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The Alienistby Caleb CarrISBN 0679417796 (0-679-41779-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alienist'Book summary:The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.
The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over.
Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences. [via]More editions of The Alienist:
Andre Gide: A Life in the Presentby Alan SheridanISBN 0674003934 (0-674-00393-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effronteryby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679768203 (0-679-76820-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Beautiful Losersby Leonard CohenISBN 0679748253 (0-679-74825-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beautiful Losers'Book summary:One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen s most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint.
By turns vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty, Beautiful Losers explores each characters attainment of a state of self-abandonment, in which the sensualist cannot be distinguished from the saint. [via]More editions of Beautiful Losers:
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The Big Book of Hell: A Cartoon Bookby Matt GroeningISBN 0679727590 (0-679-72759-0)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perceptionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679753346 (0-679-75334-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception'Book summary:In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible.
In The Birth of the Clinic the philosopher and intellectual historian who may be the true heir to Nietzsche charts this dramatic transformation of medical knowledge. As in his classic Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault shows how much what we think of as pure science owes to social and cultural attitudes -- in this case, to the climate of the French Revolution. Brilliant, provocative, and omnivorously learned, his book sheds new light on the origins of our current notions of health and sickness, life and death. [via]More editions of The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception:
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Black Wings and Blind Angelsby SapphireISBN 0679767312 (0-679-76731-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Wings and Blind Angels'Book summary:With fierce candor and an unflinching eye, the highly praised author of Push journeys through the harsh realities of African American existence to find the "door to the possibility of now." The heroes that emerge from these forty-seven vigorous poems confront the agony of betrayal as they strive in their quest for self-transformation and redemption.
From the city streets to the rich landscape of dreams, each of these poems holds out the "black wings of expectation" offering the chance to emerge from the pain of the past and arrive at "the day you have been waiting for/when you would finally begin to live." At turns alarming and inspiring, the raw lyrics and piercing wisdom of Black Wings & Blind Angels remind us of Sapphire's place as a unique and fearless voice. [via]More editions of Black Wings and Blind Angels:
Bostoniansby Henry JamesISBN 0679417508 (0-679-41750-8)
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Breaking the Surface: A Lifeby Eric Marcus, Greg LouganisISBN 0679437037 (0-679-43703-7)
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Bullet Parkby John CheeverISBN 0679737871 (0-679-73787-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bullet Park'Book summary:Welcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage to terrify themselves simply by looking in the mirror. In these exemplary environs John Cheever traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and Paul Hammer, a bastard named after a common household tool, who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with one objectiveto murder Nailles's son. Here is the lyrical and mordantly funny hymn to the American suburband to all the dubious normalcy it representsdelivered with unparalleled artistry and assurance. [via]
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Catullusby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Elmer T. MerrillISBN 0674103505 (0-674-10350-5)
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Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Venerisby Gaius Valerius CatullusISBN 0674990072 (0-674-99007-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris'Book summary:Catullus (Gaius Valerius, 8454 BCE), of Verona, went early to Rome, where he associated not only with other literary men from Cisalpine Gaul but also with Cicero and Hortensius. His surviving poems consist of nearly sixty short lyrics, eight longer poems in various metres, and almost fifty epigrams. All exemplify a strict technique of studied composition inherited from early Greek lyric and the poets of Alexandria. In his work we can trace his unhappy love for a woman he calls Lesbia; the death of his brother; his visits to Bithynia; and his emotional friendships and enmities at Rome. For consummate poetic artistry coupled with intensity of feeling Catullus's poems have no rival in Latin literature.
Tibullus (Albius, ca. 5419 BCE), of equestrian rank and a friend of Horace, enjoyed the patronage of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, whom he several times apostrophizes. Three books of elegies have come down to us under his name, of which only the first two are authentic. Book 1 mostly proclaims his love for 'Delia', Book 2 his passion for 'Nemesis'. The third book consists of a miscellany of poems from the archives of Messalla; it is very doubtful whether any come from the pen of Tibullus himself. But a special interest attaches to a group of them which concern a girl called Sulpicia: some of the poems are written by her lover Cerinthus, while others purport to be her own composition.
