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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:The luminous novella and stories in The Age of Grief explore the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and marriage with all the compassion and insight that have come to be expected from Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres . In "The Pleasure of Her Company," a lonely, single woman befriends the married couple next door, hoping to learn the secret of their happiness. In "Long Distance," a man finds himself relieved of the obligation to continue an affair that is no longer compelling to him, only to be waylaid by the guilt he feels at his easy escape. And in the incandescently wise and moving title novella, a dentist, aware that his wife has fallen in love with someone else, must comfort her when she is spurned, while maintaining the secret of his own complicated sorrow. Beautifully written, with a wry intelligence and a lively comic touch, The Age of Grief captures moments of great intimacy with grace, clarity, and indelible emotional power. [via]
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0394869362 (0-394-86936-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Anecdotes of Destinyby Isak DinesenISBN 0394711777 (0-394-71177-7)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Anecdotes of Destiny ; And, Ehrengardby Isak DinesenISBN 039474215X (0-394-74215-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Arabian Nights IIby Husain HaddawyISBN 0393315177 (0-393-31517-7)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights II : Sindbad and Other Popular Stories'Book summary:This work presents four of the most popular stories from "The Arabian Nights": "Sinbad the Sailor"; "`Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"; "`Ala al-Din (Aladdin) and the Magic Lamp"; and "Qamar al-Zaman". [via]
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Arranged Marriageby Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniISBN 0385483503 (0-385-48350-3)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arranged Marriage'Book summary:Although Chitra Divakaruni's poetry has won praise and awards for many years, it is her "luminous, exquisitely crafted prose" (Ms.) that is quickly making her one of the brightest rising stars in the changing face of American literature. Arranged Marriage, her first collection of stories, spent five weeks on the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list and garnered critical acclaim that would have been extraordinary for even a more established author.For the young girls and women brought to life in these stories, the possibility of change, of starting anew, is both as terrifying and filled with promise as the ocean that separates them from their homes in India. From the story of a young bride whose fairy-tale vision of California is shattered when her husband is murdered and she must face the future on her own, to a proud middle-aged divorced woman determined to succeed in San Francisco, Divakaruni's award-winning poetry fuses here with prose for the first time to create eleven devastating portraits of women on the verge of an unforgettable transformation. [via]
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Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destinyby Isak Dinesen, Martha LevinISBN 039475929X (0-394-75929-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny'Book summary:In the classic "Babette's Feast," a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares a sumptuous feast for a gathering of religious ascetics and, in doing so, introduces them to the true essence of grace. In "The Immortal Story," a miserly old tea-trader living in Canton wishes for power and finds redemption as he turns an oft-told sailors' tale into reality for a young man and woman. And in the magnificent novella Ehrengard, Dinesen tells of the powerful yet restrained rapport between a noble Wagnerian beauty and a rakish artist.
Hauntingly evoked and sensuously realized, the five stories read and novella collected here have the hold of "fairy stories read in childhood . . . of dreams . . . and of our life as dreams" (The New York Times). [via]More editions of Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny:
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 American Short Stories 1990by Richard Ford, Shannon RavenelISBN 039551617X (0-395-51617-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best American Short Stories, 1991by Alice Adams, Katrina KenisonISBN 0395544092 (0-395-54409-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best of Roald Dahlby Roald DahlISBN 0394725492 (0-394-72549-2)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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The Best Short Stories of Dostoyevskyby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David MagarshackISBN 0394604776 (0-394-60477-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Collected Stories of William Faulknerby William FaulknerISBN 0394722574 (0-394-72257-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories of William Faulkner'Book summary:This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds readers of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets. Among the 42 selections in this book are such classics as "A Bear Hunt, " "A Rose for Emily, " Two Soldiers, " and "The Brooch." [via]
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The Complete Storiesby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385416067 (0-385-41606-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 039440324X (0-394-40324-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Compiled here are over 50 of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and tales in one giant Kindle book. This includes an active table of contents to make finding stories easy.
