| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “twentieth century”
books tagged “twentieth century”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
Autobiography Of A Geishaby Sayo Masuda, G. G. RowleyISBN 0231129513 (0-231-12951-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography Of A Geisha'Book summary:Sayo Masudas Autobiography of a Geisha offers a story of unremitting hardship faced by a hot-springs geisha, a virtual indentured sex-slave in pre-World War II Japan.
Born in 1925, Masuda began work as a nursemaid at age 5 and suffered a childhood of emotional and material poverty. She was then sold to the Takenoya geisha house in Upper Suwa at age 12. While her food and clothing were provided for by Takenoya, she was subject to constant verbal abuse as an apprentice. At one point, she was heaved down the stairs by her "Mother" (the name she uses for the proprietor of the geisha house) and nearly lost a leg. During her recovery, she attempted suicide and further injured herself.
Eventually, Masuda mastered the art of seduction as a geisha. The middle portion of the narrative is taken up with stories of her successful campaign for a danna (patron), of her brothers tragic suicide, and of her star-crossed love affair with a Japanese politician.
Autobiography of a Geisha, translated for the first time into English by G. G. Rowley, was published in Japan in 1957 and has been in print in Japan steadily ever since. The tale is rendered in a simple English prose to reflect Masudas own, untrained style (she did not have schooling and she only learned to write hiragana script later in life). For Western readers, Masudas autobiography is a gift: a glimpse into the dark reality behind one of the most shrouded institutions in Japanese culture. --Patrick OKelley [via]
More editions of Autobiography Of A Geisha:
The Benchley Roundupby Nathaniel Benchley, Robert BenchleyISBN 0226042189 (0-226-04218-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Benchley Roundup'More editions of The Benchley Roundup:
Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalismby Allida M. BlackISBN 0231104057 (0-231-10405-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism'More editions of Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism:
The Chinese Gold Murdersby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0226848647 (0-226-84864-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chinese Gold Murders'More editions of The Chinese Gold Murders:
The Chinese Lake Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Storyby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0226848639 (0-226-84863-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chinese Nail Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story'Book summary:The Chinese Lake Murders describes how Judge Dee solves three difficult cases in A.D. 666, shortly after he has been appointed magistrate of Han-yuan.[via]
"[Robert van Gulik] deftly interweaves three criminal cases involving exotic yet universally recognizable characters, then has his Judge Dee provide a surprising yet most plausible solution."New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of The Chinese Lake Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story:
- The Chinese Lake Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story: ISBN 0226848655 (0-226-84865-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Chinese Bell Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story: ISBN 0226848620 (0-226-84862-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Chinese Nail Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story: ISBN 0226848639 (0-226-84863-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
- The Chinese Lake Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story: ISBN 0226848655 (0-226-84865-5)
-
Chronicle of a Death Foretoldby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0224019902 (0-224-01990-2)
Hardcover, J. Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold'Book summary:"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera". "On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on." Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers. All the townspeople knew it was going to happen - including the victim. But nobody did anything to prevent the killing. Twenty seven years later, a man arrives in town to try and piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk. To at last understand what happened to Santiago, and why..."A masterpiece." ("Evening Standard"). "A work of high explosiveness - the proper stuff of Nobel prizes. An exceptional novel." ("The Times"). "Brilliant writer, brilliant book." ("Guardian"). As one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those published in translation by Penguin include "Autumn of the Patriarch", "Bon Voyage Mr. President", "Collected Stories", "The General in his Labyrinth", "In the Evil Hour", "Innocent Erendira and Other Stories", "Leaf Storm", "Living to Tell the Tale", "Love in the Time of Cholera", "Memories of Melancholy Whores", "News of a Kidnapping", "No-one Writes to the Colonel", "Of Love and Other Demons", "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor" and "Strange Pilgrims". [via]
More editions of Chronicle of a Death Foretold:
The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Storiesby Patrick WhiteISBN 0224009923 (0-224-00992-3)
Hardcover, Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories'More editions of The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories:
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literatureby Joseph S. M. Lau, Howard GoldblattISBN 0231080034 (0-231-08003-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature'More editions of The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature:
-
