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The Ancient Greeksby Moses I. FinleyISBN 0140137076 (0-14-013707-6)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Landby David K. ShiplerISBN 0140103767 (0-14-010376-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead: Beneath the Surface of Victorian Sensationalismby Thomas BoyleISBN 0140139753 (0-14-013975-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bostoniansby Henry JamesISBN 0140024506 (0-14-002450-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bostonians'Book summary:From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women." She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, a veteran of the Civil War who holds rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions? A struggle to possess her, body and soul, develops between Olive and Basil.The exploitation of Verena's unregenerate innocence reflects a society whose moral and cultural values are failing to survive the new dawn of liberalism and democracy. When it was first published in 1886, The Bostonians was not welcomed by Henry James's fellow countrymen, who failed to appreciate its delicacy and wit. But over a century later, this book is widely regarded as James's finest American fiction and perhaps his comic masterpiece.[via]More editions of Bostonians:
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 0140044523 (0-14-004452-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:A modern translation of the Middle English masterpiece is presented with brie historical notes. [via]
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Millerby Carlo GinzburgISBN 0140060464 (0-14-006046-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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A Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost Story of Christmasby Charles Dickens, John LeechISBN 0140071202 (0-14-007120-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Cider With Rosieby Laurie LeeISBN 0140016821 (0-14-001682-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider With Rosie'Book summary:A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life as it comes into contact with murder, rape, suicide and depression. [via]
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Civil Warsby Rosellen BrownISBN 0140077839 (0-14-007783-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Class in Australiaby Craig McGregorISBN 0140082271 (0-14-008227-1)
Hardcover, Viking Penguin
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Clear Light of Dayby Anita DesaiISBN 0140058605 (0-14-005860-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clear Light of Day'Book summary:Clear Light of Day is an examination of contemporary India and a family history in which two sisters, Bim and Tara, learn that, although there will always be family scars, the ability to forgive and forget is a powerful ally against life's sorrows. Twenty years ago when Tara married, she left Old Delhi and a home full of sickness and death, while Bim continued to live in the family home taking care of their autistic brother, Baba. Now Tara has returned, her first visit in 10 years, for their niece's wedding. Bim refuses to attend; she can't visit their brother Raja who, like Tara, left her many years ago. Instead Bim dwells bitterly on her feelings of abandonment and the impact on her of her country's recent history: the violent conflict between Hindus and Muslims, the death of Gandhi and the ensuing struggle for political power and the malaria epidemic that killed so many. In Bim's presence, Tara once again feels "herself shrink into that small miserable wretch of 20 years ago, both admiring and resenting her tall striding sister", while "Bim was calmly unaware of any of her sister's agonies, past or present". With language that describes both the harshness and beauty of family and the land, Anita Desai takes the reader with Tara and Bim on their struggle to confront and heal old wounds. --Alex Freeman, Amazon.com [via]
Communicationsby Brian WilliamsISBN 0140208313 (0-14-020831-3)
Hardcover, Penguin
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The Company She Keepsby Mary McCarthyISBN 0140023275 (0-14-002327-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Company She Keeps'Book summary:These six brilliantly written episodes, brought together in Mary McCarthy's first novel, create a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle. Based loosely on the author's own life, the book follows a young bohemian woman, Margaret Sargent, through her experiences and lost loves in a time of coming war. On publication in 1942, its bold insight, sly wit and virtuoso style won Mary McCarthy immediate recogntion as one of the most accomplished, versatile and penetrating writers in America. [via]
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Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0140106499 (0-14-010649-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Crucibleby Arthur Miller, Gerald Clifford WealesISBN 0140155074 (0-14-015507-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crucible'Book summary:The enduring classic drama of the Salem witch trials was inspired by the political witch-hunting activities of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the '50s. Though set in the 17th century, "The Crucible" presents issues still gnawing at modern society. [via]
