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Annotated Aliceby Martin Gardner, Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0393048470 (0-393-04847-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Annotated Alice'Book summary:"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations!"
Readers who share Alice's taste in books will be more than satisfied with The Annotated Alice, a volume that includes not only pictures and conversations, but a thorough gloss on the text as well. There may be some, like G.K. Chesterton, who abhor the notion of putting Lewis Carroll's masterpiece under a microscope and analyzing it within an inch of its whimsical life. But as Martin Gardner points out in his introduction, so much of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass is composed of private jokes and details of Victorian manners and mores that modern audiences are not likely to catch. Yes, Alice can be enjoyed on its own merits, but The Annotated Alice appeals to the nosy parker in all of us. Thus we learn, for example, that the source of the mouse's tale may have been Alfred Lord Tennyson who "once told Carroll that he had dreamed a lengthy poem about fairies, which began with very long lines, then the lines got shorter and shorter until the poem ended with fifty or sixty lines of two syllables each." And that, contrary to popular belief, the Mad Hatter character was not a parody of then Prime Minister Gladstone, but rather was based on an Oxford furniture dealer named Theophilus Carter.
Gardner's annotations run the gamut from the factual and historical to the speculative and are, in their own way, quite as fascinating as the text they refer to. Occasionally, he even comments on himself, as when he quotes a fellow annotator of Alice, James Kincaid: "The historical context does not call for a gloss but the passage provides an opportunity to point out the ambivalence that may attend the central figure and her desire to grow up." And then follows with a charming riposte: "I thank Mr. Kincaid for supporting my own rambling." There's a lot of information in the margins (indeed, the page is pretty evenly divided between Carroll's text and Gardner's), but the ramblings turn out to be well worth the time. So hand over your old copy of Lewis Carroll's classic to the kids--this Alice in Wonderland is intended entirely for adults. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Annotated Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, John Leech, Michael Patrick HearnISBN 0393051587 (0-393-05158-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Christmas Carol'Book summary:Without question, The Annotated Christmas Carol is the most authoritative and entertaining edition ever produced.
What would Christmas be without A Christmas Carol? Charles Dickenss famous ghost story is as much a part of the season as plum pudding and mistletoe, and Michael Patrick Hearn, the celebrated annotator of The Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has prepared this sumptuous, thoroughly annotated edition, which has already become the definitive edition of our century. Initially published by Norton in 2004, this was the first edition to combine the original text of 1843 with Dickenss Public Reading text that he performed in America in 186768, which had not been reprinted in nearly a century. Included are rare photographs as well as the original Leech wood engravings and hand-colored etchings, supplemented by other contemporary illustrations by George Cruikshank, Gustave Doré, John Tenniel, and Phiz. The Annotated Christmas Carol will be a literary feast for the whole family for generations. 2-color throughout, 100 black-and-white illustrations, and 8 pages of full color [via]More editions of The Annotated Christmas Carol:
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The Annotated Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Michael Patrick HearnISBN 0393049922 (0-393-04992-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Wizard of Oz'Book summary:An updated version of the definitive guide, The Annotated Wizard of Oz provides a facsimile color version of the first edition of L. Frank Baum's children's classic along with extensive notes and a thorough history of the immense Oz project. In his excellent introduction, Michael Patrick Hearn describes the author's early life and interests and the development of his collaboration with W.W. Denslow, the original illustrator for his books.
An energetic and excitable fellow, Baum's devotion to make-believe began in his early 20s, when he joined a small touring theatrical troupe on the East Coast. Later attempts to run a general store and a newspaper in South Dakota (then the Wild West) failed miserably. Although few of his business ventures or artistic efforts had met with success, in 1897 Baum's "Father Goose" rhymes (designed and illustrated by Denslow) became a surprise bestseller, and Baum was able to buy his family a summer cottage on Lake Michigan, christened "The Sign of the Goose," for which he made most of the furniture (goose-themed, of course) and stenciled the walls with a frieze of green geese.
