| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “religion”
books tagged “religion”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
-
Adam Bedeby George EliotISBN 0679409912 (0-679-40991-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Adam Bede'Book summary:A remarkably vivid depiction of village life provides the backdrop to George Eliots first novel, a story of love and betrayal invested with social realism of unprecedented sensitivity.
Adam Bede is an upstanding young carpenter whose greatest weakness is his infatuation with the self-absorbed village beauty, Hetty Sorrel. Hetty has secretly set her sights on Captain Arthur Donnithorne, heir to the local squires estate; his abandonment of her and her engagement to Adam set in motion a tragedy that will touch many peoples lives. When Hetty lands in prison, accused of murder and facing a sentence of execution by hanging, it is her fervent young cousin Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher, whose intervention offers both Hetty and Adam comfort and the hope of peace.
The evocations of a lost rural world for which Adam Bede was so resoundingly praised on its publication in 1859 are charged in Eliots hands with a personal compassion that intensifies the novels outer dramas of seduction and betrayal and inner dramas of moral growth and redemption.With an introduction by Leonee Ormond
[via]More editions of Adam Bede:
-
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0679424709 (0-679-42470-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
More editions of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
-
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0679417958 (0-679-41795-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
More editions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There:
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirsby Elie Wiesel, Jon RothschildISBN 0679439161 (0-679-43916-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs'More editions of All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs:
Ambivalent Zen : A Memoirby Lawrence ShainbergISBN 0679441166 (0-679-44116-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ambivalent Zen : A Memoir'More editions of Ambivalent Zen : A Memoir:
-
And the Dead Shall Rise : The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frankby Steve OneyISBN 0679421475 (0-679-42147-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'And the Dead Shall Rise : The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank'Book summary:On April 27, 1913, the bludgeoned body of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan was discovered in the basement of Atlantas National Pencil Factory. The girls murder would be the catalyst for an epic saga that to this day holds a singular place in Americas collective imaginationa saga that would climax in 1915 with the lynching of Leo Frank, the Cornell-educated Jew who was convicted of the murder. The case has been the subject of novels, plays, movies and even musicals, but only now, with the publication of And the Dead Shall Rise, do we have an account that does full justice to the mesmerizing and previously unknown details of one of the most shameful moments in the nations history.
In a narrative reminiscent of a nineteenth-century novel, Steve Oney recounts the emerging revelations of the initial criminal investigation, reconstructs from newspaper dispatches (the original trial transcript mysteriously disappeared long ago) the day-to-day intrigue of the courtroom and illuminates how and why an all-white jury convicted Frank largely on the testimony of a black man. Oney chronicles as well the innumerable avenues that the defense pursued in quest of an appeal, the remarkable and heretofore largely ignored campaign conducted by William Randolph Hearst and New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs to exonerate Frank, the last-minute commutation of Franks death sentence and, most indelibly, the flawlessly executed abduction and brutal lynching of Frank two months after his death sentence was commuted.
And the Dead Shall Rise brings to life a Dickensian cast of characters caught up in the Frank casezealous police investigators intent on protecting their departments reputation, even more zealous private detectives, cynical yet impressionable factory girls, intrepid reporters (including a young Harold Ross), lawyers blinded by their own interests and cowed by the populaces furor. And we meet four astonishing individuals: Jim Conley, who was Franks confessed accomplice and the states star witness; William Smith, a determined and idealistic lawyer who brilliantly prepared Conley for the defenses fierce cross-examination and then, a year later, underwent an extraordinary change of heart; Lucille Frank, the martyred wife of the convicted man; and the great populist leader Tom Watson, who manipulated the volatile and lethal outrage of Georgians against the forces of Northern privilege and capital that were seeking to free Frank.
And the Dead Shall Rise also casts long-awaited fresh light on Franks lynching. No participant was ever indicted, and many went on to prominent careers in state and national politics. Here, for the first time, is the full account of the eventincluding the identities of the influential Georgians who conceived, carried out and covered up the crime. And here as well is the story of the lynchings aftermath, which saw both the revival of the Ku Klux Klan and the evolution of the Anti-Defamation League.
At once a work of masterful investigative journalism and insightful social history, And the Dead Shall Rise does complete justice to one of historys most repellent and most fascinating moments. [via]More editions of And the Dead Shall Rise : The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank:
-
Arabian Nightsby Husain Haddawy, Muhsin Mahdi, Mahdi MushinISBN 0679413383 (0-679-41338-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from vivacious erotica, animal fables, and adventure fantasies to pointed Sufi tales, the stories of The Arabian Nights provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory.
