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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 002026478X (0-02-026478-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]
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The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r.by Richard HofstadterISBN 1597400580 (1-59740-058-0)
Hardcover, Acls History E-Book Project
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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.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. [via]More editions of The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r.:
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The American Revolution: A Historyby Gordon S. WoodISBN 1842126806 (1-84212-680-6)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Revolution: A History'Book summary:Gordon S. Wood's The American Revolution, part of the Modern Library Chronicles series, is an erudite, concise summary of the events and circumstances surrounding the seminal conflict, both physical and philosophical, in American history. The Modern Library Chronicles are accessible-but-serious works of scholarship, meant to serve as introductions (or refresher courses) on large subjects for interested readers. The American Revolution is an excellent case in point. Wood deftly describes seeds of the Revolution, most notably disgruntlement on the colonists' part brought about by increasingly maladroit and fiscally punishing British policies. He then follows the course of actual warfare and its aftermath, most interestingly the fraught, bitter battle to draw a governing blueprint for the new country.
Wood breaks little new interpretive ground himself, here, but as a synthesizer (and amiable, skillful narrator/guide) he stands on high ground. --H. O'Billovitch [via]
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The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independenceby John RhodehamelISBN 1883011914 (1-883011-91-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence'Book summary:Drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public declarations, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda, The American Revolution brings together over 120 pieces by more than 70 participants to create a unique literary panorama of the War of Independence. From Paul Revere's own narrative of his ride in April 1775 to an account of George Washington's resignation from command of the Army in December 1783, the volume presents firsthand all the major events of the conflict-the early battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill; the failed American invasion of Canada; the battle of Saratoga; the fighting in the South and along the western frontier; and the decisive triumph at Yorktown.
Famous figures-Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Benedict Arnold, John and Abigail Adams-are here alongside lesser known participants like Samuel Blachley Webb describing courage and panic at Bunker Hill or Sarah Hodgkins writing longingly to her absent soldier husband. American Loyalists and British officers and officials serving in America provide provocative insights into the losing side of an epochal conflict.
The American Revolution includes a chronology of events, biographical and explanatory notes, and an index. [via]More editions of The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence:
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An American Tragedyby Theodore Dreiser, Thomas P. RiggioISBN 1931082316 (1-931082-31-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Tragedy'Book summary:A tremendous bestseller when it was published in 1925, An American Tragedy is the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art. Taking as his point of departure a notorious murder case of 1910, Dreiser immersed himself in the social background of the crime to produce a book that is both a remarkable work of reportage and a monumental study of character. Few novels have undertaken to track so relentlessly the process by which an ordinary young man becomes capable of committing a ruthless murder, and the further process by which social and political forces come into play after his arrest.
In Clyde Griffiths, the impoverished, restless offspring of a family of street preachers, Dreiser created an unforgettable portrait of a man whose circumstances and dreams of self-betterment conspire to pull him toward an act of unforgivable violence. Around Clyde, Dreiser builds an extraordinarily detailed fictional portrait of early twentieth-century America, its religious and sexual hypocrisies, its economic pressures, its political corruption. The sheer prophetic amplitude of his bitter truth-telling, in idiosyncratic prose of uncanny expressive power, continues to mark Dreiser as a crucially important American writer. An American Tragedy, the great achievement of his later years, is a work of mythic force, at once brutal and heartbreaking. [via]More editions of An American Tragedy:
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The Aspern Papers and the Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 185326069X (1-85326-069-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aspern Papers and the Turn of the Screw'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural. The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe, cleverly evoking the drama of comedie humaine against the settings of a Venetian palace. [via]
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At Home in Mitfordby Jan KaronISBN 1863407073 (1-86340-707-3)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler
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Blade Runnerby Philip K. DickISBN 8435015955 (84-350-1595-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blade Runner'Book summary:A principios del siglo XXI, la poderosa Tyrell Corporation desarrolló un nuevo tipo de robot llamado Nexus, un ser virtualmente idéntico al hombre y conocido como Replicante. Los Replicantes Nexus-6 eran superiores en fuerza y agilidad, y al menos iguales en inteligencia, a los ingenieros de genética que los crearon. En el espacio exterior, los Replicantes fueron usados como trabajadores esclavos en la arriesgada exploración y colonización de otros planetas. Después de la sangrienta rebelión de un equipo de combate de Nexus-6 en una colonia sideral, los Replicantes fueron declarados proscritos en la Tierra bajo pena de muerte. Brigadas de policías especiales, tenían órdenes de tirar a matar al ver a cualquier Replicante invasor.
