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The Birdsby Tarjei VesaasISBN 0720611431 (0-7206-1143-1)
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Brave New Worldby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0701107928 (0-7011-0792-8)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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ChessISBN 0721406106 (0-7214-0610-6)
Hardcover, Ladybird Books Ltd
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A Chosen Death: The Dying Confront Assisted Suicideby Lonny ShavelsonISBN 0684801000 (0-684-80100-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Chosen Death: The Dying Confront Assisted Suicide'Book summary:This text tells the stories of five terminally-ill people who seriously considered suicide as they were dying. It describes the emotional, spiritual and intellectual questions that each person faced as death neared. The book also includes interviews with family members and friends, and their insights illustrate the benefits and dangers of legalized euthanasia. The author offers his recommendations for how to legalize assisted suicide in a humane and responsible way. [via]
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The Cloud Chamberby Joyce MaynardISBN 068987152X (0-689-87152-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cloud Chamber'Book summary:In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school science fair. [via]
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Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingwayby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684843323 (0-684-84332-3)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway'Book summary:THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury. [via]
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway/the Finca Vigia Editionby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684186683 (0-684-18668-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway/the Finca Vigia Edition'Book summary:The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway will stand as the definitive collection by the man whose craft and vision remains an enduring influence on generations of readers and writers. [via]
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Darkness Before Dawnby Sharon DraperISBN 0689851340 (0-689-85134-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkness Before Dawn'Book summary:Has Keisha found happiness at last?
In her senior year, things are finally looking a little brighter for Keisha. Still haunted by the suicide of her ex-boyfriend, Andy, she finds comfort in the attentions of the new track coach, twenty-three-year-old Jonathan Hathaway, the principals son. How can Keisha not be swept off her feet by a tall, dark, handsome lemon drop wrapped in licorice who treats her like a woman, not a girl?
But suddenly this intoxicating relationship takes a frightening turn, and Keisha is once again plunged into the darkness shes fought so hard to escape. Will Keisha ever be able to find her way back into the light? [via]
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Death in the Afternoonby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684801450 (0-684-80145-0)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in the Afternoon'Book summary:Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is an impassioned look at the sport by one of its true aficionados. It reflects Hemingway's conviction that bullfighting was more than mere sport and reveals a rich source of inspiration for his art. The unrivaled drama of bullfighting, with its rigorous combination of athleticism and artistry, and its requisite display of grace under pressure, ignited Hemingway's imagination. Here he describes and explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual and "the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped on a stick." Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great elegance and cunning.
A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation of the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's sharp commentary on life and literature. [via]
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- Death in the Afternoon: ISBN 068485922X (0-684-85922-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Death in the Afternoon: ISBN 0684157500 (0-684-15750-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co - Death in the Afternoon: ISBN 0684717964 (0-684-71796-4)
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- Death in the Afternoon: ISBN 068485922X (0-684-85922-X)
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The Death Notebooks.by Anne SextonISBN 0701121246 (0-7011-2124-6)
Hardcover, Chatto and Windus
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 0684515652 (0-684-51565-2)
Softcover, Stationery Office, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:First published in 1911, ethan frome is widely regarded as edith wharton's most revealing novel and her finest achievement in fiction. Set in the bleak, barren winter landscape of new england, it is the tragic tale of a simple man, bound to the demands of his farm and his tyrannical, sickly wife, zeena, and driven by his star-crossed love for zeena's young cousin, mattie silver. "in its spare, chilling creation of rural isolation, hardscrabble poverty and wintry landscape," writes alfred kazin in his afterword, "ethan frome overwhelms the reader as a drama of irresistible necessity." an exemplary work of literary realism in setting and character, ethan frome stands as one of the great classics of twentieth-century american literature [via]
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A Farewell to Armsby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684801469 (0-684-80146-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Farewell to Arms'Book summary:As a youth of 18, Ernest Hemingway was eager to fight in the Great War. Poor vision kept him out of the army, so he joined the ambulance corps instead and was sent to France. Then he transferred to Italy where he became the first American wounded in that country during World War I. Hemingway came out of the European battlefields with a medal for valor and a wealth of experience that he would, 10 years later, spin into literary gold with A Farewell to Arms. This is the story of Lieutenant Henry, an American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. The two meet in Italy, and almost immediately Hemingway sets up the central tension of the novel: the tenuous nature of love in a time of war. During their first encounter, Catherine tells Henry about her fiancé of eight years who had been killed the year before in the Somme. Explaining why she hadn't married him, she says she was afraid marriage would be bad for him, then admits:
I wanted to do something for him. You see, I didn't care about the other thing and he could have had it all. He could have had anything he wanted if I would have known. I would have married him or anything. I know all about it now. But then he wanted to go to war and I didn't know.
