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Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and Oligarchy
By: "Aristotle, Xenophon the Orator, Xenophon, The Oxyrhynchus Historian"
Price: $6.00
Publisher: University of California Press:
Edition: 2
Seller ID: 9780520029095
ISBN: 0520029097
Condition: GOOD
Three treatises survive from classical Greece under the loose title "Politeiai" (Constitutions) which are unique in character and indispensable to any student of the period. The longest and most important is Aristotle's "Constitution of Athens" which is both a history of Athenian constitutional development and a survey of the constitutional machinery of Aristotle's own day.The second, by Xenophon, is an account of the Spartan social and educational system, and the third, also attributed to Xenophon, "The Constitution of the Athenians, " though probably by an earlier author, is the first ex... View more info
The Doctor's Wife (Japan's Women Writers)
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Kodansha America:
Seller ID: 9780870114656
ISBN: 0870114654
Condition: GOOD
The River Ki (Japan's Women Writers)
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Kodansha America:
Seller ID: 9780870115141
ISBN: 0870115146
Condition: GOOD
le theatre et son double
Price: $29.95
Publisher: France, 1970
Seller ID: 5-9P008
Condition: GOOD -
"Tight, faint age tanning of pages, clean and square. Underlining or highlighting throughout. Slight shelfwear to cover edges. Light crease on bottom corner of front cover. Owner's name and address on first free page. Text in French. ""Ce volume a eu une influence profonde et décisive sur l'evolution du theatre contemporain. Antonin artaud (1896-1948) critique l'envahissement du theatre par la psychologie et plaide pour un drame metaphysique que s'inspire de la grande tradition de l'Antiquite du Moyen Age et du theatre de l'Extreme-Orient.""" View more info
"Four Poets, Four Voices"
By: "Artuso, EMC, Thompson, Johnson"
Price: $9.95
Publisher: "Needham, MA", 1989
Edition: (1st edition)
Seller ID: 82H004
Condition: NEAR FINE
"As new except for curled corner. Work of 4 members of the Wild Goose Poets: Tony Arturo's include a group of poems centered on history and the Civil War; EMC's poems have a ""humanistic, accessible focus"", Elizabeth Bertlett Thompson's have been read in libraries and cafes in the Greater Boston area; Robert K. Johnson, in addition to poetry, is the author of books on Neil Simon and Francis Ford Coppola. 58 pages, 9x6""." View more info
"April Galleons (Poets, Penguin)"
By: "Ashbery, John"
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Puffin:
Seller ID: 9780140586039
ISBN: 0140586032
Condition: GOOD
Enough is Enough - A Comedy in One Act
By: "Asseng, Protais (Alex Gross, trans.)"
Price: $15.95
Seller ID: 6-6T003
ISBN: 0913745170
Condition: FINE
"As new - gift quality! ""Can a man become pregnant?…A delightful, absurdist comedy with political implications."" 60 pages. Translated from the French." View more info
Mansfield Park (Signet classics)
By: "Austen, Jane"
Price: $0.75
Publisher: Signet Classics:
Seller ID: 9780451517524
ISBN: 0451517520
Condition: acceptable
Sense and Sensibility: Movie Tie In Edition
By: "Austen, Jane"
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Signet:
Seller ID: 9780451187901
ISBN: 0451187903
Condition: GOOD
Emma
By: "Austen, Jane"
Price: $3.50
Publisher: Borders:
Seller ID: 9781587264061
ISBN: 1587264064
Condition: GOOD
Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
By: "Austen, Jane"
Price: $4.00
Publisher: "Oxford University Press, USA":
Seller ID: 9780192802378
ISBN: 0192802372
Condition: GOOD
Emma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing historical transition. Written with matchless wit and irony, judged by many to be her fine... View more info
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
By: "Austen, Jane"
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Penguin Books:
Seller ID: 9780141439518
ISBN: 0141439513
Condition: GOOD
Listen to audio presented by Literary Affairs: "Pride and Prejudice." View our feature on Jane Austen. Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by the folly of his arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to true feelings in a comedy profoundly concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved. @FirstThoughtBestThought Usually a man wills his home to his wife or kids. But sometimes, he wills it to a distant relative, so when he dies, you're out on yo... View more info
Emma: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds Reviews and Criticism (A Norton Critical Edition)
By: "Austen, Jane"
Price: $7.85
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc:
Edition: 2
Seller ID: 9780393960143
ISBN: 0393960145
Condition: GOOD
Disappearances: Selected Poems
By: "Auster, Paul"
Price: $7.95
Publisher: "Woodstock, NY", 1988
Edition: (1st thus)
Seller ID: 7NT068
ISBN: 0879513411
Condition: VERY GOOD-
"Tight, bright, faint age soil to exterior, a few smudges in interior, slight curl. ""The first major selection of Paul Auster's poetry to be published in one volume...disturbing, eloquent, and utterly unique...""" View more info
The Home The Star Shone On: A Christmas Drama in One Act
Price: $7.95
Publisher: "Boston, MA", 1937
Seller ID: 68T019
Condition: VERY GOOD+
"Tight, yellowed, clean for age. Pencil notes in margins. 32 page, staple bound. Script, 12 characters, directions for music, costume, sets, props. Centers on the birth of Christ." View more info
The Underdogs: Pictures and Scenes from the Present Revolution: a Translation of Mariano Azuela's Los De Abajo With Related Texts
Price: $5.50
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company:
Seller ID: 9780872208346
ISBN: 0872208346
Condition: GOOD
Mariano Azuela, the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," was born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico, in 1873. He studied medicine in Guadalajara and returned to Lagos in 1909, where he began the practice of his profession. He began his writing career early; in 1896 he published Impressions of a Student in a weekly of Mexico City. This was followed by numerous sketches and short stories, and in 1911 by his first novel, Andres Perez, maderista. Like most of the young Liberals, he supported Francisco I. Madero's uprising, which overthrew the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, and in 1911 was... View more info
Family
Price: $3.70
Publisher: Cheng & Tsui:
Seller ID: 9780917056406
ISBN: 091705640X
Condition: GOOD
Eugenie Grandet
By: "Balzac (Pierre Citron, Chronologie et preface)"
Price: $9.95
Publisher: "Paris, France", 1964
Seller ID: 10P030
ISBN: 2080700030
Condition: FINE
As new - gift quality! Text in French. View more info
Splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes
By: "Balzac, Honore de (Pierre Barberis, Preface et notes)"
Price: $7.95
Publisher: 1973
Seller ID: 6-5T009
Condition: VERY GOOD
"As new except for reading crease on spine, light corner bump and slight age tanning of pages. Text in French. 699 pages including Vie, Notice, Preface de l'edition de 1844, Notes, Bibliographique. ""Il faisait un clair de lune si magnifique qu'on aurait pu tout lire, meme un journal du soir.""" View more info
La duchesse de Langeais suivi de La fille aux yeux d'or
By: "Balzac, Pierre"
Price: $18.95
Publisher: France, 1972
Seller ID: 5-9P010
ISBN: 3023035601
Condition: NEAR FINE
As new except for faint reading crease on spine and light age tanning of pages. Text in French. View more info