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A Little Princess $4.98 After the critical success of 1993's The Secret Garden, Warner Bros. returned to the novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett to create this 1995 adaptation of A Little Princess, which instantly ranked with The Secret Garden as one of the finest children's films of the 1990s. Neither film was a huge box-office success, but their quality speaks for itself, and A Little Princess has all the ingredients o... |
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Josh Groban $4.87 There are worse things in life than making your acting debut on the much ballyhooed season finale of Ally McBeal, though teen operatic baritone Josh Groban doesn't seem destined to encounter them anytime soon. As the awkward high school student-client who asks the typically romance-jinxed Ally to his senior prom, Groban performed this debut album's "You're Still You" (adapted from film-composing l... |
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Wounded Rhymes $9.67 Wounded Rhymes, is one of the most tremendous records you will hear in 2011. Channeling the demise of The Shangri-La's Leader of the Pack, women under the influence, ladies and gentlemen of the canyon, a Kung-fu Marianne Faithful, and an armed Nancy Sinatra on peyote, Lykke Li has created an eleven song album that sounds like no other. The record is packed full of pounding, voodoo drums, gir... |
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Bridge to Terabithia [Blu-ray] $5.98 Based on Katherine Paterson's young-adult novel and filmed in picturesque New Zealand, Bridge to Terabithia has lessons to impart about empathy and self-expression, but the tone is never heavy-handed. Jesse (sleepy-eyed Josh Hutcherson, Zathura), a fifth-grade loner, lives in the country with his parents and four sisters, including pesky May Belle (Bailee Madison), who adores him. His strict fathe... |
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Richard Simmons Sweatin' to the Oldies [VHS] $5.95 Richard Simmons is the king of motivational exercise, especially if you're a beginner. This video workout is a dance party simulating a class reunion, with an energizing live band playing lively hits from the '50s and '60s, such as "It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To," "Great Balls of Fire," and "Dancing in the Streets." The singers and musicians sometimes come offstage and dance with the exe... |
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The Notebook $3.83 Behind every great love is a great story. Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love during one summer together but are tragically forced apart. When they reunite 7 years later their passionate romance is rekindled forcing one of them to choose between true love and class order.Running Time: 124 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 794043749728... |
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Pride & Prejudice $4.49 Literary adaptations just don't get any better than director Joe Wright's 2005 version of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice. The key word here is adaptation, because Wright and gifted screenwriter Deborah Moggach have taken liberties with Austen's classic novel that purists may find objectionable, but in this exquisite film their artistic decisions are entirely justified and exceptionally well execu... |
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Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension $2.60 phineas & ferb across the 2nd dimension... |
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English: A Novel $10.49 "I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . Transcendent." -Carolyn See, The Washington Post In the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress , Wang Gang's English is a captivating coming-of- age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self- discovery. When a new teacher comes to school-a tall, elegantly dressed man from Shanghai carrying an English dictionary under his arm-twelve- year-old Love Liu turns away from Chairman Mao's little red book and toward the teacher's big blue book for answers to his most pressing questions about love and life. But as a whole new world begins to open up for him, Love Liu must face a test more challenging than any he'll take in the classroom."I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . Transcendent." -Carolyn See, The Washington Post In the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress , Wang Gang's English is a captivating coming-of- age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self- discovery. When a new teacher comes to school-a tall, elegantly dressed man from Shanghai carrying an English dictionary under his arm-twelve- year-old Love Liu turns away from Chairman Mao's little red book and toward the teacher's big blue book for answers to his most pressing questions about love and life. But as a whole new world begins to open up for him, Love Liu must face a test more challenging than any he'll take in the classroom. |
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Slum Online (Novel) $11.65 No Synopsis Available |
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Heartstopper: A Novel $11.09 From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Mad River Road comes a spine-tingling thriller about a picturesque Florida town -- and the killer determined to prey on its teenage girls. Welcome to Torrance, Florida. Population: 4,160. As Sheriff John Weber would attest, the deadliest predators to date in his tiny hamlet were the alligators lurking in the nearby swamps. But that was before someone abducted and murdered a runaway teenage girl...and before the disappearance of popular and pretty Liana Martin. The pattern is chilling to Sandy Crosbie, the town's new high school English teacher. With a marriage on the rocks, thanks to her husband's online affairs, and a beautiful teenage daughter to protect, Sandy wishes she'd never come to the seemingly quiet town with shocking depths of scandal, sex, and brutality roiling beneath its surface. And as Sheriff Weber digs up more questions than answers in a dead-end investigation, one truth emerges: the prettiest ones are being targeted, the heartstoppers. And this killer intends to give them their due.... Alternating between the chilling journal entries of a cold-blooded murderer and the sizzling scandals of small-town life, Heartstopper is Joy Fielding's most exciting novel of suspense yet. |
