(no subject)
23/11/06 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
minervasoloBooks for sale! I may add more later, it depends on what Your:Books is willing to take off my hands. The prices are rough guides - feel free to haggle. I'll work out postage per person.
Ben Hur, by Lew Wallace - £1
It's a familiar story, but not quite the same as the film. Very interesting for the historical detail, but very slow paced. This is the cheap Wordsworth Edition.
Washington Square by Henry James - £2
The story of a plain-looking heiress, torn between obeying her father and eloping with the man she loves. Quite sad, almost stoic.
Pompeii by Robert Harris - £1
Vesuvius blows up. People have angst and drama. Not dissimilar from the many other books set just prior to the eruption. I bought this second hand; the spine is craked, but it's otherwise okay.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee - £4
This play is very smart, very funny, and harrowing. It's the dissoultion of two relationships over the course of one evening, as the four characters rip themselves and each other apart. There was a performance put on at uni recently. The copy I have is from 1965, so the pages are quite yellowed and so on.
Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat - £3.50
The story of a girl from Haiti, who moves to live with her mother in America. It combines a matriachal family, traditional sexist practices and Haiti's recent history to give you a sense of just how much these women go through, and what it causes them to put their own children through. Another one that can be quite harrowing at times. The spine is slightly cracked.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - £3.50
Traditional life and values in an African community are disturbed as white men begin to intrude on the people's lives. There are various reactions: befriend, ignore, attack, convert... One man, strong by his native values, can not acclimatise. Very powerful, and very clearly part of a different culture.
Disgrace by J M Coetzee - £3.50
A teacher at a South African university is made to quit after sleeping with a student. He goes to live with his daughter in the countryside, and is troubled by the different quality of life and expectations she has. Events occur beyond his control, and he is shocked at reactions of those around him. Though the main character is not likeable, you find yourself sucked in regardless, especially with regards to the political and social in South Africa.
Waiting for the Barbarians by J M Coetzee - £3.50
An outpost on the edge of an unspecified Empire. An easy life. Native tribes that cause no trouble. And then someone, far away, decides the borders need defending, and everything is turned upside down. An odd one, this. It feels like nothing happens, but it does. The pacing is deliberately slow, I think, and, again, we have a not-particularly likeable male protagnoist, though he's easier to sympathise with than Disgrace's. Minor cracking to the spine.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - 50p
This is a little book, 14cm by 10.5. It only contains the title story. There's a fold in the cover. The story's well known, though it's different from most media productions of it. Mostly, the book itself is quite cute, though there's a fold in the front cover.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - £3.50
Recently dramatised by the BBC, this is a sort of prequel to Jane Eyre. A very rich and lucious invocation of the West Indies, and a strong invocation of the hardships faced by the suddenly poor and slave-less white 'creole' class. Mostly, it makes you think Mr Rochester is a complete bastard.
Richard III by William Shakespeare - £3
A really nice edition of the text (penguin shakespeare) with a good introduction and commentary. Also, a very good play! Needs a fairly good understanding of English history (I coped on junior school's 'Tudor and Stuarts' history lessons, but I coud perhaps have done with a slightly better understanding of the civil war leading up to the Tudors), but nothing wikipedia can't provide. Very good speeches, lots of schemeing. Also, fun to take the piss out of (see Peter Cook, and one of the sketches in the first/second Secret Policeman's Ball).
Teach Yourself Film Studies by 'teach yourself' - £1
Another one I got second hand. Pretty useful, actually; there's a lot of the technical stuff in here, and some god examples. Spine is crack, but otherwise in pretty good condition.
I've also got a bunch of random stuff up on eBay, including somes comics and anime.
Ben Hur, by Lew Wallace - £1
It's a familiar story, but not quite the same as the film. Very interesting for the historical detail, but very slow paced. This is the cheap Wordsworth Edition.
Washington Square by Henry James - £2
The story of a plain-looking heiress, torn between obeying her father and eloping with the man she loves. Quite sad, almost stoic.
Pompeii by Robert Harris - £1
Vesuvius blows up. People have angst and drama. Not dissimilar from the many other books set just prior to the eruption. I bought this second hand; the spine is craked, but it's otherwise okay.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee - £4
This play is very smart, very funny, and harrowing. It's the dissoultion of two relationships over the course of one evening, as the four characters rip themselves and each other apart. There was a performance put on at uni recently. The copy I have is from 1965, so the pages are quite yellowed and so on.
Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat - £3.50
The story of a girl from Haiti, who moves to live with her mother in America. It combines a matriachal family, traditional sexist practices and Haiti's recent history to give you a sense of just how much these women go through, and what it causes them to put their own children through. Another one that can be quite harrowing at times. The spine is slightly cracked.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - £3.50
Traditional life and values in an African community are disturbed as white men begin to intrude on the people's lives. There are various reactions: befriend, ignore, attack, convert... One man, strong by his native values, can not acclimatise. Very powerful, and very clearly part of a different culture.
Disgrace by J M Coetzee - £3.50
A teacher at a South African university is made to quit after sleeping with a student. He goes to live with his daughter in the countryside, and is troubled by the different quality of life and expectations she has. Events occur beyond his control, and he is shocked at reactions of those around him. Though the main character is not likeable, you find yourself sucked in regardless, especially with regards to the political and social in South Africa.
Waiting for the Barbarians by J M Coetzee - £3.50
An outpost on the edge of an unspecified Empire. An easy life. Native tribes that cause no trouble. And then someone, far away, decides the borders need defending, and everything is turned upside down. An odd one, this. It feels like nothing happens, but it does. The pacing is deliberately slow, I think, and, again, we have a not-particularly likeable male protagnoist, though he's easier to sympathise with than Disgrace's. Minor cracking to the spine.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - 50p
This is a little book, 14cm by 10.5. It only contains the title story. There's a fold in the cover. The story's well known, though it's different from most media productions of it. Mostly, the book itself is quite cute, though there's a fold in the front cover.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - £3.50
Recently dramatised by the BBC, this is a sort of prequel to Jane Eyre. A very rich and lucious invocation of the West Indies, and a strong invocation of the hardships faced by the suddenly poor and slave-less white 'creole' class. Mostly, it makes you think Mr Rochester is a complete bastard.
Richard III by William Shakespeare - £3
A really nice edition of the text (penguin shakespeare) with a good introduction and commentary. Also, a very good play! Needs a fairly good understanding of English history (I coped on junior school's 'Tudor and Stuarts' history lessons, but I coud perhaps have done with a slightly better understanding of the civil war leading up to the Tudors), but nothing wikipedia can't provide. Very good speeches, lots of schemeing. Also, fun to take the piss out of (see Peter Cook, and one of the sketches in the first/second Secret Policeman's Ball).
Teach Yourself Film Studies by 'teach yourself' - £1
Another one I got second hand. Pretty useful, actually; there's a lot of the technical stuff in here, and some god examples. Spine is crack, but otherwise in pretty good condition.
I've also got a bunch of random stuff up on eBay, including somes comics and anime.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 23/11/06 01:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 23/11/06 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 23/11/06 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 23/11/06 08:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 24/11/06 08:46 am (UTC)