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About This Life : Journeys on the Threshold of Memoryby Barry LopezISBN 0679434542 (0-679-43454-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Adventures of Alyxby Joanna RussISBN 0671656015 (0-671-65601-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Aesop's Fablesby AesopISBN 0671087584 (0-671-08758-4)
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American Voices: Best Short Fiction by Contemporary Authorsby Sally ArteserosISBN 0671783157 (0-671-78315-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Anastasia Syndrome and Other Storiesby Mary Higgins ClarkISBN 0671701231 (0-671-70123-1)
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Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989by Bruce Chatwin, Jan Borm, Matthew Graves, Martthew GravesISBN 0670868590 (0-670-86859-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0679420398 (0-679-42039-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Apuleiusby Apuleius, J. Arthur HansonISBN 0674994981 (0-674-99498-1)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apuleius'Book summary:In the Metamorphoses of ApuleiusThe Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic.
The hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of a bird, resorts to witchcraft but by an unfortunate pharmaceutical error finds himself transformed into an ass. He knows he can revert to his own body by eating rose-petals, but these prove singularly elusive; and the bulk of the work describes his adventures as an animal. He also retails many stories that he overheard, the most charming being that of Cupid and Psyche (beginning, in true fairy-tale fashion, 'Erant in quadam civitate rex et regina'). Some of the stories are as indecent as they are witty, and two in the ninth book were deemed by Boccaccio worthy of inclusion in the Decameron. At last the goddess Isis takes pity on Lucius. In a surprising denouement, he is restored to human shape and, now spiritually regenerated, is initiated into her mysteries. The author's baroque Latin style nicely matches his fantastic narrative and is guaranteed to hold a reader's attention from beginning to end.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Apuleius is in two volumes.
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Apuleius Metamorphosesby Apuleius, J. Arthur HansonISBN 0674990498 (0-674-99049-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apuleius Metamorphoses'Book summary:In the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, also known as The Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic. The hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of a bird, resorts to witchcraft but by an unfortunate pharmaceutical error finds himself transformed into an ass. He knows he can revert to his own body by eating rose-petals, but these prove singularly elusive; and the bulk of the work describes his adventures as an animal. He also retails many stories that he overheard, the most charming being that of Cupid and Psyche (beginning, in true fairy-tale fashion, ' Erant in quadam civitate rex et regina '). Some of the stories are as indecent as they are witty, and two in the ninth book were deemed by Boccaccio worthy of inclusion in the Decameron. At last the goddess Isis takes pity on Lucius. In a surprising denouement, he is restored to human shape and, now spiritually regenerated, is initiated into her mysteries. The author's baroque Latin style nicely matches his fantastic narrative and is guaranteed to hold a reader's attention from beginning to end. J. Arthur Hanson was at the time of his death in 1985 Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University. His publications include Roman Theater-Temples. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Apuleius is in two volumes. [via]
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The Atlasby William T. VollmannISBN 0670865788 (0-670-86578-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Awakening and Selected Storiesby Kate ChopinISBN 0679424695 (0-679-42469-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Believers : A Novella and Storiesby Charles BaxterISBN 0679442677 (0-679-44267-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Best American Erotica 1994by Susie BrightISBN 0671899422 (0-671-89942-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Threeby Don SakersISBN 0671698648 (0-671-69864-8)
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Classic Crewsby Harry CrewsISBN 0671865277 (0-671-86527-7)
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The Collected Storiesby Paul TherouxISBN 0670861278 (0-670-86127-8)
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Collected Storiesby Saul BellowISBN 0670894869 (0-670-89486-9)
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Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0679600078 (0-679-60007-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime. He was a seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, and exerted a great influence on Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and Charles Baudelaire, who championed him long before Poe was appreciated in his own country. Baudelaire's enthusiasm brought Poe a wide audience in Europe, and his writing came to have enormous importance for modern French literature. This edition includes his most well-known works--"The Raven," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Annabel Lee," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"--as well as less-familiar stories, poems, and essays. [via]
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The Complete Storiesby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0679417400 (0-679-41740-0)
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Edgar Allan Poes gift for the macabrehis genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of thingswas so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful representin contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitmanthe other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility.More editions of The Complete Stories:
Cross Channelby Julian BarnesISBN 0679446915 (0-679-44691-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Dancing after Hours : Storiesby Andre DubusISBN 0679431071 (0-679-43107-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancing after Hours : Stories'Book summary:Over two decades, Andre Dubus has proven himself an essential American writer. "He restores faith in the survival of the short story" (Los Angeles Times), and now - with his first collection in nearly ten years - he demonstrates more powerfully than ever before both his mastery of the form and his understanding of our imperfect lives. In each of the fourteen stories in Dancing After Hours, Dubus uncovers the mystery of ordinary life as his characters - often perseverant, yet occasionally crazed by desire, loss, or disappointment - wrestle with love, faith, and luck. Whether at a roadside bar or a family camp, in the everyday rigors of domesticity or its violent extremes, these lives unfold with an inevitability that is moving, sometimes redemptive, always surprising. [via]
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Devil and Daniel Webster and Other Storiesby Stephen Vincent BenetISBN 0671428896 (0-671-42889-6)
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The Devil's Modeby Anthony BurgessISBN 0671709909 (0-671-70990-9)
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye : Five Fairy Storiesby A. S. ByattISBN 0679420088 (0-679-42008-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye : Five Fairy Stories'Book summary:The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable.