This novel hooks the reader to such extent that he comes the point of doubting whether what hes reading is really happening or its only a part of Dicks pseudo-reality. In this way, the androids of Do Android Dream on Electric sheeps? In Blade Runner called replicants. [via]More editions of Blade Runner:
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The Children's Hospitalby Chris AdrianISBN 1932416609 (1-932416-60-9)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children's Hospital'Book summary:A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, assailed by mysterious forces, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny. Simultaneously epic and intimate, wildly imaginative and unexpectedly relevant, The Children's Hospital is a work of stunning scope, mesmerizing detail, and wrenching emotion.[via]More editions of The Children's Hospital:
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway : The Finca Vigia Editionby Ernest Hemingway, John Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway, Gregory H. Hemingway, Scribner, Charles, IIIISBN 0020332009 (0-02-033200-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway : The Finca Vigia Edition'Book summary:The Finca Vigia edition of The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway collects for the first time the complete work of the acknowledged master of the genre. This landmark collection includes the entire contents of The First Forty-Nine, the first omnibus volume of Hemingway's works publishedin 1939, as well as 14 stories published subsequently in other books or magazines and seven works published for the first time in the hardcover edition. [via]
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark TwainISBN 159818587X (1-59818-587-X)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" in the revolutionary Bed Book Landscape Reading Format - a new approach to reading in bed as well as other places people enjoy reading while lying down, such as the beach, or on a grassy lawn in the park. Bed Books provide the freedom to lie in any comfortable position without being obligated to sit up in order to read. They can be an essential aid for readers who may be prone to back and neck strain when assuming the contorted body positions normally required for reading while lying down, and for those who have previously found it difficult or impossible to read books in bed, such as the elderly and the disabled. Bed Books can also be read sitting up as easily as with a conventional book. See the current Bed Book Catalog at: www.bedbooks.NET www.readinginbed.com [via]
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The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 7208050031 (7-208-05003-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Da Vinci Code'Book summary:Brand New [via]
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of AmericaISBN 1882577981 (1-882577-98-1)
Softcover, Cato Inst
Find This BookBook summary:The documents which would birth and shape a nation are bound together here in one beautiful edition. The philosophies upon which the United States of America was founded have influenced the entire world. Within the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America, these philosophies are distilled to their very essence. These texts retain a special significance far beyond their roles within the government of a single nation, and this significance is best embodied in that immortal statement which begins with We hold these truths to be self-evident... [via]
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The Deerslayerby James Fenimore CooperISBN 1853265527 (1-85326-552-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deerslayer'Book summary:With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Deerslayer is the culmination of James Fenimore Cooper s Leather-Stocking novels, featuring Natty Bumppo (the deer-slaying young frontiersman) and the Mohican chief, Chingachgook. Cooper portrays the hubris of the conquest of a vast territory. The action takes place during the American wars of the 1740s. Natty and his friend Harry attempt to save a trapper and two young women, whose floating fort on Lake Glimmerglass is besieged by the ruthless Iroquois. The tension steadily increases to the point at which a cruel outcome seems inevitable. The exciting action, the romantic potentialities and the knowledgeable evocation of frontier life (with its moral and racial conflicts) have made this novel a perennial favourite. The courageous Natty, with his problematic values, has set the precedent for countless American heroes. Culturally, The Deerslayer has proved to be a powerfully influential work. [via]
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Diamond As Big As the Ritzby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 1853262129 (1-85326-212-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diamond As Big As the Ritz" and Other Stories'Book summary:Stories in the Travelman Short Stories series take the reader to places of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance, and corners of the universe yet unexplored. In turn, readers take them on the bus or subway, slip them into briefcases and lunchboxes, and send them from Jersey to Juneau. Each classic or original short story is printed on one sheet of paper and folded like a map. This makes it simple to read while commuting, convenient to carry when not, and easy to give or send to a friend. A paper envelope is provided for mailing or gift-giving, and both are packaged in a clear plastic envelope for display. The cost is not much more than a greeting card. [via]
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Don't Think Of An Elephant!/ How Democrats And Progressives Can Win: Know Your Values And Frame The Debate The Essential Guide For Progressivesby George Lakoff, Don Hazen, Howard DeanISBN 1931498717 (1-931498-71-7)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Think Of An Elephant!