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Ah, Sweet Mystery of Lifeby Roald Dahl, John LawrenceISBN 0394582659 (0-394-58265-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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All the Myriad Waysby Larry NivenISBN 0345334167 (0-345-33416-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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American Short Story Masterpiecesby Raymond CarverISBN 0440204232 (0-440-20423-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Annotated H. P. Lovecraftby S. T. Joshi, H. P. LovecraftISBN 0440506603 (0-440-50660-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Best American Short Stories 1984: Selected from U.s. and Canadian Magazinesby John UpdikeISBN 0395365120 (0-395-36512-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novelsby Gardner DozoisISBN 0312363427 (0-312-36342-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fictionby Gardner DozoisISBN 031233656X (0-312-33656-X)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Of The Best: 20 Years Of The Year's Best Science Fiction'Book summary:For years, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very best short stories for this landmark collection. Contributors include: * Stephen Baxter * Greg Bear * William Bigson * Terry Bisson * Pat Cadigan * Ted Chiang * John Crowley * Tony Daniel * Greg Egan * Molly Gloss * Eileen Gunn * Joe Haldeman * James Patrick Kelly * John Kessel * Nancy Kress * Ursula K. Le Guin * Ian R. MacLeod * David Marusek * Paul McAuley * Ian McDonald * Maureen F. McHugh * Robert Reed * Mike Resnick * Geoff Ryman * William Sander * Lucius Shepard * Robert Silverberg * Brian Stableford * Bruce Sterling * Charles Stross * Michael Swanwick * Steven Utley * Howard Waldrop * Walter Jon Williams * Connie Willis * Gene Wolfe[via]
With work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best stands as one of the ultimate science fiction anthologies ever published.More editions of Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction:
Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be Godby Etgar KeretISBN 0312339259 (0-312-33925-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God'Book summary:Etgar Keret's The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories stings and thrills with fierce fables of modern life. Set in landscapes ranging from "this armpit town outside Austin, Texas" to "this village in Uzbekistan that was built right smack at the mouth of Hell," these stories lay their plots' central tensions out plainly: "Dad wouldn't buy me a Bart Simpson doll," one begins. Then they take off like little roller coasters, careening through the pathos of Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son, the clowning of David Sedaris's Barrel Fever, the in-your-face violence of Quentin Tarantino, and the bewildered alienation of Franz Kafka. But readers need not know any of Keret's sources to enjoy his stories fully. The Israeli writer's aphorisms leap off the page and lodge themselves in the mind: "There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed." Keret's vernacular prose is fun to read, and his vision of the world is weirdly comforting. Happiness never really flourishes, but small hopes and graces abound. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
Captain's Daughter and Other Talesby Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0460008986 (0-460-00898-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Captains Daughter and Other Storiesby Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0394707141 (0-394-70714-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Castle of Crossed Destiniesby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156154552 (0-15-615455-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (1867by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195114000 (0-19-511400-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketchesby Mark Twain, Roy Blount, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195101316 (0-19-510131-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Celestial Railroad And Other Storiesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ross C. MurfinISBN 0451530209 (0-451-53020-9)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Celestial Railroad And Other Stories'Book summary:"Deep as Dante."Herman MelvilleOf Nathaniel Hawthornes insight into the Puritans simultaneous need for fulfillment and self-destruction, D. H. Lawrence wrote, Nathaniel knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise. By means of artfully crafted and compelling tales, Hawthorne explored the destinies and concerns of early American settlers and citizens. In several of the stories in this collection, characters who hold themselves apart from their fellow man fall prey to the corroding desires of lust for perfection. Then they unwittingly commit evilsagainst themselves and othersin the name of pride. Edgar Allan Poe noted of Hawthornes writing: Every word tells, and there is not a word which does not tell. [via]
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Christmas with Anne : And Other Holiday Storiesby L. M. Montgomery, Rea WilmshurstISBN 0385322887 (0-385-32288-7)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Chronicles of Pernby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345368991 (0-345-36899-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks And Romansby William F. HansenISBN 0195300351 (0-19-530035-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks And Romans'Book summary:The birth of Aphrodite, the Trojan Horse, Zeus disguised as a swan. These and other classical myths and legends are usually encountered separately, but together they make up a coherent, multigenerational saga of epic battles, bizarre metamorphoses, immortal heroes, and all-too-human gods--a fantastic world recognizably real to its audience. Classical Mythology offers newcomers and long-time enthusiasts new ways to navigate the world of Greek and Roman myths, beginning by exploring the landscapes where the myths are set. It then provides a richly detailed timeline of mythic episodes from the origin of the cosmos to the end of the Heroic Age--plus an illustrated mythological dictionary listing significant characters, places, events, objects, and concepts.