The Concept of the Politicalby Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, Tracy B. Strong, George Schwab, Harvey J. LomaxISBN 0226738868 (0-226-73886-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Concept of the Political'Book summary:In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state. This edition of the 1932 work includes the translator's introduction (by George Schwab) which highlights Schmitt's intellectual journey through the turbulent period of German history leading to the Hitlerian one-party state. It also includes Leo Strauss's analysis of Schmitt's thesis and a foreword by Tracy B. Strong placing Schmitt's work into contemporary context.[via]More editions of The Concept of the Political:
Conference-Villeby Frank MoorhouseISBN 0207134219 (0-207-13421-9)
Hardcover, Angus & Robertson
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Conference-Ville'More editions of Conference-Ville:
The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years, 1789-1888by David P. CurrieISBN 0226131092 (0-226-13109-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years, 1789-1888'More editions of The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years, 1789-1888:
- The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century, 1888-1986: ISBN 0226131122 (0-226-13112-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years, 1789-1888: ISBN 0226131084 (0-226-13108-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years, 1789-1888: ISBN 0226131092 (0-226-13109-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
- The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century, 1888-1986: ISBN 0226131122 (0-226-13112-2)
Cotters' Englandby Christina SteadISBN 0207131627 (0-207-13162-7)
Hardcover, Angus & Robertson
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cotters' England'More editions of Cotters' England:
Couplesby John UpdikeISBN 0233960740 (0-233-96074-0)
Hardcover, Deutsch
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Couples'More editions of Couples:
Crashby J.G. BallardISBN 0224007823 (0-224-00782-3)
Hardcover, Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Crash'More editions of Crash:
The Crucible of Warby Barrie PittISBN 0224018272 (0-224-01827-2)
Hardcover, J. Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crucible of War'More editions of The Crucible of War:
The Crucible of War: Western Desert, 1941by Barrie PittISBN 0224017713 (0-224-01771-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crucible of War: Western Desert, 1941'More editions of The Crucible of War: Western Desert, 1941:
Direct Action: Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Sevenby James TracyISBN 0226811301 (0-226-81130-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Direct Action: Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven'More editions of Direct Action: Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven:
The Edible Womanby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0233961399 (0-233-96139-9)
Hardcover, Deutsch
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Edible Woman'More editions of The Edible Woman:
The Electrical Experienceby Frank MoorhouseISBN 0207159912 (0-207-15991-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Electrical Experience'More editions of The Electrical Experience:
The Emperor's Pearlby Robert Van GulikISBN 0226848728 (0-226-84872-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emperor's Pearl'More editions of The Emperor's Pearl:
The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.by Richard A. Posner, Oliver Wendell HolmesISBN 0226675548 (0-226-67554-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'Book summary:Legendary U.S. Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is not only a giant in American legal history but is also remarkable for having been a master prose stylist. This collection, edited by Richard Posner, who is himself a federal judge, contains essays, speeches, letters to friends, and legal opinions that give the reader a highly enjoyable look into the thoughts that emanated from a very active mind. [via]
More editions of The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:
- The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: ISBN 0226675521 (0-226-67552-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: ISBN 0226675548 (0-226-67554-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
- The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: ISBN 0226675521 (0-226-67552-1)
-
Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers, 1925-1945by Drusilla ModjeskaISBN 0207146160 (0-207-14616-0)
Hardcover, Sirius Book
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers, 1925-1945'Book summary:At the end of the 1920s, Christina Stead had left Australia and was poised to write "Seven Poor Men of Sydney". In London, Miles Franklin was producing her first "Brent of Bin Bin" book and would soon return to Australia. Katherine Susannah Pritchard was enlarging her view of black and white in outback Australia, and the team writing under the name M. Barnard. Eldershaw had published its first novel and won the Bulletin prize. Gathering these writers into a network by her support and criticism was the influential Nettie Palmer. In the mid-1930s, these women and other writers such as Eleanor Dark, Jean Devanny, Dymphna Cusack and Betty Roland, faced the impact of fascism and another war. The platform and the writing desk had different and often conflicting appeals; and the Depression underlined the already precarious existence of the woman writer. This text traces the lives of a generation of Australia's women writers through letters, diaries, notebooks, and the memories of their contemporaries. [via]
More editions of Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers, 1925-1945:
The Eye of the Stormby Patrick WhiteISBN 0224009028 (0-224-00902-8)
Hardcover, Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eye of the Storm'More editions of The Eye of the Storm:
The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacyby William E. LeuchtenburgISBN 0231082991 (0-231-08299-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy'Book summary:"Happy days are here again." That was the rallying cry of a nation picking itself up from the black gloom of the Great Depression with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt left an indelible stamp on America and the Oval Office - many have gone so far as to call him the father of the modern American presidency. This text paints a picture of Roosevelt and the American decade he has come to define. The book investigates the many facets of Roosevelt's politics and personality that inspired a nation to believe that the presidency had been reborn. This account tells the story of Roosevelt's uniquely open relationship with the press, a sea change from previous presidential protocol, prompting one editor to proclaim that "for box office attraction you leave Clark Gable gasping for breath." It recounts the myth and history of the First Hundred Days, when Congress was said to be so trusting of their president that they "did not so much debate the bills it passed...as salute them as they went sailing by." Leuchtenburg details the massive impact Roosevelt had on presidents who followed, and on the American people, from the touching story of an impressionable young Republican couple who petitioned to have their son's name changed from Herbert Hoover Jones to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones in the mid-1930s, to John F. Kennedy's famed "New Frontier" address of 1960, practically paraphrased from a 1935 speech by FDR. Leuchtenburg, who grew up like so many Americans listening to Roosevelt's "Fireside Chats" on the radio, peers into the less flattering details of FDR's world as well. He recounts Roosevelt's almost tyrannical attempts to control all of his government's dealings, threatening to override Congressional decisions that did not go his way. [via]
More editions of The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy:
Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portraitby Patrick WhiteISBN 022402924X (0-224-02924-X)
Hardcover, J. Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait'More editions of Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait:
Gargoylesby Thomas BernhardISBN 0226043991 (0-226-04399-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gargoyles'More editions of Gargoyles:
-
God Knowsby Joseph HellerISBN 0224022881 (0-224-02288-1)
Hardcover, Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'God Knows'Book summary:Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you've never seen him before. You already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon; now meet David as he really was: the cocky Jewish kid, the plagiarized poet, and the Jewish father. Listen as David tells his own story, a story both relentlessly ancient and surprisingly modern, about growing up and growing old, about men and women, and about man and God. It is quintessential Heller. [via]
More editions of God Knows:
The Green Manby Kingsley AmisISBN 0224617400 (0-224-61740-0)
Hardcover, Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Man'More editions of The Green Man:
-
The Heat of the Dayby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0224600559 (0-224-60055-9)
Hardcover, J. Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heat of the Day'Book summary:A novel which draws on a recollection of wartime London to depict the effect of war on the manners, morals and emotions of those not directly engaged in the fighting. By the author of TO THE NORTH, THE HOTEL and A WORLD OF LOVE. [via]
More editions of The Heat of the Day:
-
The House of the Spiritsby Isabel AllendeISBN 0224022318 (0-224-02231-8)
Hardcover, J. Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of the Spirits'Book summary:We begin - at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country - in the childhood home of the woman who will be the mother and grandmother of the clan, Clara del Valle. A warm-hearted, hypersensitive girl, Clara has distinguished herself from an early age with her telepathic abilities - she can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, the fabled Rosa the Beautiful, Clara has been mute for nine years, resisting all attempts to make her speak. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon. Her husband-to-be is Esteban Trueba, a stern, willful man, given to fits of rage and haunted by a profound loneliness. At the age of thirty-five, he has returned to the capital from his country estate to visit his dying mother and to find a wife. (He was Rosa's fiance, and her death has marked him as deeply as it has Clara.) This is the man Clara has foreseen - has summoned - to be her husband; Esteban, in turn, will conceive a passion for Clara that will last the rest of his long and rancorous life. We go with this couple as they move into the extravagant house he builds for her, a structure that everyone calls "the big house on the corner," which is soon populated with Clara's spiritualist friends, the artists she sponsors, the charity cases she takes an interest in, with Esteban's political cronies, and, above all, with the Trueba children: Blanca, a practical, self-effacing girl who will, to the fury of her father, form a lifelong liaison with the son of his foreman, and the twins, Jaime and Nicolas, the former a solitary, taciturn boy who becomes a doctor to the poor and unfortunate; the latter a playboy, a dabbler in Eastern religions and mystical disciplines and, in the third generation, the child Alba, Blanca's daughter (the family does not recognize the real father for years, so great is Esteban's anger), a child who is fondled and indulged and instructed by them all. For all their good fortune, their natural (and supernatural) talents, and their powerful attachments to one another, the inhabitants of "the big house on the corner" are not immune to the larger forces of the world. And, as the twentieth century beats on, as Esteban becomes more strident in his opposition to Communism, as Jaime becomes the friend and confidant of the Socialist leader known as the Candidate, as Alba falls in love with a student radical, the Truebas become actors - and victims - in a tragic series of events that gives The House of the Spirits a deeper resonance and meaning. [via]