The present new translation by Husain Haddawy is of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and is considered to be the most authentic. This early version is without the embellishments and additions that appear in later Indian and Egyptian manuscripts, on which all previous English translations were based. [via]More editions of Arabian Nights:
-
Art & Liesby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679441816 (0-679-44181-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Art & Lies'Book summary:One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity. "A series of intense, artful musings that are exhilarating and visionary. . . . Unsettling yet strangely satisfying."--Newsday.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of Art & Lies:
-
Babel Towerby A. S. ByattISBN 0679405135 (0-679-40513-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Babel Tower'Book summary:Babel Tower follows The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life in tracing Frederica Potter, a lover of books who reflects the author's life and times. It centers around two lawsuits: in one, Frederica -- a young intellectual who has married outside her social set -- is challenging her wealthy and violent husband for custody of their child; in the other, an unkempt but charismatic rebel is charged with having written an obscene book, a novel-within-a-novel about a small band of revolutionaries who attempt to set up an ideal community. And in the background, rebellion gains a major toehold in the London of the Sixties, and society will never be the same. [via]
More editions of Babel Tower:
-
Barchester Towersby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0679405879 (0-679-40587-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Barchester Towers'Book summary:This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur. [via]
More editions of Barchester Towers:
Born for Loveby Leo F. BuscagliaISBN 0679413936 (0-679-41393-6)
Hardcover, Random House, Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Born for Love'More editions of Born for Love:
Bostoniansby Henry JamesISBN 0679417508 (0-679-41750-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bostonians'More editions of Bostonians:
Charles Darwin: The Power of Placeby Janet BrowneISBN 0679429328 (0-679-42932-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Darwin: The Power of Place'More editions of Charles Darwin: The Power of Place:
-
A Child's Garden of Versesby Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles RobinsonISBN 0679417990 (0-679-41799-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Child's Garden of Verses'Book summary:"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
With this "Happy Thought," Robert Louis Stevenson speaks for all the delights of childhood. But he doesn't stop there. A Child's Garden of Verses, written over a century ago, is filled to the brim with what are usually considered to be the first real poems written for children. This classic volume is an old friend to the generations of readers who were brought up on "I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me/ And what can be the use of him is more than I can see." In this perfectly lovely edition, the gossamer art of Jessie Willcox Smith (who first illustrated Stevenson's poems in the early years of the 20th century) is reproduced in all its charming glory. Black and white drawings throughout and eight full-page, warmly colorful paintings show beautiful, yet pleasantly imperfect children, busy at their daily activities--climbing trees, watching their reflections in a river, or sick in bed with an army of toy soldiers on guard. Place this on the shelf next to Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss, and Peter Rabbit. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
More editions of A Child's Garden of Verses:
The Choirby Joanna TrollopeISBN 0679444548 (0-679-44454-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Choir'More editions of The Choir:
-
Colored People: A Memoirby Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.ISBN 0679421793 (0-679-42179-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Colored People: A Memoir'Book summary:From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of Colored People: A Memoir:
Complete English Peoms: Everyman's Libraryby John Milton, Gordon CampbellISBN 0679409971 (0-679-40997-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete English Peoms: Everyman's Library'More editions of Complete English Peoms: Everyman's Library:
-
The Complete English Worksby George Herbert, Ann Pasternak SlaterISBN 0679443592 (0-679-44359-2)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete English Works'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Introduction by Ann Pasternak Slater [via]More editions of The Complete English Works:
Decisions in Philosophy of Religionby William B. WilliamsonISBN 0675086299 (0-675-08629-9)
Hardcover, Merrill
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Decisions in Philosophy of Religion'More editions of Decisions in Philosophy of Religion:
-
Decline and Fallby Evelyn WaughISBN 067942041X (0-679-42041-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Decline and Fall'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Decline and Fall (1928) was Evelyn Waugh's immensely successful first novel, and it displays not only all of its author's customary satiric genius and flair for unearthing the ridiculous in human nature, but also a youthful willingness to train those weapons on any and every thing in his path. In this fractured picaresque comedy of the hapless Paul Pennyfeather stumbling from one disaster to another, Waugh manages the delicious task of skewering every aspect of the society in which he lived.
