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50 Great American Short Storiesby Milton CraneISBN 0553240234 (0-553-24023-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Aces Highby George R. R. MartinISBN 0553264648 (0-553-26464-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aces High'Book summary:30 years later, the victims of the gene-altering 'Wild Cards' virus face a new nightmare. From the far reaches of space comes The Swarm, a deadly menace that could very will destroy the planet. Aces and Jokers must form an uneasy alliance and prepare for a battle they must not lose. When a group of SF's most imaginative writers discovered they shared a secret love of the larger-than-life heroes of the four-colour comics and Saturday matinee serials, they gave each other a challenge: What would our world be like if these superhuman heroes and villains had been real flesh-and-blood men and women who lived through this century's most turbulent history? In WILD CARDS 2, the year is 1970. The place is New York City, home of Aces High, the glamourous lounge atop the Empire State Building, and Jokertown, the squalid residence of the city's underclass. The victims of the Wild Card Virus are no longer new and strange, but neither are they accepted by a world that still fears them. But as the '80s dawn, all eyes are drwn to the skies, and the Wild Cards may be the planet's only hope, as an abomination called the Swarm arrives to threaten Earth. [via]
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Alien Sexby Ellen DatlowISBN 0525248633 (0-525-24863-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alien Sex'Book summary:Nineteen erotic tales of love and aliens feature the writings of such popular authors as Harlan Ellison, Pat Murphy, Larry Niven, Connie Willis, Philip Jose+a7 Farmer, and Lewis Shiner. Reprint. [via]
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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 055321330X (0-553-21330-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses The Awakening , Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent." This edition of The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin. "This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson. [via]
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Back in the Worldby Tobias WolffISBN 0553343254 (0-553-34325-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Back in the World'Book summary:To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the vaguest notion of what normal is. A gentle priest finds himself in a Vegas hotel with a hysterical, sun-burned stranger. A show-biz hopeful undergoes a dubious audition in a hearse speeding across the California desert. An aging soldier is distracted from a night of philandering by a gun-toting neighbor and a suicidal enlisted man. As he moves among these unfortunates, Wolff observes the disparity between their realities and their dreams, in ten stories of exhilarating lucidity and grace.
Stories included are: "The Missing Person," "Say Yes," "The Poor Are Always With Us," "Sister," "Soldier's Joy," "Desert Breakdown," "Our Story Begins," "Leviathan," and "The Rich Brother."
"Terrific...The magic of his fiction cannot be explained. It is the ancient art of the master storyteller."--Tim O'Brien
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Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Storiesby Carson McCullersISBN 0553239805 (0-553-23980-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Beggar Maidby Alice MunroISBN 0553202928 (0-553-20292-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Beyond the Great Snow Mountainsby Louis L'AmourISBN 0553580418 (0-553-58041-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Birds and Other Storiesby Richard Adams, Daphne Du MaurierISBN 0582222907 (0-582-22290-7)
Softcover, Longman
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Bodies of Waterby Michelle CliffISBN 0525248641 (0-525-24864-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Bodyby Hanif KureishiISBN 0571209726 (0-571-20972-6)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Bodysurfersby Robert DreweISBN 0571133894 (0-571-13389-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Book of the Supernaturalby M. R. James, Peter HainingISBN 0572010486 (0-572-01048-6)
Hardcover, Foulsham
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British Folk Talesby Kevin Crossley-HollandISBN 053105733X (0-531-05733-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Chronicles of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553213784 (0-553-21378-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Chronicles of Bustos Domecoby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0525475486 (0-525-47548-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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City of Saints And Madmenby Jeff Vandermeer, Michael MoorcockISBN 0553383574 (0-553-38357-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Saints And Madmen'Book summary:In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any youve ever visitedan invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.