The idea for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, "a modern fairy tale," as he considered it, soon followed, and the book appeared in May 1900. The 10,000-copy first printing sold out in two weeks, and about 90,000 sold within the first year. Hearn goes on to describe the many books that followed, as well as the 1902 musical extravaganza The Wizard of Oz and Baum's subsequent, ill-starred attempts to depict the world of Oz on film. (He died long before the 1939 MGM musical made his fairy tale known around the globe.) In 1907, he told a reporter for the Grand Rapids Herald why he preferred young readers:
To write fairy stories for children, to amuse them, to divert restless children, sick children, to keep them out of mischief on rainy days, seems of greater importance than to write grown-up novels. Few of the popular novels last the year out, responding as they do to a certain psychological demand, characteristic of the time; whereas, a child's book is, comparatively speaking, the same always, since children are always the same kind of folks with the same needs to be satisfied.
Hearn has gone to great lengths in his notes to this facsimile of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, often referring to subsequent volumes in the series, slowly building a key to the rules and history of Oz, pointing out inconsistencies as well as hints to Baum's literary sources (such as Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress), and providing, among other delights, a mini-treatise on malevolent vegetation in Oz. This is an essential volume for the Oz aficionado or the student of children's literature, and a wonderful resource for parents of young readers. --Regina Marler [via]More editions of The Annotated Wizard of Oz:
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Arabian Nightsby Husain Haddawy, Muhsin MahdiISBN 0393313670 (0-393-31367-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights'Book summary:Working from the definitive edition established by Muhsin Mahdi (based on the 14th century Syrian manuscript), this is a translation of "The Arabian Nights". It contains stories, of Arabic and Persian origin, which weave magic into the fabric of everday life, mixing flamboyance, pathos and humour. [via]
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Bleak Houseby Charles Dickens, Sylvere Monod, George Harry FordISBN 0393043746 (0-393-04374-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bleak House'Book summary:Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket. (Running time: 3 hours; 2 cassettes) [via]
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Bleak House: An Authoritative and Annotated Text, Illustrations, a Note on the Text, Genesis and Composition, Backgrounds, Criticismby Charles Dickens, Sylvere Monod, George Harry FordISBN 0393093328 (0-393-09332-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bleak House: An Authoritative and Annotated Text, Illustrations, a Note on the Text, Genesis and Composition, Backgrounds, Criticism'Book summary:Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket. (Running time: 3 hours; 2 cassettes) [via]
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Blood, Bread, and Poetryby Adrienne RichISBN 0393311627 (0-393-31162-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Book of Jobby Raymond P. ScheindlinISBN 0393319008 (0-393-31900-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Job'Book summary:"An extraordinary and invaluable version of this great biblical treasure."David R. Slavitt, Philadelphia Inquirer
One of the most powerful and unsettling Bible stories, The Book of Job undermines the claim that our world is governed by justice and meaning. It does so through a poetry of unsurpassed beauty captured in Raymond Scheindlin's superb new translation. Scheindlin's Job is not a patient sufferer but a defiant man who eloquently demands an argument with God. Job's words land like a fist, but he is left speechless by God's reply from the storm a commanding survey of creation and a challenge to man's place in it. Job's acceptance of God's power comes with a dignity and freshness that makes it compelling even today. In Scheindlin's vivid translation an ancient text speaks to us directly of timeless questions and passions. A selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, History Book Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, and Jewish Book Club [via] -
Chokeby Chuck PalahniukISBN 0385720920 (0-385-72092-0)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Choke'Book summary:We can more or less deduce the following of the main protagonist in Choke; Victor Mancini is a ruthless con artist. Victor Mancini is a medical school dropout who's taken a job playing an Irish indentured servant in a colonial-era theme park in order to help care for his Alzehimer's-afflicted mother. Victor Mancini is a sex addict. Victor Mancini is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ. Welcome, once again, to the world of Chuck Palahniuk.
