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9780451531483 | Reprint edition (Signet Classic, February 1, 2010), cover price $8.95
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9780618405664 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories explores a wide variety of narrative approaches, including stories within stories, while also examining the playful power of language in everyday life.
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9780618562084 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, May 19, 2005), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The sixteenth book and third collection of stories by the critically acclaimed author of Chimera explores a wide variety of narrative approaches, including stories within stories, while also playfully examining the power of language in everyday life.
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9780394481395 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1972, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The comic adventures of Dunyazade, Perseus, and Bellerophon reveal the author's thought on the nature of a hero and relationships between men and women
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9781628971286 | Reissue edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, December 18, 2015), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A National Book Award winner, this bawdy, comic trio of novellas finds John Barth injecting his signature wit into three tales many times told: that of Scheherazade, storyteller of the Thousand and One Nights; of Perseus, slayer of Medusa; and of Bellerophon, rider of Pegasus and slayer of the Chimera.
9780618131709 | 1 edition (Mariner Books, November 20, 2001), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The comic adventures of Dunyazade, Perseus, and Bellerophon reveal the author's thoughts on the nature of a hero and relationships between men and women.
9780449211137 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, September 1, 1989), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: "Rich, hilarious .
Hardcover:
9781628970951 | Dalkey Archive Pr, October 30, 2015, cover price $32.95
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9780618257300 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, October 22, 2002), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Two writers, a retiring novelist and an aspiring writer of hypertext, compete to create a novel of a floating opera and explore the cultural lines between print and electronic fiction, and modernism and postmoderism.
9781903809464 | Atlantic Books, March 4, 2002, cover price $24.65 | About this edition: In a novelistic romp that is by turns hilarious and brilliant, John Barth, the dean of postmodern fiction, spoofs his own place in the pantheon of contemporary fiction and the generation of writers who have followed in the wake of his literary trailblazing.
Hardcover:
9780618131655 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Two writers, a retiring novelist and an aspiring writer of hypertext, compete to create a novel of a floating opera and explore the cultural lines between print and electronic fiction, and modernism and postmoderism.
Hardcover:
9780547072487 | Houghton Mifflin, October 7, 2008, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: From one of our most celebrated masters, a touching, comic, deeply humane collection of linked stories about surprising developments in a gated communityÂI find myself inclined to set down for whomever, before my memory goes kaput altogether, some account of our little community, in particular of what Margie and I consider to have been its most interesting hour: the summer of the Peeping Tom.
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9780547394503 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, October 18, 2010), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: “I find myself inclined to set down for whomever, before my memory goes kaput altogether, some account of our little community, in particular of what Margie and I consider to have been its most interesting hour: the summer of the Peeping Tom.
Hardcover:
9780935716313 | Dlx sgd edition (Lord John Pr, October 1, 1984), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Limited signed edition of 200 copies
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9780385090261 | Doubleday, June 1, 1967, cover price $4.95
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9780553242768 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, December 1, 1983), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Twenty-eight-year-old Jacob Horner, historian Joe Morgan, and his wife Rennie are a desperate bed-hopping threesome brought together by a strange doctor-psychiatrist-mentor
9780448002408 | Putnam Pub Group, June 1, 1975, cover price $2.95
Hardcover:
9781582437552 | Counterpoint, October 11, 2011, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: John Barth stays true to form in Every Third Thought, written from the perspective of a character Barth introduced in his short story collection The Development.
Paperback:
9781619020122 | Counterpoint, October 16, 2012, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: John Barth stays true to form in Every Third Thought, written from the perspective of a character Barth introduced in his short story collection The Development.
Hardcover:
9781582437569 | Counterpoint, April 17, 2012, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: For decades, acclaimed author John Barth has strayed from his Monday-through-Thursday-morning routine of fiction-writing and dedicated Friday mornings to the muse of nonfiction.
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9781564789181 | Dalkey Archive Pr, October 30, 2015, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Written when John Barth was 24 years old, The Floating Opera is his first novel, published in 1957.
9780425065396, titled "Starship Sapphire" | Berkley Pub Group, January 1, 1984, cover price $2.50 | also contains Starship Sapphire | About this edition: Fiction
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9780385240895 | Reissue edition (Anchor Books, April 1, 1988), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of a man's struggle with the idea of suicide and of a bed-hopping threesome brought together by a strange doctor-psychiatrist-mentor
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9780399129971 | Putnam Pub Group, October 1, 1984, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The distinguished author speculates on the future of literature and the literature of the future, looks back upon his own novels, and comments upon various aspects of writing
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9780801855573 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 1, 1997), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "Whether discussing modernism, postmodernism, semiotics, Homer, Cervantes, Borges, blue crabs or osprey nests, Barth demonstrates an enthusiasm for the life of the mind, a joy in thinking (and in expressing those thoughts) that becomes contagious.
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9780316086912 | Little Brown & Co, July 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Essays cover a variety of topics, from postmodern fiction and chaos theory to memory, imagination, and the arabesque
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9780316083249 | Little Brown & Co, August 1, 1995, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Essays cover a variety of topics, from postmodern fiction and chaos theory to memory, imagination, and the arabesque
George Giles encounters new people and ideas as he ascends from a goat farm to the position of Grand Tutor of the human university
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9780449235249 | Revised edition (Fawcett Books, April 1, 1978), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: George Giles encounters new people and ideas as he ascends from a goat farm to the position of Grand Tutor of the human university
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9780385240864 | Anchor Books, September 1, 1987, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: George Giles encounters new people and ideas as he ascends from a goat farm to the position of Grand Tutor of the human university
Hardcover:
9780316082518 | Little Brown & Co, January 1, 1991, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: While retracing the legendary voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, journalist Simon William Behler finds himself in Sindbad's household in medieval Baghdad and competes with Sindbad in a storytelling marathon in the hopes of finding a way back to the modern world
Paperback:
9781564788511 | Dalkey Archive Pr, May 13, 2016, cover price $21.00
9780385422208 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, February 1, 1992), cover price $12.95
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781558003989 | Dove Entertainment Inc, March 1, 1991, cover price $15.95
While retracing the legendary voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, journalist Simon William Behler finds himself in Sindbad's household in medieval Baghdad and competes with Sindbad in a storytelling marathon in the hopes of finding way back to the modern world. Reprint.
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9780618131716 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, November 20, 2001), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: While retracing the legendary voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, journalist Simon William Behler finds himself in Sindbad's household in medieval Baghdad and competes with Sindbad in a storytelling marathon in the hopes of finding way back to the modern world.
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9780449900901 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, August 1, 1982), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A landmark of postmodern American fiction, Letters is (as the subtitle genially informs us) "an old time epistolary novel by seven fictitious drolls & dreamers each of which imagines himself factual.
Hardcover:
9780399124259 | Book Sales, August 1, 1981, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: The letters of seven people, including a British gentlewoman who finds herself pregnant by her young American lover and a bachelor lawyer who enjoys incest on his final cruise in preparation for suicide, take readers on a journey through history
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9781564780614 | Reprint edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, September 1, 1994), cover price $14.95
Hardcover:
9780385041874 | Doubleday, June 1, 1968, cover price $4.95
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9780385240871, titled "Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice" | Reissue edition (Anchor Books, April 1, 1988), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Fourteen short literary experiments intended for perusal in sequence are set in contemporary society and classical Greece
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9781593761738 | Counterpoint, January 28, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The wildly varied essays in Not-Knowing combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of Americaâs masters of literary experiment.
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