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Aesop's Fablesby Aesop, Pat Ronson StewartISBN 0486280209 (0-486-28020-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:Scores of entertaining and instructive tales delightfully illustrated include "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Ant and the Grasshopper," "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," "The Crow and the Pitcher," "The Fox and the Stork," "The Hare and the Tortoise," and many more. 35 illustrations.[via]More editions of Aesop's Fables:
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Aesop's Fablesby Arthur Rackham, AesopISBN 0517171988 (0-517-17198-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Aesop's Fablesby Charles Santore, AesopISBN 051712212X (0-517-12212-X)
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Aesop's Fables : Illustrated Stories Collectionby Random House Value Publishing Staff, AesopISBN 0517204223 (0-517-20422-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables : Illustrated Stories Collection'Book summary:An illustrated collection of traditional moral tales from the Greek slave Aesop. [via]
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Aesop's Fables : Santore Editionby Aesop, Charles SantoreISBN 0517641151 (0-517-64115-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables : Santore Edition'Book summary:Here are the time-honored fables of Aesop as never seen before. Santore's animals leap off the page in explosions of color, giving messages to ponder and physical beauty to savor. School Library Journal called this interpretation of the classic morality tales " a delight to the eye and ear." [via]
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The Annotated Innocence of Father Brownby Martin Gardner, G. K. ChestertonISBN 0486298590 (0-486-29859-0)
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Bartleby and Benito Cerenoby Herman MelvilleISBN 0486264734 (0-486-26473-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Blood Lines : Long and Short Storiesby Ruth RendellISBN 0517703238 (0-517-70323-8)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Blue Fairy Bookby Andrew Lang, John LawrenceISBN 0486214370 (0-486-21437-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Fairy Book'Book summary:The first volume in Lang's fairy tale series features some of the finest stories from around the world, most of them old favorites: 37 in all including "Sleeping Beauty," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Cinderella," "The Arabian Nights," "Beauty and the Beast," "Hansel and Gretel," "Jack the Giantkiller," and "Puss in Boots." Includes original 138 black-and-white illustrations.[via]More editions of The Blue Fairy Book:
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Body of Guysby Garrison KeillorISBN 0517152770 (0-517-15277-0)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Body of Guys'Book summary:The Book of Guys features 22 very funny stories about "ordinary guys, gods, heroes, and dim bulbs," told in the friendly, conversational style of silver-tongued master storyteller Garrison Keillor, the host and writer of the popular radio show "Prairie Home Companion," author of Lake Wobegon Days, Happy To Be Here, and many other books.
"Guys are in trouble these days," says Keillor. "Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement and now it's just a problem to be overcome. Guys who once might have painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling are now just trying to be Mr. O.K. All-Rite, the man who can bake a cherry pie, be passionate in a skillful way, and yet also lift them bales and tote that barge."
In the book's introduction, a bunch of guys are drinking whiskey in the woods and singing mournful songs. One of them says, "I ain't no misogynist or chauvinist but I got to say, women are getting awfully impossible to please these days. . . . I quit playing softball and deer hunting and took up painting delicate watercolors, still lifes mostly, and tossing salads, and learned how to discuss issues and feelings and concerns and not make jokes about them, and they're still angry at me. A guy can't win . . . . So don't worry about it. Live your life. Oya! we all yelled."
