en-US Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:10:59 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 5206073 Beowulf, Sir Gawain is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that "[helps] liberate Gawain from academia" (Sunday Telegraph).]]> 208 Simon Armitage 0393334155 Luke 0 4.05 1375
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]]> 1051238 496 Franz Kafka 0713916303 Luke 0 3.75 1911
author: Franz Kafka
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]]> 59971 80 Frank Miller 0785108904 Luke 0 3.76
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]]> 1131612
A representative group of early shorter poems is included; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Cathay and Homage to Sextus Propertius are printed complete; and there is a selection from the Cantos up to and including Drafts & Fragments (1969).

Illustration by Wyndham Lewis]]> 192 Ezra Pound Luke 0 3.72 1928
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]]> 403517 1026 Edgar Allan Poe 0679600078 Luke 0 4.39 1849
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]]> 16005 HERE

Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter, importantly, within the limits imposed by Milton's syntax. "Sources and Backgrounds" collects relevant passages from the Bible and Milton's prose writings, including selections from The Reason of Church Government and the full text of Areopagitica. "Criticism" brings together classic interpretations by Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Victor Hugo, and T. S. Eliot, among others, and the most important recent criticism and scholarship surrounding the epic, including essays by Northrop Frye, Barbara Lewalski, Christopher Ricks, and Helen Vendler. A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included.]]> 590 John Milton 0393924289 Luke 0 3.94 1667
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]]> 770430 314 William Wordsworth 0140424423 Luke 0 4.09
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]]> 1646916 115 Randall Jarrell 0374258678 Luke 0 3.85
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]]> 76776
The only god living in Green Town, Illinois, that Douglas Spaulding knew of.

The facts about John Huff, aged twelve, are simple and soon stated.

� He could pathfind more trails than any Choctaw or Cherokee since time began.
� Could leap from the sky like a chimpanzee from a vine.
� Could live underwater two minutes and slide fifty yards downstream.
� Could hit baseballs into apple trees, knocking down harvests.
� Could jump six-foot orchard walls.
� Ran laughing.
� Sat easy.
� Was not a bully.
� Was kind.
� Knew the words to all the cowboy songs and would teach you if you asked.
� Knew the names of all the wild flowers and when the moon would rise or set and when the tides came in or out.

He was, in fact, the only god living in the whole of Green Town, Illinois, during the twentieth century that Douglas Spaulding knew of.

“[Ray] Bradbury is an authentic original.”� Time]]> 239 Ray Bradbury 0553277537 Luke 0 to-read 4.13 1957
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]]> 5941794 The Children of Children Keep Coming is an awe-inspiring contribution to literature. A breathtaking form of poetic expression, this unique work presents a riveting chronicle of the African American experience in the United States.

The dramatic odyssey opens with two anonymous slaves running to catch the Freedom Train, where at journey's end they hope to find liberation. Along the way, they encounter fields of laborers sowing seeds, plodding hard under sun high and moon low, working to end slavery. The toilers are sustained by work songs that at one moment express the dreams and fears of the downtrodden and at another moment burst forth with unbound faith and optimism.

These determined travelers, with dangerous crows circling around them, roam through fields holding their dead; step over graves of the once enslaved; walk across beds of red, white, and blue flowers, all for the opportunity to march on the green lawns of democracy. Throughout their entangled journey, they meet imaginary and mythological characters. But it is down by the riverside where their belief that a time of change will come is affirmed by engagements with "giants" such as Frederick Douglass, Billie Holiday, Hank Aaron, Sojourner Truth, and Rosa Parks.

The Children of Children Keep Coming is strung seamlessly together—by poetry and prose, blues and gospel, hymns and jazz, work songs and prayers—forcing the universal harmony of the cry for freedom and justice to reach an unforgettable pitch that cannot be ignored.

This astounding mosaic of voices is accentuated by the images of Romare Bearden.]]> 320 Russell L. Goings 1416566465 Luke 0 4.33 2009
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]]> 39220226
The Lion of London is back and faces his deadliest battle as he fights to save the world from the insanity of the reality-warping Mad Jim Jaspers and the terrifying, hero-killer, cybiote the Fury.
Plus, Captain Britain faces one of his deadliest foes - Slaymaster, as well as the anarchic Crazy Gang, the alien bountyhunter Gatecrasher and her interdimensional Technet and the mutant shapeshifter Meggan.
British action and adventure brought to you in the Mighty Marvel Manner.

Includes an exclusive introduction and art by legendary artist and co-creator Alan Davis.

Collecting Mighty World Of Marvel #7-16 and Captain Britain Volume 2 #1-14]]> 290 Alan Moore 1846534593 Luke 0 to-read 4.50 2010
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]]> 15808350 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all things political, while the Department dealt with matters military. But the Department has been moribund since the War, its resources siphoned away. Now, one of their agents is dead, and vital evidence verifying the presence of Soviet missiles near the West German border is gone. John Avery is the Department's younger member and its last hope. Charged with handling Fred Leiser, a German-speaking Pole left over from the War, Avery must infiltrate the East and restore his masters' former glory.

