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At Swim-two-birds

Sat, 18 May 2013 1:09:25 PST

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In a 1938 letter to a literary agent, Flann O'Brien described his first novel as "a very queer affair, unbearably queer perhaps." The book in question was At Swim-Two-Birds--and if we take queer to mean diabolically eccentric, then truer words were never spoken. The author, whose real name was Brian O'Nolan, had successfully stirred Gaelic legend, pulp fiction, and grimy Dublin realism into a hi ...

Bone

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:47:29 PST

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An American graphic novel first! The complete 1300-page epic adventure from start to finish in one deluxe trade paperback. After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone are separated and lost in a vast uncharted desert. One by one they find their way into a deep forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. It will be the longe ...

Right Ho, Jeeves

Mon, 6 May 2013 23:57:08 PST

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When Jeeves suggests dreamy, soulful Gussie Fink-Nottle don scarlet tights and a false beard in his bid to capture the affections of soppy Madeline Bassett, Wooster decides matters have definitely got out of hand. Taking Jeeves off the case, he embarks on a little plan of his own to bring Madeline and Gussie together. But when things go disasterously wrong who else can Bertie turn to in his hour ...

The Hunger Games

Fri, 3 May 2013 1:09:51 PST

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This title is first in the ground-breaking "Hunger Games" trilogy. Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games, she sees ...

Thank You, Jeeves

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:43:03 PST

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A Jeeves and Wooster novel Thank You, Jeeves is the first novel to feature the incomparable valet Jeeves and his hapless charge Bertie Wooster - and you've hardly started to turn the pages when he resigns over Bertie's dedicated but somewhat untuneful playing of the banjo. In high dudgeon, Bertie disappears to the country as a guest of his chum Chuffy - only to find his peace shattered by th ...

Giovinotti, non esageriamo! (E sia detto anche alle ragazze)

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:03:55 PST

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"Il giuoco del calcio è una cosa semplicissima: è un play di Kicks. Appena ilball è in the play, l'half forward dà il Kickapp verso l'inside forward chetira all'half-back, il quale, dribbling, fa pass e mantiene la liaison in linecol side half-back, allo scopo di fare goal nella net avversaria, badando cheil ball non vada al bar, o a post o oltre il bahind." ...

A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 3:50:53 PST

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44 44 Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. ...

The Colour of Magic

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 1:29:50 PST

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Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ru ...

The Little Sister

Tue, 9 Apr 2013 23:20:22 PST

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"The Little Sister" is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime. Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or leastways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe's feeling charitable - though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet. Y ...

Mostly Harmless

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:14:42 PST

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Mostly Harmless: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Five The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, a great deal to say on the subject of parallel universes. Very little of this is, however, at all comprehensible to anyone below the level of Advanced God, and since it is now well-established that all known gods came into existence a good three milliont ...

The Bell Jar

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 4:43:44 PST

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The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experiece as going to the movies. Such deep penetra ...

To Kill a Mockingbird

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:34:36 PST

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'Shoot al the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this enchanting classic - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the De ...

A Storm of Swords: Part 2 Blood and Gold: Part two

Fri, 1 Mar 2013 2:34:35 PST

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HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A STORM OF SWORDS: BLOOD AND GOLD is the SECOND part of the third volume in the series. The Starks are scattered. Robb Stark may be King in the North, but he must bend to the will of the old tyrant Walder Frey if he is to hold h ...

LMVDM

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 1:04:33 PST

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Gipi ci racconta la sua vita: tra viaggi reali e psichedelici, problemi di salute e medici feticisti, uno dei più grandi autori di fumetti di sempre si svela come non aveva mai fatto prima, alternando il bianco e nero al colore, la quotidianità alla fantasia. Una narrazione in bilico tra dramma e comicità.

The Lady in the Lake

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 1:51:55 PST

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Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing on account of the tw ...

The Incal

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 6:07:32 PST

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The Incal is a comic masterpiece illustrated by acclaimed artist Moebius and written by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Together they present a classic sci-fi adventure featuring John Difool, a private detective. With the great darkness attacking the galaxy, Difool races through the cosmos with his pet concrete bird, Deepo, and the Universe's greatest warrior, the Metabaron, on a quest to face the great ev ...

