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The Admen Move on Lhasa: Writing and Culture in a Virtual Worldby Steven HeightonISBN 0887845886 (0-88784-588-6)
Softcover, House of Anansi Pr
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0891040234 (0-89104-023-4)
Softcover, A & W Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:(Please note that all Timeless Classic Books have been carefully formatted manually with full annotation and proper photo and/or illustration placement since our start in 2010/2011. Each cover is designed with paid or public domain artwork that is pertinent to the title. Each and ever cover is unique. None have ever been used twice.)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-92) brings together the first twelve short stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. These follow Holmes's introduction in the first two novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four. [via]More editions of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
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Aesop's FablesISBN 0894717952 (0-89471-795-2)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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Aesop's Fablesby AesopISBN 0890093504 (0-89009-350-4)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Aesop's Fablesby Lisbeth Zwerger, AesopISBN 0887081088 (0-88708-108-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0894341219 (0-89434-121-9)
Hardcover, J.G. Ferguson Pub Co
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis CarrollISBN 0893759937 (0-89375-993-7)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Arabian Nightsby H. W. DulckenISBN 089009800X (0-89009-800-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights'Book summary:[via]In this superbly illustrated volume you will find dozens of wonderful stories of genies and jinns (those fantastic spirits that, according to Muslim folklore, inhabit the earth in various forms and exercise supernatural power), of magic carpets, Caliph Harun Al-Rashid, and the beautiful Scheherazade. There are classics such as 'Sinbad the Sailor', 'Aladdin' and 'The Seven Viziers', traditional stories that have given boundless pleasure down through the ages, which you too can now experience.
The wondrous illustrations are by the master Victorian artist engraver Thomas Dalziel, whose unique talent is displayed at its very best here.
This book to treasure is a rich mine of adventure to fire the imagination, a treasury of one thousand and one nights that you will want to return to again and again.
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Around the World in 80 Daysby Jules VerneISBN 0893756083 (0-89375-608-3)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Art Song: The Marriage of Music and Poetryby Barbara MeisterISBN 0893416355 (0-89341-635-5)
Hardcover, Hollowbrook Pub
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The Best of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 089375370X (0-89375-370-X)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Better Than Lifeby Daniel Pennac, David HomelISBN 0889104840 (0-88910-484-0)
Hardcover, Coach House Press
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Blue of Noonby Georges BatailleISBN 0893960047 (0-89396-004-7)
Hardcover, Urizen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue of Noon'Book summary:The writing is superlative ... daringly imaginative, intended only for those awake and aware of the possibilities of excess - in literature and in life. Along with Cline and Breton, Bataille writes as if he were dropping a bomb; in a fore-flash he creates a world of demented funereal sexuality.?Detroit Free Press
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is one of Bataille's most overtly political works, exploring the ambiguity of sex as a subversive force and synthesizing the fetishes of violence, power and death that mesmerized an age.
In this classic of twentieth century eroticism, the reader is taken on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligensia, torn between identification with the victims of history and the glamour of its victors.
Georges Bataille was born in 1897 and died in 1962. His combination of scholarship and creative genius assured his pre-eminence among his generation of French intellectuals.
