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The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:49:35 PST

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This book covers over 150 cult authors and includes biographies, must-read novels, and the often surprising influences.

The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:48:59 PST

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The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world’s most popular literary genre. The insider’s book recommends over 200 classic crime novels from masterminds Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith to modern hotshots James Elroy and Patricia Cornwall. You’ll investigate gumshoes, spies, spooks, serial killers, forensic ...

The Pocket DJ

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:48:07 PST

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With more than two thousand songs handpicked and organized by former Spin magazine writer and editor Sarah Lewitinn (aka Ultragrrrl), The Pocket DJ is the ultimate insider's reference guide for selecting music, downloading MP3s, and making all-purpose mixes for every occasion imaginable. Playlists include: Essential genres: with crowd-pleasing dance mixes for indie rockers, headbangers, and hip- ...

The Rough Guides Book of Playlists

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:46:38 PST

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The 500 "Rough Guide Book of Playlists" are recommendations of ten songs (sometimes a couple more, sometimes a couple less), covering artists (Rufus Wainwright to Thelonius Monk, Al Green to Manu Chao, Glenn Gould to Julie Andrews), genres (Bebop Classics to Reggae Toasters to Punk Originals to Hot Club jazz), songs (10 best Dylan covers; 8 classic versions of "Summertime"; 10 love songs that don ...

1001 Books

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:45:37 PST

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From "The Alchemist" to "Thus Spake Zarathustra" and Achebe to Zola, "1001 Books" offers concise critical insights into the books and the writers that have excited the imagination of the world. It offers reviews, author biographies, plot and character assessments and historical information on those books considered the most important, compelling, or simply the best fiction ever written. Whether c ...

To Kill a Mockingbird

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:45:18 PST

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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 Moc ...

A Christmas Carol

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:45:11 PST

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A holiday classic as you've never heard it before. Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and Ebenezer Scrooge come to marvelous life in Patrick Stewart's critically-acclaimed solo interpretation of A Christmas Carol. The star of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stewart has performed his one-man stage production of A Christmas Carol to sell-out audiences. Now, in this studio ...

99 Novels

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:45:01 PST

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Moby Dick

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:35:49 PST

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This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas.

A Clockwork Orange

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:35:43 PST

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"Anthony Burgess reads chapters of his novel A Clockwork Orange with hair-raising drive and energy. Although it is a fantasy set in an Orwellian future, this is anything but a bedtime story." -The New York Times Told by the central character, Alex, this brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism.Anthony Bur ...

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:33:50 PST

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Wuthering Heights

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:24:21 PST

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Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he dis ...

The Historian

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 0:40:59 PST

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After a young girl discovers her father's darkest secret, she embarks on a harrowing journey across Europe to complete the quest he never could-to find history's most legendary fiend, Dracula. When a motherless American girl living in Europe finds a medieval book and a package of letters, all addressed ominously to 'my dear and unfortunate successor,' she begins to unravel a thread that leads bac ...

The Passion of New Eve

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 0:15:46 PST

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I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself ...' New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn. But this young Englishman's ...

Nights at the Circus

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 0:14:56 PST

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Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 0:14:50 PST

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Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girl ...

His Dark Materials Trilogy

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 0:14:01 PST

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1104 pages in total. 351 pages in The Golden Compass. 288 pages in The Subtle Knife. 465 pages in The Amber Spyglass.

Brighton Rock

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 0:10:25 PST

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'.

Welcome to Temptation

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 0:02:12 PST

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Turn left at small town secrets... Sophie Dempsey is content living a quiet life filming wedding videos until an assignment brings her to Temptation, Ohio. From the moment she drive into town, she gets a bad feeling; Sophie is from the wrong side of the tracks and everything in Temptation is a little too right. And when she has a run-in with the town's unnervingly sexy mayor, Phineas Tucker, ma ...

Wild Wild World of the Cramps

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 0:00:52 PST

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A biography of The Cramps which chronicles their turbulent history and highlights the obsessions - the 50s and 60s B-movies, comics, 3-D photography and 50s' strippers - that have created their own style of "visual rock'n'roll".

Lucky's Lady

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:56:47 PST

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Danger as steamy as the bayou heat... As wild and mysterious as the Louisiana swamp he called home, Lucky Doucet was a dangerously attractive Cajun no woman could handle. His solitary life left no room for the likes of elegant Serena Sheridan, but Lucky couldn't deny her desperate need to find her missing grandfather. He would help her, but nothing more -- yet once he felt the lure of the flaxen ...