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Villain: A Novel $15.09 A young insurance saleswoman is found strangled at Mitsuse Pass. Her family and friends are shocked and terrified. The pass-which tunnels through a mountainous region of southern Japan-has an eerie history: a hideout for robbers, murderers, and ghostly creatures lurking at night. Soon afterward, a young construction worker becomes the primary suspect. As the investigation unfolds, the events leading up to the murder come darkly into focus, revealing a troubled cast of characters: the victim, Yoshino, a woman much too eager for acceptance; the suspect, Yuichi, a car enthusiast misunderstood by everyone around him; the victim's middle-aged father, a barber disappointed with his life; and the suspect's aging grandmother, who survived the starvation of postwar Japan only to be tormented by local gangsters. And, finally, there is desperate Mitsuyo, the lonely woman who finds Yuichi online and makes the big mistake of falling for him. A stunningly dark thriller and a tapestry of noir, Villain is the English-language debut for Shuichi Yoshida, one of Japan's most acclaimed and accomplished writers. From desolate seaside towns and lighthouses to love hotels and online chat rooms, Villain reveals the inner lives of men and women who all have something to hide. Part police procedural, part gritty realism, Villain is a coolly seductive story of loneliness and alienation in the southernmost reaches of Japan. From the Hardcover edition. |
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The English American: A Novel $11.59 When Pippa Dunn adopted as an infant and raised terribly British discovers that her birth parents are from the American South she finds that "culture clash" has layers of meaning she'd never imagined. Meet The English American a fabulously funny deeply poignant debut novel that sprang from Larkin's autobiographical one-woman show of the same name. In many ways Pippa Dunn is very English: she eats Marmite on toast knows how to make a proper cup of tea has attended a posh English boarding school and finds it entirely familiar to discuss the crossword rather than exchange any cross words over dinner with her proper English family. Yet Pippa -- creative disheveled and impulsive to the core -- has always felt different from her perfectly poised smartly coiffed sister and steady practical parents whose pastimes include Scottish dancing gardening and watching cricket. When Pippa learns at age twenty-eight that her birth parents are from the American South she feels that lifelong questions have been answered. She meets her birth mother an untidy artistic free-spirited redhead and her birth father a charismatic (and politically involved) businessman in Washington D.C.; and she moves to America to be near them. At the same time she relies on the guidance of a young man with whom she feels a mysterious connection; a man who discovered his own estranged father and who like her birth parents seems to understand her in a way that no one in her life has done before. Pippa feels she has found her "self" and everything she thought she wanted. But has she? Caught between two opposing cultures two sets of parents and two completely different men Pippa is plunged into hilarious heart-wrenching chaos. The birth father she adores turns out to be involved in neoconservative activities she hates; the mesmerizing mother who once abandoned her now refuses to let her go. And the man of her fantasies may be just that... With an authentic adopted heroine at its center Larkin's compulsively readable first novel unearths universal truths about love identity and family with wit warmth and heart. |
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English Passengers: A Novel $6.19 English Passengers is an old-fashioned book in the best sense: epic in scale, crammed with outsize characters, set in a long-ago time and a faraway place... 'A-'" Entertainment Weekly "Robust and rollicking...unforgettable...It's tough to pull off a memorable epic, but Kneale has done it. So get comfortable, and be prepared to enter a fascinating world." New York Post When Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband but not all confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship Sincerity up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other side of the globe. The Reverend Geoffrey Wilson believes the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania. His traveling partner, Dr. Thomas Potter, unbeknownst to Wilson, is developing a revolutionary, and sinister, thesis of his own, about the races of men. And these passengers are perhaps only slightly more odd than the crew itself, a diverse and lively bunch better equipped to entertain one another than to steer Sincerity around Cape Horn and across the Indian Ocean. Yet they set sail, pointed southward and bound for a thrilling, epic romp across the high seas and cultures of the nineteenth century. Meanwhile, an aboriginal in Tasmania named Peevay recounts his people's struggles against the invading British, who prove as lethal in their good intentions as in their cruelty. This is no Eden but a world of hunting parties and colonial ethnic cleansing. As the English passengers haplessly approach Peevay's land, their bizarre notions ever more painfully at odds with reality, we know a mighty collision is looming. Full of dangerous humor, English Passengers combines wit, adventure, and harrowing historical detail in a mesmerizing display of storytelling. Narrated by over twenty different characters, each one so distinct that the reader has the sense of a story not so much told as dazzlingly peopled, Matthew Kneale has created a buoyant tale, beautifully presented in a storm of voices that brings a past age to vivid and memorable life. From the Hardcover edition. |
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Exploring English with Online Corpora : An Introduction $25.82 No Synopsis Available |
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Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English $79.69 Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English |