Whether you wish to explore the world that gave rise to ancient mythology or research a specific piece of the whole, this handbook is the best introduction available to an extraordinary cast of characters (gods, nymphs, satyrs, monsters, heroes) and the natural and supernatural stages upon which their fates are played out.
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· A detailed timeline serves as a convenient "episode guide" chronicling events described in classical mythology
· A comprehensive A-Z section offers a quick way to identify the gods, mortals, events, and objects that are key to specific myths and legends [via]More editions of Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks And Romans:
Dark Forcesby Kirby E. McCauleyISBN 0451162218 (0-451-16221-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Fantastic Aliceby Lewis Carroll, Margaret WeisISBN 0441002536 (0-441-00253-6)
Softcover, Ace Books
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Fantastic Aliceby Margaret WeisISBN 0441006345 (0-441-00634-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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First, Bodyby Melanie Rae ThonISBN 039578588X (0-395-78588-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Flight of the Horseby Larry NivenISBN 0345334183 (0-345-33418-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Flights of Loveby Bernhard Schlink, John E. WoodsISBN 0375420908 (0-375-42090-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flights of Love'Book summary:Flights of Love sees Bernhard Schlink build on the success of his international bestselling debut novel, The Reader, with a clutch of short stories that tell of the variety of love, distilled into seven splinters of narrative. The pick of the seven, the opening "Girl with Lizard," depicts a remote male character who fixates on a painting of his father's, which he is to discover, like his father, has a familiarly unsavory past, and which he is impelled to exorcise. In the book's centerpiece, "Sugar Peas," architect and amateur painter Thomas finds that his trio of lovers avenge themselves on his profligacy after he is left wheelchair-bound by an accident. "The Other Man" presents a widower corresponding with his dead wife's unwitting lover, and finding comfort through acquaintance. Less successfully, "The Circumcision" sees the pretext of a German man and his New York Jewish girlfriend to ponder huge, chewy rhetoric on the problems of reconciling the past, almost absentmindedly concocting an improbable denouement. Schlink too often presents scenarios rather than scenes, more intent on dislocated dilemma than language. In keeping with his legal training, he discerns lines of attack more suited to a drama, or perhaps a courtroom drama, than fiction. There can be no doubting Schlink's storytelling acumen or his undertaking to tackle the complicated identity of modern Germany. What is increasingly exposed, though, are the supporting mechanisms that too frequently serve to reinforce, rather than challenge, our assumptions with their didactic contrivance. --David Vincent, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Flights of Loveby John E. Woods, Bernhard SchlinkISBN 0375725555 (0-375-72555-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Flying Sorcerersby Peter HainingISBN 0441005772 (0-441-00577-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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A Gift of Dragonsby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345456351 (0-345-45635-1)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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The Girl Who Married a Lion: And Other Tales from Africaby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 0375423125 (0-375-42312-5)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girl Who Married a Lion: And Other Tales from Africa'Book summary:Gathered here is a beguiling selection of folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana as retold by the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. This treasury contains most of the stories previously collected in Children of Wax and seven new tales from the Setswana-speaking people of Botswana.