This book is truly a hoot, even if you're not a guy. [via]
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Book of Dragonsby E. Nesbit, H.R. MillarISBN 0486436489 (0-486-43648-9)
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The Camelot Chroniclesby Michael AshleyISBN 0517124505 (0-517-12450-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Celtic Fairy Talesby Joseph JacobsISBN 0486218260 (0-486-21826-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Club of Queer Tradesby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0486255344 (0-486-25534-4)
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The Collected Stories of Wallace Stegnerby Wallace StegnerISBN 0517121883 (0-517-12188-3)
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The Compass Roseby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0517604167 (0-517-60416-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Complete Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Library Editionby Arthur Conan Doyle, Sidney PagetISBN 0517525127 (0-517-52512-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Talesby Jacob Grimm, Lily OwensISBN 0517229250 (0-517-22925-0)
Hardcover, Gramercy
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The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Talesby Lily OwensISBN 051709293X (0-517-09293-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'Book summary:L. Owens, ed. Presents all 215 stories recorded by the Brothers Grimm, many not available elsewhere, illustrated by renowned artists. Includes such timeless favorites as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and The Frog Prince. A delight for young and old alike. 100 b&w illustrations. 704 pages. [via]
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The Complete Edgar Allan Poe Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517336340 (0-517-33634-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wellsby H. G. WellsISBN 0517052253 (0-517-05225-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Sixty-Seven Tales, One Complete Novel and Thirty-One Poemsby Edgar Allan Poe, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 051745372X (0-517-45372-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Cranfordby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0486426815 (0-486-42681-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Death in Veniceby Thomas MannISBN 0486287149 (0-486-28714-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Diamond As Big As the Ritz" and Other Storiesby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0486299910 (0-486-29991-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Edgar Allan Poe : Selected Worksby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0517053586 (0-517-05358-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Einstein's Monstersby Martin AmisISBN 051756520X (0-517-56520-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein's Monsters'Book summary:A collection of stories about a frightening world inhabited by people dehumanized by the daily threat of nuclear war and postwar survivors deformed by its results.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of Einstein's Monsters:
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 0486266907 (0-486-26690-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:Tragic story of wasted lives, set against a bleak New England background. A poverty-stricken New England farmer, his ailing wife and a youthful housekeeper are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic struggle in this hauntingly grim tale of thwarted love. Considered by many to be Wharton's masterpiece.[via]More editions of Ethan Frome:
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The Fables of Aesopby Aesop, Joseph JacobsISBN 0486418596 (0-486-41859-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fables of Aesop'Book summary:Rich selection of time-honored tales by legendary Greek storyteller offers youngsters valuable lessons and insights into life. Includes "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Old Man and Death," "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing," "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," and dozens more. Includes 170 of Richard Heighway's classic illustrations.[via]More editions of The Fables of Aesop:
Fables of Aesop : Ccsby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517491974 (0-517-49197-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantryby W. B. YeatsISBN 0486269418 (0-486-26941-8)
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Favorite Andrew Lang Fairy Tale Books in Many Colors: Red Green and Blue Fairy Tale Booksby Andrew LangISBN 048623407X (0-486-23407-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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French Stories/Contes Francaisby Wallace FowlieISBN 0486264432 (0-486-26443-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'French Stories/Contes Francais'Book summary:Ten unusual stories by French literary masters from Voltaire to Camus: "Micromégas" by Voltaire; "The Atheist's Mass" by Balzac; "The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaler" by Flaubert; "Spleen of Paris" by Baudelaire; "Minuet" by de Maupassant; "The Guest" by Camus; and more. Accurate English translations appear on facing pages.[via]More editions of French Stories/Contes Francais:
Getting Evenby Woody AllenISBN 0491014414 (0-491-01441-4)
Hardcover, W. H. Allen
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Great American Short Storiesby Paul NegriISBN 0486421198 (0-486-42119-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Great English Short Storiesby Paul NegriISBN 0486440907 (0-486-44090-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great English Short Stories'Book summary:Saki's "Tobermory" tells the tale of a talking cat who's conversation turns toward the scandalous remarks he's overheard. Additional selections include Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels," Dickens' "The Haunted Hotel," Trollope, "The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne," Lawrence, "The Prussian Officer," Kipling, "The Phantom Rickshaw," Wells, "Under the Knife," and others.[via]More editions of Great English Short Stories:
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H.G. Wells Science Fiction Treasuryby H. G. WellsISBN 0517436329 (0-517-43632-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'H.G. Wells Science Fiction Treasury'Book summary:Six Novels: The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, The Food of the Gods [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0486264645 (0-486-26464-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:A dark allegorical masterpiece based on the author's own traumatic experiences in the Belgian Congo, recounts the voyage of Marlow up the Congo River in search of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz a white trader whose domination of the local natives had transformed him into a depraved and abominable tyrant. Large print format.[via]More editions of The Heart of Darkness:
Heidiby Johanna Spyri, Rene ClokeISBN 0517307790 (0-517-30779-0)
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Herlandby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486404293 (0-486-40429-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herland'Book summary:Delightfully humorous account of a feminist utopia in which 3 male explorers stumble upon an all-female society isolated in a distant part of the earth. Early 20th-century vehicle for Gilman's then-unconventional views of male-female behavior, motherhood, individuality, sense of community, sexuality, and other topics. Mischievous, ironic approach used to telling effect.[via]More editions of Herland:
