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1	Sot-Weed Factor more books like this by John Barth Ebenezer Cooke, a London poet and a virgin, goes off to the New World in search of his father. Barth's historical novel is based on a 1708 poem by an obscure Maryland writer, who becomes the hero of this tale. The novel uses many of the conventions of the 18th-century novel: the journey motif, picaresque adventures, improbable coincidences, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Lost in the Funhouse more books like this by Professor John Barth Fourteen experimental interconnected stories from 1968, subtitled "Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice," that in Barth's opinion are "best when read aloud or recorded on tape." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Chimera more books like this by Professor John Barth Barth reinvents three great myths: Scheherazade (in a tale about her young sister); Perseus (who at 40 is having a midlife crisis), and Bellerophon, whose heroic status does not bring him satisfaction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Giles Goat Boy more books like this by John Barth In Barth's hilarious and nihilistic farce, George Giles must rout the evil Wescac computer system that threatens to destroy his community. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.09! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Tidewater Tales more books like this by John Barth Barth's richest, most joyous novel yet describes a couple's journey on the Chesapeake Bay, a cruise that overflows with stories--of past lives and love, entanglements with the CIA and toxic waste, and inventive brushes with Don Quixote, Odysseus and Scheherazade. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.63! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor more books like this by Professor John Barth A journalist named Simon Behler is shipwrecked and washed ashore, where he encounters the legendary Sinbad the Sailor. Over the course of six days, the two men tell the stories of their adventures. The result is an entertaining mixture of medieval and modern, Old World and new. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Friday Book more books like this by John Barth Traditionally, John Barth reserved Fridays for writing nonfiction. This book is the result, and includes his influential essays "The Literature of Exhaustion" and "The Literature of Replenishment." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Letters more books like this by John Barth This epistolary--and very experimental--novel is set on a campus plagued by the student unrest that characterized the late 1960s and early 1970s. Told in the form of letters to and from various people on campus--many of them characters from Barth's other novels--it includes dozens of plots and subplots in its 700 pages, and tackles such subjects ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The end of the road by John Barth see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.52! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera more books like this by John Barth A cutter-rigged sloop sets sail for an end-of-season cruise down into the "Chesapeake Triangle." Our captain: a middle-aged writer of some repute. The sole crewmate: his lover, friend, editor, and wife. The journey turns out to be not the modest three-day cruise it at first seems. As we sail through sun and storm, our skipper spins (and is spun by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Floating Opera and the End of the Road more books like this by Professor John Barth The Floating Opera and The End of the Road are John Barth's first two novels. Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and the destructive effect of an overactive intellect on human emotions. Separately they give two very different views of a universal human drama. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.81! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	On with the Story: Stories more books like this by John Barth These 12 looping, interconnected stories about various aspects of modern love represent John Barth's first collection since "Lost in the Funhouse" was published in 1968. The individual tales are placed within the broader context of a comfortable semi-autobiographical relationship, in which husband and wife delight in the art of telling one another ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.09! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Floating Opera by Professor John Barth see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative more books like this by Professor John Barth A boat captain finds a novel by Johns "Hop" Johnson on a computer disk--a novel about John Barth, the author of this metafictional novel, set in the Johns Hopkins creative writing program--where Barth has taught. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15	Giles Goat-Boy Or, the Revised New Syllabus more books like this by John Barth see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Sabbatical: A Romance more books like this by John Barth Barth's metafictional novel is about two writers who are writing the book we are reading. A married couple, Fenn Turner (ex-CIA) and Susan Seckler (an English professor), embark in their 33-foot sailboat on an idyllic one-year cruise to Yucatan and the West Indies, and the novel consists of a record of their journey and of their differing agendas: ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17	Sabbatical more books like this by John Barth Barth's metafictional novel is about two writers who are writing the book we are reading. A married couple, Fenn Turner (ex-CIA) and Susan Seckler (an English professor), embark in their 33-foot sailboat on an idyllic one-year cruise to Yucatan and the West Indies, and the novel consists of a record of their journey and of their differing agendas: ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18	Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction, 1984-94 more books like this by John Barth In this collection of non-fiction, a continuation of THE FRIDAY BOOK (1985), John Barth tackles questions such as: What is inspiration?, Can it or fiction writing be usefully taught?, What is postmodernism? He also expounds on the short story as opposed to the long one, and literary influences from Scheherazade and Cervantes to Jorge Luis Borges ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
19	Lost in the funhouse : fiction for print, tape, live voice more books like this by John Barth see all copies from $4.00! signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	The Book of Ten Nights and a Night more books like this by John Barth John Barth's minimalist third story collection consists of 11 tales, one told on each day after the World Trade Center disaster by a writer and his muse, as they ponder the implications of 9/11 and the impact of terrorism on life and literature. Barth's collection recalls not only the tales in the ARABIAN NIGHTS but also Bocaccio's DECAMERON, in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.96! \| first editions
21	Beautiful Swimmers: Waterman, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay more books like this by William W Warner, Professor John Barth (Introduction by) John Barth, who hails from the Chesapeake Bay area, writes an introduction to this nonfiction book about the bay and its fishermen. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.95! \| SVS
22 view cover	Contemporary Fiction 50 Short Stories Since 1970 (Edited By Lex Williford and Michael Martone, Introduction By Rosellen Brown) by Sherman; Atwood Alexie, Margaret; Bambara, Toni Cade; Banks, Russell; Barth, John; Barthelme, Donald; Bass, Rick; Bausch,... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.78! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Where Three Roads Meet: Novellas more books like this by Professor John Barth John Barth's three postmodern novellas are linked by their association with his 1958 second novel, THE END OF THE ROAD. In "Tell Me," Barth lets a character who died in that book stay alive after all. In "I've Been Told," he follows the fortunes of one of the characters well past the novel's end. In "As I Was Saying," he invents three elderly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction, 1984 - 1994 more books like this by John Barth In this collection of non-fiction, a continuation of THE FRIDAY BOOK (1985), John Barth tackles questions such as: What is inspiration?, Can it or fiction writing be usefully taught?, What is postmodernism? He also expounds on the short story as opposed to the long one, and literary influences from Scheherazade and Cervantes to Jorge Luis Borges ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Wood Warblers: An Introductory Guide more books like this by Barth Schorre, John Rappole (Foreword by) Wood warbler migrations every spring and fall are one of the most anticipated high-lights of the North American birder's year. The warblers' frequently colorful appearance and distinctive songs make them especially attractive birds to observe, but their quick, darting movements, often among the highest branches of the trees, can make it difficult ... see all copies from $5.60! new only from $54.02!

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