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Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Storiesby Truman CapoteISBN 0848804465 (0-8488-0446-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Stories'Book summary:In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.
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This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory, which the Saturday Review called one of the most moving stories in our language. It is a tale of two innocentsa small boy and the old woman who is his best friendwhose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.More editions of Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Stories:
Brief Interviews with Hideous Menby David Foster WallaceISBN 0316925195 (0-316-92519-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men'Book summary:Amid the screams of adulation for bandanna-clad wunderkind David Foster Wallace, you might hear a small peep. It is the cry for some restraint. On occasion the reader is left in the dust wondering where the story went, as the author, literary turbochargers on full-blast, suddenly accelerates into the wild-blue-footnoted yonder in pursuit of some obscure metafictional fancy. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Wallace's latest collection, is at least in part a response to the distress signal put out by the many readers who want to ride along with him, if he'd only slow down for a second.
The intellectual gymnastics and ceaseless rumination endure (if you don't have a tolerance for that kind of thing, your nose doesn't belong in this book), but they are for the most part couched in simpler, less frenzied narratives. The book's four-piece namesake takes the form of interview transcripts, in which the conniving horror that is the male gender is revealed in all of its licentious glory. In the short, two-part "The Devil Is a Busy Man," Wallace strolls through the Hall of Mirrors that is human motivation. (Is it possible to completely rid an act of generosity of any self-serving benefits? And why is it easier to sell a couch for five dollars than it is to give it away for free?) The even shorter glimpse into modern-day social ritual, "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life," stretches the seams of its total of seven lines with scathing economy: "She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces." Wallace also imbues his extreme observational skills with a haunting poetic sensibility. Witness what he does to a diving board and the two darkened patches at the end of it in "Forever Overhead":
It's going to send you someplace which its own length keeps you from seeing, which seems wrong to submit to without even thinking.... They are skin abraded from feet by the violence of the disappearance of people with real weight.
Of course, not every piece is an absolute winner. "The Depressed Person" slips from purposefully clinical to unintentionally boring. "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko" reimagines an Arthurian tale in MTV terms and holds your attention for about as long as you'd imagine from such a description. Ultimately, however, even these failed experiments are a testament to Mr. Wallace's endless if unbridled talent. Once he gets the reins completely around that sucker, it's going to be quite a ride. --Bob Michaels [via]More editions of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men:
Cathedralby Raymond CarverISBN 1860463878 (1-86046-387-8)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cathedral'Book summary:It was morning in America when Raymond Carver's Cathedral came out in 1983, but the characters in this dry collection of short stories from the forgotten corners of land of opportunity didn't receive much sunlight. Nothing much happens to the subjects of Carver's fiction, which is precisely why they are so harrowing: nothingness is a daunting presence to overcome. And rarely do they prevail, but the loneliness and quiet struggle the characters endure provide fertile ground for literary triumph, particularly in the hands of Carver, who was perhaps in his best form with this effort. [via]
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- Cathedral: ISBN 1860466036 (1-86046-603-6)
Softcover, Harvill Pr - Cathedral: ISBN 0679723692 (0-679-72369-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books - Cathedral: ISBN 0394712811 (0-394-71281-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books - Cathedral: ISBN 0394528840 (0-394-52884-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Cathedral: ISBN 1860463878 (1-86046-387-8)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
- Cathedral: ISBN 1860466036 (1-86046-603-6)
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Civilwarland in Bad Declineby George SaundersISBN 1573225797 (1-57322-579-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilwarland in Bad Decline'Book summary:George Saunders, a geophysicist, maps out magical realism with this short story collection. He puts an American spin on that sensibility in the sensationally good title tale, where things in a "Westworld"-like amusement park go extraordinarily wrong, but in ways in that make perfect sense to any denizen--or reader--in the modern world. CivilWarLand is hilarious, yet ultimately sad and moving--and isn't that life in a nutshell? And how can you resist any writer who cooks up titles as good as "Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campaign of Terror"? [via]
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Collected Stories of Philip K. Dickby Philip K. DickISBN 0806512768 (0-8065-1276-8)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick'Book summary:Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.