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1719 Books (Study Guide): 1719 Novels, Robinson Crusoe, the Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 1719 in Literature $14.14 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1719 Novels, Robinson Crusoe, the Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 1719 in Literature. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Robinson Crusoe, is a novel by Daniel Defoe. First published in 1719, it is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title charactera castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The story was likely influenced by the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island), Chile. However, the details of Crusoe's island were probably based on the Caribbean island of Tobago, since that island lies a short distance north of the Venezuelan coast near the mouth of the Orinoco river, and in sight of the island of Trinidad. It is also likely that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island. Another source for Defoe's novel may have been Robert Knox's account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in "An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon," Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons (Publishers to the University), 1911. Pictorial map of Crusoe's island, aka "Island of Despair," showing incidents from the bookCrusoe (the family name transcribed from the German name "Kreutznaer" or "Kreutznär") sets sail from the Queen's Dock in Hull on a sea voyage in September 1651, against the wishes of his parents, who want him to stay home and assume a career in law. After a tumultuous journey that sees his ship wrecked by a vicious storm, his lust for the sea remains so strong |
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1719 Books (Study Guide): 1719 Novels, Robinson Crusoe, the Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 1719 in Literature $26.16 Used - This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1719 Novels, Robinson Crusoe, the Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 1719 in Literature. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Robinson Crusoe, is a novel by Daniel Defoe. First published in 1719, it is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. The book is a fictional |
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1742 Books (Study Guide): 1742 Novels, Joseph Andrews, 1742 in Literature, the Sofa: A Moral Tale $27.2 New - This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1742 Novels, Joseph Andrews, 1742 in Literature, the Sofa: a Moral Tale. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Joseph Andrews, or The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first published full-length novel of the English author and mag |
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1767 Books (Study Guide): 1767 Novels, the Female American, Commentaries on the Laws of England, the History and Present State of Electricity $14.14 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1767 Novels, the Female American, Commentaries on the Laws of England, the History and Present State of Electricity, 1767 in Literature, L'ingénu, an Essay on the History of Civil Society, Journal to Eliza, Bélisaire. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield, is a novel, originally published in 1767, under the pseudonym of the main character/narrator, Unca Eliza Winkfield and edited in recent editions by Michelle Burnham. The novel describes the adventures of a half-Native American, half-English woman, who is shipwrecked on a deserted isle. The protagonist uses her knowledge of Christianity to convert the indigenous inhabitants on the island as part of her survival mode. This work belongs to the literary genre of the Robinsonade, in that - like other works of its era - it emulates Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. Although there are many similarities to Defoe's novel, the differences are what make The Female American distinctive. For instance, the narrator is not only a woman but is also biracial, as the daughter of a Native American princess and an English settler who resided in Virginia. The protagonist is also multilingual. Although Defoe's protagonist (Robinson Crusoe) chooses to leave his home and set out into an unexplored and dangerous life abroad, Winkfield's protagonist's (Unca Eliza Winkfield) trials and adventures are forced upon her. It is only in the latter part of the narrative that the female protagonist finds a living condition on the island that is more favorable than her American or European origins. In addition, the novel engages with the theme of finding one's home away from the native land, which can be identified in a range of fiction of 18th-century England. |
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1811 Books (Study Guide): 1811 Novels, Sense and Sensibility, Undine, the Necessity of Atheism, 1811 in Literature, Oedipus Judaicus $26.16 Used - This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1811 Novels, Sense and Sensibility, Undine, the Necessity of Atheism, 1811 in Literature, Oedipus Judaicus. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Sense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen. Published in 1811, it was Austen's first published novel, which she w |
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1840s Novels (Study Guide): 1840 Novels, 1841 Novels, 1842 Novels, 1843 Novels, 1844 Novels, 1845 Novels, 1846 Novels, 1847 Novels, 1848 Novels $48.07 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1840 Novels, 1841 Novels, 1842 Novels, 1843 Novels, 1844 Novels, 1845 Novels, 1846 Novels, 1847 Novels, 1848 Novels, 1849 Novels, a Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights, La Reine Margot, Jane Eyre, Typee, David Copperfield, the Count of Monte Cristo, Vanity Fair, the Luck of Barry Lyndon, Cousin Bette, Dombey and Son, the Three Musketeers, Martin Chuzzlewit, the Betrothed, the Old Curiosity Shop, Jack Sheppard, Shirley, Twenty Years After, the Chimes, Dead Souls, Old St. Paul's, Ursule Mirouët, Windsor Castle, a Hero of Our Time, the Cricket on the Hearth, le Juif Errant, Loss and Gain, Guy Fawkes, the Nemesis of Faith, le Cousin Pons, Un Début Dans La Vie, Mémoires de Deux Jeunes Mariées, Mary Barton, Zanoni, the Tower of London, the Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, Dubrovsky, Barnaby Rudge, Auriol, the Amber Witch, the Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Poor Folk, the Lady of the Camellias, the Miser's Daughter, Modeste Mignon, St. James's, Brigitta, La Rabouilleuse, Catherine, La Petite Fadette, the Mysteries of Paris, Sybil, the Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, the Deerslayer, Redburn, the Double: a Petersburg Poem, La Fausse Maîtresse, Tancred, Honorine, the Journal of Julius Rodman, Coningsby, Netochka Nezvanova, Consuelo, Agnes Grey, the Battle of Life, the Macdermots of Ballycloran, Mardi, the Last of the Barons, Omoo, Sab, le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge, the Children of the New Forest, Alton Locke, Georges, the Two Baronesses, a Moreninha, the Crater, Nélida, La Dame de Monsoreau, Poor Jack, Flower Fables, the Two Dianas, O Moço Loiro. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: La Cousine Bette (English: Cousin Betty or Cousin Bette) is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Set in mid-19th century Paris, it tells the |