/ How Democrats And Progressives Can Win: Know Your Values And Frame The Debate The Essential Guide For Progressives'Book summary:In the first of his three debates with George W. Bush, 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry argued against the war in Iraq not by directly condemning it but by citing the various ways in which airport and commercial shipping security had been jeopardized due to the war's sizable price tag. In so doing, he re-framed the war issue to his advantage while avoiding discussing it in the global terrorism terms favored by President Bush. One possible reason for this tactic could have been that Kerry familiarized himself with the influential linguist George Lakoff, who argues in Don't Think of an Elephant that much of the success the Republican Party can be attributed to a persistent ability to control the language of key issues and thus position themselves in favorable terms to voters. While Democrats may have valid arguments, Lakoff points out they are destined to lose when they and the news media accept such nomenclature as "pro-life," "tax relief," and "family values," since to argue against such inherently positive terminology necessarily casts the arguer in a negative light. Lakoff offers recommendations for how the progressive movement can regain semantic equity by repositioning their arguments, such as countering the conservative call for "Strong Defense" with a call for "A Stronger America" (curiously, one of the key slogans of the Kerry camp). Since the book was published during the height of the presidential campaign, Lakoff was unable to provide an analytical perspective on that race. He does, however, apply the notion of rhetorical framing devices to the 2003 California recall election in an insightful analysis of the Schwarzenegger victory. Don't Think of an Elephant is a bit rambling, overexplaining some concepts while leaving others underexplored, but it provides a compelling linguistic analysis of political campaigning. --John Moe [via]
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Drop Cityby T. C. BoyleISBN 8439710569 (84-397-1056-9)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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The Dud Avocadoby Elaine DundyISBN 1853815810 (1-85381-581-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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El Salon De Ambarby Matilde AsensiISBN 8408068563 (84-08-06856-3)
Softcover, Booket
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 1598183028 (1-59818-302-8)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University
On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, the only place she can go is Ethan's farm. An embittered man and an enchanting young woman meeting in such circumstances unleash predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists, Edith Wharton's characterisation and deft handling of reversals of fortune are so accomplished that Ethan Frome has remained enduringly popular since its first publication in 1911 and is considered her greatest tragic story. [via]
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- Ethan Frome: ISBN 1840224088 (1-84022-408-8)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Ethan Frome: ISBN 1853812285 (1-85381-228-5)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited - Ethan Frome: ISBN 1598183796 (1-59818-379-6)
Hardcover, Alan Rodgers Books - Ethan Frome: ISBN 1853265551 (1-85326-555-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Ethan Frome: ISBN 1598183028 (1-59818-302-8)
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- Ethan Frome: ISBN 1840224088 (1-84022-408-8)
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The Europeansby Henry JamesISBN 1598188267 (1-59818-826-7)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Europeans'Book summary:Felix Young and his sister the Baroness Munster descend upon their Puritan cousins, the Wentworths, in the Arcadian setting of the New England countryside of mid-19th century America. The clash between European Epicureanism and Puritan restraint ensues, providing humour and insight. [via]
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The Golden Bowlby Henry JamesISBN 1853262498 (1-85326-249-8)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bowl'Book summary:This work is Henry James's last novel and is a symbolically complex story of two flawed marriages. The gilded crystal bowl with its largely concealed flaw, "the Golden Bowl", is the symbolic vehicle used to reveal past misdemeanours and make the characters face the flaws in their lives. [via]
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 1840224193 (1-84022-419-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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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 1844082938 (1-84408-293-8)
Softcover, Virago Pr - The House of Mirth: ISBN 1853265772 (1-85326-577-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - The House of Mirth: ISBN 1853811009 (1-85381-100-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square - The House of Mirth: ISBN 1840224193 (1-84022-419-3)
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James Baldwinby James Baldwin, Toni MorrisonISBN 1883011515 (1-883011-51-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Baldwin'Book summary:A novelist, essayist, playwright, and public intellectual, James Baldwin's writings on the subject of race in America undeniably made him one of the greatest African American writers of the 20th century. As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the two decades following World War II, Baldwin landed squarely in the public eye, and his prose communicated the hope and frustration of the fight for racial equality. In James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories, editor Toni Morrison draws heavily on Baldwin's early work, including his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, as well as Giovanni's Room, which was praised by the New York Times for its "unusual candor ... and intensity." As pertinent today as it was some 30 years ago, the fiction found in this collection is powerful, eloquent, and a fitting tribute to a consummate writer. [via]
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The Jungleby Upton Beall Sinclair, Earl Lee, Kathleen De GraveISBN 1884365302 (1-884365-30-2)
Softcover, See Sharp Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair's classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown. When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial edition edited out much of the ethnic flavor of the original, as well as some of the goriest descriptions of the meat-packing industry and much of Sinclair's most pointed social and political commentary. The text of this new edition is as it appeared in the original uncensored edition of 1905. It contains the full 36 chapters as originally published, rather than the 31 of the expurgated edition. A new foreword describes the discovery in the 1980s of the original edition and its subsequent suppression, and a new introduction places the novel in historical context by explaining the pattern of censorship in the shorter commercial edition.[via]More editions of The Jungle:
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 1853260495 (1-85326-049-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last of the Mohicans'Book summary:It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war, attempt to join their father. Thwarted by Magua, the sinister 'Indian runner', they find help in the person of Hawk-eye, the white woodsman, and his companions, the Mohican Chingachgook and Uncas, his son, the last of his tribe.
