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100 Great Operas and Their Storiesby Henry W. SimonISBN 0385054483 (0-385-05448-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 0375753206 (0-375-75320-6)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was soon privy to this most perfect match, a union of families and circumstances cemented by affection. Enter Countess Olenska, a woman of quick wit sharpened by experience, not afraid to flout convention and determined to find freedom in divorce. Against his judgment, Newland is drawn to the socially ostracized Ellen Olenska, who opens his eyes and has the power to make him feel. He knows that in sweet-tempered May, he can expect stability and the steadying comfort of duty. But what new worlds could he discover with Ellen? Written with elegance and wry precision, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is a tragic love story and a powerful homily about the perils of a perfect marriage. Commentary by William Lyon Phelps and E. M. Forster [via]
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Alma Materby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0345455320 (0-345-45532-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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August 1914by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. WillettsISBN 0374519994 (0-374-51999-4)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'August 1914'Book summary:Part of a sequence of novels about the Russian Revolution carrying the overall title of "The Red Wheel". The other titles in this series include "October 1916" and "Lenin in Zurich". Other books by Solzhenitsyn include "The Gulag Archipelago". [via]
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Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battlegroundby Peter SvensonISBN 0345384199 (0-345-38419-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground'Book summary:Peter Svenson, a successful artist, bought the field of his dreams in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley and planned to build a home there for his family. But he soon discovered that a Civil War military engagement, the Battle of Cross Keys, was fought on the very soil he wanted to till. Svenson's story of his own moral and physical struggles is masterfully interspersed with the reports, letters and history of the battle, sweeping the reader into the drama of the past and Svenson's reverence for both history and the land. [via]
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Black Mountain Breakdownby Lee SmithISBN 0345410319 (0-345-41031-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Cancer Wardby Aleksandr SolzhenitsynISBN 0374511993 (0-374-51199-3)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cancer Ward'Book summary:Like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the hero, Oldg Kostoglotov, spent many years in labour camps and was eventually transferred to a cancer ward. This study of how people confront terminal illness is also a dissection of the "cancerous" Soviet police state. [via]
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Cold Mountainby Charles FrazierISBN 0375700757 (0-375-70075-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Mountain'Book summary:NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor.
Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learn to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic American Odyssey--hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving. [via]More editions of Cold Mountain:
A Colt Named Mischiefby Sandy RabinowitzISBN 0385146299 (0-385-14629-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 0385000499 (0-385-00049-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 037576030X (0-375-76030-X)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, The Count of Monet Cristo recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge offers up a vision of France that has become immortal.
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Demonsby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Joseph FrankISBN 0375411224 (0-375-41122-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as The Possessed.
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a novel-pamphlet in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russiaa novel that is rivaled only by The Brothers Karamazov as Dostoevskys greatest. [via]More editions of Demons:
The Extraordinary Mr Wilkes:His Life and Times: His Life and Timesby Louis KronenbergerISBN 038505131X (0-385-05131-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Family Linenby Lee SmithISBN 0345410602 (0-345-41060-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Family Linen'Book summary:"Brilliant, haunting, dark, joyous, remarkably compelling...immensely difficult to put down...a master storyteller."
THE VILLAGE VOICE
A childhood memory re-experienced, a funeral that brings about a family reunion, and the excavation of a swimming pool on the site of an old well, uncover family secrets and air the dirty linen in this behind-the-scenes look at life and family, memory and forgetfulness, anger and forgiveness in a small Southern town.
"Falls in line with the best of classical Southern fiction...but Ms. Smith's vision is her own and places her among the best of contemporary Southern writers."
