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9781590172797 | New York Review of Books, May 20, 2008, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: First time in PaperbackThe Family Mashber is a protean work: a tale of a divided family and divided souls, a panoramic picture of an Eastern European town, a social satire, a kabbalistic allegory, an innovative fusion of modernist art and traditional storytelling, a tale of weird humor and mounting tragic power, embellished with a host of uncanny and fantastical figures drawn from daily life and the depths of the unconscious.
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9781596873902 | Ibooks, November 16, 2011, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Falsely accused of being a spy for Germany, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the late-nineteenth-century French army, finds himself sentenced to hard labor on Devil's Island, while Major Georges Picquart, who has discovered evidence proving Dreyfus's innocence, finds his faith in the military and his sympathy with anti-Semitic opinions deeply shaken.
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9781596871052 | Ibooks, September 9, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Essential Dr.
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9788497644167 | Edimat Libros, September 1, 2005, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In a study of the occult world's many secrets and how it is linked to many of life's unexplainable events, this affordable, informative, and attractive collection provides an in-depth look at the powers, origins, beliefs, and truths of some of the greatest mysteries of all time.
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9780743498364 | Reprint edition (Ibooks, November 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Presents a comprehensive, fully annotated edition about the classic 1911 horror novel about a demented musician who haunts the nineteenth-century Paris Opera House and plays a terrifying role in the career of a beautiful young singer, in an edition that features hundreds of fascinating facts and lore.
9781596871977 | Ibooks, November 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Essential Phantom of the Opera is the most comprehensive edition ever produced of the classic 1911 novel of romance, mystery, and psychological suspense, fully annotated with thousands of fascinating facts and legends.
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9781596871953 | Ibooks, October 1, 2004, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Here is the complete original text of Mary Shelley's classic 1816 novel, fully annotated with thousands of fascinating facts and legends.
9780743498067 | Reprint edition (Ibooks, October 1, 2004), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A reprint of the first-edition text of the classic novel is accompanied by detailed notes on all relevant mythic, scientific, biographical, and historical topics and by photographs, drawings, maps, and charts.
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9780300092486 | Yale Univ Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In the years between 1929 and 1939, when Itzik Manger wrote most of the poetry and fiction that made him famous, his name among Yiddish readers was a household word.
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9788484035893 | Edimat Libros, March 1, 2001, cover price $5.95
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9780525463382 | E P Dutton, June 1, 2000, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Add Yiddish to the thirty-one languages into which A.
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9780195115932 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 9, 1997, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Presents an anthology of thirty short stories featuring vampires penned by such writers as Anne Rice, Stephen King, and Ray Bradbury
9780788194726 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Since the 1897 publication of Dracula by Bram Stoker, the vampire has been one of the most enduring themes of modern literature.
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9780195132502 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 28, 1999), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: In the past hundred years, since the publication of Bram Stoker's infamous book, no literary figure has enjoyed a more horrific resiliency than Count Dracula.
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Gathers more than one hundred and seventy folktales about demons, princesses, fools, dybbuks, golems, and rabbis
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9780914512479 | Pantheon Books, August 1, 1990, cover price $17.00
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9780679730972 | Reprint edition (Pantheon Books, September 1, 1990), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Gathers more than one hundred and seventy folktales about demons, princesses, fools, dybbuks, golems, and rabbis
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9780553069075 | 1 edition (Broadway Books, March 31, 1997), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Presents a history of vampires, and vampires in literature, films, theater, and folklore, and looks at Bram Stoker's retelling of the classic story
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9780452273863 | Plume, October 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An annotated edition of the classic novel also includes an essay by Leonard Wolf
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9780788162299 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1995, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Bloch, Joyce Carol Oates, Carlos Fuentes, Susan Sontag, & many more, selected by Leonard Wolf, the editor of Wolf s Complete Book of Terror.
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9781557042453 | Newmarket Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Fascinated by the theme of replication of human features, which he believes is both perplexing and frightening, one of the world's experts on horror literature, has collected for the first time 21 tales of self-duplication and the inanimate coming to life, including stories by Rudyard Kipling, Joyce Carol Oates, and Edgar Allan Poe, among others.
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9780452269699 | Plume, September 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature has given voice to our own fears of the depravity within all of us.
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9780517536346 | Outlet, August 1, 1979, cover price $6.98 | About this edition: Illustrations by artists as diverse as Dore, Goya, and Blake and stills from horror films accompany terrifying tales gathered from all corners of the earth, including stores by Baudelaire, Poe, and Kafka
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9781557042149 | Abridged edition (Newmarket Pr, November 1, 1994), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Gathers thirty-six horror stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Junichiro Tanizaki, Julio Cortazar, Roald Dahl, Jorge Luis Borges, Saki, H.
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9780879514983 | Overlook Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Two pairs of brothers set out to find Amalasuntha, the most beautiful woman in the world, who was placed on top of a glass mountain by her jealous father
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9780452269682 | Plume, October 1, 1993, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The complete original text of Mary Shelley's classic novel is accompanied by an introductory essay, contemporary reviews, and modern commentary
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9780452269439 | Rev sub edition (Plume, February 1, 1993), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An essay on the history of the vampire myth in literature accompanies an annotated version of the classic vampire tale
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9780844665146 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1992, cover price $19.75
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9780844665177 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1992, cover price $20.25
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9780805239812 | Not Applicable, May 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The unnamed narrator, a soldier recently discharged from the Polish army, unsuccessfully tries to obtain employment in the textile city of Lodz at the end of World War I and must survive as a homeless vagrant
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9780941423458 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Dramatizes the world of an Eastern European city during the period between the wars through the lives of a tubercular clown, a suicidal poet, a circus wrestler, and an ex-soldier
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Describes the plots of notable horror stories, novels, poems, and films
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9780816021970 | Facts on File, February 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Describes the plots of notable horror stories, novels, poems, and films
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Focusing on the three Mashber brothers--Moshe, Luzi, and Alter--this novel follows a prosperous family in mid-nineteenth-century Russia whose cataclysmic decline engulfs all those in its path
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9780671527686 | Summit Books, June 1, 1987, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Focusing on the three Mashber brothers--Moshe, Luzi, and Alter--this novel follows a prosperous family in mid-nineteenth-century Russia whose cataclysmic decline engulfs all those in its path
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9780395325285 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1982, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A recreation of the life of Shabbatai Zevi, the young seventeenth-century Torah scholar who engaged thousands of Jews in belief in his messianic selection and whose dramatic life ended in tragedy
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