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| Madame Bovary Author(s): Flaubert, Gustave Publisher: Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover Bargain Book Copy List Price: $27.00 Our Price Only: $10.99 |
| As a provocative tale of passion and complacency, ideals and self-delusions, Madame Bovary (1857) remains a milestone in European fiction. In telling his story of Emma Bovary - a farmer's daughter who, with girlhood dreams fuelled by sensational novels, marries a provincial doctor - Flaubert inaugurated a literary mode that would be called Realism. But so exacting were Flaubert's standards of authenticity that his portrayal of the breakdown of Emma's marriage, and the frankness with which he treats her adulterous liaisons, scandalized many of his contemporaries. Yet to others, the mix of painful introspection, emotional blindness, and cynical self-seeking that distinguishes his characters made the novel instantly recognizable as a work of genius. It is a novel fixed upon the idea of romance,of the need for Romance,in the face of day-to-day banalities. It is a theme that is ironic insofar as the exquisite clarity of Flaubert's prose serves to hauntingly underline the futility of the heroine's ultimate tragedy. |
| Great Novels of D. H. Lawrence Author(s): Lawrence, D.H. Publisher: Parragon Publishing Format: Hardcover Bargain Book Copy List Price: $19.95 Our Price Only: $13.99 |
| Two masterpieces from the great writer who shocked the world: The Rainbow and Lady Chatterley's Lover. D.H. Lawrence shocked his age with sensuality of his subject matter and the sheer power and energy of his prose. Lady Chatterley" Lover was branded obscene only 40 years ago, and yet now is heralded as a masterpiece of modern fiction. The Rainbow is thought by many to be his finest novel. |
| Anna Karenina (Deluxe Edition) Author(s): Tolstoy, Leo Publisher: Penguin Classic Series: Oprah's Classics Book Club Format: Paperback Bargain Book Copy List Price: $16.00 Our Price Only: $11.99 |
| Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this is the new English-language translation of one of the world's literary masterpieces. Includes an illuminating Introduction and explanatory notes. |
| The Hundred Secret Senses Author(s): Tan, Amy Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Format: Hardcover Bargain Book Copy List Price: $24.95 Our Price Only: $7.99 |
| Amy Tan, says Newsweek, is "a wonderful writer with a rare power to touch the heart." Now, in the Hundred Secret Senses, she uses her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor to conjure a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths. Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of southern China, this is a tale of American pragmatism shaken, and soothed, by Chinese ghosts. What proof of love do we seek between mother and daughter, among sisters, lovers, and friends? What are its boundaries and failings? Can love go beyond "Until death do us part"? And if so, which aspects haunt us like regretful ghosts? HC, 358 pages. |
| The Portable Chaucer (Viking Portable Library) Author(s): Morrison, Theodore (Editor/Translator) Publisher: Penguin Books Series: Viking Portable Library Format: Paperback Bargain Book Copy List Price: $17.00 Our Price Only: $10.99 |
| Both The Canterbury Tales, and, Troilus and Cressida are presented complete in this anthology, in fresh modern translations by Theodore Morrison that convey both the gravity and gaiety of the Middle English originals. The Portable Chaucer also contains selections from The Book of Duchess, The House of Fame, The Bird's Parliament, and The Legend of Good Women, together with short poems. Morrison's introduction is vital for its insights into Chaucer as man and artist, and as a product of the Middle Ages whose shrewdness, humor, and compassion have a wonderfully contemporary ring. |
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