Invasion of the Space Invaders

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:56:33 PST

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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:50:07 PST

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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady is Florence King's classic memoir of her upbringing in an eccentric Southern family, told with all the uproarious wit and gusto that has made her one of the most admired writers in the country. Florence may have been a disappointment to her Granny, whose dream of rearing a Perfect Southern Lady would never be quite fulfilled. But after all, as Florence remind ...

The Falls

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:49:41 PST

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A tale of murder, loss and romance in the mist of Niagara Falls: it is the crowning achievement of Joyce Carol Oates's career to date. A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. He's a newly-wed, and his bride has been left behind in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. For two weeks, Ariah, the deserted bride, waits by the side of the roaring waterfall for new ...

A Widow for One Year

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:48:01 PST

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Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten. Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruth's life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth i ...

Cowboys and Indians

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:47:40 PST

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Eddie Virago arrives in London, armed with his Mohican haircut, his electric guitar, his enormous ego and tremendous good looks. When the stardom he has been seeking is at last within reach, he meets the suave Salome Wilde, the only person who has ever had the courage to face up to his deceits.

Portnoy's Complaint

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:46:34 PST

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Portnoy's Complaint "n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issu ...

The Star of the Sea

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:45:52 PST

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In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of fleeing refugees. Among them are a maidservant with a devastating secret, bankrupt Lord Merridith and his family, an aspiring novelist, a maker of revolutionary ballads, all braving the Atlantic in search of a new home. Each is connected more d ...

The Salesman

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:45:46 PST

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It's Dublin, June 1995, the hottest summer since records began. But Billy Sweeney, a middle-aged salesman with a failed marriage, a faltering career and a tumbledown house, has more than weather on his mind. His youngest daughter lies in a coma in hospital following a mysterious attack on the petrol station where she worked. Devastated by the unfolding consequences of that hot, violent night, fru ...

Rabbit, Run

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:43:27 PST

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The first book in his award-winning "Rabbit" series, John Updike's "Rabbit, Run" contains an afterword by the author in "Penguin Modern Classics". It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a ...

The Fermata

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:38:14 PST

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This is the story of Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist, who has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobiography, The Fermata, which proves in the telling to be a very provocative, very funny and altogether morally confused piece of work. Hilarious and totally original, Nicholson Baker's new novel is a triumphant comed ...

Kinflicks

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:16:22 PST

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Lisa Alther reels through the ups and downs of Ginny Babcock's coming of age in Hullsport, Tennessee, during the '50s and '60s. Ginny bounces from one identity to another,adopting the values, politics, lifestyle, even the sexual orientation of each new partner. In her wise, funny, and ultimately heartbreaking story, Alther explores the limited roles offered to women in the '60s -- from chee ...

Spanky

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:12:56 PST

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23-year-old Martyn has a dead-end job, a miserable family, few friends, and no love life. Then he meets a Spancialosaphus Lacrimosae, his own personal demon. Spanky's friendship brings confidence, the good life, a better job, a girlfriend. But Spanky is a demon, and Martyn has a price to pay.

Ulysses

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:04:45 PST

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Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession". None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To t ...

Dead Elvis

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:40:14 PST

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In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to stardom, from world fame to dissipation and early death. As Greil Marcus shows in this remarkable book, Presley's journey after death takes him even further, pushing him beyond his own frontiers to merge with the American public consciousness--and the American subconscious. As he listens in on the public conversation that recreates Elvis a ...

Hard Times

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:18 PST

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Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, edited by Jeff Nunokawa, includes Books 1-3 of Hard Times and contextual materials on the age of Dickens.

Merry Christmas, Baby

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:18 PST

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A guide to Christmas records which features information on the artists and their recordings, trivia, and lists. It covers everything from novelty and charity records to soul, rock, jazz and the 1940s, Phil Spector's wall of sound and a Christmas song for every day of the year.

Elvis

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:18 PST

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"Before there was Elvis, there was nothing". -- John Lennon -- August 1997 marks the 20th anniversary of Elvis's death -- Contains over 200 photos -- Features a new introduction by the authorThe King lives on in this definitive biography, now in a new edition, by veteran rock writer Dave Marsh. Here are Presley's life and art, laid out and examined from every angle. His story was a grand Ameri ...

Elvis

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:18 PST

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1984

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:03 PST

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The year 1984 is finally upon us, and George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1984 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "Negative Utopia" - a startling original and powerful novel that creates and imaginary world that is completely convincing from the first sentence to the last four words. "Seldom has a books provided a greater wea ...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:03 PST

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the long-awaited, heavily hyped fourth instalment of a phenomenally successful series that has captured the imagination of millions of readers, young and old, across the globe. For J K Rowling the pressure is certainly on to continue to come up with thrilling, pacey storylines that allow her hero to mature into a young man without detracting from the magical ...