With an Introduction by Frank Kermode [via]More editions of Decline and Fall:
-
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 067943593X (0-679-43593-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the Bury Text, in a boxed set. Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper [via]More editions of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
Do Children Need Religion?: How Parents Today Are Thinking about the Big Questionsby Martha FayISBN 0679420541 (0-679-42054-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Do Children Need Religion?: How Parents Today Are Thinking about the Big Questions'More editions of Do Children Need Religion?: How Parents Today Are Thinking about the Big Questions:
-
Dreaming in Cubanby Cristina GarcíaISBN 0679408835 (0-679-40883-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dreaming in Cuban'Book summary:Three generations of women in the del Pino family, divided over conflicting political loyalties after the Cuban revolution, are reunited in Havana by a devoted granddaughter who has refused to sacrifice her family ideals. A first novel. 10,000 first printing. [via]
More editions of Dreaming in Cuban:
The Executioner's Songby Norman MailerISBN 0679424717 (0-679-42471-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Executioner's Song'More editions of The Executioner's Song:
-
Fablesby Aesop, Roger L'EstrangeISBN 0679417907 (0-679-41790-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fables'Book summary:Aesop is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The eternally entertaining tales attributed to himin which the fates of sly foxes, wicked wolves, industrious ants, and others, suggest what our own behaviors should (or should not) behave been universal "best-sellers" since before L'Estrange's definitive 1692 English translation. Gooden's superb engravings were first published in 1936 in a limited edition. [via]
More editions of Fables:
-
Farewell Espana : The World of the Sephardim Rememberedby Howard Morley SacharISBN 0679409602 (0-679-40960-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Farewell Espana : The World of the Sephardim Remembered'Book summary:They number barely a million today, less than one-tenth of the world Jewish population. But long ago, on Iberian soil, they were the magisters of their people, and the leaven of Mediterranean civilization altogether. Such were the Sephardim, and in Moslem Andalusia they were renowned prime ministers and army commanders, distinguished scientists, belletrists, and religious scholars. In Christian Spain and Provence, their translators ignited Europe's twelfth-century renaissance, their revenue agents funded the economies of Aragon and Castile, and their astronomers and navigators plotted the explorations of Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama.
From the late fifteenth century onward, in exile from their Spanish and Portuguese homelands, the Sephardim made their mark as viziers and intimate advisers of Ottoman sultans, as vastly esteemed physicians of Renaissance dukes and popes, and as dynamic importers and exporters in the Dutch maritime traffic. Whether as professing Jews or converted "New Christians," it was this protean minority that functioned as a self-contained international trading network, spanning the seas and oceans, pioneering the gem industry of Europe and the sugar and tobacco plantations of Brazil, and flourishing as merchant ship captains amid pirate-infested Caribbean waterways.
Farewell Espana transcends conventional historical narrative. With the lucidity and verve that have characterized his numerous earlier volumes, Howard Sachar breathes life into the leading dramatis personae of the Sephardic world: the royal counselors Samuel ibn Nagrela and Joseph Nasi, the poets Solomon ibn Gabirol and Judah Halevi, the philosophers Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza, the statesmen Benjamin Disraeli and Pierre Mendes-France, the warriors Moshe Pijade and David Elazar, the fabulous charlatans David Reuveni and Shabbatai Zvi.
In its breadth and richness of texture, Sachar's account sweeps to the contemporary era of Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco, poignantly traces the fate of Balkan Sephardic communities during the Holocaust -- and their revival in the Land and State of Israel. Not least of all, the author offers a tactile dimension of immediacy in his personal encounters with the storied venues and current personalities of the Sephardic world. Farewell Espana is a window opened on a glowing civilization once all but extinguished, and now flickering again into renewed creativity. [via]More editions of Farewell Espana : The World of the Sephardim Remembered:
-
Fear and Trembling/the Book on Adler: The Book on Adlerby Soren KierkegaardISBN 0679431306 (0-679-43130-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Trembling/the Book on Adler: The Book on Adler'Book summary:Søren Kierkegaard not only transformed Protestant theology but also anticipated twentieth-century existentialism and provided it with many of its motifs. Fear and Trembling and The Book on Adleraddressed to a general audiencehave the imaginative excitement and intense personal appeal of the greatest literature. Only Plato and Nietzsche have matched Kierkegaards ability to give ideas so compellingly vivid and dramatic a shape.
Translated by Walter Lowrie [via]More editions of Fear and Trembling/the Book on Adler: The Book on Adler:
-
Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles RobinsonISBN 0679423095 (0-679-42309-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› 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]
More editions of Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden:
From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Livesby Robert FulghumISBN 0679419616 (0-679-41961-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives'More editions of From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives:
-
The Good Soldierby Ford Madox FordISBN 0679406654 (0-679-40665-4)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Soldier'Book summary:First published in 1915, Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier begins, famously and ominously, "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." The book then proceeds to confute this pronouncement at every turn, exposing a world less sad than pathetic, and more shot through with hypocrisy and deceit than its incredulous narrator, John Dowell, cares to imagine. Somewhat forgotten as a classic, The Good Soldier has been called everything from the consummate novelist's novel to one of the greatest English works of the century. And although its narrative hook--the philandering of an otherwise noble man--no longer shocks, its unerring cadences and doleful inevitabilities proclaim an enduring appeal.
Ford's novel revolves around two couples: Edward Ashburnham--the title's soldier--and his capable if off-putting wife, Leonora; and long-transplanted Americans John and Florence Dowell. The foursome's ostensible amiability, on display as they pass parts of a dozen pre-World War I summers together in Germany, conceals the fissures in each marriage. John is miserably mismatched with the garrulous, cuckolding Florence; and Edward, dashing and sentimental, can't refrain from falling in love with women whose charms exceed Leonora's. Predictably, Edward and Florence conduct their affair, an indiscretion only John seems not to notice. After the deaths of the two lovers, and after Leonora explains much of the truth to John, he recounts the events of their four lives with an extended inflection of outrage. From his retrospective perch, his recollections simmer with a bitter skepticism even as he expresses amazement at how much he overlooked.