Darkly compelling and brutally Machiavellian, The Looking Glass War is a stunning accomplishment by one of today's most remarkable and enduring literary writers.
]]> 268 John Le Carré 0143122592 Luke 4 3.70 1965
author: John Le Carré
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This is a spy novel, but it does not read as genre fiction. It is less flashy and feels more authentic than the excellent The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, the novel that immediately preceded it. It's actually a rather damning portrait of British intelligence agencies. In fact, if you come to this book looking for a fast-paced thriller, you will be disappointed until maybe the last quarter of the book. When I closed the book on the last page, though, I had that buzzing in my head I get from finishing a good book. These characters will stay with me.
]]> 84979 Another cover edition for this ISBN

Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.]]> 334 Jane Austen 0553213105 Luke 0 4.36 1813
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]]> 761256 First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all.

Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over—not by jet or motorcycle, but by boxcar, thumb, and foot. During the journey of discovery that was his life, he composed and sang words and music that have become a national heritage. His songs, however, are but part of his legacy. Behind him Woody Guthrie left a remarkable autobiography that vividly brings to life both his vibrant personality and a vision of America we cannot afford to let die.]]> 320 Woody Guthrie 0452264456 Luke 0 4.16 1943
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]]> 6194 J. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.]]> 152 J.M. Coetzee 0140283358 Luke 0 3.94 1980
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]]> 640407 Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared especially for students, that approach the work from several contemporary critical perspectives, such as gender criticism and cultural studies. Each essay is accompanied by an introduction (with bibliography) to the history, principles, and practice of its critical perspective. Every volume also surveys the biographical, historical, and critical contexts of the literary work and concludes with a glossary of critical terms. New editions reprint cultural documents that contextualize the literary works and feature essays that show how critical perspectives can be combined.]]> 256 James Joyce Luke 0 3.84 1914
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Brilliant and subtle work. The ending is unforgettable.
]]> 1059226 0 Shane Stevens 0671825283 Luke 4 3.95 1973
author: Shane Stevens
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I read this novel years ago, and it left a big impression on me. Rereading it now, I am somewhat surprised to find that it is just as good if not better than I remember it being. The novel tells the story of a group of men involved in a Jersey City crime family, sort of a more sordid version of The Godfather. It is very gritty and quite brutal, but I hesitate to call it a crime novel because its ambitions are much greater. This is a penetrating look into the lives and motivations of these men that transcends the usual gangster cliches. Stephen King called it a novel about the dark side of the American dream, and I agree.
]]> 480236 209 C.S. Lewis Luke 0 4.21 1942
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]]> 2579662 Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.

From the back of the 1966 Oxford University Press edition:

Virgil has always had the fortune of attracting, as translators, fellow poets: it is in succession to Dryden and William Morris that C. Day Lewis -himself a distinguished poet- has written these modern versions of the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid.

In his translations of Virgil's pastoral poetry Mr. Day Lewis has employed a metre with six stresses to the line. Though it is very different in its rhythms from Virgil's hexameter, the translation is made line for line, with a minimum of padding or omission. In the Aeneid he has evolved a long, loosely flowing line which catches the subtleties, the taut vigour, and the sweep of Virgil's verse. The power of such a translation is to be measured not only in the great 'set pieces' with which the Aeneid glitters, but also in its furthering of the whole movement of the poem, and in its revelation of the philosophy sustaining it. Judged by such standards, this translation is a notable success.]]> 529 Virgil 0192850148 Luke 0 to-read 4.03 -19
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]]> 376329 607 Robert Frost 0805005021 Luke 0 4.41 1969
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]]> 852505 Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest.]]> 238 Ross Macdonald 0679768106 Luke 5
"...What are you, a do-gooder or something?"

"I wouldn't say so. I'm working at not being a do-badder."

She gave me a puzzled look. "I don't get you, Archer. What's your angle?"

"I like people, and I try to be of some service."

"And that adds up to a life?"

"It makes life possible, anyway. Try it some time."

]]> 3.96 1966
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One of Macdonald's best!

"...What are you, a do-gooder or something?"

"I wouldn't say so. I'm working at not being a do-badder."

She gave me a puzzled look. "I don't get you, Archer. What's your angle?"

"I like people, and I try to be of some service."

"And that adds up to a life?"

"It makes life possible, anyway. Try it some time."