Cooper's novel is full of vivid incident- pursuits through wild terrain, skirmishes, treachery and brutality- but reflects also on the interaction between the colonists and the native peoples. Through the character of Hawkeye, Cooper raises lasting questions about the practises of the American frontier and the eclipse of the indigenous cultures. [via]More editions of The Last of the Mohicans:
Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0020412304 (0-02-041230-4)
Hardcover, Collier Books, a division of Macmillan Pub Co, inc.
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Lonely Planet San Franciscoby Tom DownsISBN 1740598563 (1-74059-856-3)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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A Lost Ladyby Willa CatherISBN 184408373X (1-84408-373-X)
Softcover, Virago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Lost Lady'Book summary:[via]Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and to the young narrator of her story, Neil Herbert. All are bewitched by her brilliance and grace, and all are ultimately betrayed. For Marian longs for "life on any terms," and in fulfilling herself, she loses all she loved and all who loved her. This, Willa Cather's most perfect novel, is not only a portrait of a troubling beauty, but also a haunting evocation of a noble age slipping irrevocably into the past.More editions of A Lost Lady:
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 1853260355 (1-85326-035-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- Macbeth: ISBN 1854596772 (1-85459-677-2)
Softcover, Nick Hern Books - Macbeth: ISBN 1903436486 (1-903436-48-6)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare - Macbeth: ISBN 8437606632 (84-376-0663-2)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones - Macbeth: ISBN 9583004472 (958-30-0447-2)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc - Macbeth: ISBN 1853260355 (1-85326-035-5)
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- Macbeth: ISBN 1854596772 (1-85459-677-2)
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Macbeth: Shakespeare Made Easyby William Shakespeare, Tanya Grosz, Linda WendlerISBN 1599051346 (1-59905-134-6)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth: Shakespeare Made Easy'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Mad Dog Coll: An Irish Gangsterby Breandan DelapISBN 1856352919 (1-85635-291-9)
Hardcover, Mercier Press
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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moonby Shepard, Alan B., Jr., Deke SlaytonISBN 1878685546 (1-878685-54-6)
Hardcover, Turner Publishing, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon'Book summary:Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first moon landing, two former astronauts tell of the intense human drama behind the lunar race between two superpowers, and of the sacrifices and risks asked of the American crew. [via]
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Novels, 1942-1952by John Steinbeck, Robert DemottISBN 1931082073 (1-931082-07-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novels, 1942-1952'Book summary:This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.[via]
The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders. In Cannery Row (1945) Steinbeck paid tribute to his closest friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, in the central character of Doc, proprietor of the Western Biological Laboratory and spiritual and financial mainstay of a cast of philosophical drifters and hangers-on. The comic and bawdy evocation of the main street of Monterey's sardine-canning district has made this one of the most popular of all Steinbeck's novels. Steinbeck's long involvement with Mexican culture is distilled in The Pearl (1947). Expanding on an anecdote he had heard about a boy who found a pearl of unusual size, Steinbeck turned it into an allegory of the corrupting influence of sudden wealth. The Pearl appears here with the original illustrations by José Clemente Orozco.
