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Dickinson died without fame; only a few poems were published in her lifetime. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk--an astonishing body of work, much of which has since appeared in piecemeal editions, sometimes with words altered by editors or publishers according to the fashion of the day.

Now Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by Emily Dickinson--1,789 poems in all, the largest number ever assembled. This reading edition derives from his three-volume work, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (1998), which contains approximately 2,500 sources for the poems. In this one-volume edition, Franklin offers a single reading of each poem--usually the latest version of the entire poem--rendered with Dickinson's spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition is a milestone in American literary scholarship and an indispensable addition to the personal library of poetry lovers everywhere.]]> 690 Emily Dickinson 0674018249 �հ�é�� 5 currently-reading 4.45 1890
author: Emily Dickinson
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average rating: 4.45
book published: 1890
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The translation you want--as complete and unaltered as you will find and beautifully typed. Beware of other versions that take liberties with her punctuation and word choice. Even changing a single word, as some other editors sought fit to do, changes meaning and intent. If you want Emily, as Emily wrote, buy this copy.
]]> 30851 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. The anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. A Woman in Berlin tells of the complex relationship between civilians and an occupying army and the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject--the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity.]]> 261 Anonymous 0312426119 �հ�é�� 5
The prose is understated and often brilliant ("Our fate is rolling in from the east . . ."). Her skills of observation superb. I've never seen/read a victim of war describe so much personal pain with so little animosity or bitterness toward the events and perpetrators. If I could only read five books on WWII, this would be one of those five. It is, perhaps, the best example of what happens in a conquered city: rape, murder, pillage. The account is first person. No axe to grind. This version, by the author's wish, was not republished until after her death, just a few years ago. You can find her name if you google the story, but it is apparent she wanted neither fame nor money from her account. If I could give a book a rating higher than five stars, I would honor A Woman in Berlin such. ]]> 4.23 1953
author: Anonymous
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average rating: 4.23
book published: 1953
rating: 5
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Two days after finishing, I still can't stop thinking about the haunting beauty of this rare journal, deeply saddened at the events described and equally saddened she didn't write more. This is the kind of book that sucks all the oxygen out of the air, that needs space once it is finished. The idea of starting something new is out of the question, almost sacrilege. One wants a moment of silence, to reach through time and hug the writer, which cannot be done.

The prose is understated and often brilliant ("Our fate is rolling in from the east . . ."). Her skills of observation superb. I've never seen/read a victim of war describe so much personal pain with so little animosity or bitterness toward the events and perpetrators. If I could only read five books on WWII, this would be one of those five. It is, perhaps, the best example of what happens in a conquered city: rape, murder, pillage. The account is first person. No axe to grind. This version, by the author's wish, was not republished until after her death, just a few years ago. You can find her name if you google the story, but it is apparent she wanted neither fame nor money from her account. If I could give a book a rating higher than five stars, I would honor A Woman in Berlin such.
]]> 40992 The Shadow of the Torturer is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession -- showing mercy toward his victim.

The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic, and learn the truth about his hidden destiny.

The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Shadow & Claw brings together the first two books of the tetralogy in one volume.]]> 413 Gene Wolfe 0312890176 �հ�é�� 5 4.07 1994
author: Gene Wolfe
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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Writes better than any living author today. His descriptive prose simply must be read to understand. I read the first fifty pages and then turned around and read them again for the sheer pleasure of reading.
]]> 599552 A Bit on the Side, was named a New York Times Notable Book and hailed as one of the Best Books of the Year by papers from coast to coast, including The Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle. And his earlier collection, After Rain, published in 1996, was named one of the eight best books of the year by The New York Times.

Trevor's precise and unflinching insights into the hearts and lives of ordinary people are evidenced once again in this stunning new collection. From a chance encounter between two childhood friends to the memories of a newly widowed man to a family grappling with the sale of their ancestral land, Trevor examines with grace and skill the tenuous bonds of our relationships, the strengths that hold us together, and the truths that threaten to separate us. Subtle yet powerful, his stories linger with the reader long after the words have been put away.
These twelve exquisitely nuanced tales of regret, deception, adultery, aging, and forgiveness confirm Trevor's reputation as a master of the form and one of literature's preeminent chroniclers of the human condition.]]> 240 William Trevor 0670018376 �հ�é�� 5 currently-reading 3.83 2007
author: William Trevor
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average rating: 3.83
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I've learned that William Trevor knows more about writing in his little finger than I will know in three lifetimes. The master of the short story writing as well as he has ever written. Coffee recommended.
]]> 398323
Trond’s friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them. But this morning would turn out to be different. What began as a joy ride on “borrowed�� horses ends with Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell Jon earlier that day—an incident that marks the beginning of a series of vital losses for both boys.

