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The Accidental Touristby Anne TylerISBN 039454689X (0-394-54689-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Age of Empire, 1875-1914by Eric J. HobsbawmISBN 0394563190 (0-394-56319-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Age of Reasonby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0394718380 (0-394-71838-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r.by Richard HofstadterISBN 0394700953 (0-394-70095-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r.'Book summary:This book is a landmark in American political thought. It examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 -- with startling and stimulating results. it searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.
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All the Pretty Horsesby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0394574745 (0-394-57474-5)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Pretty Horses'Book summary:Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age. [via]
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The Americans: The Democratic Experienceby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394710118 (0-394-71011-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Americans: The Democratic Experience'Book summary:Daniel J. Boorstin describes a post-Civil War America united not by ideological conviction or religious faith but by common participation in ordinary living: "A new civilization found new ways of holding men together--less and less by creed or belief, by tradition or by place, more and more by common effort and common experience, by the apparatus of daily life, by their ways of thinking about themselves." This is not a familiar litany of names, dates, and places, but an anecdotal account that rises far above impressionism and paints a compelling portrait of the United States as it climbed to new heights. Sheer reading pleasure for lovers of history, this fittingly ambitious conclusion to the Americans trilogy won the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1973. --John J. Miller [via]
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Blott on the Landscapeby Tom SharpeISBN 0394724194 (0-394-72419-4)
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A Capote Readerby Truman CapoteISBN 039455647X (0-394-55647-X)
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The Castle: Classic Collectionby Franz KafkaISBN 0394719913 (0-394-71991-3)
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Cities of the Plainby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 0394705971 (0-394-70597-1)
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A Civil Actionby Jonathan Harr, Marty AsherISBN 0394563492 (0-394-56349-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Civil Action'Book summary:In America, when somebody does you wrong, you take 'em to court. W. R. Grace and Beatrice Foods had been dumping a cancer-causing industrial solvent into the water table of Woburn, Massachusetts, for years; in 1981, the families of eight leukemia victims sued. However, A Civil Action demonstrates powerfully that--even with the families' hotshot lawyers and the evidence on their side--justice is elusive, particularly when it involves malfeasance by megacorporations. Much of the legal infighting can cause the eyes to glaze. But the story is saved by great characters: the flawed, flamboyant Jan Schlichtmann and his group of bulldogs for the prosecution; Jerome Facher, the enigmatic lawyer for Beatrice, who proves to be more than a match; John J. Riley, the duplicitous, porcine tannery owner; and a host of others. It's impossible not to feel the drama of this methodical book, impossible not to grieve for the parents who lost children, and impossible not to share Schlichtmann's desperation as he runs out of money. A Civil Action reads like one long advertisement for a few well-placed Molotov cocktails. (But that wouldn't make for a very long book, now would it?) [via]
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Claudius the Godby Robert GravesISBN 0394608127 (0-394-60812-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Collected Poems of Wallace Stevensby Wallace StevensISBN 0394711807 (0-394-71180-7)
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Collected Shorter Playsby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394620984 (0-394-62098-4)
Softcover, Grove Press
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0394707214 (0-394-70721-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Ernest J. Simmons [via]
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Darkness at Noonby Arthur KoestlerISBN 0394600746 (0-394-60074-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkness at Noon'Book summary:This splendid novel is set in the tumultuous Soviet Union of the 1930s during the treason trials. Rubashov, the protagonist and a hero of the revolution, is arrested and jailed for things he has not done, though there is much about the current Soviet state that veered from his ideals as a revolutionary. His investigators, Ivanov and Gletkin, seek a public confession and interrogate him using a number of methods. Through the ordeal, Rubashov reaches an epiphany or two while his interrogators suffer the cruel fate of the Soviet machine. Darkness at Noon succeeds as political/historical novel, but even more so as a refreshing tale of the human spirit. [via]
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Death Be Not Proudby John J. GuntherISBN 0394604695 (0-394-60469-5)
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The Death of the Heartby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0394605047 (0-394-60504-7)
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Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdalaby Václav Havel, Paul WilsonISBN 0394584414 (0-394-58441-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Doris Lessing Readerby Doris LessingISBN 0394573072 (0-394-57307-2)
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Dr. Faustusby Thomas MannISBN 0394603656 (0-394-60365-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Enormous Roomby e e cummingsISBN 039460427X (0-394-60427-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Eternal Curse on Reader of These Pagesby Manuel PuigISBN 0394713842 (0-394-71384-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Fall and Exile and the Kingdomby Albert CamusISBN 0394603524 (0-394-60352-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Vby William HintonISBN 0394704657 (0-394-70465-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese V'Book summary:More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China's revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the years since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power. It is a rare, concrete record of social struggle and transformation, as witnessed by a participant. Fanshen continues to offer profound insight into the lives of peasants and China's complex social processes. Rediscover this classic volume, which includes a new preface by Fred Magdoff.