A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before they have two sons who might actually be cubs . . . When a child made of wax follows his curiosity outside into the heat of daylight and melts, his siblings shape him into a bird with feathers made of leaves that enable him to fly into the light . . . Talking hyenas, milk-giving birds, clever cannibals who nonetheless get their comeuppance, and mysterious forces that reside in the landscapethese wonderful fables bring us the wealth, the variety, and the particular magic of traditional African lore. [via]More editions of The Girl Who Married a Lion: And Other Tales from Africa:
God Lives in St. Petersburg: and Other Storiesby Tom BissellISBN 0375422641 (0-375-42264-1)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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The Golden Ball and Other Storiesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0312981694 (0-312-98169-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Ball and Other Stories'Book summary:Is it a gesture of good will or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to magnificent estate? How desperate is Joyce Lambert, a destitute young widow whose only recourse is to marry a man she despises? What unexpected circumstance stirs old loyalties in Theodora Darrell, and unfaithful wife about to run away with her lover? In this collection of short stories, the answers are as unexpected as they are satisfying. The Queen of Crime takes bizarre romantic entanglements, supernatural visitations, and classic murder to inventive new heights.[via]More editions of The Golden Ball and Other Stories:
The Hugo Winnersby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385189346 (0-385-18934-6)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Inventing the Abbotts and Other Storiesby Sue MillerISBN 0440540704 (0-440-54070-4)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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The King's Indianby John GardnerISBN 0345303725 (0-345-30372-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The King's Indian'Book summary:An iconic collection that showcases Gardner as a master craftsman navigating an uncertain world
In this exceptional book, author John Gardner explores the literary form as a vehicle of vision, and creates heroes that personify his tremendous artistic ideals: A Boston schoolmaster abandons his dreams of owning a farmhouse in rural Illinois only to be taken on a voyage across the seas and into self-discovery, faith, and love; an artists rapturous enthusiasm inspires an aging university professor to approach lifes chaotic moments as opportunities for creation. Each of these stories is wonderful in its own right, and provides valuable insight into the authors literary beliefs.
Written just prior to his critical masterwork, On Moral Fiction, The Kings Indian is a must-read for those interested in learning more about Gardners highly controversial artistic philosophies.
This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.
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The King's Indian: Stories and Talesby John GardnerISBN 0394492218 (0-394-49221-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Long Arm of Gil Hamiltonby Larry NivenISBN 0345342380 (0-345-34238-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Lovedeathby Dan SimmonsISBN 0446600776 (0-446-60077-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Mythologyby Edith HamiltonISBN 0316341517 (0-316-34151-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythology'Book summary:Edith Hamilton loved the ancient Western myths with a passion--and this classic compendium is her tribute. "The tales of Greek mythology do not throw any clear light upon what early mankind was like," Hamilton explains in her introduction. "They do throw an abundance of light upon what early Greeks were like--a matter, it would seem, of more importance to us, who are their descendents intellectually, artistically, and politically. Nothing we learn about them is alien to ourselves." Fans of Greek mythology will find all the great stories and characters here--Perseus, Hercules, and Odysseus--each discussed in generous detail by the voice of an impressively knowledgeable and engaging (with occasional lapses) narrator. This is also an excellent primer for middle- and high-school students who are studying ancient Greek and Roman culture and literature. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Mythologyby Steele Savage, Edith HamiltonISBN 0452009855 (0-452-00985-5)
Softcover, Meridian Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythology'Book summary:Edith Hamilton loved the ancient Western myths with a passion--and this classic compendium is her tribute. "The tales of Greek mythology do not throw any clear light upon what early mankind was like," Hamilton explains in her introduction. "They do throw an abundance of light upon what early Greeks were like--a matter, it would seem, of more importance to us, who are their descendents intellectually, artistically, and politically. Nothing we learn about them is alien to ourselves." Fans of Greek mythology will find all the great stories and characters here--Perseus, Hercules, and Odysseus--each discussed in generous detail by the voice of an impressively knowledgeable and engaging (with occasional lapses) narrator. This is also an excellent primer for middle- and high-school students who are studying ancient Greek and Roman culture and literature. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Norton Anthology of Short Fictionby R. V. Cassill, Richard BauschISBN 0393975088 (0-393-97508-8)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction'Book summary:A bestseller from first publication, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction has been adopted in over 750 schools in its Fifth Edition. From the start, it has offered students the writer's voice, pure and unencumbered by excessive editorial commentary. This new Sixth Edition continues to abide by R.V. Cassill's initial plan: "to put together a very large group of stories that would, in detail and overall design, express both the living tradition of short fiction and the culture of which it is a part." [via]
