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The Paradise: A Novel (TV tie-in) (Les Rougon-Macquart)
By: "Zola, Emile"
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Penguin Books:
Seller ID: 9780143124702
A companion edition to the TV series from Masterpiece on PBS Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, Au Bonheur des Dames. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he employs. Charting the beginnings of the capi... View more info
Don Juan Tenorio
By: "Zorrilla, Jose (Francisco Nieva, intro.)"
Price: $9.95
Publisher: "Madrid, Spain", 1995
Seller ID: 18P017
"As new except for slight flare to covers and notes in margin on 1 page. ""oia latir bajo su justillo de terciopelo el corazon de Espana: el corazon del romanticismo nacional, su propio corazon…"" Text in Spanish. 178 pages." View more info
The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon; The Choephori; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics)
By: Aeschylus
Price: $1.00
Publisher: Penguin Classics:
Seller ID: 9780140440676
'Anger still unreconciled Poisoning a house's life With darkness, treachery and strife' (47 Aeschylus (525-c.456 BC) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes ... View more info
Those Barren Leaves
By: Aldous Huxley
Price: $0.50
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics:
Seller ID: B00OADSCM6
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
By: Aldous Huxley
Price: $8.50
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics:
Seller ID: 9780060776091
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.Fo... View more info
The Count of Monte Cristo (Bantam Classics)
By: Alexandre Dumas
Price: $3.45
Publisher: Bantam Classics:
Seller ID: 9780553213508
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d'If -- doomed to spend his life in a dank prison cell. The story of his long, intolerable years in captivity, his... View more info
Songs Of Shadow On A Leaf And Other Poems
By: Alfred Noyes
Price: $4.00
Publisher: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd:
Seller ID: B000UHBOKI
Diez Comedias del Siglo de Oro: An Annotated Omnibus of Ten Complete Plays by the Most Representative Spanish Dramatists of the Golden Age
By: Alpern & Martel
Price: $16.20
Publisher: NY, 1939
Seller ID: 40H042
"Bright, tight, clean & square. Some notes and underlining. Introduction in English & Spanish. Plays in Spanish. Plays by: Cervantes; Lope de Vega; Tirso de Molina; Castro; Mira de Amescua; Ruis de Alarcon; Calderon; Rojas Zorrilla & Moreto" View more info
The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories
By: Andre Dubus
Price: $7.00
Publisher: David R Godine:
Seller ID: 9780879236410
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics)
By: Anonymous
Price: $4.50
Publisher: Penguin Classics:
Edition: 2
Seller ID: 9780140440928
'Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain; Seek faithfully till you find me ...' A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men to behead him, provided that if he survives he can return the blow a year later. Sir Gawain accepts the challenge and decapitates the knight - but the mysterious warrior cheats death and vanishes, bearing his hea... View more info
Ardele and Pauvre Bitos
By: Anouilh
Price: $6.95
Publisher: NY, 1965
Seller ID: 78P002
"As new except for faint edgewear to exterior and owner's name. Underlining on 1 page. Introduction and Notes in English by Raymond T. Riva. Text in French. ""Text is that of Pieces Grincantes, Les Editions de La Table Ronde, 1961""" View more info
101 Famous Poems (contains Poe's The Raven)
By: anthology
Price: $2.50
Publisher: McGraw-Hill:
Seller ID: 9780809288342
A deluxe edition of the bestselling poetry anthology. View more info
Omen
By: Anthology
Price: $15.95
Publisher: CT, 1971
Edition: (1st edition)
Seller ID: 68T014
"""In this unedited collection the poetic expression of women, individual and collective, creates an intricate pattern...first to be published under the auspices of the Connecticut Feminists in the Arts..."" Staple bound, 90 pages. Tight, slightly yellowed pages, light age soil, flared covers. Edgewear, some cover creasing, gift inscription." View more info
Finding Voice: Austin Poets Respond to the Persian Gulf War
By: Anthology
Price: $24.95
Publisher: "Austen, TX (Assumed)", 1991
Seller ID: 7NT043
As new except for slight edgewear. Staple bound. 20 pages. Poems by: Alice Batt; Jack Brannon; Pamela Cook; Mark Garrison; Lynn D. Gilbert; Andre Jordan; Ed Madden & D'Arcy Randall View more info
Cris Sur Le Bayou: Naissance d'une poesie acadienne en Louisiane
By: Anthology
Price: $234.95
Publisher: "Louiseville, PQ", 1980
Seller ID: 97T023
"Signed by David Marcantel (Cajun activist)and Barry Jean Ancelet (who also wrote the Preface) from the USL centre pour le Folklore acadien et creole in Lafayette, LA. ""Until the publication of Cris sur le bayou Cajun and Creole literature was mainly oral... This inaugural anthology showed unequivocally that the Cajun Renaissance, which we can date approximately to the creation of the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL) in 1968, ha... View more info
Solar XIX: Homenaje a Angel Cuadra
By: Anthology
Price: $18.95
Publisher: "Miami, Fl", 1981
Seller ID: 30T022
"As new except for faint sunning of spine, tiny spot on front cover, tiny bump to bottom corner of back cover. 26 poems, 8 prose pieces, Angel Cuadra's poem ""Carta Minima a Donald Walsh"" (In memoriam) and a 1 page biography. Text in Spanish." View more info
"Connecticut Review, Spring 2004"
By: Anthology
Price: $7.95
Publisher: "Hartford, CT", 2004
Seller ID: 9NH015
"Ex-library with expected markings. Tight, bright, clean with edgewear and bumped corner. Literary review publishing the works from the 4 State University sites in Connecticut (New Britain, Willimantic, New Haven & Danbury). 208 pages." View more info
100 Poems on the Underground
By: anthology
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated:
Seller ID: 9780304340835
3 Modern French Plays of the Imagination
By: Anthology
Price: $4.95
Publisher: NY, 1986
Edition: (1st thus)
Seller ID: 6DP004
"Tight yellowed pages, stained corners, slight curl. Juliette ou la cle des Songes (Georges Neveux); Christophe Colomb (Michel de Ghlderode ); Les Chaises (Eugene Ionesco). Text in French." View more info