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1851 Novels (Study Guide): Moby-Dick, the King of the Golden River, the House of the Seven Gables, Lavengro, La Vie de Boh me, Amalia $19.99 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Moby-Dick, the King of the Golden River, the House of the Seven Gables, Lavengro, La Vie de Bohème, Amalia, Voyage to the Orient. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Moby-Dick is a novel first published in 1851 by American author Herman Melville. Moby-Dick is often referred to as a Great American Novel and is considered one of the treasures of world literature. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to take revenge. In Moby-Dick, Melville employs stylized language, symbolism, and metaphor to explore numerous complex themes. Through the main character's journey, the concepts of class and social status, good and evil, and the existence of gods are all examined as Ishmael speculates upon his personal beliefs and his place in the universe. The narrator's reflections, along with his descriptions of a sailor's life aboard a whaling ship, are woven into the narrative along with Shakespearean literary devices such as stage directions, extended soliloquies and asides. Often classified as American Romanticism, Moby-Dick was first published by Richard Bentley in London on October 18, 1851 in an expurgated three-volume edition titled The Whale, and weeks later as a single volume, by New York City publisher Harper and Brothers as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale on November 14, 1851. Although the book initially received mixed reviews, Moby-Dick is now considered one of the greatest novels in the English language. The story is based on the actual events around the whaleship Essex, which |
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1870s Poems: 1870 Poems, 1871 Poems, 1872 Poems, 1875 Poems, 1876 Poems, 1877 Poems, 1878 Poems, 1879 Poems, Jabberwocky $24.3 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1870 Poems, 1871 Poems, 1872 Poems, 1875 Poems, 1876 Poems, 1877 Poems, 1878 Poems, 1879 Poems, Jabberwocky, the Hunting of the Snark, Haddocks' Eyes, Invictus, Idylls of the King, Clarel, the Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, La Légende Des Siècles, 1876 in Poetry, 1878 in Poetry, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, 1872 in Poetry, the Walrus and the Carpenter, 1877 in Poetry, 1870 in Poetry, 1871 in Poetry, 1879 in Poetry, 1875 in Poetry, Barbarian Odes, the Heathen Chinee, L'année Terrible, Hervé Riel, Pied Beauty, le Pape, Afternoon of a Faun, the Wreck of the Deutschland, the Windhover, La Pitié Suprême, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society, Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper, L'art D'être Grand-Père. Excerpt: "Jabberwocky" is a poem of nonsense verse written by Lewis Carroll, originally featured as a part of his novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872). It is considered by many to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language. The poem is sometimes used in primary schools to teach students about the use of portmanteau and nonsense words in poetry, as well as use of nouns and verbs. Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.Beware the Jabberwock, my son!The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shunThe frumious Bandersnatch!He took his vorpal sword in hand:Long time the manxome foe he soughtSo rested he by the Tumtum tree,And stood awhile in thought.And as in uffish thought he stood,The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,And burbled as it came!One, two! One, two! and through and |
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1923 Novels $14.14 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: In Search of Lost Time, Whose Body?, Bambi, a Life in the Woods, the Murder on the Links, the Good Soldier Švejk, Leave It to Psmith, the Girl From Hollywood, Cane, Zeno's Conscience, the Garden of God, Kangaroo, Men Like Gods, Emily of New Moon, One of Ours, La Brière, a Lost Lady, Aelita, Children of Orpheus, Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Antic Hay, Riceyman Steps, Fields of Sleep, the Cowardly Lion of Oz, Abismoj, Doctor Dolittle's Post Office, Through the Wheat, the Fox, the Rover, le Diable Au Corps, the Great Roxhythe, Stella Dallas, Many Marriages, the Able Mclaughlins. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: ) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine". The novel is still widely referred to in English as Remembrance of Things Past, but the title In Search of Lost Time, a more accurate rendering of the French, has gained in usage since D.J. Enright's 1992 revision of the earlier translation by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. The complete story contains nearly 1.5 million words and is generally considered to be one of the longest novels ever written. The novel as we know it began seriously to take shape in 1909, and work continued for the remainder of Proust's life, broken off only by his final illness and death in the autumn of 1922. The main overarching structure was in place at an early stage, and the novel is effectively complete as a work of art and a literary cosmos, but Proust kept adding new material through his final years while editing one time after another for print; the |