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black Garnett, Elizabeth Cheresh AllenISBN 0375758399 (0-375-75839-9)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:This is Modern Library Number 21. Includes the author's comments on his book and a foreword by the translator. 281 pages. [via]
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First Impressionsby Nora RobertsISBN 0373285388 (0-373-28538-8)
Hardcover, Silhouette
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Impressions'Book summary:Escaping the rat race and the lure of gold-digging women, wealthy businessman vance banning moves to a small, rural retreat, telling the townsfolk that he's an out-of-work carpenter. All he wants is peace, quiet and to keep away from women. So the last thing he needs is a charitable neighbor-especially a beautiful, gracious and persistent neighbor of the female persuasion-but there's something about shane abbott he just can't ignore. Vance is certain his cover story will stop his lovely neighbor from getting too friendly, but shane is determined to break down his resistance. Vance has been burned once, so only a fool would fall for the same innocent act twice. And he's no fool. But he has no idea how relentless shane abbott can be when it comes to giving a helping hand-or a loving heart. He needed to simplify his life and mend his broken heart. She was searching for a place to finally fit in and a man who could love her for who she was. Together they discover that all they really needed was each other, and that love is the greatest christmas gift of all [via]
The Foundlingby Georgette HeyerISBN 0373835493 (0-373-83549-3)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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Full Cryby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0345465202 (0-345-46520-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Good Faithby Jane SmileyISBN 0375412174 (0-375-41217-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Faith'Book summary:Jane Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts-comic timing, empathy, emotional wisdom, an ability to deliver slyly on big themes and capture the American spirit-to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens when the American Dream morphs into a seven-figure American Fantasy.Joe Stratford is someone you like at once. He makes an honest living helping nice people buy and sell nice houses. His not-very-amicable divorce is finally settled, and he's ready to begin again. It's 1982. He is pretty happy, pretty satisfied. But a different era has dawned; Joe's new friend, Marcus Burns from New York, seems to be suggesting that the old rules are ready to be repealed, that now is the time you can get rich quick. Really rich. And Marcus not only knows that everyone is going to get rich, he knows how. Because Marcus just quit a job with the IRS.But is Joe ready for the kind of success Marcus promises he can deliver? And what's the real scoop on Salt Key Farm? Is this really the development opportunity of a lifetime?And then there's Felicity Ornquist, the lovely, feisty, winning and married daughter of Joe's mentor and business partner. She has finally owned up to her feelings for Joe: she's just been waiting for him to be available. The question Joe asks himself, over and over, is, Does he have the gumption? Does he have the smarts and the imagination and the staying power to pay attention-to Marcus and to Felicity-and reap the rewards? Good Faith captures the seductions and illusions that can seize America during our periodic golden ages every Main Street an El Dorado . To follow Joe as he does deals and is dealt with in this newly liberated world of anything goes is a roller-coaster ride through the fun park of the 1980s. It is Jane Smiley in top form.4/2003 [via]
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Great Times, Good Times: The Odyssey of Maurice Barrymoreby James Kotsilibas-DavisISBN 0385049536 (0-385-04953-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Guns of the Southby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345384687 (0-345-38468-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Guns of the South'Book summary:Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equipped. The battle of Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower.
Then Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle; its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantities to the Confederates.
The name of the weapon is the AK-47.
"As a Civil War historian, I literally could not put The Guns of the South down. It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read. Harry Turtledove knows his Civil War. And best of all, The Guns of the South is not simply great entertainment; it is also a serious and successful effort to come to grips with the central issues of the war. It is must reading for every Civil War student."
--Professor James M. McPherson, Edwards Professor of American History, Princeton University; Author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom [via]More editions of The Guns of the South:
A Haunting in Williamsburgby Lou KassemISBN 038075892X (0-380-75892-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Historiesby Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Rosalind ThomasISBN 0375400613 (0-375-40061-3)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Histories'Book summary:Since the release of the film version of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, there has been renewed interest in the Histories of Herodotus--the book the dying patient treasures so much.
The writings of Herodotus are the ground zero of Western history. He lived during the fifth century B.C.E, and his Histories chronicle the events of the Persian Wars, which were within living memory when he wrote. He was the first writer to examine real, rather than mythical history, and although his work lacks the rigor of later histories, it has a breathtaking scope. Herodotus is a wonderful storyteller, and in recalling the wars with Persian invaders, he ranges across the ancient world, mixing politics with natural history and anthropology. These are traveler's tales, and a great deal of their appeal to a modern audience lies in the way Herodotus describes the cultures that influence his story. The societies of Scythians, Arabs, and Egyptians are depicted in detail, from their political structures to their dining habits. Herodotus created a sense of history for his people, and he gives us a picture of a distant past that reminds us of the vast continuum of civilization. [via]
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The Homecomingby Earl HamnerISBN 0380012545 (0-380-01254-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Homer: The Odysseyby Homer, Robert FitzgeraldISBN 0385050402 (0-385-05040-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer: The Odyssey'Book summary:Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus's long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn. Homer's classic poem features Odysseus's encounters with the beautiful nymph Calypso; the queenly but wily Circe; the Lotus-eaters, who fed his men their memory-stealing drug; the man-eating, one-eyed Cyclops; the Laestrygonian giants; the souls of the dead in Hades; the beguiling Sirens; the treacherous Scylla and Charybdis. Here, too, is the hero's faithful wife, Penelope, weaving a shroud by day and unraveling it by night, in order to thwart the numerous suitors attempting to take Odysseus's place.
