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Across the Miles : Tales of Correspondenceby L. M. Montgomery, Rea WilmshurstISBN 0553571036 (0-553-57103-6)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Across the Miles : Tales of Correspondence'Book summary:Love notes, marriage proposals, heartfelt promises, honest admissions, cruel deceptions--these are the many variations on the theme of this collection, in which each story hinges on the writing or receiving of a letter. These stories, filled with all the wit and wisdom of L.M. Montgomery, take us back to a time when letters held not only news of friends and family, but the power to change lives. [via]
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Again, Dangerous Visionsby Harlan EllisonISBN 0451075803 (0-451-07580-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Age of Griefby Jane SmileyISBN 0385721870 (0-385-72187-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Grief'Book summary:"This is a book that will last and last."
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Here is a stunning collection of five stories and a novella, written in Jane Smiley's clear and elegant prose, and filled with the unmistakable sound of real people going about the business--and pleasure--of real life. In the title novella, "THE AGE OF GRIEF," a man meditates on the vagaries of love and family life. Certain that his wife has fallen in love with someone else--and been spurned by him--he tries to recover what he calls "the ironic middle," the good-humored, matter-of-fact heart of the marriage where he can keep her from knowing of his own sorrow. [via] -
All the Days and Nightsby William Maxwell, Luann WaltherISBN 0679761020 (0-679-76102-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Days and Nights'Book summary:From the American Book Award-winning author of Ancestors and Time Will Darken comes a masterful collection of stories, spanning more than 50 years--a tour of a world that engages readers entirely, and whose characters command the deepest loyalty and tenderness. [via]
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All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories of William Maxwellby William MaxwellISBN 0679438297 (0-679-43829-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories of William Maxwell'Book summary:8 new stories and most of what was in his last three collections.
"Beautifully wrought... a radiant collection... Maxwell writes with such clear-eyed sympathy for his characters, such consumate knowledge of their place in a matrix of family and friends." --The New York Times [via]
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Anton Chekhov's Short Storiesby Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0393090027 (0-393-09002-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anton Chekhov's Short Stories'Book summary:The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhovs creative career.
They present a wide spectrum of comic and serious themes and a variety of techniques. (His short novels, available in another Norton volume, Seven Short Novels by Chekhov, have been omitted.) Two of the stories have been translated for this edition by Professor Matlaw; the other translations, by Constance Garnett, Ivy Litvinov, and Marian Fell, have been revised in accordance with contemporary usage. Footnotes have been supplied wherever necessary to explain peculiarities of Russian life and the historical era in which Chekhov lived and wrote. "Backgrounds" includes a rich selection of Chekhovs letters, in new translations by Professor Matlaw, and Gorkys celebrated essay on Chekhov, translated by Ivy Litvinov. The critical essays offer general views of Chekhovs art and achievement and detailed analyses of particular stories. The critics are D. S. Mirsky, A. B. Derman (whose essay has been translated from the Russian especially for this edition), Renato Poggioli, Gleb Struve, Donald Rayfield, Karl Kramer, Virginia Llewellyn Smith, and Nils Åke Nilsson. A Selected Bibliography directs readers to resources for further study. [via]More editions of Anton Chekhov's Short Stories:
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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 0380002450 (0-380-00245-0)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:This Second Edition of a perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Edition series represents an extensive revision of its predecessor. The text is that of the first edition of the novel, published by Herbert S. Stone in 1899. It has been annotated by the editor and includes translations of French phrases and information about New Orleans locales, customs, and lore, the Bayou region, and Creole culture. "Bibliographical and Historical Contexts", expanded and introduced by a new Editor's Note, presents biographical, historical, and cultural documents contemporary with the novel's publication. Included are a biographical essay by the acclaimed Chopin biographer Emily Toth, "An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler" with selections from the conduct books of the period in which Chopin lived and wrote, and period fashion plates from Harper's Bazar. A comprehensive "Criticism" section, introduced by a new Editor's Note, contains expanded selections from hard-to-find contemporary reviews of the novel; two letters of mysterious origin written in response to the novel; and Chopin's "Retraction," which followed The Awakening 's negative reception. These are followed by twenty-seven interpretive essays, twelve of them new to the Second Edition, that provide a variety of perspectives on The Awakening , including essays by Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Nancy Walker, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Paula A. Treichler, Sandra M. Gilbert, Lee R. Edwards, Patricia S. Yaeger, Elizabeth Ammons, and Elaine Showalter. A Chronology of Chopin's life and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]
