From 140beb11849b42ceae311b34f2865f3db68df578 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tommaso Teofili Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:42:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Make ES|QL scoring tests running consistently in serverless (#118854) * make scoring tests running consistently in serverless enforce _id in books dataset to make doc distribution across shards consistent. books settings with 3 shards to accomodate serverless settings. unmuting scoring tests. scoring test fixed. --- muted-tests.yml | 18 -- .../xpack/esql/CsvTestsDataLoader.java | 2 +- .../src/main/resources/books-settings.json | 5 + .../testFixtures/src/main/resources/books.csv | 160 +++++++++--------- .../src/main/resources/scoring.csv-spec | 104 ++++++------ 5 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 149 deletions(-) create mode 100644 x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/books-settings.json diff --git a/muted-tests.yml b/muted-tests.yml index ef302671de998..2677b3e75d86e 100644 --- a/muted-tests.yml +++ b/muted-tests.yml @@ -153,24 +153,6 @@ tests: issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/117473 - class: org.elasticsearch.repositories.s3.RepositoryS3EcsClientYamlTestSuiteIT issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/117525 -- class: "org.elasticsearch.xpack.esql.qa.multi_node.EsqlSpecIT" - method: "test {scoring.*}" - issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/117641 -- class: "org.elasticsearch.xpack.esql.qa.single_node.EsqlSpecIT" - method: "test {scoring.*}" - issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/117641 -- class: "org.elasticsearch.xpack.esql.qa.mixed.MixedClusterEsqlSpecIT" - method: "test {scoring.*}" - issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/117641 -- class: "org.elasticsearch.xpack.esql.qa.mixed.MultiClusterEsqlSpecIT" - method: "test {scoring.*}" - issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/118460 -- class: "org.elasticsearch.xpack.esql.ccq.MultiClusterSpecIT" - method: "test {scoring.*}" - issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/118460 -- class: org.elasticsearch.xpack.esql.ccq.MultiClusterSpecIT - method: test {scoring.QstrWithFieldAndScoringSortedEval} - issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/117751 - class: org.elasticsearch.search.ccs.CrossClusterIT method: testCancel issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/108061 diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/CsvTestsDataLoader.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/CsvTestsDataLoader.java index abfe90f80e372..8e81d14b4dfd7 100644 --- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/CsvTestsDataLoader.java +++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/CsvTestsDataLoader.java @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ public class CsvTestsDataLoader { private static final TestsDataset DISTANCES = new TestsDataset("distances"); private static final TestsDataset K8S = new TestsDataset("k8s", "k8s-mappings.json", "k8s.csv").withSetting("k8s-settings.json"); private static final TestsDataset ADDRESSES = new TestsDataset("addresses"); - private static final TestsDataset BOOKS = new TestsDataset("books"); + private static final TestsDataset BOOKS = new TestsDataset("books").withSetting("books-settings.json"); private static final TestsDataset SEMANTIC_TEXT = new TestsDataset("semantic_text").withInferenceEndpoint(true); public static final Map CSV_DATASET_MAP = Map.ofEntries( diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/books-settings.json b/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/books-settings.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..b324c27b40653 --- /dev/null +++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/books-settings.json @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +{ + "index": { + "number_of_shards": 3 + } +} diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/books.csv b/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/books.csv index 1deefaa3c6475..1cb01687e6511 100644 --- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/books.csv +++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/books.csv @@ -1,80 +1,80 @@ -book_no:keyword,title:text,author:text,year:integer,publisher:text,ratings:float,description:text -2924,A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights\, A Gentle Creature\, and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (The World's Classics),[Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alan Myers, W. J. Leatherbarrow],2009,Oxford Paperbacks,4.00,In these stories Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism\, themes central to many of his great novels. This new translation captures the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky's writing\, while the introduction examines the stories in relation