Set in the easternmost region of Norway, Out Stealing Horses begins with an ending. Sixty-seven-year-old Trond has settled into a rustic cabin in an isolated area to live the rest of his life with a quiet deliberation. A meeting with his only neighbor, however, forces him to reflect on that fateful summer.]]> 258 Per Petterson �հ�é�� 0 currently-reading 3.79 2003
author: Per Petterson
name: �հ�é��
average rating: 3.79
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]]> 310014
With its crisp, witty tone, Sin and Syntax covers grammar’s ground rules while revealing countless unconventional syntax secrets (such as how to use—Gasp!—interjections or when to pepper your prose with slang) that make for sinfully good writing. Discover how

*Distinguish between words that are “pearls�� and words that are “potatoes��

* Avoid “couch potato thinking�� and “commitment phobia�� when choosing verbs

* Use literary devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, and metaphor (and understand what you're doing)

Everyone needs to know how to write stylish prose—students, professionals, and seasoned writers alike. Whether you’re writing to sell, shock, or just sing, Sin and Syntax is the guide you need to improve your command of the English language.]]> 289 Constance Hale 0767903099 �հ�é�� 0 currently-reading 3.94 1999
author: Constance Hale
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average rating: 3.94
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]]> 2253484 Shadow Country, he has marvelously distilled a monumental work, realizing his original vision.

Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.

Shadow Country traverses strange landscapes and frontier hinterlands inhabited by Americans of every provenance and color, including the black and Indian inheritors of the archaic racism that, as Watson’s wife observed, "still casts its shadow over the nation."]]> 892 Peter Matthiessen �հ�é�� 0 currently-reading 4.07 2008
author: Peter Matthiessen
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average rating: 4.07
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]]> 574933
List of stories

"A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life"
"Death Is Not the End"
"Forever Overhead"
"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"
"Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XI)"
"The Depressed Person"
"The Devil Is a Busy Man"
"Think"
"Signifying Nothing"
"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"
"Datum Centurio"
"Octet"
"Adult World (I)"
"Adult World (II)"
"The Devil Is a Busy Man"
"Church Not Made with Hands"
"Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (VI)"
"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"
"Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko"
"On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, the Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon"
"Suicide as a Sort of Present"
"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"
"Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XXIV)"]]> 321 David Foster Wallace 0316925195 �հ�é�� 0 currently-reading 3.78 1999
author: David Foster Wallace
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> 739509
In his introduction, David Foster Wallace makes the spirited case that “many of these essays are valuable simply as exhibits of what a first-rate artistic mind can make of particular fact-sets -- whether these involve the 17-kHz ring tones of some kids�� cell phones, the language of movement as parsed by dogs, the near-infinity of ways to experience and describe an earthquake, the existential synecdoche of stagefright, or the revelation that most of what you’ve believed and revered turns out to be self-indulgent crap.”]]> 307 David Foster Wallace 0618709274 �հ�é�� 0 currently-reading 3.88 2007
author: David Foster Wallace
name: �հ�é��
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2007
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]]> 386404 256 William Trevor 067003343X �հ�é�� 5 currently-reading 3.87 2004
author: William Trevor
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average rating: 3.87
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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]]> 271074
Tree of Smoke was the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.]]> 614 Denis Johnson 0374279128 �հ�é�� 0 currently-reading 3.60 2004
author: Denis Johnson
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]]> 11438 Alternate-cover edition can be found here

In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated and beloved short-story writers in American literature—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark.]]> 159 Raymond Carver 0679723056 �հ�é�� 0 currently-reading 4.11 1981
author: Raymond Carver
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average rating: 4.11
book published: 1981
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]]> 16878
This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing.

The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North: its strangely stunted forest, its mesmerizing aurora borealis, its frozen seas. Musk oxen, polar bears, narwhal, and other exotic beasts of the region come alive through Lopez’s passionate and nuanced observations. And, as he examines the history and culture of the indigenous people, along with parallel narratives of intrepid, often underprepared and subsequently doomed polar explorers, Lopez drives to the heart of why the austere and formidable Arctic is also a constant source of breathtaking beauty, beguilement, and wonder.