The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy; they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations; and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor.
"A dreamy treat.... It is not merely strange, it is wondrous."
--Boston Globe
"Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful.... If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt can step in, indefinitely."
--Chicago Tribune
"Byatt's writing is crystalline and splendidly imaginative.... These [are] perfectly formed tales."
--Washington Post Book World
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Do the Windows Open?by Julie HechtISBN 067945201X (0-679-45201-X)
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0679405380 (0-679-40538-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Dressing up for the Carnivalby Carol ShieldsISBN 0670889210 (0-670-88921-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 0679600493 (0-679-60049-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce's life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from "stories of my childhood" through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland. [via]
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Einstein's Dreamsby Alan LightmanISBN 0679416463 (0-679-41646-3)
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Fablesby Aesop, Roger L'EstrangeISBN 0679417907 (0-679-41790-7)
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› 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]
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Fables from Aesopby Tom Lynch, AesopISBN 0670889482 (0-670-88948-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fables from Aesop'Book summary:From century to century, generation to generation, Aesop's fables have entertained, enlightened minds, and warmed hearts around the world. Now in this unique collection, Tom Lynch uses collages of vivid color, intriguing texture and folk art style to re-invent fourteen of these well known and loved fables for today's children.
The crisp retellings of Aesop's tales and the beauty of Tom Lynch's illustrations will encourage readers to look closely before they leap from one fable to the next. [via]More editions of Fables from Aesop:
Faces and Voicesby Amy WittingISBN 0670893005 (0-670-89300-5)
Hardcover, Viking
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Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Arthur RackhamISBN 0679417966 (0-679-41796-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Snow White are among the jewels we owe to the German brothers Grimm, who began in the first decade of the 19th century to seek out and listen to village storytellers. The best-loved of the tales they discovered are now brought together with the marvelous pictures that in 1900 first established the reputation of one of the greatest children's illustrators of all time, Arthur Rackham. [via]
The Fire Next Timeby James BaldwinISBN 0679601511 (0-679-60151-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Four for Tomorrowby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0671720511 (0-671-72051-1)
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The Garden Party and Other Storiesby Katherine Mansfield, Claire TomalinISBN 0679405399 (0-679-40539-9)
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A Gift of Loveby Jude Deveraux, Judith McNaught, Kimberly Cates, Andrea Kane, Judith O'BrienISBN 0671536613 (0-671-53661-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Gift of Love'Book summary:Nothing is more precious than the gift of love--and this dazzling new collection of holiday love stories showcases some of the brightest jewels in the romance genre. These wonderful, original stories by Judith McNaught, Jude Deveraux, Kimberly Cates, Andrea Kane, and Judith O'Brien will warm the heart on a cold winter's day. [via]
The Green Hills of Earthby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0671578537 (0-671-57853-7)
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Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0679428011 (0-679-42801-1)
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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] 
Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurryby Elizabeth McCrackenISBN 0679400265 (0-679-40026-5)
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Hot Sandby Susan KurosawaISBN 0670875481 (0-670-87548-1)
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Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horrorby Jeff Gelb, Michael Grant, Claire ZionISBN 0671701495 (0-671-70149-5)
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Hottest Blood: The Original Erotic Horror Anthologyby Jeff Gelb, Michael Garrett, Claire ZionISBN 0671753673 (0-671-75367-3)
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The House on Mango Streetby Sandra CisnerosISBN 067943335X (0-679-43335-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House on Mango Street'Book summary:In hardcover for the first time--on the tenth anniversary of its initial publication--the greatly admired and bestselling book about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through its multiple characters. [via]
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If on a Winter's Night a Travelerby William Weaver, Italo CalvinoISBN 0679420258 (0-679-42025-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler'Book summary:If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration--"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: "Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.
