 | Bend Sinister
Publication Date: December 20, 2010The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modernclassic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay,it is, first and foremost, a haunting and com- pelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a policestate. Professor Adam Krug, the country’s foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader ofthe Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and...
 |  | Blood & Treasure
Publication Date: October 24, 2011A hundred years after they first came under Julius Caesar, the Roman legions again set foot on Britannia. Caudacus Commenticius and his fellow legionaries of the Second Augusta spearhead the invasion launched by the Emperor Claudius. All goes well at first, and a series of military victories soon subdues the islanders. Despite his defeat, the enemy chieftain Caratacus escapes the invaders and flees to the west. Then the bitter winter sets in. Money and supplies become short. Though promised an early return to Rome, the legions are not brought home. The follo...
|  | Bestseller
Publication Date: September 1, 2012The Devil Wears Prada of the book publishing world, this biting satire is a trenchant portrait of the contemporary obsession with success, celebrity, and fameJim Talbot, a writer with a dozen unpublished novels under his belt, has been roundly rejected by virtually every agent and publisher in the land, and is willing to go to extreme lengths to make his dream of literary stardom come true. Charles Randall, the eccentric founder and managing director of Tetragon Press, a small independent publisher that has managed to survive for 30 years in ...
|  | Candide (French Edition)
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|  | The Biting Age
Publication Date: September 23, 2006This is a new, humorous collection of short pieces by Pakistani writer Ernest Dempsey, with an introduction by satirist M. Stefan Strozier.This unique collection is full of wit and subtlety.The reader will be enthralled, entertained, and excited by this excellent writer's talents.A World Audience book.World Audience (www.worldaudience.org) is a new publisher, dedicated to artistic excellence, and one that focuses on the development of individual writers. ...
|  | Candide
Publication Date: January 23, 2012Why do bad things happen to good people? Well, why not? The handsome young Candide, having been taught that this is the best of all possible worlds, quickly learns that is far from true. Literally booted out of his home, he is conscripted as a soldier, beaten, and subjected to nearly every indignity Voltaire's fertile imagination could conceive. In spite of it all, he continues to search for happiness--and for love. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, "Candide" has become Voltaire's most celebrated work. And rightfully so. When we observe ...
|  | The Book Of Streg: You should totally buy this book. It will keep people like me off the streets. (Volume 1)
Publication Date: August 21, 2012"Streg stood six-and-a half-feet tall - a full six inches taller than any other man who ever lived. Streg’s hair was dark and sullen - like his soul - the soul of a warrior. His eyes burned bright with the fury of battle and the passion of a flame-kissed lover. And yet also they were dark. Like his soul."TREMBLE! At the power of Streg The Mighty, Mightiest of the Norsemen!GASP! As he finds his way through a terrible world of Existential Angst, Tube strikes and lashing of honey-mustard-glazed ham.WONDER! Just why Michael is SUCH a dick...You will get th...
|  | Candide and Zadig (Library Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2011These two classic coming-of-age stories by Voltaire parody the romanticism of his day with the ruthless wit that has made him the undisputed master of social commentary.Candide, which is alternately titled Optimism, is a merciless satire and expose' of the ideas and institutions men live by. In this philosophical fantasy, the naive Candide comes to witness and to suffer such misfortune that he rejects the philosophy of his tutor, Dr. Pangloss, who claims that ''all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.''Zadig is the story of another optimist--...
|  | Candide (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection)
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|  | Cafe Julien / The Wicked Pavilion (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Blue White Red: A Novel (Global African Voices)
Release Date: March 15, 2013| Series: Global African Voices This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased...
|  | Bonk & Hedz: a cave man ... and woman ... story
Publication Date: June 19, 2011Bonk and his mate Hedz are an ordinary caveman and cavewoman struggling with the everyday existence that comes when one's place in the food chain isn't all that clear.If creating fire, dodging volcano eruptions and outrunning saber tooth tigers isn’t stressing enough, their efforts at daily survival are interrupted when a strange little caveman named Lob arrives in the village. Lob convinces their leader, Chief Wug, that a neighboring tribe is amassing weapons of mass destruction in preparation for an assault on their village.As Lob gains more influence ...
|  | Bracebridge Hall oder die Charaktere (German Edition)
Release Date: July 12, 2011| ISBN-10: 3842407785 | ISBN-13: 978-3842407787Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Großteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhältlich. Mit der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als gedruckte Bücher zu verlegen – und das weltweit! Die Buchreihe dient zur Bewahrung der Literatur u...
|  | The Battle of the Books
Publication Date: January 8, 2010| ISBN-10: 1143179080 | ISBN-13: 978-1143179082This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfectio...
|  | Campus Express to Masochistville
Publication Date: June 3, 2011On board the southbound Illinois Central, stopping at Maybrook, the State insane asylum before arriving at the university town of Masochistville, two unlikely passengers were thrown together, Nelson, a star athlete and cultural anthropology graduate who also happened to be black. And Joy, an apprehensive eighteen-year-old high school graduate, beginning her first year of college, who also happened to be white.This was 1957, two years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her segregated bus seat, yet social restraints on the crowded train didn't prevent the young c...
|  | Bill Smith Goes to College
Publication Date: August 11, 2012Those who have attended college know that it is a life-changing event. The university experience is an adventure, one that embodies the summit of our highest hopes and the pit of our deepest fears. This strange tale is a fantasy about one young man’s college experience. His convoluted quest weaves a path through unforeseen challenges and surprising test scores. Oh, and the characters! Who could be more enticing in a novel than droning teachers andpaper-shuffling administrative bureaucrats? Yes. Now you get the picture. Enduring endless lectures in crow...
|  | The Battle of the Books (Oneworld Classics Gift Editions)
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Series: Oneworld Classics Gift Editions Swift's satire uses a literal epic battle between books to explore the debates of his time among authors, and between authors and critics Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the "Ancients," who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the "Moderns," who claimed that contemporary learning superseded the old sources, this work shows Swift at his wittiest and most trenchant. In this early satire, var...
|  | The ballerina who blew up the bank
Publication Date: March 28, 2012What would you do if you worked in a European bank based in Vienna, a bank so mediocre and dull it made a tax return seem exciting by comparison? Would you slip back in your chair and take up hobbies? Lose your mind, gamble recklessly? Antonia Strang, a beautiful ex-ballerina, makes another choice. She is recruited by a shadowy anti-corporate group to entice a computer programmer into sabotaging the European payments system. Her goal is to up-end the fat-cat banksters and roll back globalisation. But can she hold it together, or will her lurid sexual exploits ...
|  | Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
Publication Date: June 14, 2012| ISBN-10: 1477663762 | ISBN-13: 978-1477663769"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short work by the American novelist Herman Melville. The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known. An increase in business leads the narrator to advertise for a third scrivener, and he hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby. At first, Bartleby appears to be a boon to the practice, as he produces a large volume of high-...
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