Other books by Georges Bataille also published by Marion Boyars are Eroticism, Story of the Eye, Literature and Evil, L'Abbe C, and My Mother, Madame Edwarda and the Dead Man. [via]More editions of Blue of Noon:
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Weptby E. SmartISBN 0888790481 (0-88879-048-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0893753564 (0-89375-356-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...am here, or how I came. I have listened to the Chimes these many years. They have cheered me often." "And you have thanked them?" said the Bell. " A thousand times!" cried Trotty. "How?" "I am a poor man," faltered Trotty, " and could only thank them in words." "And always so?" inquired the Goblin of the Bell. "Have you never done us wrong in words? " "No!" cried Trotty eagerly. "Never done us foul, and false, and wicked wrong, in words?" pursued the Goblin of the Bell. Trotty was about to answer, "Never!" But he stopped, and was confused. "The voice of Time," said the Phantom, "cries to man, Advance! Time is for his advancement and improvement; for his greater worth, his greater happiness, his better life; his progressonward to that goal within its knowledge and its view, and set there, in the period when Time and He began. Ages of darkness, wickedness, and violence, have come and gone: millions uncountable, have suffered, lived, and died: to point the way Before him. Who seeks to turn him hack, or stay him on his course, arrests a mighty engine which will strike the meddler dead; and be the fiercer and the wilder, ever, for its momentary check! " "I never did so, to my knowledge, Sir," said Trotty. "It was quite, by accident if I did. I wouldn't go to do it, I "in sure." " Who puts into the month of Time, or of its servants," said the Goblin of the Bell, "a cry of lamentation for days which have had their trial and their failure, and have left deep traces of it which the blind may see--a cry that only serves the Present Time, by showing men how much it needs their help when any ears can listen to regrets for such a Past--who does this, does a wrong. And yon have done that wrong to us, the Chimes." Trotty's first excess of fear was gone. But he... [via]
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Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0894718541 (0-89471-854-1)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0893753564 (0-89375-356-4)
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Christmas in Texasby Elizabeth SilverthorneISBN 0890965781 (0-89096-578-1)
Softcover, Texas A & M Univ Pr
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City of Golden Shadowby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777100 (0-88677-710-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Classic Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Talesby Sheila Black, H.C. AndersenISBN 0894719815 (0-89471-981-5)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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The Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose BierceISBN 0891901868 (0-89190-186-8)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 0882950282 (0-88295-028-2)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0893757829 (0-89375-782-9)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:[via]Awareness of Dracula as a masterly gothic thriller has increased ever since its publication in 1897, and the novel is regarded as one of the most seminal horror stories ever written, having inspired countless copycat tales and literary spin-offs. The tale of young Englishman Jonathan Harker's journey to Transylvania, into the very heart of Count Draculas evil realm, is compelling, but it is perhaps the journey of the vampire to Englandand the dangers he poses to Jonathans beloved Minathat is more horrifying. -
Elbert Hubbard's Scrapbookby Elbert HubbardISBN 0891902643 (0-89190-264-3)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Elric at the End of Timeby Michael MoorcockISBN 0886774101 (0-88677-410-1)
Softcover, Daw Books
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First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmerby Noel PerrinISBN 0893402141 (0-89340-214-1)
Hardcover, J. Curley
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Michael BishopISBN 0883632020 (0-88363-202-0)
Hardcover, Hugh Lauter Levin Assc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Good Bonesby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0889104425 (0-88910-442-5)
Hardcover, Coach House Pr
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witchby Terry Pratchett, Neil GaimanISBN 0894808532 (0-89480-853-2)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch'Book summary:Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time... [via]
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0890845042 (0-89084-504-2)
Softcover, Bob Jones Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her unhappy past and living with her ward, the arrogant, beautiful Estella. Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels. This edition includes the original, discarded ending, Dickens's brief working notes, and the serial instalments and chapter divisions in different editions. It also uses the definitive Clarendon text. [via]
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The Greatest Thing in the Worldby Henry Drummond, Harold J. ChadwickISBN 0882707639 (0-88270-763-9)
Softcover, Bridge Logos Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greatest Thing in the World'Book summary:The one great need in our Christian life is love--more love for God and more love for each other. Through this timeless classic, you can experience the beauty of this lasting love in its fullness and learn how to bring God's love and joy to those around you. The great Scottish evangelist Henry Drummond shows you how to move into the Love Chapter, 1 Corinthians 13, and live there. One of the most inspiring messages on love ever written, every Christian needs to discover The Greatest Thing in the World. [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Martina Selway, C. E. BrockISBN 0890093040 (0-89009-304-0)
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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian Andersen, Lisbeth Zwerger, Anthea BellISBN 0887081827 (0-88708-182-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissiniaby Samuel Johnson, Gwin J. KolbISBN 0882950479 (0-88295-047-9)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 088301727X (0-88301-727-X)