The two begin an affair, with Henry quite convinced that he "did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards." Soon enough, however, the game turns serious for both of them and ultimately Henry ends up deserting to be with Catherine.Hemingway was not known for either unbridled optimism or happy endings, and A Farewell to Arms, like his other novels (For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, and To Have and Have Not), offers neither. What it does provide is an unblinking portrayal of men and women behaving with grace under pressure, both physical and psychological, and somehow finding the courage to go on in the face of certain loss. --Alix Wilber [via]
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For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684803356 (0-684-80335-6)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'Book summary:For Whom the Bell Tolls begins and ends in a pine-scented forest, somewhere in Spain. The year is 1937 and the Spanish Civil War is in full swing. Robert Jordan, a demolitions expert attached to the International Brigades, lies "flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees." The sylvan setting, however, is at sharp odds with the reason Jordan is there: he has come to blow up a bridge on behalf of the antifascist guerrilla forces. He hopes he'll be able to rely on their local leader, Pablo, to help carry out the mission, but upon meeting him, Jordan has his doubts: "I don't like that sadness, he thought. That sadness is bad. That's the sadness they get before they quit or before they betray. That is the sadness that comes before the sell-out." For Pablo, it seems, has had enough of the war. He has amassed for himself a small herd of horses and wants only to stay quietly in the hills and attract as little attention as possible. Jordan's arrival--and his mission--have seriously alarmed him.
"I am tired of being hunted. Here we are all right. Now if you blow a bridge here, we will be hunted. If they know we are here and hunt for us with planes, they will find us. If they send Moors to hunt us out, they will find us and we must go. I am tired of all this. You hear?" He turned to Robert Jordan. "What right have you, a foreigner, to come to me and tell me what I must do?"
In one short chapter Hemingway lays out the blueprint for what is to come: Jordan's sense of duty versus Pablo's dangerous self-interest and weariness with the war. Complicating matters even more are two members of the guerrilla leader's small band: his "woman" Pilar, and Maria, a young woman whom Pablo rescued from a Republican prison train. Unlike her man, Pilar is still fiercely devoted to the cause and as Pablo's loyalty wanes, she becomes the moral center of the group. Soon Jordan finds himself caught between the two, even as his own resolve is tested by his growing feelings for Maria.For Whom the Bell Tolls combines two of the author's recurring obsessions: war and personal honor. The pivotal battle scene involving El Sordo's last stand is a showcase for Hemingway's narrative powers, but the quieter, ongoing conflict within Robert Jordan as he struggles to fulfill his mission perhaps at the cost of his own life is a testament to his creator's psychological acuity. By turns brutal and compassionate, it is arguably Hemingway's most mature work and one of the best war novels of the 20th century. --Alix Wilber [via]
The Garden of Edenby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684804522 (0-684-80452-2)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Garden of Eden'Book summary:A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the uncompleted final novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman.
The Good Soldierby Ford M. HueffnerISBN 0742630986 (0-7426-3098-6)
Hardcover, Classic Books
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. BruccoliISBN 0684801523 (0-684-80152-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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- The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0684830426 (0-684-83042-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0684717603 (0-684-71760-3)
Softcover, Collier Books - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 068416325X (0-684-16325-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0684196476 (0-684-19647-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0684801523 (0-684-80152-3)
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- The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0684830426 (0-684-83042-6)
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The Great Gatsbyby Hoffman, Frederick John, EdISBN 0684412845 (0-684-41284-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:An assortment of articles treating issues surrounding the Great Gatsby. Part I - From This Side of Paradise to Great Gatsby, Part II, The Great Gatsby and its world, Part III, The Great Gatsby, and Part IV, The Permanence of the Great Gatsby. Includes a bibliography. [via]
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Green Hills of Africaby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684801299 (0-684-80129-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Green Hills of Africa'Book summary:"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."
-- ERNEST HEMINGWAY
In the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. "I had quite a trip," the author told his friend Philip Percival, with characteristic understatement.
