en http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:34:01 GMT Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:34:01 GMT http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Lady-Chatterley-s-Lover/13283083 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:06:43 GMT ''Lawrence's uncompromisingly candid novel deals in poetic and sexually explicit language with the passionate relationship between Lady Constance Chatterly and her husband's forthright and powerfully masculine gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Trapped in a marriage which has become sterile and joyless since her husband's return from the trenches of the First World War, partially paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, Connie seizes the chance of sexual fulfilment she had thought lost to her forever.''

Lady Chatterley's Lover]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Lady-Chatterley-s-Lover/13283083 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Terry-Pratchett-s-Discworld-Collectors-Edition-Calendar-2008/13281392 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:05:57 GMT ''The annual full-colour ''Discworld Calendar'' features scenes from the Discworld novels by award-winning artists. This year's fantastic illustrators include Pratchett favourites Paul Kidby (the ''Discworld Diaries'', ''The Last Hero'', ''The Art Of Discworld'' and numerous book covers), David Wyatt (''Discworld Stamps'', book covers) and Stephen Player (''The Illustrated Wee Free Men'', conceptual art for Sky One's blockbuster two-parter ''The Hogfather''). Other superstars in the fantasy art firmament featured in the 2008 calendar are Les Edwards, Edward Miller, Jackie Morris, Sandy Nightingale, Jon Sullivan, David Frankland, Mel Grant and Dominic Harman.''

Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors Edition Calendar 2008]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Terry-Pratchett-s-Discworld-Collectors-Edition-Calendar-2008/13281392 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Edith-Wharton-The-Age-of-Innocence/9088960 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:04:14 GMT The text of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel of desire and its implications in Old New York is accompanied by necessarily rigorous annotations.''Contexts'' constructs the historical foundations of the novel, with documents on ''The New York Four Hundred'' elite social gatherings and archery (the sport for daughters of the upper class) among others. Also featured in this section are contemporary reviews, some of Wharton's letters, related writings and manuscript outlines.''Criticism'' features thirteen major essays on the novel, by Julia Ehrhardt, R.W.B. Lewis, Janet Goodwin, Nancy Bentley, Brian Edwards, Anne Macmasters, Dale Bauer, Elizabeth Ammons, Judith Fryer, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Linda Wagner Martin, Candace Waid and a ground-breaking piece on film adaptations of the novel by Brigette Peucker. A selected bibliography is included.

Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Edith-Wharton-The-Age-of-Innocence/9088960 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Batman-Dark-Knight-Returns/13283138 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:03:12 GMT ''This ground-breaking synthesis of comic-book icons and modern cinematic sensibilities redefined an American myth and reshaped the face of modern graphic novels. And now, a decade later, it's back... to inspire a new generation! This edition contains 28 pages of never-before-seen sketches, art and text, with a new cover, designed by Chip Kidd. This is the tale of a tortured hero's twilight and his efforts to save the city he had once sworn to protect from spiralling relentlessly into chaos. Batman's struggles with a new breed of criminal, the training of a new Robin, and his fateful final encounters with Superman, Two-Face and The Joker, are all woven together seamlessly to mark a warrior's mythic rite of passage.''

Batman: Dark Knight Returns]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Batman-Dark-Knight-Returns/13283138 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/The-Jane-Austen-Book-Club/13288409 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:01:17 GMT ''Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable - under the guiding eye of Jane Austen a couple of them even fall in love... ''I was enchanted. A charming and intelligent read, with the best appendix I've come across since Mark Haddon's ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'''' - Kate Long, author of ''The Bad Mother's Handbook''.''

The Jane Austen Book Club]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/The-Jane-Austen-Book-Club/13288409 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Jane-Austen-A-Life/13286049 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:00:03 GMT ''The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the Austen family and their Hampshire neighbours, and of Jane's progress through a difficult childhood, an unhappy love affair, her experiences as a poor relation and her decision to reject a marriage that would solve all her problems - except that of continuing as a writer. Both the woman and the novels are radically reassessed in this biography.''