The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches--stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition--with explorations of how and why we read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space." [via]
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Irish Fairy and Folk Talesby W. B. YeatsISBN 0679600949 (0-679-60094-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Irish Fairy and Folk Tales'Book summary:Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth and embody what Yeats describes as the very voice of the people, the very pulse of life.
The impact of these tales doesnt stop with Yeats, or Joyce, or Oscar Wilde, writes Paul Muldoon in his Foreword, for generations of readers in Ireland and throughout the world have found them flourishing like those persistent fairy thorns.
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The Island of Dr. Death and Other Storiesby Gene WolfeISBN 067149516X (0-671-49516-X)
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0679417974 (0-679-41797-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other animal How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter--and they have served ever since as a source of laughter for children everywhere. [via]
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Kullby Robert E. HowardISBN 0671876732 (0-671-87673-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kull'Book summary:As some cover blurbs so rightly state, "Before Conan--there was Kull!" The warrior Kull was yet another popular creation of pulp writer Robert E. Howard (1906-1936), generally credited as the originator of the subgenre heroic fantasy. Yet Kull should not be dismissed as second-rate Conan. (Although Howard did transform a few unsold Kull adventures into those of Conan the Cimmerian when the later series took off with the public.) Set in ancient, lost Atlantis, the Kull stories take place mostly after the barbarian has already come to power as King Kull of Valusia. What makes these scant dozen stories most memorable is Howard's heightened style of mystical decadence, similar here to his Weird Tales contemporary, Clark Ashton Smith. Rest assured there's enough gruesome bloodletting and wanton savagery to satisfy the most ardent Howard reader. (Variant editions of this collection have been published over the years, with the uncompleted stories finished posthumously by Lin Carter. Other editions have simply presented the few story fragments as untouched--and unadulterated--Robert E. Howard.) --Stanley Wiater [via]
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Letting Loose the Houndsby Brady UdallISBN 0671017020 (0-671-01702-0)
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Life After Godby Douglas CouplandISBN 0671874349 (0-671-87434-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life After God'Book summary:In a dazzlingly original collection of stories, Doug Coupland envisions a new kind of spiritualism for a culture fast-forwarding into the future. Coupland is the international bestselling author of Generation X and Shampoo Planet. [via]
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Little Birdsby Anais NinISBN 0671680110 (0-671-68011-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Birds'Book summary:Few women writers dare celebrate the sexual experience as fully as Anais Nin. Taking off where Delta of Venus left off, Little Birds explores passion in all its forms. Evocative, compelling and superbly erotic, this is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. HC: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich. [via]
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Little Kingdomsby Steven MillhauserISBN 067186890X (0-671-86890-X)
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The Magic Barrelby Bernard MalamudISBN 0671782088 (0-671-78208-8)
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Man-Kzin Wars VIby Larry NivenISBN 0671876074 (0-671-87607-4)
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The Matisse Storiesby A. S. ByattISBN 0679438823 (0-679-43882-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Matisse Stories'Book summary:These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. Beautifully written, intensely observed, The Matisse Stories is fiction of spellbinding authority.
"Full of delight and humor...The Matisse Stories is studded with brilliantly apt images and a fine sense for subtleties of conversation and emotion."--San Francisco Chronicle
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The Menace from Earthby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0671578022 (0-671-57802-2)
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Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locustby Nathanael WestISBN 067960278X (0-679-60278-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust'Book summary:"Somehow or other I seem to have slipped in between all the 'schools,' " observed Nathanael West the year before his untimely death in 1940. "My books meet no needs except my own, their circulation is practically private and I'm lucky to be published." Yet today, West is widely recognized as a prophetic writer whose dark and comic vision of
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Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), which West envisioned as "a novel in the form of a comic strip," tells of an advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist who becomes tragically embroiled in the desperate lives of his readers. The Day of the Locust (1939) is West's great dystopian Hollywood novel based on his experiences at the seedy fringes of the movie industry.