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Noveltyby John CrowleyISBN 0385263473 (0-385-26347-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evilby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0393003043 (0-393-00304-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil'Book summary:With the publication of "The Overcoat" in 1842, Nicolai Gogol (1809-1852) inaugurated a new chapter in Russian literature, in which the underdog and social misfit is treated not as a figure of fun or an object of charity, but as a human being with as much right to happiness as anybody else.The compassion, simplicity, and gentle humor with which he treats the poignant quest of a hapless civil servant for the return of his stolen overcoat-and the fantastic yet realistic manner in which he takes revenge on his nemesis, the Very Important Person-mark "The Overcoat" as one of the greatest achievements of Gogol's genius. The five other "Tales of Good and Evil" in this superb collection demonstrate the broad range of Gogol's literary palette in his short fiction: the fantastic, supernaturally tinged "The Terrible Vengeance," the comic portraiture of "Ivan Fydorovich Shponka and His Aunt," the tragic moral realism of "The Portrait" and "Nevsky Avenue," and the rampaging satire and absurdism of his send-up of Russian upper-class stupidity, "The Nose." The stories offer the reader the perfect introduction to the imaginative genius of Gogol, which was to flower so triumphantly in his masterpiece, Deal Souls. [via]
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The Oxford Book of Detective Storiesby Patricia CraigISBN 0192880675 (0-19-288067-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Book of English Detective Storiesby Patricia CraigISBN 0192141872 (0-19-214187-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories'Book summary:The scene: a sleeping car on the North-Western express, somewhere between Preston and Carlisle. The weapon: a small-caliber revolver. The victims: two young newlyweds, with little money and no known enemies. The puzzle: everyone in the car has an alibi, and no one was seen to leave. Here are all the ingredients for another gripping detective story.
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories gathers 33 engrossing tales of crime, ranging from the birth of the genre to the present day. Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Robert Barnard, and Simon Brett--all the giants of English mystery are here, as well as Christianna Brand, Ngaio Marsh, Michael Innes, Reginald Hill, Nicholas Blake, Michael Underwood, and many more. Editor Patricia Craig treats us to Sherlock Holmes, indefatigably tracking the details of the theft of Colonel Ross's prize horse, Silver Blaze, and the murder of its trainer. In "The Oracle of the Dog," G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown sits calmly in his study, solving at a distance the perplexing murder of Colonel Druce: was it the foreign Dr. Valentine, the foppish lawyer Traill, or Floyd, the exuberant American secretary? P.D. James sends Chief Superindentant Dalgliesh on the trail of a mysterious death from some seventy years before--a case with a final, darkly ironic twist. And Robert Barnard grimly lampoons English academe in "The Oxford Way of Death." In addition to this dazzling array of stories, Craig provides a concise introduction which surveys the origins and development of this enduring genre.
Ingenious, gothic, morbid, satirical--the English detective story ranks among the most dynamic and gripping fiction. In The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories, Patricia Craig presents some of the best ever written, in an absorbing tour of the world of crime, detection, and retribution. [via]More editions of The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories:
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The Persistence of Visionby John VarleyISBN 0441662218 (0-441-66221-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Storiesby Oscar WildeISBN 0375751513 (0-375-75151-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:"Oh! In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin." In their ideal of an exquisitely sensitive temperament that thrills to fine shadings in sensation, the principles of the aesthetic (or "decadent") movement are well suited to the tale of terror. No story exemplifies this better than Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. The sparkling wit and zest for life of Wilde's characters combine with cold-blooded acts of horror to generate a deliciously twisted sense of elegance and evil, civilization and degradation. Oscar Wilde, like Edgar Allan Poe, shows us that what we find loathsome and frightening can also be beautiful. [via]
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Piranha to Scurfyby Ruth RendellISBN 0375727590 (0-375-72759-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Points of View: An Anthology of Short Storiesby James MoffettISBN 0451628721 (0-451-62872-1)
Softcover, Mentor Books
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The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heavenby Rick MoodyISBN 0316706280 (0-316-70628-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven'Book summary:In 10 strikingly original stories and a prize-winning novella, Rick Moody paints a world of frustration, yearning, lies, decay, and obsession as he introduces a dissonant band of outsiders. Meet:
-- a frenzied undergraduate who confesses his delusions in a term paper
-- a hip young media personality whose film treatment reveals a pathological self-obsession
-- an investigator whose deposition reveals his own increasingly sordid attempts to spy on his wife
-- and more.
A stunning literary achievement, these daring, surprising, energetic stories -- masterpieces of language, structure, and momentum -- will entertain and astound from beginning to end.