Written in prose as memorably pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is a timeless mediation on the ability of the landscape to shape our dreams and to haunt our imaginations.]]> 464 Barry Lopez 0375727485 �հ�é�� 0 currently-reading 4.24 1986
author: Barry Lopez
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average rating: 4.24
book published: 1986
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]]> 27999 The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes.

Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the portraits in Close Range reveals characters fiercely wrought with precision and grace.

These are stories of desperation and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both stark and magnificent.

The half-skinned steer --
The mud below --
55 miles to the gas pump --
The bunchgrass edge of the world --
A lonely coast --
Job history --
Pair a spurs --
People in Hell just want a drink of water --
The governors of Wyoming --
The blood bay --
Brokeback Mountain]]> 289 Annie Proulx 0684852225 �հ�é�� 5 currently-reading 4.01 1999
author: Annie Proulx
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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]]> 1052311 416 Dan Abnett 1844160734 �հ�é�� 5 4.24 2004
author: Dan Abnett
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average rating: 4.24
book published: 2004
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Just damn fun reading. Abnett is wonderful in this trilogy.
]]> 5043 Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.

Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape.

Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life.

The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king.

For the TV tie-in edition with the same ISBN go to this Alternate Cover Edition
]]> 976 Ken Follett 045122213X �հ�é�� 0 currently-reading 4.34 1989
author: Ken Follett
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A fun and easy read. Characters you like and a wonderful pacing.
]]> 394535 Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.]]> 351 Cormac McCarthy �հ�é�� 5 4.18 1985
author: Cormac McCarthy
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average rating: 4.18
book published: 1985
rating: 5
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So far, damn good. The dialogue is about as good as it gets for the period (1849-50). You can almost smell the dust and see the plain, heat lightning on the horizon. Water scarce. Blood not.
]]> 350540 The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,�� are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.]]> 287 Cormac McCarthy 0307387895 �հ�é�� 5 3.99 2006
author: Cormac McCarthy
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Beautiful story of love between father and son in a world where they each are "the world entire" to each other. The writing is nothing less than superb in style and substance. A few paragraphs in particular stand as works of art in and of themselves. Cormac paints with words like few others. One almost sees his writing as reads it. Still, for all the literary excellence, I find myself, in time, in distance from the reading, seeing the love between the father and son grow stronger and stronger in my mind, as if it lives. I can't think of another book at the moment that continued to positively haunt my memories as The Road.
]]> 99952
Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL football star and volunteer coach for the Gilman high school football team, teaches his players the keys to successful defense: penetrate, pursue, punish, love. Love? A former captain of the Baltimore Colts and now an ordained minister, Ehrmann is serious about the game of football but even more serious about the purpose of life. Season of Life is his inspirational story as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jeffrey Marx, who was a ballboy for the Colts when he first met Ehrmann.

Ehrmann now devotes his life to teaching young men a whole new meaning of masculinity. He teaches the boys at Gilman the precepts of his Building Men for Others program: Being a man means emphasizing relationships and having a cause bigger than yourself. It means accepting responsibility and leading courageously. It means that empathy, integrity, and living a life of service to others are more important than points on a scoreboard.

Decades after he first met Ehrmann, Jeffrey Marx renewed their friendship and watched his childhood hero putting his principles into action. While chronicling a season with the Gilman Greyhounds, Marx witnessed the most extraordinary sports program he’d ever seen, where players say “I love you�� to each other and coaches profess their love for their players. Off the field Marx sat with Ehrmann and absorbed life lessons that led him to reexamine his own unresolved relationship with his father.

Season of Life is a book about what it means to be a man of substance and impact. It is a moving story that will resonate with athletes, coaches, parents—anyone struggling to make the right choices in life.]]> 192 Jeffrey Marx 0743269748 �հ�é�� 4 4.18 2004
author: Jeffrey Marx
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average rating: 4.18
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]]> 8146 Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories.

Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales—eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time—display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur's samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers an intoxicating draft of the master's genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy.