]]> 173980 Justified, Cat Chaser proves once more that when the true greats of mystery and suspense are mentioned—John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Robert Parker, et al—Elmore Leonard tops the list.
]]> 242 Elmore Leonard 075381966X Luke 0 3.67 1982
author: Elmore Leonard
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]]> 6334 288 Kazuo Ishiguro 1400078776 Luke 0 3.85 2005
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]]> 43935
Helping damsels in distress is nothing new for Travis McGee--it's basically how he spends his life. But this one was different right from the start. Tossed off a bridge with cement wired to her feet, dragged to safety by Travis and Meyer, she was a hot Eurasian beauty with a cold heart...ready to snare them in a murder racket to end all murders....]]> 283 John D. MacDonald 0449224465 Luke 0 4.02 1966
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]]> 351985
Nimbly hopscotching backward and forward in time, Disch charts the shifting relationships between this world's inheritors: an aging matriarch who falls in love with her young social worker; a widow seeking comfort from the spirit of her dead husband; a privileged preteen choreographing the perfectly gratuitous murder. Poisonously funny, piercingly authentic, 334 is a masterpiece of social realism disguised as science fiction.]]> 258 Thomas M. Disch 0375705449 Luke 0 3.64 1972
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]]> 523798 288 James Crumley 0446604488 Luke 0 3.87 1996
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]]> 69652 205 Robert B. Parker 0440128994 Luke 3
Parker is always enjoyable, though. The last scene in this novel is so awesome-- killer last page.

(This is also the novel in which Spenser first meets Susan Silverman.)]]> 3.89 1974
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Spenser is super cool, but, especially in this one, I am sometimes skeptical of his detecting skills. I was way ahead of him most of the time.

Parker is always enjoyable, though. The last scene in this novel is so awesome-- killer last page.

(This is also the novel in which Spenser first meets Susan Silverman.)
]]> 2623
Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.

This edition includes the original, discarded ending, Dickens's brief working notes, and the serial instalments and chapter divisions in different editions. It also uses the definitive Clarendon text.]]> 544 Charles Dickens 0192833596 Luke 0 3.78 1861
author: Charles Dickens
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]]> 52357 259 Unknown 0393320979 Luke 0 3.46 1000
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]]> 37941907
A stunning new collection by the award-winning young poet and translator

Like , that currency of social media, is a little word with infinite potential; it can be nearly any part of speech. Without it, there is no simile, that engine of the lyric poem, the lyre’s note in the epic. A poem can hardly exist otherwise. In this new collection, her most ambitious to date, A. E. Stallings continues her archeology of the domestic, her odyssey through myth and motherhood in received and invented forms, from sonnets to syllabics. Stallings also eschews the poetry volume’s conventional sections for the arbitrary order of the alphabet. Contemporary Athens itself, a place never dull during the economic and migration crises of recent years, shakes off the dust of history and emerges as a vibrant character.

Known for her wry and musical lyric poems, Stallings here explores her themes in greater depth, including the bravura performance Lost and Found , a meditation in ottava rima on a parent’s sublunary dance with daily-ness and time, set in the moon’s Valley of Lost Things.]]> 160 A.E. Stallings 0374187320 Luke 0 4.06 2018
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]]> 1541498
Written lucidly, with a generous selection of helpful scansions and explanations of the metrical effects of the great poets of the English language, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is not only a valuable handbook on technique; it is also a wide-ranging study of English verse and a mine of entertaining information for anyone wishing more fully to write, enjoy, understand, or teach poetry.]]> 384 Timothy Steele 0821412604 Luke 0 3.92 1999
author: Timothy Steele
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]]> 1432 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13:9780743477123, Hamlet.

Hamlet is the story of the Prince of Denmark who learns of the death of his father at the hands of his uncle, Claudius. Claudius murders Hamlet's father, his own brother, to take the throne of Denmark and to marry Hamlet's widowed mother. Hamlet is sunk into a state of great despair as a result of discovering the murder of his father and the infidelity of his mother. Hamlet is torn between his great sadness and his desire for the revenge of his father's murder.

Each Folger edition includes:

- Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
- Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
- Scene-by-scene plot summaries
- A key to famous lines and phrases
- An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
- An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
- Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books]]> 342 William Shakespeare Luke 0 4.05 1601
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]]> 817150
The son of a theology professor at Western Seminary in Pittsburgh, Jeffers was taught Greek, Latin, and Hebrew as a boy, and spent three years in Germany and Switzerland before entering the University of Western Pennsylvania (now Pittsburgh) at fifteen. His education continued on the West Coast after his parents moved there, and he received a B.A. from Occidental College at eighteen. His interest in forestry, medicine, and general science led him to pursue his studies at the University of Southern California, and the University of Zurich.

The poems in this volume have been selected from his major works, among them Be Angry at the Sun; Hungerfield; The Double Axe; Roan Stallion; Tamar and Other Poems; as well as The Beginning and the End, which contains his last poems.]]> 128 Robinson Jeffers 0394702956 Luke 5 4.28 1965
author: Robinson Jeffers
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]]> 6192 220 J.M. Coetzee 0143036378 Luke 0 3.86 1999
author: J.M. Coetzee
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]]> 207274
FOOL FOR LOVE * ANGEL CITY * GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER * ACTION * COWBOY MOUTH * MELODRAMA PLAY * SEDUCED * SUICIDE IN Bb

With an Introduction by Ross Wetzsteon

“Sam Shepard is phenomenal...the best practicing American playwright.� � The New Republic

“Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage.� —Marsha Norman

“The most ruthlessly experimental and uncompromising of today's young writers.� —John Lahr

“Sam Shepard fills the role of professional playwright as a good ballet dancer or acrobat fulfills his role in performance. That is, he always delivers, he executes feats of dexterity and technical difficulty that an untrained person could not, and makes them seem easy.� —Michael Feingold, The Village Voice

"One of the most original, prolific, and gifted dramatists at work today.� � The New Yorker

“Increasingly recognized as one of the more significant dramatists in the English-speaking world.� —Charles R. Bachman, Modern Drama]]> 307 Sam Shepard 0553345907 Luke 0 4.15 1984
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]]> 37941779
This is the End of Days.
This is what we’ve been waiting for always.
I walked over to the Hudson River, heading for Mars.
Each poem of mine is a suicide belt.
I say that to my girlfriend Life.