The Great Gatsby

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:03 PST

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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national ...

The Da Vinci Code

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:03 PST

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역사적인 사실과 가상의 미스테리가 잘 결합된 이야기는 한 편의 잘 짜여진 영화를 연상시킨다. 아마존을 비롯한 전세계적인 베스트셀러인 이 책은 그러한 경지를 가볍게 뛰어넘는 지적 스릴러. 출장 차 파리에 온 하버드대 교수 Robert Langdon은 늦은 밤 긴급한 전화를 받는다. 루브르 미술관의 큐레이터인 Jacques Sauniere가 미술관 내에서 잔인하게 살해당한 채 발견된 것. 경찰은 시체를 따라 늘어선 이해할 수 없는 숫자로 구성된 암호를 발견하고, Langdon은 프랑스의 유능한 암호 연구가인 Sophie Neveu와 함께 이 기괴한 수수께끼의 해독에 착수한다. 이 숫자들이 레오나르도 다 빈치의 작품에 숨겨진 단서라는 사실에 놀란 두 사람. 점점 더 깊숙이 파고들어가고, 루브르의 다른 큐레 ...

To Kill a Mockingbird

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:03 PST

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One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Most recently, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting ...

East of Eden

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:02 PST

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Pride and Prejudice

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:02 PST

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Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character who ,if provoked, is not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp, yet always polite, 18th-century wit. The real point of the book th ...

The Fellowship of the Ring

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:02 PST

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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkeness bind them In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to h ...

Animal Farm

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:02 PST

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As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals, and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, we begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in the mo ...

Of Mice and Men

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:02 PST

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While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in this classic work, Steinbeck narrows his focus, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness--a parable about commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss. [예스24 제공]

Beloved

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:01 PST

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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted b ...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:01 PST

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In one of the most hotly anticipated sequels in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left with Harry's second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girl's bathroom, an outrageously conceited professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, and a mysterious force that turns Hogwarts students to stone.

Lord of the Flies

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:01 PST

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These deluxe editions are packaged with French flaps, acid-free paper, and rough front. "This brilliant work is a frightening parody on man's return. . . to that state of darkness from which it took him thousands of years to emerge. . . Superbly written." --The New York Times Other Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Heart of Darkness by Joseph C ...

Gone with the Wind

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:01 PST

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Sometimes only remembered for the epic motion picture and "Frankly ... I don't give a damn," Gone with the Wind was initially a compelling and entertaining novel. It was the sweeping story of tangled passions and the rare courage of a group of people in Atlanta during the time of Civil War that brought those cinematic scenes to life. The reason the movie became so popular was the strength of its ...

The Poisonwood Bible

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:01 PST

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『The Mosquito Coast』の読者ならご存じのとおり、理想を追って家族を遠い異国の地にまで引っ張り出す男は、ろくな目に遭わない。『At Play in the Fields of the Lord』や『Kalimantaan』を読んだ人なら、宣教師が小説の舞台に立つと、たちまち、あらゆる責め苦がその身に降りかかってくることを知っているだろう。したがって本書でも、宣教師ネーサン・プライスが妻と4人の娘を連れてアフリカに降り立つ場面ですでに、彼らが救いとは無縁であることがわかる。舞台は1959年のベルギー領コンゴ。バプテスト派の伝道師ネーサンは、神の言葉を広めるため、小型機でしかたどり着けない奥地の村にやって来る。しかしネーサンとその家族が整えてきた支度はお粗末そのものだった。「私たち、ジョージア州のベツレヘムから、ベティー・クロッカーのケーキミックスを持ってジャングルにや ...

The Handmaid's Tale

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:01 PST

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In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:01 PST

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Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. More than a century after its publication it remains a major work that can be enjoyed at many levels: as an incomparable adventure story and as a classic of American humor. Introduction by John Seelye and Notes by Guy Cardwell

The Flashman

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:00 PST

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Bridget Jones's Diary

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:00 PST

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Bridget Jones wants to have it all - and once she's given up smoking and got down to 8st 7lbs, she will. This book is about a year in the life of a single girl on an optimistic but doomed quest for self-improvement.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:39:00 PST

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Performed, not read, by the author is the key here. This highly spirited interpretation of the cult classic is, like the book, full of humor and surprises. It captures with ease the powerful lifelong friendship between four Southern women, the Ya-Ya's: Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie. The author endows each of her charming characters with an inimitable Southern accent, from a low rumble for the agi ...

Bridget Jones

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:59 PST

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At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he doesn't do the washing up, not just the whole of this week, but ever.