to one another and to his novels. -7670,A Middle English Reader and Vocabulary,[Kenneth Sisam, J. R. R. Tolkien],2011,Courier Corporation,4.33,This highly respected anthology of medieval English literature features poetry\, prose and popular tales from Arthurian legend and classical mythology. Includes notes on each extract\, appendices\, and an extensive glossary by J. R. R. Tolkien. -7381,A Psychic in the Heartland: The Extraordinary Experiences of a Small Town Doctor,Bettilu Stein Faulkner,2003,Red Wheel/Weiser,4.50,The true story of a small-town doctor destined to live his life along two paths: one as a successful physician\, the other as a psychic with ever more interesting adventures. Experiencing a wide range of spiritual phenomena\, Dr. Riblet Hout learned about the connection between the healer and the healed\, our individual missions on earth\, free will\, and our relationship with God. He also paints a vivid picture of life on the other side as well as the moment of transition from physical life to afterlife. -2883,A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club),William Faulkner,2005,Vintage Books,3.89,Presents three novels\, including As I Lay Dying\, in which the Bundren family journeys across Mississippi to bury their mother\, The Sound and the Fury\, in which Caddy Compson's story is narrated by her three brothers\, and Light in August\, in which th -4023,A Tolkien Compass: Including J. R. R. Tolkien's Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings,[Walter Scheps, Agnes Perkins, Charles Adolph Huttar, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien],1975,Open Court Publishing,4.67,The structure\, content\, and character of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are dealt with in ten critical essays. -2382,A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Trilogy Ser.),Ursula K. Le Guin,1991,Atheneum Books for Young Readers,4.01,A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard. -7541,A Writer's Diary (Volume 1: 1873-1876),Fyodor Dostoevsky,1997,Northwestern University Press,4.50,Winner of the AATSEEL Outstanding Translation Award This is the first paperback edition of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form\, it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame it incorporated an astonishing variety of material: short stories\, humorous sketches\, reports on sensational crimes\, historical predictions\, portraits of famous people\, autobiographical pieces\, and plans for stories\, some of which were never written while others appeared in the Diary itself. -7400,Anna Karenina: Television Tie-In Edition (Signet classics),[Leo Tolstoy, SBP Editors],2019,Samaira Book Publishers,4.45,The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the world s great writers\, and his 'War and Peace' has been called the greatest novel ever written. But during his long lifetime\, Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. The message in all his stories is presented with such humour that the reader hardly realises that it is strongly didactic. These stories give a snapshot of Russia and its people in the late nineteenth century. -4917,Autumn of the Patriarch,Gabriel Garcia Marquez,2014,Penguin UK,4.33,Gabriel Garcia Marquez\, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude\, explores the loneliness of power in Autumn of the Patriarch. 'Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside' As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through dusty corridors in search of their tyrannical leader\, they cannot comprehend that the frail and withered man lying dead on the floor can be the self-styled General of the Universe. Their arrogant\, manically violent leader\, known for serving up traitors to dinner guests and drowning young children at sea\, can surely not die the humiliating death of a mere mortal? Tracing the demands of a man whose egocentric excesses mask the loneliness of isolation and whose lies have become so ingrained that they are indistinguishable from truth\, Marquez has created a fantastical portrait of despotism that rings with an air of reality. 'Delights with its quirky humanity and black humour and impresses by its total originality' Vogue 'Captures perfectly the moral squalor and political paralysis that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long-term dictator' Guardian 'Marquez writes in this lyrical\, magical language that no-one else can do' Salman Rushdie -9896,Barn burning (A tale blazer book),William Faulkner,1979,Perfection Learning,3.50,Reprinted from Collected Stories of William Faulkner\, by permission of Random House\, Inc. -9607,Beowolf: The monsters and the critics,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,1997,HarperCollins UK,4.12,A collection of seven essays by J.R.R. Tolkien arising out of Tolkien's work in medieval literature -1985,Brothers Karamazov,Fyodor