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Faulkner Readerby William FaulknerISBN 0394603990 (0-394-60399-0)
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The General and His Labyrinthby Gabriel García Márquez, Edith GrossmanISBN 0394582586 (0-394-58258-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The General and His Labyrinth'Book summary:General Simon Bolivar, the Liberator of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he still dances with such enthusiasm and skill that his witnesses cannot believe he is ill. Aflame with memories of the power that he commanded and the dream of continental unity that eluded him, he is a moving exemplar of how much can be wonand lostin a life.
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Go Down, Mosesby William FaulknerISBN 0394718844 (0-394-71884-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Go Down, Moses'Book summary:I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize
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Go Down, Moses is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkners mythic Yoknapatawpha County. From a variety of perspectives, Faulkner examines the complex, changing relationships between blacks and whites, between man and nature, weaving a cohesive novel rich in implication and insight.More editions of Go Down, Moses:
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The Golden Gateby Vikram SethISBN 0394549740 (0-394-54974-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Gate'Book summary:Can 690 sonnets, rhyming a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-f-f-e-g-g, be a novel? Definitely! First published in 1986 and still fresh (the sole sign of its publication date being the frequent use of the word yuppie), Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate will turn the verse-fearing into admiring acolytes. Janet Hayakawa, a yet-to-be-discovered sculptor and drummer in the Liquid Sheep, secretly places a personal ad for her friend John, even though she too is single. "Only her cats provide distraction,/Twin paradigms of lazy action." The seventh letter does the trick. Lawyer Liz Donati's submission is two sonnets in toto and disarms John into meeting her. Soon they fall into brief bliss, as do her brother, Ed, and John's old college roommate, Phil. Unfortunately, the first couple's love is too soon destroyed, partly by a pet, partly by politics; and the second is rent by religion. Ed pulls away thanks to the Bible: "I have to trust my faith's decisions, / Not batten on my own volitions."
