The Literary Acquisition Thread (2 Viewers)

[Gregor Samsa]

Went to GleeBooks today;

Trudi Tate-Modernism, History and the First World War.
Robert Fraser-Lifting the Sentence: A poetics of postcolonial fiction.
Joseph Conrad-Nostromo [Broadview edition.. And only $6.95 new.]
Drusilla Modjeska-The Orchard. [Hardcover, for a cheaper price than the paperback edition at Co-Op. Not bad.]

 

[Silver Rose]

Tomorrow I'm going to Borders to pick up my copy of "Follow The Blue" by Brigid Lowry! I've been lusting after it for ages...

 

[stressed monkie]

i have 756 books im a big reader at some point in life ill detail the lot

 

[Gregor Samsa]

John Pilger-Hidden Agendas.
Tom Stoppard-Jumpers. (For the princely sum of $1.60 moretheless. Good old second-hand stores.)

 

[walrusbear]

hidden agendas is scary
i hope john pilger is wrong on some things

i didn't want to do anything after the latest one. the four new rulers one

 

[ameh]

wealth of nations - adam smith

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Bernard Smith-Modernism's History. (Interesting so far, and on a large discount. Even has bad art puns.. i.e. Praxis makes perfect )
Roger Ebert-The Bigger Little Book of Hollywood Cliches (This is a birthday present for a relative, but still..Very funny.)

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Went on a grand end-of-semester book jaunt yesterday. Went splendiferously;

Anon.-The Epic of Gilgamesh
Linda Colley-Captives: Britain and the World 1600-1850
Ed.Patrick J. Geary-Readings in Medieval History: The Early Middle Ages
Peter Conrads-Modern Times, Modern PlacesIan Kershaw-The 'Hitler Myth:' Image and Reality in the Third Reich
Lord Byron-The Major Works
Thomas Mann-Death in Venice and Other Stories
Kazuo Iziguro-The Remains of the Day
Christopher Marlowe-Doctor Faustus (Broadview edition.. The A-Text with source materials and other such fun.)
Virginia Woolf-Orlando.

All at low prices.

 

[Loz#1]

Fallen Angels - Tracy Chevalier
Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen

From Elizabeth's @ Newtown. Not a bad haunt.

 

[ameh]

Cambridge companion to Gothic Fiction
n.b. this is for eng ext

 

[Grey Council]

oooo!
I managed to acquire the first five books in the "The Wars of Light and Shadow" (Wurts) and "Temple" (Reilly) for only $12!

:-D

although I've read all of them, still.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Tom Stoppard-Travesties
Ed.Patrick Geary-Readings in Medieval History, Vol.2:The Later Middle Ages
Oscar Wilde-Plays of Oscar Wilde
Mary Wollstonecraft-Vindication of the Rights of Woman/Vindication of the Rights of Man
Friedrich Nietzsche-Human, All Too Human
Robert Hughes-American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Eric Hobsbawm- Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991.

 

[Lexicographer]

I picked up my HB copy of The Da Vinci Code on Monday, reading it now. Import from USA at $34.95, down to $29.90 with A+R Pitt St Mall satchel bag discount. Not bad.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Albert Camus-The Rebel
Albert Camus-The Plague
Virginia Woolf-The Years
Susan Sontag-On Photography
Gwendolyn Leick-Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City
Mark Roseman-The Villa, The Lane, The Meeting. (An account and analysis of the infamous Wannsee Conference.)
Alex de Toqueville-Democracy in America.


Happily, there was an influx of cheap Penguin titles at Basement Books, and thus these books were at low prices. [Although The Rebel was from GleeBooks.]

 

[Gregor Samsa]

For a mere pittance, a shiny dollar, I acquired;

Tacitus-The Histories
E.A Thompson-Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire
Ed. Lynn White Jr.The Transformation of the Roman World: Gibbon's Problem after Two Centuries
R.C Blockley-The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire.

Try and pick out the subtle motif.

 

[nerd2die6]

where from Gregor??

 

[Loz#1]

Lost In Transmission - Jonathan Harvey

 

[Gregor Samsa]

where from Gregor??

From my local library.

 

[Tenille]

The idiot and anna Karenina $3.96 each new yay
and old maths past papers