The Pervigilium Veneris, a poem of not quite a hundred lines celebrating a spring festival in honour of the goddess of love, is remarkable both for its beauty and as the first clear note of romanticism which transformed classical into medieval literature. The manuscripts give no clue to its author, but recent scholarship has made a strong case for attributing it to the early fourth-century poet Tiberianus.
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The Changing Light at Sandover: A Poemby James MerrillISBN 0679747362 (0-679-74736-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & the Thanksgiving Visitorby Truman CapoteISBN 0679602372 (0-679-60237-2)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Storiesby Gore VidalISBN 0679436995 (0-679-43699-5)
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Cock and Bullby Will SelfISBN 0679750924 (0-679-75092-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cock and Bull'Book summary:Combining a wild imagination, a bizarre sense of humor, and a masterful command of language, Self is the newest young literary star to appear out of England. Cock and Bull tells of a world where sexual characteristics are switched on a nightmare ride where gender isn't so much bent as snapped in two. [via]
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Collected Storiesby Willa CatherISBN 0679736484 (0-679-73648-4)
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Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0679600078 (0-679-60007-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime. He was a seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, and exerted a great influence on Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and Charles Baudelaire, who championed him long before Poe was appreciated in his own country. Baudelaire's enthusiasm brought Poe a wide audience in Europe, and his writing came to have enormous importance for modern French literature. This edition includes his most well-known works--"The Raven," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Annabel Lee," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"--as well as less-familiar stories, poems, and essays. [via]
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The Decay of the Angelby Yukio Mishima, Edward SeidenstickerISBN 0679722432 (0-679-72243-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Dreyfus Affair : A Love Storyby Peter LefcourtISBN 0679403442 (0-679-40344-2)
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Empireby Gore VidalISBN 0679602933 (0-679-60293-3)
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The Farewell Symphonyby Edmund WhiteISBN 0679754768 (0-679-75476-8)
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Go Tell It on the Mountainby James BaldwinISBN 0679601546 (0-679-60154-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Go Tell It on the Mountain'Book summary:First published in 1953 when James Baldwin was nearly 30, Go Tell It on the Mountain is a young man's novel, as tightly coiled as a new spring, yet tempered by a maturing man's confidence and empathy. It's not a long book, and its action spans but a single day--yet the author packs in enough emotion, detail, and intimate revelation to make his story feel like a mid-20th-century epic. Using as a frame the spiritual and moral awakening of 14-year-old John Grimes during a Saturday night service in a Harlem storefront church, Baldwin lays bare the secrets of a tormented black family during the depression. John's parents, praying beside him, both wrestle with the ghosts of their sinful pasts--Gabriel, a preacher of towering hypocrisy, fathered an illegitimate child during his first marriage down South and refused to recognize his doomed bastard son; Elizabeth fell in love with a charming, free-spirited young man, followed him to New York, became pregnant with his son, and lost him before she could reveal her condition.
Baldwin lays down the terrible symmetries of these two blighted lives as the ironic context for John's dark night of the soul. When day dawns, John believes himself saved, but his creator makes it clear that this salvation arises as much from blindness as revelation: "He was filled with a joy, a joy unspeakable, whose roots, though he would not trace them on this new day of his life, were nourished by the wellspring of a despair not yet discovered."
