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Which Book Would You Read?

We’d like to know which book would you read?

Alice's AdventuresAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll

ISBN:9780140620863

There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, “Who are you?”

What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter’s tea party, plays croquet with the King and Queen of Heart…

Price: 15,9 GEL

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Through the Looking GlassThrough the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Author: Lewis Carroll, Jennifer Bassett

ISBN: 9780194227490

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There is a novel written by Lewis Carroll, the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It is based on his meeting with another Alice, Alice Raikes.

Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it.

Price: 4 GEL

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The Murders in the RueThe Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN: 9780141198972

Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in these tales, including – among others – the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the creeping insanity of The Tell-Tale Heart, and the Gothic nightmare of The Masque of the Red Death.

Price: 14,9GEL

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Theme of the Week: Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Orlando (1928), Between the Acts (1941), the short essay The Common Reader (1925) and the book-length essay A Room of One’s Own (1929), with its famous dictum, “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

Woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, thought to have been the result of what is now termed bipolar disorder and committed suicide by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.

Please enjoy the clip below of Nicole Kidman’s portrayal of Virginia Woolf from the film The Hours.

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Which Book Would You Read? (Holiday Edition)

We are celebrating Christmas this week and ask, which book would you read?

Poirot: The Perfect Murders: Omnibus

Author: Agatha Christie

ISBN: 9780007190645

A brand new Poirot Omnibus, featuring four of the world-renowned detective’s most challenging cases:

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder in the Mews

12,9 GEL

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Children on Their Birthdays

Author: Truman Capote

ISBN: 9780141195865

‘…We were sitting on the porch, tutti-frutti melting on our plates, when suddenly, just as we were wishing that something would happen, something did; for out of the red road dust appeared Miss Bobbit.’

Truman Capote’s bewitching short stories, many of which were set in the Deep South of his youth, are among his finest works. Perceptive, sensitive and eloquent, filled with brooding atmosphere and gorgeous description, these three stories tell of genteel eccentrics, evocative childhood memories and a malevolent nocturnal meeting.

This book includes:
A Christmas Memory
Children on Their Birthdays
A Tree of Night

14,9 GEL

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Theme of the Week: Celebrating Authors of December

This week we celebrate authors of the past and present who had birthdays in the month of December. Check them out below.

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Row 1: (L-R) Eleanor H. Porter, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick Row 2: (L-R) Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling

 

Joseph Conrad

(December 3, 1857 – August 3, 1924)

Józef Teodor Konrad, known as his pen name Joseph Conrad, was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English. The Secret Agent (1907) was made into a film in 1996.

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Jane Austen

(December 16, 1775 – July 18, 1817)

Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.  She achieved success as a published writer with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1818).

  

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Philip K. Dick     

(December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982)

Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher whose published work is almost entirely accepted as being in the science fiction genre. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) was made into the very popular 1982 film, Blade Runner.

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Eleanor H. Porter            

(December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920)

Porter was an American novelist who mainly wrote children’s literature, adventure stories and romance fiction. Her most famous novel is Pollyanna (1913). It was made into a film in 1960.

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Rudyard Kipling     

(December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936)

Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Stalky & Co. (1899), Kim (1901), Just So Stories (1902), Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906) and Rewards and Fairies (1910).

  

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Which Book Would You Read?

To celebrate Joseph Conrad, we’d like to ask, which book would you read?

The Secret Agent

Author: Joseph Conrad

ISBN: 9780141199559

Set in early twentieth-century London and inspired by an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, The Secret Agent is a complex exploration of motivation and morality. The title character, Adolf Verloc, is obviously no James Bond. In fact, he and his circle of misfit saboteurs are not spies but terrorists, driven less by political ideals than by their unruly emotions and irrational hatreds.

Verloc has settled into an apparent marriage of convenience. Family life gives him a respectable cover, while his wife hopes to get help in handling her halfwit brother, Stevie. Instead Verloc involves Stevie in one of his explosive schemes, an act that leads to violence, murder, and revenge.

