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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Lynne Truss - Gotham Books
Format: Hardcover
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We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former... |
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All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
George Orwell - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Deckle Edge]
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As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career,... |
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!
Lynne Truss - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Illuminating the comical confusion the lowly comma can cause, this new edition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves uses lively, subversive illustrations to show how misplacing or leaving out a comma can change the meaning of a sentence completely.This picture book is sure to elicit gales of laughter—and... |
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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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The novel tells how Raskolnikov, a former student, murders an old woman moneylender and her unfortunate sister. The story is a detective novel, a religious epic and a study in criminal psychology as well as being an indictment of urban social conditions in 19th-century Russia. |
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The Stranger
Albert Camus - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger) , has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian... |
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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The story and characters in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame have resonated with succeeding generations since its publication in 1831. It has tempted filmmakers, and most recently animators, who have exploited its dramatic content to good effect but have inevitably lost some of the grays... |
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Sons and Lovers: Cambridge Lawrence Edition
D H Lawrence - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden... |
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph... |
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Oryx and Crake: A Novel (Atwood, Margaret Eleanor)
Margaret Atwood - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Audiobook
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A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker PrizeMargaret Atwood's new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world... |
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A literary event: one of the most celebrated novels ever written, in a magnificent new translation Seven years ago, the incomparable Lydia Davis brought us an award-winning, rapturously reviewed new translation of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way that was hailed as "clear and true... |
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Dracula
Bram Stoker - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback
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Jonathan Harker is travelling to Castle Dracula to see the Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. He is begged by locals not to go there, because on the eve of St George's Day, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will come full sway. But business must be done,... |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
Oscar Wilde - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had - in the words of biographer Richard Ellmann - "a different look." Yet the Dorian Gray... |
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A Passage to India
E.M. Forster - Grapevine
Format: Paperback
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Dr. Aziz is a young Muslim physician in Chandrapore, a British Indian town. Mrs Moore, an English woman, meets him in the courtyard of a nearby mosque one evening; she and her younger travelling companion Adela are dissatisfied with cramped British colonial society and want to explore more... |
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Storm Over Mendaro
James Adams - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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The beloved debut novel about an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of the upcoming The Ministry of Utmost Happiness NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens,... |
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Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, Darkness At Noon, is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s.During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary,... |
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The Remains of the Day (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Salman Rushdie - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
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An elegant Everyman's Library hardcover edition of the universally acclaimed novel - winner of the Booker Prize, a bestseller and a perpetually strong backlist title, and the basis for an award-winning film - with full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and a new introduction... |
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Possession: Man Booker Prize Winner (Vintage International)
A. S. Byatt - Vintage
Format: Hardcover
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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets thats an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. "Gorgeously written ... A tour de force."... |
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Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Counterpoint
Format: Paperback
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A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker PrizeSet in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion... |
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Jean-Marc Hovasse - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
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Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men: Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and Captain Phoebus. Falsely accused of trying to murder Phoebus, who attempts to rape her, Esmeralda... |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde - Modern Library
Format: Paperback
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Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it rst appeared... |
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