Dostoevsky,2015,First Avenue Editions,5.00,Four brothers reunite in their hometown in Russia. The murder of their father forces the brothers to question their beliefs about each other\, religion\, and morality. -2713,Collected Stories of William Faulkner,William Faulkner,1995,Vintage,4.53,A collection of short stories focuses on the people of rural Mississippi -2464,Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (Literary Conversations),Kurt Vonnegut,1988,Univ. Press of Mississippi,4.40,Gathers interviews with Vonnegut from each period of his career and offers a brief profile of his life and accomplishments -8534,Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics),Fyodor Dostoevsky,2017,Oxford University Press,4.38,'One death\, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!' A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece\, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender\, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crime will be justified by its elimination of 'vermin' for the sake of the greater good. But Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear\, guilt\, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile the police detective Porfiry is on his trial. It is a powerfully psychological novel\, in which the St Petersburg setting\, Dostoevsky's own circumstances\, and contemporary social problems all play their part. -8605,Dead Souls,Nikolai Gogol,1997,Vintage,4.28,Chichikov\, an amusing and often confused schemer\, buys deceased serfs' names from landholders' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit -6970,Domestic Goddesses,Edith Vonnegut,1998,Pomegranate,4.67,In this immensely charming and insightful book\, artist Edith Vonnegut takes issue with traditional art imagery in which women are shown as weak and helpless. Through twenty-seven of her own paintings interspersed with her text\, she poignantly -- and humorously -- illustrates her maxim that the lives of mothers and homemakers are filled with endless challenges and vital decisions that should be portrayed with the dignity they deserve. In Vonnegut's paintings\, one woman bravely blocks the sun from harming a child (Sun Block) while another vacuums the stairs with angelic figures singing her praises (Electrolux). In contrasting her own Domestic Goddesses with the diaphanous women of classical art (seven paintings by masters such as Titian and Botticelli are included)\, she 'expresses the importance of traditional roles of women so cleverly and with such joy that her message and images will be forever emblazoned on our collective psyche. -4814,El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba / No One Writes to the Colonel (Spanish Edition),Gabriel Garcia Marquez,2005,Harper Collins,4.45,Written with compassionate realism and wit\, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America\, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich\, of memories and illusions\, and of lost opportunities and present joys. -4636,FINAL WITNESS,Simon Tolkien,2004,Random House Digital\, Inc.,3.94,The murder of Lady Anne Robinson by two intruders causes a schism in the victim's family when her son convinces police that his father's beautiful personal assistant hired the killers\, while his father\, the British minister of defense\, refuses to believe his son and marries the accused. A first novel. Reprint. -2936,Fellowship of the Ring 2ND Edition,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,2008,HarperCollins UK,4.43,Sauron\, the Dark Lord\, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power - the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring - the ring that rules them all - which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit\, Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire\, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task\, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom\, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. JRR Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely\, epic and diabolic\, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. -8956,GOD BLESS YOU MR. ROSEWATER : Or Pearls Before Swine,Kurt Vonnegut,1970,New York : Dell,4.00,A lawyer schemes to gain control of a large fortune by having the present claimant declared insane. -6818,Hadji Murad,Leo Tolstoy,2022,Hachette UK,3.88,'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories' Sharon Cameron in her preface to Hadji Murad and Other Stories This\, the third volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction concentrates on his later stories\, including one of his greatest\, 'Hadji Murad'. In the stark form of homily that shapes these later works\, life considered as one's own has no rational meaning. From the chain of events that follows in the wake of two schoolboys' deception in 'The Forged Coupon' to the disillusionment of the narrator in 'After the Ball' we