Search Results: Modern World Literature from The Brooklyn Bookman

TWAIN, Mark: The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 2002. Grosset & Dunlap edition originally published in 1948. Illustrated Junior Library Edition. Hardcover, 431 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature / Classics. Condition: Very Good Plus. A gently-used copy (book has been opened). Pages clean and not marked. Book has a protective plastic covering. All-in-all a very lovely copy with wonderful illustrations throughout. Mark Twain's magnum opus – and arguably the Greatest of all Great American Novels of all time! ISBN: 0448060000

BROWN, Dan: Angels & Demons. New York, Pocket Star Books, 2001. Originally published: 2000. Paperback, 572 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature-Thrillers / Robert Langdon Series. Condition: Very Good. Paperback copy has a slightly tilted spine with a lightly foxed top-side. Still a copy in top shaped condition with unmarked pages. Worthy prequel to the author's best-selling thriller The Da Vinci Code. The Roman Catholic Church, the Illuminati – and a conspiracy to unleash a devastatingly deadly weapon that could shatter the planet collide in this fast-paced thriller. Don't miss it! ISBN: 0671027360

STEGNER, Wallace: Angle of Repose. New York, Penguin, 1992. Originally published in 1971. Trade Paperback, 569 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature. Condition: Very Good. Former owner's inscription found on the front endpaper. Light bumping to book corners. Mild toning to pages, but clean and not marked. This novel is "an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family." ISBN: 014016930X

KINCAID, Jamaica: Annie John. New York, The Noonday Press, 1998. Originally published in 1985. Paperback, 148 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature. Condition: Very Good. A bump or two at the corners. Few signs of wear to extremities with a reading crease adjacent to the spine. Poignant coming of age novel set in the Caribbean island of Antigua. ISBN: 0374525102

CHOPIN, Kate: The Awakening: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. New York, W.W. Norton and Company, 1976. A Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Margaret Culley. Softcover, 229 pp. EX-LIBRARY COPY. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature. Book condition: Very Good. Ex-Library copy with the typical markings (Lilly Library, Florence, MA.). Very light bumping to the lower corners. Crease to lower extremity of front cover. Otherwise a copy in above-average condition (pages clean and unmarked). The controversial but pioneering feminist classic of American literature first published in 1899. ISBN: 0393091724

MCADAM, Colin: A Beautiful Truth – A Novel. New York, Soho Press, 2013.
ADVANCED UNCOPYEDITED EDITION / FIRST EDITION. Softcover, 292 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction / Human and Primate Relationships / Chimpanzees. Book condition: Like New. "A powerful and haunting meditation on human nature told from the dual perspectives of a Vermont family that has adopted a chimp as a surrogate son, and a group of chimpanzees in a Florida research institute...A novel of great heart and wisdom from a literary master, it exposes the yearnings, cruelty and resilience of all great apes." ISBN: 9781616953157

WALTER, Jess: Beautiful Ruins: A Novel. New York, Harper Perennial, 2013. Originally published in 2012. Stated First Harper Perennial Edition 2013 (later printing). Softcover, 337 pp. (with an appendix). Subject: Novel / Fiction and Literature. Condition: Good Plus. Relative wear to covers (not too excessive). Some toning to pages, but unmarked and clean overall. Bestselling novel of deft social satire lampooning Hollywood culture and epic films. Not to be missed! ISBN: 9780061928178

GAY, Roxane (Editor): The Best American Short Stories 2018. Boston & New York, Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. First Paperback Edition. Softcover, 322 pp. Subject: Fiction / Annual Short Story Anthologies. Condition: Used, Like New. A gently-used copy with hardly a blemish (there's a small ding at the lower left hand corner of the front cover). All pages crisp and clean. A superlative collection/anthology of the best short fiction for 2018. Guest edited by noted best-selling author and essayist. ISBN: 9780544582941

DOCTOROW, E.L.: The Book of Daniel. New York, Plume, 1996. Later Printing. Softcover, 303 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature / Anticommunist Hysteria – U.S., 1950's-Fiction / Ethel & Julius Rosenberg and Their Children -Fictional Accounts. Condition: Good Plus. Some underlining and marking of text but quite negligible. A bit of edgewear to the spine border with a corner crease to the front cover. Overall a more than decent and first-rate copy. A definitive fictional and moving account of Cold War hysteria in America and its impact upon one family in particular. This novel also inspired the 1983 film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Timothy Hutton, Edward Asner and Tovah Feldshuh. ISBN: 0452275660

HA JIN: The Bridegroom: Stories. New York, Vintage International, 2001. Paperback, 225 pp. Subject: Fiction / Short Story Collections / China – Social Life & Customs. Condition: About Fine. Tiny edgewear to the foot of the book-spine. Pages bright, clean and unmarked – a book in excellent condition. "By turns comical and deeply moving, the stories in The Bridegroom –
by the remarkable Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his celebrated novel Waiting –
present a portrait of contemporary China spiked with elements that surprise, disturb, and delight." ISBN: 9780375724930