Carrie

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 2:52:23 PST

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La donna della domenica

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:41:44 PST

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Ambientato in una Torino malefica e metafisica, "La donna della domenica" è da molti considerato il capostipite del "giallo italiano". La trama si snoda tra i vizi, l'ipocrisia, le comiche velleità e gli esilaranti chiacchericci che animano la vita della borghesia piemontese.

Batman

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:27:46 PST

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The classic story by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli is released in an all-new deluxe hardcover edition! A young Bruce Wayne spent his adolescence and early adulthood traveling the world so he could hone his body and mind into the perfect fighting and investigative machine. But now as he returns to Gotham City, he must find a way to focus his passion and bring justice to his city. Retracing B ...

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:49:11 PST

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Just when Arthur Dent's sense of reality is at its most clouded, he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's Final Message to His Creation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it. This is volume four in ...

Jimmy Corrigan

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:22:38 PST

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Ware's graphically inventive, wonderfully realized novel-in-comics follows the sad fortunes of four generations of phlegmatic, defeated men while touching on themes of abandonment, social isolation and despair within the sweeping depiction of Chicago's urban transformation over the course of a century. Ware uses Chicago's World's Colombian Exposition of 1893, the great world's fair that signaled ...

Very Good, Jeeves

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 4:27:27 PST

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In this collection, P.G. Wodehouse introduces further adventures of the disaster-prone Bertie Wooster, saved at every turn by his peerless manservant Jeeves.

Le Rouge et le Noir

Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:03:47 PST

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Au rouge des armes, Julien Sorel préfèrera le noir des ordres. Au cours de son ascension sociale, deux femmes se singularisent, comme pour figurer les deux penchants de son caractère : Madame de Rênal - le rêve, l'aspiration à un bonheur pur et simple - et Mathilde de La Mole - l'énergie, l'action brillante et fébrile. A ces composantes stendhaliennes (conception de la vie qui dépasse la stratégi ...

Saluti e baci da Mixing Part

Thu, 8 Nov 2012 0:35:20 PST

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Telemann, 42 anni, aspirante drammaturgo in perenne crisi creativa, ha qualche problemuccio con l'alcol e i libri di cucina, e detesta la Germania. Nina, 43 anni, insegnante, invasata di tutto ciò che abbia anche solo un vago sapore teutonico. Questi i due protagonisti della "folle commedia travestita da romanzo" con cui Erlend Loe, affilata la lama della sua irriverente ironia, si addentra in un ...

Life, the Universe and Everything

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 19:22:00 PST

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In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot get possibly worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-boggingly big and bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair. This title ...

Absolute V for Vendetta

Sat, 6 Oct 2012 20:14:02 PST

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A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V FOR VENDETTA takes place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the ...

Corto Maltese - Corte sconta detta arcana

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 23:07:11 PST

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A Venezia, quando Hugo Pratt era giovane, esisteva una corte "sconta" (ovvero nascosta) detta "arcana".

Foreskin's Lament

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 0:29:48 PST

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Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up, defying and eventually being cast out of his community, he could not find his way to a life in which he wasn't locked in a daily struggle with Him. Foreskin's Lament is a rich and fascinating portrait of a man grappling with his faith, his family and his community. Bracing and witty ...Never, frankly, can there hav ...

Kafka sulla spiaggia

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:16:21 PST

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Dalla parte di Swann

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:15:57 PST

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Corto Maltese - L'ultimo colpo e altri racconti

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:22:41 PST

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Nell'anno di grazia 1918, fra aprile e novembre, Corto Maltese vive un'intensa sequela di nuove storie. Dal fronte bellico franco-tedesco, dove ritrova il vecchio amico Cain Groovesnore, si sposta nel deserto yemenita per consegnare un carico d'armi ai ribelli dervisci. Inaugura così un ciclo di avventure etiopiche, che si dipana fra rapimenti e stregonerie, schiavi e torture , contrabbandieri e ...

L'educazione sentimentale

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:58:17 PST

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Corto Maltese - Sotto la bandiera dell'oro e altri racconti

Thu, 9 Aug 2012 1:11:20 PST

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Sullo sfondo della Grande Guerra, Corto Maltese si sposta dal Sud America all'Europa, con un ciclo di storie celtiche. Dalla leggendaria Eldorado, eccoci nell'amata Venezia di Hugo Pratt, dove Corto, mentre infuria la battaglia di Caporetto, incontra lo scrittore Ernest Hemingway e il futuro armatore greco Onassis. Poi, dall'Irlanda che lotta per l'indipendenza , il romantico marinaio giunger a S ...