Peaches Goes It Alone , Frederick Seidel’s newest collection of poems, begins with global warming and ends with Aphrodite. In between is everything. Peaches Goes It Alone presents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel―and thrilled and offended his readers. Lyrical, grotesque, and elegiac, Peaches Goes It Alone adds new music and menace to Seidel’s masterful body of work.]]> 112 Frederick Seidel 0374230536 Luke 0 3.68
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]]> 37941942 The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist.

A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, The Flame is a valedictory work.

“This volume contains my father’s final efforts as a poet,� writes Cohen’s son, Adam Cohen, in his foreword. “It was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end.�

Leonard Cohen died in late 2016. But “each page of paper that he blackened,� in the words of his son, “was lasting evidence of a burning soul.”]]> 277 Leonard Cohen 0374156069 Luke 0 4.06 2018
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]]> 77694 292 Mark Twain 0553210793 Luke 0 3.68 1884
author: Mark Twain
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]]> 6391574 402 Elmore Leonard 0061767697 Luke 0 3.61 1983
author: Elmore Leonard
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Yet another excellent Elmore Leonard novel. This one is a meta noir. A former Secret Service agent turned street photographer gets involved with an aging but still beautiful (of course!) noir actress who may or may not be a real life femme fatale. It has the colorful characters and note-perfect dialogue for which Leonard is famous. I also love the way he evokes South Beach, Miami. The neighborhood is like another character.
]]> 861024 â Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him.â â John Updike

A revolutionary novel, A Contract with God re-creates the neighborhood of Will Eisner's youth through a quartet of four interwoven stories. Expressing the joy, exuberance, tragedy, and drama of life on the mythical Dropsie Avenue of the Bronx, A Contract with God is a monumental achievement, a must in the library of any graphic novel fan.]]> 200 Will Eisner 1563896745 Luke 0 3.77 1978
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]]> 69638
Spenser is the tough guy with a macho code of honor, hired to protect a woman who thinks that code is obsolete.

Privately, they will never see eye to eye. That's why she fires him. But when Rachel vanishes, Spenser rattles skeletons in blue-blooded family closets, tangles with the Klan and fights for her right to be exactly what she is. He is ready to lay his life on the line to find Rachel Wallace.]]> 224 Robert B. Parker 0440153166 Luke 0 4.04 1980
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]]> 484531
Fletch

He’s taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesn’t appreciate his style. Or the expense account items he’s racking up. Or his definition of the word deadline. Or the divorce lawyers who keep showing up at the office.

Fletch

So when multimillionaire Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch the job of a lifetime, which could be worth a fortune, he’s intrigued and decides to do a little investigation. What he discovers is that the proposition is anything but what it seems.]]> 197 Gregory McDonald 0375713549 Luke 0
The 1985 Chevy Chase vehicle was loosely based on the novel, but Mcdonald's book is a lot darker and less goofy. Fletch is a real wise guy, and there are many witty verbal jousts (The novel is almost entirely dialogue driven), but, though there are comic moments, I wouldn't call it a comedy. It's mainly a hard-boiled page-turner. ]]> 3.87 1974
author: Gregory McDonald
name: Luke
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1974
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I couldn't go all summer without reading at least one detective novel. In this novel, the detective is a reporter and not a private eye or police officer. Fletch is a Baby Boomer update of the classic Hammett-Chandler style protagonist. He is a smart, capable, world-weary loner with a strong sense of justice, but he also smokes pot, wears t-shirts and jeans, and gets in trouble for hanging around the newsroom barefoot.

The 1985 Chevy Chase vehicle was loosely based on the novel, but Mcdonald's book is a lot darker and less goofy. Fletch is a real wise guy, and there are many witty verbal jousts (The novel is almost entirely dialogue driven), but, though there are comic moments, I wouldn't call it a comedy. It's mainly a hard-boiled page-turner.
]]> 439821 353 Daniel Hoffman 0807123218 Luke 0 3.92 1972
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]]> 28921 Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here.

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.]]> 258 Kazuo Ishiguro Luke 0 4.14 1989
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]]> 680357 160 Christopher J. Priest 0785108297 Luke 0 3.62 2002
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]]> 142182 128 Christopher J. Priest 0785107894 Luke 0 3.89 2001
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]]> 7442 416 Tom Wolfe 0553380648 Luke 0 3.93 1968
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]]> 34219839
As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once a source of transcendent beauty and coruscating noise, violated all definitions of genre while speaking to millions of fans and inspiring generations of musicians.