The works attributed to Homer include the two oldest and greatest European epic poems, the Odyssey and Iliad. These texts have long stood in the Loeb Classical Library with a faithful and literate prose translation by A. T. Murray. George Dimock now brings the Loeb's Odyssey up to date, with a rendering that retains Murray's admirable style but is worded for today's readers. The two-volume edition includes a new introduction, notes, and index.
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Hotspurby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0345428234 (0-345-42823-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Hounds And the Furyby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0345465474 (0-345-46547-4)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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The Hours: A Novelby Michael CunninghamISBN 0374172897 (0-374-17289-7)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hours: A Novel'Book summary:The Hours is both an homage to Virginia Woolf and very much its own creature. Even as Michael Cunningham brings his literary idol back to life, he intertwines her story with those of two more contemporary women. One gray suburban London morning in 1923, Woolf awakens from a dream that will soon lead to Mrs. Dalloway. In the present, on a beautiful June day in Greenwich Village, 52-year-old Clarissa Vaughan is planning a party for her oldest love, a poet dying of AIDS. And in Los Angeles in 1949, Laura Brown, pregnant and unsettled, does her best to prepare for her husband's birthday, but can't seem to stop reading Woolf. These women's lives are linked both by the 1925 novel and by the few precious moments of possibility each keeps returning to. Clarissa is to eventually realize:
There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.... Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more.
As Cunningham moves between the three women, his transitions are seamless. One early chapter ends with Woolf picking up her pen and composing her first sentence, "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." The next begins with Laura rejoicing over that line and the fictional universe she is about to enter. Clarissa's day, on the other hand, is a mirror of Mrs. Dalloway's--with, however, an appropriate degree of modern beveling as Cunningham updates and elaborates his source of inspiration. Clarissa knows that her desire to give her friend the perfect party may seem trivial to many. Yet it seems better to her than shutting down in the face of disaster and despair. Like its literary inspiration, The Hours is a hymn to consciousness and the beauties and losses it perceives. It is also a reminder that, as Cunningham again and again makes us realize, art belongs to far more than just "the world of objects." --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Hours: A Novel:
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House of Leavesby Mark Z. DanielewskiISBN 0375703764 (0-375-70376-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of Leaves'Book summary:Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on.
Now that we've reached the post-postmodern era, presumably there's nobody left who needs liberating from the strictures of conventional fiction. So apart from its narrative high jinks, what does House of Leaves have to offer? According to Johnny Truant, the tattoo-shop apprentice who discovers Zampanò's work, once you read The Navidson Record,
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.
We'll have to take his word for it, however. As it's presented here, the description of the spooky film isn't continuous enough to have much scare power. Instead, we're pulled back into Johnny Truant's world through his footnotes, which he uses to discharge everything in his head, including the discovery of the manuscript, his encounters with people who knew Zampanò, and his own battles with drugs, sex, ennui, and a vague evil force. If The Navidson Record is a mad professor lecturing on the supernatural with rational-seeming conviction, Truant's footnotes are the manic student in the back of the auditorium, wigged out and furiously scribbling whoa-dude notes about life.Despite his flaws, Truant is an appealingly earnest amateur editor--finding translators, tracking down sources, pointing out incongruities. Danielewski takes an academic's--or ex-academic's--glee in footnotes (the similarity to David Foster Wallace is almost too obvious to mention), as well as other bogus ivory-tower trappings such as interviews with celebrity scholars like Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom. And he stuffs highbrow and pop-culture references (and parodies) into the novel with the enthusiasm of an anarchist filling a pipe bomb with bits of junk metal. House of Leaves may not be the prettiest or most coherent collection, but if you're trying to blow stuff up, who cares? --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - House of Leaves : A Novel: ISBN 0375410341 (0-375-41034-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - House of Leaves: ISBN 0375703764 (0-375-70376-4)
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor Hugo, Elizabeth McCracken, Catherine LiuISBN 034547242X (0-345-47242-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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The Hunt Ballby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0345465504 (0-345-46550-4)
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The Iliadby Robert Fitzgerald, HomerISBN 0385059418 (0-385-05941-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:This translation of The Iliad equals Fitzgerald's earlier Odyssey in power and imagination. It recreates the original action as conceived by Homer, using fresh and flexible blank verse that is both lyrical and dramatic. [via]
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The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar WildeISBN 0380012774 (0-380-01277-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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In the Fallby Jeffrey LentISBN 037570745X (0-375-70745-X)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassac the Africanby Olaudah Equiano, Shelly Eversley, Robert Reid-PharrISBN 0375761152 (0-375-76115-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassac the African'Book summary:Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr
In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill, cunning, and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom, write his story, and gain international prominence, writes Robert Reid-Pharr in his Introduction. He alerts us to the very concerns that trouble modern intellectuals, black, white, and otherwise, on both sides of the Atlantic.
