The Last Thing He Wanted

Literature & Fiction

JOAN DIDION

Contemporary

The Franklin Library

Edwin Drood is contracted to marry Orphan Rosa, but they break the engagement off-and soon afterwards Edwin disappears. Is it murder? And is his jealous uncle-a sinister choirmaster with a double life and designs on Rosa-the killer? Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective. In addition to its tantalizing crime, the novel also offers a characteristically Dickensian mix of the fantastical world of the imagination and a vibrantly journalistic depiction of gritty reality.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Travel

DICKENS., CHARLES

Europe

The Mill on the Floss (World's Classics)

George, Eliot

Classics

Pride and Prejudice

Austen., Jane

Vanity Fair (Progressive English)

William Makepeace Thackeray

This is a very rare signed first British edition of Vonnegut's "Hocus Pocus". I acquired the book in 1991 at Harrah's in London, England. A clerk in the book department told me that Vonnegut had signed copies of the book earlier that year during an in-store promotion. I purchased the only remaining signed copy. The book had been published by Jonathan Cape during the previous year.

Hocus Pocus

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Privately printed, and personally signed by the author, for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Bound in publisher's original brown composition leather with the covers and spine stamped in gilt. Four raised bands on the spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers.

The Haj

Uris,Leon

As Roger Lambert tells it, he, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is buttonholed in his office by Dale Kohler, an earnest young computer scientist who believes that quantifiable evidence of God’s existence is irresistibly accumulating. The theological-scientific debate that ensues, and the wicked strategies that Roger employs to disembarrass Dale of his faith, form the substance of this novel—these and the current of erotic attraction that pulls Esther, Roger’s much younger wife, away from him and into Dale’s bed. The novel, a majestic allegory of faith and reason, ends also as a black comedy of revenge, for this is Roger’s version—Roger Chillingworth’s side of the triangle described by Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter—made new for a disbelieving age.

Roger's Version

UPDIKE, John.

"True to its title, this is a book about love and the aspects of love - spiritual and sexual, protective and destructive, demanding and generous, degrading and ennobling, joyful and tragic." (from the author)

EVIDENCE OF LOVE

Grau, Shirley Ann

A collection of tales of the grotesque and arabesque by Poe. This is a special limited release by The Franklin Library. It has a raised spine, with gold end pages, acid-free paper, and unique markings inlaid with gold on the outside binding. It has the look and feel of a leather binding.Titles include "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Black Cat", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "Berenice" and many more. A total of 304 pages. A must for the collector and lover of writings by Poe. A total of 304 pages with many illustrations.

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (The Golden Press classics library)

POE, EDGAR ALLAN

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