THOMAS, Dylan: The Collected Stories. New York, New Directions, 1986. Trade Paperback, 362 pp. Subject: Fiction / Literature / Short Story Collections. Condition: Good Plus. Two inch tear at the bottom of the reverse cover, duly repaired with protective tape. Creasing throughout the spine evident. Pages clean and unmarked. Collection of unique short stories by the celebrated British poet. ISBN: 0811209989

TOOLE, John Kennedy: A Confederacy of Dunces. New York, Grove Press, 1980. Later Printing. Paperback, 394 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction. Condition: Acceptable. Obvious wear to the book (ruffled pages, corners bumped), but still well intact with all pages complete and unmarked. The great American comic masterpiece – winner of the Pulitzer Prize. ISBN: 0802130208

HADDON, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nigh-Time. New York, Vintage Books, 2004. Originally published: 2003. Trade Paperback, 226 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature / Autism & Savants-Fiction. Condition: Very Good. A bit of wear to a couple of the book corners. Otherwise no other visible defects; all pages unmarked and clean. Captivating and entertaining story of an unusually autistic savant and his quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog. Fiction that makes you think! ISBN: 1400032717

WIESEL, Elie: Dawn. New York, Bantam, 1982. Originally published in France in 1960. Paperback, 102 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction and Literature. Condition: Very Good Plus. Small scuff to the upper fore-edge, some sunning to the pages but all clean. A powerful novel about the painful birth of modern Israel – the second in Wiesel's internationally-acclaimed
Night trilogy. ISBN: 0553225367

REMNICK, David & FINDER, Henry: Disquiet, Please! : More Humor Writing From The New Yorker. New York, Modern Library, 2010. Originally published in 2008. Trade Paperback, 525 pp. Subject: Literature / Humor. Condition: Very Good Plus. A small bump to one of the lower corners. No other physical imperfection. All pages clean and unmarked. Rip-roaring collection of humorous pieces from one of America's most celebrated magazines – includes some of the best writing from the likes of James Thurber, Woody Allen and Ian Frazier. Recommended! ISBN: 9780812979978

PASTERNAK, Boris: Doctor Zhivago: A Novel. New York, Pantheon, 1958. (Originally published in Italy in 1957.) First American Edition. Subject: Novel/Fiction & Literature/Historical Fiction-Russian Revolution, 1917-1921. Hardcover with dust jacket, 559 pp. English translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari. ("The Poems of Yurii Zhivago" by Bernard Guilbert Guerney.) Book & jacket condition: Good Plus/Good. Some evidence of wear to the extremities of the book boards with age-toning to the pages. Book is in overall above-average and decent condition with all pages unmarked. Jacket itself is in good condition with a few tears to its edges (duly repaired with protective tape). The world-famous epic of the Russian Revolution which became the inspiration for the 1965 film and won the Academy Award.

JOYCE, James: Dubliners. New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1991. Dover Thrift Edition: 1991. (Originally published: 1914.) Softcover, 152 pp. Subject: Fiction / Literature / Short Story Collections / Dover Thrift Edition Series. Condition: Good Plus. Some light underlining and marking of text, but very much readable. One corner crease found. Otherwise a copy in above-averaged condition. Now hailed by many as one of the superb classics of 20th century world literature, this collection includes stories such as "Araby" and "The Dead." ISBN: 9780486268705

ALLENDE, Isabel: Eva Luna. New York, Bantam, 1989. First Paperback Edition, Sept 1989. Paperback, 308 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature. Condition: Very Good. Reading crease along the spinal area. Light toning to pages. A page or two a bit ruffed at the corner near the fore-edge. Still a very nice copy with a great cover illustration by Leo & Diane Dillon. Grand magic-realist novel by the best-selling, world-renowned author of The House of the Spirits. ISBN: 0553280589

ROTH, Philip: Exit Ghost. Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover with dust jacket, 292 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction and Literature. Book and jacket condition: Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Small crease-fold to the lower corner of the interior front flap of jacket. Otherwise a copy in near-fine condition and dust wrapper with all pages clean and unmarked. First-rate brilliant novel by the world-famous author of The Plot Against America and the classic Goodbye, Columbus. ISBN: 9780618915477

HEMINGWAY, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms. New York, Scribner, 1995. Originally published in 1929 by Charles Scribner and Sons. Stated First Scribner Paperback Fiction Edition 1995. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature. Book condition: Used / Good. Creasing and wear along the spine and covers (very minimal). Some pages bear traces of underlining, circling marks but does not mar the pages. Book is complete with readable text – a nice copy. One of the finest novels to come out of the so-called "Lost Generation" by one of the great masters of literature. Recommended. ISBN: 0684801469