The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive ninth edition of 1794, reflecting the authors final changes to his masterwork. [via]More editions of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassac the African:
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The Last Gentlemanby Walker PercyISBN 0380377969 (0-380-37796-9)
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The Last Girlsby Lee SmithISBN 0345464958 (0-345-46495-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Les Miserablesby Victor Hugo, Charles E. Wilbour, Peter WashingtonISBN 0375403175 (0-375-40317-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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It has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for the singular celebrity of this most popular and versatile of the great French writers is Les Misérables (1862). In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjeana man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective JavertHugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
Les Misérables is at once a tense thriller that contains one of the most compelling chase scenes in all literature, an epic portrayal of the nineteenth-century French citizenry, and a vital dramahighly particularized and poetic in its rendition but universal in its implicationsof the redemption of one human being. [via]More editions of Les Miserables:
The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jeffersonby Thomas Jefferson, William Peden, Adrienne KochISBN 0375752188 (0-375-75218-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Macpherson's Lamentby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0345384741 (0-345-38474-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Maggie, a Girl of the Streetsby Stephen CraneISBN 0375756892 (0-375-75689-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Livingby Martin ClarkISBN 0375707093 (0-375-70709-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Memories of Summerby Ruth WhiteISBN 0374349452 (0-374-34945-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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It is the mid-1950s, and Lyrics familys dream is finally coming true -- they are moving from the backwoods of southwest Virginia to Flint, Michigan, where her father hopes to get an assembly-line job for a car manufacturer. Thirteen-year-old Lyric has always been close to and admired her older sister, Summer, who is pretty and popular. But in their new hometown, Summer unexpectedly and drastically changes. She becomes remote, speaks gibberish, stops taking care of her appearance, wont go to high school, and then seems to have hallucinations. Lyric and her father try to cope with the devastating effects of Summers mental illness, but, sadly, there is no bringing the old Summer back. Ruth White has written a heart-wrenching novel which, despite the sad and serious subject matter, offers readers humor and hope and most of all love.More editions of Memories of Summer:
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The Odysseyby Homer, Robert FitzgeraldISBN 0374525749 (0-374-52574-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, the Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseus encompasses a virtual inventory of the themes and attitudes that have shaped Western culture. The tale of Odysseuss encounters with such obstacles as Calypso, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, and the lotus-eaters, and his dramatic return to Ithaca and his patient wife, Penelope, forms a prototype for all subsequent Western epics.
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On the Occasion of My Last Afternoonby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0380732149 (0-380-73214-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon'Book summary:Polly Holliday of TV's Home Improvement won a Tony nomination on Broadway playing Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and she makes Clarice, the matriarch of Kaye Gibbons' Civil War story On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, sound very big of voice indeed. Clarice is the slave who really runs things on Virginia's Seven Oaks plantation, no matter what her nasty, brutish owner, Samuel P. Tate, might think. Holliday has a good time voicing Tate's fulminations, too, neatly distinguishing them from the heroine-narrator Emma Tate's rather daintier dulcet tones. Not that Emma can't be wicked in her own way: she describes a snobbish socialite, "aggressively plain in the face ... who effused through the front door and into the arms of everyone simultaneously." Ms. Holliday puts as much sly violence into that "effused" as she does into Mr. Tate's rages.
