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  • Silmarillion, The
    Silmarillion, The
    Tolkien, J.R.R.
    "Majestic! . . . Readers of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings will find in The Silmarillion a cosmology to call their own, medieval romances, fierce fairy tales, and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic fury . . . It overwhelms the reader." -- Time The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of th...

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  • Deus Irae
    Deus Irae
    Dick, Philip K.
    An artist searches for God so he can paint his portrait in Philip K. Dick’s collaboration with Roger Zelazny.After World War III, the Servants of Wrath cult deified the mysterious Carlton Lufteufel, creator of the doomsday weapon that wiped out much of humanity. But to worship the man, they need an image of him as a god, and no one has ever seen him. So the high priests send a ...

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  • Our Friends from Frolix 8
    Our Friends from Frolix 8
    Dick, Philip k.
    This satirical adventure from Philip K. Dick deals with issues of power, class, and politics, set in a world ruled by big-brained elites.In Our Friends from Frolix 8, the world is run by an elite few. And what determines whether one is part of the elite isn’t wealth or privilege, but brains. As children, every citizen of Earth is tested; some are found to be super-smart New Men...

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  • All Art Is Propaganda
    All Art Is Propaganda
    Orwell, George
    As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important ...

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  • Common Reader, The
    Common Reader, The
    Woolf, Virginia
    Woolf's first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as "Modern Fiction" and "The Modern Essay." Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index. ...

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  • Delta of Venus
    Delta of Venus
    Nin, Anaïs
    An extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the mistress of erotic writingIn Delta of Venus, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects stra...

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  • Flush
    Flush
    Woolf, Virginia
    The life, personality, and world of Elizabeth Barrett Browning are intimately portrayed in a biography of her pet cocker spaniel This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning?s cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Browning?s...

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  • A Room of One's Own
    A Room of One's Own
    Woolf, Virginia
    In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister—a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immo...

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  • Life of Pi
    Life of Pi
    Martel, Yann
    The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and R...

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  • Collected Stories Of Carson Mccullers, The
    Collected Stories Of Carson Mccullers, The
    Mccullers, Carson
    In nineteen stories that explore her signature themes of wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South, McCullers's novellas "The Member of the Wedding" and "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" are also included. ...

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  • Foucault's Pendulum
    Foucault's Pendulum
    Eco, Umberto
    "As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance."THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEThree clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires...

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  • Little Prince, The
    Little Prince, The
    Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
    Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard's translation of the beloved classic beautifully reflects Saint-Exupery's unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators of our time, has excelled in bringing the English text as close as possible to the French, ...

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  • Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The
    Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The
    Mccullers, Carson
    With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is...

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  • Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The
    Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The
    Mccullers, Carson
    A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers’s best stories, including her beloved novella “The Ballad of the Sad Café.” A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose café serves as the town’s gathering place. Amon...

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  • Lord of the Rings, The
    Lord of the Rings, The
    Tolkien, J.R.R.
    In time for the golden anniversary of the arrival of part one of Tolkien´s epic masterpiece on these shore comes a spectacular new edition of ´The Lord of the Rings.´ The text is fully correctedQunder the supervision of Christopher TolkienQto meet the author´s exacting wishes, and includes two large-format fold-out maps, a ribbon placemarker, and exceptionally elegant packaging...

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  • God Delusion, The
    God Delusion, The
    Dawkins, Richard
    A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some...

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  • Waves, The
    Waves, The
    Woolf, Virginia
    One of Woolf's most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts. ...

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  • A Collection of Essays
    A Collection of Essays
    Orwell, George
    One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell fought the injustices of his time with singular vigor through pen and paper. In this selection of essays, he ranges from reflections on his boyhood schooling and the profession of writing to his views on the Spanish Civil War and British imperialism. The pieces collected here include t...

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  • Selected Poems
    Selected Poems
    Eliot, T.S.
    Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet?s most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature-?The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,? ?Gerontion,? ?The Waste Land,? ?The Hollow Men,? and ?Ash Wednesday?-as well as many other fine selections from Eliot?s early work. ...

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  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
    Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
    Dick, Philip K.
    Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said grapples with many of the themes Philip K. Dick is best known for— identity, altered reality, drug use, and dystopia—in a rollicking chase story that earned the novel the John W. Campbell Award and nominations for the Hugo and Nebula.Jason Taverner—world-famous talk show host and man-about-town—wakes up one day to find that no one knows who he ...

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  • Hobbit, The / Lord of the Rings, The
    Hobbit, The / Lord of the Rings, The
    Tolkien, J. R. R.
    This four-volume, deluxe paperback boxed set contains J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterworks The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King). In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins is whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in Hobbiton by the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves. He finds himself...

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  • Fellowship of the Ring, The
    Fellowship of the Ring, The
    Tolkien, J.R.R.
    The first volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring ...

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  • Hobbit, The
    Hobbit, The
    Tolkien, J.R.R.
    Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very da...

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  • Two Towers, The
    Two Towers, The
    Tolkien, J.R.R.
    The second volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGSOne Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themFrodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They h...

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  • Scanner Darkly
    Scanner Darkly
    Dick, Philip K.
    “Dick is Thoreau plus the death of the American dream.”—Roberto BolañoBob Arctor is a junkie and a drug dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred are the same person. Substance D doesn’t just alter the mind, it splits it in tw...

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  • Man in the High Castle, The
    Man in the High Castle, The
    Dick, Philip K.
    "The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick's career." --New York TimesIt's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.This ...

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  • Eye in the Sky
    Eye in the Sky
    Dick, Philip K.
    “I have never seen [its] theme handled with greater technical dexterity or given more psychological meaning.”—Fantasy and Science FictionWhen a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from th...

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  • Return Of The King, The
    Return Of The King, The
    Tolkien, J.R.R.
    The third volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themAs the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined...

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  • Four Quartets
    Four Quartets
    Eliot, T.S.
    The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest workFour Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in "The Waste Land." Here, in four linked poems ("Burnt Norton," "East Coker," "The Dry Salvages," and "Little Gidding"), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symboli...

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  • Big Money, The
    Big Money, The
    Dos Passos, John
    The Big Money completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" (American Heritage) and marks the end of "one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken" (Time). Here we come back to America after the war and find a nation on the upswing. Industrialism booms. The stock market surges. Lindbergh...

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