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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Readerby John StoreyISBN 013776121X (0-13-776121-X)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader'Book summary:This second edition of John Storey's successful reader in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture contains nine new readings, and revised and rewritten introductions for each of the seven sections. As before, the book brings together work by critics and theorists to introduce the theoretical, analytical and historical study of popular culture within cultural studies. The first six sections contain readings which cover culture and civilisation tradition; culturalism; structuralism and post-structuralism; Marxism; feminism and postmodernism, and the final section explores the debates surrounding popular culture. Six of the previous readings have been replaced by nine new articles to extend the concept of the book and its critical value. This invaluable reader can be used to accompany An Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, thus providing a complete study of popular culture across the field of cultural history. [via]
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Daisy Miller and Other Storiesby Henry JamesISBN 0140067213 (0-14-006721-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egyptby Joyce TyldesleyISBN 0140175962 (0-14-017596-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Death of a Salesmanby Arthur Miller, Gerald Clifford WealesISBN 0140155023 (0-14-015502-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Salesman'Book summary:Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much.[via]Since it was first performed in 1949, Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the tragic shortcomings of an American dreamer has been recognized as a milestone of the theater. This Viking Critical Library edition of Death of a Salesman contains the complete text of the play, typescript facsimiles, and extensive critical and contextual material including:
- Conflicting reviews about its opening night by Robert Garland, Harold Clurman, Eleanor Clark, and others
- Five articles by Miller on his play, including "Tragedy and the Common Man" and his "Introduction to Collected Plays"
- Critical essays by John Gassner, Ivor Brown, Joseph A. Hynes, and others
- General essays on Miller by William Weigand, Allan Seager, and others
- Analogous works by Eudora Welty, Walter D. Moody, Tennessee Williams, and Irwin Shaw
- The stage designer's account, presented in selections from Designing for the Theatre by Jo Mielziner
- An in-depth introduction by the editor, a chronology, a list of topics for discussion and papers, and a bibliography
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Disappearing Through the Skylightby O.B. HardisonISBN 014011582X (0-14-011582-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Discoverersby Daniel Joseph Boorstin, Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0140080546 (0-14-008054-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Dogeatersby Jessica HagedornISBN 014014904X (0-14-014904-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Dry White Seasonby André BrinkISBN 0140068902 (0-14-006890-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dry White Season'Book summary:Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way - until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the hands of the police. In the beginning it appears a straightforward matter, an unfortunate error that can be explained and put right. But as Ben investigates further he finds that his curiosity becomes labelled rebellion - and for a rebel there is no way back. [via]
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Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evilby Hannah ArendtISBN 0140187650 (0-14-018765-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil'Book summary:While living in Argentina in 1960, Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped and smuggled to Israel where he was put on trial for crimes against humanity. The New Yorker magazine sent Hannah Arendt to cover the trial. While covering the technical aspects of the trial, Arendt also explored the wider themes inherent in the trial, such as the nature of justice, the behavior of the Jewish leadership during the Nazi Régime, and, most controversially, the nature of Evil itself.
Far from being evil incarnate, as the prosecution painted Eichmann, Arendt maintains that he was an average man, a petty bureaucrat interested only in furthering his career, and the evil he did came from the seductive power of the totalitarian state and an unthinking adherence to the Nazi cause. Indeed, Eichmann's only defense during the trial was "I was just following orders."
Arendt's analysis of the seductive nature of evil is a disturbing one. We would like to think that anyone who would perpetrate such horror on the world is different from us, and that such atrocities are rarities in our world. But the history of groups such as the Jews, Kurds, Bosnians, and Native Americans, to name but a few, seems to suggest that such evil is all too commonplace. In revealing Eichmann as the pedestrian little man that he was, Arendt shows us that the veneer of civilization is a thin one indeed. [via]
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The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physicsby Roger PenroseISBN 0140145346 (0-14-014534-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics'Book summary:Some love it, some hate it, but The Emperor's New Mind, physicist Roger Penrose's 1989 treatise attacking the foundations of strong artificial intelligence, is crucial for anyone interested in the history of thinking about AI and consciousness. Part survey of modern physics, part exploration of the philosophy of mind, the book is not for casual readers--though it's not overly technical, it rarely pauses to let the reader catch a breath. The overview of relativity and quantum theory, written by a master, is priceless and uncontroversial. The exploration of consciousness and AI, though, is generally considered as resting on shakier ground.