City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheadingand finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced hes made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that hes really from a place called Chicago.&
By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and eyewitness reports invokes a universe within a puzzlebox where you can loseand findyourself again. [via]More editions of City of Saints And Madmen:
The Collector of Heartsby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0525944451 (0-525-94445-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Jack D. Zipes, Johnny Gruelle, Jacob W. GrimmISBN 0553212389 (0-553-21238-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of Once Upon A Time, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Bothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. Volume II contains 142 unabridged tales, including such bedtime favorites as "Snow White and Rose Red" and "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes," as well as 32 little-known tales that the Brothers Grimm omitted during the course of their many revisions. These wonderful tales of life, passion, and make-believe appeal not only to children--who unabashedly love them--but to readers of any age. [via]
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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Jack David Zipes, John B. GruelleISBN 0553382160 (0-553-38216-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby John B. Gruelle, Jack ZipesISBN 0553371010 (0-553-37101-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of once upon a time, the fairly tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Brothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. [via]
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Death in Venice and Other Storiesby Thomas MannISBN 0553213334 (0-553-21333-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice and Other Stories'Book summary:This superb translation of Death in Venice and six other stories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, deserving to be the definitive text for English-speaking readers. These seven stories represent Manns early writing career and a level of literary quality Mann himself despaired of ever again matching. In these stories he began to grapple with themes that were to recur throughout his work. In Little Herr Friedemann, a characters carefully structured way of life is suddenly threatened by an unexpected sexual passion. In Gladius Dei, puritanical intellect clashes with beauty. In Tristan, Mann presents an ironic and comic account of the tension between an artist and bourgeois society.
All seven of these stories are accomplished and memorable, but it is Death in Venice that truly forms the centerpiece of the collection. The themes that Mann weaves through the shorter pieces come to a climax in this stunning novella, one of the most hauntingly magnificent tales of art and self-destruction ever written. [via]More editions of Death in Venice and Other Stories:
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The Death of Ivan Ilyichby Leo TolstoyISBN 0553210351 (0-553-21035-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'Book summary:Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth? This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation. [via]
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Distant Starsby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 055301336X (0-553-01336-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Distant Stars'Book summary:"Delany has a grasp of the evolutionary nature of mythology, a subtle comic touch, and a lyric sense of the outsider making his unorthodox way in the world--or worlds--that give his work a dimension unusual..." [via]
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Ethan Frome and Other Short Fictionby Edith WhartonISBN 0553212559 (0-553-21255-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction'Book summary:On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wifes orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives and he is tempted to make one final, desperate effort to escape his fate. In language that is spare, passionate, and enduring, Edith Wharton tells this unforgettable story of two tragic lovers overwhelmed by the unrelenting forces of conscience and necessity.
Included with Ethan Frome are the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, The Last Asset, The Other Two, and Xingu. Together, this collection offers a survey of the extraordinary range and power of one of Americas finest writers. [via]More editions of Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction:
The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Storiesby Murray BailISBN 0571150837 (0-571-15083-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Faber Book of Gay Short Fictionby Edmund WhiteISBN 0571129080 (0-571-12908-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Faber Book of Seductionsby Jenny NewmanISBN 0571137512 (0-571-13751-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Fables of Aesopby Ruth SpriggsISBN 0528820702 (0-528-82070-2)
Hardcover, Checkerboard Pr
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Fantasyby AndersonISBN 0523485158 (0-523-48515-8)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Fiction 100by James H. PickeringISBN 0536907862 (0-536-90786-2)
Softcover, Pearson Custom Pub
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Fifty Great Short Storiesby Milton CraneISBN 0553277456 (0-553-27745-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fifty Great Short Stories'Book summary:50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O'Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common-the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world's fiction. [via]
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Fire Watchby Connie WillisISBN 0553260456 (0-553-26045-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fire Watch'Book summary:Fire Watch collects 12 stories from one of science fiction's most decorated authors. Although the stories are thematically unrelated, an undercurrent of mortality weights many of the tales with a powerful sense of humanity's frailties. Two of the best pieces are "A Letter from the Clearys" and "The Sidon in the Mirror," both of which show people reacting to death in characteristically odd (and disappointingly human) ways. Fans of Willis's time-travel books, The Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, will be delighted to find that the title story tells of another hapless Oxford history student sent back to World War II Britain to learn a hard lesson. Just when the book threatens to leave you morose and depressed, Willis reveals her wonderfully absurdist side in "Mail Order Clone" and "Blued Moon." Willis is a master of the novel, but her short stories are superb reading as well. This is a nice collection for a fan's library and a great introduction for those unfamiliar with her work. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Galactic Northby Alastair ReynoldsISBN 0575079118 (0-575-07911-8)
Softcover, Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Galactic North'Book summary:Gathered here for the first time are Alastair Reynolds' stories and novelettes set in the universe of REVELATION SPACE, his first bestselling blockbuster. GALACTIC NORTH will include several brand-new stories and novelettes written specially for this collection. [via]
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Grimm's Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Storiesby Wilhelm Grimm, Ralph Manheim, Jacob GrimmISBN 0575025077 (0-575-02507-7)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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A Hammock Beneath the Mangoesby Thomas ColchieISBN 0525933670 (0-525-93367-0)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Haroun and the Sea of Storiesby Salman RushdieISBN 0571196934 (0-571-19693-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories'Book summary:Immediately forget any preconceptions you may have about Salman Rushdie and the controversy that has swirled around his million-dollar head. You should instead know that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables and parables, from any culture. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a delightful tale about a storyteller who loses his skill and a struggle against mysterious forces attempting to block the seas of inspiration from which all stories are derived. Here's a representative passage about the sources and power of inspiration:
So Iff the water genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Stream of Stories, and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the Ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each coloured strand represented and contained a single tale. Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead, but alive.