Dowell's resigned narration is flawlessly conversational--haphazard, sprawling, lusting for sympathy. He exudes self-preservation even as he alternately condemns and lionizes Edward: "If I had had the courage and the virility and possibly also the physique of Edward Ashburnham I should, I fancy, have done much what he did." Stunningly, Edward's adultery comes to seem not merely excusable, but almost sublime. "Perhaps he could not bear to see a woman and not give her the comfort of his physical attractions," John surmises. Ford's novel deserves its reputation if for no other reason than the elegance with which it divulges hidden lives. --Ben Guterson [via]
More editions of The Good Soldier:
-
Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0679405453 (0-679-40545-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
An immediate success on its publication in 1726, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS was read, as John Gay put it, "from the cabinet council to the nursery." Dean Swift's great satire is presented here in its unexpurgated entirety. [via]More editions of Gulliver's Travels:
He, She and Itby Marge PiercyISBN 0679404082 (0-679-40408-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'He, She and It'More editions of He, She and It:
-
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0679428011 (0-679-42801-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Heart of Darkness grew out of a journey Joseph Conrad took up the Congo River; the verisimilitude that the great novelist thereby brought to his most famous tale everywhere enhances its dense and shattering power.
Apparently a sailors yarn, it is in fact a grim parody of the adventure story, in which the narrator, Marlow, travels deep into the heart of the Congo where he encounters the crazed idealist Kurtz and discovers that the relative values of the civilized and the primitive are not what they seem. Heart of Darkness is a model of economic storytelling, an indictment of the inner and outer turmoil caused by the European imperial misadventure, and a piercing account of the fragility of the human soul. [via]More editions of Heart of Darkness:
Hopkins: Poems and Proseby Gerard Manley HopkinsISBN 0679444696 (0-679-44469-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hopkins: Poems and Prose'More editions of Hopkins: Poems and Prose:
-
How Proust Can Change Your Life : Not a Novelby Alain de BottonISBN 0679442758 (0-679-44275-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› 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]
More editions of How Proust Can Change Your Life : Not a Novel:
-
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapterby Sherwin B. NulandISBN 0679414614 (0-679-41461-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter'Book summary:Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity.
"It's impossible to read How We Die without realizing how earnestly we have avoided this most unavoidable of subjects, how we have protected ourselves by building a cultural wall of myths and lies. I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here."--James Gleick
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter:
Josephus: Jewish Antiquities Books I-IIIby JosephusISBN 0674995759 (0-674-99575-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Josephus: Jewish Antiquities Books I-III'More editions of Josephus: Jewish Antiquities Books I-III:
Josephus: The Jewish War Books I-IIby Josephus, H. John ThackerayISBN 0674995686 (0-674-99568-6)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Josephus: The Jewish War Books I-II'More editions of Josephus: The Jewish War Books I-II:
-
Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 0679409939 (0-679-40993-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Jude the Obscure'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and its unflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a storm of controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly in response, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writing altogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. Though we have come a long way in our social attitudes in the ensuing century, nothing about Hardy's masterpiece has lost its power to shock us and disturb our dreams. [via]More editions of Jude the Obscure:
-
Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0679443606 (0-679-44360-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of Kim:
-
Landscape and Memoryby Simon SchamaISBN 0679402551 (0-679-40255-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Landscape and Memory'Book summary:An extraordinary book that explores how the earth itself has shaped the Western imagination and how, as a result, our interaction with the environment is far richer and more complex than today's doomsayers would have us believe. [via]
More editions of Landscape and Memory:
-
Lasherby Anne RiceISBN 0679412956 (0-679-41295-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lasher'Book summary:From the day her first Vampire Chronicle was published, critics and readers--readers by the hundreds of thousands--have been mesmerized by the writings of Anne Rice. And with the publication of The Witching Hour, she created for us yet another world and legend, and both the chorus of praise and the multitudes of her readers once more increased.
Now, Anne Rice brings us again--even more magically--into the midst of the dynasty of witches she introduced in The Witching Hour.
At the center: the brilliant an beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, and Lasher, the darkly compelling demon whom she finds irresistible and from whose evil spell and vision she must now flee. She takes with her their terrifying and exquisite child, one of "a brood of children born knowing, able to stand and talk on the first day."