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- The Awakening: ISBN 0393960579 (0-393-96057-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Awakening: ISBN 0486277860 (0-486-27786-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Awakening: ISBN 055321330X (0-553-21330-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The Awakening, and Other Stories.: ISBN 0679783334 (0-679-78333-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Awakening: ISBN 0704347334 (0-7043-4733-4)
Softcover, Women's Press, Limited, The - The Awakening: ISBN 0679417214 (0-679-41721-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Awakening: ISBN 0393941833 (0-393-94183-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Awakening: ISBN 0399500316 (0-399-50031-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - The Awakening and Other Short Stories: ISBN 0521567661 (0-521-56766-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - The Awakening: ISBN 0671015478 (0-671-01547-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Awakening: ISBN 070433822X (0-7043-3822-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square - The Awakening: ISBN 0393044343 (0-393-04434-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Awakening: ISBN 0684819120 (0-684-81912-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Awakening: ISBN 0380002450 (0-380-00245-0)
Softcover, Avon Books
- The Awakening: ISBN 0393960579 (0-393-96057-9)
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The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopinby Kate Chopin, Barbara H. SolomonISBN 0451524489 (0-451-52448-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin'Book summary:The Awakening tells of a wife who discovers the strength of her own sexuality and tries to wrench it from the hands of a patriarchal society- and her upper-class Cajun family.This and Chopin's other short stories are standard-setting masterpieces. [via]
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The Basil and Josephine Storiesby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jackson R. Bryer, John Richard KuehlISBN 0684826186 (0-684-82618-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Basil and Josephine Stories'Book summary:Fourteen of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved and most beguiling stories, together in a single volume
In 1928, while struggling with his novel Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald began writing a series of stories about Basil Duke Lee, a fictionalized version of his younger self. Drawing on his childhood and adolescent experiences, Fitzgerald wrote nine tales that were published in the Saturday Evening Post about his life from the time he was an eleven-year-old boy living in Buffalo, New York, until he entered Princeton University in 1913. Then from 1930 to 1931, with Tender Is the Night still unfinished, Fitzgerald wrote five more stories (also published in the Post) that centered around Josephine Perry, Basil's female counterpart. Although Fitzgerald intended to combine the fourteen Basil Lee and Josephine Perry stories into a single work, he never succeeded in doing so in his lifetime. Here, The Basil and Josephine Stories brings together in one volume the complete set, resulting in one of Fitzgerald's most charming and evocative works. [via]
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The Beggar Maidby Alice MunroISBN 0679732713 (0-679-73271-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006by Dave Eggers, Matt GroeningISBN 0618570519 (0-618-57051-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006'Book summary:From Dave Eggers: For this years edition of The Best American Nonrequired Reading, we wanted to expand the scope of the book to include shorter pieces, and fragments of stories, and transcripts, screenplays, television scripts -- lots of things that we hadnt included before. Our publisher readily agreed, and so youll see that this years edition is far more eclectic in form than previous editions. Along the way to making the book, we also came across a variety of things that didnt fit neatly anywhere, but which we felt should be included, so we conceived the front section, which is a loose Best American roundup of notable words and sentences from 2005. It is, like this book in general, obviously and completely incomplete, but might be interesting nevertheless.[via]More editions of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006:
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Best American Short Stories 1992by Robert Stone, Katrina KenisonISBN 0395593530 (0-395-59353-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Best American Short Stories 1992'Book summary:In the 1992 installment in the best-selling series, twenty of the year's finest short stories from magazines large and small display the talents of Joyce Carol Oates, Denis Johnson, Alice Munro, and others. 75,000 first printing. [via]
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Best American Short Stories, 1988by Mark HelprinISBN 0395442567 (0-395-44256-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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A Bit on the Sideby William TrevorISBN 067003343X (0-670-03343-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Blackbird Houseby Alice HoffmanISBN 0385507615 (0-385-50761-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blackbird House'Book summary:With incantatory prose that sweeps over the reader like a dream, (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.
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In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl who is in love with books and with a man destined to betray her; Lysander Wynn, attacked by a halibut as big as a horse, certain that his life is ruined until a boarder wearing red boots
arrives to change everything; Maya Cooper, who does not understand the true meaning of the love between her mother and father until it is nearly too late. From the time of the British occupation of Massachusetts to our own modern world, family after familys lives are inexorably changed, not only by the people they love but by the lives they lead inside Blackbird House.
