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Carrying a precious and valuable amulet called the Eye of Erlik through a fierce desert, Conan and the lovely Isparana are met not with rewards, but threats at the hands of the tyrant Akter Khan. Reprint.
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NORTHANGER ABBEY is about a naive young woman whose head is full of the Gothic novels she consumes, and who begins to imagine that life may well be even stranger than fiction. Catherine Morland makes a touching, if somewhat charmingly brainless, heroine; Henry Tilney is a self-possessed and witty hero; and the plot device in which Catherine sees General Tilney as a black-hearted villain out of a Gothic romance is ingenious and engrossing. In fact, this early work is full of sustained and sparkling inventiveness, and exhibits the sharp and accurate social observations of Austen's more mature fiction. LADY SUSAN, Austen's one epistolary novel, recounts the adventures of the beautiful, widowed, and utterly self-serving femme fatale Lady Susan, who manages to capture the heart of every man who comes her way, including the husband of one friend and the fiance of another. Meanwhile, she attempts to marry her innocent young daughter off to a man she doesn't love--for money, of course. Austen left this wicked novel unfinished, but appended an epilogue detailing the fates of all the characters. THE WATSONS is a fragment about a young woman named Emma Watson (no relation to the Emma of the novel of that name) who is cursed with three flighty sisters whose efforts to make good marriages provide the comic plot. This minor work includes all Jane Austen's favorite satirical themes but was left unfinished with no explanation. Austen's third unfinished novel, SANDITON, is worth reading for its satirical look at pomposity, hypocrisy, and the intricacies of courtship in early 19th-century England. Austen was writing this novel during her last months, when she was seriously ill with Addison's disease; an odd but endearing characteristic of SANDITON is her satirical treatment of hypochondria.
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A dazzling new collection of essays, poems, and prose poems by the best-selling author ofThe Leaf and the Cloud andWhat Do We Know.Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy the old books. But, no, that would never do, for always the new self swimming around in the old world feels itself uniquely verbal. And that is just the point: how the world, moist and bountiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning.'Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?' This book is my comment.-from the ForewordThe gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable (Miami Herald). This has never been truer than inLong Life, a luminous collection of seventeen essays and ten poems. With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has created a breathtaking volume sure to add to her reputation as one of our very best poets(New York Times Book Review).
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