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Little Women
de Louisa May Alcott
Little Women (or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy) is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, it was published in two parts in 1868 and 1869. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—on their way into adulthood while their father serves as a chaplain in the American Civil War. Although it is not based on a true story, it is loosely inspired by the author's childhood...
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The Grapes Of Wrath
de John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
stands as a pivotal piece of American literature. The story follows
the Joad family (and thousands of others) as they are driven from the
Oklahoma farm where they are sharecroppers during the Great
Depression. The drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial
and agricultural industries send them searching for dignity and
honest work in the bountiful state of California.
The novel earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1940, and inspired the... Leer más sobre este artículo
stands as a pivotal piece of American literature. The story follows
the Joad family (and thousands of others) as they are driven from the
Oklahoma farm where they are sharecroppers during the Great
Depression. The drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial
and agricultural industries send them searching for dignity and
honest work in the bountiful state of California.
The novel earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1940, and inspired the... Leer más sobre este artículo
The Rise Of Silas Lapham
de William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, on March 1, 1837. His father was a printer and newspaperman, and the family moved from town to town. Howells went to school where he could. As a boy he began learning the printer’s skill. By the time he was in his teens he was setting type for his own verse. Between 1856 and 1861 he worked as a reporter for the Ohio State Journal. About this time his poems began to appear in the Atlantic Monthly. His campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln,...
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Cheever
de Blake Bailey
From the acclaimed author of A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates comes the unforgettable life of John Cheever (1912--1982), a man who spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. "I was born into no true class," Cheever mused in his journal, "and it was my decision, early in life, to insinuate myself into the middle class, like a spy, so that I would have an advantageous position of attack,...
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Leaves Of Grass
de Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. " Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death. The first edition published in 1855 contained 12 poems on 95 pages....
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Till We Have Faces
de C S Lewis
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is a 1956 parallel novel by C. S. Lewis. It is a retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, which had haunted Lewis all his life, and which is itself based on a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. The first part of the book is written from the perspective of Psyche's older sister Orual, and is constructed as a long-withheld accusation against the gods.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
de Ernest Hemingway
Many consider For Whom the Bell Tolls to be author Ernest Hemingway’s finest work. Inspired by Hemingway’s time as a war correspondent for The North American Newspaper Alliance during the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a stark and brutal commentary on the nature of war, sacrifice, and death. In fact, many believe his work is among the best depictions of the Spanish Civil War written. As with some of Hemingway’s other work, many of the characters, experiences, and...
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Jane Eyre
de Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre, an Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell". Orphaned as a child, Jane felt like an outcast during her childhood. She was sent by her cruel aunt to a boarding school where she was met with further torment. After the devastating loss of a friend, she finds herself enrolled under a new headmaster at the Lowood School...
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A Tale Of Two Cities
de Charles Dickens
Written by Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel that follows Manette, a French doctor imprisoned for 18 long years in Paris’s Bastille. Following his release, he goes to live in London with his daughter Lucie, who had never met him and believed him to be dead. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, A Tale of Two Cities is a fictitious story that falls both into the historical and adventure genres. The famous book is one of the...
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Sun Also Rises
de Ernest Hemingway
Based on real events and acquaintances of Hemingway, Sun Also Rises is about American and English expats in Pamplona.
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How I Live Now
de Rosoff, Meg
Wendy Lamb Books, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Wendy Lamb Books, 2006. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked, solid book with minor wear to cover edges. Thoroughly original, a book for all ages, a sensitive look at the complexities of being young in a world teetering on chaos. A story of 15-year-old New Yorker Daisy who is sent to the English countryside to live with cousins she has never met. England is attacked and occupied by an unknown enemy. Daisy and the...
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Saving Fish From Drowning
de TAN, AMY
New York, New York, USA: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. Archival protective cover. Lovely book bound in black half cloth gilt titled, with blue-green boards with blind-stamped design on front. Bright, clean, tight, unmarked, untorn. Unclipped jacket is blue-green/black with illus of Burmese river scene with small Burmese fishing boat and a woman fishing....
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My Century
de GRASS, GUNTER
U.S.A: Harcourt, Inc, 1999. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First US Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition.Translated by Michael Henry Heim. Gunter Grass is the Winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature. From Germany's most eminent contemporary writer, this is a collection of interlinked stories celebrating the 20th century. Gunter Grass writes of great events and some seemingly trivial happenings of the 20th century--technical...