"Art never comes from happiness" says Mancini's mother only a few pages into the novel. Given her own dicey and melodramatic style of parenting, you would think that her son's life would be chock full of nothing but art. Alas, that's not the case--in the fine tradition of Oedipus, Stephen Dedalus and Anthony Soprano, Victor hasn't quite reconciled his issues with his mother. Instead, he's trawling sexual-addiction recovery meetings for dates and purposely choking in restaurants for a few moments of attention. Longing for a hug, in other words, he's settling for the Heimlich.
Thematically, this is pretty familiar Palanhiuk territory. It would be a pity to disclose the surprises of the plot but suffice to say that what we have here is a little bit of Tom Robbins's Another Roadside Attraction, a little bit of Don DeLillo's The Day Room and, well, a little bit of Fight Club. Just as with that book and the other two novels under Palahniuk's belt, we get a smattering of gloriously unflinching sound bites, such as this sceptical slight on prayer chains: "A spiritual pyramid scheme. As if you can gang up on God. Bully him around."
Whether this is the novel that will break Palanhiuk into the mainstream is hard to say. For a fourth book, in fact, the ratio of iffy, "dude"-intensive dialogue to interesting and insightful passages is a little higher than we might wish. In the end though, the author's nerve and daring pull the whole thing off--just. And what's next for Victor Mancini's creator? Leave the last word to him, declaring as he does on the final pages: "Maybe it's our job to invent something better ... What it's going to be, I don't know." --Bob Michaels, Amazon.com [via]
The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkinby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Gillon R. AitkenISBN 0393004651 (0-393-00465-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Gibian, Jessie Senior CoulsonISBN 0393092925 (0-393-09292-5)
Softcover, Norton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:A Norton Critical Edition with the novel, letters from Dostoevsky and a collection of critical essays. [via]
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The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 0385504209 (0-385-50420-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Da Vinci Code'Book summary:With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.
A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his daughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Neveu's father's murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England, and history itself.
Brown (Angels and Demons) has created a page-turning thriller that also provides an amazing interpretation of Western history. Brown's hero and heroine embark on a lofty and intriguing exploration of some of Western culture's greatest mysteries--from the nature of the Mona Lisa's smile to the secret of the Holy Grail. Though some will quibble with the veracity of Brown's conjectures, therein lies the fun. The Da Vinci Code is an enthralling read that provides rich food for thought. --Jeremy Pugh [via]
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Die Verwandlungby Franz Kafka, Marjorie L. HooverISBN 0393095339 (0-393-09533-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Die Verwandlung'Book summary:Kafkas bekanntester Text in einer sorgfältig edierten Ausgabe
Als Gregor Samsa eines morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem Ungeziefer verwandelt. Mit seiner Verwandlung in einen Käfer protestiert der Handlungsreisende Samsa gegen seinen Beruf, mit dem er die ganze Familie ernährt, er protestiert gegen Vater, Mutter und Schwester, die auf seine Kosten leben er revoltiert gegen sein ganzes Leben. Aber sein Protest bleibt wirkungslos und führt schließlich zum Tod.
Mit einem Nachwort, einer Zeittafel zu Kafka, einem Stellenkommentar und bibliographischen Hinweisen von Dr. Ewald Rösch.
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The Divine Comedyby John Ciardi, Dante AlighieriISBN 0393044726 (0-393-04472-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance.
Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages. [via]More editions of The Divine Comedy:
An Essay Concerning Human Understandingby John Locke, A. Seth Pringle-PattisonISBN 0391005731 (0-391-00573-1)
Hardcover, Harvester Press
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The Fast Track: Texans and Other Striversby Nicholas LemannISBN 0393014363 (0-393-01436-3)
Hardcover, Norton
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Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0393092089 (0-393-09208-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, "Faust" has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in "Faust," "Part 1," the tremendous versatility of Goethe's genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethe's characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches' Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen's tragic fate.
