Bantam Dell Pub Group, May 2002. Trade Paperback. NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES--THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King's Landing. There..... More
Riverhead Books, September 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017 "A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor... McBride at his brave and joyous best." --New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author..... More
Oxford University Press, April 1996. Hardcover. Four hundred years ago, Hamlet urged his players, Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But in expressing the passions of the play, he advised, Let discretion be your guide. Ever since, the tensions between..... More
Sterling, June 1997. Soft Cover. You can still fill your home with the useful and beautiful pieces of the Arts & Crafts movement. Work your way through these 25 well-crafted projects, making authentic reproductions of classic pieces. With clean lines and timeless styles, this furniture goes well with everything. 144..... More
Lw Book Sales, U.S., June 2011. Oversize Softcover. Early 20th century manufactured furniture in the Arts & Crafts style is popular again today. The famous Americn firms L. & J. G. Stickley, Limbert, Roycroft and others manufactured bold oak styles that featured simplicity of design and decoration. Architect Frank Lloyd..... More
Dover Publications, June 1994. Oversize Softcover. Over 140 drawings and photos depict china cabinets, dressers, sideboards, davenports, more. Details of construction, measurements and prices. More
Linden Publishing, January 1997. Oversize Softcover. A tribute to furniture craftsman Gustav Stickley honoring the spirit of the man and his work by integrating a life history with design philosophy and instructions for building nine pieces of Craftsman furniture. Stickley made his furniture for the middle class working family, yet..... More
Dover Publications, January 1986. Oversize Softcover. Rejecting the badly constructed, over-ornate, meaningless furniture of the late Victorian period, architect, furniture designer and manufacturer Gustav Stickley developed a radical new design concept that stressed careful workmanship, simplicity, and utility. His important monthly magazine The Craftsman (1901-16) published construction plans for his..... More
Dover Publications, March 1979. Oversize Softcover. The late 19th-century protest against machine-age artificiality which spawned the Arts and Crafts Movement in England, engendered a distinct American offshoot: the Craftsman, or Mission style. Gustav Stickley's handsome magazine "The Craftsman" (1901-16) became the voice of that style, seeking beauty and creativity in..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, April 1995. Hardcover. In a brilliant piece of detective work, Tomalin--whose book about Nelly Ternan, Charles Dickens's secret mistress, won prizes as the best biography of 1991--has retrieved Dora, her story and her world, from the obscurity of lost letters and unexamined documents. As social history, the..... More
University of Chicago Press, December 1995. Hardcover. The Scandal of Pleasure is a report from the battle-ground of contemporary culture, a landscape littered with the remains of vilified artworks and discredited orthodoxies. Caught between extremists of the right and the left, standing mutely by as culture wars rage, liberal defenders..... More
Dutton Children's Books, October 2010. Hardcover. Jacket clipped. More
Random House, September 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Shalimar the Clown is a masterpiece from one of our greatest writers, a dazzling novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our time into an astonishingly powerful, all-encompassing story. Max Ophuls' memorable life ends violently..... More
Intellect Ltd, January 1998. Trade Paperback. African Theatre for Development acts as a forum for investigating how African Theatre works and what its place is in this postmodern society. It provides the subject with a degree of detail unmatched in previous books, reflecting a new approach to the study of..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), April 2010. Trade Paperback. A boundary-leaping debut tracing a gifted young map maker's attempt to understand the ways of the world When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T. S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal--if you..... More
Penguin Books, September 2016. Trade Paperback. Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. With her assertion that she is "first and foremost a human being," rather than a wife, mother or fragile doll, Nora Helmer sent shockwaves throughout Europe when..... More
Penguin Books, June 2014. Trade Paperback. A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and City of Girls In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her..... More
Cambridge University Press, May 1997. Hardcover. David Wiles explores the performance of tragedy as a spatial practice specific to Athenian culture, at once religious and political. After reviewing controversies and archaeological data regarding the fifth-century performance space, Wiles turns to the chorus and shows how dance mapped out the space..... More
Spiegel & Grau, February 2019. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - More than one million copies sold! A "brilliant" (Lupita Nyong'o, Time), "poignant" (Entertainment Weekly), "soul-nourishing" (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid "Noah's childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and..... More
Knopf, May 2012. First Edition. Cloth. Though we know Vladimir Nabokov as a brilliant novelist, his first love was poetry. This landmark collection brings together the best of his verse, including many pieces that have never before appeared in English. These poems span the whole of Nabokov's career, from the..... More
Pantheon Books, May 1993. Book Club. Hardcover. More
Knopf, November 2009. Cloth. When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, "The Original of Laura." But Nabokov s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 1987. Hardcover. Top edge dust spotted; standard shelf wear. More
Knopf Publishing Group, October 2010. Hardcover. Noel Coward said, "The only thing that really saddens me over my demise is that I shall not be here to read the nonsense that will be written about me and my works and my motives . . . There will be lists of..... More