This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1954-1964. These fascinating stories include Service Call, Stand By, The Days of Perky Pat, and many others.
"A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection" -- Kirkus
"The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring". -- The Washington Post
"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds". -- Wall Street Journal [via]
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Collected Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 1853263974 (1-85326-397-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Works of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. His essays - in particular De Profundis- and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century. [via]
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The Complete Storiesby Franz Kafka, Nahum N. Glatzer, Arthur SamuelsonISBN 0805210555 (0-8052-1055-5)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Stories'Book summary:How many writers get their own adjective? The work of this terminally alienated master narrator of the subconscious demanded a new descriptor; I guess they gave up and just settled on "Kafkaesque." But if you ever wonder what the original Kafkaesque work was, take a look here. The book contains all of Kafka's short and longer stories -- everything but his three novels. Most of these stories weren't even published during the author's lifetime. The widely-anthologized The Metamorphosis is here, wherein Gregor Samsa awakes from uneasy dreams to find himself insectoidally transformed, as are equally lovely pieces like A Hunger Artist, A Country Doctor and A Little Woman. [via]
Complete Poemsby Dorothy ParkerISBN 0141180226 (0-14-118022-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Complete Illustrated Stories, Plays & Poems of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 185152102X (1-85152-102-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Illustrated Stories, Plays & Poems of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:He was brilliant, flamboyant, and unconventional, one of the great figures of his--or any other--age. Although Oscar Wilde's reputation now rests primarily on his sparkling, sophisticated plays with their razor-sharp wit, his body of work goes far beyond even those. Here, in one volume, is the sum of his artistic genius: all his stories, plays, fairy tales, and poems, complete with period illustrations. To find evidence of Wilde's theatrical savvy, one need look no further than The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband, both of which satirize and humorously highlight the hypocrisy of Victorian life. The Picture of Dorian Gray captures a profound knowledge of the depths to which the human soul can plunge, and in the years since it was written, its final moments have lost none of their power. In his fairy stories, including The Happy Prince and Other Tales, written for his own children, Wilde reveals heights of tenderness and beauty. There are classics like the Canterville Ghost and more-more than 850 pages worth! 864 pages (50 in color), 5 3/4 x 8 1/4.[via]More editions of The Complete Illustrated Stories, Plays & Poems of Oscar Wilde:
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The Complete Plays, Poems, Novels and Stories of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 1572151323 (1-57215-132-3)
Softcover, World Pubns
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Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingwayby Ernest HemingwayISBN 1417660511 (1-4176-6051-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway'Book summary:THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury. [via]
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway : The Finca Vigia Editionby Ernest Hemingway, John Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway, Gregory H. Hemingway, Scribner, Charles, IIIISBN 0020332009 (0-02-033200-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway : The Finca Vigia Edition'Book summary:The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway will stand as the definitive collection by the man whose craft and vision remains an enduring influence on generations of readers and writers. [via]
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The Complete Stories : A Centennial Special Editionby Franz Kafka, Nahum N. Glatzer, Adele Grodstein, John UpdikeISBN 0805238638 (0-8052-3863-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Stories : A Centennial Special Edition'Book summary:How many writers get their own adjective? The work of this terminally alienated master narrator of the subconscious demanded a new descriptor; I guess they gave up and just settled on "Kafkaesque." But if you ever wonder what the original Kafkaesque work was, take a look here. The book contains all of Kafka's short and longer stories -- everything but his three novels. Most of these stories weren't even published during the author's lifetime. The widely-anthologized The Metamorphosis is here, wherein Gregor Samsa awakes from uneasy dreams to find himself insectoidally transformed, as are equally lovely pieces like A Hunger Artist, A Country Doctor and A Little Woman. [via]