But while his iconic status may be fixed, the man himself was anything but. Lou Reed's life was a transformer's odyssey. Eternally restless and endlessly hungry for new experiences, Reed reinvented his persona, his sound, even his sexuality time and again. A man of contradictions and extremes, he was fiercely independent yet afraid of being alone, artistically fearless yet deeply paranoid, eager for commercial success yet disdainful of his own triumphs. Channeling his jagged energy and literary sensibility into classic songs - like "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Sweet Jane" - and radically experimental albums alike, Reed remained desperately true to his artistic vision, wherever it led him.

Now, just a few years after Reed's death, Rolling Stone writer Anthony DeCurtis, who knew Reed and interviewed him extensively, tells the provocative story of his complex and chameleonic life. With unparalleled access to dozens of Reed's friends, family, and collaborators, DeCurtis tracks Reed's five-decade career through the accounts of those who knew him and through Reed's most revealing testimony, his music. We travel deep into his defiantly subterranean world, enter the studio as the Velvet Underground record their groundbreaking work, and revel in Reed's relationships with such legendary figures as Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and Laurie Anderson. Gritty, intimate, and unflinching, Lou Reed is an illuminating tribute to one of the most incendiary artists of our time.]]> 528 Anthony DeCurtis 0316376558 Luke 0 4.00 2017
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I enjoyed this book quite a bit and learned a lot, but though it was promoted as the definitive Lou Reed biography, there are several odd omissions. DeCurtis does not even briefly mention the films Reed appeared in, notably Get Crazy and Blue in the Face. Several important releases like The Velvet Undergound's VU and Another View and Reed's live albums Perfect Night and Animal Serenade also receive no mention. The first part of the book is detailed and interesting, but the account of his life and work from the early 80s on is thinner. I was somewhat disappointed.
]]> 56096 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral--and one of the most renowned writers of the twentieth century--"a ferocious, heartfelt book" (The New Yorker) featuring Nathan Zuckerman whose life is about to unravel when he comes down with a mysterious affliction.


Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment.... [He] writes America's most raucously funny novels. --Time

At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction--pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers grows into an addiction to vodka, marijuana, and Percodan.

The Anatomy Lesson is a great comedy of illness written in what the English critic Hermione Lee has described as a manner at once ... brash and thoughtful ... lyrical and wry, which projects through comic expostulations and confessions...a knowing, humane authority. The third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth's fiction as well as some of the fiercest.]]> 304 Philip Roth 0679749020 Luke 0 3.66 1983
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"Illness is a message from the grave. Greetings: You and your body are one-- it goes, you follow."
]]> 6368878
SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER

Usually women came to take refuge aboard The Busted Flush. But this time a man stumbled on board, a walking zombie who fell into bed. Turned out poor Arthur Wilkinson was the latest victim of a fragile-looking blonde sexpot who used the blackest arts of love to lure unsuspecting suckers into a web of sordid schemes. Travis had thought he'd have a quiet summer. Instead he took on the most cunning, heartless, vicious con artists he'd ever met....]]> 224 John D. MacDonald 0449133583 Luke 0 3.81 1965
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]]> 17606257 48 Quincy R. Lehr 1482359111 Luke 4 3.80 2013
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]]> 35223
The Red Badge of Courage / The Open Boat / The Blue Hotel / The Upturned Face / The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky]]> 240 Stephen Crane 0451526473 Luke 0 3.35
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]]> 10385625 Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.

]]> 226 Dashiell Hammett Luke 0 3.95 1929
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]]> 556976
An aging rock star in a world in which entertainment and street warfare go hand in hand, Hoss must defend himself against Crow, a newcomer who battles him for fame. Combining musical styles and intense dialogue in an unconventional musical-fantasy, Tooth of Crime riffs brilliantly on rising stars and fading legends, and rock lived and died for.]]> 96 Sam Shepard 0307274985 Luke 4
T Bone Burnett wrote the songs for this version of the play. In 2008, he recorded them for an album that is also well worth checking out.]]> 3.15 1972
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I just reread this. It's a weird, wild play, not to everyone's taste, but I kind of love it. Two gangster-like rock stars, Hoss and Crow, battle for chart supremacy ("a gold record") in an elaborate, futuristic game. They engage in psychological warfare through what seems like a stream of consciousness version of "the dozens." The play is part tragedy, part post-apocalyptic, sci-fi western. Shepard invented an argot for the characters to speak that reminds me of A Clockwork Orange.