Rowan's attempt to escape Lasher and his pursuit of her and their child are at the heart of this extraordinary saga. It is a novel that moves around the globe, backward and forward through time, and between the human and demonic worlds. Its many voices--of women, of men, of demons and angels, present and past--haunt and enchant us. With a dreamlike power, the novel draws us through twilight paths, telling a chillingly hypnotic story of occult and spiritual aspirations and passion. [via]More editions of Lasher:
-
Last Ordersby Graham SwiftISBN 0679412247 (0-679-41224-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Orders'Book summary:From the author of Waterland and Ever After, Last Orders is a quiet but dazzling novel about a group of men, friends since the Second World War, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack, and their favorite pub. When one of them dies, the survivors drive his ashes from London to a seaside town where they will be scattered, compelling them to take stock in who they are today, who they were before, and the shifting relationships in between. Both funny and moving, this won the Booker Prize in 1996. [via]
More editions of Last Orders:
Leap: A Traveler in the Garden of Delightsby Terry Tempest WilliamsISBN 0679432922 (0-679-43292-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Leap: A Traveler in the Garden of Delights'More editions of Leap: A Traveler in the Garden of Delights:
-
Little Women, Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amyby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0679436421 (0-679-43642-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women, Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy'Book summary:Louisa May Alcott's beloved tale about Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy is presented in a beautiful Everyman's Library Children's Classics edition. The story of the four sisters' dreams, quarrels, and romances are brought to vivid life in this edition that features full cloth binding in bold, bright colors; silk ribbon marker and headband; two-color illustrated endpapers and illustrations throughout. A brief biography of Alcott is also included. [via]
More editions of Little Women, Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy:
-
Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0679412697 (0-679-41269-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of Mansfield Park:
Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germanyby David BlackbournISBN 0679418431 (0-679-41843-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany'More editions of Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany:
-
The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, Craig RaineISBN 0679420355 (0-679-42035-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Thomas Hardys almost supernatural insight into the course of wayward lives, his instinctive feeling for the beauty of the rural landscape, and his power to invest that landscape with moral significance all came together in an utterly fluent way in The Mayor of Casterbridge. A classically shaped story about the rise and fall of the brooding and sometimes brutal Michael Henchard in the harsh world of nineteenth-century rural England, The Mayor of Casterbridge is an emblematic product of Hardys maturityvigorous, forceful, and unclouded by illusions. [via]More editions of The Mayor of Casterbridge:
Mona in the Promised Landby Gish JenISBN 0679445897 (0-679-44589-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mona in the Promised Land'More editions of Mona in the Promised Land:
Mortalsby Norman RushISBN 0679406220 (0-679-40622-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mortals'More editions of Mortals:
-
Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0679417397 (0-679-41739-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Nineteen Eighty-Four revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth centurys greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smiths desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual. [via]More editions of Nineteen Eighty-Four:
Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviewsby Donald Barthelme, Kim Herzinger, John BarthISBN 0679409831 (0-679-40983-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews'More editions of Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews:
-
Of Love and Other Demonsby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith GrossmanISBN 067943853X (0-679-43853-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Love and Other Demons'Book summary:From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera comes an extraordinary reading experience, the story of a doomed love affair between a twelve-year-old girl and a bookish priest, three times her age, who's been sent to oversee her exorcism. [via]
More editions of Of Love and Other Demons:
-
Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 0679417249 (0-679-41724-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickenss great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creationthrough the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikesof the vast London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children. Victorian critics took Dickens to task for rendering this world in such a compelling, believable way, but readers over the last 150 years have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver Twist one of its authors most loved works.
This edition reprints the original Everymans introduction by G. K. Chesterton and includes twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank.