The Wood-Sprite
Russian Spoken Here
Sounds
Wingstroke
Gods
A Matter of Chance
The Seaport
Revenge
Beneficence
Details of A Sunset
The Thunderstorm
La Veneziana
Bachmann
The Dragon
Christmas
A Letter That Never Reached Russia
The Fight
The Return of Chorb
A Guide to Berlin
A Nursery Tale
Terror
Razor
The Passenger
The Doorbell
An Affair of Honor
The Christmas Story
The Potato Elf
The Aurelian
A Dashing Fellow
A Bad Day
The Visit to the Museum
A Busy Man
Terra Incognita
The Reunion
Lips to Lips
Orache
Music
Perfection
The Admiralty Spire
The Leonardo
In Memory of L.I. Shigaev
The Circle
A Russian Beauty
Breaking the News
Torpid Smoke
Recruiting
A Slice of Life
Spring in Fialta
Cloud, Castle, Lake
Tyrants Destroyed
Lik
Mademoiselle O
Vasiliy Shishkov
Ultima Thule
Solus Rex
The Assistant Producer
That in Aleppo Once
A Forgotten Poet
Time and Ebb
Conversation Piece, 1945
Signs and Symbols
First Love
Scenes From the Life of A Double Monster
The Vane Sisters
Lance]]> 685 Vladimir Nabokov �հ�é�� 0 currently-reading 4.31 1995
author: Vladimir Nabokov
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]]> 40102 The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you'll understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.

Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work - in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?

In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing" - filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.]]> 296 Malcolm Gladwell 0316010669 �հ�é�� 3 currently-reading 3.97 2005
author: Malcolm Gladwell
name: �հ�é��
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> 168642
As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.]]> 343 Truman Capote 0679745580 �հ�é�� 4 4.08 1966
author: Truman Capote
name: �հ�é��
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1966
rating: 4
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]]> 571522 320 Dan Abnett 1844164608 �հ�é�� 5 4.28 2007
author: Dan Abnett
name: �հ�é��
average rating: 4.28
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rating: 5
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]]> 68526 317 Bernard Cornwell 0060888628 �հ�é�� 4 4.34 2007
author: Bernard Cornwell
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> 68528
This is the exciting—yet little known—story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England’s four kingdoms.

At the end of The Last Kingdom, The Danes had been defeated at Cynuit, but the triumph of the English is not fated to last long. The Danish Vikings quickly invade and occupy three of England’s four kingdoms—and all that remains of the once proud country is a small piece of marshland, where Alfred and his family live with a few soldiers and retainers, including Uhtred, the dispossessed English nobleman who was raised by the Danes. Uhtred has always been a Dane at heart, and has always believed that given the chance, he would fight for the men who raised him and taught him the Viking ways. But when Iseult, a powerful sorceress, enters Uhtred’s life, he is forced to consider feelings he’s never confronted before—and Uhtred discovers, in his moment of greatest peril, a new-found loyalty and love for his native country and ruler.]]> 349 Bernard Cornwell 0061144835 �հ�é�� 4 4.30 2006
author: Bernard Cornwell
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average rating: 4.30
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]]> 68527
The story is seen through the eyes of Uhtred, a dispossessed nobleman, who is captured as a child by the Danes and then raised by them so that, by the time the Northmen begin their assault on Wessex (Alfred’s kingdom and the last territory in English hands) Uhtred almost thinks of himself as a Dane. He certainly has no love for Alfred, whom he considers a pious weakling and no match for Viking savagery, yet when Alfred unexpectedly defeats the Danes and the Danes themselves turn on Uhtred, he is finally forced to choose sides. By now he is a young man, in love, trained to fight and ready to take his place in the dreaded shield wall. Above all, though, he wishes to recover his father’s land, the enchanting fort of Bebbanburg by the wild northern sea.

This thrilling adventure—based on existing records of Bernard Cornwell’s ancestors—depicts a time when law and order were ripped violently apart by a pagan assault on Christian England, an assault that came very close to destroying England.]]> 333 Bernard Cornwell 0060887184 �հ�é�� 4 4.27 2004
author: Bernard Cornwell
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average rating: 4.27
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]]> 1052308 412 Dan Abnett 1844161854 �հ�é�� 5 4.26 2005
author: Dan Abnett
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> 752461 768 Dan Abnett 1844161560 �հ�é�� 5 4.44 2004
author: Dan Abnett
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]]> 861231 426 Robert Hicks 0446500127 �հ�é�� 3 currently-reading 3.71 2005
author: Robert Hicks
name: �հ�é��
average rating: 3.71
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rating: 3
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]]> 40995 The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Sword & Citadel brings together the final two books of the tetralogy in one volume:

The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe's remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home.

The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will forever alter the realm known as Urth.]]> 411 Gene Wolfe 0312890184 �հ�é�� 5 4.35 1994
author: Gene Wolfe
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average rating: 4.35
book published: 1994
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