Ambitious in scale and original in structure, East of Eden (1952) recounts the violent and emotionally turbulent history of a Salinas Valley family through several generations. Drawing on Biblical parallels, East of Eden is an epic that explores the writer's deepest and most anguished concerns within a landscape that for him had mythic resonance.More editions of Novels, 1942-1952:
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Otra Vuelta De Tuercaby Henry JamesISBN 9875505439 (987-550-543-9)
Softcover, Longseller S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Otra Vuelta De Tuerca'Book summary:Siguen viviendo las personas despues de la muerte? En caso afirmativo, mantienen contacto con el mundo de los vivos? No es facil dar respuesta a estas preguntas, aunque quiza muchos ofrezcan una respuesta clara y rapida. En todo caso, esa posible relacion entre los muertos y los vivos es algo que ha atraido desde siempre a la humanidad, y son muy numerosos y variados los relatos dedicados a tratar este tema. Para algunos, el mundo esta plagado de espiritus y fantasmas, seres de otro mundo que irrumpen y se ponen en contacto con personas especialmente dotadas para percibir su influencia. [via]
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Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Orderby Robert KaganISBN 1843541777 (1-84354-177-7)
Hardcover, Atlantic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order'Book summary:From the beginning of George W Bush's presidency there has been a profound unease in relations between Europe and the United States. Robert Kagan's Paradise & Power: America and Europe in the New World Order offers a diagnosis and prognosis of the current malaise, which recent events such as Bush's "axis of evil" speech and UN divisions over Iraq have made even worse. Kagan argues that the 20th century has seen an inversion of history, whereby the once great, imperial, war-mongering powers of the 19th century (Britain, France and Germany) have become doves and multi-lateralists and the precocious and defenceless small power of the earlier era (America) has become a military and economic giant, hawkish and resolute in its defence of global security.
Europe (or more specifically France and Germany), Kagan argues, have learned that nation-states must live together or die, while America has come to rely on the blunt diplomacy of the pre-emptive strike. Europeans resent America for its bully-boy tactics; Americans get fed up with whining Europeans who would not enjoy their freedom to moan but for the post-1945 umbrella of NATO security. Kagan is wise and perceptive throughout his long essay and pleads reasonably that the US and the EU must develop a common policy that recognises their historical and strategic differences. He is a realist and there is little of the triumphalism to be found in similar recent works by American foreign policy experts such as Francis Fukuyama. Kagan is good on the military and diplomatic aspects of the question, but brushes over the resentments fuelled by America's MacDonaldisation of European culture. --Miles Taylor [via]
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 1853260290 (1-85326-029-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, " Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.
With "The Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride. [via]
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The Shipping Newsby Annie ProulxISBN 0020360789 (0-02-036078-9)
Softcover, Collier Books
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Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937by John Steinbeck, Robert Demott, Elaine A. SteinbeckISBN 1883011019 (1-883011-01-9)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937'Book summary:For the first time in one volume, the early California writings of one of America's greatest novelists have been collected, including the seminal works, Tortilla Flat and Of Mice and Men, tracing his early growth and evolution. 20,000 first printing. [via]
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Tender Is The Night, 1934by F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0020199309 (0-02-019930-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tender Is The Night, 1934'Book summary:In the wake of World War I, a community of expatriate American writers established itself in the salons and cafes of 1920s Paris. They congregated at Gertrude Stein's select soirees, drank too much, married none too wisely, and wrote volumes--about the war, about the Jazz Age, and often about each other. F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, were part of this gang of literary Young Turks, and it was while living in France that Fitzgerald began writing Tender Is the Night. Begun in 1925, the novel was not actually published until 1934. By then, Fitzgerald was back in the States and his marriage was on the rocks, destroyed by Zelda's mental illness and alcoholism. Despite the modernist mandate to keep authors and their creations strictly segregated, it's difficult not to look for parallels between Fitzgerald's private life and the lives of his characters, psychiatrist Dick Diver and his former patient turned wife, Nicole. Certainly the hospital in Switzerland where Zelda was committed in 1929 provided the inspiration for the clinic where Diver meets, treats, and then marries the wealthy Nicole Warren. And Fitzgerald drew both the European locale and many of the characters from places and people he knew from abroad.