Atonement

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:58 PST

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Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose. On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cec ...

Interview With the Vampire

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:58 PST

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Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force–a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:58 PST

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A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" leads the reader on an unsettling journey from the sublime beauty of the Swiss alps to the desolate waste of the arctic circle. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle. Obsessed with the idea of creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveya ...

The Shining

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:58 PST

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Danny is only five years old, but he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of an old hotel, his visions grow out of control. Cut off by blizzards, the hotel seems to develop an evil force, and who are the mysterious guests in the supposedly empty hotel?

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:58 PST

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존 베런트가 우연히 들렸다가 매혹되어 8년 간 머문 미국 남부 조지아 주의 서배너Savannah를 무대로 펼쳐지는 다양하고 흥미로운 실제 인간 군상들의 이야기들과 그 속에서 벌어지는 사건들을 그린 소설 형식의 논픽션이다. 이야기는 커다란 두 개의 흐름이 엮어지면서 전개된다. 첫 번째 이야기는 서배너를 배회하는 여러 인물들에 대한 이야기이다. 또 하나의 이야기 축은 골동품 상인 짐 윌리엄스가 그의 ‘친구’ 대니 한스포드를 살해한 사건인데 이 사건으로 서배너는 큰 충격에 휩싸이게 된다. Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defen ...

Lost Souls

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:57 PST

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Last Train to Memphis

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:57 PST

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There's no mention of sequins, drugs, or peanut butter in this understated biography of the teenaged Elvis, a serious and worthy attempt to answer the question, "Who was this guy before he was an icon, the voice of a generation, the King?" The essential clarity and honesty of Guralnick's prose clearly limns the eager, malleable boy whose immense talent changed the course of American music.

This is Uncool

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:57 PST

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In 1977, the Sex Pistols burst on the scene with “Anarchy in the UK” and transformed pop music forever. Along with that song, every one of these singles helped reshape the culture’s style, language, and performance. This is the story of how music and the world change, how bands reach a peak and dominate the scene briefly before fading away, and about the undeniable power of certain songs (Nirvana ...

Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola

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Elvis and Gladys

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Who on the planet doesn't know that Elvis Presley gave electrifying performances and enthralled millions? Who doesn't know that he was the King of Rock 'n' Roll? But who knows that the King himself lived in the thrall of one dominant person? This was Gladys Smith Presley, his protective, indulgent, beloved mother. Elvis and Gladys, one of the best researched and most acclaimed books on Elvis' ...

Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll

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Long before Elvis Presley entered Sam Phillips's Sun Records studio in 1954, rock 'n' roll was being performed and recorded by the likes of Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, the Clovers, the Dominoes, the Midnighters, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Wanda Jackson, and Johnny Ace. More than just a series of shrewd and evocative portraits of these and sixteen other performers, this book is also ...

A Christmas Carol

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:56 PST

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Introduction and Afterword by Joe WheelerTo bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late. Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, this edition features an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler to provid ...

Great Expectations

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:56 PST

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With a new introduction and notes, this edition of Great Expectations offers new insights into one of Dickens's most fascinating and disturbing novels. Charting the progress of Pip from childhood to adulthood, Dickens shows the dangers of being driven by a desire for wealth and social status. As Pip moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering many extraordinary character ...

Oliver Twist

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:56 PST

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Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" is a gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in "Penguin Classics" with an introduction by Philip Horne. The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into ...

Bleak House

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:56 PST

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The eight-hour Masterpiece Theatre miniseries of Charles Dickenss Bleak House stars Gillian Anderson (The House of Mirth, X-Files) and features a screenplay written by Andrew Davies (Bridget Joness Diary). Part romance, part melodrama, part detective story, the novel spreads out among a web of relationships in every level of society, from the simpleminded Sir Leicester Dedlock to Jo the st ...

The Pickwick Papers

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Charles Dickens's first published work, "The Pickwick Papers" was an instant success that captured the public imagination with its colourful characters and farcical plot. This "Penguin Classics" edition of Charles Dickens's is edited with notes and an introduction by Mark Wormald. Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as "The Pickwick Papers" - a comic masterpiece that catapult ...

A Tale of Two Cities

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Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. This "Penguin Classics" edition of is edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Maxwell. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is fi ...

Drawing Blood

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Exquisite Corpse

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To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed ...

David Copperfield: Personal History of David Copperfield

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Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, "David Copperfield" is edited with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling in "Penguin Classics". "David Copperfield" is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among t ...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

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Around the central story of Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family Dickens created some of his most wonderful characters: the muddle-headed Mrs. Nickleby, the gloriously theatrical Crummles, their protegee Miss Petowker, the pretentious Mantalinis, and the mindlessly cruel Squeers and his wife. Nicholas Nickleby's loose, haphazard progress harks back to the picaresque novels of the e ...