More editions of The House of the Spirits:
Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevensby Kenneth A. ManasterISBN 0226502430 (0-226-50243-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens'More editions of Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens:
J.M. Coetzee & The Ethics Of Reading: Literature In The Eventby Derek AttridgeISBN 0226031179 (0-226-03117-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'J.M. Coetzee & The Ethics Of Reading: Literature In The Event'More editions of J.M. Coetzee & The Ethics Of Reading: Literature In The Event:
-
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economicsby Richard ParkerISBN 0226646777 (0-226-64677-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics'Book summary:John Kenneth Galbraith has led an extraordinary life. The world's most famous living economist started teaching at Harvard when he was just 25 years old and has sold seven million copies of his four dozen books. One reviewer said Galbraith wrote "history that reads like a poem." During World War II, at age 32, he was named "tsar" of consumer-price controls in the United States, and he later advised three American presidents and served as ambassador to India. Now in his 90s, Galbraith is still active and has received 50 honorary degrees. All this was accomplished by a Canadian born in a tiny Ontario farming hamlet, whose major at an obscure agricultural college wasn't even economics but animal husbandry. Such an irony is typical of Galbraith's renowned iconoclasm, writes Richard Parker in his 820-page biography John Kenneth Galbraith.
Parker shows how Galbraith's irreverent views were shaped by the Depression, which helped turn him into a passionate advocate of Keynesian economics, the philosophy that inspired FDR's New Deal. Galbraith later became one of the architects of the expansion of federal social services after World War II. Because of his influence in successive administrations, readers get a fascinating fly-on-the-wall picture of debates and intrigue inside the White House during many of the major crises of the Cold War. Galbraith frequently played crucial behind-the-scenes roles that went beyond the duties of an economist: advising President Kennedy during the Cuba missile crisis, helping Lyndon Johnson write his first speech after Kennedy was assassinated, and opposing the Vietnam War, which became his most passionate cause. He later criticized the dismantling of government programs under Ronald Reagan and seemed to love clashing with conservative economists. Parker managed to sift through a mountain of material from Galbraith's long and lively years to distill an engaging narrative that, like Galbraith's own books, is easily accessible to non-economists. --Alex Roslin [via]
More editions of John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics:
Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transitby Catherine A. BarnesISBN 0231053800 (0-231-05380-0)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transit'More editions of Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transit:
Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Storiesby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0226848663 (0-226-84866-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories'More editions of Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories:
The Lacquer Screenby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0226848671 (0-226-84867-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lacquer Screen'More editions of The Lacquer Screen:
Lady Sings the Bluesby Billie Holiday, William DuftyISBN 021466872X (0-214-66872-X)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Sings the Blues'More editions of Lady Sings the Blues:
Lee Miller: A Lifeby Carolyn BurkeISBN 0226080676 (0-226-08067-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lee Miller: A Life'More editions of Lee Miller: A Life:
-
Letters from Prisonby Antonio Gramsci, Frank RosengartenISBN 0231075529 (0-231-07552-9)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from Prison'Book summary:Antonio Gramsci (1891--1937) was one of the most original political thinkers in Western Marxism and an exceptional intellectual. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom, yet he wrote extensive letters while incarcerated, rich with insight into the physical and psychological tortures of prison. In meticulous detail, Gramsci records how political prisoners, himself included, contend with the fear of illness and death and the rules and regulations that threaten to efface their individuality. Forming an incomparable link between Gramsci's intellectual passion and his emotional vulnerability, Letters from Prison shows a man reconstructing his life while being separated from it, struggling to recapture the primary relationships that once defined his identity. Frank Rosengarten divides more than four hundred Gramsci letters into two companion volumes, complete with a chronology of the thinker's crucial life experiences, biographical notes on his correspondents, and a bibliography of works cited in his letters.