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1930s Musicals: 1930 Musicals, 1931 Musicals, 1932 Musicals, 1933 Musicals, 1934 Musicals, 1935 Musicals, 1936 Musicals, 1937 Musicals $35.81 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1930 Musicals, 1931 Musicals, 1932 Musicals, 1933 Musicals, 1934 Musicals, 1935 Musicals, 1936 Musicals, 1937 Musicals, 1938 Musicals, 1939 Musicals, I'd Rather Be Right, Babes in Arms, Porgy and Bess, Anything Goes, of Thee I Sing, the White Horse Inn, on Your Toes, the New Yorkers, Me and My Girl, Fort Griffin Fandangle, Music in the Air, Pardon My English, Face the Music, the Boys From Syracuse, Jubilee, the Cradle Will Rock, Dubarry Was a Lady, Red, Hot and Blue, Conversation Piece, Gay Divorce, Hellzapoppin', Words and Music, Girl Crazy, the Band Wagon, Knickerbocker Holiday, Very Warm for May, Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, the Swing Mikado, as Thousands Cheer, Pins and Needles, Johnny Johnson, Nymph Errant, Let 'em Eat Cake, Ever Green, Jumbo, Set to Music, Roberta, Glamorous Night, Life Begins at 8:40, the Great Waltz, at Home Abroad, Take a Chance, Between the Devil, the Hot Mikado, Walk a Little Faster, the Dancing Years, Too Many Girls, Revenge With Music, Careless Rapture, America's Sweetheart, Simple Simon, the Second Little Show, Sweet and Low, Flying Colors, Hooray for What!, I Married an Angel, Everybody's Welcome, You Never Know, May Wine, Blackbirds of 1933, Flying High, Crest of the Wave, Leave It to Me!, the Well of Romance, Right This Way, Sea Legs, You Said It, Smiling Faces, Say When, Sporting Love. Excerpt: Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. It was based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and the play of the same name which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward. All three works deal with African American life in the fictitious Catfish Row (based on the real-life Cabbage Row) in Charleston, South Caro... More: |
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1941 Novels $19.99 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mildred Pierce, What Makes Sammy Run?, Methuselah's Children, the Keys of the Kingdom, the Black Stallion, the Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the Long Ships, Evil Under the Sun, Random Harvest, up at the Villa, Out of This Furnace, China Sky, Traitor's Purse, Freddy and the Ignormus, Mars in Aries, N or M?, Marihuana, We Couldn't Leave Dinah, Reflections in a Golden Eye, the Living and the Dead, an Béal Bocht, as for Me and My House, the Metal Monster, the Broken Vase, Missee Lee, the G-String Murders, the Love of the Last Tycoon, Little Town on the Prairie, the Captain From Connecticut, Between the Acts, Hangover Square, My Theodosia, Conversations in Sicily, the Matchlock Gun, the Hollow Chest, the Case of the Constant Suicides, the Wife of Martin Guerre, Death Turns the Tables, the Saturdays, Seeing Is Believing, Storm, the Swish of the Curtain, the Timeless Land, Delilah, the Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion, Blood on the Forge, the Black Curtain, a Fish Dinner in Memison, Between Two Worlds, the Mystery of the Flying Express, Curious George, Faro's Daughter, Dave Dawson at Dunkirk, the Turquoise Shop, Saratoga Trunk, Surfeit of Lampreys, the Hammer of God, Sick Heart River, Ariel, in This Our Life, Dave Dawson in Libya, Thomas the Obscure, Barometer Rising, Betsy-Tacy and Tib. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, written from late 1938 to early 1939, and published in 1941 by New Directions Publishers. Ostensibly Nabokov's first major work in English, it was composed in Paris while the author sat in the bathroom, his valise set across a bidet as a writing desk. Nabokov retreated into the washroom to write, so as not to disturb his wife and newborn son in their one-room |
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1953 Short Stories $14.14 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Second Variety, El Llano En Llamas, the Man Who Planted Trees, It's a Good Life, and a Star to Steer Her By, the Enormous Radio, Un-Man, the Variable Man, a Saucer of Loneliness, the Black Stranger, the World Well Lost, the South, Common Time, Roog, Paycheck, the Nine Billion Names of God, the King of the Elves, the Stronger Spell, Edward the Conqueror, Neck, the Hungry Hercynian, Thirsty God, Special Delivery, the Ruum, Teddy, for Esmé - With Love and Squalor, the Wall Around the World, Kid Stuff, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, the Preserving Machine, Sun and Shadow, Jupiter Five, Taste, Galloping Foxley, the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, the Monkey's Finger, Nunc Dimittis, Planet for Transients, the End, the Flying Machine, de Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, Project Nightmare, the Possessed, the Trouble With Bubbles, Encounter in the Dawn, the Defenders, Three-Ten to Yuma, Star Light, Star Bright, Impostor, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Time Is the Traitor, Flies, Sky Lift, Soldier Boy, the Curse, Colony, the Meadow. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: El Llano en llamas (translated into English as "The Burning Plain and other Stories") is a collection of short stories written in Spanish by Mexican author Juan Rulfo and first published in 1953. This collection and a novel entitled Pedro Páramo published within three years of each other in the 1950s established Rulfo's literary reputation. One review of these stories praises these fifteen tales of rural folk because they "prove Juan Rulfo to be one of the master storytellers of modern Mexico....". The reviewer also noted that Rulfo The short stories in The Burning Plain are set in the harsh countryside of the Jalisco region where Rulfo was raised. They explore the tragic lives of the |
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1983 In Australia $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1983 Australian Television Series Debuts, 1983 Australian Television Series Endings, 1983 South Australian Open, 1983 Elections in Australia, 1983 in Australian Rules Football, 1983 in Australian Television, Candidates of the Australian Federal Election, 1983, 1983 Vfl Season, Ash Wednesday Fires, 1983 Australian Touring Car Championship, R V Pearson; Ex Parte Sipka, 1983 James Hardie 1000, 1983 Nswrfl Season, 1983 Castrol 400, 1983 State of Origin Series, 1983 South Australian Open - Singles, Commonwealth V Tasmania, the Young Doctors, Murder of Celia Douty, 1983 Australian Sports Car Championship, the Sullivans, Western Australian State Election, 1983, 1983 Vfl Grand Final, Queensland State Election, 1983, 1983 Australian Gt Championship Season, 1983 Australian Endurance Championship, Logie Awards of 1983, Patrol Boat, 1983 Australian Drivers' Championship, 1983 Australian Grand Prix, Carson's Law, Kruger V Commonwealth, All the Rivers Run, 1983 Australian Formula 2 Championship, Hematite Petroleum Pty Ltd V Victoria, Australia You're Standing in It, 1983 Melbourne Dust Storm, Leask V Commonwealth, Australiana, Shirl's Neighbourhood, Bruce By-Election, 1983, 1983 Australian Open, 1983 Kb Cup, Re Australian Education Union, F V R, Northern Territory General Election, 1983, Moreton By-Election, 1983, Waterloo Station, Scales of Justice, English Cricket Team in Australia in 1982-83, Wannon By-Election, 1983, Wombat, Pakistani Cricket Team in Australia in 1983-84, Bragg State By-Election, 1983, Starting Out, New Zealand Cricket Team in Australia in 1982-83. Excerpt: All The Rivers Run All The Rivers Run is a television miniseries in 1983 and 1989, starring Sigrid Thornton and John Waters . The miniseries is based on the Australian historical novel by Nancy Cato , first |