Though it was hailed at publication for its groundbreaking use of black idiom, what is most striking about Go Tell It on the Mountain today is its structure and its scope. In peeling back the layers of these damaged lives, Baldwin dramatizes the story of the great black migration from rural South to urban North. "Behind them was the darkness," Baldwin writes of Gabriel and Elizabeth's lost generation, "nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" This is Baldwin's music--a music in which rhapsody is rooted anguish--and there is none finer in American literature. --David Laskin [via]
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The God in Flightby Laura ArgiriISBN 0679428313 (0-679-42831-3)
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The Half-Life of Happinessby John CaseyISBN 0679409785 (0-679-40978-5)
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The History of Sexuality: An Introductionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679724699 (0-679-72469-9)
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Homosexuality & Civilizationby Louis CromptonISBN 0674022335 (0-674-02233-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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How Proust Can Change Your Life : Not a Novelby Alain de BottonISBN 0679442758 (0-679-44275-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Proust Can Change Your Life : Not a Novel'Book summary:This is a genius-level piece of writing that manages to blend literary biography with self-help and tongue-in-cheek with the profound. The quirky, early 1900s French author Marcel Proust acts as the vessel for surprisingly impressive nuggets of wisdom on down-to-earth topics such as why you should never sleep with someone on the first date, how to protect yourself against lower back pain, and how to cope with obnoxious neighbors. Here's proof that our ancestors had just as much insight as the gurus du jour and perhaps a lot more wit. De Botton simultaneously pokes fun at the self-help movement and makes a significant contribution to its archives. [via]
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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 0679600698 (0-679-60069-8)
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequencesby Truman CapoteISBN 0679745580 (0-679-74558-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences'Book summary:"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks. [via]
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In Search of Lost Timeby Marcel ProustISBN 0679600280 (0-679-60028-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of Lost Time'Book summary:The Guermantes Way, in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantess château near Combray. It also represents the narrators passage into the rarefied social kaleidoscope of the Guermantess Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantess drawing room. Here he encounters nobles, officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert de Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of In Search of Lost Time:
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Interview with the Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 067945084X (0-679-45084-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interview with the Vampire'Book summary:This is the book that started it all. We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. [via]
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The Invisibles: A Tale of the Eunuchs of Indiaby Zia JaffreyISBN 067974228X (0-679-74228-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisibles: A Tale of the Eunuchs of India'Book summary:Zia Jaffrey, daughter of the well-known Indian food writer Madhur Jaffrey and heir to a hybrid Indian-American culture, found herself fascinated on a visit to India by a separate and extraordinary caste--the hijras, or eunuchs, castrati who dress as women and live together. Empathizing with their sense of otherness, she pursued the story of their semi-secret existence. The hijras have a long tradition in India, yet are regarded with great ambiguity. On the one hand they are invited to attend weddings and births and thought to bring good luck despite their crude behavior, bawdy jokes, and bad singing. On the other hand, there is much fearful speculation as to how they perpetuate their caste--some allege the abduction and castration of little boys. Jaffrey sensitively investigates these mysteries. [via]
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Leonard Bernstein: A Lifeby Meryle SecrestISBN 067973757X (0-679-73757-X)
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reasonby Michel FoucaultISBN 067972110X (0-679-72110-X)
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May Sarton : A Biographyby Margot PetersISBN 0679415211 (0-679-41521-1)
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Memoirs of Hadrianby Marguerite YourcenarISBN 0679601600 (0-679-60160-0)
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Moby Dick Or, the Whaleby Herman Melville, Rockwell KentISBN 0679600108 (0-679-60010-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick Or, the Whale'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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Moby-Dickby Herman Melville, Larzer ZiffISBN 0679405593 (0-679-40559-3)
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Music and Imagination.by Aaron CoplandISBN 0674589157 (0-674-58915-7)
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Music for Chameleonsby Truman CapoteISBN 0679745661 (0-679-74566-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Music for Chameleons'Book summary:In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut householder with a ruinous obsession for a twelve-year-old he has never met. And we meet Capote himself, who, whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe, remains one of the most elegant, malicious, yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of his time.