[via]More editions of Oliver Twist:
On the Third Dayby Piers Paul ReadISBN 0679400893 (0-679-40089-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Third Day'More editions of On the Third Day:
-
On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Societyby Gertrude HimmelfarbISBN 0679428267 (0-679-42826-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society'Book summary:In these provocative essays, one of our most distinguished historians looks into the abyss of the present. Himmelfarb exposes the intellectual and spiritual impoverishment of some of our most fashionable current ideas--and shows how the vogue for historical structuralism has made it possible to trivialize the tragedy of the Holocaust.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society:
-
One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0679444653 (0-679-44465-3)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'Book summary:"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of One Hundred Years of Solitude:
-
The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spainby Benjamin NetanyahuISBN 0679410651 (0-679-41065-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain'Book summary:Bringing to life the tragic history of the Jews and their Christianized descendants in Spain, Professor Netanyahu gives us a new intrepretation of the Spanish Inquisition and the origins of modern anti-Semitism. [via]
More editions of The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain:
-
Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Spaceby Carl SaganISBN 0679438416 (0-679-43841-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Space'Book summary:NA [via]
More editions of Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Space:
-
Pantagruel Gargantuaby Francois Rabelais, Thomas UrquhartISBN 0679431373 (0-679-43137-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Pantagruel Gargantua'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) [via]
More editions of Pantagruel Gargantua:
Prayersby Peter WashingtonISBN 0679444661 (0-679-44466-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Prayers'More editions of Prayers:
-
The Princeby Dominic Baker-Smith, Niccolo Machiavelli, W.K. MarriottISBN 0679410449 (0-679-41044-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
That Machiavellis name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Princethe worlds preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting and keeping power, and one of the literary landmarks of the Italian Renaissance. Written in a vigorous, straightforward style that reflects its authors realism, this treatise on states, statecraft, and the ideal ruler is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how human society actually works. [via]More editions of The Prince:
-
The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonaldISBN 0679428100 (0-679-42810-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess and the Goblin'Book summary:As always with George MacDonald, everything here is more than meets the eye: this in fact is MacDonald's grace-filled vision of the world. Said to be one of J.R.R. Tolkien's childhood favorites, The Princess and the Goblin is the story of the young Princess Irene, her good friend Curdie--a minor's son--and Irene's mysterious and beautiful great great grandmother, who lives in a secret room at the top of the castle stairs. Filled with images of dungeons and goblins, mysterious fires, burning roses, and a thread so fine as to be invisible and yet--like prayer--strong enough to lead the Princess back home to her grandmother's arms, this is a story of Curdie's slow realization that sometimes, as the princess tells him, "you must believe without seeing." Simple enough for reading aloud to a child (as I've done myself more than once with my daughter), it's rich enough to repay endless delighted readings for the adult. --Doug Thorpe [via]
More editions of The Princess and the Goblin:
The Problem of God: A Short Introductionby Peter Adam AngelesISBN 0675088879 (0-675-08887-9)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Problem of God: A Short Introduction'More editions of The Problem of God: A Short Introduction:
-
Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinnedby Brian MoynahanISBN 0679419306 (0-679-41930-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned'Book summary:British journalist and historian Brian Moynahan does not spare details of the lechery and drunkenness that Rasputin brought with him on his journey from the squalor of rural Siberia to St. Petersburg, where he captivated the tsar and tsarina with his mysterious ability to ease their hemophiliac son's hemorrhages. Yet Moynahan also credits "the mad monk" with intelligence, generosity, even a weird spirituality. In elegant prose, he retells with panache the saga of an illiterate peasant's rise to a position of fearsome power in the waning days of the Russian monarchy. [via]
More editions of Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned:
-
Remembering Babylonby David MaloufISBN 0679427244 (0-679-42724-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembering Babylon'Book summary:The award-winning author of The Great World creates a world of eternal divisions in the story of thirteen-year-old Gemmy Fairley, cast ashore and adopted by Australian aborigines during the mid-1840s. 17,500 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
More editions of Remembering Babylon:
Remembering Satanby Lawrence WrightISBN 0679431551 (0-679-43155-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembering Satan'More editions of Remembering Satan:
-
Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologistsby Charles R. PellegrinoISBN 0679400060 (0-679-40006-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists'Book summary:The author of Unearthing Atlantis chronicles the work of archaeologists, scientists, and theologians who have drawn on the stories of the Old Testament to uncover the sites of Sodom and Gomorrah. 25,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
More editions of Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists:
-
Rossettiby Christina Georgina RossettiISBN 0679429085 (0-679-42908-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rossetti'Book summary:These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Rossetti contains a full selection of Rossetti's work, including her lyric poems, dramatic and narrative poems, rhymes and riddles, sonnet sequences, prayers and meditations, and an index of first lines. [via]
More editions of Rossetti:
-
Scarlet and Black : A Chronicle of 1830by Stendhal, Jonathan Keates, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 0679405658 (0-679-40565-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Scarlet and Black : A Chronicle of 1830'Book summary:Through the stifling society in which wealth and rank triumph over merit moves the impoverished tutor, Julien Sorel. Handsome, sensitive and proud, his shy manner belies a driving ambition to escape the provincial town of Verrieres and forge a way into the drawing-rooms of the Parisian nobility. [via]
More editions of Scarlet and Black : A Chronicle of 1830:
-
The Second Sexby H.M. Parshley, Simone De BeauvoirISBN 0679420169 (0-679-42016-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Second Sex'Book summary:In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir posed questions many men, and women, had yet to ponder when the book was released in 1953. "One wonders if women still exist, if they will always exist, whether or not it is desirable that they should ...," she says in this comprehensive treatise on women. She weaves together history, philosophy, economics, biology, and a host of other disciplines to show women's place in the world and to postulate on the power of sexuality. This is a powerful piece of writing in a time before "feminism" was even a phrase, much less a movement. [via]
More editions of The Second Sex:
Servant of the Boneby Anne RiceISBN 0679433015 (0-679-43301-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Servant of the Bones'-
Shattered Faith : A Woman's Struggle to Stop the Catholic Church from Annuling Her Marriageby Sheila R. KennedyISBN 0679439951 (0-679-43995-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Shattered Faith : A Woman's Struggle to Stop the Catholic Church from Annuling Her Marriage'Book summary:Shattered Faith is a fascinating look at divorce within religion. The Roman Catholic Church still does not recognize divorce. Instead it resolves a couple's incompatibility by declaring a marriage illegitimate from the outset. While divorce ends a marriage, annulment erases it--a distinction not lost on a Sheila Rauch Kennedy and many other women with similar experiences. When Rauch Kennedy is forced into annulment proceedings by an ex-husband who seeks to prove that their marriage was based on false presumptions and therefore never really existed, what can she do? Despite the high profiles of the protagonists, this is a down-to-earth account of a woman's attempt to maintain her sense of worth in the face of a church bureaucracy blinded by pride and incapable of compassion. [via]
More editions of Shattered Faith : A Woman's Struggle to Stop the Catholic Church from Annuling Her Marriage:
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europeby Colm ToibinISBN 0679442030 (0-679-44203-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe'More editions of The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe:
-
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby George EliotISBN 0679420304 (0-679-42030-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Introduction by Rosemary Ashton
The isolated, misanthropic, miserly weaver Silas Marner is one of George Eliots greatest creations, and his presence casts a strange, otherworldly glow over the moral dramas, both large and small, that take place in the pastoral landscape that surrounds him.
When Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he vows to turn his back upon the world. He moves to the village of Raveloe, where he remains an outsider and an object of suspicion until an extraordinary sequence of events, including the theft of his gold and the appearance of a tiny, golden-haired child in his cottage, transforms his life. Part beautifully realized rural portraiture and part fairy tale, the story of Marners redemption and restoration to humanity has long been George Eliots most beloved and widely read work. [via]More editions of Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe:
Song Of Solomonby Toni MorrisonISBN 0679445048 (0-679-44504-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Song Of Solomon'More editions of Song Of Solomon:
The Song of Songs : The World's First Great Love Poemby Ariel Bloch, Chana Bloch, Robert AlterISBN 0679409629 (0-679-40962-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Song of Songs : The World's First Great Love Poem'More editions of The Song of Songs : The World's First Great Love Poem:
-
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human Worldby David AbramISBN 067943819X (0-679-43819-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World'Book summary:A stunningly original work of ecological philosophy documenting the historical and current effects of language on our perception of and interaction with nature. Utne Magazine recently voted Abram one of "The 100 People Who Will Change the World." And if this book is read as widely as it deserves, that prediction may come to pass. Very Highly Recommended. [via]
More editions of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World:
-
The Strangerby Albert Camus, Matthew WardISBN 0679420266 (0-679-42026-6)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stranger'Book summary:The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its time. Alienation, the fear of anonymity, spiritual doubt--all could have been given a purely modern inflection in the hands of a lesser talent than Camus, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957 and was noted for his existentialist aesthetic. The remarkable trick of The Stranger, however, is that it's not mired in period philosophy.
The plot is simple. A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. The trial's proceedings are absurd, a parsing of incidental trivialities--that Meursault, for instance, seemed unmoved by his own mother's death and then attended a comic movie the evening after her funeral are two ostensibly damning facts--so that the eventual sentence the jury issues is both ridiculous and inevitable.
Meursault remains a cipher nearly to the story's end--dispassionate, clinical, disengaged from his own emotions. "She wanted to know if I loved her," he says of his girlfriend. "I answered the same way I had the last time, that it didn't mean anything but that I probably didn't." There's a latent ominousness in such observations, a sense that devotion is nothing more than self-delusion. It's undoubtedly true that Meursault exhibits an extreme of resignation; however, his confrontation with "the gentle indifference of the world" remains as compelling as it was when Camus first recounted it. --Ben Guterson [via]
More editions of The Stranger:
Such a Long Journeyby Rohinton MistryISBN 0679402586 (0-679-40258-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Such a Long Journey'More editions of Such a Long Journey:
Sweeter Than All the Worldby Rudy WiebeISBN 0676973418 (0-676-97341-8)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sweeter Than All the World'-
Taltosby Anne RiceISBN 067942573X (0-679-42573-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Taltos'Book summary:Ash at once is propelled into de world of Rowan Mayfair, and into the mysteries of the Mayfair family_the New Orleansdynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and the dizzying powers of his own species... [via]
More editions of Taltos:
-
The Temple of the Golden Pavilionby Yukio Mishima, Ivan MorrisISBN 0679433155 (0-679-43315-5)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Temple of the Golden Pavilion'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young mans obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully.
Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyotos famous Golden Temple. While an acolyte at the temple, he fixates on the structures aesthetic perfection and it becomes his one and only object of desire. But as Mizoguchi begins to perceive flaws in the temple, he determines that the only true path to beauty lies in an act of horrific violence. Based on a real incident that occurred in 1950, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion brilliantly portrays the passions and agonies of a young man in postwar Japan, bringing to the subject the erotic imagination and instinct for the dramatic moment that marked Mishima as one of the towering makers of modern fiction.