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1990s Science Fiction Novels $32.47 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: A Fire Upon the Deep, Feersum Endjinn, Flare, Fatherland, Diaspora, Green Shadows, White Whale, Murasaki, Endymion, the Guns of the South, Galax-Arena, Expendable, Fallen Angels, Gun, With Occasional Music, Glory Season, Ender's Shadow, Forever Peace, the Encounter, Forbidden Knowledge, Kirinyaga, Flux, Foundation's Fear, the Garden of Rama, the Fortunate Fall, the Gripping Hand, the Far Shore of Time, Gridiron, Face of the Enemy, Forever Free, Empire of the Ants, the Ganymede Club, the Insider, Gojiro, the Exile Kiss, Tea From an Empty Cup, the Extremes, the Fifth Sacred Thing, Gaia's Toys, Dreaming Metal, Encounter With Tiber, the Modular Man, Mid-Flinx, Great Apes, End Time, Halfway Human, the Face of the Waters, Forests of the Night, Generation Warriors, Emerald Fire, Godspeed, Ground Zero, Genesis Echo, Fury's Pilgrims, Groogleman, Fearful Symmetries, Emperors of the Twilight. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Fatherland is a bestselling 1992 thriller by the English writer and journalist Robert Harris. It takes the form of an alternative history set in a world in which Nazi Germany won World War II. The novel was an immediate bestseller in Britain. It has sold over three million copies and has been translated into 25 languages. The story begins in Nazi Germany, the Third Reich in April 1964, in the week leading up to Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday. The plot follows detective Xavier March, an investigator working for the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo), as he investigates the suspicious death of a high-ranking Nazi, Josef Bühler, in the Havel, on the outskirts of Berlin. As March uncovers more details he realises that he is caught up in a political scandal involving senior Nazi party officials, who are apparently being systematically murdered under |
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A Christmas Carol Characters: Ebenezer Scrooge $10.09 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ebenezer Scrooge is the principal character in Charles Dickens' 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge is a cold-hearted, tight-fisted and greedy man, who despises Christmas and all things which engender happiness. Dickens describes him thus: "The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue, and he spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice ..." His last name has come into the English language as a byword for miserliness and misanthropy, traits displayed by Scrooge in the exaggerated manner for which Dickens is well-known. The tale of his redemption by the three Ghosts of Christmas (Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, and Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) has become a defining tale of the Christmas holiday. Scrooge's catchphrase, "Bah, humbug!" is often used to express disgust with many of the modern Christmas traditions. Several theories have been put forward as to where Dickens got the inspiration for the character. The story of A Christmas Carol starts on Christmas Eve, with Scrooge at his place of business. The book says that Scrooge lives in London, England. It is usually assumed that he is a banker or professional money lender. Some recent versions portray him as a solicitor. Whatever his main business is, he seems to have usurious relationships with people of little means. These relationships, along with his lack of charity and shabby treatment of his clerk, Bob Cratchit, seem to be his major vices. His nephew however, has great regard for Christmas and we are introduced to him early in the story. Scrooge has only disgust for the poor, thinking the world would be better off without them, "decreasing the surplus population," and praise ... More: |
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A Date with History: August 18th Including Genghis Khan's Death in China, the Establishment of the Bureau of Immigration, the Publication of Vladimir Nabokov's Novel Lolita and More $19.19 New - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A Date with History: August 18th, including all the important events which took place on this date and have shaped our history such as Virginia Dare Becomes the first child of English parents born in North America, Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca killed by Franco's soldiers during the Spanish Civil War, James Merdith became the first African American to graduat |
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AI-Fak $42.34 Used - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ai-Fak is a 2004 Thai drama film. It is based on the S.E.A. Write Award-winning novel by Chart Korbjitti, Khamphiphaksa (The Judgment, also the English-language title for the film). A young man, Fak, is a revered novice Buddhist monk, and the entire village has turned out to the local temple to hear him preach a sermon. Fak's talk is interrupted a coughing fit by |
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AI-Fak $48 Used - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ai-Fak is a 2004 Thai drama film. It is based on the S.E.A. Write Award-winning novel by Chart Korbjitti, Khamphiphaksa (The Judgment, also the English-language title for the film). A young man, Fak, is a revered novice Buddhist monk, and the entire village has turned out to the local temple to hear him preach a sermon. Fak's talk is interrupted a coughing fit by |