Everyone who read Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain should consider reading On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, the poetically charged fictional reminiscences of Emma Garnet Tate Lowell, circa 1842-1900. For one thing, it was Frazier's already-published friend Gibbons who, with Frazier's wife's connivance, pried Cold Mountain from his grip and got it into publishers' hands.
But beyond their Civil War setting--a first for Gibbons, who's noted for 20th-century tales--the two books share resonant Southern literary accents, characters with similarly obstinate responses to enormous grief, and a shivery sense of history's stark shadow falling across everyday events. Oprah Winfrey twice recommended Gibbons' fiction (Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman), and Walker Percy compared her to Faulkner. Oprah probably liked Gibbons's heroines for their plucky refusal to buckle under oppression--a trait shared by Gibbons herself, who triumphed over the manic-depressive illness that drove her mother to suicide.
Our heroine, Emma, shivers under the tyranny of her plantation daddy, Mr. Tate, who slits the throat of a slave who talks back to him and just might do the same to his half-dozen children. There is no enormity of which he is incapable, this bellowing Simon Legree with an autodidact's education and a self-made man's bottomless urge to rise above his raising. He is, as he might have thunderingly put it, "a pluperfect son of Satan." Only Clarice can fight Samuel Tate to a verbal draw and prevent slave uprisings on the eve of the war. Clarice helps save Emma, as does Emma's impeccable swain Dr. Quincy Lowell, who sweeps in like a cool Boston breeze to dispel the dismal tidewater miasma.
The war, alas, brings a tsunami of blood, forcing Dr. Lowell to make Emma a de facto battlefield surgeon, an occasion he recognizes by fashioning a bit of commemorative jewelry for her from a dead man's silver filling and inscribing the date with a finger-amputation tool. One aspect of Gibbons' Frazier-esque orgy of historical research for the book is an authentic feel for the grotesqueries of the period.
One craves for Emma's hubby and daddy to swap five percent of each others' respectively perfect and perfectly awful souls--the book is not big on startling character revelations. What makes it work, despite its binary morality, is the grace and rumbling life of the narrator's language. The book, which has its sometimes anachronistically enlightened head in the New South and its feet firmly planted in the past, deserves a place next to Russell Banks' John Brown novel Cloudsplitter. At points, it reads like a smarter, nonracist Gone with the Wind, only less windy.--Tim Appelo [via]
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Oral Historyby Lee SmithISBN 0345410289 (0-345-41028-9)
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When Jennifer, a college student, returns to her childhood home of Hoot Owl Holler with a tape recorder, the tales of murder and suicide, incest and blood ties, bring to life a vibrant story of a doomed family that still refuses to give up....
"Deft and assured....[Lee Smith] is nothing less than masterly."
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The Oresteiaby Aeschylus, Ted HughesISBN 0374527059 (0-374-52705-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oresteia'Book summary:In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine's Phedre, Euripedes' Alcestis, and the trilogy of plays known as at The Oresteia, a family story of astonishing power and the background or inspiration for much subsequent drama, fiction, and poetry.[via]
The Oresteia--Agamemnon, Choephori, and the Eumenides--tell the story of the house of Atreus: After King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he returns from exile to do so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of the court of Athens.
Hughes's "acting version" of the trilogy is faithful to its nature as a dramatic work, and his translation is itself a great performance; while artfully inflected with the contemporary, it has a classical beauty and authority. Hughes's Oresteia is quickly becoming the standard edition for English-language readers and for the stage, too.More editions of The Oresteia:
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The Oresteiaby Ted Hughes, AeschylusISBN 0374227217 (0-374-22721-7)
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The answer would have to be yes--with a couple of qualifications. Hughes made no secret of the fact that he was after an "acting version" of the trilogy, one that would convey the power of Aeschylus's classic bloodbath to a modern audience. He has therefore taken more liberties with the text than we might expect, chopping and channeling the original to fit his own conception. Perhaps the result is closer to what Robert Lowell called an "imitation"--an attempt to capture the work's spirit without precisely mimicking its form. In any case, this Oresteia succeeds on both counts. The darkness and destructive movement of the original remain intact in the Hughes's free-verse lines:
The men of Troy are a litter of corpses,
Yet Hughes has also left his elemental imprint on the play. Always drawn to violence in his own verse--particularly the impersonal assault and battery of the natural world--he has made his Oresteia more bloody-minded than the original (and that's saying something). There's nothing sensationalistic about this extra quantum of wrack and ruin. It's merely Hughes's personal response to Aeschylus--and a necessary preparation, perhaps, for Athena's clarifying cameo at the end of The Eumenides: "Let your rage pass into understanding / As into the coloured clouds of a sunset, / Promising a fair tomorrow. / Do not let it fall / As a rain of sterility and anguish / On Attica." Her plea for conciliation is as powerful as the horrors that have preceded it, which may (to tread on some rather thin biographical ice) reflect the poet's own final impulses. In any case, this is passionate, memorable, deeply human poetry--i.e., what becomes a classic most. --Anita Urquhart [via]
Rubbish-heaps of corpses. Troy on its hill
Cascades with blood, as under a downpour
Of bodies from the heavens,
Shattered and entangled with each other
In every passage--mutilations,
Amputations, eviscerations. The women
Are kneeling, shoulders heaving, with eyes hidden,
Over what were yesterday
Husbands, fathers, sons.