This edition includes the following stories:
The Angel of the Odd
The Assignation
The Balloon Hoax
Berenice
Bon-Bon
The Black Cat
The Business Man
The Cask of Amontillado
Colloquy of Monos and Una
Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
A Descent Into the Maelström
The Devil in the Belfry
Diddling
The Domain of Arnheim
Duc De L'Omelette
Eleonora
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of the Usher
Four Beasts in One
The Gold-Bug
Hop Frog
How to Write a Blackwood Article
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
King Pest
Landor's Cottage
Landscape Garden
Ligeia
Lionizing
Loss of Breath
Maelzel's Chess-Player
Man of the Crowd
Man that was Used Up
The Masque of the Red Death
Mellonta Tauta
Mesmeric Revelation
Metzengerstein
Morella
Ms. Found in a Bottle
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Mystification
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Oblong Box
The Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
The Power of Words
Predicament
The Premature Burial
The Purloined Letter
Shadow -- A Parable
Silence -- A Fable
Some Words with a Mummy
Spectacles
Sphinx
System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
A Tale of Jerusalem
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Tell Tale Heart
Thou Art the Man
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
Three Sundays in a Week
The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0394716787 (0-394-71678-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:All of the tales by the master of the detective and the macabre story. 53 of his best-known poems plus essays and criticisms. [via]
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Complete Worksby Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Alexander WoollcottISBN 0394716612 (0-394-71661-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works'Book summary:This is a carefully edited text of the writer's chief work and selections from his lesser writings and letters without which it would be impossible to form a picture of his life's work and genius. [via]
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The Complete Works of Lewis Carrollby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0394604857 (0-394-60485-7)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Cowboys Are My Weaknessby Pam HoustonISBN 0393326357 (0-393-32635-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cowboys Are My Weakness'Book summary:Set in the West, and sometimes in Alaska, these 12 tales are about women who are smart and susceptible to love, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. Our heroines are part daredevil, part philosopher, all acute observers of the nuances of modern romance. [via]
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Dancing Girlsby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385491093 (0-385-49109-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancing Girls'Book summary:This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. Her men and women still miscommunicate, still remain separate in different rooms, different houses, or even different worlds. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, the stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who touch us deeply, evoking terror and laughter, compassion and recognition--and dramatically demonstrate why Margaret Atwood is one of the most important writers in English today. [via]
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Die Verwandlungby Franz Kafka, Marjorie L. HooverISBN 0393095339 (0-393-09533-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Die Verwandlung'Book summary:Kafkas bekanntester Text in einer sorgfältig edierten Ausgabe
Als Gregor Samsa eines morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem Ungeziefer verwandelt. Mit seiner Verwandlung in einen Käfer protestiert der Handlungsreisende Samsa gegen seinen Beruf, mit dem er die ganze Familie ernährt, er protestiert gegen Vater, Mutter und Schwester, die auf seine Kosten leben er revoltiert gegen sein ganzes Leben. Aber sein Protest bleibt wirkungslos und führt schließlich zum Tod.
Mit einem Nachwort, einer Zeittafel zu Kafka, einem Stellenkommentar und bibliographischen Hinweisen von Dr. Ewald Rösch.
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Favorite Folktales from Around the Worldby Jane YolenISBN 0394751884 (0-394-75188-4)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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Firesby Raymond CarverISBN 039472299X (0-394-72299-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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First Love, Last Ritesby Ian McEwanISBN 0394494229 (0-394-49422-9)
Hardcover, Random House
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Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Storiesby Philip RothISBN 0395518504 (0-395-51850-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories'Book summary:Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.
Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer break and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. The novella is accompanied by five short stories that range in tone from the iconoclastic to the astonishingly tender and that illuminate the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and friends and neighbors in the American Jewish diaspora. [via]More editions of Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories:
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Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and Americaby David Willis McCulloughISBN 0394540654 (0-394-54065-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Albert J. RiveroISBN 0393957241 (0-393-95724-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition" includes a glossary and readers notes to help the modern reader contend with Swifts complex references and vocabulary. First published anonymously in 1727, Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels created a storm of criticismfrom those who believed the stories to be true and knew exactly who Lemuel Gulliver was, to those who demanded that the writer of the seditious tales be hunted down and executed for high treason. Even today, Swifts vitriolic attacks on politics, culture, and human nature itself have earned him the reputation of a crazed misanthrope. Swift, through his hero, consistently rails against political whims, human follies, and the bestial behaviors of the human race: In Lilliput, Gulliver is twelve times the size of the European-like natives. In Brobdingnag, he is one-twelfth the size of the primitive but moral inhabitants. In Laputa, buildings collapse and clothing does not fit, although constructed by the most modern and reasonable means. Finally, in the land of the horse-like Houyhnhnms Gulliver realizes that he and his race are nothing but a brood of Yahoos. [via]
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Haircut and Other Storiesby Ring LardnerISBN 0394726103 (0-394-72610-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A History of the World in 10 and Half Chaptersby Julian BarnesISBN 0394580613 (0-394-58061-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the World in 10 and Half Chapters'Book summary:This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!