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The New Gay Teenagerby Ritch C. Savin-WilliamsISBN 0674022564 (0-674-02256-4)
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No Telephone to Heavenby Michelle CliffISBN 0679739424 (0-679-73942-4)
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Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciencesby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679753354 (0-679-75335-4)
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Palimpsest : A Memoirby Gore VidalISBN 0679440380 (0-679-44038-0)
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The Passion of Michel Foucaultby James MillerISBN 0674001575 (0-674-00157-5)
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Petrolioby Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ann GoldsteinISBN 0679429905 (0-679-42990-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Petrolio'Book summary:Although Pier Paolo Pasolini is internationally renowned as a filmmaker, his poetry and novels are canonical works of modern Italian writing. Petrolio, a novel unfinished at the time of his murder in 1977, is Pasolini's last major work. All of Pasolini's major themes are here--the homoeroticism of working-class males, the reemergence of ancient myth in the modern city, and the exploitation of the underclass by capitalism. Pasolini blends these disparate themes together in a dense, but satisfying tale of social corruption, political intrigue, and personal sexual salvation. Deeply intellectual and at times mystifying--often because it was partially reconstructed from notes--Pasolini's final work is a tribute to both his power and endurance as an artist. [via]
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Plays, Prose Writings & Poemsby Oscar WildeISBN 0679405836 (0-679-40583-6)
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Introduction by Terry Eagleton
Oscar Wilde has been acknowledged as the wittiest writer in the English language. This collection proves that he was also one of the most versatile. Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the plays, prose writings, and poems gathered here support Wildes belief that entertainment provides the best kind of edification. The works gathered here include Wildes once-controversial and now classic novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the rioutously (sic) comic plays The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermeres Fan, and the famous poem he wrote after being released from prison, The Ballad of Reading Gaol. This expanded new edition now includes the complete version of Wildes moving letter from prison, De Profundis, and his teasing parable about Shakespeare, The Portrait of Mr. W. H. Other notable included writings are the semi-comic mystery story Lord Arthurs Saviles Crime and the essay The Soul of Man Under Socialism. [via]More editions of Plays, Prose Writings & Poems:
The Poisoned Embrace: A Brief History of Sexual Pessimismby Lawrence OsborneISBN 0679754148 (0-679-75414-8)
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Red Azaleaby Anchee MinISBN 067942332X (0-679-42332-X)
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The Republicby PlatoISBN 0679733876 (0-679-73387-6)
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Seaby Yukio Mishima, John NathanISBN 0679750150 (0-679-75015-0)
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Sappho's Immortal Daughtersby Margaret WilliamsonISBN 067478913X (0-674-78913-X)
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Season in Hell, And, the Illuminationsby Wyatt Alexander Mason, Jean Nicolas Arthur RimbaudISBN 0679643273 (0-679-64327-3)
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughesby Langston HughesISBN 067972818X (0-679-72818-X)
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Selected Writings of Gertrude Steinby Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten, F.W. DupeeISBN 0679724648 (0-679-72464-8)
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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essaysby Camille PagliaISBN 0679741011 (0-679-74101-1)
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Sexual Orientation and the LawISBN 0674802926 (0-674-80292-6)
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Sexual Orientation and the Lawby Harvard Law ReviewISBN 0674802934 (0-674-80293-4)
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A Sor Juana Anthologyby Alan TruebloodISBN 0674821211 (0-674-82121-1)
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The Spoils of Poyntonby Henry JamesISBN 0678028109 (0-678-02810-9)
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Stephen Sondheim : A Lifeby Meryle SecrestISBN 0679448179 (0-679-44817-9)
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Stories in an Almost Classical Modeby Harold BrodkeyISBN 0679724311 (0-679-72431-1)
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Swann's Wayby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 067972009X (0-679-72009-X)
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--VLADIMIR NABOKOV
In the overture to Swann's Way, the themes of the whole of In Search of Lost Time are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.
The final volume of a new, definitive text of A la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new French editions. [via] -
The Talented Mr. Ripleyby Patricia HighsmithISBN 0679742298 (0-679-74229-8)
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The novel begins with a play on James's The Ambassadors. Tom Ripley is chosen by the wealthy Herbert Greenleaf to retrieve Greenleaf's son, Dickie, from his overlong sojourn in Italy. Dickie, it seems, is held captive both by the Mediterranean climate and the attractions of his female companion, but Mr. Greenleaf needs him back in New York to help with the family business. With an allowance and a new purpose, Tom leaves behind his dismal city apartment to begin his career as a return escort. But Tom, too, is captivated by Italy. He is also taken with the life and looks of Dickie Greenleaf. He insinuates himself into Dickie's world and soon finds that his passion for a lifestyle of wealth and sophistication transcends moral compunction. Tom will become Dickie Greenleaf--at all costs.