I canti di Maldoror - volume secondo

Thu, 9 Aug 2012 1:03:15 PST

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I canti di Maldoror - volume primo

Thu, 9 Aug 2012 1:03:09 PST

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An Evening of Long Goodbyes

Wed, 8 Aug 2012 20:24:36 PST

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Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured Irish novels of recent years, "An Evening of Long Goodbyes" is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. Featuring drinking, greyhound racing, vanishing furniture, more drinking, old movies, assorted Dublin lowlife, eviction and the perils of community theatre, Paul Murray's debut novel is a tour ...

Carry on, Jeeves

Mon, 6 Aug 2012 5:14:40 PST

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Meet the inimitable gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves ...From the moment Jeeves glides into Bertie Wooster's life and provides him with a magical hangover cure, Bertie begins to wonder how he's ever managed without him. Jeeves makes himself totally indispensable in every way, disentangling the hapless Bertie from scrapes with formidable aunts, madcap girls and unbidden guests. His ability to dig asso ...

Corto Maltese - n. 02

Thu, 2 Aug 2012 5:22:32 PST

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La giovinezza (1904 - 1905) Il segreto di Tristan Bantam (1916) Appuntamento a Bahia (1916) Manciuria, 1904-1905. E’ guerra fra l’Impero russo e quello giapponese. Corto Maltese diciassettenne conosce lo scrittore Jack London e tramite lui incontra il giovane disertore Rasputin. Inizia qui quell’amicizia fatta di confronti e contrasti che ritroviamo anche nell’ultima storia incompiuta di Hug ...

Corto Maltese - vol. 1

Thu, 2 Aug 2012 5:17:13 PST

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Una ballata del mare salato è un eccezionale romanzo a fumetti, scritto e disegnato da Hugo Pratt nel 1967 in completa libertà espressiva. Affresco del passaggio dall’infanzia all’adolescenza di Pandora e del cugino Cain, si svolge fra il 1913 e il 1915, sullo sfondo di un’insolita Prima Guerra Mondiale combattuta nell’Oceano Pacifico. Nella Ballata debutta il romantico marinaio Corto Maltese, qu ...

Corto Maltese - Samba con Tiro Fisso e altri racconti

Thu, 2 Aug 2012 5:09:51 PST

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Nell'intensissimo anno 1917, Corto Maltese gira il mondo.

A Storm of Swords: Part 1 Steel and Snow

Wed, 1 Aug 2012 19:39:58 PST

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HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A STORM OF SWORDS: STEEL AND SNOW is the FIRST part of the third volume in the series. Winter approaches Westeros like an angry beast. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud. In the northern wastes, a horde of h ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Thu, 5 Jul 2012 0:23:13 PST

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Blue Carbuncle', and 'The Speckled Band'. Although Holmes gain ...

Blood Meridian

Mon, 2 Jul 2012 1:36:55 PST

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The Great Gatsby

Sat, 26 May 2012 15:35:31 PST

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Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach...Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows ...

High Fidelity

Sat, 26 May 2012 0:19:46 PST

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When Laura dumps Rob (on the very first page) he is aggrieved and exhilarated, 35 and petrified. Trying to work out what went wrong, obsessed with music, and running an ailing record shop, he sets out on the road to self-discovery. This is the first novel from the author of "Fever Pitch".

Sherlock Holmes

Sat, 19 May 2012 16:34:18 PST

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No characters in English literature since those in the Great Dickens gallery have taken so firm a hold upon the British and American imagination as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. This selection draws the best stories from the several Sherlock Holmes volumes, and shows how the famous detective and his assistant are elevated above the level of fiction and into the realm of mythology, where the lear ...

Underworld

Sun, 6 May 2012 23:07:51 PST

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Opens at the Shea Stadium at the World Series Game of 1951, where the ball is caught by a young, black man in the crowd, and continues to change hands throughout the book. The various recipients of the ball tell the story of post-war US history giving a panorama of America from the 50s to the 90s.

Libra

Sun, 6 May 2012 23:07:24 PST

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Rumore bianco

Sun, 6 May 2012 23:06:30 PST

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«Don DeLillo è la voce piú eloquente della letteratura americana». Thomas Pynchon « Rumore bianco è un sogno di angoscia dolce e meraviglioso». Martin Amis Jack Gladney è professore di studi hitleriani presso un campus dove i detriti della cultura popolare americana sono divenuti la nuova bibbia e il supermarket la sua biblioteca. Come dice Murray J. Siskind, collega di Jack e profeta dell'apocal ...

