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Baltasar and Blimunda
Saramago, Jose
ISBN: 0156005204
Harvest Books November 5, 1998
8vo softcover 360pp very good. Saramago's epic novel is set in 18th-century Portugal, a kingdom bloated with plundered wealth and top-heavy with churches and priests. Real events (the erection of an enormous convent in the tiny village of Mafra) and real personages (an heretical priest bent on building a flying machine) figure prominently. But the maimed soldier and his visionary lover named in the title are bit players, for the real protagonist here is Portugal itself.
Price: $14.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 46317 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Dashing Diamond Dick and Other Classic Dime Novels
Cox, J. Randolph (Compiler)
ISBN: 0143104977
Penguin Classics June 26, 2007
8vo softcover 384pp very good. Uncorrected proof. A one-of-a-kind compendium of popular fiction from a bygone era. Dime novels —as fundamentally American as baseball and jazz—were an inexpensive and inexhaustible source of popular entertainment for millions of Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The five novels in this unique anthology are classic examples of the form, which encompassed Westerns, early science fiction, detective and mystery yarns, and Revolutionary War historicals. From the handsome gambler “Dashing Diamond Dick” and the daring inventor in “Over the Andes with Frank Reade, Jr., in His New Air-Ship” to the mythic baseball player in “Frank Merriwell’s Finish,” here are some of the most valiant heroes and notorious rogues in the pantheon. Read together, these novels are fascinating time capsules from a young nation in love with its larger-than-life characters.
Price: $12.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 40886 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt
Tyldesley, Joyce A.
ISBN: 0140175962
Penguin September 1, 1995
8vo softcover 336pp very good. Histories of women usually bring with them histories of women's world and women's work--in other words, the daily life of a culture. This look at ancient Egyptian women is no different. British archaeologist and researcher Tyldesley illuminates women's positions as cooks, washerwomen, dancers, mourners, weavers, priestesses, mothers, wives and--on very rare occasions--pharaohs. Tyldesley doesn't try to simplify a subject complicated by linguistic subtleties, lack of archaeological evidence, ancient propaganda and the orientalist mythology of seething harems that early excavators imposed on ambiguous digs. What she does, and does well, is give an idea of what evidence is available and, in accessible, slyly cheery prose, recreate how women (and men) shopped, dressed and ate (``the menus of the poor and less enterprising usually involved a fairly dull and rather flatulent rotation of bread, onions, lettuce, radish and pulses''). Most intriguing, though, are Tyldesley's all-too-brief initial observations of the standing of Egyptian women. For all its emphasis on tradition, Egypt differed from much of the worst of Graeco-Roman paternalism: women were important factors in a child's heredity, not just passive bearers of men's genetics; they could own property; make legally binding contracts; sue; and, most amazingly, live alone. nnCopyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Price: $12.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 40682 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Glimpses of Truth (Book of Books)
Cavanaugh, Jack
ISBN: 0310215749
Zondervan Publishing, 1999
8vo softcover 320pp very good. English peasants struggle to preserve the last remaining transcript of Wycliffe's pioneering translation of the New Testament into English in this first book of the Book of Books series. In Thomas Torr's time, it is considered treason to translate the Scriptures so that the common people can read them. Thus, when Thomas--an intellectually gifted orphan and ward of a humble farmer--assists John Wycliffe in translating the New Testament into English, he falls under the scrutiny of the Roman church. Offered the chance to make his case for the translation before the Vatican, Thomas accompanies Bishop William Pole to Rome. There, betrayal awaits him.
Price: $8.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 27053 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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His Mistress's Voice
Freeman, Gillian
ISBN: 1900850168
Arcadia Books January 1, 1999
8vo softcover 276pp very good. In her tenth novel, Freeman vividly recreates the Victorian theatre world and counterpoises this life of frivolity and artifice with the position of Jews-both rich and poor-in the wider society. About the Author Gillian Freeman is a novelist and film script writer whose books include The Leather Boys and Confessions of Elizabeth von S.
Price: $15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 41207 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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