1991, ISBN: 9781232262565

Hardcover

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Paperback. New. Paperback. 373 pages. Dimensions: 9.1in. x 6.0in. x 0.9in.In the waning years of the Empire, a poet traverses Russia, from the Baltics to the … More...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Paperback. New. Paperback. 373 pages. Dimensions: 9.1in. x 6.0in. x 0.9in.In the waning years of the Empire, a poet traverses Russia, from the Baltics to the capital, to the shores of the Black Sea. Along the way, he discusses mans place in the scheme of things with, among others, a very sober scientist and a very drunken landscape painter. He is harassed by the authorities, spends time on a movie set, and is an eyewitness to the August 1991 coup. Full of talk, philosophical speculation and dark humor, this sweeping, intricately structured novel challenges the form even as it presents a highly original view of the world and the former Soviet Union. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Frederick Stokes, New York,, 1903. HARDBACK NODustjacket, 1903, Early Edition, GOOD-/VG-, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Interior nice tight clean but FOX & Water Stains around Blank Margins pgs Here & There Thruout 1/4 OF Bk, 285 PGs, Blue cloth with Lite Water Stains Edges with Beautiful Color Plate paste-on of of a glowering bearded man wearing a dress with a Bustle, sailors behind Snickering. in Center Cvr. Light water stains back Cvr & small Sticker, a few interior pgs small edge Tears, .Small FORMER OWNER STAMP Blank Foxed Endpapers, Color Frontispiece The Skipper has Water Stains Around Blank Margin, of a glowering bearded man wearing a dress with a Bonnet & Red Bow with a Bustle, sailors behind Snickering.. Hard Cover., Frederick Stokes, New York, 1903, Library of America. Hardcover. New. Hardcover. 864 pages. Dimensions: 8.1in. x 5.1in. x 1.1in.Before winning international fame with Cats Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut was a master of the drugstore paperback and the popular short story. This authoritative collection of his brilliant early work opens with Player Piano (1952), a Metropolis-like parable of breakneck technological innovation and its effect on those it robs of their livelihoods. The Sirens of Titan (1959), the interplanetary adventures of the worlds wealthiest and most despised man, is both a pulp-fiction space opera and a satire on the vanity of human striving. The confessions of a German-American double agent well placed among the Nazi elite, Mother Night (1962) is a cautionary tale with a famous moral: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Here too are six of Vonneguts best short stories, gems that display his matchless talent for hilarious invention and caustic social criticism. A companion volume, Kurt Vonnegut: Novels and Stories 19631973, collects Cats Cradle; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Slaughterhouse-Five; Breakfast of Champions; and three short stories, including Welcometo the Monkey House. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN, Momence,IL, Commerce,GA., Library of America, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 72 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: . . . belonging to a distinct family of Lemurs, inhabits the forests of most of the islands of the Sub-region, as well as Celebes. It is a small animal, about the size of a squirrel, deriving its name from the fact that the tarsal bones of its foot are greatly elongated. Among the Monkeys, in addition to the three genera found also in the Burmese Sub-region, we have the Proboscis Monkey (Nasalis) of Borneo, very remarkable for its large and projecting nasal organ. Finally, in Sumatra and Borneo we find the Orang (Simia), of which there are possibly two species, although this is by no means certain. These large man-like apes (see Fig. 28, p. 144), which form, along with the Gibbons, and the African Chimpanzee and Gorilla, the family Simiidm, inhabit mostly the low swampy districts near the coast; they may be distinguished at once from their African cousins by the reddish-brown colour of the long hair with which they are clothed. In some respects they are the most closely allied to Man in structure of the anthropoid Apes. The following is a summary of the Malayan genera of mammals, constructed on the same plan as in the case of K the other Sub-regions. It will be seen that, while the total number of genera has not increased very much, the number of endemic genera is nearly doubled, as compared with those of the other two Sub-regions. Section VII. --The Celebesian Sub-region As already mentioned, the island of Celebes presents a problem of considerable interest to the student of geographical distribution. Celebes is separated from the other islands, both to the eastward and to the westward, by seas of considerable depth. Compared with the other Malayan islands, its fauna is scanty. This fact, and the very peculiar shape of the island, suggest a possibility of its hav. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<