Penrose claims that there is an intimate, perhaps unknowable relation between quantum effects and our thinking, and ultimately derives his anti-AI stance from his proposition that some, if not all, of our thinking is non-algorithmic. Of course, these days we believe that there are other avenues to AI than traditional algorithmic programming; while he has been accused of setting up straw robots to knock down, this accusation is unfair. Little was then known about the power of neural networks and behavior-based robotics to simulate (and, some would say, produce) intelligent problem-solving behavior. Whether these tools will lead to strong AI is ultimately a question of belief, not proof, and The Emperor's New Mind offers powerful arguments useful to believer and nonbeliever alike. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Essaysby Michel De MontaigneISBN 014017897X (0-14-017897-X)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essays'Book summary:Reflections by the creator of the essay form, display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as "On Solitude," "To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die," and "On Experience." [via]
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Family Historyby Vita Sackville-WestISBN 0140161562 (0-14-016156-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fifth Businessby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140167943 (0-14-016794-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fifth Business'Book summary:The first book of Robertson Davies's Deptford Trilogy tells the story of three men destined to be crucial players in each others' lives. The story is, in fact, the memoir of Dunstan Ramsay, a long-time boarding-school teacher, set to retire. Written to the headmaster of the school, the memoir intends to disprove the common belief that Ramsay is nothing more than a senile old professor, "doddering into retirement with tears in his eyes and a drop hanging from his nose." The story includes two other main characters, the outcast and eventual circus performer Paul Dempster and socialite Boy Staunton, with his "too glossy perfection."
The story of Ramsay's life begins when he is 10 years old, living in a small Canadian town called Deptford. A snowball thrown by Boy Staunton, intended for Ramsay, hits the pregnant mother of Paul Dempster, forcing her into labour early. She gives birth to a premature and deformed Paul. Ramsay feels responsible for this, and thus begins his guilty friendship with Paul, as well as his grudging friendship with Boy. Eventually, Dunstan Ramsay goes off to fight in the First World War, where he earns a Victoria Cross. He later travels throughout Europe and Mexico to pursue his interest in saints and write several books about them. He even attempts to prove that Paul's mother, whom he had taken a liking to over the years, is in fact a saint. Paul and Boy keep crossing paths with Dunstan, for good and ill, for the rest of his life. This fascinating, absorbing classic of Canadian literature is punctuated with elements of the comic, the supernatural, and the magical (even touching on the occult), while the writing itself is always elegant and at times exquisite. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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The Forsyte Sagaby John GalsworthyISBN 014018399X (0-14-018399-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forsyte Saga'Book summary:The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife Irene reverberates throughout the saga. Written with both compassion and ironic detachment, Galsworthy's narrative examines not only the family's fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women in an intensely competitive male world. Above all, Galsworthy is concerned with the conflict at the heart of English culture between the soulless materialism of wealth and property and the humane instincts of love, beauty, and art. [via]
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Freuds Interpretation of Dreamsby A. BrillISBN 0140137947 (0-14-013794-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freuds Interpretation of Dreams'Book summary:Whether we love or hate Sigmund Freud, we all have to admit that he revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. Much of this revolution can be traced to The Interpretation of Dreams, the turn-of-the-century tour de force that outlined his theory of unconscious forces in the context of dream analysis. Introducing the id, the superego, and their problem child, the ego, Freud advanced scientific understanding of the mind immeasurably by exposing motivations normally invisible to our consciousness. While there's no question that his own biases and neuroses influenced his observations, the details are less important than the paradigm shift as a whole. After Freud, our interior lives became richer and vastly more mysterious.