They labour at a grief that is already
The first labour of slaves.
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The Oresteia of Aeschylusby Aeschylus, Robert LowellISBN 0374227233 (0-374-22723-3)
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Outfoxedby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0345428196 (0-345-42819-6)
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Palladioby Jonathan DeeISBN 0375726411 (0-375-72641-1)
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Petals on the Riverby Kathleen E. WoodiwissISBN 038079828X (0-380-79828-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Petals on the River'Book summary:Falsely convicted of being a thief, lovely high-born Shemaine O'Hearn arrives in colonial Virginia from London on a convict ship and is sold as an indentured servant to Gage Thornton, a local shipbuilder in need of a nanny for his young son. Shemaine is relieved to have such a handsome and generous master and eagerly undertakes unfamiliar domestic tasks in Gage's rustic cabin on the edge of the American wilderness. Even persistent rumors that Gage was responsible for his wife's violent and untimely death don't trouble her for long. But as Shemaine and Gage struggle to deal honorably with their growing desire in such close quarters, they're beset by enemies, both nearby and from afar, who are determined to rob them of their newfound happiness. Woodiwiss's lush, leisurely writing and heartwarming story will fully satisfy many of her loyal fans. --Ellen Edwards [via]
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Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston LerouxISBN 0375761136 (0-375-76113-6)
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The Pride of the Peacockby Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, Eleanor Hibbert, Jean PlaidyISBN 0385122810 (0-385-12281-0)
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Random House Webster's College DictionaryISBN 0375407413 (0-375-40741-3)
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Random House Webster's College Dictionaryby Random House Dictionary StaffISBN 0375425608 (0-375-42560-8)
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Readers of all generations will appreciate the numerous tutorials, such as "Guide for Writers" and "Avoiding Offensive Language," as well as the latest political and geographical updates. Including the computer lingo and trendy slang is definitely edgy ("adj. daringly innovative; on the cutting edge"). But, when it comes to being a solid reference tool, it's the sophisticated definitions, line drawings, maps, charts, essays, and usage advice that make Webster's dictionary unequivocally candy ("slang. someone or something that is excellent. pleasing or pleasurable"). --Gail Hudson [via]
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Random House Webster's College Dictionaryby Random House StaffISBN 0375425616 (0-375-42561-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Random House Webster's College Dictionary'Book summary:Webster's annually updated dictionary offers an outstanding blend of new-millennium lingo and the classic words and origins of the English language. For instance, it includes extensive computer terminology, such as bot, cookie, and terabyte, as well as cyberjargon, such as clicks-and-mortar ("adj. pertaining to being a company that does business on the Internet and in traditional stores or offices"). It even has slang listings for my bad! ("slang. my fault! my mistake!") and senior moment ("n. ((often facetious)) a brief lapse in memory or moment of confusion, esp. in an older person"). Inclusions like these appeal especially to generation X and even generation Y ("n. the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, especially in the United States").