Jane Austen: A Life]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Jane-Austen-A-Life/13286049 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Anita-Loos-Anita-Loos-Rediscovered/9089002 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:59:21 GMT Anita Loos (1888-1981) was one of Hollywood's most respected and prolific screenwriters, as well as an acclaimed novelist and playwright. This unique collection of previously unpublished film treatments, short stories, and one-act plays spans fifty years of her creative writing and showcases the breadth and depth of her talent. Beginning in 1912 with the stories she submitted from her San Diego home (some made into films by D. W. Griffith), through her collaboration with Colette on the play ''Gigi, ''Anita Loos wrote almost every day for the screen, stage, books, or magazines. Film scripts include ''San Francisco, The Women, ''and ''Red-Headed Woman. ''The list of stars for whom she created unforgettable roles includes Mary Pickford, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Audrey Hepburn, and Carol Channing. This collection has been selected by Anita's niece and close friend, the best-selling author Mary Anita Loos, together with the acclaimed film historian Cari Beauchamp. Their essays are laced throughout the volume, introducing each section and giving previously untold insights and behind-the-scenes stories about Anita--her life, her friendships, and her times.

Anita Loos - Anita Loos Rediscovered]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Anita-Loos-Anita-Loos-Rediscovered/9089002 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/The-Paris-Review-Interviews-v-1/13286153 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:58:17 GMT ''How do great writers do it? From James M Cain's hard-nosed observation that ''writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational,'' to Joan Didion's account of how she composes a book - ''I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.'' - ''The Paris Review'' has elicited some of the most revelatory and revealing thoughts from the literary masters of our age. For more than half a century, the magazine has spoken with most of our leading novelists, poets and playwrights, and the interviews themselves have come to be recognised as classic works of literature, an essential and definitive record of the writing life. Now, Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch introduces an entirely original selection of sixteen of the most celebrated interviews. Often startling, always engaging, these encounters contain an immense scope of intelligence, personality, experience and wit from the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Rebecca West and Billy Wilder. This is an indispensible book for all writers and readers.''

The Paris Review Interviews: v. 1]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/The-Paris-Review-Interviews-v-1/13286153 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Microserfs/13289845 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:57:13 GMT ''From the acclaimed author of Hey Nostradamus! comes a wonderful comic novel with 'more one-liners than a decade of Woody Allen films' (Guardian), about the scramble for love and success in a brave new world...Bill is wise. Bill is kind. Bill is benevolent. Bill, Be My Friend...Please!At computer giant Microsoft, Dan, Susan, Abe, Todd and Bug are struggling to get a life. The job may be super cool, the pay may be astronomical, but they're heading nowhere, and however hard they work, however many shares they earn, they're never going to be as rich as Bill. And besides, with all the hours they're putting in, their best relationships are on e-mail. Something's got to give...''

Microserfs]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Microserfs/13289845 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/The-Life-of-Kingsley-Amis/13288630 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:55:10 GMT ''In this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. Drawing not only on interviews with a range of Amis' friends, relatives, fellow writers, students and colleagues, many of them never before consulted, but also on hundreds of previously unpublished letters, Leader's biography will for the first time give a full picture of Amis's childhood, school days, life as a teacher, critic, political and cultural commentator, professional author, husband, father and lover. He explores Amis's fears and phobias, and the role that drink played in his life. And of course he pays due attention to Amis's work. As the editor of ''The Letters of Kingsley Amis'', hailed in the ''Sunday Telegraph'' as 'one of the last major monuments to the epistolary art', Leader is more than qualified to be his authorised biographer. His book will surprise, entertain and illuminate.''

The Life of Kingsley Amis]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/The-Life-of-Kingsley-Amis/13288630 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Thomas-Hardy-The-Time-torn-Man/13283565 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:54:01 GMT ''Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraordinary: from the poverty of rural Dorset he went on to become the Grand Old Man of English life and letters, his last resting place in Westminster Abbey. This seminal biography, by our leading biographer, covers Hardy's illegitimate birth, his rural upbringing, his escape to London in the 1860s, his marriages, his status as a bestselling novelist, and in later life, his supreme achievements as a poet.''

Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Thomas-Hardy-The-Time-torn-Man/13283565 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Arthur-C-Clarke-The-Man-Who-Saw-The-Future/9199274 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:53:22 GMT Arthur C Clark has been hailed as `one of the true geniuses of our time`. His novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey, was one of the greatest space adventures ever written, and the film of the book won Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick cult status. A one-man t

Arthur C. Clarke - The Man Who Saw The Future]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Arthur-C-Clarke-The-Man-Who-Saw-The-Future/9199274 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Artemis-Fowl-The-Graphic-Novel/13281257 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:51:52 GMT ''This adaptation of his genre-busting, award-winning novel ''Artemis Fowl'' has been a labour of love for lifelong graphic novel fan Eoin Colfer, and Andrew Donkin. Art by Giovanni Rigano and colour by Paolo Lamanna. Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories. These fairies are armed and they're dangerous. Artemis thinks he's got them just where he wants them, but then they stop playing by the rules ...''

Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Artemis-Fowl-The-Graphic-Novel/13281257 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/The-Complete-Polysyllabic-Spree/13284217 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:50:09 GMT ''In his monthly accounts of what he's read - along with what he may one day read - Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. If he occasionally implores a biographer for brevity, or abandons a literary work in favour of an Arsenal match, then all is not lost. His writing, full of all the joy and surprise and despair that books bring him, reveals why we still read, even when there's football on TV, a pram in the hall or a good band playing at our local pub.''

The Complete Polysyllabic Spree]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/The-Complete-Polysyllabic-Spree/13284217 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Post-Office-A-Novel/13282925 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:48:43 GMT ''The product review is not currently available at this time.''

Post Office: A Novel]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Post-Office-A-Novel/13282925 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Elaine-Yee-Lin-Ho-Anita-Desai/9090996 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:47:48 GMT The notion of thinking as an outsider, and the critical distance which this entails, is a key to an understanding of Desai as writer, and a recurrent theme in the discussions of her novels and short stories in this book. It informs her authorial perspectives on India, its places, scenes, and people, and her creative engagement with those who, through a combination of accident and choice, find themselves marginalized, displaced, and dispossessed. The search for other, alternative, worlds outside of the social and cultural mainstream defines the self-identity of many of Desai's characters, and underlines their problematic identification with the communities in which they are located. Through detailed discussions of a number of short stories and novels, and references to other works by Indo-English writers, this book shows how Desai maps her ''India'', and opens up ways of reading ''India'' for the reader as outsider.

Elaine Yee Lin Ho - Anita Desai]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Elaine-Yee-Lin-Ho-Anita-Desai/9090996 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Ann-Finding-Anita-Diamant-s-The-Red-Tent/9090997 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:46:53 GMT Continuum Contemporaries give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a through and readable analysis of each of the novels in question. The books in the series all follow the same structure: a biography of the novelist, including other works, influences, and, in some cases, an interview; a full-length study of the novel, drawing out the most important themes and ideas; a summary of how the novel was received upon publication; a summary of how the novel has performed since publication, including film or television adaptations, literary prizes, and so forth; a wide range of suggestions for further reading, including web sites and discussion forums; and a list of questions for reading groups to discuss.

Ann Finding - Anita Diamant's ''The Red Tent'']]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Ann-Finding-Anita-Diamant-s-The-Red-Tent/9090997 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/How-to-Read-a-Novel/9805352 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:45:49 GMT We assume reading is like riding a bicycle - you can do it or you can't. But reading well is almost as difficult as writing well. This book is a guide to how to do it. It shows how novels work, what they're about, what makes them good or bad, and how

How to Read a Novel]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/How-to-Read-a-Novel/9805352 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Catch-22/13281092 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:45:05 GMT ''At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indicement of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.''

Catch-22]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Catch-22/13281092 http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Arnold-Bennett-Anna-of-the-Five-Towns/9089114 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:43:51 GMT Against a background of life in the Staffordshire Potteries, this is a novel about a gossipy, myopic, savage community and at its heart a young girl dominated by her miserly father. Bennett's portrait of Anna as a complex modern woman makes this book as moving today as when it was first written.

Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns]]> http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/http://hazardbooks.shopoblog.com/p/Arnold-Bennett-Anna-of-the-Five-Towns/9089114