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Guns made by hand, for serious hunters only
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Jul 1, 2008
A sign along a two-lane road makes a bold statement: “Freedom Arms, World's Finest Firearms.” Inside a plain metal building, a dozen workers at the Freedom ...

 

 

Federer One Away From Another Wimbledon Title

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 

Roger Federer beat Marat Safin in straight sets Friday, leaving him one win from his sixth consecutive Wimbledon title. Next up is his main rival, Rafael Nadal

 

 

 

Fought Against Civil Rights and Foreign Aid

By STEVEN A. HOLMES

The former North Carolina senator had a courtly manner, but his hard-edged conservatism made him a lightning rod for the left. Mr. Helms, above in 1994, died on Friday.

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HAVENS | OXFORD, MISS.; A College Town Where the Streets are Paved in Magnolia

...William Faulkner walked the streets of Oxford, Miss., a gentrified college town that...and its teams are widely credited with Oxford’s popularity. “People...back for Eli.” The Scene But Oxford, once known as much for the university...

 

 

 

 

Book List

 

Cyril’s Essential Books, 2^nd Level – 070408

 

- Ariosto:  Orlando Furioso (Harington translation and/or Reynolds)

- Beowulf (Heaney translation)

- Bierce: The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce (Bison Books)

- Burton, Robert:  The Anatomy of Melancholy (Folio edition)

- Casanova:  History of My Life (Trask translation, six double volumes, Johns Hopkins U.P.)

- Clarke, Arthur:  Works

- Collier, John:  Fancies and Goodnights

- Cooper: Leatherstocking Saga (Nevins editor)

- Cummings: Selected Poems:  1923-1958 (Faber)

- Cummings: The Enormous Room (Modern Library)

- Dana: Two Years Before the Mast and Other Voyages (Library of America)

- de Angeli (ed.):  Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes

- Dewey: Democracy and Education

- Dewey: How We Think

- Dewey: Quest for Certainty

- Dewey: Studies in Logical Theory (Philosophy in America)

- Doyle, A. C.:  Works

- Eliot:  Selected Essays (Harcourt Revised Edition)

- Eliot: Selected Poems

- Faulkner: Essays, Speeches, and Public Letters (Modern Library)

- Faulkner: Selected Short Stories (Modern Library)

- Faulkner: The Reivers

- Faulkner: Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear (Modern Library)

- Fitzgerald: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner)

- Five Greek Romances (Reardon, Collected Ancient Greek Novels)

- Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (Library of America)

- Harmon (ed.):  The Oxford Book of American Light Verse

- Harrison and Stuart-Clark (eds.): The Oxford Treasury of Classic Poems

- Hawthorne:  2-vol. Library of America

- Heinlein, Robert:  Works

- Hughes (ed.):  A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse

- Irving: The Complete Tales of Washington Irving (Neider editor)

- Jarman & Mason (eds.):  Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism

- Kipling:  Mainly Short Stories but also Verse and Kim

- Lockridge: Raintree County (edition with Herman Wouk forward)

- London:  Works

- Longfellow (trans.): The Divine Comedy

- Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings (Library of America)

- Lovell and Kluger: Lost Moon:  The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13

- Marlowe, The Complete Poems and Translations (Penguin Classics)

- Marlowe:  The Complete Plays (edited by Romany and Lindsey)

- Maugham: Short Stories

- McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter/Reflections in a Golden Eye/The Ballad of the Sad Cafe/The Member of the Wedding/The Clock Without Hands (Library of America)

- Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America)

- Mencken: Days (Happy, Newspaper, Heathen) (Dorset Press)

- Millay:  Selected Poems (American Poets Project edition)

- Moore: The Poems of Marianne Moore (Grace Schulman, ed.)

- O'Henry:  Short Stories

- Opies:  The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes

- Poe:  Mainly Short Stories

- Quiller-Couch (ed.):  The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918

- Robinson: The Poetry of E. A. Robinson (Modern Library)

- Saki:  Mainly Short Stories

- Spenser:  The Faerie Queene (Folio edition)

- Steinbeck: In Dubious Battle

- Tarkington: Penrod, His Complete Story (Doubleday)

- Tasso:  Jerusalem Delivered (Fairfax translation)

- The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Verse (1989)

- Twain: The Library of America set of Mark Twain

- Van Vogt: Mainly Short Stories

- Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class (Modern Library)

- Watkins and Haise: Apollo Moon Missions:  the Unsung Heroes

- Wavell (ed.):  Other Men’s Flowers

- Whitman: Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (OUP 150th anniversary edition)

- Wolfe (of White Suit Fame):  Works

-The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, Burton 16-volume translation