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Some Portraits of the Lake Poets and their Homes
de Abraham, Ashley P
Keswick: G. P. Abraham Ltd, 1947. No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to oversize part of covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards. 29 plates plus 55pp. Concise biographies about six major plus a few minor Lake District Poets. Well illustrated.. First Edition. Paperback with Oversize Covers. Very Good (+). 8.75 x 6.25 inches.
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The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes
de Zerby, Chuck
New York: Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster, 2003. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Remainder First Touchstone Book Printing, 2003. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked gently used book with just a whisper of cover wear. "Being a concise and definitive account of the footnote from its murky birth to its fertile middle years to its endangered present, beset as it is by careless writers and indifferent editors and thoughtless readers and penny...
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The Secrets of Nostradamus Exposed
de Comfort, Ray
Bellflower, California, U.S.A: Living Waters Pubns, 1996. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Here are the undisclosed secrets of the world's greatest prophet. Some say his knowledge was obtained through the occult. Some say Nostradamus was a man who heard from God. This book will reveal to you that there was another means by which he obtained such incredible prophecies. The book is clean and unmarked, faint...
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Lewis Carroll: An Illustrated Biography
de Hudson, Derek
London: Constable, 1976. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 272pp. Biography of Lewis Carroll, now republished with a great many illustrations. Now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10.25 x 7.5 inches.
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House of Sand and Fog
de Dubus, Andre III
U.S.A: Vintage Books/Random House, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Cover is clean, top front corner scratched, light edgewear, and rubbing along spine. Interior is clean and unmarked, no creases. Oprah's Book Club Selection. A classic tragedy. In this novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously engaged in an escalating crisis. An Iranian immigrant from a wealthy...
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Literary Britain :Bill Brandt
de Haworth-Booth, Mark (editor)
London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1984. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 172pp. This set of captioned photographs by Bill Brandt was first published in book form in 1951. This reprint was made to accompany the V&A exhibition of the work in 1984. The first 65 of the 75 photographs are accompanied by poem or prose quotations from the English literature of famous authors. Scarce in...
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A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories
de Murray, John
New York: HarperCollins, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Collectible. First Edition. Hardcover and Jacket As New. Binding of black half cloth w/gilt titles, tan paper-wrapped boards. very clean and unmarked, no edgewear. Tight & solid, square. Jacket very striking red with gold filigree butterflies and a realistic Monarch butterfly in full color. Bright, clean, tight, no tears, unmarked, not price clipped. Very handsome book. A collection of stories,...
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Great Italian Short Stories
de Pasinetti, P. M
New York, New York, USA: Dell Publishing, 1959. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Paperback in Good Condition. Clean green cover with illustration of a man on horseback in the Middle- Ages, designed by John Alcorn. . Cover has three light wrinkles on front and one down spine hinge; light web-like wrinkles near upper edge; light edgewear. All edges of text block evenly tinted green. Internals clean,unmarked, no creasses, pages toned, more so on edges. Paper supple. Stories...
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Pull Devil, Pull Baker
de Benson Stella and Count Nicolas De Toulouse and Lautrec De Savine
New York: The Literary Guild, 1933. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing of The Literary Guild Edition. Hardcover Book in Good Condition, Without Jacket. Literary Guild edition with the original Harper plates bound in purple cloth with gold banner across front, clean, with wear to lower front corner, upper front corner discolored, white streak to spine; sewn binding tight and solid. Spine and edges of rear cover sunned. Purple endpapers. Pages...
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The Memoirs of a Survivor
de Lessing, Doris
USA: Bantam Books, 1981. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Paperback in Good Condition. Ex-library copy., clean and unmarked, light wear around cover edges, spine creases, binding solid, square. Pages clean, toned, no markings of any kind. A visionary attempt at an autobiography, Doris Lessing writes of a city of the future governed by a barbaric code of law. Part science fiction, part 19th century realism, this is a profound literary work by one of the most intelligent...
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Old Love
de Singer, Isaac Bashevis
U.S.A: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back A Collection of Stories from a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. First Printing. Hardcover Book in NEAR FINE Condition with a VG Dust Jacket in mylar cover. Jacket price-clipped. 273 pp. Handsome green cloth binding w/bronze foil titles on spine, blind-stamped floral design on front. Lightly sunned along top edge-no other defects. Clean and...
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Songs of the Fluteplayer: Seasons of Life in the Southwest
de Russell, Sharman Apt
USA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1992. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. A lovely literary debut in which the author shares her spiritual journey as she and her husband leave the faster life to find a way of life in a rural community in the remote southwestern desert in New Mexico. Very clean light green and orange card cover with a touch of wear to the corners. Tight glued binding. Pages clean, unmarked, no...