[via]More editions of Letters from Prison:
- Letters from Prison: ISBN 0231075545 (0-231-07554-5)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr - Letters from Prison: ISBN 0231075588 (0-231-07558-8)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr - Letters from Prison: ISBN 0224009753 (0-224-00975-3)
Hardcover, Cape - Letters from Prison: ISBN 0231075529 (0-231-07552-9)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
- Letters from Prison: ISBN 0231075545 (0-231-07554-5)
-
London Fieldsby Martin AmisISBN 0224026097 (0-224-02609-7)
Hardcover, J. Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'London Fields'Book summary:Set in the pubs and streets of West London, this is a murder story for the end of the millennium. The author has written six novels including "The Rachel Papers", for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award, "Money" and "Success". [via]
More editions of London Fields:
The Loserby Thomas Bernhard, Jack DawsonISBN 0226043886 (0-226-04388-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Loser'More editions of The Loser:
-
The Magusby John FowlesISBN 0224013920 (0-224-01392-0)
Hardcover, Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magus'More editions of The Magus:
Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promised Landby Sanford A. LakoffISBN 0226468313 (0-226-46831-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promised Land'More editions of Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promised Land:
-
Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949by LauISBN 0231042035 (0-231-04203-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949'Book summary:Brings together some of the best and most historically significant works of short fiction written in China in this century -including such important figures in the development of Chinese modernism as Lu Hsün, Mao Tun, Ting Ling, and Shen Ts' ung-wen. The companion volume to the highly acclaimed (Columbia, 1978), this new volume presents modernist short fiction from the thirty-year period leading up to the Communist revolution of 1949, after which Chinese literature entered a new phase of development. The stories range in setting from the late Ch'ing dynasty through the Sino-Japanese War and the early Communist years, and range in length from brief tales to substantial short novels. Though a large number of the writers represented are leftists, works of all political viewpoints have been included to provide the full literary panorama of one of the most fertile periods of Chinese creative activity.
[via]More editions of Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949:
-
Money: A Suicide Noteby Martin AmisISBN 0224022768 (0-224-02276-8)
Hardcover, J. Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Money: A Suicide Note'Book summary:Absolutely one of the funniest, smartest, meanest books I know. John Self, the Rabelaisian narrator of the novel, is an advertising man and director of TV commercials who lurches through London and Manhattan, eating, drinking, drugging and smoking too much, buying too much sex, and caring for little else besides getting the big movie deal that will make him lots of money. Hey, it was the '80s. Most importantly, however, Amis in Money musters more sheer entertainment power in any single sentence than most writers are lucky to produce in a career. [via]
More editions of Money: A Suicide Note:
-
The Monkey and the Tigerby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0226848698 (0-226-84869-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Monkey and the Tiger'Book summary:The Monkey and The Tiger includes two detective stories, "The Morning of the Monkey" and "The Night of the Tiger." In the first, a gibbon drops an emerald in the open gallery of Dee's official residence, leading the judge to discover a strangely mutilated body in the woodsand how it got there. In the second, Dee is traveling to the imperial capital to assume a new position when he is separated from his escort by a flood. Marooned in a large country house surrounded by fierce bandits, Dee confronts an apparition that helps him solve a mystery.[via]More editions of The Monkey and the Tiger:
-
Much Obliged, Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0214653609 (0-214-65360-9)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Obliged, Jeeves'Book summary:A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster is dismayed by the prospect of a lifetime spent with Madeleine Bassett. If only Jeeves could come to his help. From the author of CARRY ON JEEVES, THE INIMITABLE JEEVES and FEUDAL SPIRIT. [via]
More editions of Much Obliged, Jeeves:
Murder in Cantonby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0226848744 (0-226-84874-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in Canton'More editions of Murder in Canton:
Natural Symbols:Explorations in Cosmology: Explorations in Cosmologyby Mary DouglasISBN 0214650758 (0-214-65075-8)
Hardcover, Barrie & Rockliff the Cresset P.
