 (0-553-27822-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Martian Chronicles'Book summary:From "Rocket Summer" to "The Million-Year Picnic," Ray Bradbury's stories of the colonization of Mars form an eerie mesh of past and future. Written in the 1940s, the chronicles drip with nostalgic atmosphere--shady porches with tinkling pitchers of lemonade, grandfather clocks, chintz-covered sofas. But longing for this comfortable past proves dangerous in every way to Bradbury's characters--the golden-eyed Martians as well as the humans. Starting in the far-flung future of 1999, expedition after expedition leaves Earth to investigate Mars. The Martians guard their mysteries well, but they are decimated by the diseases that arrive with the rockets. Colonists appear, most with ideas no more lofty than starting a hot-dog stand, and with no respect for the culture they've displaced.
Bradbury's quiet exploration of a future that looks so much like the past is sprinkled with lighter material. In "The Silent Towns," the last man on Mars hears the phone ring and ends up on a comical blind date. But in most of these stories, Bradbury holds up a mirror to humanity that reflects a shameful treatment of "the other," yielding, time after time, a harvest of loneliness and isolation. Yet the collection ends with hope for renewal, as a colonist family turns away from the demise of the Earth towards a new future on Mars. Bradbury is a master fantasist and The Martian Chronicles are an unforgettable work of art. --Blaise Selby [via]
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The Mask of Apolloby Mary RenaultISBN 0553242806 (0-553-24280-6)
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Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, Troilus and Cressidaby William ShakespeareISBN 0553212877 (0-553-21287-7)
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Men at Arms: A Novel of Discworldby Terry PratchettISBN 0552144320 (0-552-14432-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Men at Arms: A Novel of Discworld'Book summary:Another wild romp through Discworld! Corporal Carrot, a young dwarf, is newly in charge of the recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork. Edward, the 37th Lord d'Eath, has just discovered that Ankh-Morpork, kingless for generations, has a sovereign ruler, who must be convinced that he is, in fact, the King. The fate of Ankh-Morpork rides on a young man's courage, an ancient sword's magic, and a three-legged poodle's bladder. [via]
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Mojo & A Filmmaker's Diaryby Jez ButterworthISBN 0571192181 (0-571-19218-1)
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Mortby Terry PratchettISBN 0552144290 (0-552-14429-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mort'Book summary:[via]Adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs, this tells the story of Mort, who has been chosen as Death's apprentice. He gets board and lodging and free use of company horse, and doesn't even need time off for his grandmother's funeral. The trouble begins when instead of collecting the soul of a princess, he kills her would-be assassin, and changes history.More editions of Mort:
Mr. A's Amazing Maze Playsby Alan AyckbournISBN 0571141609 (0-571-14160-9)
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My Beautiful Laundrette & Other Writingsby Hanif KureishiISBN 0571177387 (0-571-17738-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Beautiful Laundrette & Other Writings'Book summary:Whitbread Prize winner Kureshi is one of a new generation of British writers whose experience is refracted through his Pakistani heritage. These collected screenplays and essays also include "My Son the Fanatic". [via]
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My Beautiful Laundrette and the Rainbow Signby Hanif KureishiISBN 0571139817 (0-571-13981-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Beautiful Laundrette and the Rainbow Sign'Book summary:The script of the screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay in 1984. Includes other screenplays and journalistic pieces. [via]
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The Mysteriesby Tony HarrisonISBN 0571137903 (0-571-13790-3)
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New Englandby Richard NelsonISBN 0571175104 (0-571-17510-4)
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O Pioneers!by Willa CatherISBN 055321358X (0-553-21358-X)
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On the Razzleby Tom Stoppard, Johann NestroyISBN 0571118356 (0-571-11835-6)
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Party Timeby Harold PinterISBN 0571165850 (0-571-16585-0)
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Paul Bunyan: The Libretto of the Operetta by Benjamin Brittenby W. H. Auden, Donald Mitchell, Benjamin BrittenISBN 0571151426 (0-571-15142-6)
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Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston Leroux, Lowell BairISBN 0553213768 (0-553-21376-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phantom Of The Opera'Book summary:Gaston Leroux is one of the originators of the detective story, and The Phantom of the Opera is his tour de force, as well as being the basis for the hit Broadway musical. A superb suspense story and a dark tale of obsession, The Phantom of the Opera has thrilled and entertained audiences in adaptations throughout the century.
This new translationthe first completely modern and Americanized translationunfurls the full impact of this classic thriller for modern readers. It offers a more complete rendering of the terrifying figure who emerges from the depths of the glorious Paris Opera House to take us into the darkest regions of the human heart. After the breathtaking performance of the lovely Christine Daae and her sudden disappearance, the old legend of the opera ghost becomes a horrifying reality as the ghost strikes out with increasing frequency and violencealways with the young singer at the center of his powerful obsession. Leroux has created a masterwork of love and murderand a tragic figure who awakens our deepest and most forbidden fears.
This is the only complete, unabridged modern Americanized translation available. Lowell Bair is the acclaimed translator of such Bantam Classics as Madame Bovary, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Candide.