T Bone Burnett wrote the songs for this version of the play. In 2008, he recorded them for an album that is also well worth checking out.
]]> 12142
Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best. "One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today."--"The New Yorker" "The greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft, [he] is the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society."--"New York Magazine" "If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard."--"Time " "Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage."--Marsha Norman, Pulitzer prizewinning author of "'Night, Mother. " "One of our best and most challenging playwrights...his plays are a form of exorcism: magical, sometimes surreal rituals that grapple with the demonic forces in the American landscape."--"Newsweek" "His plays are stunning in thier originality, defiant and inscrutable."--"Esquire" "Sam Shepard is phenomenal..the best practicing American playwright."--"The New Republic"]]> 336 Sam Shepard 0553346113 Luke 0 4.17 1984
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]]> 429940 160 Chester Himes 0394759990 Luke 0 3.78 1964
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]]> 131793 288 Norman Mailer 0375700706 Luke 0 3.45 1965
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]]> 89053 A graphic novel classic with a new introduction by Art Spiegelman

Quinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a “post-existentialist private eye.� An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any he ever created in print.

Adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, with graphics by David Mazzucchelli, Paul Auster’s groundbreaking, Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language.
]]> 138 Paul Karasik 0312423608 Luke 0 to-read 3.99 1994
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]]> 235727 240 Arthur Kirsch 0300108141 Luke 0 3.76 2005
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]]> 314263
Now this sounds interesting: "Bond watched her as she reached the edge of the tables and came up the aisle. It was hopeless. She was coming to meet someone—her lover. She was the sort of woman who always belongs to somebody else. What damnable luck! Before Bond could pull himself together, the girl had come up to his table and sat down. �I’m sorry I’m late. We’ve got to get moving at once. You’re wanted at the office.� She added under her breath: �Crash dive."

Here we find sudden emergencies and beautiful girls who aren’t quite what they seem - the stock-in-trade of James Bond. When 007 is on the case there’s only one thing you can be sure of, that the result will be thrilling. Whether he’s dealing with the assassination of a Cuban thug in America, the destruction of an international heroin ring, or sudden death in the Seychelles, Bond gets the job done. In his own suave and unmistakable style!

The stories are: 1. "From a View to a Kill;" 2. "For Your Eyes Only;" 3. "Quantum of Solace;" 4. "Risico;" and 5. "The Hildebrand Rarity."]]> 182 Ian Fleming 0142003220 Luke 0 3.65 1960
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]]> 29872911 180 Leon Stokesbury 1682260070 Luke 0 2.50
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]]> 5470 328 George Orwell Luke 0 4.15 1949
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]]> 21855259 Examines the life of Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston and his polyamorous relationship with wife Elizabeth Holloway and mistress Olive Byrne, both of whom inspired and influenced the comic book character's creation and development.
-Abstract from WorldCat]]> 410 Jill Lepore 0385354045 Luke 0 3.73 2014
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]]> 410544 496 Peter Fallon 0140586091 Luke 0 3.80 1991
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]]> 1872832 214 Ruth Pitter 1870612140 Luke 0 4.31 1990
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]]> 35301325 � Ernest Hilbert

“Ryan Wilson’s mastery of traditional forms serves a fresh, distinctive poetry of candor and meditation: soulful rather than brittle, more observant than performative. The idiomatic, American blank verse of Wilson’s �Authority� and �L’Estraneo� is as fluent as that of Robert Frost, but with an oblique tenderness that reminds me of Frost’s friend Edward Thomas.�
� Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States 1997�2000

“Bach understood there could be �no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.� Ryan Wilson’s classical lines and received forms reveal his �stranger world� of rebellious Goths, murderous madmen, and the divine revelations of a mountain roadhouse. The sprinkling of brilliant translations here reminds us: his is the axis between Horace and Baudelaire � between lapidary lyrics (�Face It� and �Lullaby for a Suburban Summer Evening�), haunting dramas (�Authority�), and melancholy odes (�For a One Night Stand�). Wilson has more talent in his little finger than most poets have in their whole corpora.�
� David Yezzi, author of Birds of the Air

“Ryan Wilson is a poet of nightmares. Monstrous possibilities lurk in his elegant stanzas: a black panther stalks the suburbs, a haunted marriage collapses, strange faces loom at windows. As he learned from his masters Horace, Villon, and Baudelaire, a classical flourish can bring us face to face with horror, or with ourselves.�
� Rosanna Warren, author of Ghost in a Red Hat

“Ryan Wilson’s collection of poetry The Stranger World includes heartbreaking lyrics, haunting narratives, inspired translations, and finely honed satires. It is not simply consummate skill that is everywhere present in these well-wrought poems but, to echo the title of one of the best of them, authority. They are written with the authority of mastery.�
� Mark Jarman, author of The Heronry

“Ryan Wilson’s unsettling debut collection The Stranger World is filled with poems of menace and promise, surprise and sorrow, tempered by gentle humor and always tuned to a fine music. The long poem �Authority� reads like a masterpiece of modern horror. The deeply psychological �Xenia� is a minor miracle of a poem. These pages contain �real shores across imagined seas . . . where black suns set,� where the poet meditates on �that present unity / of absences the living move among.� Each page of The Stranger World yields a new delight. Wilson proves himself a worthy heir to Anthony Hecht with this remarkable, disarming, and genuinely moving book. Seek it out.�
� Ernest Hilbert, author of Caligulan