These mysteries clearly bothered him--he went to great (often absurd) lengths to explain dream imagery in terms of childhood sexual trauma, a component of his theory jettisoned mid-century, though now popular among recovered-memory therapists. His dispassionate analyses of his own dreams are excellent studies for cognitive scientists wishing to learn how to sacrifice their vanities for the cause of learning. Freud said of the work contained in The Interpretation of Dreams, "Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime." One would have to feel quite fortunate to shake the world even once. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Global Perspectives: A Handbook for Understanding Global Issuesby Laura F. Klein, Ann KelleherISBN 0138523932 (0-13-852393-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George FrazerISBN 0140189319 (0-14-018931-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Draws on myths, rituals, totems and taboos fo ancient European and primitive cultures throughout the world. the third edition of this monumental study of folklore, magic, and religion was abridged by the authour into this single volume in 1922.[via]More editions of The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion:
The Grand Babylon Hotelby Arnold BennettISBN 0140180192 (0-14-018019-2)
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The Green Consumerby John Elkington, Julia Hailes, Joel MakowerISBN 0140127089 (0-14-012708-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Consumer'Book summary:The must-have handbook of environmental-friendly products--now revised and updated. This easy-to-use, brand-specific guide gives the vital facts on a wide range of products and has been expanded to include new information on eco-safe house paint, wood products that don't contribute to the destruction of rain forests, green cotton clothing, and more. [via]
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A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizationsby Clive PontingISBN 0140176608 (0-14-017660-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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History of Modern France: Old Regime and Revolution, 1715-1799by Alfred CobbanISBN 0140138250 (0-14-013825-0)
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Inside the Third World: The Anatomy of Povertyby Paul HarrisonISBN 0140172173 (0-14-017217-3)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside the Third World: The Anatomy of Poverty'Book summary:Paul Harrison has provided a comprehensive guide to the roots of mass poverty, to the social strains and political instability that turn one Third World country after another into dangerous flashpoints - an ever-growing threat to the world's peace and prosperity. From climate and colonialism, through land hunger, exploding cities and unemployment, to over population, malnutrition, disease and illiteracy, the wealth of facts and analysis is brought home in first hand, often harrowing accounts of the realities of life for poor people and poor communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. [via]
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Kon-Tikiby Thor HeyerdahlISBN 0137507380 (0-13-750738-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. Lawrence, Michael SquiresISBN 0140187863 (0-14-018786-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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The Last Septemberby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0140183043 (0-14-018304-3)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Less Than Zeroby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0140088946 (0-14-008894-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Less Than Zero'Book summary:Clay comes home to L.A. for Christmas vacation and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs. Morally barren, ethically bereft and tinged with implicit violence, "Less Than Zero" is a shocking coming-of-age novel about the casual nihilism that comes with youth and money. "An extraordinarily accomplished first novel." - "New Yorker." "One of the most disturbing novels I've read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." - Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times." "The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation." - "USA Today." "Remarkable. A killer - sexy, sassy, sad." - "Village Voice." [via]
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcherby Lewis ThomasISBN 0140047433 (0-14-004743-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher'Book summary:[via]Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine. Lewis Thomas writes, "Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us."
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The Media: A New Analysis of the Press, Television, Radio, and Advertising in Australiaby Keith WindschuttleISBN 0140068481 (0-14-006848-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Miss Manners Guide to Rearing Perfect Childrenby Judith MartinISBN 0140083081 (0-14-008308-1)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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The Needs of Strangersby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0140086811 (0-14-008681-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Needs of Strangers'Book summary:What do we need in order to survive?[via]
Whose needs do we have a right to speak for?
Which needs can be satisfied through political actions, and which cannot?To answer these vital questions, Michael Ignatieff returns to the ancient languages of religion, art, and tragedyand to important texts by Shakespeare, St. Augustine, and the great writers of the Enlightenment.
Drawing on these sources, he has written an incisive, moving interpretation of community and democracy in a work that not only examines the breakdown of human solidarity but shows how it might be re-created. The Needs of Strangers restores philosophy to its proper place as a guide to the art of being human.
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On the Roadby Jack KerouacISBN 0140042598 (0-14-004259-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Road'Book summary:On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture. [via]
One Two Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Scienceby George GamowISBN 0140046666 (0-14-004666-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Paper Heroes: Appropriate Technology Panacea or Pipe Dream?by Witold RybczynskiISBN 0140153756 (0-14-015375-6)
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The Participatory Mind: A New Theory of Knowledge and of the Universeby Henryk SkolimowskiISBN 0140194797 (0-14-019479-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Penguin Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0140090029 (0-14-009002-9)
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The Penguin Complete Sakiby SakiISBN 0140090037 (0-14-009003-7)
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The Penguin Economic History of Britain: Reformation to Industrial Revolution 1530-1780by Christopherl HillISBN 0140137483 (0-14-013748-3)
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The Penguin History of the Worldby J. M. RobertsISBN 0140154957 (0-14-015495-7)
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The Penguin Thomas Hardyby Thomas HardyISBN 014009010X (0-14-009010-X)
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The Portable Greek Readerby W. H. AudenISBN 0140150390 (0-14-015039-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Greek Reader'Book summary:It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Audens splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy.[via]Every page in The Portable Greek Reader contains some fundamental precursor of the ways in which we think about heroism, destiny, love, politics, tragedy, science, virtue, and thought itself, Included are excerpts from the mythologies of Hesiod; the martial epics of Homer; the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus; Aesops fables; poems by Pindar and Sappho; the scientific writings of Euclid, Galen, and Hippocrates; and the history of Thucydides. Presented in their most elegant and authoritative translations, and accompanied by Audens brilliant introduction, these selections recreate the Greek world in all its splendor, strangeness, and sophistication.