This newly revised edition, which offers Peter Salm's wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us "Faust" in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethe's words. [via]
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Fight Clubby Chuck PalahniukISBN 0393327345 (0-393-32734-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fight Club'Book summary:The only person who gets called Ballardesque more often than Chuck Palahniuk is, well... J.G. Ballard. So, does Portland, Oregon's "torchbearer for the nihilistic generation" deserve that kind of treatment? Yes and no. There is a resemblance between Fight Club and works such as Crash and Cocaine Nights in that both see the innocuous mundanities of everyday life as nothing more than the severely loosened cap on a seething underworld cauldron of unchecked impulse and social atrocity. Welcome to the present-day U.S. of A. As Ballard's characters get their jollies from staging automobile accidents, Palahniuk's yuppies unwind from a day at the office by organizing bloodsport rings and selling soap to fund anarchist overthrows. Let's just say that neither of these guys are going to be called in to do a Full House script rewrite any time soon.
But while the ingredients are the same, Ballard and Palahniuk bake at completely different temperatures. Unlike his British counterpart, who tends to cast his American protagonists in a chilly light, holding them close enough to dissect but far enough away to eliminate any possibility of kinship, Palahniuk isn't happy unless he's first-person front and center, completely entangled in the whole sordid mess. An intensely psychological novel that never runs the risk of becoming clinical, Fight Club is about both the dangers of loyalty and the dreaded weight of leadership, the desire to band together and the compulsion to head for the hills. In short, it's about the pride and horror of being an American, rendered in lethally swift prose. Fight Club's protagonist might occasionally become foggy about who he truly is (you'll see what I mean), but one thing is for certain: you're not likely to forget the book's author. Never mind Ballardesque. Palahniukian here we come! --Bob Michaels [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gretchen Holbrook GerzinaISBN 0393926354 (0-393-92635-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.
Born in England and transplanted to New York toward the end of the Civil War, Burnett made her home in both countries, and today both countries claim her as their own. The Secret Garden, her best-known work, became an instant modern classic and world-wide bestseller upon its publication in 1911. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition and is accompanied by explanatory annotations.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" and "Letters" illuminate important aspects of Burnetts life and work and include her own writings on gardens and their spiritual healing. Four illustrations point to Burnetts prominence in popular culture.
"Criticism" includes fourteen contemporary reviews and nine recent critical views of The Secret Garden, including Jerry Phillipss sociopolitical interpretation and Phyllis Bixlers comparative analysis of the Broadway musical adaptation of the novel.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden:
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0393099415 (0-393-09941-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:Ted Danson reads the official tie-in to Hallmark Entertainments NBC-TV television event!
Imagine the greatest adventure of all time....
Rediscover the immortal story of Lemuel Gulliver and his fantastic voyage. Join him on his journey to the land of the six-inch-high Lilliputians...and into the royal court of the sixty-foot-tall Brobdingnagians. Ascend with him to the flying island of Laputa, whose inhabitants are endowed with uncommon intelligence, but no common sense at all. And follow him into the world of the Houyhnhnms, a race of civilized horses -- lords and masters of the brutish human Yahoos. The tale of a lifetime, "Gulliver's Travels" is filled with action, romance, danger, satirical wit, timeless wisdom, and the high drama only a classic of this caliber can convey. Set sail! [via]More editions of Gulliver's Travels:
Hard Timesby Charles Dickens, Fred Kaplan, Sylvere MonodISBN 0393103242 (0-393-10324-2)
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Henry IVby William ShakespeareISBN 0393095541 (0-393-09554-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry IV'Book summary:This edition of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 uses a variety of approaches to Shakespeare, including historical and cultural studies approaches. Shakespeare's text is accompanied by an intriguing collection of thematically arranged historical and cultural documents and illustrations designed to give a firsthand knowledge of the contexts out of which Henry IV, Part 1 emerged. Hodgdon's intelligent and engaging introductions to the play and to the documents (most of which are presented in modern spelling and with annotations) offer a richly textured understanding of Elizabethan culture and Shakespeare's work within that culture. [via]
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The History of Loveby Nicole KraussISBN 0393328627 (0-393-32862-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Love'Book summary:Nicole Krauss's The History of Love is a hauntingly beautiful novel about two characters whose lives are woven together in such complex ways that even after the last page is turned, the reader is left to wonder what really happened. In the hands of a less gifted writer, unraveling this tangled web could easily give way to complete chaos. However, under Krauss's watchful eye, these twists and turns only strengthen the impact of this enchanting book.
