Dawn Chomos' Library
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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780547722023 | A Wizard Of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, 1) | Le Guin, Ursula K. | A Boy Grows To Manhood While Attempting To Subdue The Evil He Unleashed On The World As An Apprentice To The Master Wizard. Warriors In The Mist -- The Shadow -- The School For Wizards -- The Loosing Of The Shadow -- The Dragon Of Pendor -- Hunted -- The Hawk's Flight -- Hunting -- Iffish -- The Open Sea. Ursula K. Le Guin. Originally Published: Berkeley, Ca : Parnassus Press, 1968. With A New Afterword From The Author. | Clarion Books |
| 9780374111199 | Beowulf: A New Verse Translation | Composed Toward The End Of The First Millennium Of Our Era, Beowulf Is The Elegiac Narrative Of The Adventures Of Beowulf, A Scandinavian Hero Who Saves The Danes From The Seemingly Invincible Monster Grendel And, Later, From Grendel's Mother. He Then Returns To His Own Country And Dies In Old Age In A Vivid Fight Against A Dragon. The Poem Is About Encountering The Monstrous, Defeating It, And Then Having To Live On In The Exhausted Aftermath. In The Contours Of This Story, At Once Remote And Uncannily Familiar At The End Of The Twentieth Century, Seamus Heaney Finds A Resonance That Summons Power To The Poetry From Deep Beneath Its Surface. Drawn To What He Has Called The Four-squareness Of The Utterance In Beowulf And Its Immense Emotional Credibility, Heaney Gives These Epic Qualities New And Convincing Reality For The Contemporary Reader. A Note On Names / By Alfred David -- Beowulf -- Family Trees. Seamus Heaney. Text In English And Old English. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 9781451673319 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | In A Society In Which Books Are Outlawed, Montag, A Regimented Fireman In Charge Of Burning The Forbidden Volumes, Meets A Revolutionary School Teacher Who Dares To Read. Suddenly He Finds Himself A Hunted Fugitive, Forced To Choose Not Only Between Two Women, But Between Personal Safety And Intellectual Freedom. Introduction / By Neil Gaiman -- Fahrenheit 451. The Hearth And The Salamander ; The Sieve And The Sand ; Burning Bright. History, Context, And Criticism / Edited By Jonathan R. Eller. Pt. 1. The Story Of Fahrenheit 451. The Story Of Fahrenheit 451 / By Jonathan R. Eller ; From The Day After Tomorrow: Why Science Fiction? (1953) / By Ray Bradbury ; Listening Library Audio Introduction (1976) / By Ray Bradbury ; Investing Dimes: Fahrenheit 451 (1982, 1989) / By Ray Bradbury ; Coda (1979) / By Ray Bradbury -- Pt. 2. Other Voices. The Novel. From A Letter To Stanley Kauffmann / By Nelson Algren ; Books Of The Times / By Orville Prescott ; From New Wine, Old Bottles / By Gilbert Highet ; New Novels / By Idris Parry ; New Fiction / By Sir John Betjeman ; 1984 And All That / By Adrian Mitchell ; From New Maps Of Hell / By Sir Kingsley Amis ; Introduction To Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / By Harold Bloom ; Fahrenheit 451 / By Margaret Atwood ; The Motion Picture. Shades Of Orwell / By Arthur Knight ; From The Journal Of Fahrenheit 451 / By François Truffaut. Ray Bradbury. | Simon & Schuster |
| 9781453067994 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. | |
| 9780399501487 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age. This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler. At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued. | Penguin |
| 9781626866904 | Macbeth | |||
| 9780374500016 | Night | Wiesel, Elie | A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel night Is Elie Wiesel’s Masterpiece, A Candid, Horrific, And Deeply Poignant Autobiographical Account Of His Survival As A Teenager In The Nazi Death Camps. This New Translation By Marion Wiesel, Elie’s Wife And Frequent Translator, Presents This Seminal Memoir In The Language And Spirit Truest To The Author’s Original Intent. And In A Substantive New Preface, Elie Reflects On The Enduring Importance Of Night And His Lifelong, Passionate Dedication To Ensuring That The World Never Forgets Man’s Capacity For Inhumanity To Man.night Offers Much More Than A Litany Of The Daily Terrors, Everyday Perversions, And Rampant Sadism At Auschwitz And Buchenwald; It Also Eloquently Addresses