Io, robot

Sun, 6 May 2012 23:05:47 PST

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Scritti tra il 1940 e il 1950, i nove episodi di "Io, robot" divengono unasorta di epopea e fondano una nuova "mitologia" della letteratura sui robot.Lasciando alle spalle le figure più convenzionali dello "scienziato pazzo" edelle "invenzioni diaboliche", il romanzo di Asimov è del tutto originale eper questo destinato a influire sulla produz ...

Il pendolo di Foucault

Sun, 6 May 2012 23:02:14 PST

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Il nome della rosa

Sun, 6 May 2012 23:01:38 PST

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Lector in fabula

Sun, 6 May 2012 23:01:12 PST

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Sei passeggiate nei boschi narrativi

Sun, 6 May 2012 23:01:06 PST

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Il gattopardo

Sun, 6 May 2012 22:57:47 PST

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Don Fabrizio, principe di Salina, all'arrivo dei Garibaldini, sente inevitaile il declino e la rovina della sua classe. Approva il matrimonio del nipote Tancredi, senza più risorse economiche, con la figlia, che porta con sé una ricca dote, di Calogero Sedara, un astuto borghese. Don Fabrizio rifiuta però il seggio al Senato che gli viene offerto, ormai disincantato e pessimista sulla possibile s ...

The Inimitable Jeeves

Sun, 6 May 2012 17:27:27 PST

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With a cast of characters that includes bearded revolutionaries, practical-joking twins, incognito authors, and a pair of confidence tricksters, The Inimitable Jeeves finds our upper-class hero Bertie Wooster in all kinds of hot water. Of particular concern in this collection of short stories--sensitively abridged by Penguin and read by Simon Callow--is Bertie's friend Bingo Little, who falls in ...

Les Aventures de Tintin, Tome 1

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:35:38 PST

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Understanding Comics

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:26:29 PST

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This is an exploration of the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning. Using comics to examine the medium itself, the author takes the form of a cartoon character and explains the structure, meaning, and appeal of comics, and provides a running analysis of comics as art, literature, and communication. He reaches back to pre-Columbus picture manuscripts and Egyptian monuments to trace t ...

A Study in Scarlet

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:24:29 PST

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The very first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. His two creations, Holmes, the master of the science of detection and Watson, the great detective's faithful companion, are immediately in fine form. The mystery itself, its solution plucked unerringly by Holmes from the heart of Victorian London, proves to be the inevitable conseq ...

Absolute Sandman

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:23:25 PST

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One of the most highly acclaimed comics series of all time, the "New York Times" bestselling author Neil Gaiman's visionary "Sandman" received Eisner awards, an unprecedented World Fantasy Award, and countless others. Now Gaiman's addictive, literate series is re-presented in the popular "Absolute" format: the first twenty issues are presented in an oversized leather-bound slipcase, featuring dig ...

The Complete Peanuts 1953 to 1954

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:22:49 PST

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The second volume in the most eagerly-anticipated publishing project in the history of the American comic strip: the complete reprinting of Charles M. Schulz's 50-year American classic, Peanuts. Our second volume begins with Peanuts' third full year and a cast of eight: Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, Violet, Schroeder, Lucy, the recently born Linus, and Snoopy. By the end of 1954, this will have ...

The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:21:24 PST

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The most eagerly-awaited publishing project in comic strip history. 50 years of art. 25 books. Over 7500 pages of comics. Two books per year for 12 ¼ years. Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce the most exciting and ambitious publishing project in the history of the American comic strip: the complete reprinting of Charles M. Schulz's classic, Peanuts. The most popular comic strip in the his ...

Essential Silver Surfer, Vol. 1

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 1:57:30 PST

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Witness the birth of the Sentinel of the Spaceways, as humanoid being Norrin Radd becomes the Silver Surfer - Galactus' first cosmic-powered herald and one of Marvel's most noble heroes! Collects Silver Surfer #1-18; Fantastic Four Annual #5. All-new edition!

John Steinbeck

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 1:57:05 PST

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This second volume in the authoritative edition of John Steinbeck (with "Novels and Stories, 1932-1937") features the Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece "The Grapes of Wrath" in a newly corrected text based on the author's manuscript, typescript, and galleys. "The Harvest Gypsies is Steinbeck's investigative report on migrant farm workers which laid the groundwork for the novel. "The Long Valley" ...