The rest of the novel leads less to the traditional comic ending--rapprochement and marriage all around--than to surprising sadness. But in between there is wit, wordplay, abounding allusion, and some marvelous animals, among them the iguana Schwarzenegger. The author even steps onto the stage on occasion: at a frou-frou publishing party a powerful editor accosts him, curious to hear about his new novel. When Seth tells him it's in verse, the temperature plummets. "'How marvelously quaint,' he said, / And subsequently cut me dead." Luckily, Seth's real editor did anything but. [via]
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Good Morning, Midnightby Jean RhysISBN 0394710428 (0-394-71042-8)
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The Guermantes Wayby Marcel ProustISBN 0394705963 (0-394-70596-3)
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Harlot's Ghostby Norman MailerISBN 0394588320 (0-394-58832-0)
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Health and Happinessby Diane JohnsonISBN 0394587170 (0-394-58717-0)
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Hiroshimaby John HerseyISBN 0394548442 (0-394-54844-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hiroshima'Book summary:When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, few could have anticipated its potential for devastation. Pulitzer prize-winning author John Hersey recorded the stories of Hiroshima residents shortly after the explosion and, in 1946, Hiroshima was published, giving the world first-hand accounts from people who had survived it. The words of Miss Sasaki, Dr. Fujii, Mrs. Nakamara, Father Kleinsorg, Dr. Sasaki, and the Reverend Tanimoto gave a face to the statistics that saturated the media and solicited an overwhelming public response. Whether you believe the bomb made the difference in the war or that it should never have been dropped, "Hiroshima" is a must read for all of us who live in the shadow of armed conflict. [via]
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A History of the World in 10 and Half Chaptersby Julian BarnesISBN 0394580613 (0-394-58061-3)
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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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A House for Mr. Biswasby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0394720504 (0-394-72050-4)
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The Immoralistby Andre GideISBN 0394700082 (0-394-70008-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Immoralist'Book summary:With today's headlines and talk shows, it takes a lot to shock a reader--certainly more than was required in 1902, when André Gide's The Immoralist was first published. What was seen then as a story of dereliction translates today into a tale of introspection and fierce self-discovery. While traveling to Tunis with his new bride, the Parisian scholar Michel is overcome by tuberculosis. As he slowly convalesces, he revels in the physical pleasures of living and resolves to forgo his studies of the past in order to experience the present--to let "the layers of acquired knowledge peel away from the mind like a cosmetic and reveal, in patches, the naked flesh beneath, the authentic being hidden there."
But this is not the Michel his colleagues knew, nor the man Marceline married, and he must hide his new values under the patina of what he now reviles. Bored by Parisian society, he moves to a family farm in Normandy. He is happy there, especially in the company of young Charles, but he must soon return to the city and academe. Michel remains restless until he gives his first lecture and runs into Ménalque, who has long outraged society, and recognizes in him a reflection of his torment. Finally, Michel heads south, deeper into the desert, until, as he confides to his friends, he is lost in the sea of sand, under a clear, directionless sky.
What Gide's story lacks in sensationalism is fulfilled by his descriptive prose, which evokes the exotic nature of Michel's inner and outer journey: "I did not understand the forbearance of this African earth, submerged for days at a time and now awakening from winter, drunk with water, bursting with new juices; it laughed in this springtime frenzy whose echo, whose image I perceived within myself." --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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James Joyce's Ulyssesby S. GilbertISBN 0394700139 (0-394-70013-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Joyce's Ulysses'Book summary:With the passing of each year, Ulysses receives wider recognition and greater acclaim as a modern literary classic. To comprehend Joyce's masterpiece fully, to gain insight into its significance and structure, the serious reader will find this analytical and systematic guide invaluable. In this exegesis, written under Joyce's supervision, Stuart Gilbert presents a work that is at once scholarly, authoritative and stimulating. [via]
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Jesse : The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jacksonby Marshall FradyISBN 0394575865 (0-394-57586-5)
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The Journalist and the Murdererby Janet MalcolmISBN 0394583124 (0-394-58312-4)
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Killing Mister Watsonby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0394554000 (0-394-55400-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killing Mister Watson'Book summary:Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century.