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Complete Stories and Parablesby Franz KafkaISBN 0848808215 (0-8488-0821-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Complete Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 1842050664 (1-84205-066-4)
Hardcover, Cpg Inc
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Death in Venice and Other Storiesby Thomas MannISBN 0099428652 (0-09-942865-2)
Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice and Other Stories'Book summary:Thomas mann is widely acknowledged as the greatest german novelist of this century. His 1912 novella death in venice is the most frequently read example of mann's early work.clayton koelb's masterful translation improves upon its predecessors in two ways: it renders mann into american (not british) english, and it remains true to mann's original text without sacrificing fluency. For american readers, this is the translation of choice. "backgrounds and contexts" includes mann's working notes, which allow students to observe the author's creative process. The notes are available here for the first time in english. Illuminating selections from mann's essays and letters are also reprinted, as are period maps of munich, venice, and the lido. "criticism" includes six essays-by andre von gronicka, manfred dierks, t. J. Reed, dorrit cohn, david luke, and robert tobin-sure to stimulate classroom discussion. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included [via]
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- Death in Venice: ISBN 0393960137 (0-393-96013-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Death in Venice And Other Stories: ISBN 0451530322 (0-451-53032-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Death in Venice and Other Stories: ISBN 0553213334 (0-553-21333-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Death in Venice: ISBN 0613134370 (0-613-13437-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Death in Venice and Other Stories: ISBN 0613171659 (0-613-17165-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Death in Venice and Other Stories: ISBN 0679406662 (0-679-40666-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Death in Venice and Other Stories: ISBN 0099428652 (0-09-942865-2)
Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd
- Death in Venice: ISBN 0393960137 (0-393-96013-7)
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Death in Venice and Other Talesby Thomas Mann, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0141181737 (0-14-118173-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice and Other Tales'Book summary:"Death In Venice" tells the tragic story of a man who falls into foolish, forbidden love, only to reap his own ruin. While on holiday in Venice, a dignified older gentleman notices a teenage boy playing on the shore. The boy soon comes to represent the sleek perfection of youth, and the older man finds himself overwhelmed and obsessed with this ideal. Rich in imagery, and exploring the themes of beauty and decay, this book is a disturbing yet memorable work. Also included are seven of Mann's short stories, including "Tristan", "The Child Prodigy", and "Man and Dog". [via]
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Death in Venice and Other Talesby Joachim Neugroschel, Thomas MannISBN 0670874248 (0-670-87424-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Death in Venice : And Seven Other Storiesby Thomas Mann, H.T. Lowe-PorterISBN 0679722068 (0-679-72206-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice, and Seven Other Stories'Book summary:Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella. [via]
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Desayuno En Tiffany's / Breakfast at Tiffany'sby Truman CapoteISBN 8433920170 (84-339-2017-0)
Softcover, Editorial Anagrama
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desayuno En Tiffany's / Breakfast at Tiffany's'Book summary:La protagonista de esta novela es quizas el mas seductor personaje creado por ese maestro de la seduccion que fue Capote. Atractiva sin ser guapa, despues de rechazar una carrera de actriz, Holly se ocnvierte en estrella del Nueva York mas sofisticado. Mezcla de picardia e inocencia, de astucia y autenticidad, Holly vive en la provisionalidad permanente, sin pasado, no queriendo pertenecer a nada ni a nadie y vive sonando en ese paraiso que para ella es Tiffany's la famosa joyeria neoyorquina. Esta extraordinaria novela corta bastaria para consagrar a un autor. [via]
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Dorothy Parkerby Dorothy R. Parker, Brendan GillISBN 0140150749 (0-14-015074-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dorothy Parker'Book summary:Before there was Fran Leibowitz, there was Dorothy Parker. Before there was practically anyone, there was Dorothy Parker. When it comes to expressing the pleasure and pain of being just a touch too smart to be happy, she's winner and still champion after all these years. Along with Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table, she dominated American pop lit in the '20s and '30s; like Ginger Rogers, she did it all backwards. Parker's held up well--maybe the best of all of them.
