Prodigal Summer
 A Bit Graphic, But Overall Compelling Story: I did not read this book, but listened to the unabridged audiobook read by Kingsolver. She was an excellent reader and I would eagerly look for her reading any other novel she has authored. The story itself [... more]
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Byron: Life and Legend
THE Book on Byron...: . Don't see how anyone will outdo MacCarthy on Byron anytime soon: this is THE book on Byron--that is, on his biography: MacCarthy's nearly 700 page tome is all about the man, and very little about the literature. Which is curious, [... more]
$18.00
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Sky Nails Poems, 1979-1997 (Faber poetry)
Author: Jamie McKendrick Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914 EAN: 9780571201785 ISBN: 0571201784 Number Of Pages: 115 Publication Date: 2001-03 [... more]
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Inventions of the March Hare: T s Eliot Poems 1900-1917
Author: T. S. Eliot Author: Christopher Ricks Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 821.912 EAN: 9780571178957 ISBN: 0571178952 Number Of Pages: 428 Publication Date: 1996-09 [... more]
$30.00
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Bash Latterday Plays
"Latterday Greek Tragedies": Labute in these three vignettes is remarkably daring, but in ways that in critical discussion are generally ignored. His negativity or "depressing," non-cheery outlook is all that's usually singled out. [... more]
$10.14
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Clay Machine-Gun
Most influencial book in the past 10 years: I read it in Russian. It's an amazing book. I am ordering an English translation out of curiousity. In my opinion, it is beyond translation (you will still have a lot of fun but unless you know Russian history [... more]
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Underground
Evocative, claustrophobic and gripping: This is the first book of Tobias Hill's that I've read. It caught my interest because I'd lived in London for 10 years and always been interested in the 'city beneath a city' feel of the Tube. The story is a [... more]
$6.99
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Cambridge
Find a different book!: the following is a comment on Cambridge that is displayed on the first page. "Brilliant...(a) masterpiece (by) a profoundly talented novelist" - Village Voice I would beg to differ. I cannot even think of a place to [... more]
$6.99
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Reflections on a Marine Venus
Dazzling, many-layered vision of the Greek Islands: The `marine Venus' of the title is a statue which was found by sailors in their nets at the bottom of Rhodes harbor and which much appealed to Durrell, who thought of her as the 'presiding genius' of [... more]
$6.99
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Towards the End of the Morning
Still funny after 36 years: Michael Frayn's 1967 Fleet Street novel draws unavoidable comparison with Evelyn Waugh's "Scoop", and that it comes off looking pretty good speaks volumes for Frayn's talent. It tells the story of John Dyson, a [... more]
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Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last ...
Author: John Fletcher Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 848.91409 EAN: 9780571197781 ISBN: 0571197787 Number Of Pages: 150 Publication Date: 2001-03 [... more]
$8.69
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When They Lay Bare
When They Lay Bare: This book is the best novel I have read for a long time. It reads like poetry, with not a word out of place: the story line is gripping, and now, days after having finished it, the characters are still all running around in my head, [... more]
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