These interconnected narratives are as intelligent as they are haunting, as luminous as they are unusual. Inside Blackbird House more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives. The past both dissipates and remains contained inside the rooms of Blackbird House, where there are terrible secrets, inspired beauty, and, above all else, a spirit of coming home.
From the writer Time has said tells "truths powerful enough to break a readers heart comes a glorious travelogue through time and fate, through loss and love and survival. Welcome to Blackbird House.More editions of Blackbird House:
The Book Of Imaginary Beingsby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0525475389 (0-525-47538-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book Of Imaginary Beings'Book summary:In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sís with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination," from dragons and centaurs to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat and the Morlocks of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. A lavish feast of exotica brought vividly to life with art commissioned specifically for this volume, The Book of Imaginary Beings will delight readers of classic fantasy as well as Borges's many admirers.[via]More editions of The Book Of Imaginary Beings:
The Book Of Imaginary Beingsby Andrew Hurley, Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero, Peter SisISBN 0670891800 (0-670-89180-0)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Borders of Infinityby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0671720937 (0-671-72093-7)
Softcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Borders of Infinity'Book summary:This collection of short stories includes tales that take place before The Vor Game and others extending past Brothers in Arms. The variation in tone across the tales is handled exceptionally well, as we see Miles mourn and get a better look at his relationship with Illyan. The stories include Miles's first outing as a detective, in which he's faced with a case of infanticide in the mutant-phobic hill country; his largest rescue mission ever; and the most distressed damsel for whom he ever played the knight. [via]
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Collected Storiesby Frank O'ConnorISBN 0394710487 (0-394-71048-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories'Book summary:"One of the masters of the short story".--NEWSWEEK. "In almost all the stories in this excellently balanced collection O'Connor's people explode from the page. The nice are here and the nasty: the gentle, the generous, the mean, the absurd, those rich in dignity, those without a shred of it. . . . Without adornment, he simply tells the truth".--WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD. [via]
The Complete Works of Isaac Babelby I. Babel, Peter ConstantineISBN 0393328244 (0-393-32824-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of Isaac Babel'Book summary:A literary event of extraordinary dimensionsthe first single-volume edition of all of Isaac Babel's work.
Considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth centuryand the most revered short-story writer since ChekhovIsaac Babel (1894-1940) left an extraordinary literary legacy that continues to grow, remarkably, more than sixty years after his death in Lubyanka Prison at the hands of Stalin's secret police. Despite Babel's celebrated staturewhich had already been achieved during his lifetimethe whole of his work, owing to his arrest and the state of affairs in the Soviet Union, was never assembled in one place.
This magnificent edition of Babel's collected work fulfills a lifelong ambition of Babel's daughter, Nathalie, who has authorized and edited the entire collection, and has collaborated with award-winning translator Peter Constantine in readying the work for publication. Every story or selection included in this volume (147 in total) has been newly edited and translated, beginning with Babel's first published story, "Old Shloyme," originally published in 1913, and concluding with two scenes from a screenplay that Babel did not live to see made into a film. Included in The Complete Works are stories that will be familiar to Babel enthusiasts, like the "Red Cavalry" cycle and his diaries, as well as untranslated stories and other works that appear in English for the first time.
To read Babel is to relive the wild and often terrifying swings of twentieth-century Russian history. No writer has conveyed with such emotion and convulsive energy the tragic story of a modern nation that remained a prisoner of its brutal and repressive past. Combining the compassion of Dostoevsky with the mordant wit of Chekhov, Babel injected a daring social criticism and a palpable sexual tension into the literary climate of post-tsarist Russia. In the process, he created a style so vivid, so lacerating, and so utterly hypnotic that his stories have come to define the sanguinary landscape of the Soviet Union in the years between the two world wars.