[via]"And if you are very, very careful, or very, very highly skilled, you can dip a cup into the Ocean," Iff told Haroun, "like so," and here he produced a little golden cup from another of his waistcoat pockets, "and you can fill it with water from a single, pure Stream of Story, like so," as he did precisely that.
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0553212141 (0-553-21214-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer. [via]
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A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chaptersby Julian Barnes, Ron MiddletonISBN 0521484782 (0-521-48478-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chapters'Book summary:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English from various genres and differing times. A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes is edited by Ron Middleton of the University of Reading. [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0582096790 (0-582-09679-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Houses Without Doorsby Peter StraubISBN 0525249249 (0-525-24924-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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I Sing the Body Electricby Ray BradburyISBN 0553263196 (0-553-26319-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Immortalityby Milan KunderaISBN 0571144551 (0-571-14455-1)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Immortality'Book summary:A.novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". He has written one play, "Jacques and his Master". [via]
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In Dreamsby Paul J. Mc Auley, Kim NewmanISBN 0575052015 (0-575-05201-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Jokers Wildby George R. R. MartinISBN 0553266993 (0-553-26699-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Jungle Books and Just So Storiesby Kipling RudyardISBN 0553211994 (0-553-21199-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Books and Just So Stories'Book summary:First published in 1894 and 1895, The Jungle Books remain some of the most beloved tales of all time. Adored by readers of all ages, these classic stories in two volumes spin the unforgettable story of Mowglia boy raised by a pack of wolvesas he learns indelible lessons about the laws of the jungle as well as the needs of the heart. Through Mowglis journey, readers also meet the tiger Shere Khan, who stalks man and beast alike, the rock python Kaa, who dispenses wisdom, and the aging wolf Akela, who struggles as his leadership of the pack is challenged. Set in India, Kiplings great masterpiece is an allegory for Britains imperialism, filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters. The mythic tale of a boy looking for where he truly belongseither with the man-pack of the village or the wolf-pack of the wildThe Jungle Books touch both our intellect and our emotions, while Kiplings dazzling storytelling makes them the timeless archetype for popular tales to come. [via]
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The King of the Catsby John Richard StephensISBN 0571198279 (0-571-19827-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Lais of Marie De France.by Robert W. Hanning, Joan M. Ferrante, MarieISBN 0525143408 (0-525-14340-8)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Little Birdsby Anais NinISBN 0553246992 (0-553-24699-2)
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Mae West Is Deadby Adam Mars-JonesISBN 0571131883 (0-571-13188-3)
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The Martian Chroniclesby Ray BradburyISBN 0553278223 (0-553-27822-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Martian Chronicles'Book summary:From "Rocket Summer" to "The Million-Year Picnic," Ray Bradbury's stories of the colonization of Mars form an eerie mesh of past and future. Written in the 1940s, the chronicles drip with nostalgic atmosphere--shady porches with tinkling pitchers of lemonade, grandfather clocks, chintz-covered sofas. But longing for this comfortable past proves dangerous in every way to Bradbury's characters--the golden-eyed Martians as well as the humans. Starting in the far-flung future of 1999, expedition after expedition leaves Earth to investigate Mars. The Martians guard their mysteries well, but they are decimated by the diseases that arrive with the rockets. Colonists appear, most with ideas no more lofty than starting a hot-dog stand, and with no respect for the culture they've displaced.
