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James Thurber
The 13 Clocks
by NYR Children's Collection (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-07-29)

Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn’t go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was always cold. His hands were as cold as his smile, and almost as cold as his heart. He wore gloves when he was asleep, and he wore gloves when he was awake, which made it difficult for him to pick up pins or coins or the kernels of nuts, or to tear the wings from nightingales.So begins James Thurber’s sublimely revamped fairy tale, The 13 Clocks, in which a wicked Duke who imagines he has killed time, and the Duke’s beautiful niece, for whom time seems to have run out, both meet their match, courtesy of an enterprising and very handsome prince in disguise. Readers young and old will take pleasure in this tale of love forestalled but ultimately fulfilled, admiring its upstanding hero (”He yearned to find in a far land the princess of his ...

Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
by Knopf (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2007-10-16)

From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy’s master epic.War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves behind his family to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman, who intrigues both men. As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy vividly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the ...

John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
by Blackstone Audiobooks (Audio Cassette)

Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn
by Bobley Publishing, Childrens Classics Library (Hardcover)

Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback) (Release Date: 2004-05-31)

Leo Tolstoy
The Three Questions (Creative Classic Series)
by Creative Co (Sd) (Library Binding)

Dylan Thomas
A Child's Christmas in Wales (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awards))
by Candlewick (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2004-09-23)

Fifty years after its first publication in book form, Dylan Thomas's timeless prose poem is echoed by the rolling, evocative images of Caldecott Honor artist Chris Raschka — a beautiful gift for book lovers.Bring out the tall tales now that we told by the fire as the gaslight bubbled like a diver. . . .There are always Uncles at Christmas. And Aunts, of course, who might sing a little loudly after dinner. There are the neighborhood cats "sleek and long as jaguars and horrible-whiskered," the carols to sing at eerie houses, the Useful Presents and the Useless Presents, and the endless snow "shawling out of the ground." First published in HARPER'S BAZAAR some fifty years ago, A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES showcases Dylan Thomas's genius for language and remains the poet's most popular prose work in the United States. Chris Raschka's fluid torn-paper illustrations honor the poet's words, evoking their musical cadences and bringing us a fresh appreciation for this most lyric work.

Mark Twain
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Dover Publications (Paperback)

Invaluable ready reference, brimming with amusing and insightful quotes, includes hundreds of Twain’s most memorable quips and comments on life, love, history, culture, travel and diverse other topics, among them "He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty"; "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"; and "More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking."

Paul Theroux, Ursula K. Leguin, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Andre Dubus, ...
Playboy Best of Fiction, v5 (Best of Playboy Fiction)
by Playboy Audio (Audio Cassette) (Release Date: 1997-07-01)

Paul Theroux: Dog Days (30 min)It was a time of excessive heat, unwholesome influences – and an overpowering lust for the Chinese servant girl.Theroux is a novelist, short story and travel writer. His more than two dozen books include Riding the Iron Rooster and Mosquito Coast.DOG DAYS, by Paul Theroux, originally appeared in Playboy Magazine (November, 1971) ©1971 Playboy.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Fortitude (30 min)She was a lovely old lady – at least what was left of her – and she had the best set of sweetbreads that money could buy.Vonnegut is the bestselling author of many works, including Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions and, most recently, Hocus Pocus.FORTITUDE, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., originally appeared in Playboy Magazine (September, 1968) ©1968 Playboy.Ursula K. Le Guin: Unlocking the Air (28 min)This is history. Soldiers stand in a row before the palace, their muskets ready. Stefana is ready too.Le Guin is best known for her fantasy and ...

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
War & Peace
by Dorset Press (Mass Market Paperback)

Details the invasion of Russia by Napoleon and his army.

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