"The work of Nathanael West, savagely, comically, tragically original, has come into its own," said novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg. "A new public [has] discovered in the writings of West a brilliant reflection of its own sense of chaos and helplessness in a world running more to madness than to reason." [via]More editions of Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust:
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The Most of P. G. Wodehouseby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0671203495 (0-671-20349-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Most of P. G. Wodehouse'Book summary:The most lavish P. G. Wodehouse collection ever published. In addition to Wodehouse's best known and beloved Jeeves and Bertie stories, The Most of P. G. Wodehouse features delightful stories about The Drones Club and its affable, vacuous members: Mr. Mulliner, whose considered judgment on any and all topics is drawn from the experiences of his innumerable relatives; Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, the man of gilt-edged schemes; and Lord Emsworth, ruler of all he surveys at Blanding's Castle. Rounding out the collection are Wodehouses's witty golf stories and a complete and completely hilarious novel, Quick Service. As Jeeves would say, "The mind boggles, sir." [via]
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A Night at the Movies Or, You Must Remember Thisby Robert CooverISBN 0671617966 (0-671-61796-6)
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Numbers in the Dark and Other Storiesby Italo Calvino, Tim Parks, Erroll McDonaldISBN 0679442057 (0-679-44205-7)
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Open Secrets: Storiesby Alice MunroISBN 0679435751 (0-679-43575-1)
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Our Bestby Frederik PohlISBN 0671656201 (0-671-65620-1)
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Out of Indiaby Ruth Prawer JhabvalaISBN 0671642219 (0-671-64221-9)
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The Penguin Century of Australian Storiesby Carmel BirdISBN 0670892335 (0-670-89233-5)
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The Periodic Tableby Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal, Neal AschersonISBN 0679444637 (0-679-44463-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Periodic Table'Book summary:Writer Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century's most compelling voices, and The Periodic Table is his most famous book. Springboarding from his training as a chemist, Levi uses the elements as metaphors to create a cycle of linked, somewhat autobiographical tales, including stories of the Piedmontese Jewish community he came from, and of his response to the Holocaust. [via]
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The Pushcart Prize, XVI: Best of the Small Pressesby Bill HendersonISBN 0671734350 (0-671-73435-0)
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The Pushcart Prize, XVIIby Bill HendersonISBN 0671734369 (0-671-73436-9)
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Ray Bradbury's the Martian Chroniclesby Ray BradburyISBN 0671647555 (0-671-64755-5)
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Revolt in 2100by Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0671655892 (0-671-65589-2)
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The Rose City and Other Storiesby David EbershoffISBN 0670894834 (0-670-89483-4)
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Selected Storiesby Alice MunroISBN 0679446273 (0-679-44627-3)
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Selected Short Stories of William Faulknerby William FaulknerISBN 0679424784 (0-679-42478-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner'Book summary:William Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published The Sound and the Fury. They explore many of the themes found in the novels and feature characters of small-town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkners. In A Rose for Emily, the first of his stories to appear in a national magazine, a straightforward, neighborly narrator relates a tale of love, betrayal, and murder. The vicious family of the Snopes trilogy turns up in Barn Burning, about a sons response to the activities of his arsonist father. And Jason and Caddy Compson, two other inhabitants of Faulkners mythical Yoknapatawpha County, are witnesses to the terrorizing of a pregnant black laundress in That Evening Sun. These and the other stories gathered here attest to the fact that Faulkner is, as Ralph Ellison so aptly noted, the greatest artist the South has produced.