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Isaac Asimovby Isaac AsimovISBN 038541627X (0-385-41627-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Italian Folktalesby Italo CalvinoISBN 039474909X (0-394-74909-X)
Hardcover, Pantheon
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Italian Folktales'Book summary:Chosen as one of the New York Timess ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists. Introduction by the Author; illustrations. Translated by George Martin. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Italian Folktales:
Julipby Jim HarrisonISBN 0395488850 (0-395-48885-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Kafka Americanaby Jonathan Lethem, Carter ScholzISBN 039332253X (0-393-32253-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Le Petit Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0395240050 (0-395-24005-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Petit Prince'Book summary:The Educational Edition of this contemporary masterpiece features full-color reproductions of Saint-Exupery's original drawings. The text is presented unabridged and includes John Richardson Miller's introduction to the author's life and works, notes, a bibliography, and a complete end vocabulary. [via]
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Long after Midnightby Ray BradburyISBN 0394479424 (0-394-47942-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Long after Midnight'Book summary:Clive Barker's bestseller Weaveworld astonished worldwide readers with his visionary range, firmly establishing him as the reigning master of fabulist literature. Now, with The Great and Secret Show he rises to awesome new heights. Fantasy horror story love fablein this one unforgettable epic Clive Barker wields the full power and sweep of his extraordinary talents. "Succinctly put," says Barker, "it's about Hollywood, sex, and Armageddon."
Memory prophecy and fantasythe past, the future, and the dreaming moment betweenare all one country living one immortal day To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.
Armageddon begins with a murder in the Dead Letter Office in Omaha, Nebraska.
A lake that has never existed falls from the clouds over Palomo Grove, California.
Young passion blossoms, as the world withers with war.
The Great and Secret Show has begun on the stage of the world.
And soon, the final curtain must fall.
In this, the First Book of the Art, Clive Barker has created a masterpiece of the imagination that explores the uncharted territory within our secret lives and most private hearts. Sprawling, ambitious, triumphantly magical and satisfying, The Great and Secret Show is what the rest of life is all about. [via]
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Metamorphosisby Franz Kafka, Stanley CorngoldISBN 0393967972 (0-393-96797-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metamorphosis'Book summary:Franz Kafka's 1915 masterpiece is presented in this Norton Critical Edition in the acclaimed translation by Stanley Corngold based on the definitive German edition.
The novella is fully annotated and is accompanied by selected textual variants. Backgrounds and Contexts introduces readers to The Metamorphosis in the richest possible setting. The links between the author's life and his work are explored through an examination of his personal writings. Kafka's letters and diary entries illuminate the creative process behind his portrait of Gregor Samsa, his family, and their nightmarish ordeal. Criticism collects seven essays from the period 1970-95 representing the most important currents in literary theorysemiotics, feminism, identity philosophy, New Historicism, and post-Freudian cultural psychoanalysis. The essays offer a variety of perspectives on the novella by Iris Bruce, Nina Pelikan Straus, Kevin W. Sweeney, Mark Anderson, Hartmut Binder, Eric Santner, and Stanley Corngold. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Metamorphosis:
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Museums and Women, and Other Storiesby John UpdikeISBN 0394481739 (0-394-48173-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Museums and Women and Other Stories'Book summary:Short stories (including several of his most important ones) written by the late, great John Updike. [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:The classroom standard for readers and aspiring writers of fiction, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction offers the most comprehensive, engaging selection of classic and contemporary stories in the field.
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Hardcover, Norton - The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: ISBN 0393951820 (0-393-95182-0)
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Out of Africaby Isak DinesenISBN 0394717406 (0-394-71740-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of Africa'Book summary:A beautifully written love affair of Africa Isak Dinesen, nee Karen Blixen, lived in East Africa for almost twenty years making a living as the proprietor of a coffee plantation. Out of Africa is a memoir of her experiences there. But the book is so much more. The stories are interesting to be sure. They relate to the plantation or the people and events that one way or another impacted her life there... [via]
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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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Places in the World a Woman Could Walkby Janet KauffmanISBN 0394529960 (0-394-52996-0)
Hardcover, Knopf
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The Prophetby Kahlil GibranISBN 0394404289 (0-394-40428-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prophet'Book summary:In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have. --Brian Bruya [via]
Reasons to Liveby Amy Hempel, Gordon LishISBN 0394539931 (0-394-53993-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Rendezvous and Other Storiesby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393313808 (0-393-31380-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 039505110X (0-395-05110-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Edgar Allan Poes works, with their gothic and often obsessive themes, have had a significant influence on American literature.
In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text.
Backgrounds and Contexts includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poes prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism, sciences of the mind, sensation fiction, and the South and slavery.