Softcover, Xs Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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I'll Be Here When You Need Me: A Collection of Poemsby Susan Polis SchutzISBN 0883962470 (0-88396-247-0)
Softcover, Blue Mountain Arts
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The Idea of a University: Defined and Illustratedby John Henry NewmanISBN 0895264005 (0-89526-400-5)
Softcover, Regnery Pub
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nationsby Adam SmithISBN 0895263351 (0-89526-335-1)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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It Isn't Always Easyby Susan Polis SchutzISBN 0883961733 (0-88396-173-3)
Softcover, Blue Mountain Arts
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0883012669 (0-88301-266-9)
Softcover, Ags Pub
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0895310708 (0-89531-070-8)
Softcover, Sharon Pubns
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0883017172 (0-88301-717-2)
Softcover, Xs Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kidnapped'Book summary:Young David Balfour, left in poverty when his father dies, goes to his uncle, Ebenezer, for assistance. He soon finds himself kidnapped and on board a ship, headed for a life of slavery. With the help of daring rebel Alan Breck, David escapes, only to get mixed up in a desperate adventure? suspected of murder and hunted across the Scottish moors.[via]More editions of Kidnapped:
Kokoroby Natsume SosekiISBN 0895267152 (0-89526-715-2)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0893755001 (0-89375-500-1)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Written by British-born author Frances Hodgson Burnett and first published in 1905, A Little Princess tells the story of young Sara Crewe, privileged daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant. All the other girls at Miss Minchin's school treat Sara as if she truly were a princess. But when Captain Crewe's fortune is sadly lost, Sara's luck changes. Suddenly she is treated no better than a scullery maid. Her own fierce determination to maintain her dignity and remain a princess on the inside has intrigued and delighted readers for almost a hundred years, even inspiring an acclaimed sequel, Wishing for Tomorrow. [via]
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Ann M. Magagna, Louis JambourISBN 0893757071 (0-89375-707-1)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Little Women is the heartwarming story of the March family that has thrilled generations of readers. It is the story of four sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth-- and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during the Civil War. [via]
Livy, Book XXIby LivyISBN 0892414065 (0-89241-406-5)
Softcover, Aristide d Caratzas Pub
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Lucky Jimby Kingsley AmisISBN 0892440694 (0-89244-069-4)
Hardcover, Queens House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucky Jim'Book summary:Although Kingsley Amis's acid satire of postwar British academic life has lost some of its bite in the four decades since it was published, it's still a rewarding read. And there's no denying how big an impact it had back then--Lucky Jim could be considered the first shot in the Oxbridge salvo that brought us Beyond the Fringe, That Was the Week That Was, and so much more.
In Lucky Jim, Amis introduces us to Jim Dixon, a junior lecturer at a British college who spends his days fending off the legions of malevolent twits that populate the school. His job is in constant danger, often for good reason. Lucky Jim hits the heights whenever Dixon tries to keep a preposterous situation from spinning out of control, which is every three pages or so. The final example of this--a lecture spewed by a hideously pickled Dixon--is a chapter's worth of comic nirvana. The book is not politically correct (Amis wasn't either), but take it for what it is, and you won't be disappointed. [via]
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 0894802054 (0-89480-205-4)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:Hundreds of bold-color illustrations keep pace with Shakespeare's dialogue in The Illustrated Macbeth, an unexpurgated but easy-to-understand, panel-by-panel look at the classic tragedy of ambition and death. Like the Elizabethan groundlings who stood just inches from the stage at the old globe theatre, readers observe characters and scenes close at hand, immediately making vital, visual connections between actors and actions.
For this new popular format, no one word of text has been edited from the Folio Edition. The European artist Von has worked almost two years painting figures of heroic stance to depict the bloodchilling encounters and haunting soliloquies: Macbeth's prophetic meeting with the Three Sisters, the dark night of Duncan's murder, Lady Macbeth's guilty madness, the moments before the fatal duel with Macduff. [via]More editions of Macbeth:
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0891040242 (0-89104-024-2)
Hardcover, A & W Visual Library
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Otherlandby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777631 (0-88677-763-1)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Otherland'Book summary:Tad Williams began his Otherland series with the massive City of Golden Shadow and continues it with the equally hefty River of Blue Fire. Williams says it will require four (big) books to tell his complex, multithreaded tale, and at the rate that the plot of this second novel moves, readers will see what he means. Not that the book is a slow read; in fact, River is as much a suspenseful page-turner as the first book.
As River opens, we join up again with the ragtag bunch of searchers trapped in an astoundingly detailed and frightfully dangerous virtual world known as Otherland. Lurking in disguise among the group is the brutally vicious serial killer Dread, trying to find information that will help him overthrow his Grail Brotherhood masters. The group follows a ubiquitous river through world after world, unable to go offline, and subject to the increasingly terrifying certainty that things in this supposedly virtual place are all too real. Meanwhile, Paul Jonas, an amnesic (but somehow pivotal) character fleeing from two sinister beings, finds more and more of his memory as he does his own Huck Finn river trip. As in the first novel, each new world that the characters enter, from Paleolithic Ice Age to something suspiciously like Oz, is fully realized and completely unpredictable.