Il grado zero della scrittura

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 1:56:31 PST

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In questo libro Barthes intende affermare l’esistenza di una realtà della forma indipendente dalla lingua e dallo stile, cercare di mostrare come questa terza dimensione formale leghi lo scrittore alla sua società e di far risaltare che non vi è letteratura senza morale del linguaggio. Al fine di individuare questi aspetti, egli studia le trasformazioni del linguaggio letterario lungo un percorso ...

The Bad Beginning

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 1:56:14 PST

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Bar sport

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 1:55:52 PST

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Ci sono bar e bar ma il Bar Sport è qualcosa di più. Lo sa bene Stefano Benni che alla fatidica insegna, alta come una bandiera nell'immaginario nazionale, ha dedicato un libro diventato ormai un classico dell'umorismo. Seguendo il ritmo infallibile dell'apertura e della chiusura, dei campionati di calcio e, perché no?, delle stagioni, Benni ha scritto la sua commedia umana, il suo catalogo di " ...

Mason & Dixon

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 1:53:18 PST

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Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We f ...

Riportando tutto a casa

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 1:44:33 PST

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Giuseppe ha i capelli rossi, i brufoli e un'inesauribile riserva di denaro nel portafoglio. Vincenzo invece è bello e tenebroso, come ogni antagonista che si rispetti. Il terzo amico è quello che racconta: l'occhio inquieto che registra con caustica, millimetrica precisione la vertigine dei loro quindici anni, la lunga inerzia del liceo, il precipizio dentro l'età adulta. Siamo a Bari, e sono gli ...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 1:31:13 PST

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One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very strange and startling place. This is volume one in the Trilogy of five.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 1:29:53 PST

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When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains - "Where shall we have dinner?" "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about. This is volume two in the Trilogy of five.

A Game of Thrones

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 1:25:20 PST

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HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A GAME OF THRONES is the first volume in the series. Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert ...

A Clash of Kings

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 1:24:07 PST

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Blind Descent

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:21:54 PST

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A former writer and host for PBS's The Great Outdoors documents the 2004 racebetween American and Russian scientists to dive to the planet's deepest spot, ...

Ring of Bright Water

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:21:15 PST

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God

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:17:26 PST

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Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and theology. In the meantime, science has sat on the sidelines and quietly watched this game of words march up and down the field. Despite the fact that science has revolutionized every aspect of human life and greatly clarified our understanding of the world, somehow the notion has arisen ...

Terra!

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 2:31:45 PST

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Terra ! è il primo romanzo di Stefano Benni, che trae ispirazione dai racconti di fantascienza ambientati nell'era post-atomica, molto diffusi durante la guerra fredda. Nel 2157, la Terra è ricoperta da una nube di scorie radioattive, che la priva del calore del sole. Gli uomini, tra le poche specie sopravvissute, sono costretti in megalopoli sotterranee stratificate in livelli, cibandosi di Mo ...

Moby Dick

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 2:30:01 PST

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In campagna è un'altra cosa

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 8:15:05 PST

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Pygmalion

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 7:37:59 PST

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Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform El ...

The World According to Garp

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:37:06 PST

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20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION with a new Afterword from the author The New York Times bestseller This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes--even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and s ...

I detective selvaggi

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:59:59 PST

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Una specie di falso poliziesco, o di sarcastico on the road, a cavallo di due tempi in cui avrebbe potuto succedere tutto, il tempo delle avanguardie artistiche e il tempo della gioventù «alternativa» anni Sessanta Settanta. Arturo Belano e Ulises Lima, sedicenti poeti e piccoli trafficanti, adepti di un'improbabile ed estrema avanguardia, il «realvisceralismo», cercano attraverso l'America Latin ...

Il cigno nero

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:22:33 PST

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Cosa pensarono gli europei quando, giunti in Australia, videro dei cigni neri dopo aver creduto per secoli, supportati dall'evidenza, che tutti i cigni fossero bianchi? Un singolo evento è sufficiente a invalidare un convincimento frutto di un'esperienza millenaria. Ci ripetono che il futuro è prevedibile e i rischi controllabili, ma la storia non striscia, salta. I cigni neri sono eventi rari, d ...