Green Hills of Africa is Hemingway's account of that expedition, of what it taught him about Africa and himself. Richly evocative of the region's natural beauty, tremendously alive to its character, culture, and customs, and pregnant with a hard-won wisdom gained from the extraordinary situations it describes, it is widely held to be one of the twentieth century's classic travelogues. [via]
The History of King Learby William Shakespeare, Nahum Tate, James BlackISBN 071315862X (0-7131-5862-X)
Softcover, Edward Arnold
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The House of Mirthby Edith Wharton, Anita BrooknerISBN 068480123X (0-684-80123-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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- The House of Mirth: ISBN 0743217179 (0-7432-1717-9)
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Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The House of Mirth: ISBN 0684719282 (0-684-71928-2)
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- The House of Mirth: ISBN 0743217179 (0-7432-1717-9)
In Our Timeby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684822768 (0-684-82276-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Innocent Bloodby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219635 (0-7432-1963-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Innocent Blood'Book summary:Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir.
"As a crime novel," wrote the London Times, Innocent Blood is "the peak of the art." "Flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving," Cosmopolitan concurred. [via]
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Islands in the Streamby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684837870 (0-684-83787-0)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Islands in the Stream'Book summary:A simple, easy-reading rendition of Ernest Hemingway's "Big book about the sea", surely to be treasured in your collection. "Marvelously alive, moving quickly and showing glimmers of joy and humor that you might never have noticed in his work before." --Bruce Cook, National Observer [via]
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Jim Morrison: Lords and New Creaturesby James MorrisonISBN 0711905525 (0-7119-0552-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jim Morrison: Lords and New Creatures'Book summary:Intense, erotic, and enigmatic, Jim Morrison's persona is as riveting now as the lead singer/composer "Lizard King" was during The Doors' peak in the late sixties. His fast life and mysterious death remain controversial more than twenty years later.
The Lords and the New Creatures, Morrison's first published volume of poetry, is an uninhibited exploration of society's dark side -- drugs, sex, fame, and death -- captured in sensual, seething images. Here, Morrison gives a revealing glimpse at an era and at the man whose songs and savage performances have left their indelible impression on our culture. [via]
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Journey to the End of the Nightby Louis Ferdinand CelineISBN 0714541397 (0-7145-4139-7)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to the End of the Night'Book summary:When it was published in 1932, this then-shocking and revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-Century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism. [via]
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Journey to the Orientby Gerard De Nerval, Norman GlassISBN 0720610966 (0-7206-1096-6)
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 0742627985 (0-7426-2798-5)
Hardcover, Classic Books
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Kokoroby Soseki NatsumeISBN 0720600405 (0-7206-0040-5)
Hardcover, Peter Owen
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The Life and Death of Yukio Mishimaby Henry Scott-StokesISBN 0720601231 (0-7206-0123-1)
Hardcover, Owen
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima'Book summary:The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima is still regarded as a definitive account of the Japanese writers extraordinary life. Scott Stokes was one of the few Westerners to become a close friend of Mishima and his close accounts of him are key to the fascination of this biography[via]More editions of The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima:
Love Me or Kill Me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremesby Graham SaundersISBN 0719059569 (0-7190-5956-9)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Maurice Guestby Clive T. Probyn, Bruce Steele, Henry Handel RichardsonISBN 0702230286 (0-7022-3028-6)
Hardcover, University of Queensland Press
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Men Without Womenby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684825864 (0-684-82586-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Men Without Women'Book summary:CLASSIC SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF AMERICAN FICTION
First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. In "Banal Story," Hemingway offers a lasting tribute to the famed matador Maera. "In Another Country" tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. "The Killers" is the hard-edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. Nick Adams makes an appearance in "Ten Indians," in which he is presumably betrayed by his Indian girlfriend, Prudence. And "Hills Like White Elephants" is a young couple's subtle, heartwrenching discussion of abortion. Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America's finest short story writer. [via]
Michael, Wait for Meby Patricia CalvertISBN 0689821026 (0-689-82102-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Old Man and the Seaby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684801221 (0-684-80122-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Man and the Sea'Book summary:Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work: "The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords." Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame:
Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: "The old man was dreaming about the lions." Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career. --James Marcus [via]More editions of The Old Man and the Sea:
- The Old Man and the Sea: ISBN 0684830493 (0-684-83049-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Old Man and the Sea: ISBN 0684718057 (0-684-71805-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Old Man and the Sea: ISBN 0684153637 (0-684-15363-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co - The Old Man and the Sea: ISBN 0684182270 (0-684-18227-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Old Man and the Sea: ISBN 0684801221 (0-684-80122-1)
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- The Old Man and the Sea: ISBN 0684830493 (0-684-83049-3)
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The Old Man And the Seaby HemingwayISBN 0684163268 (0-684-16326-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Orlando: A Biographyby Virginia WoolfISBN 070120995X (0-7012-0995-X)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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The Return of the Nativeby Thomas HardyISBN 0701124431 (0-7011-2443-1)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of the Native'Book summary:FIRST of this EDITION, leather spine/cloth boards, gilt decorated covers, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in. B/w illustrations by Ben F. Wohlberg. 418 pages, published 1980 by The Franklin Library [via]
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Sel 43 Tess D'urbervillesby S. E. L. 43 HUGMANISBN 071315506X (0-7131-5506-X)
Softcover, Ashgate Publishing, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sel 43 Tess D'urbervilles'Book summary:When John Durberyfield discovers a family connection to the ancient Norman family, the d'Urbervilles, the fate of daughter Tess is transformed. [via]
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Separate Peaceby John KnowlesISBN 0684833662 (0-684-83366-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Separate Peace'Book summary:Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.