Darkly comic, the novel is also obliquely autobiographical: Joseph Conrad’s parents were involved in the radical politics of their time, and their early deaths left him profoundly distrustful of any sort of political action.

14,9 GEL

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Eyeless in Gaza

Author: Aldous Huxley

ISBN: 9780099458173

Written at the height of his powers, Aldous Huxley’s highly acclaimed Eyeless in Gaza is his most personal novel. Huxley’s bold, nontraditional narrative tells the loosely autobiographical story of Anthony Beavis, a cynical libertine Oxford graduate who comes of age in the vacuum left by World War I. Unfulfilled by his life, loves, and adventures, Anthony is persuaded by a charismatic friend to become a Marxist and take up arms with Mexican revolutionaries. But when their disastrous embrace of violence nearly kills them, Anthony is left shattered—and is forced to find an alternative to the moral disillusionment of the modern world.

A young man growing into manhood during war and economic turmoil is beset by doubts about politics and people. But in his blind wanderings to find an acceptable way of life, he is seduced by them for pacifist motives.

10,9 GEL

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Theme of the Week: Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole.

Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with an accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with nautical settings, which depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English sensibility into English literature.

Below is a trailer for the film The Secret Agent based on his book of the same name:

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Book of the Week: Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling set his final and most famous novel in the complex, mystery-shrouded India of the mid-19th century where an exotic landscape teems with natives living under British colonial rule.

Kimball O’Hara, the poor orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in Lahore, straddles both worlds. Neither wholly British nor completely Indian, the young boy searches for his identity in the country where he was born; but at the same time, he struggles to create an identity for himself. Cunning and street wise, Kim is mature beyond his thirteen years and learns to move chameleon-like between the two cultures, becoming the disciple of a Tibetan monk while training as a spy for the British secret service.

Far above the average adventure story, Kim will captivate Kipling devotees as well as fans of tales brimming with foreign intrigue and treachery. Charged with action and suspense, yet profoundly spiritual, Kim vividly expresses the sounds and smells, colors and characters, opulence and squalor of complex, contradictory India under British rule.

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Which Book Would You Read?

To celebrate Rudyard Kipling, we’d like to ask, which book would you read?

Just So Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling

ISBN: 9780141321622

How did the camel get his hump? Why won’t cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling’s imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and the written word. He also celebrates his own joy in fatherhood. The tales were told to his own and his friends’ children over many years before he wrote them down, adding poems and his own illustrations. They invite older and younger readers to share a magical experience, each contributing to the other’s pleasure, but each can also enjoy them alone, as more jokes, subtexts, and exotic references emerge with every reading.

Published in 1902, these charming and whimsical fantasies for children—and adults who retain a love of the fantastic—are enduring classics.  Focusing on the explanation of origin, the book includes How the Leopard Got His Spots, How the Camel Got His Hump and The Cat That Walked by Himself.

15,9 GEL

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The Complete Children’s Short Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling

ISBN: 9781840220575

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear.
How did the Leopard get his spots? How did the Elephant get his trunk? In Just So Stories, Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and other questions.
Puck of Pook’s Hill relates how Dan and Una’s magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings…
And later, in Rewards and Fairies, the three meet an array of characters ranging from Iron Age warriors to ‘Good Queen Bess’ and Sir Francis Drake.
In Kipling’s rattling school yarn Stalky & Co, Stalky, M’Turk and the Beetle are a trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules, their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal to all children – especially those who have ever wilted beneath the stern glance of a peevish schoolmaster.
Kipling’s wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection.

16,5 GEL

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Theme of the Week: Rudyard Kipling

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The theme for this week is Rudyard Kipling, an English author, famous for his works,  Just So Stories and The Jungle Book which earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.

Just So Stories, was a in part a tribute to his late daughter, for whom Kipling had originally crafted the stories as he put her to bed. The book’s name had in fact come from Josephine, who told her father he had to repeat each tale as he always had, or “just so,” as Josephine often said.

Below is a link to Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem “If-” spoken by the famous British actor Sir Michael Caine. It is a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson and is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet’s son. As poetry, “If—” is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism.

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