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Largo Desolato: A Play in Seven Scenesby Vaclav HavelISBN 0394622650 (0-394-62265-0)
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Letters to Olga: June 1979 to September 1982by Václav Havel, Paul WilsonISBN 0394547950 (0-394-54795-0)
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Life and Death in Shanghaiby Nien ChengISBN 0394555481 (0-394-55548-1)
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The Loserby Thomas Bernhard, Jack DawsonISBN 0394572394 (0-394-57239-4)
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Lyrical and Critical Essaysby Albert CamusISBN 0394708520 (0-394-70852-0)
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reasonby Michel FoucaultISBN 039471914X (0-394-71914-X)
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnsonby Robert A. CaroISBN 0394720954 (0-394-72095-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson'Book summary:Robert Caro's Master of the Senate examines in meticulous detail Lyndon Johnson's career in that body, from his arrival in 1950 (after 12 years in the House of Representatives) until his election as JFK's vice president in 1960. This, the third of a projected four-volume series, studies not only the pragmatic, ruthless, ambitious Johnson, who wielded influence with both consummate skill and "raw, elemental brutality," but also the Senate itself, which Caro describes (pre-1957) as a "cruel joke" and an "impregnable stronghold" against social change. The milestone of Johnson's Senate years was the 1957 Civil Rights Act, whose passage he single-handedly engineered. As important as the bill was--both in and of itself and as a precursor to wider-reaching civil rights legislation--it was only close to Johnson's Southern "anti-civil rights" heart as a means to his dream: the presidency. Caro writes that not only does power corrupt, it "reveals," and that's exactly what this massive, scrupulously researched book does. A model of social, psychological, and political insight, it is not just masterful; it is a masterpiece. --H. O'Billovich [via]
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Myra Breckinridge ; Myronby Gore Vidal, Edgar BoxISBN 0394553764 (0-394-55376-4)
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The Namesby Don DelilloISBN 0394715640 (0-394-71564-0)
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Native Tongueby Carl HiaasenISBN 0394587960 (0-394-58796-0)
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When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park, but now that the voles are gone, Winder is dragged along in their wake through a series of weird and lethal events that begin with the sleazy real-estate agent/villain Francis X. Kingsbury and can end only one way....
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Natural Symbols : Explorations in Cosmologyby Mary DouglasISBN 039471105X (0-394-71105-X)
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New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City, 1869-1929by Elizabeth B. HawesISBN 0394556410 (0-394-55641-0)
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Nine Plays of Eugene O'Neillby Eugene O'NeillISBN 0394604164 (0-394-60416-4)
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Nostromo : A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph Conrad, Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0394604318 (0-394-60431-8)
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Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckISBN 0394604725 (0-394-60472-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Mice and Men'Book summary:A parable of commitment, loneliness, hope and loss, OF MICE AND MEN is a powerful and moving portrayal of two men striving to understand their own unique place in the world. Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy - becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes, friendship and a shared vision, and giving a voice to America's lonely and dispossessed, OF MICE AND MEN remains Steinbeck's most popular work. [via]
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The Past Recapturedby Marcel ProustISBN 0394706005 (0-394-70600-5)
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Patrick White: A Lifeby David MarrISBN 0394574354 (0-394-57435-4)
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Perfume: The Story of a Murdererby Patrick SuskindISBN 0394550846 (0-394-55084-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'Book summary:The year is 1738; the place, Paris. A baby is born under a fish-mongers bloody table in a marketplace, and abandoned. Orphaned, passed over to the monks as a charity case, already there is something in the aura of the tiny infant that is unsettling. No one will look after him; he is somehow too demanding, and, even more disturbing, something is missing: as his wet nurse tries to explain, he doesnt smell the way a baby should smell; indeed, he has no scent at all.
Slowly, as we watch Jean-Baptiste Grenouille cling stubbornly to life, we begin to realize that a monster is growing before our eyes. With mounting unease, yet hypnotized, we see him explore his powers and their effect on the world around him. For this dark and sinister boy who has no smell himself possesses an absolute sense of smell, and with it he can read the world to discover the hidden truths that elude ordinary men. He can smell the very composition of objects, and their history, and where they have been, he has no need of the light, and darkness is not dark to him, because nothing can mask the odors of the universe.
As he leaves childhood behind and comes to understand his terrible uniqueness, his obsession becomes the quest to identify, and then to isolate, the most perfect scent of all, the scent of life itself.
At first, he hones his powers, learning the ancient arts of perfume-making until the exquisite fragrances he creates are the rage of Paris, and indeed Europe. Then, secure in his mastery of these means to an end, he withdraws into a strange and agonized solitude, waiting, dreaming, until the morning when he wakes, ready to embark on his monstrous quest: to find and extract from the most perfect living creaturesthe most beautiful young virgins in the land that ultimate perfume which alone can make him, too, fully human. As his trail leads him, at an ever-quickening pace, from his savage exile to the heart of the country and then back to Paris, we are caught up in a rising storm of terror and mortal sensual conquest until the frenzy of his final triumph explodes in all its horrifying consequences.