"Consistently inventive...a wicked eye for detail". -- The New York Times Book Review
"Expressive brilliance...written in a brilliant nightmarish style". -- Los Angeles Times [via]More editions of The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven:
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmesby Greene, Hugh, Sir, CompISBN 039441330X (0-394-41330-X)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes:Early Detective Storiesby Hugh GreeneISBN 0370014340 (0-370-01434-0)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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Riverworld Other Storyby Philip Jose FarmerISBN 0441728863 (0-441-72886-3)
Softcover, Rationalist Press Association
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Science Fiction Hall of Fameby Science Fiction Writers of America, Robert Silverberg, Ben BovaISBN 038504576X (0-385-04576-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Selected Stories of Eudora Welty: Containing All of A Curtain of Green and Other Stories and The Wide Net and Other Storiesby Eudora WeltyISBN 0394604458 (0-394-60445-8)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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Selected Stories [of] Katherine Mansfieldby Katherine Mansfield, Dan DavinISBN 0192810448 (0-19-281044-8)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P.
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Shadows of Sanctuaryby Robert Asprin, Lynn AbbeyISBN 0441806015 (0-441-80601-5)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Short and Tall Tales : Moose County Legends Collected by James Mackintosh Quilleranby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0399149562 (0-399-14956-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Short and Tall Tales : Moose County Legends Collected by James Mackintosh Quilleran'Book summary:As the devoted readers of the series know, Qwill has been working on this book since The Cat Who Tailed a Thief. Now the tales are finally all compiled-legends such as "The Secret of the Blacksmith's Wife" and "The Trevelyan Curse."
In Short and Tall Tales, Lilian Jackson Braun introduces James Mackintosh Qwilleran and tells how he collected the tales. Qwill provides a preface for each legend, identifying the teller and the circumstances. And it is no surprise that the tales themselves are entertaining stories that reveal the off-beat "history" of Moose County.
Cat Who . . . fans will delight in reading these stories and anecdotes taken from the pages of the books they have come to love. [via]More editions of Short and Tall Tales : Moose County Legends Collected by James Mackintosh Quilleran:
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345325818 (0-345-32581-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silmarillion'Book summary:Although The Silmarillion takes place in the same imaginary world as J.J.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and was originally published four years after the author's death and over two decades after the former book, it is set much earlier, in the First Age of the World. The tales and the book which reads as a fusion between a story collection and historical chronicle, are a matter of legend even to the characters of The Lord of the Rings:
In the beginning Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Ilúvatar, made the Ainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him
Tolkien wrote the heart of this material very early in his career, and continued to work on it throughout his life. It fell to his son, Christopher Tolkien, to edit it into book form, and such proved the unquenchable public appetite that he subsequently oversaw 12 volumes of The History of Middle-Earth. This edition features 20 highly evocative colour plates by Ted Nasmith, themselves worth the price of admission, while reinforcing the sense of a historical work are genealogical tables, an extensive index, appendix and colour map. Far removed from the genial style of The Hobbit, this is Tolkien at his most formal, his prose austere, poetically beautiful, his storytelling capturing the epic scale, high drama and melancholy wonder of myth. These stories of elves and heroes and old gods are quite literally the foundation of the entire modern fantasy-publishing revival, and are therefore essential reading. --Gary S. Dalkin [via]More editions of Silmarillion:
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The Springs of Affectionby Maeve BrennanISBN 0395870461 (0-395-87046-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Springs of Affection'Book summary:Ireland is once more the source of great, and disturbing, fiction. Most of us will not have heard of Maeve Brennan before opening this volume, yet the quality of her stories is cause for wonder. The first several are autobiographical sketches of her childhood in 1920s Dublin. In one, she takes her brother with her to the Poor Clare nuns, a closed order. Because the little boy is only 2, he gets to see the hidden lives about which his older sister is so curious: "I imagined them, silent and swift, of all ages, descending upon Robert from every part of the convent." In another, following the treaty that turned Ireland into a free state, "some unfriendly men" twice come looking for her father, a Republican. One raider even thrusts his head up the fireplace, only to cover himself and the living room in soot. Despite the disarray, her mother rejoices. "And with us chattering a delighted, incredulous accompaniment, she laughed as though her heart might break."