In the novel, Dick is eventually ruined--professionally, emotionally, and spiritually--by his union with Nicole. Fitzgerald's fate was not quite so novelistically neat: after Zelda was diagnosed as a schizophrenic and committed, Fitzgerald went to work as a Hollywood screenwriter in 1937 to pay her hospital bills. He died three years later--not melodramatically, like poor Jay Gatsby in his swimming pool, but prosaically, while eating a chocolate bar and reading a newspaper. Of all his novels, Tender Is the Night is arguably the one closest to his heart. As he himself wrote, "Gatsby was a tour de force, but this is a confession of faith." [via]
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The Time Traveler's Wifeby Audrey NiffeneggerISBN 1931561648 (1-931561-64-8)
Hardcover, Macadam Cage Pub
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Tortilla Flatby John SteinbeckISBN 9580417989 (958-04-1798-9)
Softcover, Grupo Editorial Norma USA
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Tragedy of Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 1847027490 (1-84702-749-0)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Tropico De Cancer/tropic of Cancerby Henry MillerISBN 8437607388 (84-376-0738-8)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Storiesby Henry JamesISBN 3895082317 (3-89508-231-7)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft
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Typeeby Herman MelvilleISBN 1853262307 (1-85326-230-7)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Typee'Book summary:Melville's first novel, "Typee" is a tale of adventure set in the primitive islands of the South Seas in the mid 19th century, based on the author's own experience. [via]
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Un Yanqui En La Corte Del Rey Arturo / a Connnecticut Yankee in King Arthur Courtby Mark Twain, Carme Manuel, Elizabeth PowerISBN 8437617421 (84-376-1742-1)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Un Yanqui En La Corte Del Rey Arturo / a Connnecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court'Book summary:For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.[via]Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensayo.More editions of Un Yanqui En La Corte Del Rey Arturo / a Connnecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court:
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 1598186655 (1-59818-665-5)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe s rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only 'repentance, justice and mercy' will prevent the onset of 'the wrath of Almighty God!'. [via] 
USA by Railby John PittISBN 1841621277 (1-84162-127-7)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Vinelandby Thomas PynchonISBN 8472234711 (84-7223-471-1)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Winesburg, Ohioby Irving Howe, Sherwood AndersonISBN 1598186809 (1-59818-680-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:No sooner did Winesburg, Ohio make its appearance than a number of critical labels were fixed on it: the revolt against the village, the espousal of sexual freedom, the deepening of American realism. Such tags may once have had their point, but by now they seem dated and stale. The revolt against the village (about which Anderson was always ambivalent) has faded into history. The espousal of sexual freedom would soon be exceeded in boldness by other writers. And as for the effort to place Winesburg, Ohio in a tradition of American realism, that now seems dubious. Only rarely is the object of Anderson's stories social verisimilitude, or the "photographing" of familiar appearances, in the sense, say, that one might use to describe a novel by Theodore Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis. Only occasionally, and then with a very light touch, does Anderson try to fill out the social arrangements of his imaginary town -- although the fact that his stories are set in a mid-American place like Winesburg does constitute an important formative condition. [via]
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A Salto de Mataby Paul AusterISBN 8433967002 (84-339-6700-2)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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Ada O El Ardorby Vladimir NabokovISBN 8433920596 (84-339-2059-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ada O El Ardor'Book summary:Publicada por el autor a sus setenta años, esta novela supone el felicisimo apogeo de su larga y brillante carrera literaria. Al mismo tiempo que cronica familiar e historia de amor, es un tratado filosofico sobre la naturaleza del tiempo, una parodica historia del genero novelesco, una novela erotica, un canto al placer y una reivindicacion del Paraiso entendido como algo que no hay que buscar en el mas alla, sino en la Tierra. Aqui destaca por encima de todo la historia de encuentros y desencuentros entre los principales protagonistas, Van Veen y Ada, los dos hermanos que, creyendose solo primos, se enamoran pasionalmente con motivo de su encuentro adolescente en la finca familiar de Ardis y que ahora, con motivo del noventa y siete cumpleanos de Van, contemplan los distintos avatares de su amor. [via]
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Carter Engana Al Diabloby David Gold GlenISBN 842533814X (84-253-3814-X)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori
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Ciudad de Cristalby Paul Auster, Maribel De JuanISBN 8433914766 (84-339-1476-6)
Softcover, Anagrama Editorial S. A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ciudad de Cristal'Book summary:Con esta obra se inicio la Trilogia de Nueva York, un deslumbrante conjunto de thrillers posmodernos que, segun los criticos, marca un nuevo punto de partida para la novela norteamericana. [via]
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El Codigo Da Vinci / The Da Vinci Codeby Dan Brown, Juanjo EstrellaISBN 8495618605 (84-95618-60-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Codigo Da Vinci / The Da Vinci Code'Book summary:Nº 1 en USA
¿ Qué misterio se oculta tras la sonrisa de Mona Lisa? Durante siglos, la Iglesia ha conseguido mantener oculta la verdad& hasta ahora.
Antes de morir asesinado, Jacques Saunière, el último Gran Maestre de una sociedad secreta que se remonta a la fundación de los Templarios, transmite a su nieta Sofía una misteriosa clave. Saunière y sus predecesores, entre los que se encontraban hombres como Isaac Newton o Leonardo Da Vinci, han conservado durante siglos un conocimiento que puede cambiar completamente la historia de la humanidad. Ahora Sofía, con la ayuda del experto en simbología Robert Langdon, comienza la búsqueda de ese secreto, en una trepidante carrera que les lleva de una clave a otra, descifrando mensajes ocultos en los más famosos cuadros del genial pintor y en las paredes de antiguas catedrales. Un rompecabezas que deberán resolver pronto, ya que no están solos en el juego: una poderosa e influyente organización católica está dispuesta a emplear todos los medios para evitar que el secreto salga a la luz.