Unlike many modernist experiments, The Talented Mr. Ripley is eminently readable and is driven by a gripping chase narrative that chronicles each of Tom's calculated maneuvers of self-preservation. Highsmith was in peak form with this novel, and her ability to enter the mind of a sociopath and view the world through his disturbingly amoral eyes is a model that has spawned such latter-day serial killers as Hannibal Lecter. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Tchaikovsky : A Biographyby Anthony HoldenISBN 0679420061 (0-679-42006-1)
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The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvardby Leonard BernsteinISBN 0674920015 (0-674-92001-5)
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Under the Black Flag : The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Piratesby David CordinglyISBN 0679425608 (0-679-42560-8)
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The Vampire Armandby Anne RiceISBN 0679454470 (0-679-45447-0)
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The story begins in the aftermath of Memnoch the Devil. Vampires from all over the globe have gathered around Lestat, who lies prostrate on the floor of a cathedral. Dead? In a coma? As Armand reflects on Lestat's condition, he is drawn by David Talbot to tell the story of his own life. The narrative abruptly rushes back to 15th-century Constantinople, and the Armand of the present recounts the fragmented memories of his childhood abduction from Kiev. Eventually, he is sold to a Venetian artist (and vampire), Marius. Rice revels in descriptions of the sensual relationship between the young and still-mortal Armand and his vampiric mentor. But when Armand is finally transformed, the tone of the book dramatically shifts. Raw and sexually explicit scenes are displaced by Armand's introspective quest for a union of his Russian Orthodox childhood, his hedonistic life with Marius, and his newly acquired immortality. These final chapters remind one of the archetypal significance of Rice's vampires; at their best, Armand, Lestat, and Marius offer keen insights into the most human of concerns.
The Vampire Armand is richly intertextual; readers will relish the retelling of critical events from Lestat and Louis's narratives. Nevertheless, the novel is very much Armand's own tragic tale. Rice deftly integrates the necessary back-story for new readers to enter her epic series, and the introduction of a few new voices adds a fresh perspective--and the promise of provocative future installments. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Vamps and Tramps: New Essaysby Camille PagliaISBN 0679751203 (0-679-75120-3)
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The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fictionby Joan Nestle, Naomi HolochISBN 0679759522 (0-679-75952-2)
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Waves : An Anthology of Gay Literatureby Ethan MorddenISBN 0679744770 (0-679-74477-0)
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The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heartby Alice WalkerISBN 0679455876 (0-679-45587-6)
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What We All Long Forby Dionne BrandISBN 0676971679 (0-676-97167-9)
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Within a Budding Groveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 067960006X (0-679-60006-X)
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For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of Within a Budding Grove:
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Women, Culture, and Politicsby Angela Y. DavisISBN 0679724877 (0-679-72487-7)
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Wonder Boysby Michael ChabonISBN 0679415882 (0-679-41588-2)
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Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women An Anthologyby Jill K. ConwayISBN 0679736336 (0-679-73633-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women An Anthology'Book summary:Jill Ker Conway (The Road from Coorain ) edits this sterling selection of autobiographical excerpts by 25 American women. Among them are artists, scientists, doctors, writers, and reformers, all well chosen though not necessarily well known. Physician Anne Walter Fearn writes of decades dispensing Western medicine in China and struggling with her husband, a God-fearing medical missionary who was "born to give orders just as definitely as I was born not to take them." The heart-rending narrative of former slave Harriet Ann Jacob, who tells of abortive and finally successful attempts to free herself and her children segues into Maya Angelou's more widely read contemporary account of doggedly soliciting sex as a teen uncertain of her sexual identity and hoping to be ushered into "that strange and exotic land of frills and femininity." [via]
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Written by Herself Vol. 2 : Women's Memoirs from Britain, Africa, Asia and the United Statesby Jill Ker ConwayISBN 0679751092 (0-679-75109-2)
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