This book is essential for any Parker fan, and an excellent way for new readers to make her acquaintance. It reprints her finest short stories and poems, some later articles, and all of her excellent "Constant Reader" book reviews from the Depression-era glory days of the New Yorker. The poetry, always light, has become brittle, sorry to say. But you've only to pick any story to be reminded that no middle-distance writer was better than Parker at her best. [via]
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How We Are Hungryby Dave EggersISBN 1400095565 (1-4000-9556-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Are Hungry'Book summary:How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical, and always intensely soulful group of stories written over the past four years. Though they range from a doomed Irish setter's tales of running and jumping ("After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned") to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship ("Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance"), the stories share a haunting and haunted sense of mortality. Though full of bursts of levity and humor, the book is deeply informed by the troubled times in which it was written. How We Are Hungry includes many never-before-published stories, along with a number of pieces that first appeared in magazines, both well known (Zoetrope, The New Yorker) and small and independent (h2s04, Ninth Letter). All previously published stories have been significantly revised. The urgency and experimentalism of Eggers's earlier work are still present, but are brought to a new level of precision and craft, injecting fresh life into traditional forms. Narratives are often linear, told by distinct and varied voices, and settings stretch from Egypt to Interstate 5.[via] -
The Ladies of Grace Adieu And Other Storiesby Susanna Clarke, Charles VessISBN 1596912510 (1-59691-251-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ladies of Grace Adieu And Other Stories'Book summary:From the author of the award-winning, internationally bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an enchanting collection of stories. Set in versions of England that bear an uncanny resemblance to the world of Strange and Norrell, these stories are brimming with all the ingredients of good fairy tales: petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time in embroidering terrible fates, endless paths in deep, dark woods, and houses that never appear the same way twice. Their heroines and heroes include the Duke of Wellington, a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor, Mary, Queen of Scots, Jonathan Strange, and the Raven King himself. The Ladies of Grace Adieu is the perfect introduction to a world where charm is always tempered by eerieness, and picaresque comedy is always darkened by the disturbing shadow of Faerie. [via]
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Magic for Beginnersby Shelley Jackson, Kelly LinkISBN 1931520151 (1-931520-15-1)
Hardcover, Small Beer Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic for Beginners'Book summary:[via]Best of the Decade: Salon, The A.V. Club
"If I had to pick the most powerfully original voice in fantasy today, it would be Kelly Link. Her stories begin in a world very much like our own, but then, following some mysterious alien geometry, they twist themselves into something fantastic and, frequently, horrific. You wont come out the same person you went in."Lev Grossman, The Week
"Highly original."Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Dazzling."Entertainment Weekly (grade: A, Editors Choice)
"Darkly playful."Michael Chabon
Best of the Year: Time Magazine, Salon, Boldtype, PopMatters.
Kelly Links engaging and funny stories riff on haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, and cannons. Includes Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winners. A Best of the Year pick from TIME, Salon.com, and Book Sense. Illustrated by Shelley Jackson.
Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short fiction Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebula, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question Why do you want to go through the world? ( Because you cant go through it. )
Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press, co-edit the fantasy half of The Years Best Fantasy and Horror, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they started the occasional zine Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet.
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The Minority Reportby Philip K. DickISBN 0806521686 (0-8065-2168-6)
Softcover, Carol Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Minority Report'Book summary:Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original and thought-provoking fiction of our time. This collection includes The Minority Report, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Paycheck, Second Variety and The Eyes Have It. [via]
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The Minority Report and Other Classic Storiesby Philip K. Dick, James TriptreeISBN 0806523794 (0-8065-2379-4)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Music for Chameleonsby Truman CapoteISBN 0679745661 (0-679-74566-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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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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Musica Para Camaleonesby Truman CapoteISBN 8433914367 (84-339-1436-7)
Softcover, Editorial Anagrama
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Nightmares & Dreamscapesby Stephen KingISBN 0451180232 (0-451-18023-2)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nightmares & Dreamscapes'Book summary:Many people who write about horror literature maintain that mood is its most important element. Stephen King disagrees: "My deeply held conviction is that story must be paramount.... All other considerations are secondary--theme, mood, even characterization and language."