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Selected Stories of Eudora Weltyby Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne PorterISBN 0679600027 (0-679-60002-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Stories of Eudora Welty'Book summary:Eudora Welty's subjects are the people who live in southern towns like Jackson, Mississippi, which has been her home for all of her long life. I've stayed in one place,' she says, and 'it's become the source of the information that stirs my imagination.' Her distinctive voice and wry observations are rooted in the southern conversational tradition. The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone from the quietly understated and psychologically subtle to the outrageously grotesque. Linking them all is Welty's remarkable ear for the language and point of view of the South. 'She's a lot smarter than her cousins in Beula,' someone remarks about a reputed suicide in one story. 'Especially Edna Earle, that never did get to be what you'd call a heavy thinker. Edna Earle could sit and ponder all day on how the little tail of the 'c' got through the 'I' in a Coca-Cola sign."
The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone from the quietly understated and psychologically subtle to the outrageously grotesque. [via]More editions of Selected Stories of Eudora Welty:
Skin and Other Storiesby Roald DahlISBN 0670891843 (0-670-89184-3)
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Skinned Alive: Storiesby Edmund WhiteISBN 0679434763 (0-679-43476-3)
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Sputnik Dinerby Rick MaddocksISBN 0676973795 (0-676-97379-5)
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Strange New Worldsby Dean Wesley SmithISBN 0671014463 (0-671-01446-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strange New Worlds'Book summary:Back by popular demand -- again! Our third anthology featuring original Star Trek®, Star Trek: The Next Generation®, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine®, and Star Trek: Voyager® stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans!
Each Strange New Worlds competition draws a greater response than the last. The final selections gathered here were chosen from an overwhelming number of entries by virtue of their originality and style. With wit, compassion, and an affection for all things Star Trek, these brand-new authors take us where Star Trek has never gone before.
Their tales rocket across the length and breadth of Federation time and space, from when Captain Kirk explored the galaxy on the first Starship Enterprise", through Captain Picard's U.S.S. Enterprise" 1701-D and Captain Sisko's Deep Space Nine", to Captain Janeway's Starship Voyager", with many more fascinating stops along the way.
Find out what happens in the Star Trek universe when fans -- like you -- take the helm! [via]
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Strange Pilgrimsby Gabriel García Márquez, Edith GrossmanISBN 0679425667 (0-679-42566-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strange Pilgrims'Book summary:In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact.
In these twelve masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.
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Survival!by Gordon R. DicksonISBN 067165621X (0-671-65621-X)
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Thurber's Dogs: A Collection of the Master's Dogs, Written and Drawn, Real and Imaginary, Living and Long Agoby James ThurberISBN 067150598X (0-671-50598-X)
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A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youthby William StyronISBN 0679427422 (0-679-42742-2)
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The Tiger in the Grassby Harriet DoerrISBN 0670864714 (0-670-86471-4)
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A Twist In The Taleby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0671671480 (0-671-67148-0)
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Waltzing the Catby Pam HoustonISBN 0671026372 (0-671-02637-2)
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The Wonders of the Invisible World : Storiesby David GatesISBN 0679436685 (0-679-43668-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonders of the Invisible World : Stories'Book summary:David Gates writes practically perfect American stories. Perfect, first of all, in their staid adherence to American short-story tradition. There will be no rioting in the cafés over his first collection, The Wonders of the Invisible World, with its glimpses of characters daunted by love. Here are creatures we know well: Manhattan quasi professionals taking their lumps; urbane fortysomethings trying out small-town life. It's all Updikean adultery, Cheeveresque drinking, some drugs, a life-altering accident or two. But Gates's stories step beyond being perfect examples of their form to become something fresh, compassionate, and witty. He has an astonishing handle on the way people talk, not just to each other, but to themselves. In the title story, a husband remembers the day his wife left him: "She appeared holding a tall glass in each hand as if she were--forget it, no stupid similes. She was a vision. A vision of herself." In "Beating," a Jewish woman is fed up with her Leftist, activist husband, who owns Pound's collected works. "I fantasize sometimes about making a big stink and demanding that he at least put Ezra Pound away where I won't have to see it every day of my life. I'd be like, Hey hey, ho ho, Ezra Pound has got to go."
This kind of attention to the goofy music of interior dialogue is normally found in comic fiction. But Gates is concerned, too, with the little failures of language, and so the failures of relationships. His territory is not comedy, it's the tragedy of failed optimism. In this way, too, he is a perfectly American writer. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Zigzagging down a Wild Trailby Bobbie Ann MasonISBN 0679449248 (0-679-44924-8)
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