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AI-Fak $41.54 Used - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ai-Fak is a 2004 Thai drama film. It is based on the S.E.A. Write Award-winning novel by Chart Korbjitti, Khamphiphaksa (The Judgment, also the English-language title for the film). A young man, Fak, is a revered novice Buddhist monk, and the entire village has turned out to the local temple to hear him preach a sermon. Fak's talk is interrupted a coughing fit by |
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Alexander Ahndoril $68.4 Used - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alexander Ahndoril (born 20 January 1967 in Stockholm)) is a Swedish novelist and playwright. His best-selling novel, Regiss ren (Stockholm: Bonnier, 2006), about the film maker Ingmar Bergman, was published in English translation as The Director in 2008 (London: Portobello). Ahndoril was longlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2009. His latest novel |
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Alexander Ahndoril $68.4 New - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alexander Ahndoril (born 20 January 1967 in Stockholm)) is a Swedish novelist and playwright. His best-selling novel, Regiss ren (Stockholm: Bonnier, 2006), about the film maker Ingmar Bergman, was published in English translation as The Director in 2008 (London: Portobello). Ahndoril was longlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2009. His latest novel, |
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American Game Designers $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Aaron S. Rosenberg, Michael Borys, Rich Whitehouse, Milton Bradley, Elan Lee, Steve Peters, Elizabeth Carpenter, Jim Landes, Charles S. Roberts, Lou Zocchi, Wolfgang Baur, Angel Leigh Mccoy, Shane Lacy Hensley, Andy Chambers, Amy Tucker, Joel Billings, Lauren Elliott, Tom Jolly, Oliver Jovanovic. Excerpt: Aaron S. Rosenberg (born October 13, 1969) is an American novelist and game designer. Originally from New Jersey and New York , Mr. Rosenberg returned to New York City in 1996 after stints in New Orleans and Kansas. He has taught college-level English and worked in corporate graphics and book publishing. Mr. Rosenberg has written novels for Star Trek , StarCraft , Warcraft , Exalted , Stargate Atlantis , and Warhammer . He also writes educational books, young adult novels, children's books, and roleplaying games. He won an Origins Award in 2003, for Gamemastering Secrets, a Gold ENnie in 2007, for Lure of the Lich Lord, and a 2003 PsiPhi Award for Collective Hindsight, Book One. His second Warcraft novel, Beyond the Dark Portal, was nominated for a Scribe Award in 2009. Mr. Rosenberg lives in New York City with his family. Publications Novels Young adult novels Children's books Short stories item "Gunshade: Rapid Fire." Thrilling Tales Quarterly #1. Lawrence, KS: Adamant Entertainment, 2008.* "Distant Fire"- short story. Tales of the Last War . Seattle: Wizard of the Coast, 2006. item "Inescapable Justice"- novella. Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction. New York: Pocket Books, 2003. item "Six for the Sword"- short story. Legends of the Pendragon. San Francisco: Green Knight Publishing, 2002. item The Powerpuff Girls Continuity Chapter Book #16: Bubbles in the Middle . New York: Scholastic, 2002. item Star Trek S.C.E.: the |
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American War Films (Study Guide) $38.4 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: American War Drama Films, Braveheart, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, Wings, the Best Years of Our Lives, the Deer Hunter, Doctor Zhivago, Schindler's List, Patton, Platoon, Coming Home, Stalag 17, Empire of the Sun, Good Morning, Vietnam, the Last Samurai, the English Patient, Gone With the Wind, Letters From Iwo Jima, Glory, Defiance, Flags of Our Fathers, Born on the Fourth of July, All Quiet on the Western Front, Enemy at the Gates, Cold Mountain, Redacted, Holocaust, Hell's Angels, Exodus, Courage Under Fire, in the Valley of Elah, Casualties of War, the Four Feathers, Conspiracy, Stop-Loss, Hart's War, the Messenger, Tigerland, Faith of My Fathers, 1969, Home of the Brave, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Johnny Got His Gun, the Big Lift, the War at Home, Birdy, the Black Watch, in Love and War, the Beginning or the End, Brushfire, Beloved Enemy, Beautiful Dreamer, a Yank in Viet-Nam, Keep Your Powder Dry, Aerial Gunner. Excerpt: Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name. It was produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Sidney Howard. The epic film, set in the American South in and around the time of the American Civil War, stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, and Hattie McDaniel. It tells a story of the Civil War and its aftermath from a white Southern viewpoint. It received ten Academy Awards (8 competitive, 2 honorary), a record that stood for twenty years. In the American Film Institute's inaugural Top 100 American Films of All Time list of 1998, it was ranked number four; although in the 2007 10th Anniversary edition of that list, it was dropped two places, to number six. I... More: |
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Anarchist Poets $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Cage, David D. Friedman, Julian Beck, Voltairine de Cleyre, Renzo Novatore, Herbert Read, Lev Chernyi, Laurent Tailhade, List of Anarchist Poets, John Henry Mackay, David Edelstadt, Raegan Butcher, Pi O, Jackson Mac Low, Armand Robin, Valeriano Orobón Fernández, FráÅ?a Šrámek, Gilda Antonia Guillen. Excerpt: Armand Robin (January 19, 1912 March 30, 1961) was a French poet , translator, and journalist.Life Robin was born in Plouguernével by Rostrenen (Côtes-d'Armor ) and came to Paris . He was unable to settle down for all his life. He traveled to USSR in 1934, and returned shocked by the reality of communism . During the German occupation of France during World War II he worked in radio broadcasting foreign news.Robin continued his language studies so that he understood twenty-six languages. He translated works from English (Shakespeare ), Russian (Yesenin , Blok , Pasternak ), Hungarian (Ady ), Polish (Mickiewicz ), Italian (Ungaretti ), Chinese (Tu Fu ), Flemish, Finnish, German, Arabic, Spanish, Kalmyk, etc.He joined the French Anarchist Federation in 1945, which published his Poèmes indésirables (Undesirable Poems). He authored "La fausse parole" (The False Word), which dissected the mechanisms of propaganda in the totalitarian countries. On March 27, 1961, Robin was arrested because he had no identity document , and died three days later under mysterious circumstances in a Parisian hospital.Works Own poetry with translations Poetry Translations Novel Radio broadcasts Essays, articles Correspondence References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at norma... |