As these stories illustrate, and as Cynthia Ozick insightfully observes in her passionate introduction, Babel was a man of acute contradictions. Born in the cosmopolitan port city of Odessa during the long reign of Alexander II, Babel was quite competent in both Hebrew and Yiddish but, influenced by both Flaubert and Maupassant, wrote his first stories in fluent French. His often comic portrayal of characterssuch as the ruthless Jewish mobsters depicted in his Benya Krik storiesresulted from observing them firsthand as a boy in the Moldavanka neighborhood of Odessa. As Ozick notes, the "breadth and scope of his social compass enabled him to see through the eyes of peasants, soldiers, priests, rabbis, children, artists, actors, women of all classes. . . . He was at once a poet of the city ('the glass sun of Petersburg') and a lyricist of the countryside ('the walls of sunset collapsing into the sky')."
Arranged sequentially in fourteen sections, The Complete Works traces the entire arc of Babel's literary career, beginning with early stories, which are followed by The Odessa Stories and The Red Cavalry Stories. Also included are his Reports from St. Petersburg (1918), the remarkable 1920 Diary, and reports from Soviet Georgia and France, where his wife, Evgenia, and his daughter, Nathalie, lived. Many of his later stories (1925-38) reflect a compelling literary quality and abrupt change in style that have challenged translators for years. An accomplished playwright and screenwriter, Babel, at the height of his popularity, began writing for the Soviet cinema as early as the 1920s, and many of these works have never been translated before. This edition also includes a foreword and a biographical afterword by Nathalie Babel, a translator's preface and annotations throughout by Peter Constantine, and a chronology by Gregory Freidin, regarded as one of the foremost Babel scholars in the world.
Unprecedented for both its literary and its scholarly achievement, The Complete Works of Isaac Babel will stand as Babel's final, most enduring legacy. [via]More editions of The Complete Works of Isaac Babel:
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The Continental Opby Dashiell Hammett, Steven MarcusISBN 0679722580 (0-679-72258-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Continental Op'Book summary:Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the color of shadows on polished silver, and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman called the Whosis Kid. [via]
The Continental Opby Steven Marcus, Dashiell HammettISBN 0679740953 (0-679-74095-3)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Cravingsby Eileen Wilks, Laurell K. Hamilton, Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 0515138150 (0-515-13815-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cravings'Book summary:[via]All-new sensuous stories from four of today's most provocative authors.
Laurell K. Hamilton
MaryJanice Davidson
Eileen Wilks
Rebecca York
Four favorite authors present their favorite characters in all-new tales of bloodlust, appetites that must be sated again and again, and the passion that feeds them.
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Curses, Inc. and Other Storiesby Vivian Vande VeldeISBN 0440227674 (0-440-22767-4)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Curses, Inc. and Other Stories'Book summary:Vivian Vande Velde's spellbinding short stories are filled with magic and mayhem. Witness the boy who breaks his dance date because he's too cheap to spend money on her. He learns about spells the hard way in Curses, Inc. What happens when a woman brings her son back from the dead in "The Witch's Son"? Many folks go to Granny Orilla for remedies. Does a cure or a curse await in "Cypress Swamp Granny"? Beware: These haunting stories will put you under their spell. [via]
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E Pluribus Unicornby Theodore SturgeonISBN 0671502239 (0-671-50223-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Eight Tales of Terrorby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0590411365 (0-590-41136-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Einstein's Dreamsby Alan LightmanISBN 0679416463 (0-679-41646-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein's Dreams'Book summary:If you liked the eerie whimsy of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Steven Millhauser's Little Kingdoms, or Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, you will love Alan Lightman's ethereal yet down-to-earth book Einstein's Dreams. Lightman teaches physics and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helping bridge the light-year-size gap between science and the humanities, the enemy camps C.P. Snow famously called The Two Cultures.
Einstein's Dreams became a bestseller by delighting both scientists and humanists. It is technically a novel. Lightman uses simple, lyrical, and literal details to locate Einstein precisely in a place and time--Berne, Switzerland, spring 1905, when he was a patent clerk privately working on his bizarre, unheard-of theory of relativity. The town he perceives is vividly described, but the waking Einstein is a bit player in this drama.
The book takes flight when Einstein takes to his bed and we share his dreams, 30 little fables about places where time behaves quite differently. In one world, time is circular; in another a man is occasionally plucked from the present and deposited in the past: "He is agonized. For if he makes the slightest alteration in anything, he may destroy the future ... he is forced to witness events without being part of them ... an inert gas, a ghost ... an exile of time." The dreams in which time flows backward are far more sophisticated than the time-tripping scenes in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, though science-fiction fans may yearn for a sustained yarn, which Lightman declines to provide. His purpose is simply to study the different kinds of time in Einstein's mind, each with its own lucid consequences. In their tone and quiet logic, Lightman's fables come off like Bach variations played on an exquisite harpsichord. People live for one day or eternity, and they respond intelligibly to each unique set of circumstances. Raindrops hang in the air in a place of frozen time; in another place everyone knows one year in advance exactly when the world will end, and acts accordingly.
"Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic," writes Lightman. "Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting.... In this world, artists are joyous." In another dream, time slows with altitude, causing rich folks to build stilt homes on mountaintops, seeking eternal youth and scorning the swiftly aging poor folk below. Forgetting eventually how they got there and why they subsist on "all but the most gossamer food," the higher-ups at length "become thin like the air, bony, old before their time."
There is no plot in this small volume--it's more like a poetry collection than a novel. Like Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, it's a mind-stretching meditation by a scientist who's been to the far edge of physics and is back with wilder tales than Marco Polo's. And unlike many admirers of Hawking, readers of Einstein's Dreams have a high probability of actually finishing it. [via]
Fiction 100by James H. PickeringISBN 0536907862 (0-536-90786-2)
Softcover, Pearson Custom Pub
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Gentleman Junkieby Harlan EllisonISBN 0441279384 (0-441-27938-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-up Generationby Harlan EllisonISBN 0515039330 (0-515-03933-0)
Hardcover, Pyramid Books
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Great Short Stories by American Womenby Candace WardISBN 0486287769 (0-486-28776-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Short Stories by American Women'Book summary:Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.[via]More editions of Great Short Stories by American Women:
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Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0671727702 (0-671-72770-2)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Harrowing the Dragonby Patricia A. McKillipISBN 0441014437 (0-441-01443-7)
Softcover, Ace Books
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Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Horrorby H. LovecraftISBN 0575003391 (0-575-00339-1)
Softcover, Victor Gollancz
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His Last Bowby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0425104915 (0-425-10491-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Little Disturbances of Manby Grace PaleyISBN 0452253918 (0-452-25391-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Lives of the Poetsby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0380699966 (0-380-69996-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Storiesby E. L. DoctorowISBN 0452278791 (0-452-27879-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives of the Poets : A Novella and Six Stories'Book summary:Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In The Writer in the Family, a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In Wili, an early-twentieth-century idyll is destroyed by infidelity. In The Foreign Legation, a girl and an act of political anarchy collide with devastating results. These and other stories flow into the novella Lives of the Poets, in which the images and themes of the earlier stories become part of the narrators unsparing confessions about his own mind, offering a rare look at the creative process and its connection to the heart.
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The Magic Barrelby Bernard MalamudISBN 0374525862 (0-374-52586-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernaturalby Marvin Kaye, Saralee KayeISBN 0385185499 (0-385-18549-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Overcoat and Other Short Storiesby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0486270572 (0-486-27057-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Portable James Joyceby James Joyce, Harry LevinISBN 0517618877 (0-517-61887-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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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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A Rare Benedictineby Ellis PetersISBN 0446400882 (0-446-40088-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The River of Timeby David BrinISBN 0553262815 (0-553-26281-5)
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The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmithby Patricia Highsmith, Graham GreeneISBN 0393327728 (0-393-32772-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith'Book summary:Penzler Pick, September 2001: One of the truly brilliant short-story writers of the 20th century, Patricia Highsmith has at last received the acclaim she never had while alive.
The release of the excellent film The Talented Mr. Ripley appears to have brought Highsmith many readers who may have heard of her but had never read her books. In spite of the fame of Strangers on a Train, published when she was still in her 20s, Highsmith never enjoyed commercial success in the United States (though she was a huge bestseller in Germany and Austria).
Now, six years after her death at the age of 74, Norton is reissuing her novels and has compiled this giant collection of her short fiction, incorporating the complete text of five previously published collections. This volume also includes an introduction by Graham Greene, somewhat truncated from its original (and uncredited) publication in The Snail-Watcher and Other Stories (1970). It is abbreviated because, oddly, none of the stories from that excellent collection are included in the present omnibus, and Greene makes reference to what is perhaps Highsmith's most famous story, "The Snail- Watcher."
Even lacking this masterpiece and the equally unsettling "The Terrapin," there are many distinguished tales of horror and, as Greene accurately defines them, apprehension.