Readers of all generations will appreciate the numerous tutorials, such as "Guide for Writers" and "Avoiding Offensive Language," as well as the latest political and geographical updates. Including the computer lingo and trendy slang is definitely edgy ("adj. daringly innovative; on the cutting edge"). But, when it comes to being a solid reference tool, it's the sophisticated definitions, line drawings, maps, charts, essays, and usage advice that make Webster's dictionary unequivocally candy ("slang. someone or something that is excellent. pleasing or pleasurable"). --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Razor's Edgeby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0385043791 (0-385-04379-1)
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Republic and Other Worksby PlatoISBN 0385094973 (0-385-09497-3)
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Richmond: The Story of a Cityby Virginius DabneyISBN 0385020465 (0-385-02046-5)
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Roarke's Kingdomby Sandra MartonISBN 0373115741 (0-373-11574-1)
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Rootsby Alex HaleyISBN 0385037872 (0-385-03787-2)
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 0375406581 (0-375-40658-1)
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A Second Lovingby Claudia JamesonISBN 0373030991 (0-373-03099-1)
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The Shivering Sandsby Victoria Holt, Jean Plaidy, Philippa Carr, Eleanor HibbertISBN 0385065884 (0-385-06588-4)
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Stories and Prose Poemsby Aleksandr Isaevich SolzhenitsynISBN 0370014510 (0-370-01451-0)
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Tolstoyby Henri TroyatISBN 0374980101 (0-374-98010-1)
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Twelfth Nightby William Shakespeare, Jennifer MulherinISBN 0382096959 (0-382-09695-9)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jane SmileyISBN 0375756930 (0-375-75693-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery. Her stirring indictment and portrait of human dignity in the most inhumane circumstances enlightened hundreds of thousands by revealing the human costs of slavery, which had until then been cloaked and justified by the racist misperceptions of the time. Langston Hughes called it "a moral battle cry," noting that "the love and warmth and humanity that went into its writing keep it alive a century later," and Tolstoy described it as "flowing from love of God and man." [via]
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte Bronte, Deborah Lutz, A. S. Byatt, Ignes SodreISBN 037575850X (0-375-75850-X)
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"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power."
Arguably Brontë's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette,flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new file as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her freindship with a wordly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Brontë's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free.
"Villette is an amazing book," observed novelist Susan Fromberg Schaeffer. "Written before psychoanalysis came into being, Villette is nevertheless a psychoanalytic worka psychosexual study of its heroine, Lucy Snowe. Written before the philosophy of existentialism was formulated, the novel's view of the world can only be described as existential. . . . Today it is read and discussed more intensely than Charlotte Brontë's other novels, and many critics now beleive it to be a true master-piece, a work of genius that more than fulfilled the promise of Jane Eyre." Indeed, Virginia Woolf judged Villette to be Brontë's "finest novel."
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Virginia Woolfby Hermione LeeISBN 0375701362 (0-375-70136-2)
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"A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh."
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While Virginia Woolf--one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of identity, Lee comes at her subject from a multitude of perspectives, producing a richly layered portrait of the writer and the woman that leaves all of her complexities and contradictions intact. Such issues as sexual abuse, mental illness, and suicide are brought into balance with the immensity of her literary achievement, her heroic commitment to her work, her generosity and wit, and her sanity and strength.
It is not often that biography offers the satisfactions of great fiction--but this is clearly what Hermione Lee has achieved. Accessible, intelligent, and deeply pleasurable to read, her Virginia Woolf will undoubtedly take its place as the standard biography for years to come.
"One of the most impressive biographies of the decade: moving, eloquent, powerful as both literary and social history."
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War and Peaceby Leo TolstoyISBN 0345472403 (0-345-47240-3)
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Wedding Dressby Virginia EllisISBN 0345462378 (0-345-46237-8)
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0375756442 (0-375-75644-2)
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El profetaby Kahlil Gibran, Mauro ArminoISBN 0375701621 (0-375-70162-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El profeta'Book summary:La obra maestra de Kahlil Gibrán es uno de los más queridos clásicos de nuestra época, un repositorio rico en sabiduría y alegría que ha inspirado a generaciones de lectores. Con poesía frugal y bellamente resonante, El profeta ofrece inolvidables palabras de esperanza y consolación sobre los temas del nacimiento, del amor, del matrimonio, de la muerte y de los otros hitos de la vida.
Desde su publicación hace más de setenta años, El profeta ha sido traducido a más de veinte idiomas y ha dado inspiración a millones de lectores, quienes encuentran en sus palabras la expresión de los más profundos impulsos, la más profunda poesía, del corazón humano. Ilustrados con los dibujos místicos de Gibrán--comparados por Auguste Rodin a los de William Blake--El profeta es un volumen para disfrutar y al cual volver a lo largo de la vida. [via]More editions of El profeta:
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