A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowless crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic. [via]
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The Shipping Newsby Annie ProulxISBN 068485791X (0-684-85791-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shipping News'Book summary:This darkly comic, wonderfully inventive work, winner of the 1993 National Book Award, transforms the lore of Newfoundland--including shipwrecks, nautical knot-tying, horrid weather and family legend--into brilliant literary art. It is the story of the rebirth of Quoyle, a hulking, inarticulate, misery-ridden widower who flees upstate New York to take up residence in Newfoundland. The island of his forebears, Newfoundland is a dreary rock in the north Atlantic beset by lousy weather. Proulx lovingly recreates this hardscrabble location in her vivid, distinctive prose and populates it with a cast of amusing, richly human characters. Quoyle, a "third-rate newspaperman," makes a hit with his "Shipping News" column, while his anguish at the loss of his faithless wife is slowly transformed by the strengthening ties that bind him to the place and to his fellow Newfoundlanders. [via]
Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicideby Christopher Lukas, Henry M. SeidenISBN 0684187701 (0-684-18770-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Sun Also Risesby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684830515 (0-684-83051-5)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sun Also Rises'Book summary:The Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, and yet it's as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer. Hemingway's famously plain declarative sentences linger in the mind like poetry: "Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that." His cast of thirtysomething dissolute expatriates--Brett and her drunken fiancé, Mike Campbell, the unhappy Princeton Jewish boxer Robert Cohn, the sardonic novelist Bill Gorton--are as familiar as the "cool crowd" we all once knew. No wonder this quintessential lost-generation novel has inspired several generations of imitators, in style as well as lifestyle.
Jake Barnes, Hemingway's narrator with a mysterious war wound that has left him sexually incapable, is the heart and soul of the book. Brett, the beautiful, doomed English woman he adores, provides the glamour of natural chic and sexual unattainability. Alcohol and post-World War I anomie fuel the plot: weary of drinking and dancing in Paris cafés, the expatriate gang decamps for the Spanish town of Pamplona for the "wonderful nightmare" of a week-long fiesta. Brett, with fiancé and ex-lover Cohn in tow, breaks hearts all around until she falls, briefly, for the handsome teenage bullfighter Pedro Romero. "My God! he's a lovely boy," she tells Jake. "And how I would love to see him get into those clothes. He must use a shoe-horn." Whereupon the party disbands.
But what's most shocking about the book is its lean, adjective-free style. The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's masterpiece--one of them, anyway--and no matter how many times you've read it or how you feel about the manners and morals of the characters, you won't be able to resist its spell. This is a classic that really does live up to its reputation. --David Laskin [via]
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Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Sun Also Rises: ISBN 0684800713 (0-684-80071-3)
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Tears of a Tigerby Sharon M. DraperISBN 0689806981 (0-689-80698-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tears of a Tiger'Book summary:Sharon Draper is a two-time Coretta Scott King Award-winning author, most recently for "Copper Sun," and previously for "Forged by Fire." She's also the recipient of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Author Award for New Talent for "Tears of a Tiger" and the Coretta Scott King Author Honor for "The Battle of Jericho "and "November Blues." Her other books include "Romiette and Julio," "Darkness Before Dawn," and "Double Dutch." She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she taught high school English for twenty-five years. She's a popular conference speaker, addressing educational and literary groups both nationally and internationally. For more information visit her online at www.sharondraper.com. [via]
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Three Guineasby Virginia WoolfISBN 0701207019 (0-7012-0701-9)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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To Have and Have Notby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684818981 (0-684-81898-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Have and Have Not'Book summary:First things first: readers coming to To Have and Have Not after seeing the Bogart/Bacall film should be forewarned that about the only thing the two have in common is the title. The movie concerns a brave fishing-boat captain in World War II-era Martinique who aids the French Resistance, battles the Nazis, and gets the girl in the end. The novel concerns a broke fishing-boat captain who agrees to carry contraband between Cuba and Florida in order to feed his wife and daughters. Of the two, the novel is by far the darker, more complex work.