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The Portable Hawthorneby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Malcolm CowleyISBN 0140150382 (0-14-015038-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Hawthorne'Book summary:The Portable Hawthorne includes writings from each major stage in the career of Nathaniel Hawthorne: a number of his most intriguing early tales, all of The Scarlet Letter, excerpts from his three subsequently published romances-The House of Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun-as well as passages from his European journals and a sampling of his last, unfinished works. The editor-s introduction and head notes trace the evolution of Hawthorne-s writing over the course of his long career: from the tales, to their apotheosis in The Scarlet Letter, through his popular romances, to his private journals and frustrated attempts at another romance. Readers looking for a critical vantage point from which to see Hawthorne whole-his artistic rise, triumph, and sad decline-can find it in this collection. [via]
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0140019219 (0-14-001921-9)
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The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who "affronts her destiny" and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. Like many of James' novels, it is set mostly in Europe, notably England and Italy. Generally regarded as the masterpiece of his early phase of writing, this novel reflects James's continuing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former. It also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom, responsibility, betrayal, and sexuality.
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James Joyce, Chester G. AndersonISBN 0140155031 (0-14-015503-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:Perhaps Joyce's most personal work, "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man" depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce evokes Stephen's youth, from his impressionable years as the youngest student at the Clongowed Wood school to the deep religious conflict he experiences at a day school in Dublin, and finally to his college studies where he challenges the conventions of his upbringing and his understanding of faith and intellectual freedom. James Joyce's highly autobiographical novel was first published in the United States in 1916 to immediate acclaim. Ezra Pound accurately predicted that Joyce's book would "remain a permanent part of English literature, " while H.G. Wells dubbed it "by far the most important living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catholic upbringing." A remarkably rich study of a developing young mind, "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man" made an indelible mark on literature and confirmed Joyce's reputation as one of the world's greatest and lasting writers. [via]
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The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White Houseby James David BarberISBN 0136989861 (0-13-698986-1)
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Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain 1870-1914by Jose HarrisISBN 0140125485 (0-14-012548-5)
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The Razor's Edgeby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0140185232 (0-14-018523-2)
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Reformation to Industrial Revolutionby Christopher HillISBN 0140208976 (0-14-020897-6)
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Right Ho Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140009345 (0-14-000934-5)
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The Rules of Attractionby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0140112286 (0-14-011228-6)
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Sakiby H. H. MunroISBN 0140184201 (0-14-018420-1)
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Seeing Through Clothesby Anne HollanderISBN 0140110844 (0-14-011084-4)
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Sister Carrieby Theodore Dreiser, Neda M. Westlake, James L. W. WestISBN 0140188282 (0-14-018828-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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The Snow Leopardby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0140102663 (0-14-010266-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Snow Leopard'Book summary:In the autumn of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen set out in the company of zoologist George Schaller on a hike that would take them 250 miles into the heart of the Himalayan region of Dolpo, "the last enclave of pure Tibetan culture on earth." Their voyage was in quest of one of the world's most elusive big cats, the snow leopard of high Asia, a creature so rarely spotted as to be nearly mythical; Schaller was one of only two Westerners known to have seen a snow leopard in the wild since 1950.
Published in 1978, The Snow Leopard is rightly regarded as a classic of modern nature writing. Guiding his readers through steep-walled canyons and over tall mountains, Matthiessen offers a narrative that is shot through with metaphor and mysticism, and his arduous search for the snow leopard becomes a vehicle for reflections on all manner of matters of life and death. In the process, The Snow Leopard evolves from an already exquisite book of natural history and travel into a grand, Buddhist-tinged parable of our search for meaning. By the end of their expedition, having seen wolves, foxes, rare mountain sheep, and other denizens of the Himalayas, and having seen many signs of the snow leopard but not the cat itself, Schaller muses, "We've seen so much, maybe it's better if there are some things that we don't see."