Un apasionante juego de claves escondidas, sorprendentes revelaciones, acertijos ingeniosos, verdades, mentiras, realidades históricas, mitos, símbolos, ritos, misterios y suposiciones en una trama llena de giros inesperados narrada con un ritmo imparable que conduce al lector hasta el secreto más celosamente guardado del inicio de nuestra era.
" Intriga y amenaza se mezclan en una de las mejores novelas de suspense que he leído jamás. Un sorprendente relato donde los enigmas se suceden a los secretos y éstos a las adivinanzas."
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" Un inteligente thriller lleno de enigmas y códigos que, sin duda, puede recomendarse con rotundo entusiasmo."
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El Codigo Da Vinci / The Da Vinci Code: El Illustrado / Illustradedby Dan Brown, Juanjo EstrellaISBN 8495618818 (84-95618-81-8)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano
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Uno de los libros con mas tiempo en el tope de la lista de los Best Sellers del New York Times!.... El Código Da Vinci, ahora en un audiolibro narrado en español del bestseller internacional de Dan Brown, producido exclusivamente por FONOLIBRO, el cual no podrá dejar de escuchar hasta que llegue al inesperado final.
Mientras se encontraba en un viaje de negocios en Paris, Robert Langdon, experto en simbologia de la universidad de Harvard, recibe una llamada urgente a media noche. Jacques Saunière, el último Gran Maestre de una sociedad secreta que se remonta a la fundación de los Templarios, ha sido asesinado en el museo del Louvre. Saunière antes de morir transmite a su nieta Sofía una misteriosa clave. Saunière y sus predecesores, entre los que se encontraban hombres como Isaac Newton o Leonardo Da Vinci, han conservado durante siglos un conocimiento que puede cambiar completamente la historia de la humanidad. Ahora Sofía, con la ayuda Robert Langdon, comienza la búsqueda de ese secreto, en una trepidante carrera que les lleva de una clave a otra, descifrando mensajes ocultos en los más famosos cuadros del genial pintor y en las paredes de antiguas catedrales. Un rompecabezas que deberán resolver pronto, ya que no están solos en el juego: una poderosa e influyente organización católica está dispuesta a emplear todos los medios para evitar que el secreto salga a la luz.
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La Cuarta Mano/ the Fourth Handby John IrvingISBN 8483109131 (84-8310-913-1)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Diario/ Diary: Una Novela/ a Novelby Chuk PalahniukISBN 849793637X (84-9793-637-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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El Estanque de Mirloby Elizabeth George SpeareISBN 8427932294 (84-279-3229-4)
Hardcover, Noguer y Caralt Editores, S. A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Estanque de Mirlo'Book summary:A mediados de abril de 1687, el buque Delfin entraba en el puerto de Saybrook cruzando la desembocadura del rio Connecticut. Una chica se encontraba en la cubierta, ansiosa de echar un primer vistazo a America. Kit Tyler, una joven dulce e impetuosa, haba viajado sola desde las islas Barbados donde se habia criado con su abuelo, para encontrar refugio en casa de su tia, la unica familia que le quedaba. Suapariencia, su mentalidad diferente y progresista contrastan desde el primer momento con la pobreza de la ciudad y el severo puritanismo del marido de su tia. La comprension de Hanna, unaanciana que vive completamente aislada porque la gente dice que es bruja, es un consuelo para Kit. La chica salva aHannah de la furia de la gente y ella misma es acusada de brujeria. El estanque del mirlo es una gran novela en la linea de las miticas yrecordadas narraciones como Lo que el viento se llevo o La casa de la pradera, ecrita con un perfecto estilo literario y magnificamente ambientada por los detalles historicos y las acertadas y bonitas descripciones, Nunca faltan emocion y crifio. [via]
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Fundacion/Foundationby Isaac AsimovISBN 8401491363 (84-01-49136-3)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc
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Historias Extraordinariasby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 8446022117 (84-460-2211-7)
Softcover, Akal Ediciones Sa
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Huerfanos De Brooklyn/ Motherless Brooklynby Jonathan LethemISBN 849793296X (84-9793-296-X)
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Interprete De Emociones / Interpreter of Maladiesby Jhumpa Lahiri, Antonio PadillaISBN 848453961X (84-8453-961-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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El Libro de Las Ilusiones / THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONSby Paul AusterISBN 8433969978 (84-339-6997-8)
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Macbeth y Hamletby William Shakespeare, Juan Alarcon BenitoISBN 8484034216 (84-8403-421-6)
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Otra Vuelta De Tuercaby Henry JamesISBN 8420635898 (84-206-3589-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Una institutriz acude al cuidado de dos niños en una vetusta mansión. Lo que en principio parece un cometido agradable, derivará en una situación de pesadilla. Los niños viven impactados por un pasado inmediato en el que la anterior institutriz y el jardinero mantenían una turbia relación. La vida junto a la institutriz y su muerte posterior han dejado en ellos una huella indeleble. La protagonista de la historia, al tratar de ayudar a los niños, comienza a percibir las apariciones de los fantasmas de la anterior institutriz, muerta en extrañas circunstancias, y del jardinero.