Introduction by Donald Keene; Translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris [via]More editions of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion:
-
Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0679405860 (0-679-40586-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardys early work, Tess of the DUrbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina, has achieved classic stature. [via]
More editions of Tess of the D'Urbervilles:
-
The Tin Drumby Günter Grass, John Reddick, Ralph ManheimISBN 0679420339 (0-679-42033-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tin Drum'Book summary:Meet Oskar Matzerath, "the eternal three-year-old drummer." On the morning of his third birthday, dressed in a striped pullover and patent leather shoes, and clutching his drumsticks and his new tin drum, young Oskar makes an irrevocable decision: "It was then that I declared, resolved, and determined that I would never under any circumstances be a politician, much less a grocer; that I would stop right there, remain as I was--and so I did; for many years I not only stayed the same size but clung to the same attire." Here is a Peter Pan story with a vengeance. But instead of Never-Never Land, Günter Grass gives us Danzig, a contested city on the Polish-German border; instead of Captain Hook and his pirates, we have the Nazis. And in place of Peter himself is Oskar, a twisted puer aeternis with a scream that can shatter glass and a drum rather than a shadow. First published in 1959, The Tin Drum's depiction of the Nazi era created a furor in Germany, for the world of Grass's making is rife with corrupt politicians and brutal grocers in brown shirts:
There was once a grocer who closed his store one day in November, because something was doing in town; taking his son Oskar by the hand, he boarded a Number 5 streetcar and rode to the Langasser Gate, because there as in Zoppot and Langfuhr the synagogue was on fire. The synagogue had almost burned down and the firemen were looking on, taking care that the flames should not spread to other buildings. Outside the wrecked synagogue, men in uniform and others in civilian clothes piled up books, ritual objects, and strange kinds of cloth. The mound was set on fire and the grocer took advantage of the opportunity to warm his fingers and his feelings over the public blaze.
As Oskar grows older (though not taller), portents of war transform into the thing itself. Danzig is the first casualty when, in the summer of 1939, residents turn against each other in a pitched battle between Poles and Germans. In the years that follow, Oskar goes from one picaresque adventure to the next--he joins a troupe of traveling musicians; he becomes the leader of a group of anarchists; he falls in love; he becomes a recording artist--until some time after the war, he is convicted of murder and confined to a mental hospital.The Tin Drum uses savage comedy and a stiff dose of magical realism to capture not only the madness of war, but also the black cancer at the heart of humanity that allows such degradations to occur. Grass wields his humor like a knife--yes, he'll make you laugh, but he'll make you bleed, as well. There have been many novels written about World War II, but only a handful can truly be called great; The Tin Drum, without a doubt, is one. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of The Tin Drum:
-
The Trialby Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin MuirISBN 0679409947 (0-679-40994-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trial'Book summary:A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life--including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door--becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral. [via]
More editions of The Trial:
-
Tristram Shandyby Laurence SterneISBN 0679405607 (0-679-40560-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Tristram Shandy'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Introduction by Peter Conrad [via]More editions of Tristram Shandy:
-
Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0679443657 (0-679-44365-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking, controversial, and powerful work -- exposing the attitudes of white nineteenth-century society toward "the peculiar institution" and documenting, in heartrending detail, the tragic breakup of black Kentucky families "sold down the river." An immediate international sensation, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold 300,000 copies in the first year, was translated into thirty-seven languages, and has never gone out of print: its political impact was immense, its emotional influence immeasurable. [via]More editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
-
United States: Essays, 1952-1992by Gore VidalISBN 0679414894 (0-679-41489-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'United States: Essays, 1952-1992'Book summary:From the age of Eisenhower to the dawning of the Clinton era, Gore Vidals United States offers an incomparably rich tapestry of American intellectual and political life in a tumultuous period. It also provides the best, most sustained exposure possible to the most wide-ranging, acute, and original literary intelligence of the postWorld War II years. United States is an essential book in the canon of twentieth-century American literature and an endlessly fascinating work.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of United States: Essays, 1952-1992:
An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Fieldby Terry T. WilliamsISBN 0679432442 (0-679-43244-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field'More editions of An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field:
Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexualityby Andrew SullivanISBN 0679423826 (0-679-42382-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality'More editions of Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality:
The Wandererby Kahlil GibranISBN 0679439234 (0-679-43923-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wanderer'More editions of The Wanderer:
-
The Wardenby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0679405518 (0-679-40551-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Warden'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Introduction by Graham Handley [via]More editions of The Warden:
Results page: PREV 1-100 101-200 201-300 301-400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501-502 NEXT
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}