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    Henry Fielding: Tom Jones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rheingold View Post
    Henry Fielding: Tom Jones.
    Thats a great book. Very satirical.

    just bought collector edition harvard classics marlow and Shakespeare. Not sure of date though. Will find out when i recieve it.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer


    my poems-please comment Forum Rules

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    Solitude (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) -- Ed. Carmela Ciuraru

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    The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory
    and, in lighter news, Don Quixote, which i'm liking very much.
    "Haunt me, take any form. Only, do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you."

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    I GOT TWELVE BOOKS FOR THREE BUCKS AT A PAPER BAG SALE!!!!!!!

    1. Matilda by Roald Dahl
    2. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbie
    those were children's classics then!!!!

    3. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
    4. Babbit by Sinclair Lewis
    5. Modern British Poetry edited by Louis Untermeyer
    6. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Marie Roboff
    7. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
    And the real treat of the day was five Harvard classics. Five lovely hardbound books!

    8. Scientific Papers
    9. Sacred Writings
    10. Continental Drama
    11. Famous Prologues and Prefaces
    12. Essays

    Smilies all the way!
    "The time has come," the Walrus said,
    "To talk of many things:
    Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
    Of cabbages--and kings--
    And why the sea is boiling hot--
    And whether pigs have wings."

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    The last books I bought:
    - Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami
    - Born on a blue day by Daniel Tammet
    - A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson

    And ordered and still on it's way to me:
    - Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Find my "library" listed on Librarything

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    The Kite Runner
    And Naruto volumes 16,17,18,19,20, and 21 (I know I'm a fangirl)
    I also got Lipshtick (yup, the tittle was spelled that way), The Supernaturalist and a few others.
    Shall these bones live?

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    I just found an unbelieveable deal on a old-style hardcover book that contains the first three novels o Virginia Woolf for $20.

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    I just bought Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories. I've read some of his other work and have fallen in love with it.

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    Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
    Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
    Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf
    the luminous grass of the prairie hides
    feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
    porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
    but weighty and unmovable
    As black Dakota hills.
    ~ Riesa

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    The last book I bought is the Sea Wolf written by Jack London. It is also one of my favourite book and Wolf Larsen is one of my favourite book characters.

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    The Mummy: Dark Resurrection by Michael Paine (from Dark Horse publishing based on the Universal Movie series) and The Kolchak Papers by Jeff Rice (from Moonstone) reprinting the first two Kolchak novels Night Stalker/Night Strangler from the early 70s in one volume.

    Bought a few other books but they were comic reprints material, Moon Knight, Avengers, Teen Titans, Werewolf by Night so don't count plus a Secret Agent X reprint from 1936.

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    "Hochwasse", a play by Gunder Grass
    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
    -Goethe

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    From Reverance to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies by Molly Haskell.

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    Today I bought:
    Emma - Jane Austen
    Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontė

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