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Andrew West $72 New - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Andrew Christopher West is an English Sinologist. He initially devoted himself to studying Chinese novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In particular, he produced a comprehensive and detailed study of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, with a new approach to analyze the relationship among the various versions, interpolating the original text of that novel. He compil |
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Andrew West $72 Used - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Andrew Christopher West is an English Sinologist. He initially devoted himself to studying Chinese novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In particular, he produced a comprehensive and detailed study of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, with a new approach to analyze the relationship among the various versions, interpolating the original text of that novel. He compi |
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Andy Nyman $63.6 New - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Andy Nyman (born 13 April 1966) is an English actor and magician. Nyman first came to note with his performance as a hard nosed director in Musical! and then as Keith Whitehead in the cult film of the Martin Amis novel, Dead Babies. He has played lead roles in Jon Avnet's Emmy award winning film Uprising (NBC) as a Polish freedom fighter and in Coney Island Baby a |
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Andy Nyman $63.6 Used - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Andy Nyman (born 13 April 1966) is an English actor and magician. Nyman first came to note with his performance as a hard nosed director in Musical! and then as Keith Whitehead in the cult film of the Martin Amis novel, Dead Babies. He has played lead roles in Jon Avnet's Emmy award winning film Uprising (NBC) as a Polish freedom fighter and in Coney Island Baby |
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Anna Massey $63.6 Used - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Anna Raymond Massey, CBE (11 August 1937 - 3 July 2011) was an English actress. She won a BAFTA Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel Hotel du Lac. Massey was born in Thakeham, West Sussex, England, the daughter of British actress Adrianne Allen and Canadian-born Hollywood actor Raymond Massey. Her brother, Daniel Ma |
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Anna Massey $63.6 New - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Anna Raymond Massey, CBE (11 August 1937 - 3 July 2011) was an English actress. She won a BAFTA Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel Hotel du Lac. Massey was born in Thakeham, West Sussex, England, the daughter of British actress Adrianne Allen and Canadian-born Hollywood actor Raymond Massey. Her brother, Daniel Mas |
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Anna Sewell $58.8 New - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Anna Sewell (30 March 1820 - 25 April 1878) was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic novel Black Beauty. Anna Mary Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England into a devoutly Quaker family. Her father was Isaac Phillip Sewell (1793-1879), and her mother, Mary Wright Sewell (1798 - 1884) was a successful author of children's books. A |
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Anna Sewell $58.8 Used - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Anna Sewell (30 March 1820 - 25 April 1878) was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic novel Black Beauty. Anna Mary Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England into a devoutly Quaker family. Her father was Isaac Phillip Sewell (1793-1879), and her mother, Mary Wright Sewell (1798 - 1884) was a successful author of children's books. |
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Anno Dracula (Novel) $49.2 Used - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Anno Dracula is a 1992 novel by British writer Kim Newman, the first in the Anno Dracula series. It is an alternate history using 19th century English historical settings and personalities, along with characters from popular fiction. The interplay between humans who have chosen to "turn" into vampires and those who are "warm" (humans) is the backdrop for the plot |
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Anno Dracula (Novel) $38.49 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Anno Dracula is a 1992 novel by British writer Kim Newman, the first in the Anno Dracula series. It is an alternate history using 19th century English historical settings and personalities, along with characters from popular fiction. The interplay between humans who have chosen to "turn" into vampires and those who are "warm" (humans) is the backdrop for the plot which tracks Jack the Ripper's politically charged destruction of vampire prostitutes. The reader is alternately and sympathetically introduced to various points of view. The main characters are Jack the Ripper, and his hunters Charles Beauregard (an agent of the Diogenes Club), and Geneviève Dieudonné, a senior vampire. From the book cover: "The most comprehensive, brilliant, dazzlingly audacious vampire novel to date." (Locus); "A tour de fource which succeeds brilliantly." (The Times); "A marvellous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror, and alternative history." (The Independent). |
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Anno Dracula (Novel) $49.2 Used - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Anno Dracula is a 1992 novel by British writer Kim Newman, the first in the Anno Dracula series. It is an alternate history using 19th century English historical settings and personalities, along with characters from popular fiction. The interplay between humans who have chosen to "turn" into vampires and those who are "warm" (humans) is the backdrop for the plot |