The first time we meet Harry Morgan, he is sitting in a Havana bar watching a gun battle raging out in the street. After seeing a Cuban get his head blown off with a Luger, Morgan reacts with typical Hemingway understatement: "I took a quick one out of the first bottle I saw open and I couldn't tell you yet what it was. The whole thing made me feel pretty bad." Still feeling bad, Harry heads out in his boat on a charter fishing expedition for which he is later stiffed by the client. With not even enough money to fill his gas tanks, he is forced to agree to smuggle some illegal Chinese for the mysterious Mr. Sing. From there it's just a small step to carrying liquor--a disastrous run that ends when Harry loses an arm and his boat. Once Harry gets mixed up in the brewing Cuban revolution, however, even those losses seem small compared to what's at stake now: his very life.
Hemingway tells most of this story in the third person, but, significantly, he brackets the whole with a section at the beginning told from Harry's perspective and a short, heart-wrenching chapter at the end narrated by his wife, Marie. In between there is adventure, danger, betrayal, and death, but this novel begins and ends with the tough and tender portrait of a man who plays the cards that are dealt him with courage and dignity, long after hope is gone. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- To Have and Have Not: ISBN 0684859238 (0-684-85923-8)
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia WoolfISBN 0701202777 (0-7012-0277-7)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Lighthouse'Book summary:Woolf's best known novel records the daily life of a large English family and their guests on holiday in the Hebrides. The surface action is minimal, but Woolf uses the stream of consciousness technique, a progression of internal impressions and thoughts, to capture the characters' moment - by - moment reactions to the passing of time. The underlying tensions between the nurturing Mrs. Ramsay and the coldly rational Mr. Ramsay speak volumes about the conflicts of female and male relationships. But perhaps Woolf's most dazzling accomplishment in To the Lighthouse is her depiction of the painter Lily Briscoe's triumphant creative moment as she struggles to complete a painting and ultimately experiences the transcendence of art. [via]
The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Andrew M. WilkinsonISBN 0723100896 (0-7231-0089-6)
Hardcover, University Tutorial Press
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Valparaiso: A Play in Two Actsby Don DelilloISBN 0684865688 (0-684-86568-8)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Valparaiso: A Play in Two Acts'Book summary:A man sets out on an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It turns out to be a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence.
This is Don DeLillo's second play and it is funny, sharp, and deep-reaching. Its characters tend to have needs and desires shaped by the forces of broadcast technology.
This is the way we talk to each other today. This is the way we tell each other things, in public, before listening millions, that we don't dare to say privately.
Nothing is allowed to be unseen. Nothing remains unsaid. And everything melts repeatedly into something else, as if driven by the finger on the TV remote.
This is also a play that makes obsessive poetry out of the language of routine airline announcements and the flow of endless information.
"Valparaiso" will have its premiere at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts in early 1999. [via]
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The Woman Next Doorby Barbara DelinskyISBN 0743204697 (0-7432-0469-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Wonder When You'll Miss Meby Amanda DavisISBN 0688167810 (0-688-16781-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wonder When You'll Miss Me'Book summary:Follow sixteen-year-old Faith Duckle in this audacious and darkly funny tale as she moves through the difficult journey from the schoolyard to the harlequin world of the circus. At fifteen, Faith was lured under the bleachers by a bunch of boys at a football game and raped. Now, almost a year later, a newly thin Faith is haunted by her past, and by the cruel, flippant ghost of her formerly fat self, who is bent on revenge.
This quest for retribution eventually compels Faith to violence, forcing her to flee home in search of the only friend she has -- a troubled but caring busboy named Charlie, who is the lover of a sideshow performer -- and to tumble into the colorful, transient world of the circus. But as she leaves her old life behind and dives headfirst into a world of adult passions and dreams, mercurial allegiances, and exhilarating self-discovery (while paying considerable dues with a shovel in the elephant tent), Faith ultimately begins to discover who she is and all that she is capable of.
Wonder When You'll Miss Me combines tender wit with page-turning energy and characters as original as they are memorable. By turns harrowing and poignant, lyrical and hilarious, it is a vibrant, compelling novel readers won't forget. [via]More editions of Wonder When You'll Miss Me:
Wunschloses Ungluckby Peter Handke, Juliet WigmoreISBN 0719034914 (0-7190-3491-4)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Yearsby Hogarth PressISBN 0701202815 (0-7012-0281-5)
Hardcover, Pub. by L. and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press
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