Novela de terror psicológico y de suspenso, escrita en 1898 por el neoyorquino Henry James y cuya trama a inspirado películas como Los otros o El orfanato.
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La Tierra Es Plana / The World Is Flat: Breve Historia del Mundo Globalizado del Siglo XXI / A Brief History of the Twenty-first Centuryby Thomas FriedmanISBN 8427032226 (84-270-3222-6)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Una Mujer Infortunadaby Richard BrautiganISBN 8483065355 (84-8306-535-5)
Softcover, Debate Editorial
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Unos Caballos Muy Lindosby Cormac McCarthy, Pilar Giralt GorinaISBN 8432206733 (84-322-0673-3)
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De Si Jolis Cheveauxby McCarthyISBN 2020309610 (2-02-030961-0)
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Les Lois De L'Attractionby Ellis Bret EastonISBN 2264033487 (2-264-03348-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Lois De L'Attraction'Book summary:Le roman le moins connu de B.E. Ellis est peut-être le meilleur sinon le plus hypnotique. La précision stylistique plus aboutie que dans Moins que zéro se love dans une méthode narrative mûrie : faire se fondre les personnages dans la chimère de ce qu'ils veulent se croire. Croisant les existences fantomatiques d'étudiants pendant l'année universitaire 1985/86, Ellis en étale cliniquement les aventures, frustrations et errances, les peignant en poissons avariés s'incrustant dans du papier journal, un journal intime collectif schizoïde et momifié. Il n'est que drague morne, drogue triste et sexe froid, parsemant l'évolution de ces pantins (parfois rencontrés dans Moins que zéro) dans le néant dévorant de leur vie.
340 pages de :SEAN- Vais dans la chambre de Denton. Nous descendons quelques bières, on fume de l'herbe, on discute, mais je ne saque pas l'histoire de la mort de son copain, pas davantage la musique de Duran Duran ni ses regards torves, si bien que nous continuer de parler et que je me sens de plus en plus raide
. Chronique hébétée sous forme de succession de monologues intérieurs et démonstration d'écriture, Les Lois de l'attraction captive, amuse et terrifie. Parfait vaccin contre toute nostalgie pour les années 80, c'est le pendant partouze-valium de l'autre grand roman d'Ellis, American Psycho, centré lui sur un seul personnage pour mieux en sonder les abysses. --Florian Pittion-Rossillon [via]More editions of Les Lois De L'Attraction:
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The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 2266144340 (2-266-14434-0)
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Einfach Unwiderstehlichby Ellis Bret EastonISBN 3462030000 (3-462-03000-0)
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Der Gangs Von New Yorkby Herbert AsburyISBN 3453186826 (3-453-18682-6)
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A-Sun Wu: Un Itinerari Entre Mestissatge I Expressionisme Sala D'exposicions Del Govern, Del 22 De Maig Al 30 De Juny Del 2002by Gerard Xuriguera, Xuansan WuISBN 9992002999 (99920-0-299-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A-Sun Wu: Un Itinerari Entre Mestissatge I Expressionisme Sala D'exposicions Del Govern, Del 22 De Maig Al 30 De Juny Del 2002'Book summary:The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in 1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever their differences in mood or effect, they are both very much concerned with Seymour Glass, who is the main character in my still-uncompleted series about the Glass family. It struck me that they had better be collected together, if not deliberately paired off, in something of a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close contact with new material in the series. There is only my word for it, granted, but I have several new Glass stories coming along ? waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but I suspect the less said about them, in mixed company, the better. Oddly, the joys and satisfactions of working on the Glass family peculiarly increase and deepen for me with the years. I can't say why, though. Not, at least, outside the casino proper of my fiction. [via]
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