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That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting
off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the
Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's...Read more
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Hobbits and wizards and Sauron--oh, my! Mild-mannered Oxford scholar John Ronald Reuel
Tolkien had little inkling when he published The Hobbit; Or, There and Back Again
in 1937 that, once hobbits were unleashed upon the world, there would be no...Read more
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Few books are more romantic than this trilogy, nor more surreal. Griffin Moss is a rather
doleful, lonesome, gaunt, and haunted postcard designer in London. Sabine Strohem is an
illustrator of stamps living on an island in the South Pacific. One day...Read more
Amazon.com The Chronicles of Narnia is a true masterpiece of the world's literature, and I
have never met anyone who has read it and feels otherwise. This is one of the very few
sets of books that should be read three times: in childhood, early adulthood, and...Read more
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and Religion Editor's Recommended Book
Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's
favorite food is honey. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear
and his companions, the author of this smash bestseller explains with ease...Read more
The
Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature , April 1, 1995
Series of four novels by Lawrence Durrell. The lush and sensuous tetralogy, which consists
of Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea
(1960), is set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s. Three of the books are written in
the...Read more
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This is a boxed gift edition of Fagles's two widely acclaimed translations of Homer.
The
Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to
call it a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its...Read more
From Kirkus Reviews , October 1,
1991
Together with the much-acclaimed first volume of Spiegelman's Maus (1987--not reviewed),
this unusual Holocaust tale will forever alter the way serious readers think of graphic
narratives (i.e., comic books). For his unforgettable combination of...Read more
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Even though Anne Rice bowed to howling popular demand (and her own obsessions) and
continued her Vampire Chronicles, this collection of the first four books in the series
retains a satisfying sense of completeness.
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When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables, Prince Edward Island, send for a boy
orphan to help them out at the farm, they are in no way prepared for the error that will
change their lives. The mistake takes the shape of Anne Shirley, a...Read more
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Long ago the Tripods, gigantic three-legged machines, descended upon Earth and took
control. They used "Caps," administered ceremoniously near each child's 14th
birthday, to control humans' brains and keep them docile. Now there is pleasant life in...Read more
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