Fourteen judiciously selected critical essays address Poes poetry, fiction, politics, and psychology. Contributors include Floyd Stovall, Robert C. McLean, Richard Wilbur, James W. Gargano, Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Paul John Eakin, Grace Farrell, Liahna Klenman Babener, Barton Levi St. Armand, Joseph N. Riddel, J. Gerald Kennedy, John Carlos Rowe, Terence Whalen, and John T. Irwin.
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The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticismby G.R. Thompson, Gary Richard ThompsonISBN 0393972852 (0-393-97285-2)
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Shatterdayby Harlan EllisonISBN 0395285879 (0-395-28587-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shatterday'Book summary:Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas, Harlan Ellison has, for half a century, steadily gathered to himself and his thirty-seven books an undeniably fanatical readership. Winner of more awards for imaginative literature than any other living writer, he is the only scenarist ever to win the Writers Guild of America award three times for outstanding teleplay. Though his contemporary fantasies have been compared favorably with the dark visions of Borges, Barthelme, Poe and Kafka, Ellison resists categorization with a vehemence that alienates critics and reviewers seeking easy pigeonholes for an extraordinary writer. The San Francisco Chronicle writes, "The categories are too small to describe Harlan Ellison. Lyric poet, satirist, explorer of odd psychological corners, moralist, purveyor of pure horror and black comedy; he is all these and more." In this, his thirty-seventh book, setting down as never before the mortal dreads we all share, Harlan Ellison has put together his best work to date: sixteen uncollected stories (half of which are award-winners), totaling a marvel-filled 105,000 words and including a brand-new novella, his longest work in over a dozen years. "Harlan Ellison is the dark prince of American letters, cutting through our corrupted midnight fog with a switchblade prose. He simply must be read." --Pete Hamill "Ellison writes with sensitivity as well as guts--a rare combination." --Leslie Charteris, creator of The Saint [via]
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Side Effectsby Woody AllenISBN 0394511042 (0-394-51104-2)
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395346460 (0-395-34646-0)
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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] 
Stories: Introduction by Margaret Drabbleby Doris May LessingISBN 0394742494 (0-394-74249-4)
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Stranger Than Fiction: True Storiesby Chuck PalahniukISBN 0385722222 (0-385-72222-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories'Book summary:Chuck Palahniuks world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson reads his own Tarot cards and talks sweetly to his beautiful actress girlfriend. Across the country, men build their own full-size castles and rocketships that will send them into space. Palahniuk himself experiments with steroids, works on an assembly line by day and as a hospice volunteer by night, and experiences the brutal murder of his father by a white supremacist. With this new direction, Chuck Palahniuk has proven he can do anything. [via]
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Sudden Fiction Internationalby Robert Shapard, James ThomasISBN 0393306135 (0-393-30613-5)
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The Toynbee Convectorby Ray BradburyISBN 0394547039 (0-394-54703-9)
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Turn of the Screwby Henry James, Deborah Esch, Jonathan WarrenISBN 039395904X (0-393-95904-X)
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Unfinished Talesby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395324416 (0-395-32441-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unfinished Tales'Book summary:Edited by Christopher Tolkien, Unfinished Tales is a posthumous collection of narratives ranging from the time of The Silmarillion - the Elder days of Middle-earth - to the end of the War of the Ring in The Lord of the Rings. Among the stories told are Gandalf's account of sending the dwarves to Bibo's party at Bag End, the tale of the appearance of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor along the coast of Beleriand, and a description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan. It also contains the only story from the long ages of Numenor before its downfall, and all that is known of such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantiri, and the legend of Amroth. [via]
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Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earthby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395299179 (0-395-29917-9)
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The Watchby Rick BassISBN 039331135X (0-393-31135-X)
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We Love Glenda So Much and a Change of Lightby Julio CortazarISBN 0394722973 (0-394-72297-3)
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We Love Glenda So Much and Other Talesby Julio Cortázar, Gregory RabassaISBN 0394524934 (0-394-52493-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Willful Creaturesby Aimee BenderISBN 0385720971 (0-385-72097-1)
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Woman Hollering Creek and Other Storiesby Sandra CisnerosISBN 0394576543 (0-394-57654-3)
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The Woman Lit by Firefliesby Jim HarrisonISBN 0395488842 (0-395-48884-2)
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Writings of Jonathan Swiftby Jonathan Swift, Robert Greenberg, William PiperISBN 0393094154 (0-393-09415-4)
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The Writings of Jonathan Swift: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticismby Jonathan Swift, Robert A. Greenberg, William Bowman PiperISBN 0393042839 (0-393-04283-9)
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