The History of Love spans of period of over 60 years and takes readers from Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe to present day Brighton Beach. At the center of each main character's psyche is the issue of loneliness, and the need to fill a void left empty by lost love. Leo Gursky is a retired locksmith who immigrates to New York after escaping SS officers in his native Poland, only to spend the last stage of his life terrified that no one will notice when he dies. ("I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even though I'm not thirsty.") Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer vacillates between wanting to memorialize her dead father and finding a way to lift her mother's veil of depression. At the same time, she's trying to save her brother Bird, who is convinced he may be the Messiah, from becoming a 10-year-old social pariah. As the connection between Leo and Alma is slowly unmasked, the desperation, along with the potential for salvation, of this unique pair is also revealed.
The poetry of her prose, along with an uncanny ability to embody two completely original characters, is what makes Krauss an expert at her craft. But in the end, it's the absolute belief in the uninteruption of love that makes this novel a pleasure, and a wonder to behold. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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In Fact: The Best Of Creative Nonfictionby Lee Gutkind, Annie DillardISBN 0393326659 (0-393-32665-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Fact: The Best Of Creative Nonfiction'Book summary:Twenty-five arresting selections from the groundbreaking journal that defined a genre.Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays that flourished on this new ground, all originally published in the journal he founded, Creative Nonfiction, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. Lauren Slater is a therapist in the institution where she was once a patient. John Edgar Wideman reacts passionately to the unjust murder of Emmett Till. Charles Simic tells of wild nights with Uncle Boris. John McPhee creates a rare, personal, album quilt. Terry Tempest Williams speaks on the decline of the prairie dog. Madison Smartt Bell invades Haiti. Many of the writers are crossing genres-from poetry and fiction to nonfiction-symbolic of Creative Nonfiction's scope and popularity. A cross section of the famous and those bound to become so, this collection is a riveting experience highlighting the expanding importance of this dramatic and exciting new genre. [via]
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Ireland's Women: Writings Past and Presentby A. Norman Jeffares, Brendan Kennelly, Katie DonovanISBN 0393313603 (0-393-31360-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Richard J. DunnISBN 0393043428 (0-393-04342-8)
Hardcover, Norton
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Jewish American Literatureby Jules Chametzky, John Felstiner, Kathryn Hellerstein, Hilene FlanzbaumISBN 0393048098 (0-393-04809-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Joseph Andrews With Shamela and Related Writingsby Henry Fielding, Homer GoldbergISBN 0393024229 (0-393-02422-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 0393090892 (0-393-09089-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jude the Obscure'Book summary:The parallel stories of working-class Jude rejected by the University of Christminster and Sue Bridehead outcast by society for her social and sexual rebellion focus dominant issues of the period. But the technique is far in advance of its time: Hardy presents what he calls 'a series of seemings', alternative and conflicting visions never resolved. This edition is based on a detailed study of textual transmission. It presents a 'clean' text by restoring Hardy's own characteristically light punctuation. The notes include variant readings which show startling changes made in the characterization of Sue during composition and revision. [via]
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Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke 1910-1926by Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0393004775 (0-393-00477-5)
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Much Ado about Nothing: The Making of the Movieby Kenneth BranaghISBN 0393311112 (0-393-31111-2)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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A Muriel Rukeyser Readerby Jan Heller LeviISBN 0393313239 (0-393-31323-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Muriel Rukeyser Reader'Book summary:A Muriel Rukeyser Reader gathers a generous selection of poetry and prose spanning the forty-five years of Rukeyser's writing life.