That sentiment, as well as the sense of wonder at the world's beauty that pervades Matthiessen's book, ought to inform any journey into the wild. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Societyby Peter TrudgillISBN 0140134700 (0-14-013470-0)
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The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du Bois, Monica M. Elbert, Donald B. GibsonISBN 014018998X (0-14-018998-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Souls of Black Folk'Book summary:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.
With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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The Spaniards: A Portrait of the New Spainby John HooperISBN 0140098089 (0-14-009808-9)
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Stamboul Trainby Graham GreeneISBN 0140185321 (0-14-018532-1)
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Theory of the Leisure Classby Thorstein VeblenISBN 0140187952 (0-14-018795-2)
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The Transformation and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Malcolm PasleyISBN 0140184783 (0-14-018478-3)
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A companion volume to The Great Wall of China and Other Short Works, these new translations bring together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. This volume contains his most famous story. The Transformation, more popularly known as Metamorphosis. Other works include Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America; and A Fasting Artist, a collection of stories written towards the end of Kafka's life. There is also a fascinating occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eye-witness account of an air display in 1909. Taken together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.More editions of The Transformation and Other Stories:
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Travels With Charleyby John SteinbeckISBN 0140053204 (0-14-005320-4)
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Travels with Charley in Search of Americaby John Steinbeck, Jay PariniISBN 0140187413 (0-14-018741-3)
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Travels With Dr. Death and Other Unusual Investigationsby Ron RosenbaumISBN 0140138455 (0-14-013845-5)
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Trio: Oona Chaplin, Carol Matthau, Gloria Vanderbilt Protrait of an Intimate Friendshipby Aram SaroyanISBN 0140088849 (0-14-008884-9)
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 014003000X (0-14-003000-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Valmontby Choderlos De Laclos, P.W.K. StoneISBN 0140131159 (0-14-013115-9)
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Waiting for the Barbariansby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 014006110X (0-14-006110-X)
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Waiting for the Weekendby Witold RybczynskiISBN 0140126635 (0-14-012663-5)
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We Have Always Lived in the Castleby Shirley JacksonISBN 0140071075 (0-14-007107-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle'Book summary:Visitors call seldom at Blackwood House. Taking tea at the scene of a multiple poisoning, with a suspected murderess as one's host, is a perilous business. For a start, the talk tends to turn to arsenic. "It happened in this very room, and we still have our dinner in here every night," explains Uncle Julian, continually rehearsing the details of the fatal family meal. "My sister made these this morning," says Merricat, politely proffering a plate of rum cakes, fresh from the poisoner's kitchen. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel, is full of a macabre and sinister humor, and Merricat herself, its amiable narrator, is one of the great unhinged heroines of literature. "What place would be better for us than this?" she asks, of the neat, secluded realm she shares with her uncle and with her beloved older sister, Constance. "Who wants us, outside? The world is full of terrible people." Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic, burying talismanic objects beneath the family estate, nailing them to trees, ritually revisiting them. She has made "a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us" against the distrust and hostility of neighboring villagers.
Or so she believes. But at last the magic fails. A stranger arrives--cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune. He disturbs the sisters' careful habits, installing himself at the head of the family table, unearthing Merricat's treasures, talking privately to Constance about "normal lives" and "boy friends." Unable to drive him away by either polite or occult means, Merricat adopts more desperate methods. The result is crisis and tragedy, the revelation of a terrible secret, the convergence of the villagers upon the house, and a spectacular unleashing of collective spite.
The sisters are propelled further into seclusion and solipsism, abandoning "time and the orderly pattern of our old days" in favor of an ever-narrowing circuit of ritual and shadow. They have themselves become talismans, to be alternately demonized and propitiated, darkly, with gifts. Jackson's novel emerges less as a study in eccentricity and more--like some of her other fictions--as a powerful critique of the anxious, ruthless processes involved in the maintenance of normality itself. "Poor strangers," says Merricat contentedly at last, studying trespassers from the darkness behind the barricaded Blackwood windows. "They have so much to be afraid of." --Sarah Waters [via]
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Who Rules America Now?: A View for the 80'sby G. William DomhoffISBN 0139584056 (0-13-958405-6)
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World of Wondersby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140043896 (0-14-004389-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World of Wonders'Book summary:This is the third novel in Davies's major work, The Deptford Trilogy. This novel tells the life story of the unfortunate boy introduced in The Fifth Business, who was spirited away from his Canadian home by one of the members of a traveling side show, the Wanless World of Wonders. [via]
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