Bradbury's quiet exploration of a future that looks so much like the past is sprinkled with lighter material. In "The Silent Towns," the last man on Mars hears the phone ring and ends up on a comical blind date. But in most of these stories, Bradbury holds up a mirror to humanity that reflects a shameful treatment of "the other," yielding, time after time, a harvest of loneliness and isolation. Yet the collection ends with hope for renewal, as a colonist family turns away from the demise of the Earth towards a new future on Mars. Bradbury is a master fantasist and The Martian Chronicles are an unforgettable work of art. --Blaise Selby [via]
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Martiansby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553574019 (0-553-57401-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Martians'Book summary:The Martians is a collection of stories, alternate histories, poems, and even the complete text of a planetary constitution based on Kim Stanley Robinson's award-winning Mars trilogy (composed of Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars). For those unfamiliar with the series, The Martians from the title are the humans who have colonized and terraformed the Red Planet over the course of several generations. While Robinson told their story at considerable length in his novels, The Martians fleshes out some of his more interesting characters and also adds depth to their world.
When it's at its best, this collection presents stand-alone stories of life, love, and work on our celestial neighbor, ranging from the tale of an expedition seeking to conquer Olympus Mons in "Green Mars" to a folksy story of friendship and baseball in "Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars." Unfortunately, some of the material here can be tough going for those unfamiliar with Robinson's Mars milieu. For instance, the ending piece, "Purple Mars," is apparently an autobiographical snippet about the day Robinson finished writing the final novel. That's great stuff for someone who has been following the entire Mars saga from beginning to end, but newcomers will probably not know what to make of it.
Still, there is enough material here to interest anyone on the lookout for some good Mars stories. Although Robinson has made his name by writing fat novels that span dozens of generations and characters, in The Martians he proves that he is also adept at shorter pieces. It's a fine if somewhat uneven collection that serves to round out the Mars universe while providing some excellent reading. --Craig E. Engler [via]
Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Talesby Serge A. ZenkovskyISBN 0525473637 (0-525-47363-7)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Miracle and Other Christmas Storiesby Connie WillisISBN 0553580485 (0-553-58048-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miracle and Other Christmas Stories'Book summary:Connie Willis loves Christmas. "I even like the parts most people hate--shopping in crowded malls and reading Christmas newsletters and seeing relatives and standing in baggage check-in lines at the airport. Okay, I lied. Nobody likes standing in baggage check-in lines," she writes. Willis knows it's hard to write good Christmas stories: the subject matter is limited, the writer has to balance between sentiment and skepticism, and too many fall into the Victorian habit of killing off saintly children and poor people. Here she presents eight marvelous Christmas tales, two of which appear for the first time.
The stories range from "The Pony," about a psychotherapist who doesn't believe that Christmas gifts can answer our deepest longings, and "Inn," in which a choir member rehearsing for the Christmas pageant becomes part of the original Christmas story, to "Newsletter," where an invasion of parasitic creatures causes unusually good behavior in their hosts, and "Epiphany," a story of three unlikely Magi following signs through a North American winter toward the returned Jesus Christ. "Miracle" is a comic romance echoing Willis's favorite Yuletide movie, Miracle on 34th Street, and "Catspaw" is a homage to the traditional Christmas murder mystery with a sly, science-fictional twist. The collection also includes "In Coppelius' Toyshop," in which a bad guy is trapped in Toyland, and "Adaptation," a Dickensian story about what it means to keep Christmas in your heart.
Those who want only SF stories may find this collection lacking, but anyone who enjoys complex tales with true Christmas spirit will treasure it. --Nona Vero [via]
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The Mysterious Mr. Quinby Agatha ChristieISBN 0553350439 (0-553-35043-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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New Worlds 1by David GarnettISBN 0575051345 (0-575-05134-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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No Sweetness Hereby Ama Ata AidooISBN 0582003938 (0-582-00393-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Notes from Undergroundby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0553211447 (0-553-21144-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from Underground'Book summary:"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. Notes From Underground , published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky's writing: it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale in Crime And Punishment , The Idiot , and The Brothers Karamazov . And it remains to this day one of the most searingly honest and universal testaments to human despair ever penned. "The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century...confirm the status of Notes from Underground as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction." -from the Introduction by Donald Fanger [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0553212540 (0-553-21254-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Pixel Juiceby Jeff NoonISBN 0552999377 (0-552-99937-7)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pixel Juice'Book summary:From the breakdown zones of the mediasphere and the margins of dance culture comes a selection of fifty stories, each one strange, telling, disturbing, or sometimes just plain weird: urban fairytales, instructions for lost machines, true confessions, word-dizzy roller-coasters, product recalls, adverts for mad gadgets, dub cut prose remixes. Throughout them all, Jeff Noon delights in the magical possibilities of language, creating a wholly new kind of storytelling. Ideas-per-page rating, dangerously close to the legal limit [via]