Bringing together works only sparsely anthologized or long out of print, this book is a resource for understanding the range, depth, and originality of this pioneering writer whom the poet Anne Sexton named "Muriel, mother of everyone." [via]More editions of A Muriel Rukeyser Reader:
A Muriel Rukeyser Readerby Muriel Rukeyser, Jan Heller LeviISBN 0393035662 (0-393-03566-2)
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Nigger of the Narcissusby Joseph Conrad, Robert KimbroughISBN 0393090191 (0-393-09019-1)
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The Norton Introduction to Poetryby J. Paul HunterISBN 039395157X (0-393-95157-X)
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The Norton Anthology of American Literatureby Nina BaymISBN 0393953777 (0-393-95377-7)
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The Norton Anthology of American Literatureby Ronald GottesmanISBN 0393950263 (0-393-95026-3)
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The Norton Anthology of English Literatureby Stephen Greenblatt, M. H. AbramsISBN 0393925315 (0-393-92531-5)
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The Norton Anthology of English Literatureby Meyer Howard AbramsISBN 0393151107 (0-393-15110-7)
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The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard and remains an unmatched value. [via]More editions of The Norton Anthology of English Literature:
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature Middle Agesby Stephen GreenblattISBN 0393927172 (0-393-92717-2)
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Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologiesthorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possibleThe Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool. [via]More editions of The Norton Anthology of English Literature Middle Ages:
The Norton Anthology of Short Fictionby R. V. CassillISBN 0393090728 (0-393-09072-8)
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Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Timeby Eavan BolandISBN 0393314375 (0-393-31437-5)
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Painted Shadow : The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot, Their Marriage and the Long-Suppressed Truth about Her Influence on His Geniusby Carole Seymour-JonesISBN 0385499922 (0-385-49992-2)
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Pantagruel Gargantuaby Francois Rabelais, Burton RaffelISBN 0393308065 (0-393-30806-5)
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Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times-from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desires-is one of the great comic masterpieces of literature. [via]More editions of Pantagruel Gargantua:
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, Michael Patrick GillespieISBN 0393927547 (0-393-92754-7)
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Backgrounds and Reviews and Reactions allow readers to gauge the novels sensational reception and to consider the heated public debate over art and morality that the novel engendered.
Criticism includes seven new essays on the novel that reflect key changes in interpretive theory in recent years and reveal the broad range of interpretive perspectives on Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Michael Patrick Gillespie, Simon Joyce, Donald L. Lawler, Sheldon W. Liebman, Maureen OConnor, Elli Ragland-Sullivan, and John Paul Riquelme provide their varied assessments.
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Poetryby J. Paul HunterISBN 0393093808 (0-393-09380-8)
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0393092593 (0-393-09259-3)
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Quartetby Jean RhysISBN 0393315460 (0-393-31546-0)
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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedyby Scott McMillinISBN 0393099970 (0-393-09997-0)
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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Authoritative Texts of The Country Wife, The Man of Mode, The Way of the World, The Conscious Lovers, The School for Scandal; Backgrounds, Criticismby Scott McMillinISBN 0393043525 (0-393-04352-5)
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The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations. The close relationship between theater and society during the period continues to be the focus of Contexts. The editor offers contemporary discussions of the following topics: On Wit, Humour, and Laughter: 16601775, The Collier Controversy: 1698, Steele and Dennis: On The Man of Mode and The Conscious Lovers, and Stages, Actors, and Audiences. Criticism has been revised to reflect approaches in scholarly interpretations. Two seminal essays from the First Edition have been retainedCharles Lambs appreciation of the periods comedy and L. C. Knightss condemnation of it. New essays by Jocelyn Powell, Harriet Hawkins, Elin Diamond, Martin Price, and Laura Brown have been added. Illustrated [via]More editions of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Authoritative Texts of The Country Wife, The Man of Mode, The Way of the World, The Conscious Lovers, The School for Scandal; Backgrounds, Criticism:
Rilke on Love and Other Difficultiesby Rainer Maria Rilke, John J.L. MoodISBN 0393310981 (0-393-31098-1)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, Michael ShinagelISBN 0393044076 (0-393-04407-6)
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0393090736 (0-393-09073-6)
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Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celanby John Felstiner, Paul CelanISBN 039304999X (0-393-04999-X)
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Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celanby Paul Celan, John FelstinerISBN 0393322246 (0-393-32224-6)
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Selected Satires of Lucianby Lucian, Lionel CassonISBN 0393004430 (0-393-00443-0)
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Lucian, born in Syria in the second century C.E., came to Greece at an early age and mastered its language and literature. He took up law, left it for public speaking, then turned to full-time writing, producing the wide range of subject matter and literary form which is represented in this collection.
