Books Read November 2004-December 2005
Explore a curated list of books read from November 2004 to December 2005. Discover top reads, hidden gems, and literary favorites from 2004 and 2005 in this comprehensive collection.
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Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling
by Rudyard Kipling
As a young writer living in Lahore during the time of the British Raj, Rudyard Kipling (1865Ââ1936) was possessed by an enormous subjectâIndiaâand his genius for rendering its beauty and strangeness was even then so fully formed that we have to look to the likes of Shakespeare and Dickens to find writers equally precocious. What is even more astonishing, and what this selection of stories from across his entire career reveals, is the way that his talent grew and developed over time. The work he did toward the end of his long writing life is even better than that which marked its splendid beginnings. The forty stories collected here range across a surprising variety of subjects and techniques. Here are his superb war stories, âMary Postgate,â âThe Gardener,â and âThe Drums of the Fore and Aft,â as well as his famous forays into horror in âThe Mark of the Beast,â science fiction in âWith the Night Mail,â and the ghost story in âThe House Surgeon.â âThe Man Who Would Be Kingâ is an unforgettable adventure tale, ââLove-oâ-Womenââ and âWithout Benefit of Clergyâ reveal his insight into love and passion, and âBaa Baa, Black Sheepâ is a searing revisiting of Kiplingâs childhood trauma. From the nightmarish allegory of âThe Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukesâ and the mystical visions in âThe Bridge-Buildersâ to the brilliant portrait of obsession and sacrifice in his masterpiece, âThe Wish House,â these stories showcase Kiplingâs remarkable narrative gifts.
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Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling
A millionaire's spoiled son learns a lesson when, saved from drowning by a fishing schooner, he is made to share the crude life and hard work of his taunting rescuers
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The Lord of the Rings
by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
In time for the golden anniversary of the arrival of part one of Tolkien's epic masterpiece on these shore comes a spectacular new edition of "The Lord of the Rings." The text is fully correctedQunder the supervision of Christopher TolkienQto meet the author's exacting wishes, and includes two large-format fold-out maps, a ribbon placemarker, and exceptionally elegant packaging. 0-618-51765-0$100.00 / Houghton Mifflin
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The Silmarillion
by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Published posthumously in 1977 to international acclaim, Tolkien's oldest tale of Middle-earth is now available in this revised and expanded volume. This new illustrated edition of "The Silmarillion," containing 48 stunning color paintings by Ted Nasmith, is the most sumptuous ever published.
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠From one of the worldâs leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes âan astonishing rideâ through the universe (The New York Times) that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. From Newtonâs unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einsteinâs fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanicsâ entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior, Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world.
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Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called âthe greatest Spanish-language writer of our centuryâ collected in a single volume âAn event, and cause for celebration.ââThe New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short storyâfrom his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeareâs MemoryâJorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Playfully experimenting with ostensibly subliterary genres, he took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics; he took fantasy writing and made it, with its questioning and reinventing of everyday reality, central to the craft of fiction; he took the literary essay and put it to use reviewing wholly imaginary books. Bringing together for the first time in English all of Borgesâs magical stories, and all of them newly rendered into English in brilliant translations by Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions is the perfect one-volume compendium for all who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the masterâs work for all who have yet to discover this singular genius. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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