Williams is a master at parceling out information to the reader in dribs and drabs, which is frustrating yet tantalizing, like a particularly good computer game. When the group is split up and the adventure divides further, the reader senses the author as a puppet master, following some incredibly complex flows of information. The best course is just to hang on and enjoy Williams's deft characterizations, lush descriptions, and wildly divergent plot. If you've ever been white-water rafting, you'll recognize the feeling. --Therese Littleton [via]
Pantagruel Gargantuaby Francois RabelaisISBN 0882950681 (0-88295-068-1)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0893759953 (0-89375-995-3)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0883680963 (0-88368-096-3)
Softcover, Whitaker House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:From the publisher who gave you the immensly popular?James usshers ANNALS OF THE WORLD: This volume includes: " John Bunyans personal memoir " His last sermon " Special sayings of Bunyan, about death and judgment, the joys of heaven, and much more " Bunyans personal account of his life before he accepted Christ " The writers account of his time spent in prison " The Barren Fig Tree " The Holy War Made by Shaddai Upon Diabolus for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World This masterpiece will become an instant family heirloom, introducing entire generations to the pilgrims spiritual journey to truth. This hard-cover edition was originally published in 1876. Master Books has re-created this valuable and rare heirloom with todays modern technology, but kept the original look and feel by painstakingly high-resolution scanning every page of this 850-page tomehistoric stains and all! The Pilgrims Progress appears in the original large print inside this new edition, creating an easier reading experience for all ages. [via]
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Progress of Storiesby Laura JacksonISBN 0892552034 (0-89255-203-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Pygmalionby George Bernard ShawISBN 088411452X (0-88411-452-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pygmalion'Book summary:[via]A rousing success on the London and New York stages, a popular film, and a great musical hit ("My Fair Lady"), this brilliantly written play, with its irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, is one of the most acclaimed comedies in the English language. Includes Shaw's Preface and "Sequel."More editions of Pygmalion:
Quo Vadisby Henryk SienkiewiczISBN 0895263459 (0-89526-345-9)
Softcover, Regnery Pub
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River of Blue Fireby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777771 (0-88677-777-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River of Blue Fire'Book summary:Tad Williams began his Otherland series with the massive City of Golden Shadow and continues it with the equally hefty River of Blue Fire. Williams says it will require four (big) books to tell his complex, multithreaded tale, and at the rate that the plot of this second novel moves, readers will see what he means. Not that the book is a slow read; in fact, River is as much a suspenseful page-turner as the first book.
As River opens, we join up again with the ragtag bunch of searchers trapped in an astoundingly detailed and frightfully dangerous virtual world known as Otherland. Lurking in disguise among the group is the brutally vicious serial killer Dread, trying to find information that will help him overthrow his Grail Brotherhood masters. The group follows a ubiquitous river through world after world, unable to go offline, and subject to the increasingly terrifying certainty that things in this supposedly virtual place are all too real. Meanwhile, Paul Jonas, an amnesic (but somehow pivotal) character fleeing from two sinister beings, finds more and more of his memory as he does his own Huck Finn river trip. As in the first novel, each new world that the characters enter, from Paleolithic Ice Age to something suspiciously like Oz, is fully realized and completely unpredictable.
Williams is a master at parceling out information to the reader in dribs and drabs, which is frustrating yet tantalizing, like a particularly good computer game. When the group is split up and the adventure divides further, the reader senses the author as a puppet master, following some incredibly complex flows of information. The best course is just to hang on and enjoy Williams's deft characterizations, lush descriptions, and wildly divergent plot. If you've ever been white-water rafting, you'll recognize the feeling. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 089434126X (0-89434-126-X)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:Son of a middle-class Englishman, Robinson Crusoe takes to the sea to find adventure. And find it he does when on one of his voyages he is shipwrecked on a deserted South American island for thirty-five years. After scavenging his broken ship for useful items, he had only his skills and ingenuity to keep him alive as there was to be no one else on the island for the next twenty-four years. In the middle of that twenty-fourth year he rescued a native about to be eaten by cannibals who were using his island for a place of feasting. Crusoe named this man Friday, after the day of his rescue. Friday became his faithful servant and friend, even returning with him to England after their deliverance by an English ship. Listeners will enjoy Crusoe's determination for survival against all odds and admire the spirituality that gave him the strength to survive. A hero through the ages, he richly deserves the admiration that has endured over three centuries. [via]
The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0893759945 (0-89375-994-5)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered to be his magnum opus.[1] Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. [via]
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 0891909893 (0-89190-989-3)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Screwtape Letters'Book summary:This adaptation of C.S. Lewis's biting satire received a 1999 Grammy nomination for best spoken-word performance, and it's easy to see why--the story fits the format perfectly. It's relatively brief (the unabridged reading takes a mere four hours), and contains only one character--the demon Screwtape, who writes letters to his novice nephew Wormwood, instructing him on how to best tempt his "patient" (a wayward soul on earth) into the bosom of "our Lord below."