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Natural Symbols:Explorations in Cosmology: Explorations in Cosmology'More editions of Natural Symbols:Explorations in Cosmology: Explorations in Cosmology:
-
Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Storyby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0226848701 (0-226-84870-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Story'Book summary:Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available.[via]
Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following for decades. Set during the T'ang dynasty, they feature Judge Dee, a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China. Robert van Gulik modeled Judge Dee on a magistrate of that name who lived in the seventh century, and he drew on stories and literary conventions of Chinese mystery writing dating back to the Sung dynasty to construct his ingenious plots.
Necklace and Calabash finds Judge Dee returning to his district of Poo-yang, where the peaceful town of Riverton promises a few days' fishing and relaxation. Yet a chance meeting with a Taoist recluse, a gruesome body fished out of the river, strange guests at the Kingfisher Inn, and a princess in distress thrust the judge into one of the most intricate and baffling mysteries of his career.
An expert on the art and erotica as well as the literature, religion, and politics of China, van Gulik also provides charming illustrations to accompany his engaging and entertaining mysteries.More editions of Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Story:
No One Writes To The Colonel: And Other Storiesby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0224005308 (0-224-00530-8)
Hardcover, Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'No One Writes To The Colonel: And Other Stories'More editions of No One Writes To The Colonel: And Other Stories:
Patrick White: A Lifeby David MarrISBN 0224025813 (0-224-02581-3)
Hardcover, J. Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Patrick White: A Life'More editions of Patrick White: A Life:
The Phantom of the Templeby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0226848779 (0-226-84877-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Phantom of the Temple'More editions of The Phantom of the Temple:
The Pleasure of the Textby Roland BarthesISBN 0224011871 (0-224-01187-1)
Hardcover, Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pleasure of the Text'More editions of The Pleasure of the Text:
The Poetry of Robert Frostby Robert FrostISBN 0224618148 (0-224-61814-8)
Hardcover, Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poetry of Robert Frost'More editions of The Poetry of Robert Frost:
Poets and Murder: A Chinese Detective Storyby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0226848760 (0-226-84876-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Poets and Murder: A Chinese Detective Story'More editions of Poets and Murder: A Chinese Detective Story:
Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereigntyby Carl Schmitt, Tracy B. Strong, George SchwabISBN 0226738892 (0-226-73889-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty'More editions of Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty:
The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.by George SteinerISBN 0226772357 (0-226-77235-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.'More editions of The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.:
Rachel Papersby Martin AmisISBN 0224009125 (0-224-00912-5)
Hardcover, Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rachel Papers'More editions of Rachel Papers:
Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science, 1925-1962by James Burkhart GilbertISBN 0226293211 (0-226-29321-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science, 1925-1962'More editions of Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science, 1925-1962:
-
The Road to Serfdomby F. A. Hayek, Bruce CaldwellISBN 0226320553 (0-226-32055-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road to Serfdom: The Definitive Edition'Book summary:[via]An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist programThe Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate, widespread attention. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 books were sold. In April 1945, Readers Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this edition to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best seller, the book has sold 400,000 copies in the United States alone and has been translated into more than twenty languages, along the way becoming one of the most important and influential books of the century.
