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The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics)
By: "Apuleius,"
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Penguin Classics:
Seller ID: 9780140435900
Lucius, a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to believe he can be transformed into a bird, instead becomes a donkey. Whirled off by robbers, he embarks on a series of adventures and misadventures. Confronted eventually with the prospect of a stage performance where he is supposed to demonstrate his sexual prowess with a woman, he is overwhelmed by a religious vision and is finally initiated into the cult of the goddess Isis. It has been long dispute... View more info
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
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 th... View more info
The Doctor's Wife (Japan's Women Writers)
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Kodansha America:
Seller ID: 9780870114656
The River Ki (Japan's Women Writers)
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Kodansha America:
Seller ID: 9780870115141
le theatre et son double
Price: $29.95
Publisher: France, 1970
Seller ID: 5-9P008
"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 d... 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
"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
Enough is Enough - A Comedy in One Act
By: "Asseng, Protais (Alex Gross, trans.)"
Price: $15.95
Seller ID: 6-6T003
"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
Sense and Sensibility: Movie Tie In Edition
By: "Austen, Jane"
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Signet:
Seller ID: 9780451187901
Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
By: "Austen, Jane"
Price: $4.00
Publisher: "Oxford University Press, USA":
Seller ID: 9780192802378
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 portra... View more info
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
By: "Austen, Jane"
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Penguin Books:
Seller ID: 9780141439518
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 ... 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
Disappearances: Selected Poems
By: "Auster, Paul"
Price: $7.95
Publisher: "Woodstock, NY", 1988
Edition: (1st thus)
Seller ID: 7NT068
"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
"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
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 yo... View more info
Eugenie Grandet
By: "Balzac (Pierre Citron, Chronologie et preface)"
Price: $9.95
Publisher: "Paris, France", 1964
Seller ID: 10P030
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
"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