“Ryan Wilson’s first collection of poems, The Stranger World, is auspicious. I am awed by his poetic craft, his supple and eclectic intelligence,his command of English as delightful as any storyteller’s should be. One looks for authentic character in the emerging poet, and Wilson is simply a stand-up man. His is the tradition of the elegant poet who has the feel of the earth in what he says, one wise with the best and worst of human experience. Give The Stranger World your time, and you will be glad you did.�
� Dave Smith]]> 104 Ryan Wilson 193957420X Luke 4 4.44
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]]> 1227774 266 James Fenton 0374228450 Luke 0 3.92 2001
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]]> 418
Richard Fariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering-among other things-mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 352 Richard Fariña 0140189300 Luke 0 3.81 1966
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]]> 1862313 A National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Lush Life is a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the other a home to hardship, its residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf. When a cocky young hipster is shot to death by a street kid from the other lower east side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city in this brilliant and kaleidoscopic portrait of the new New York.]]> 464 Richard Price 0374299250 Luke 0 3.73 2008
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]]> 152535
The Dyer's Hand is a surprisingly personal, intimate view of the author's mind, whose central focus is poetry—Shakespearean poetry in particular—but whose province is the author's whole experience of the twentieth century.]]> 544 W.H. Auden 0679724842 Luke 0 4.31 1962
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]]> 154472
Fussell's landmark study of World War I remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. 14 halftones.]]> 368 Paul Fussell 0195133323 Luke 0 4.13 1975
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]]> 18133 Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.]]> 317 Vladimir Nabokov Luke 5 3.97 1955
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]]> 159069 It was a dark and stormy night.

Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our universe.

Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's classic Time Quintet.]]> 247 Madeleine L'Engle 0312367546 Luke 0 3.90 1962
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]]> 82398
When he seizes the title and property that should be Bolingbroke’s, Richard threatens the very structure of the kingdom. Bolingbroke returns with an army that is supported by nobles and commoners alike, both believing themselves oppressed by Richard. This sets the stage for a confrontation between his army and the tradition of sacred kingship supporting the isolated but now more sympathetic Richard.

The authoritative edition of Richard II from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:

-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
-Scene-by-scene plot summaries
-A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases
-An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language
-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books
-An annotated guide to further reading

Essay by Harry Berger, Jr.

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.]]> 290 William Shakespeare 0743484916 Luke 5 3.77 1595
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]]> 90051 ]]> 310 Constantinos P. Cavafy 0156198207 Luke 4 4.50 1934
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]]> 10428102 The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and gentlemen: Keith Richards.

With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life.

Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever.

With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.]]> 564 Keith Richards 031603441X Luke 0 3.99 2010
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]]> 7955136
Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentz’s essays as “historian in residence� of Dylan’s official website, Bob Dylan in America is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinity—a book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants.

Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentz’s approach places Dylan’s music in the context of its time, including the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a song­writer and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylan’s story and that of such masterpieces as Blonde on Blonde with an unprecedented authenticity and richness.

Bob Dylan in America —groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally absorbing—is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met.]]> 400 Sean Wilentz 0385529880 Luke 0 3.83 2010
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]]> 3835 Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. You haven't experienced Don Quixote in English until you've read this masterful translation.]]> 940 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 0060934344 Luke 5 4.12 1615
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]]> 1045145 189 C.S. Lewis 0060234822 Luke 0 4.11 1950
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]]> 660357 160 Walford Davies Dylan Thomas 0140188894 Luke 0 4.22 1975
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]]> 125217 287 Elizabeth Bishop 0701178027 Luke 0 4.34 1980
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]]> 134017
Criticism is divided into four sections and represents the best criticism and interpretation of Donne s writing: Donne and Metaphysical Poetry includes seven seventeenth-century views by contemporaries of Donne such as Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, and John Dryden, among others; Satires, Elegies, and Verse Letters includes seven selections that offer social and literary context for and insights into Donne s frequently overlooked early poems; Songs and Sonnets features six analyses of Donne s love poetry; and Holy Sonnets/Divine Poems explores Donne s struggles as a Christian through four authoritative essays.

A Chronology of Donne s life and work, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines are also included.]]> 456 John Donne 0393926486 Luke 5 4.11 1631
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]]> 37449 here .

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.

Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos.]]> 376 Harper Lee 1439550417 Luke 4 4.30 1960
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]]> 19195496 A new edition of the definitive book on the depression-era immigrant experience in New York City.

Now with an exciting new preface by rock musician Lou Reed (Delmore Schwartz’s student at Syracuse), In Dreams Begin Responsibilities collects eight of Schwartz’s finest delineations of New York’s intellectuals in the 1930s and 1940s. As no other writer can, Schwartz captures the speech, the generational conflicts, the mocking self-analysis of educated, ambitious, Depression-stymied young people at odds with their immigrant parents. This is the unique American dilemma Irving Howe described as “that interesting point where intellectual children of immigrant Jews are finding their way into the larger world while casting uneasy, rueful glances over their backs.� Afterwords by James Atlas and Irving Howe place the stories in their historical and cultural setting.]]> 227 Delmore Schwartz Luke 0 3.97 1938
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]]> 33015
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom . . .

-The Darkling Thrush]]> 320 Thomas Hardy 0140436995 Luke 5 3.99 1928
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]]> 231813
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers and to the many who revisit them again and again.]]> 90 John Steinbeck 014017737X Luke 4 3.40 1947
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]]> 168496 –Edward Hirsch

From Dante’s Inferno to Sartre’s No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell–written when the poet was nineteen–provides an astonishing example of the grapple with self.

As a companion to Rimbaud’s journey, readers could have no better guide than Wyatt Mason. One of our most talented young translators and critics, Mason’s new version of A Season in Hell renders the music and mystery of Rimbaud’s tale of Hell on Earth with exceptional finesse and power.

This bilingual edition includes maps, a helpful chronology of Rimbaud’s life, and the unfinished suite of prose poems, Illuminations and A Season in Hell cement Rimbaud’s reputation as one of the foremost, and most influential, writers in French literature.]]> 240 Arthur Rimbaud 0679643273 Luke 0 to-read 4.29 1873
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]]> 18523 544 Archibald MacLeish 0395395690 Luke 5 4.00 1985
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More people should be reading Archibald MacLeish. At one time, he was often placed alongside the greatest modern poets. This book is full of absolutely breathtaking poems. MacLeish was very engaged with his art and the question of what it meant to be a poet. One gets the sense that MacLeish lead a very active and exciting intellectual life. This book demonstrates the changes in style and philosophy that he made throughout his career.
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]]> 410373 The sensual, rhapsodic implications of her early work and the engagement of more recent poems with the politics of her native province represent a convincing vision. Selected Poems marries intellectual and emotional courage with vital language, startling but appropriate images, and beguiling art.]]> 94 Medbh McGuckian 0916390772 Luke 0 3.75 1997
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]]> 11137 Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books - The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality - Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis saw as the fundamental truths of the religion. Rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity's many denominations, C.S. Lewis finds a common ground on which all those who have Christian faith can stand together, proving that "at the centre of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks the same voice.]]> 227 C.S. Lewis Luke 4 4.37 1952
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]]> 298160 111 Samuel Beckett 0802130348 Luke 5 3.76 1952
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]]> 691458 256 Charles Grodin 0688125786 Luke 0 3.77 1992
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]]> 7798589 1024 Wes Davis 0674049519 Luke 0 4.30 2010
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This is an excellent anthology, and I enjoy dipping into it.
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]]> 321270 Introduced by Colin Dexter, one of England's greatest writers of detective fiction, here are twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.

In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unravelling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story, The Ruffian's Wife. His Brother's Keeper is a half-wit boxer's eulogy to the brother who betrayed him. The Second Story Angel recounts one of the most novel cons ever devised. In seven stories, the tough and taciturn Continental Op takes on a motley collection of the deceitful, the duped, and the dead, and once again shown his uncanny ability to get at the truth. In three stories, Sam Spade confronts the darkness in the human soul while rolling his own cigarettes. And the first study for The Thin Man sends John Guild on a murder investigation in which almost every witness may be lying.

In Nightmare Town, Dashiell Hammett, America's poet laureate of the dispossessed, shows us a world where people confront a multitude of evils. Whether they are trying to right wrongs or just trying to survive, all of them are rendered with Hammett's signature gifts for sharp-edged characters and blunt dialogue.

Hammett said that his ambition was to elevate mystery fiction to the level of art. This collection of masterful stories clearly illustrates Hammett's success, and shows the remarkable range and variety of the fiction he produced.

As a novelist of realistic intrigue, Hammett was unsurpassed in his own or any day. - Ross MacDonald

A legend of a different kind: exemplary, not only of a certain kind of American fiction, but also of a certain kind of American life - Margaret Atwood

Cover photograph: Mark Adams]]> 405 Dashiell Hammett 033048110X Luke 0 4.06 1999
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]]> 2794 The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness, and marriage combine to leave Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the Crying of Lot 49.]]> 152 Thomas Pynchon 006091307X Luke 0 3.70 1966
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]]> 589058 362 E.M. Forster 0156711427 Luke 0 3.54 1924
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]]> 760658 The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel. The novel inspired the hugely successful 1981 film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons and is today universally regarded as a modern classic.]]> 467 John Fowles 0316291161 Luke 5 3.86 1969
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]]> 189625 327 Mike Marqusee 156584825X Luke 0 3.72 2003
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This book is for anyone interested in Bob Dylan, folk music, or American history-- particular the history of the American Left. Marquesse examines the politcal nature of Dylan's work in the Sixties--eschewing the neat narrative that says Dylan turned his back on political commentary when he "went electric"--and shows not only how his music reflected the times but also how the times in many ways reflected his music! Great close readings of the lyrics for the most part too, but Marquesse falters with his readings of some of the love songs and the spiritual songs on John Wesley Harding. A lot of the books on Dylan tend to be kind of weak. This one isn't.
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