These fine stories, each written in what King calls "a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism," prove his point. The theme, mood, characters, and language vary, but throughout, a sense of story reigns supreme. Nightmares & Dreamscapes contains 20 short tales--including several never before published--plus one teleplay, one poem, and one nonfiction piece about kids and baseball that appeared in the New Yorker. The subjects include vampires, zombies, an evil toy, man-eating frogs, the burial of a Cadillac, a disembodied finger, and a wicked stepfather. The style ranges from King's well-honed horror to a Ray Bradbury-like fantasy voice to an ambitious pastiche of Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald. And like a compact disc with a bonus track, the book ends with a charming little tale not listed in the table of contents--a parable called "The Beggar and the Diamond." --Fiona Webster [via]
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Nightmares and DreamscapeISBN 0831752785 (0-8317-5278-5)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Nightmares and Dreamscapesby Stephen KingISBN 0670851086 (0-670-85108-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nightmares and Dreamscapes'Book summary:Many people who write about horror literature maintain that mood is its most important element. Stephen King disagrees: "My deeply held conviction is that story must be paramount.... All other considerations are secondary--theme, mood, even characterization and language."
These fine stories, each written in what King calls "a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism," prove his point. The theme, mood, characters, and language vary, but throughout, a sense of story reigns supreme. Nightmares & Dreamscapes contains 20 short tales--including several never before published--plus one teleplay, one poem, and one nonfiction piece about kids and baseball that appeared in the New Yorker. The subjects include vampires, zombies, an evil toy, man-eating frogs, the burial of a Cadillac, a disembodied finger, and a wicked stepfather. The style ranges from King's well-honed horror to a Ray Bradbury-like fantasy voice to an ambitious pastiche of Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald. And like a compact disc with a bonus track, the book ends with a charming little tale not listed in the table of contents--a parable called "The Beggar and the Diamond." --Fiona Webster [via]
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Pastoraliaby George SaundersISBN 1573228729 (1-57322-872-9)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pastoralia'Book summary:In both his acclaimed debut, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, and his second collection, Pastoralia, George Saunders imagines a near future where capitalism has run amok. Consumption and the service economy rule the earth. The Haves are grotesque beings, mutilated by their crass desires and impossible wealth. The Have Nots are no less crippled, both emotionally and physically, by their inferior status. It's a kind of Westworld scenario, but instead of robots, the serving wenches, bellboys, and extras are real people, all of them mercilessly indentured by the free market.
Sounds like bleak stuff, doesn't it? Yet Saunders handles his characters with grace and humor. In the title story, for example, a couple occupies a squalid corner of a human zoo, where they act out a parody of caveman times, communicating in grunts and hand motions (speaking is instantly punishable by the Orwellian management) and conducting their lives during 15-minute smoke breaks. In "Winky," a born loser (really, all of Saunders's characters are born losers) visits a self-help seminar, where he's encouraged to rid himself of all those people who are "crapping in your oatmeal." Exhilarated at the prospect of dumping his simple, crazy-haired, religion-besotted sister, he returns home to the bleak discovery that he needs her as much as she needs him. The protagonist of "Sea Oak" works as a stripper in an aviation-themed restaurant and lives next to a crack house with his unemployed sisters, their babies, and a sweet old maid of an aunt. The aunt dies, and then returns from the grave--not so sweet, now, and still decomposing--with strange powers and a sobering message:
You ever been in the grave? It sucks so bad! You regret all the things you never did. You little bitches are going to have a very bad time in the grave unless you get on the stick, believe me!
The characters and situations in the rest of Pastoralia are equally wretched. But Saunders rescues them from utter despair with a loving belief in the triumph of the human spirit: yes, things can always get worse, but worse is better than the cold dirt of the grave. And in the small space between wretchedness and death there is plenty of room for laughter, and even love. --Tod Nelson [via] -
Poeby Edgar Allan Poe, Hendrik HelligeISBN 3899551591 (3-89955-159-1)
Hardcover, Prestel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poe'Book summary:Edgar Allan Poe, widely recognized as one of the greatest American writers of short stories and poems and acknowledged as the inventor of detective stories, greatly influenced the modern thriller. A master in creating characters and plots that send shivers down your spine, his dark, gothic, and horrifying tales and poems of mystery and imagination now come to life in this book, featuring artworks by eminent international designers.