With this new edition, The Road to Serfdom takes its place in the series The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. The volume includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought. Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes. Supplemented with an appendix of related materials ranging from prepublication reports on the initial manuscript to forewords to earlier editions by John Chamberlain, Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new edition of The Road to Serfdom will be the definitive version of Hayek's enduring masterwork.More editions of The Road to Serfdom:
- The Road to Serfdom: The Definitive Edition: ISBN 0226320545 (0-226-32054-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Road to Serfdom: ISBN 0226320596 (0-226-32059-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Road to Serfdom: ISBN 0226320618 (0-226-32061-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Road to Serfdom: ISBN 0226320782 (0-226-32078-2)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press - The Road to Serfdom: ISBN 0226320774 (0-226-32077-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Road to Serfdom: The Definitive Edition: ISBN 0226320553 (0-226-32055-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
- The Road to Serfdom: The Definitive Edition: ISBN 0226320545 (0-226-32054-5)
-
Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymesby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0224029320 (0-224-02932-0)
Hardcover, J. Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes'More editions of Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes:
The Scent of Powerby Susan MitchellISBN 0207186812 (0-207-18681-2)
Hardcover, Angus & Robertson
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scent of Power'More editions of The Scent of Power:
Selected Poemsby A.D HopeISBN 0207126577 (0-207-12657-7)
Hardcover, Angus and Robertson
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'More editions of Selected Poems:
Selected Poemsby Kenneth SlessorISBN 0207135444 (0-207-13544-4)
Hardcover, Angus & Robertson
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'More editions of Selected Poems:
Selected Poemsby Robert AdamsonISBN 0207135150 (0-207-13515-0)
Hardcover, Angus & Robertson
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'More editions of Selected Poems:
Selected Poems, 1963-1983by Robert GrayISBN 0207152586 (0-207-15258-6)
Softcover, Angus & Robertson
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems, 1963-1983'More editions of Selected Poems, 1963-1983:
Serfdom and Social Control in Russia: Petrovskoe, a Village in Tambovby Steven HochISBN 0226345858 (0-226-34585-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Serfdom and Social Control in Russia: Petrovskoe, a Village in Tambov'More editions of Serfdom and Social Control in Russia: Petrovskoe, a Village in Tambov:
The Solid Mandalaby Patrick WhiteISBN 0224012479 (0-224-01247-9)
Hardcover, Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Solid Mandala'More editions of The Solid Mandala:
Something Out Thereby Nadine GordimerISBN 0224021893 (0-224-02189-3)
Hardcover, J. Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Something Out There'More editions of Something Out There:
-
Songlinesby ChatinISBN 0224024523 (0-224-02452-3)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Songlines'More editions of Songlines:
Soul on Iceby Eldridge CleaverISBN 0224616951 (0-224-61695-1)
Hardcover, Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Soul on Ice'More editions of Soul on Ice:
The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930by Anne Firor ScottISBN 0226743470 (0-226-74347-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930'More editions of The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930:
-
Staying Onby Paul ScottISBN 0226743497 (0-226-74349-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Staying On'Book summary:In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj and give voice to the loneliness, rage, and stubborn affection in their marriage. Staying On won the Booker Prize in 1977 and was made into a motion picture starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in 1979.[via]
"Staying On far transcends the events of its central action. . . . [The work] should help win for Scott . . . the reputation he deservesas one of the best novelists to emerge from Britain's silver age."Robert Towers, Newsweek
"Scott's vision is both precise and painterly. Like an engraver cross-hatching in the illusion of fullness, he selects nuances that will make his characters take on depth and poignancy."Jean G. Zorn, New York Times Book Review
"A graceful comic coda to the earlier song of India. . . . No one writing knows or can evoke an Anglo-Indian setting better than Scott."Paul Gray, Time