Obviously, the book wasn't written with former Monty Python John Cleese in mind, but it's hard to imagine a better Screwtape. Cleese's voice provides the perfect vehicle for Lewis's dry, razor-edged wit. His uncanny comic timing and ability to milk each phrase for maximum effect betray an infectious enthusiasm for the story. It's clear that he's having a great time reading, and it's impossible not to laugh along with him. This inspired pairing of two of the 20th century's greatest wits makes for a meditation on the dark side of spiritual guidance that's as relevant and funny today as it was in Lewis's war-torn England. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Andrew Neiland [via]
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0883011344 (0-88301-134-4)
Softcover, Ags Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tale of Two Cities'Book summary:Written at a point of crisis in his life, A Tale of Two Cities is the embodiment of Dickens' own passions and fears: the revolution which engulfs the characters symbolizes his own psychological revolution, and the three main characters become projections of Dickens himself. [via]
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Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0890095647 (0-89009-564-7)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'Book summary:Award-winning fantasy illustrator Gary Kelley writes, "I have selected three of Edgar Allan Poe's best short stories.... I chose 'The Fall of the House of Usher' for its classic Gothic images and its dark, melancholic central characters, including the house itself. 'The Black Cat' is ... appealing to me for its use of mystery and foreboding that takes us to a horrifying climax. 'The Cask of Amontillado' ... my personal favorite, [is] a simple narrative of revenge set in the contrasting worlds of carnival and catacomb." Click on the book's cover for a closer look, but the reproduction doesn't really do justice to the richness of color in Kelley's shadowy, atmospheric paintings. (The cat's eye is green, and its tongue is pink.) This gorgeous edition has 20 full- and double-page paintings, including a melancholy portrait of Poe; each page of text is surrounded by subtle decorative frames. The images of Roderick and Madeleine Usher are especially effective. [via]
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The Three-Cornered Worldby Natsume SosekiISBN 0895267683 (0-89526-768-3)
Softcover, Gateway Books
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Through Love's Difficult Times We'll Grow Togetherby Susan Polis SchutzISBN 0883962365 (0-88396-236-5)
Softcover, Blue Mountain Arts
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A Treasury of American Anecdotesby B.A. BotkinISBN 0883656167 (0-88365-616-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Universe Ends at Sherbourne & Queenby Ted PlantosISBN 0887910092 (0-88791-009-2)
Softcover, Steel Rail Pub
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Within Heaven's Gatesby Rebecca SpringerISBN 0883681250 (0-88368-125-0)
Softcover, Whitaker House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Within Heaven's Gates'Book summary:Rebecca Springer shares the wonders and joys of her glorious vision of heaven as she offers hope for the future of mankind. Through this uplifting book, get a glimpse of the eternal home that awaits believers as well as inspiration to continue in your spiritual walk. Come venture Within Heaven's Gates! [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 088365797X (0-88365-797-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:For many of us, the adventures of Dorothy in Oz will forever be associated not with Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" but with W. W. Denslow's exceedingly odd line drawings for the original editions of Baum's Oz series. The Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger, however, goes a long way toward providing a new and refreshed set of images for the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the humbug wizard. These illustrations are often cockeyed, with occasional realistic details thrown in, like a crow with a corncob in its beak in the first portrait of the Scarecrow. The characters have a poignance and oddity that escaped the makers of the Oz movie. [via]
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Women's Words, Women's Stories: An American Daybookby Lois Stiles EdgerlyISBN 0884481441 (0-88448-144-1)
Softcover, New England Mobile Book Fair
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0893759910 (0-89375-991-0)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0895771594 (0-89577-159-4)
Hardcover, Readers Digest Assn
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights'Book summary:"Wuthering Heights" seems bafflingly unlike other novels yet constantly speaks to popular imagination. This edition for students and teachers engages with some of the key issues in contemporary critical theory. [via]
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