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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

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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

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Fourteen short literary experiments intended for perusal in sequence are set in contemporary society and classical Greece

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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

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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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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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

The story of a young associate professor of early American literature and her husband, a fifty-year-old ex-CIA officer, and their life aboard a cruising sailboat

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9780399127236 | Dlx ltd edition (Putnam Pub Group, May 1, 1982), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The story of a young associate professor of early American literature and her husband, a fifty-year-old ex-CIA officer, and their life aboard a cruising sailboat

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Product Description: 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." Seven characters (including the Author himself) exchange a novel's worth of letters during a 7-month period in 1969, a time of revolution that recalls the U...read more

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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.

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Product Description: Subtitled “a romance,” Sabbatical is the story of Susan Rachel Allan Seckler, a sharp young associate professor of early American literature―part Jewish, part Gypsy, and possibly descended from Edgar Allan Poe―and her husband Fenwick Scott Key Turner, a 50-year-old ex-CIA officer currently between careers, a direct descendant of the author of “The Star Spangled Banner” and himself the author of a troublemaking book about his former employer...read more

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9780399127175 | Putnam Pub Group, February 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The story of a young associate professor of early American literature and her husband, a fifty-year-old ex-CIA officer, and their life aboard a cruising sailboat

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9781564780966 | Reprint edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, August 1, 1996), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Subtitled “a romance,” Sabbatical is the story of Susan Rachel Allan Seckler, a sharp young associate professor of early American literature―part Jewish, part Gypsy, and possibly descended from Edgar Allan Poe―and her husband Fenwick Scott Key Turner, a 50-year-old ex-CIA officer currently between careers, a direct descendant of the author of “The Star Spangled Banner” and himself the author of a troublemaking book about his former employer.
9780140066197 | Viking Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The story of a young associate professor of early American literature and her husband, a fifty-year-old ex-CIA officer, and their life aboard a cruising sailboat

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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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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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Product Description: Limited signed edition of 200 copies

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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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A parody of life in colonial America relates the adventures of Ebenezer Cooke who became the poet laureate of Maryland

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9780385240888 | Anchor Books, September 1, 1987, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A parody of life in colonial America relates the adventures of Ebenezer Cooke who became the poet laureate of Maryland

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George Giles encounters new people and ideas as he ascends from a goat farm to the position of Grand Tutor of the human university (view table of contents)

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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

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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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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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An acclaimed author offers a witty collection of essays inspired by his Friday muse--the nonfiction one--and covers 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

Presented as a dozen tales exchanged by a middle-aged couple on vacation, an anthology of short stories explores the connections between language and thought, art and science, and life and love

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9780316082631 | Little Brown & Co, July 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Presented as a dozen tales exchanged by a middle-aged couple on vacation, an anthology of short stories explores the connections between language and thought, art and science, and life and love

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9780316083591 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, June 1, 1997), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Presented as a dozen tales exchanged by a middle-aged couple on vacation, an anthology of short stories explores the connections between language and thought, art and science, and life and love

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Essays cover a variety of topics, from postmodern fiction and chaos theory to memory, imagination, and the arabesque
By John Barth and Roger Donald (editor)

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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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Product Description: "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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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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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Product Description: "Tell me a story..." Katherine Shorter Sherritt Sagamore, 8 1/2 months pregnant, is a blue-blooded library scientist and founding mother of the American Society for the Preservation of Storytelling. Her husband Peter, 8 1/2 months nervous, is a blue-collar storyteller with a penchant for brevity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780399132476 | Putnam Pub Group, June 1, 1987, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: As they cruise around Chesapeake Bay aboard their sailboat, Peter Sagamore and his very pregnant wife, Katherine, reveal the stories of their past and present

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9780801855566 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 15, 1997, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: "Tell me a story.
9780030511660, titled "Design Principles and Problems" | Harcourt School, March 1, 1984, cover price $48.55 | also contains Design Principles and Problems

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The second collection of the late writer's nonfiction includes his uncollected essays--some of them from The New Yorker magazine--as well as several previously unpublished interviews, encompassing his views on art, film, and city life. (view table of contents)
By John Barth (introduced by), Donald Barthelme and Kim Herzinger (editor)

Hardcover:

9780679409830 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, August 1, 1997), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: The second collection of the late writer's nonfiction includes his uncollected essays--some from the New Yorker magazine--as well as several previously unpublished interviews, encompassing his views on art, film, and city life

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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. (view table of contents)

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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.

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. (view table of contents)

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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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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. Reprint.

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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.

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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. Reprint.

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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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A superlative anthology of short fiction presents the best examples of the genre from the twenty-five years of the series, with contributions from Robley Wilson, Frances Sherwood, Jean McGarry, Judith Grossman, Stephen Dixon, Guy Davenport, Avery Chenoweth, Steve Barthelme, and other writers. Simultaneous.
By John Barth (foreword by), John T. Irwin (editor) and Jean McGarry (editor)

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9780801881770 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 8, 2005, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: A superlative anthology of short fiction presents the best examples of the genre from the twenty-five years of the series, with contributions from Robley Wilson, Frances Sherwood, Jean McGarry, Judith Grossman, Stephen Dixon, Guy Davenport, Avery Chenoweth, Steve Barthelme, and other writers.

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9780801881787 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 8, 2005, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: A superlative anthology of short fiction presents the best examples of the genre from the twenty-five years of the series, with contributions from Robley Wilson, Frances Sherwood, Jean McGarry, Judith Grossman, Stephen Dixon, Guy Davenport, Avery Chenoweth, Steve Barthelme, and other writers.

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Exploring the themes of heroism, sex, and death, a trio of novellas by the critically acclaimed author of Chimera includes 'Tell Me,' about a young undergraduate's initiation into the mysteries of love, life, and the Heroic Cycle; 'I've Been Told,' which traces the history of storytelling; and 'As I Was Saying,' in which three elderly sisters record their services for a notorious and missing novelist.

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9780618610167 | Houghton Mifflin, November 21, 2005, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Exploring the themes of heroism, sex, and death, a trio of novellas by the critically acclaimed author of Chimera includes 'Tell Me,' about a young undergraduate's initiation into the mysteries of love, life, and the Heroic Cycle; 'I've Been Told,' which traces the history of storytelling; and 'As I Was Saying,' in which three elderly sisters record their services for a notorious and missing novelist.

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