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The Practice Effectby David BrinISBN 055326981X (0-553-26981-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Prussian Officer and Other Storiesby D. H. Lawrence, John Worthen, M. H. Black, James T. BoultonISBN 0521289858 (0-521-28985-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Reasons I Won't Be Comingby Elliot PerlmanISBN 0571196993 (0-571-19699-3)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollowby Washington IrvingISBN 0582420512 (0-582-42051-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow'Book summary:One day Rip Van Winkle goes to the mountains with his dog, but who are the strange old men there? Why are they there and what are they drinking? In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane is a teacher who likes ghost stories. Are there really ghosts at Sleepy Hollow and will Ichabod see one of them? Classic American short stories by Washington Irving (1783-1859). [via]
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The River of Timeby David BrinISBN 0553262815 (0-553-26281-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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S Is for Spaceby Ray BradburyISBN 0553232487 (0-553-23248-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'S Is for Space'Book summary:March 1978 Bantam Books 12th printing mass market paperback, different cover than shown. Tight spine, great covers, clear, crisp pages, no spine creases. Fiction [via]
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Selected Short Storiesby D. H. Lawrence, Michael LockwoodISBN 0521575052 (0-521-57505-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodiby Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy CasaresISBN 0525480358 (0-525-48035-8)
Softcover, E P Dutton
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Sixteen Short Novelsby Wilfrid SheedISBN 0525243704 (0-525-24370-4)
Hardcover, E.P. Dutton
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Storiesby Richard Pevear, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0553381008 (0-553-38100-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Stories from the Twilight Zoneby Rod SerlingISBN 0553265148 (0-553-26514-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Stories of Muriel Sparkby Muriel SparkISBN 0525243305 (0-525-24330-5)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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Sturgeon in Orbitby Theodore SturgeonISBN 057500570X (0-575-00570-X)
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Tales of Horror and the Supernaturalby Arthur MacHenISBN 0523421117 (0-523-42111-7)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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To Build a Fire and Other Storiesby Jack LondonISBN 0553213350 (0-553-21335-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Tongues of Flameby Mary Ward BrownISBN 052524431X (0-525-24431-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Trouble at Willow Gables and Other Fictionsby Philip Larkin, James BoothISBN 0571203477 (0-571-20347-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trouble at Willow Gables and Other Fictions'Book summary:The book opens with works written under the pseudonym 'Brunette Coleman', including the two novellas, Trouble at Willow Gables and Michaelmas Term at St Bride's, and the poem sequence Sugar and Spice. The remainder of the volume is devoted to the unfinished drafts of two novels, No For An Answer and A New World Symphony, on which Larkin worked after the completion of A Girl in Winter. It ends with two short debats of 1950 and 1951, which pungently dramatise his sense of failure as a novelist and his rejection of marriage. [via]
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True Tales of American Lifeby Paul Auster, Nelly Reifler, National Public Radio (U.S.), National Story Project (U.S.)ISBN 0571210708 (0-571-21070-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True Tales of American Life'Book summary:Chosen by Paul Auster out of 4000 stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide an illuminating portrait of America in the 20th century. The selection requirement of the stories was that they should be true and not previously published. [via]
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The Virgin And the Gipsy And Other Storiesby D. H. Lawrence, Lindeth Vasey, Michael Herbert, Bethan JonesISBN 0521366070 (0-521-36607-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Wind from the Sun:Stories of the Space Age: Stories of the Space Ageby Arthur Charles ClarkeISBN 0575013605 (0-575-01360-5)
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Winnie-The-Pooh's 2004 Calendarby Serge A. ZenkovskyISBN 0525483667 (0-525-48366-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writingsby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 055321375X (0-553-21375-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings'Book summary:Known primarily for her classic and haunting story "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an enormously influential American feminist and sociologist. Her early-twentieth-century writings continue to inspire writers and activists today. This collection includes selections from both her fiction and nonfiction work.
In addition to the title story, there are seven short stories collected here that combine humor, anger, and startling vision to suggest how women's "place" in society should be changed to benefit all. The nonfiction selections are from Gilman's The Man-Made World: Our Androcentric Culture and her masterpiece, Women And Economics, which was translated into seven languages and established her international reputation as a theorist.
Also included in a delightful excerpt from Gilman's utopian novel, Herland, an acidly funny tale about three American male explorers who stumble into an all-female society and begin their odyssey by insisting, "This is a civilized country . . . there must be men." Gilman's analyses of economic and women's issues are as incisive and relevant today as they were upon their original publication. This volume is an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover a powerful American writer. [via]More editions of The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings:
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