Jane Eyre

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Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search ...

Dombey and Son

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:55 PST

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"Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens's story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author's gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens's "genius . . . is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed into existence ...

Martin Chuzzlewit

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Charles Dickens' powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greed, "Martin Chuzzlewit" is edited with an introduction and notes by Patricia Ingham in "Penguin Classics". The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his s ...

Our Mutual Friend

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:55 PST

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A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes “the Golden Dustman.” Charles Dickens’s l ...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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The main issue in the novel is the disappearance of Edwin Drood and the suspicion that he has been murdered. But as intriguing as this central plot are the startling innovations in Dicken's work and the troubled elements lurking within the novel: a dark opium underworld, the uneasy and violent fantasies of its inhabitants, the disquieting presence of old 'Princess Puffer', of the quiet cathedral ...

Little Dorrit

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A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dickens' "Little Dorrit" is edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall in "Penguin Classics". When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's fa ...

Crime And Punishment

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:55 PST

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Abridged - 6 CDs, 5 1/4 hours, read by Alex Jennings Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police i ...

The Buddha of Surburbia

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:54 PST

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A love story for at least two generstions, a high-spirited comedy of sexual manners and social turmoil, The Buddha of Suburbia is one of the most enchanting, provocative, and original books to appear in years. "A wickedly funny novel that's at once a traditional comedy of manners and a scathing satire on race relations in Britain".--The New York Times. [예스24 제공]

The Third Policeman

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:54 PST

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Fiction. The last of O'Brien's novels to be published and now reissued by Dalkey Archive, THE THIRD POLICEMAN is Flann O'Brien's brilliant comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botche d robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where he is intruduced to "Atomic Theory" and ...

London Fields

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:54 PST

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London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts. Or is the killer the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch? "A comic murder mystery, an apocalyptic satire, a ...

At Swim-Two-Birds

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:54 PST

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Along with one or two books by James Joyce, Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds is the most famous (and infamous) of Irish novels published in the twentieth century. Or to put it as Dylan Thomas did: "It establishes Mr. O'Brien in the forefront of contemporary writing. . . . This is just the book to give your sister if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl!" The story of an Irish college student wh ...

Alice in Wonderland

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This hardcover edition of the classic tale of ALICE IN WONDERLAND has been read and loved by children for generations. Start a new tradition of reading this timeless tale in your home today! •Fully illustrated in color, bringing each tale to life •Filled with humor, adventure and imagination for children of all ages •Great first-time reading for children as well as reading again for parents a ...

ABC Disney Pop-Up

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:38:54 PST

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In the gorgeous, interactive ABC Disney: An Alphabet Pop-Up, A is for Ariel, B is for Bambi, and C is for Cinderella. And who better than Robert Sabuda to pull off this ambitious tribute to Disney animation? A veritable king in the world of pop-up books, he has never missed a new Disney animated feature film release. "Walt Disney films were magic to me and my siblings when we were kids," say ...

Castle

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Over fifteen intricate pop-ups accompany Sabuda and Reinhart's fascinating text, which guides readers through the different aspects of life in a medieval castle. Readers will learn about knighting ceremonies, battles, and feasts. The true majesty of castles is fully realized when this book is opened to reveal a stunning 3-dimensional medieval world.

Dracula

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Told in journal fragments that cannot provide any reliable perspective, Dracula is at the same time Romantic and modern. It unfolds the story of a Transylvanian Don Juan, the aristocratic vampire Count Dracula, who preys on damsels, and of the mission launched from a lunatic asylum to destroy him.

Gone with the Wind

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:32:04 PST

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Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell's magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and loss, of a nation mortally divided and a people forever changed. Above all, it is the story of beautiful, ruthless Scarlett O'Hara and the dashing soldier of fortune, Rhett Butler.

Atonement

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:31:04 PST

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The Wrong Boy

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:30:37 PST

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In The Wrong Boy, Willy Russell, creator of Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita and Blood Brothers, tells the unforgettable story of the ultimate outsider. Welcome to the heart-wrenching, ever-erring world of Raymond Marks, a normal boy from a normal town. Until, that is, in the wake of the Transvestite Nativity Play Scandal, the ill-fated fly-trapping craze begins -- a craze that involves fiftee ...

Dracula

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:30:14 PST

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The vampire novel that started it all, Bram Stoker's Dracula probes deeply into human identity, sanity, and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client. Soon afterward, disturbing incidents unfold in England -an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby, strang ...