Told with dazzling narrative brilliance and the haunting power of a grown-up fairy tale, Perfume is one of the most remarkable novels of the last fifty years. [via]More editions of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer:
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Personal Historyby Katharine GrahamISBN 0394585852 (0-394-58585-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Personal History'Book summary:In lieu of an unrevealing Famous-People-I-Have-Known autobiography, the owner of the Washington Post has chosen to be remarkably candid about the insecurities prompted by remote parents and a difficult marriage to the charismatic, manic-depressive Phil Graham, who ran the newspaper her father acquired. Katharine's account of her years as subservient daughter and wife is so painful that by the time she finally asserts herself at the Post following Phil's suicide in 1963 (more than halfway through the book), readers will want to cheer. After that, Watergate is practically an anticlimax. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0394605144 (0-394-60514-4)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Plagueby Albert CamusISBN 0394712587 (0-394-71258-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plague'Book summary:The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it. [via]
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Plexusby Henry MillerISBN 0394623703 (0-394-62370-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plexus'Book summary:Second volume in the Rosy Crucifixion series. More about Henry and June, also chronicling the author's travels to the deep South, and his work as an encyclopedia salesmen (after he'd left personnel). [via]
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New Yorkby Robert A. CaroISBN 0394720245 (0-394-72024-5)
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The Power Game : How Washington Really Worksby Hedrick SmithISBN 0394554477 (0-394-55447-7)
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Rage for Fame : The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luceby Sylvia J. MorrisISBN 0394575555 (0-394-57555-5)
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The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetryby Paul AusterISBN 0394717481 (0-394-71748-1)
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Reading in the Darkby Seamus DeaneISBN 0394574400 (0-394-57440-0)
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Reasonable Creatures: Feminism and Society in American Culture at the End of the Twentieth Centuryby Katha PollittISBN 039457060X (0-394-57060-X)
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Remembrance of Things Pastby Marcel ProustISBN 0394711831 (0-394-71183-1)
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Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Groveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 0394711823 (0-394-71182-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove'Book summary:Here are the first two volumes of Prousts monumental achievement, Swanns Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann's Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, exquisite memories, long since passedhis mothers good-night kiss, the water lilies on the Vivonne, his love for Swanns daughter Gilbertespring vividly into being. In Within a Budding Grovewhich won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, bringing the author instant famethe narrator turns from his childhood recollections and begins to explore the memories of his adolescence. As his affections for Gilberte grow dim, the narrator discovers a new object of attention in the bright-eyed Albertine. Their encounters unfold by the shores of Balbec. One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin.