In Brennan's acute hands, this proverbial phrase has more sorrow than joy about it, and in the collection's two other sequences, the emotions are far more raw. Husbands and wives are deadlocked in loveless marriages--the men longing for escape, the women desperate for contact. These are visions of powerful feelings, powerfully quelled, and there are some heart-freezing juxtapositions. One story ends with a young couple coming together; in the very next, 27 years later, ill will is everywhere.
But Brennan, whose life seems to have been even more tragic than that of any of her characters, can also anatomize peace, or at least respite. In "The Carpet with the Big Pink Roses on It," Mrs. Bagot and her child and pets (also on the shakiest of ground with Mr. Bagot) fall into an afternoon slumber. "They all slept safely. There wasn't a sound in the house. Nobody came to the door. Nobody saw them. There on the bed they might all have been invisible, or enchanted, or, as they were for that time, forgotten." Alas, such states of grace are momentary in Brennan's houses. According to William Maxwell, the title novella--a brilliant anatomy of envy and hate--"belongs with the great short stories of this century." So do several other pieces in The Springs of Affection. [via]
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The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublinby Maeve BrennanISBN 0395937590 (0-395-93759-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolvesby Karen RussellISBN 0307263983 (0-307-26398-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves'Book summary:A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucys Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent.
In the collections title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In Haunting Olivia, two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab. In Z.Z.s Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers, a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to a summer camp for troubled sleepers (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Sleep Apneics; Cabin 3, Somnambulists . . . ). And Ava Wrestles the Alligator introduces the remarkable Bigtree Wrestling DynastyGrandpa Sawtooth, Chief Bigtree, and twelve-year-old Avaproprietors of Swamplandia!, the islands #1 Gator Theme Park and Café. Ava is still mourning her mother when her father disappears, his final words to her the swamp maxim Feed the gators, dont talk to strangers. Left to look after seventy incubating alligators and an older sister who may or may not be having sex with a succubus, Ava meets the Bird Man, and learns that when youre a kid its often hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.
Russells stories are beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, but it is the emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable. Magically, from the spiritual wilderness and ghostly swamps of the Florida Everglades, against a backdrop of ancient lizards and disconcertingly lush plant lifein an idiom that is as arrestingly lovely as it is surrealKaren Russell shows us who we are and how we live. [via]More editions of St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves:
Telling Talesby Nadine GordimerISBN 0312424043 (0-312-42404-3)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Three Greek Plays Prometheus Bound Agamemnon the Trojan Womenby Edith HamiltonISBN 0393002039 (0-393-00203-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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To Ride Pegasusby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345336038 (0-345-33603-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Treasury of Winnie-The-Pooh/Deluxe Gift-Boxby A. A. MilneISBN 0440495806 (0-440-49580-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Trouble Is My Businessby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394757645 (0-394-75764-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 0451526066 (0-451-52606-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turn of the Screw'Book summary:The story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories 'round the fire on Christmas Eve. One of the guests tells about a governess at a country house plagued by supernatural visitors. But in the hands of Henry James, the master of nuance, this little tale of terror is an exquisite gem of sexual and psychological ambiguity. Only the young governess can see the ghosts; only she suspects that the previous governess and her lover are controlling the two orphaned children (a girl and a boy) for some evil purpose. The household staff don't know what she's talking about, the children are evasive when questioned, and the master of the house (the children's uncle) is absent. Why does the young girl claim not to see a perfectly visible woman standing on the far side of the lake? Are the children being deceptive, or is the governess being paranoid? By leaving the questions unanswered, The Turn of Screw generates spine-tingling anxiety in its mesmerized readers. [via]
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels: ISBN 0451524721 (0-451-52472-1)
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Venetian Storiesby Jane Turner RylandsISBN 0375422323 (0-375-42232-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Watcher and Other Storiesby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156949520 (0-15-694952-0)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Witchesby Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg, Charles G. WaughISBN 0451155041 (0-451-15504-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Worlds of Frank Herbertby Frank HerbertISBN 0425064832 (0-425-06483-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror Eighteenth Annual Collectionby Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant, Kelly LinkISBN 0312341946 (0-312-34194-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror Eighteenth Annual Collection'Book summary:For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Years Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant continue this critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magic realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, and sections on comics, by Charles Vess; on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge; on media, by Ed Bryant; and on music, by Charles de Lint. With a long list of Honorable Mentions, this is an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.[via]More editions of The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror Eighteenth Annual Collection:
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