POE contains nine short stories, including his celebrated masterpieces, "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Black Cat" as well as poems including "The Bell" and "The Raven", certainly Poe's best known work and arguable the most popular poem ever written. Poe's works are complimented by elaborate illustrations by contemporary designers such as Usugrow, Casaramona, Jen Ray, Brian Ewing and others.
This lavishly illustrated hardcover volume is sure to enthrall Poe's most rabid fans and arouse the interest of those who are reading Poe for the first time. [via]
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The Portable Dorothy Parkerby Dorothy Parker, Marion MeadeISBN 0143039539 (0-14-303953-9)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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Hardcover, Viking Press - The Portable Dorothy Parker: ISBN 0670540161 (0-670-54016-1)
Hardcover, Viking Press - The Portable Dorothy Parker: ISBN 0143039539 (0-14-303953-9)
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Private Partsby Howard SternISBN 0671009443 (0-671-00944-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Private Parts'Book summary:The #1 bestseller and fastest selling autobiography of all time, "Private Parts, " will be released on March 14 as a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures and Rysher Entertainment. This is the event Stern's millions of fans have been waiting for. Yes, The King of All Media is back, letting it all hang out in his outrageous new movie. And here is the book that tracks the odyssey. In "Private Parts" Stern spills his life story, from his dysfunctional beginnings to his unlikely, turbulent rise to super stardom. In the process, he shares his views on everything from foreign policy to fatherhood and Madonna to masturbation, with lots of lesbians in between. No matter whose side you're on -- Cher's "I hate him. He's just a creep, " or Stallone's "I love him. I really love him" -- Stern's brutally frank "Don't ask, I'll tell" tome spares no group or institution.
Studded throughout with Howard's favorite photos, pickings from the Hate-Mailbag and illustrations, this is the original, in-your-face manifesto complete with movie art that will once again have fans storming the bookstores...and everyone else running for cover. [via]
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Samtliche Erzahlungenby Franz Kafka, Paul RaabeISBN 3436010626 (3-436-01062-6)
Softcover, Fischer-Bucherei
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Samtliche Erzahlungen'Book summary:Franz Kafka.Sämtliche Erzählungen. [via]
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Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood Anderson, Ray Lewis WhiteISBN 0821411802 (0-8214-1180-2)
Hardcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:Library Journal praised this edition of Sherwood Anderson's famed short stories as "the finest edition of this seminal work available." Reconstructed to be as close to the original text as possible, Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In "Hands," Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In "Adventure," lonely Alice Hindman impulsively walks naked into the night rain. Threaded through the stories is the viewpoint of George Willard, the young newspaper reporter who, like his creator, stands witness to the dark and despairing dealings of a community of isolated people. [via]
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Sixty Storiesby Donald BarthelmeISBN 0142437395 (0-14-243739-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sixty Stories'Book summary:This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know it--and wrote many of the most beautiful sentences in the English language. Due to the unfortunate discontinuance of many of Barthelme's titles, 60 Stories now stands as one of the broadest overviews of his work, containing selections from eight previously published books, as well as a number of other short works that had been otherwise uncollected. [via]
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The Story and Its Writerby Ann ChartersISBN 0312032412 (0-312-03241-2)