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0486282147 (0-486-28214-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervilles : Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0517670283 (0-517-67028-3)
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Humorous Stories and Sketchesby Mark Twain, Philip SmithISBN 0486292797 (0-486-29279-7)
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The Illustrated Brothers Grimm Fairy Talesby Arthur Rackham, Wilhelm K. Grimm, Jacob W. GrimmISBN 0517285258 (0-517-28525-8)
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In another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fictionby Alberto Manguel, Craig StephensonISBN 051788156X (0-517-88156-X)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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James Joyce : Dubliners, a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Chamber Musicby James JoyceISBN 051708239X (0-517-08239-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Joyce : Dubliners, a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Chamber Music'Book summary:An eclectic volume of works by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century includes a short story collection, his most famous novel, and an early sequence of poems. [via]
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0486417220 (0-486-41722-0)
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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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Just So Stories for Little Childrenby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0517266555 (0-517-26655-5)
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Storiesby Leo TolstoyISBN 0486278050 (0-486-27805-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories'Book summary:"The Kreutzer Sonata" portrays an intense conflict between sexual desire and moral constraint. "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" is a simple, moving tale of peasant life with a moral lesson; the hero of "The Death of Ivan Ilych," after a lifetime of struggle, finds faith and love only as he faces death. Explanatory footnotes.[via]More editions of The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories:
The Last Worthless Evening: Four Novellas and Two Storiesby Andre DubusISBN 0517566257 (0-517-56625-7)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Legends from the End of Timeby Michael MoorcockISBN 0491018665 (0-491-01866-5)
Hardcover, W. H. Allen
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Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelledby Harlan Ellison, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0515037982 (0-515-03798-2)
Hardcover, Pyramid Books
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Mark Twain's Library of Humorby Samuel Langhorne Clemens, William Dean Howells, Charles Hopkins Clark, E.W. KembleISBN 0517105926 (0-517-10592-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Matisse Storiesby A. S. ByattISBN 0517197049 (0-517-19704-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Men at Warby Ernest HemingwayISBN 051702084X (0-517-02084-X)
Hardcover, Bramhall House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Men at War'Book summary:Ernest Hemingway's Men at War (1942) is an anthology of war stories chosen and introduced by Hemingway, based on an idea suggested by William Kozlenko. According to a prefatory note, Kozlenko not only submitted a preliminary plan for the book but suggested the inclusion of several of the stories it contains. By March of 1942 the USA was finally involved in World War II, and the anthology was seen as an inspirational book. As Hemingway wrote in his introduction, the book could not tell young men how to die, but it could tell them how previous generations had fought and died. [via]
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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Storiesby Mark TwainISBN 0486270696 (0-486-27069-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Necklace and Other Short Storiesby Guy De MaupassantISBN 0486270645 (0-486-27064-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Necklace and Other Short Stories'Book summary:Nine memorable classics, characterized by ironic twists of plot, include "Ball of Fat," regarded by many as technically one of the finest short stories ever written, "The Necklace," "A Piece of String," "Mme. Tellier's Establishment," "Mademoiselle Fifi," "Miss Harriet," "A Way to Wealth," "My Uncle Jules" and "The Horla."[via]More editions of The Necklace and Other Short Stories:
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Notes from Undergroundby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 048627053X (0-486-27053-X)
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O. Henry Collected Storiesby O. HenryISBN 0517093405 (0-517-09340-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Omnibus of Science Fictionby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517320975 (0-517-32097-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Overcoat and Other Short Storiesby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0486270572 (0-486-27057-2)
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Portable Hawthorneby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Malcolm CowleyISBN 0517478579 (0-517-47857-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Portable James Joyceby James Joyce, Harry LevinISBN 0517618877 (0-517-61887-7)
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The Portable James Joyce, edited and with an introduction by Harry Levin, includes four of the six books on which Joyce's astonishing reputatuion is founded: A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man; his Collected Poems (including Chamber Music); Exiles, Joyce's only drama; and his volume of short stories, Dubliners. In addition, there is a generous sampling from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, including the famous "Anna Livia Plurabelle" episode.
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The Portable Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Bernard Augustine De VotoISBN 0517478560 (0-517-47856-0)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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The Portable William FaulknerISBN 0517478609 (0-517-47860-9)
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The Queen of Spades and Other Storiesby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, T. KeaneISBN 0486280543 (0-486-28054-3)
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The Red Fairy Bookby Faith Jaques, Andrew LangISBN 048621673X (0-486-21673-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Fairy Book'Book summary:The famed folklorist collects 37 tales of enchantment, ranging from the familiar ("Rapunzel," "Jack and the Beanstalk," and "The Golden Goose") to lesser-known stories ("The Voice of Death," "The Enchanted Pig," and "The Master Thief"). Sources include French, Russian, Danish, and Romanian tales as well as Norse mythology. 97 illustrations.[via]More editions of The Red Fairy Book:
Roughing Itby Mark TwainISBN 0486427048 (0-486-42704-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roughing It'Book summary:There is no nicer surprise for a reader than to discover that an acknowledged classic really does deliver the goods. Mark Twain's Roughing It is just such a book. The adventure tale is a delight from start to finish and is just as engrossing today as it was 125 years ago when it first appeared.