Tempo di uccidere

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:21:47 PST

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Povera gente

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:21:17 PST

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Il primo romanzo di Dostoevskij, che lo fece conoscere al mondo letterariorusso dell'epoca e che venne accolto dal celebre critico Belinskij come larivelazione di un nuovo, grande scrittore. Nello scambio epistolare tra unpovero impiegato e una sua giovane dirimpettaia sono già presenti tutti i temidel realismo psicologico dei futuri capolavori.

Li'l Abner 1950

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:20:45 PST

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Things Fall apart

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:59:26 PST

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This is Chinua Achebe's classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in 1969. Combining a richly African story with the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all humanity, Achebe here shows that he is "gloriously gifted, with the magic of an ebullient, generous, great talent." -- Nadine Gordimer

Tutti i racconti (1923-1926)

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:21:41 PST

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Tutti i racconti (1897-1922)

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:21:34 PST

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The Dain Curse

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:16:47 PST

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Miss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. They die - violently. Is she the victim of a family curse? The short, squat, utterly unsentimental Continental Op, the best private detective around, has his doubts and finds himself confronting something infinitely more dangerous. This is ...

The Thin Man

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:15:27 PST

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Retirement suited Nick just fine. He had a pretty wife called Nora and a taste for good scotch. All it took was a little persuasion, like four bullets, a blonde, the cops, and a junked-up hoodlum in his bedroom before Nick Charles, former trans-American detective agency ace, was back in business!

Non è ver che sia la morte...

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 0:55:13 PST

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Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 0:54:25 PST

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Pubblicato negli Urania nel 1994, "Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore" segna l'esordio nella narrativa italiana del protagonista di una delle saghe più amate, che ormai da anni ha conquistato un pubblico di lettori ben più ampio (e per certi versi esigente) rispetto ai soli appassionati di fantascienza. Basato su un inquisitore catalano realmente esistito nel Trecento, la creatura di Evangelisti è un ...

54

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 0:54:03 PST

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Non è dopoguerra, è solo un'altra guerra. Il mondo è diviso in blocchi, in realtà ideologie e frontiere si stanno già sgretolando: merci e droga non conoscono confini. Dalla Dalrnazia a Mosca a 1 lollywood, da Napoli alla Francia, da Bologna a Trieste, tra balere, viaggi clandestini oltrefrontiera e incontri di pugilato, una folla di protagonisti, spinti da una corrente che li travolge e li super ...

Bleak House

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 0:53:47 PST

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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly ...

Trattato di ateologia

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 6:28:20 PST

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Dio non è affatto morto, o se lo era è ormai nel pieno della sua rinascita, in Occidente come in Oriente. Di qui l'urgenza, secondo Onfray, di un nuovo ateismo argomentato, solido e militante. Un ateismo che non si definisca solo in negativo, ma si proponga come nuovo e positivo atteggiamento nei confronti della vita, della storia e del mondo. L'ateologia (il termine è mutuato da Bataille) deve i ...

Autobiografia del Blu di Prussia

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 6:19:29 PST

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In questa composita raccolta Flaiano descrive luoghi dell'Abruzzo natio in cuila desolazione è profondamente radicata e figure che, su quei fondali, paionoinesorabilmente votate all'autodistruzione: come l'intellettuale romantico edecadente che sospende un'assunzione fatale di veronal solo per la momentaneafioritura di una rosa, o il giovane, ultimo di sei fratelli, cui la famiglianon perd ...

La Bibbia al neon

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 6:16:40 PST

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Un bambino sensibile, abituato a viaggiare con la fantasia. Una madre che impazzisce davanti alla foto del marito morto in guerra. Una zia troppo vivace che compare all'improvviso, con un piccolo grande passato di cantante da quattro soldi. E suscita scandalo. Una città dove l'arrivo di un predicatore con il suo tendone scatena l'entusiasmo generale. Una città sessuofoba, bigotta, razzista, da cu ...

La cognizione del dolore

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 6:13:44 PST

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Cryptonomicon

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:55:20 PST

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Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, il genio matematico Lawrence Waterhouse partecipa alla decifrazione dei codici tedeschi e giapponesi, e alle imprese quasi suicide di un'unità speciale dei Marines, guidata dal sergente Bobby Shaftoe, che ha lo scopo di convincere i nemici che quei codici non sono stati violati. Oggi, i nipoti di Waterhouse e di Shaftoe sono impegnati in una caccia al tesoro, t ...