A master of the vivid scene, Lucian used his pungent style to ridicule the tyrants, prophets, waning gods, and hypocrite philosophers of his own day and the centuries preceding him. His most typical genre is a parody of a Platonic dialogue, but he also excelled in straight narrative, as in the elaborate spoof "A True Story" and the old folk tale outrageously retold, "Lucius, the Ass." His skeptical mind and imaginative irony have influenced generations of artists and writers, and now in Professor Casson's new translations can be freshly enjoyed today. [via]More editions of Selected Satires of Lucian:
The Seven-Per-Cent Solutionby Henry F. Ledgard, Nicholas MeyerISBN 0393311198 (0-393-31119-8)
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Short Fiction of the Seventeenth Centuryby C. MishISBN 0393004376 (0-393-00437-6)
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The Sufferings of Young Wertherby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 039309880X (0-393-09880-X)
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The Tentby Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 0385516681 (0-385-51668-1)
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In pieces ranging in length from a mere paragraph to several pages, Atwood gives a sly pep talk to the ambitious young; writes about the disconcerting experience of looking at old photos of ourselves; gives us Horatio's real views on Hamlet; and examines the boons and banes of orphanhood. Bring Back Mom: An Invocation explores what life was really like for the perfect homemakers of days gone by, and in The Animals Reject Their Names, she runs history backward, with surprising results.
Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, The Tent is vintage Atwood. Enhanced by the authors delightful drawings, it is perfect for Valentines Day, and any other occasion that demands a special, out-of-the-ordinary gift. [via]More editions of The Tent:
Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Terence WrightISBN 0391034510 (0-391-03451-0)
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, Scott ElledgeISBN 0393045072 (0-393-04507-2)
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Three Greek Plays Prometheus Bound Agamemnon the Trojan Womenby Edith HamiltonISBN 0393002039 (0-393-00203-9)
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Tristram Shandyby Laurence Sterne, Howard AndersonISBN 0393950344 (0-393-95034-4)
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962: Transcripts from the Original Manuscripts at Smith Collegeby Sylvia Plath, Karen V. KukilISBN 0385720254 (0-385-72025-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962: Transcripts from the Original Manuscripts at Smith College'Book summary:In the decades that have followed Sylvia Plath's suicide in February 1963, much has been written and speculated about her life, most particularly about her marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes and her last months spent writing the stark, confessional poems that were to become Ariel. And the myths surrounding Plath have only been intensified by the strong grip her estate--managed by Hughes and his sister, Olwyn--had over the release of her work. Yet Plath kept journals from the age of 11 until her death at 30. Previously only available in a severely bowdlerized edition, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath have now been scrupulously transcribed (with every spelling mistake and grammatical error left intact) and annotated by Karen V. Kukil, supervisor of the Plath collection at Smith College.