Roughing It tells the true-ish escapades of Twain in the American West. Although he clearly "speaks with forked tongue," Roughing It is informative as well as humorous. From stagecoach travel to the etiquette of prospecting, the modern reader gains considerable insight into that much-fictionalized time and place. Do you know about sagebrush, for example?
Sage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child, the mule. But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat pine knots, or anthracite coal, or brass filings, or lead pipe, or old bottles, or anything that comes handy, and then go off looking as grateful as if they had had oysters for dinner.
Roughing It is informally structured around the narrator's attempts to strike it rich. He meets a motley, colorful crew in the process; many mishaps occur, and it shouldn't surprise you that Twain does not emerge a man of means. But he withstands it all in such a relentless good humor that his misfortune inspires laughter. Roughing It is wonderful entertainment and reminds you how funny the world can be--even its grimmer districts--when you're traveling with the right writer. [via]More editions of Roughing It:
- Roughing It: ISBN 0520238923 (0-520-23892-3)
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Softcover, Univ of California Pr - Roughing It: ISBN 0520205596 (0-520-20559-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr - Roughing It: ISBN 0520205588 (0-520-20558-8)
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The Secret Sharer and Other Storiesby Joseph ConradISBN 0486275469 (0-486-27546-9)
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Selected Short Storiesby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0486277941 (0-486-27794-1)
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Short Storiesby Edith WhartonISBN 048628235X (0-486-28235-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Short Stories'Book summary:Louisa May Alcotts Short Stories, Willa Cathers Pauls Case and Other Stories, Kate Chopins A Pair of Silk Stockings and Other Stories, Edith Whartons Short Stories, and Great Short Stories by American Women edited by Candace Ward.[via]-
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0460877925 (0-460-87792-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of 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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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studioby Sung-Ling Pu, Herbert Allen GilesISBN 0486223957 (0-486-22395-7)
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A Tidewater Morning : Three Tales from Youthby William StyronISBN 0517164507 (0-517-16450-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folkloreby W. B. Yeats, Claire BoossISBN 051748904X (0-517-48904-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore'Book summary:Introduce yourself to the noble heroes and magical creatures of Irish mythology. Includes the two definitive works on the subject by the giants of the Irish Renaissance. W.B. Yeates' Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry and Lady Gregory's Cuchulain of Muirthemne. [via]
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Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteriesby Melville Davisson PostISBN 0486232026 (0-486-23202-6)
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We Are Still Marriedby Garrison KeillorISBN 0517080133 (0-517-08013-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Are Still Married'Book summary:Garrison Keillor made it possible, after twenty years of black humor&to be both funny and nice, hip and winsome, scathing and loving, all in the flick of a single many-barbed quipThe Washington Post Book World[via]Keillors literary style is as flexible and assured as his vocal delivery. It can slip from mood to mood so subtly and quickly youre never quite sure where you are&. [His] writing has the silvery slip of running water, so graceful and easy its hard to believe it can carry so much that is jagged and unresolved. His integrity lies in his not smoothing away those rough edges in the swift current of his prose; theyre bruisingly, sometimes cuttingly there. The Village Voice
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Works of Edgar Allan Poeby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517486555 (0-517-48655-5)
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A World of Great Storiesby Crown Publishing Group Staff, John Cournos, Hiram HaydnISBN 0517050498 (0-517-05049-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A World of Great Stories'Book summary:This remarkable collection of 115 short stories from around the globe represents the very pinnacle of writing from the last decade of the nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. Thoughtfully edited to include well-known writers of the time and those that would have great influence on storytellers of the future, readers are sure to discover scores of new writers and appreciate those they already know even more. Contributors range from England's D.H. Lawrence, Denmark's Isak Dines, New Zealand's Katherine Mansfield, Ferenc Molnar from Hungary, and Anton Chekhov from Russia, to Ben Hecht and Ring Lardner in the U.S., and a host of others from across the North and South America, Europe and Asia. [via]
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A World of Great Stories: 115 Stories, the Best of Modern Literatureby John Cournos, Hiram HaydnISBN 0517216620 (0-517-21662-0)
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The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collectionby Clifton FadimanISBN 051703400X (0-517-03400-X)
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The Yellow Fairy Bookby Andrew LangISBN 0486216748 (0-486-21674-8)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486298574 (0-486-29857-4)
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