"Staying On provides a sort of postscript to [Scott's] deservedly acclaimed The Raj Quartet. . . . He has, as it were, summoned up the Raj's ghost in Staying On. . . . It is the story of the living death, in retirement, and the final end of a walk-on character from the quartet. . . . Scott has completed the task of covering in the form of a fictional narrative the events leading up to India's partition and the achievement of independence in 1947. It is, on any showing, a creditable achievement."Malcolm Muggeridge, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Staying On:
Talking It overby Julian BarnesISBN 0224031570 (0-224-03157-0)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking It over'More editions of Talking It over:
The Twyborn Affairby Patrick WhiteISBN 0224017330 (0-224-01733-0)
Hardcover, Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Twyborn Affair'More editions of The Twyborn Affair:
Unreliable Memoirsby Clive JamesISBN 0224018256 (0-224-01825-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Unreliable Memoirs'More editions of Unreliable Memoirs:
-
Vintage Wodehouseby P.G. Wodehouse, Richard UsborneISBN 0214203506 (0-214-20350-6)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Vintage Wodehouse'Book summary:A collection of short stories featuring familiar Wodehouse characters such as Bertie Wooster and the inimitable Jeeves, Lord Emsworth and The Empress, Uncle Fred and Pongo Twistleton, Mr Mulliner, The Oldest Member, a whole bouquet of aunts, and a magnum of fizzy girls. [via]
More editions of Vintage Wodehouse:
-
A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Piecesby Lawrence WeschlerISBN 0226893901 (0-226-89390-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces'Book summary:A few months ago, a friend I was talking with began to tell me about a friend of his named Gary Isaacs, who was working at the downtown headquarters of one of the city's top investment houses as an executive in the division monitoring the savings-and-loan crisis. Though Isaacs was just thirty-two years old, my friend recounted, he had previously worked on the Street in several other capacities as well, and before that he'd had a notably successful career in an entirely different field; what's more, it seemed he was about to quit this one, too, and to head off in yet another direction. When I asked my friend what the previous career had been, and, for that matter, what the new one was going to be, he replied that it would be far more entertaining for me to hear the whole story from the man himself, which is how, a few days later, I came to find myself in the sleek elevator of one of downtown's better-known headquarters zooming up towards I didn't have the faintest idea what.
Lawrence Weschler is, simply put, one of the best journalists ever to have written for the New Yorker--of an equal rank to masters like Joseph Mitchell, Philip Hamburger, and John McPhee. Most of the articles in this volume were first published in 1988 as Shapinsky's Karma, Boggs's Bills, and Other True-Life Tales (the story of Boggs has been extracted and expanded into its own book); each of them profiles a creative individual who "works and works at something, which then happens of its own accord: it would not have happened without all the prior work, true, but its happening cannot be said to have resulted from all that work, the way effects are said to result from a series of causes." For republication, Weschler has provided updates on each of his subjects, from Maus creator Art Spiegelman to the now-deceased musical lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky (whom Weschler profiled at the age of 92, and arguably at the peak of his career). He's also added two new "passion pieces," including a profile of comic artist Ben Katchor. A Wanderer in the Perfect City is as close to perfect as books get, and my advice to you is to get a copy, read it, and then reread it whenever your faith in literature needs restoring. If at all possible, get two copies, so you can share this graceful anthology yet never have to part with it. (Oh, and in case you were wondering, Gary Isaacs was a former rocket scientist who ran away from Wall Street to join the circus.) --Ron Hogan [via]More editions of A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces:
-
Williwawby Gore VidalISBN 0226855856 (0-226-85585-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Williwaw'Book summary:A gripping tale of men struggling against nature and themselves, Williwaw was Gore Vidal's first novel, written at nineteen when he was first mate of the U.S. Army freight supply ship stationed in the Aleutian Islands. Here he writes of a ship caught plying the lethal, frigid Arctic waters during storm season. Tensions run high among the edgy crew and uneasy passengers even before the cruel wind that gives the book its title suddenly sweeps down from the mountains. Vividly drawn characters and a compelling murder plot combine to make Williwaw a classic war novel.[via]More editions of Williwaw:
Results page: PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101-110 NEXT
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}