In "The Hand," the first story in the collection originally published as Little Tales of Misogyny, a young man asks the father of his beloved for her hand and is given it--in a box. Equally unappealing events befall the women (and, indeed, the men) skewered in the other stories in this aptly titled volume, most of which are so short that they are mere vignettes, each startling in the terse clarity of the prose and the matter-of-factness of the fates meted out to the protagonists.
"The Dancer" is strangled in quiet rage by her partner, who walks away from her lifeless body as an audience cheers the performance. "The Coquette" is murdered by the two lovers she had set against each other, and they are let off by a judge who had also been tortured by her coquetry. He forgave their infatuation with her, "a state that inspired his pity, since he had become sixty years old," as Highsmith cruelly explains.
"The Black House," the title story of another collection, introduces a pleasant, happy, and charming young man who is, of course, doomed. He tests his courage by entering a dark house, reputedly haunted and the scene of young lovers' trysts as well as the vicious murder of a boy, and finds it empty and unthreatening. When he describes his adventure to his friends at the local pub, he is killed for a transgression that remains unknown to him.
This important book may not be for everyone, but if you don't mind a sense of unrelenting doom and are willing to risk nightmares of dread, you will find the prose dazzling and the fiction memorable. --Otto Penzler [via]
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Selected Stories of Philip K. Dickby Philip K. Dick, Jonathan LethemISBN 0375421513 (0-375-42151-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Shell Collectorby Anthony DoerrISBN 0743212746 (0-7432-1274-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Silencesby Tillie OlsenISBN 038528893X (0-385-28893-X)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silences'Book summary:A study of the crucial relationship between circumstances - of sex, economic class, colour, the times and climate into which one is born - and creativity. The book draws on the lives, letters, diaries and testimonies of writers such as Melville, Hardy, Blake and Rimbaud. Tillie Olsen focuses on the financial and cultural pressures which obstructed, or silenced, their work. She then turns to those who have lost most: women writers, their energies deflected into domesticity and motherhood; black American writers, only 11 of whom published more than two novels from 1850-1950. [via]
The Simple Art of Murderby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394757653 (0-394-75765-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Six Tales of the Jazz Age and Other Storiesby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 068471762X (0-684-71762-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Tales of the Jazz Age and Other Stories'Book summary:I've read many books of short stories in my life, by authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, Jorge Luis Borges, Saul Bellow, Haruki Murakami, Julio Cortazar, Ian McEwan etc. (all great writers in their own right), but none of these authors has been able to write stories as exciting, complete, and satisfying as Fitzgerald's in "Six Tales of the Jazz Age and other stories." In this book, Fitzgerald combines wit, Jazz Age glamour, emotions and moral messages to perfect effect. "The Jelly-Bean" is a tale of love and longing between a Southerner and a wild woman. "The Adjuster" tells of a wife who learns to be less selfish in her demands of her husband, and in "'O, Russet Witch!'" a woman symbolizes a man's desire to be irresponsible and spontaneous as he tries to live up to the responsibility that society and his family demand of him. "Gretchen's Forty Winks" is about the balance between work and responsibility to one's partner. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" narrates the (somewhat) absurd story of a man born old who lives his life getting steadily younger (I was reminded of Alejo Carpentier's "Viaje a la semilla" (Journey to the Seed), but Fitzgerald's story is better and slightly more daring). "The Camel's Back" is a lighter tale of confused identities, while "Hot and Cold Blood" ponders the conflicting responibilities to family and society. [via]
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Star Warsby Kevin J. AndersonISBN 0553568167 (0-553-56816-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Stories in an Almost Classical Modeby Harold BrodkeyISBN 0679724311 (0-679-72431-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Stories of Heinrich Bollby Heinrich Böll, Leila VennewitzISBN 039451405X (0-394-51405-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Striding Folly, Including Three Final Lord Peter Wimsey Storiesby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0450014398 (0-450-01439-8)
Hardcover, New English Library
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Tales of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan Poe, Barry Moser, Peter GlassmanISBN 0688075096 (0-688-07509-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Tales Of Edgar Allen Poe: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classicby KaplanISBN 0743264681 (0-7432-6468-1)
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Tell Me a Riddleby Tillie OlsenISBN 0385290101 (0-385-29010-1)
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Time Travelers Strictly Cashby Spider RobinsonISBN 0425097226 (0-425-09722-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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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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The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fictionby Henry JamesISBN 0553210599 (0-553-21059-9)
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