Softcover, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story and Its Writer'Book summary:[via]Ann Charters has an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom and knows that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. For those who want a smaller, less expensive anthology, the compact edition of The Story and Its Writer is the most comprehensive, diverse -- the best-selling -- introduction to fiction available, notable for its student appeal as well as its quality and range. To complement the stories, Charters includes her lasting innovation: an array of the writers' own commentaries on the craft and traditions of fiction. For in-depth, illustrated studies of particular writers, her Casebooks provide unparalleled opportunities for discussion and writing.For a shorter, more affordable option, the compact edition offers all the editorial features of the full edition with about half the stories and commentaries.More editions of The Story and Its Writer:
- The Story and Its Writer: ISBN 0312101376 (0-312-10137-6)
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Softcover, St Martins Pr - The Story and Its Writer: ISBN 0312111703 (0-312-11170-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Story and Its Writer: ISBN 0312171587 (0-312-17158-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Story and Its Writer: ISBN 0312171641 (0-312-17164-1)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Story and Its Writer: ISBN 0312397291 (0-312-39729-1)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction Compact Edition: ISBN 0312397313 (0-312-39731-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Story and Its Writer: ISBN 0312032412 (0-312-03241-2)
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- The Story and Its Writer: ISBN 0312101376 (0-312-10137-6)
Story and Its Writer High Schoolby ChartersISBN 0312251041 (0-312-25104-1)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Stranger Things Happenby Kelly LinkISBN 1931520003 (1-931520-00-3)
Softcover, Small Beer Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stranger Things Happen'Book summary:[via]An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Salon.com (Best of the Year)
A delightful collection. Cleveland Plain Dealer
My favorite fantasy writer. Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered
"Link's stories defy explanation, or at least, brief summary, instead working on the plane between dream and cognitive dissonance. They are true to themselves: witty, beautiful, funny, and startling."Rain Taxi
"Link uses the nonsensical to illuminate truth, blurring the distinctions between the mundane and the fantastic to tease out the underlying meanings of modern life."Booklist
"The 11 fantasies in this first collection from rising star Link are so quirky and exuberantly imagined that one is easily distracted from their surprisingly serious underpinnings of private pain and emotional estrangement."
Publishers WeeklyKelly Link's collection of stories, Stranger Things Happen, really scores.
Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Magazine
"A tremendously appealing book, and lovers of short fiction should fall over themselves getting out the door to find a copy."
Washington Post Book World
"Stylistic pyrotechnics light up a bizarre but emotionally truthful landscape. Link's a writer to watch."
Kirkus Reviews
"A set of stories that are by turns dazzling, funny, scary, and sexy, but only when they're not all of these at once. Kelly Link has strangeness, charm and spin to spare. Writers better than this don't happen."
Karen Joy Fowler
"Kelly Link is probably the best short story writer currently out there, in any genre or none. She puts one word after another and makes real magic with them-funny, moving, tender, brave and dangerous. She is unique, and should be declared a national treasure, and possibly surrounded at all times by a cordon of armed marines."
Neil Gaiman
"Kelly Link is the exact best and strangest and funniest short story writer on earth that you have never heard of at the exact moment you are reading these words and making them slightly inexact. Now pay for the book."
Jonathan LethemThe eleven stories in Kelly Links debut collection are funny, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. They were all especially written for you. A Best of the Year pick from Salon.com, Locus, The Village Voice, and San Francisco Chronicle. Includes Nebula, World Fantasy, and Tiptree award-winning stories.
Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short fiction Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebula, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question Why do you want to go through the world? ( Because you cant go through it. )
Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press, co-edit the fantasy half of The Years Best Fantasy and Horror, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they startd the occasional zine Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet.