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Remembrance of Things Past/Captive, the Fugitive, Time Regainedby Marcel ProustISBN 039471184X (0-394-71184-X)
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The Reprieveby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0394718399 (0-394-71839-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reprieve'Book summary:An extraordinary picture of life in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Munich Pact and the subsequent takeover of Czechoslovakia in September 1938. Translated from the French by Eric Sutton. [via]
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Robert Lowell : A Biographyby Ian HamiltonISBN 0394716469 (0-394-71646-9)
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Savage Beauty : The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millayby Nancy MilfordISBN 039457589X (0-394-57589-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Savage Beauty : The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay'Book summary:Fans of Zelda, Nancy Milford's groundbreaking (and bestselling) biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald's tortured wife and muse, have been waiting impatiently since 1970 for Milford's promised follow-up about poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). It's finally here, and they will not be disappointed. Milford's vivid narrative limns an electric personality with psychological acuity while capturing the freewheeling atmosphere of America in the turbulent years following World War I. After "Renascence" was published (when she was only 20) and she moved to Greenwich Village, Millay was the queen of bohemia, taking lovers with zest and voicing the reckless gaiety of a generation in her famous lyric, "My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends-- / It gives a lovely light." With her flame-red hair, milk-white skin, and a voice that thrilled audiences (making her poetry readings a welcome source of income), Millay was the archetypal "new woman": powerful, passionate, and not to be ignored. But Milford makes it clear that her first loyalty was to her mother and sisters, and her deepest commitment to her writing. This juicy chronicle has famous names aplenty--critic Edmund Wilson and Masses editor Floyd Dell were among the men devastated by her refusal to be faithful--and lots of dissipation: Millay drank heavily and became addicted to morphine. It also takes a perceptive look at how an artist draws material from her life and at the strategies she uses to protect the wellsprings of creativity. Brief passages interspersed throughout delineating Milford's interactions with Norma Millay, the poet's younger sister and literary executor, might have been self-indulgent and self-aggrandizing; instead they offer intriguing snapshots of the complex process by which biography is made. The resulting book is a tour de force, and wildly entertaining as well. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Second Sexby Simone De BeauvoirISBN 0394607449 (0-394-60744-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Second Sex'Book summary:In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir posed questions many men, and women, had yet to ponder when the book was released in 1953. "One wonders if women still exist, if they will always exist, whether or not it is desirable that they should ...," she says in this comprehensive treatise on women. She weaves together history, philosophy, economics, biology, and a host of other disciplines to show women's place in the world and to postulate on the power of sexuality. This is a powerful piece of writing in a time before "feminism" was even a phrase, much less a movement. [via]
Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literatureby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0394714075 (0-394-71407-5)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Selected Poemsby W. H. AudenISBN 0394725069 (0-394-72506-9)
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St. Mawr and the Man Who Diedby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0394700716 (0-394-70071-6)
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Story of a Shipwrecked Sailorby Gabriel García Márquez, Randolph HoganISBN 0394548108 (0-394-54810-8)
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The Throwbackby Tom SharpeISBN 0394724399 (0-394-72439-9)
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Totem and Tabooby Sigmund FreudISBN 0394701240 (0-394-70124-0)
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Tropic of Cancerby Henry Miller, Anais NinISBN 0394604350 (0-394-60435-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tropic of Cancer'Book summary:No punches are pulled in Henry Miller's most famous work. Still pretty rough going for even our jaded sensibilities, but Tropic of Cancer is an unforgettable novel of self-confession. Maybe the most honest book ever written, this autobiographical fiction about Miller's life as an expatriate American in Paris was deemed obscene and banned from publication in this country for years. When you read this, you see immediately how much modern writers owe Miller. [via]
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Tropic of Capricornby Henry MillerISBN 0394623797 (0-394-62379-7)
Softcover, Grove Press
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Troubled Sleepby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0394718402 (0-394-71840-2)
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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Talesby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0394722655 (0-394-72265-5)
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Vintage Stuffby Tom SharpeISBN 0394724178 (0-394-72417-8)
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What It Takes: The Way to the White Houseby Richard Ben CramerISBN 0394562607 (0-394-56260-7)
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Whittaker Chambers: A Biographyby Sam TanenhausISBN 0394585593 (0-394-58559-3)
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Wiltby Tom SharpeISBN 0394724186 (0-394-72418-6)
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Wilt on Highby Tom SharpeISBN 0394544803 (0-394-54480-3)
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Woman Hollering Creek and Other Storiesby Sandra CisnerosISBN 0394576543 (0-394-57654-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories'Book summary:These stories, breathtaking in their precision and filled with unending moments of infinite and intimate wisdom, depict the variety of life around the Mexican border while bringing us to an awareness of the commonality of our fears, desires and dreams. From the award-winning author of The House on Mango Street. [via]
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Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0394604423 (0-394-60442-3)
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The Years of Lyndon Johnsonby Robert A. CaroISBN 039471654X (0-394-71654-X)
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