![]() ![]() In first issue dust jacket with Winnie the Pooh listed at 70th Thousand and Fourth Edition on rear jacket flap jacket has an L shaped teat at the top front spine joint extending across the spine and affecting the word "Are" in the title. Now We Are Six: Spine cloth faintly darkened. In first issue dust jacket with "117th Thousand" at the top of the rear flap, with two faint blue lines running horizontally at top third and bottom sixth of jacket, light crimping at top edge of front panel and very small losses at the top of the flap folds. ![]() Winnie the Pooh: Small vintage bookseller ticket to front paste down, toning to endsheets. All Fine, in Near Fine dust jackets, with top and bottom corners of front flaps clipped, and light toning to the spine panels, slight soiling. Three volumes, all first edition, first printing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There is nothing I enjoy more in books than characters which truly interest me. Chichikov offers to buy the dead souls, though no one can figure out exactly why… Review ![]() Many of the owners are still paying taxes on serfs who have died, until the next censous is taken. Synopsis: The mysterious man Chichikov arrives in the countryside of Russia with a strange proposal to the local serf owners. And it may just be a new favorite for me. I would categorize it more as a satirical version of Dostoyevsky’s novels. A man who seeks to buy dead souls…it certainly draws your attention when you hear the premise of this book, especially considering it was written in 1842, and is considered one of the first great Russian novels.īeing a massive fan of Dostoyevsky, I picked up this novel partially because I heard it compared to his writing. ![]() ![]() This is a new version of a commonly held-thesis it is only a couple of years since the Oxford atheist Philip Pullman published his novel The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, which is based similarly on the idea that the church turned Jesus the Jewish teacher/leader into a divine figure. He now sees the Jesus of history as a nationalistic zealot, whom the Christian church turned into an internationally-minded peace-loving divine Christ and Son of God. This book explains how and why his view of Jesus changed. Reza Aslan’s book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (Westbourne Press, 2013) has really hit the headlines in the US media and online, aided hugely by an unfortunate interview on Fox News, in which the presenter could not seem to accept that a Muslim might legitimately choose to write a historical book about Jesus! Aslan came from a nominal Muslim family in Iran, moved with the family to the States at the time of the Islamic revolution, met up with evangelical Christians in the States and had a Christian conversion in his teens, but then began studying his new faith and other religions, and gave up his new faith reverting to Islam. ![]() Creative writing or influential anti-Christian apologetic? ![]() |