The journals show the breathless adolescent obsessed with her burgeoning sexuality, the serious university student competing for the highest grades while engaging in the human merry-go-round of 1950s dating, the graduate year spent at Cambridge University where Plath encountered Ted Hughes. Her version of their relationship (dating is definitely not the appropriate term) is a necessary, and deeply painful, complement to Birthday Letters. On March 10, 1956, Plath writes:
Please let him come, and give me the resilience & guts to make him respect me, be interested, and not to throw myself at him with loudness or hysterical yelling; calmly, gently, easy baby easy. He is probably strutting the backs among crocuses now with seven Scandinavian mistresses. And I sit, spiderlike, waiting, here, home; Penelope weaving webs of Webster, turning spindles of Tourneur. Oh, he is here; my black marauder; oh hungry hungry. I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love: I am here; I wait; and he plays on the banks of the river Cam like a casual faun.
Plath's documentation of the two years the couple spent in the U.S. teaching and writing explicitly highlights the dilemma of the late-1950s woman--still swaddled in expectations of domesticity, yet attempting to forge her own independent professional and personal life. This period also reveals in detail the therapy sessions in which Plath lets loose her antipathy for her mother and her grief at her father's death when she was 8--a contrast to the bright, all-American persona she presented to her mother in the correspondence that was published as Letters Home. The journals also feature some notable omissions. Plath understandably skirted over her breakdown and attempted suicide during the summer of 1953, though she was to anatomize the events minutely in her novel The Bell Jar.Fragments of diaries exist after 1959, which saw the couple's return to England and rural retreat in Devon, the birth of their two children, and their separation in late 1962. An extended piece on the illness and death of an elderly neighbor during this period is particularly affecting and was later turned into the poem "Berck-Plage." Much has been made of the "lost diaries" that Plath kept until her suicide--one simply appears to have vanished, the other Hughes burned after her death. It would seem rapacious to wish for more details of her despair in her final days, however. It is crystallized in the poems that became Ariel, and this is what the voice of her journals ultimately send the reader back to. Sylvia Plath's life has for too long been obfuscated by anecdote, distorting her major contribution to 20th-century literature. As she wrote in "Kindness": "The blood jet is poetry. There is no stopping it." --Catherine Taylor [via]
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Walking Light: Essays & Memoirsby Stephen DunnISBN 0393034887 (0-393-03488-7)
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War and Peaceby Leo TolstoyISBN 0393096726 (0-393-09672-6)
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Warwick the Kingmakerby Paul Murray KendallISBN 0393303802 (0-393-30380-2)
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We Dream of Honour: John Berryman's Letters to His Motherby John Berryman, Richard KellyISBN 0393024776 (0-393-02477-6)
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Wide Sargasso Seaby Jean RhysISBN 0393308804 (0-393-30880-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wide Sargasso Sea'Book summary:In 1966 Jean Rhys reemerged after a long silence with a novel called Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys had enjoyed minor literary success in the 1920s and '30s with a series of evocative novels featuring women protagonists adrift in Europe, verging on poverty, hoping to be saved by men. By the '40s, however, her work was out of fashion, too sad for a world at war. And Rhys herself was often too sad for the world--she was suicidal, alcoholic, troubled by a vast loneliness. She was also a great writer, despite her powerful self-destructive impulses.
Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched."
The novel is Rhys's answer to Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë's book had long haunted her, mostly for the story it did not tell--that of the madwoman in the attic, Rochester's terrible secret. Antoinette is Rhys's imagining of that locked-up woman, who in the end burns up the house and herself. Wide Sargasso Sea follows her voyage into the dark, both from her point of view and Rochester's. It is a voyage charged with soul-destroying lust. "I watched her die many times," observes the new husband. "In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty."
Rhys struggled over the book, enduring rejections and revisions, wrestling to bring this ruined woman out of the ashes. The slim volume was finally published when she was 70 years old. The critical adulation that followed, she said, "has come too late." Jean Rhys died a few years later, but with Wide Sargasso Sea she left behind a great legacy, a work of strange, scary loveliness. There has not been a book like it before or since. Believe me, I've been searching. --Emily White [via]
Wuthering Heights, Revised: An Authoritative Text, with Essays in Criticismby Emily Bronte, William Merritt SaleISBN 0393042308 (0-393-04230-8)
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