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Choruses for Morning
de Rosenburg, Robert K
Baltimore, MD: Linden. Good. 1963. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards have mild discoloration. Clean text, no name inside. A collection of poems including: Cleopatra, Africa, Taj Mahal, Lesbos, Jephthah's Daugther; Eumenides, Southern Belle, Parlor Grame, In Memoriam: Alban Berg, etc .
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The O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories 2002
de Dark, Larry (Series Editor)
USA: Anchor Books/Random House, 2002. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good+ Condition. Clean and unmarked card cover, crease on bottom corner, no spine creasing, tight glued binding. Prev owner name on inside of front cover. Pages clean and free of any markings. Edited and with an Introduction by Series editor Larry Dark. The O. Henry Awards are considered the most prestigious American awards for short fiction. Twenty or so short fiction stories...
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The Thief and the Dogs
de Mahfouz, Naguib
New York, New York, USA: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1989. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Translated from Arabic by Trevor Le Gassick and M. M. Badawi, Revised by John Rodenbeck. Author is 1988. Nobel Prize Winner for Literature. "The Thief and the Dogs" was first published in Arabic in 1961. Pages toned, otherwise clean and unmarked, solid, tight glued binding, light corner and spine head and heel wear to cover. 158...
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Shakespearean Whodunnits -- Murders And Mysteries Based on Shakespeare's Plays
de Ashley, Mike (Editor)
USA: Carroll & Graf, 1997. First Thus. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Carroll & Graf Edition. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean and unmarked cover has wear to the lower corner which is creased, little scuffing of upper corner, reading crease along spine hinge. Interior clean and unmarked, toned. Prev owner name on first page. An original and wonderfully entertaining collection of more than twenty superb whodunnits based on and around favorite characters from...
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Fine Art of Literary Mayhem: A Lively Account of Famous Writers and Their Feuds
de Land, Myrick
San Francisco, CA: Lexikos, 1983. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. White wraps with black and red lettering, light wear to extremities, cover shows light wear, glued binding tight and solid. Internals toned, quite clean and free from any markings, This is a lively collection of stories from the war of words and battle of the books, from Dr, Johnson to Norman Mailer. Quite a witty account of feuds between and among authors-Dickens and...
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The American Literary Anthology/3: The Third Annual Collection of the Best from the Literary Magazines
de Plimpton, George and Ardery, Peter--Editors
U.S.A: Viking Press, 1970. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. The Third Annual Collection of the Best from the Literary Magazines. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Contains eight stories, nine essays, and more than forty poems, taken from such magazines as The Kenyon Review, Chelsea, Virginia Quarterly, The Little Square Review, and Hanging Loose. It represents the most adventurous and contemporary spectrum of talents of the time. 417 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches....
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Herself Surprised (New York Review Books Classics)
de Cary, Joyce
The New York Review of Books, Inc (NYRB), 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7. The New York Review of Books, Inc (NYRB), 1999, Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Introduction by Brad Leithauser. Clean and unmarked gently used book with minor wear. The first volume of Joyce Cary's first Trilogy introduces Sara Monday, a woman at once dissolute and devout, passionate and sly, who changes her fortune form domestic drudgery to playing the great lady in a small provincial town. Funny, sad,...
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Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal
de Vidal, Gore
USA: Random House Inc, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. An iconoclastic tale about the New Testament and Christianity. The time is A. D. 96 and Timothy, bishop of Macedonia, is under pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since far into the future the Hacker is systematically destroying evidence of Christianity and Timothy's Gospel is the only one immune to the...
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McSWEENEY'S QUARTERLY CONCERN: Issue 9
de Eggers, Dave
San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2002. First printing. paperback. Very Good +. 8vo. Illustrated covers. 252 pages. Boldly SIGNED on the Dedication page by Dave Eggers. No other names or marks. Contributors include A. M. Homes, Denis Johnson, and William T. Vollmann. An early issue of the quarterly, here signed by Eggers.
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The Monk And The Hangman's Daughter
de Bierce, Ambrose
USA: The Heritage Press, 1967. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 4to - over 9. Michel Ciry. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book As New.with a Very Good + Bookcase. 7.75 x 11" tall. 80 pp. Illustrated by Michel Ciry. Mustard colored cloth, very clean and unmarked; tight and solid. Interior also pristine. Eight full page, full color illustrations by Michel Ciry. Golden brown bookcase is quite clean with a light fold-like line near the bottom and a scuff to the fore-edge open end, near the corner. On the...
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