Many Of The Philosophical As Well As Personal Questions Implicit In Any Serious Consideration Of What The Holocaust Was, What It Meant, And What Its Legacy Is And Will Be.author Bio: Elie Wiesel Is The Internationally Celebrated Author, Nobel Laureate, And Spokesperson For Humanity Whose Decision To Dedicate His Life To Bearing Witness For The Holocaust's Martyrs And Survivors Found Its Earliest And Most Enduring Voice In Night, His Penetrating And Profound Account Of The Nazi Death Camps. Born In The Town Of Sighet, Transylvania, He Was A Teenager When He And His Family Were Taken From Their Home In 1944 To The Auschwitz Concentration Camp, And Then To Buchenwald. Night Is The Terrifying Record Of Elie Wiesel's Memories Of The Death Of His Family, The Death Of His Own Innocence, And His Despair As A Deeply Observant Jew Confronting The Absolute Evil Of Man.elie Wiesel Is The Author Of More Than Forty Internationally Acclaimed Works Of Fiction And Nonfiction. He Has Been Awarded The Presidential Medal Of Freedom, The United States Of America Congressional Gold Medal, The French Legion Of Honor, And, In 1986, The Nobel Peace Prize. He Is The Andrew W. Mellon Professor In The Humanities And University Professor At Boston University. an Autobiographical Narrative In Which The Author Describes His Experiences In Nazi Concentration Camps, Watching Family And Friends Die, And How They Led Him To Believe That God Is Dead. | Paw Prints 2008-04-25 |
| 9780393356182 | Norse Mythology | Gaiman, Neil | Atlantic | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 9780439227148 | The Call of the Wild | Jack London | Stolen from his family, a dog named Buck must quickly learn the harsh law of survival among the men and dogs of the goldcrazed North. With an introduction by award-winning author, Avi. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780786942466 | The Crystal Shard (Drizzt "4: Paths Of Darkness") | Salvatore, R.A. | The fourth in a series of premiere hardcover editions of Salvatore’s classic dark elf tales. This new release of the classic R.A. Salvatore novel continues the classic tale of Salvatore’s signature dark elf character Drizzt Do’Urden™. Although this was the first title actually published about Drizzt, it has now been placed in its proper chronological order as fourth in the series. Each title in The Legend of Drizzt series showcases the classic dark elf novels in new, deluxe hardcover editions. Each title will feature all new cover art and new introductions written by those who have become familiar with Salvatore and Drizzt over the years. AUTHOR BIO: R.A. Salvatore was born in Massachusetts in 1959 and still makes his home there. He has published numerous Forgotten Realms novels with Wizards of the Coast, Inc., most of which have been New York Times best-sellers. He is also known as the best-selling author of the Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones novelization from Del Rey. From the Hardcover edition. | Wizards of the Coast |
| 9780345339683 | The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | Hobbit Bilbo Baggins raakt betrokken bij een fantastisch avontuur, wanneer hij is gekozen tot leider van een groep dwergen bij hun levensgevaarlijke speurtocht naar de vreselijk draak, die de schatten van het dwergvolk heeft geroofd. | |
| 9780441627400 | The Once And Future King | T. H. White | the Whole World Knows And Loves This Book. It Is The Magical Epic Of King Arthur And His Shining Camelot; Of Merlin And Owl And Guinevere; Of Beasts Who Talk And Men Who Fly, Of Wizardry And War. It Is The Book Of All Things Lost And Wonderful And Sad. It Is The Fantasy Masterpiece By Which All Others Are Judged.gale Researcht. H. White First Gained Popularity For His Nonfiction Works About The Countryside Of The United Kingdom, But He Is Best Known Today For His Fantastic Fiction. In His Tetralogy the Once And Future King--called By Lin Carter In imaginary Worlds One Of The Most Brilliant Fantasy Novels In Literature--he Made The Legends Of King Arthur Accessible For The Twentieth Century. | Ace Books |
| 9780590254793 | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | C. S. Lewis | After sailing to Narnia, two children find that their peevish cousin is temporarily transformed into a dragon. |
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