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Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allen PoeISBN 1406793019 (1-4067-9301-9)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'Book summary:This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. [via]
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- Tales of Mystery And Imagination: ISBN 1419115928 (1-4191-1592-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co - Tales of Mystery and Imagination: ISBN 1853260134 (1-85326-013-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Tales of Mystery and Imagination: ISBN 0794501869 (0-7945-0186-9)
Softcover, Usborne Pub Ltd - Tales of Mystery and Imagination: ISBN 0856360007 (0-85636-000-7)
Hardcover, Minerva Press - Tales of Mystery and Imagination: ISBN 0890095647 (0-89009-564-7)
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- Tales of Mystery And Imagination: ISBN 1419115928 (1-4191-1592-8)
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 1404339574 (1-4043-3957-4)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:Considered to be one of Sherwood Anderson's greatest works, "Winesburg, Ohio" is the portrayal of a fictitious American town and its inhabitants. "Winesburg, Ohio" is a collection of connected short stories depicting a variety of themes of rural American life. Heralded for its beautiful realism, "Winesburg, Ohio", is a classic collection of American stories whose influence upon American literature is considered to be nothing short of profound. [via]
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- Winesburg, Ohio: ISBN 1420925423 (1-4209-2542-3)
Softcover, Digireads.Com - Winesburg, Ohio: ISBN 1404339566 (1-4043-3956-6)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - Winesburg, Ohio: ISBN 1566197511 (1-56619-751-1)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books - Winesburg, Ohio: ISBN 156619752X (1-56619-752-X)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books - Winesburg, Ohio: ISBN 0808566245 (0-8085-6624-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Winesburg, Ohio: ISBN 0809595060 (0-8095-9506-0)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - Winesburg, Ohio: ISBN 1404339574 (1-4043-3957-4)
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- Winesburg, Ohio: ISBN 1420925423 (1-4209-2542-3)
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Winesburg, Ohioby Irving Howe, Sherwood AndersonISBN 1598186809 (1-59818-680-9)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:No sooner did Winesburg, Ohio make its appearance than a number of critical labels were fixed on it: the revolt against the village, the espousal of sexual freedom, the deepening of American realism. Such tags may once have had their point, but by now they seem dated and stale. The revolt against the village (about which Anderson was always ambivalent) has faded into history. The espousal of sexual freedom would soon be exceeded in boldness by other writers. And as for the effort to place Winesburg, Ohio in a tradition of American realism, that now seems dubious. Only rarely is the object of Anderson's stories social verisimilitude, or the "photographing" of familiar appearances, in the sense, say, that one might use to describe a novel by Theodore Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis. Only occasionally, and then with a very light touch, does Anderson try to fill out the social arrangements of his imaginary town -- although the fact that his stories are set in a mid-American place like Winesburg does constitute an important formative condition. [via]
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The Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 1853264253 (1-85326-425-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Works of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1909. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL. Every evening the young Fisherman went out upon the sea, and threw his nets into the water. When the wind blew from the land he caught nothing, or but little at best, for it was a bitter and black-winged wind, and rough waves ross up to meet it. But when the wind blew to the shore, the fish came in from the deep, and swam into the meshes of his nets, and he took them to the market-place and sold them. Every evening he went out upon the sea, and one evening the net was so heavy that hardly could he draw it into the boat. And he laughed, and said to himself, "Surely I have caught all the fish that swim, or snared some dull monster that will be a marvel to men, or some thing of horror that the great Queen will desire," and putting forth all his strength, he tugged at the coarse ropes till, like lines of blue enamel round a vase of bronze, the long veins rose up on his arms. He tugged at the thin ropes, and nearer and nearer came the circle of flat corks, and the net rose at last to the top of the water. But no fish at all was in it, nor any monster or thing of horror, but only a little Mermaid lying fast asleep. Her hair was as a wet fleece of gold, and each separate hair as a thread of fine gold in a cup of glass. Her body was as white ivory, and her tail was of silver and pearl. Silver and pearl was her tail, and the green weeds of the sea coiled round it; and like sea-shells were her ears, and her lips were like sea-coral. The cold waves dashed over her cold breasts, and the salt glistened upon her eyelids. So beautiful was she that when the young Fisherman saw her he was filled with wonder, and he put out his hand and drew the net close to him, and leaning over the side he clasped her in his arms. And when he touched her, she gave a ... [via]
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Catedralby R. CarverISBN 843392057X (84-339-2057-X)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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Musica Para Camaleonesby Truman Capote, Rolando Costa PicazoISBN 9500718626 (950-07-1862-6)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Musica Para Camaleones'Book summary:La obra bucea con implacable lucidez en la poesia y el horror de la vida; es el esplendido resultado de una necesidad de comunicacion directa entre lector y materia narrativa. En palabras suyas: hacer del lector un observador o mejor aun, un testigo de una experiencia verdadera que, contada bajo tal optica, resultara mucho mas subyugante que si el autor la interepretase al modo clasico. [via]
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Samtliche Erzahlungenby Franz Kafka, Paul RaabeISBN 3103381050 (3-10-338105-0)
Hardcover, S. Fischer
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