Authors:Michael Maar,  Perry Anderso,
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: lolitas
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2005-10-17
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 1844670384
ISBN-13: 9781844670383

A leading German scholar reveals the secret history of Nabokov’s infamous novel. Does it ring a bell? The first-person narrator, a cultivated man of middle age, looks back on the story of an amour fou. It all starts when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The moment he sees the daughter of the house, he is lost. She is a pre-teen, whose charms instantly enslave him. Heedless of her age, he becomes intimate with her. In the end she dies, and the narratormarked by her foreverremains alone. The name of the girl supplies the title of the story: Lolita. We know the girl and her

Authors:Daniel Quinn,  Michael McCurdy,
Publisher: Steerforth
Keywords: adam, tales
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2005-10-18
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1586420747
ISBN-13: 9781586420741

Ever since the publication of Ishmael in 1992, readers have yearned for a glimpse into a dimension of spiritual revelation the author only hinted at in that and later books. Now at long last they have it in seven profound but delightfully simple tales that illuminate the world in which humans became humans. This is a world seen through animist eyes: as friendly to human life as it was to the life of gazelles, lions, lizards, mosquitos, jellyfish, and seals — not a world in which humans lived like trespassers who must conquer and subdue an alien territory. It’s a world in which humans h

Authors:Michael Herr,  Robert Stone,
Publisher: Everyman’s Library
Keywords: cloth, library, everyman, dispatches
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2009-02-17
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0307270807
ISBN-13: 9780307270801

Michael Herr, who wrote about the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes from his front-line reporting and turned them into what many people consider the best account of the war to date, when published in 1977. He captured the feel of the war and how it differed from any theater of combat ever fought, as well as the flavor of the time and the essence of the people who were there. Since Dispatches was published, other excellent books have appeared on the war--may we suggest The Things They Carried, The Sorrow of War, We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young--but Herr’s b

Authors:Michael Faure, T. Hartlief,  Organisation for
Publisher: OECD
Keywords: insurance, issues, policy, systemic, expanding, risks
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9264102892
ISBN-13: 9789264102897

Authors:Benjamin P. Thomas,  Michael Burlingame,
Publisher: University of Illinois Pre
Keywords: essays, humor, lincoln
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-02-05
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0252027086
ISBN-13: 9780252027086

This volume gathers the best previously unpublished and uncollected writings on Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln scholarship by one of his great biographers, Benjamin P. Thomas. A skilled historian and a masterful storyteller himself, Thomas was widely regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. With these essays, he combines historical depth with narrative grace in delineating Lincoln’s qualities as a humorist, lawyer, and politician. From colorful tall tales to clever barbs aimed at political opponents, Lincoln clothed a shrewd wit in a homespun, backwoods vernacular. He u

Authors:Gregory Blaxland,  Michael Youe,
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: men, buffs
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1972-06-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0850450640
ISBN-13: 9780850450644

Text by Gregory Blaxland, Colour Plates by Michael Youens. This Osprey publication examines the changing face of the Buffs (from 1935 Royal Buffs) from their inception in the sixteenth century until their final demise as an independent unit in 1967. An excellent book, full of in-depth detail about this famous regiment. Due to popular demand, strictly limited quantities of Osprey’s most wanted out of print Men-at-Arms, Vanguard and Elite titles are back in stock. Many of these books have been out of print for 5 years or more, so don’t miss this one-off opportunity to buy them hot-off-the-pres

Authors:Michael Bond,  Peggy Fortnum,
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: revised, helps, paddington
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2002-10-28
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 061819679X
ISBN-13: 9780618196791

That bear is back again, and in this new edition of Paddington Helps Out, his attraction for near disaster is as magnetic as ever. Who but Paddington would set out to cook dumplings only to find himself chased from the kitchen by something so nasty only his resourceful friend Mr. Gruber can rescue him? And who else could get away with sawing his neighbor"s kitchen table in two or flooding the launderette? These and other riotous adventures all find their way into Paddington"s scrapbook and make for another delightful book starring this beloved bear from Darkest Peru.