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Philadelphia, Here I Come!by Brian FrielISBN 0571085865 (0-571-08586-5)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0553212540 (0-553-21254-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde'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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Plays One: Total Eclipse, the Philanthropist, Savages, Treatsby Christopher HamptonISBN 0571178340 (0-571-17834-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Pomp and Circumstanceby Noel CowardISBN 0525480196 (0-525-48019-6)
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The Princeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0553212788 (0-553-21278-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:When Lorenzo de' Medici seized control of the Florentine Republic in 1512, he summarily fired the Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Signoria and set in motion a fundamental change in the way we think about politics. The person who held the aforementioned office with the tongue-twisting title was none other than Niccolò Machiavelli, who, suddenly finding himself out of a job after 14 years of patriotic service, followed the career trajectory of many modern politicians into punditry. Unable to become an on-air political analyst for a television network, he only wrote a book. But what a book The Prince is. Its essential contribution to modern political thought lies in Machiavelli's assertion of the then revolutionary idea that theological and moral imperatives have no place in the political arena. "It must be understood," Machiavelli avers, "that a prince ... cannot observe all of those virtues for which men are reputed good, because it is often necessary to act against mercy, against faith, against humanity, against frankness, against religion, in order to preserve the state." With just a little imagination, readers can discern parallels between a 16th-century principality and a 20th-century presidency. --Tim Hogan [via]
A Question of Geographyby John Berger, Nella BielskiISBN 0571149936 (0-571-14993-6)
Hardcover, Faber
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Real Dreams and Revolution in Clevelandby Trevor Griffiths, Jeremy PikserISBN 0571146775 (0-571-14677-5)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Red Nosesby Peter BarnesISBN 0571137717 (0-571-13771-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Revengers' Comediesby Alan AyckbournISBN 057114358X (0-571-14358-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Rough Crossingby Tom StoppardISBN 0571135951 (0-571-13595-1)
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Rough Crossing and on the Razzleby Tom StoppardISBN 0571164013 (0-571-16401-3)
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Savagesby Christopher HamptonISBN 0571103480 (0-571-10348-0)
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A Sense of Detachmentby John OsborneISBN 0571102115 (0-571-10211-5)
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Shakespeare's Scribeby Gary BlackwoodISBN 0525464441 (0-525-46444-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Scribe'Book summary:Danger, action, and mystery swirl around our scrappy young hero, Widge, as he returns to center stage in this book. The plague has shut down the Globe Theatre--forcing the troupe to take to the road. Excitement follows Widge at every crossroads: He faces a secret from his past, a sly new apprentice threatens to steal his roles, and the road back to London is treacherous. But there is a place for Widge in the troupe--right next to Shakespeare himself, who needs Widge to assist him with a new play commissioned by the queen!
Readers who relished Widge's heroics in Gary Blackwood's first novel about Shakespeare's players will be entranced yet again by a tapestry of drama, history, and nonstop high jinks. All's well that ends well in this new Elizabethan escapade. [via]More editions of Shakespeare's Scribe:
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Sink the Belgrano! With Massageby Steven BerkoffISBN 0571147178 (0-571-14717-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Slaughter Cityby Naomi WallaceISBN 057117812X (0-571-17812-X)
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Squaring the Circleby Tom StoppardISBN 0571125387 (0-571-12538-7)
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Squaring the Circle ; With, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour ; And, Professional Foulby Tom StoppardISBN 057113095X (0-571-13095-X)
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Stoppardby Tom StoppardISBN 0571144829 (0-571-14482-9)
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The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radioby Henry ReedISBN 0563101644 (0-563-10164-4)
Hardcover, British Broadcasting Corporation
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Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Wayby Lao Tzu, Victor H. MairISBN 0553070053 (0-553-07005-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Wayby Victor H. Mair, Lao TzuISBN 055334935X (0-553-34935-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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A Theological Position: Playsby Robert CooverISBN 0525045406 (0-525-04540-6)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Things We Do for Loveby Alan AyckbournISBN 0571194451 (0-571-19445-1)
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0553214101 (0-553-21410-1)
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Tom Stoppard Plays One: The Real Inspector Hound and Other Entertainmentsby Tom StoppardISBN 0571177654 (0-571-17765-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Total Eclipseby Christopher HamptonISBN 0571178731 (0-571-17873-1)
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The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus: The Delphi Text 1988by Tony HarrisonISBN 0571154964 (0-571-15496-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Two Women of Londonby Emma TennantISBN 057114330X (0-571-14330-X)
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Uncle Vanya and Other Playsby Anton ChekhovISBN 0553214276 (0-553-21427-6)
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Undiscovered Country: Das Weite Landby Arthur Schnitzler, Tom StoppardISBN 0571115756 (0-571-11575-6)
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0553212435 (0-553-21243-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette: Library Edition'Book summary:With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquetter. This first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journeya journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature. [via]
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Wildest Dreamsby Alan AyckbournISBN 0571173047 (0-571-17304-7)
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Woman in Mind: December Beeby Alan AyckbournISBN 0571145205 (0-571-14520-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Women of Trachisby Sophocles, Ezra PoundISBN 0571084176 (0-571-08417-6)
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