see\, in Virginia Woolf's observation\, that Tolstoy puts at the centre of his writing one 'who gathers into himself all experience\, turns the world round between his fingers\, and never ceases to ask\, even as he enjoys it\, what is the meaning of it'. The riverrun edition reissues the translation of Louise and Aylmer Maude\, whose influential versions of Tolstoy first brought his work to a wide readership in English. -3950,Hocus,Kurt Vonnegut,1997,Penguin,4.67,Tarkington College\, a small\, exclusive college in upstate New York\, is turned upside down when ten thousand prisoners from the maximum security prison across Lake Mohiga break out and head for the college -5404,Intruder in the dust,William Faulkner,2011,Vintage,3.18,A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man. -5578,Intruder in the dust: A novel,William Faulkner,1991,Vintage,3.18,Dramatizes the events that surround the murder of a white man in a volatile Southern community -6380,La hojarasca (Spanish Edition),Gabriel Garcia Marquez,1979,Harper Collins,3.75,Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa -5335,Letters of J R R Tolkien,J.R.R. Tolkien,2014,HarperCollins,4.70,This collection will entertain all who appreciate the art of masterful letter writing. The Letters of J.R.R Tolkien sheds much light on Tolkien's creative genius and grand design for the creation of a whole new world: Middle-earth. Featuring a radically expanded index\, this volume provides a valuable research tool for all fans wishing to trace the evolution of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS. -3870,My First 100 Words in Spanish/English (My First 100 Words Pull-Tab Book),Keith Faulkner,1998,Libros Para Ninos,4.50,Learning a foreign language has never been this much fun! Just pull the sturdy tabs and change the words under the pictures from English to Spanish and back again to English! -4502,O'Brian's Bride,Colleen Faulkner,1995,Zebra Books,5.00,Abandoning her pampered English life to marry a man in the American colonies\, Elizabeth finds her new world shattered when her husband is killed in an accident\, leaving her in charge of a business on the untamed frontier. Original. -7635,Oliphaunt (Beastly Verse),J. R. R. Tolkien,1989,Contemporary Books,2.50,A poem in which an elephant describes himself and his way of life. On board pages. -3254,Pearl and Sir Orfeo,[John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien],1995,Harpercollins Pub Limited,5.00,Three epic poems from 14th century England speak of life during the age of chivalry. Translated from medieval English. -3677,Planet of Exile,Ursula K. Le Guin,1979,Orion,4.20,PLAYAWAY: An alliance between the powerful Tevars and the brown-skinned\, clairvoyant Farbons must take place if the two colonies are to withstand the fierce attack of the nomadic tribes from the north of the planet Eltanin. -4289,Poems from the Hobbit,J R R Tolkien,1999,HarperCollins Publishers,4.00,A collection of J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbit poems in a miniature hardback volume complete with illustrations by Tolkien himself. Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break of day To seek the pale enchanted gold. J.R.R. Tolkien's acclaimed The Hobbit contains 12 poems which are themselves masterpieces of writing. This miniature book\, illustrated with 30 of Tolkien's own paintings and drawings from the book -- some quite rare and all in full colour -- includes all the poems\, plus Gollum's eight riddles in verse\, and will be a perfect keepsake for lovers of The Hobbit and of accomplished poetry. -6151,Pop! Went Another Balloon: A Magical Counting Storybook (Magical Counting Storybooks),[Keith Faulkner, Rory Tyger],2003,Dutton Childrens Books,5.00,Toby the turtle goes from in-line skates to a motorcycle to a rocketship with a handful of balloons that pop\, one by one\, along the way. -3535,Rainbow's End: A Magical Story and Moneybox,[Keith Faulkner, Beverlie Manson],2003,Barrons Juveniles,4.00,In this combination picture storybook and coin bank\, the unusual front cover shows an illustration from the story that's embellished with five transparent plastic windows. Opening the book\, children will find a story about a poor little ballerina who is crying because her dancing shoes are worn and she has no money to replace them. Full color. Consumable. -8423,Raising Faithful Kids in a Fast-Paced World,Paul Faulkner,1995,Howard Publishing Company,5.00,To find help for struggling parents\, Dr. Paul Faulkner--renowned family counselor and popular speaker--interviewed 30 successful families who have managed to raise faithful kids while also maintaining demanding careers. The invaluable strategies and methods he gleaned are now available in this powerful book delivered in Dr. Faulkner's warm\, humorous style. -1463,Realms of Tolkien: Images of Middle-earth,J. R. R. Tolkien,1997,HarperCollins Publishers,4.00,Twenty new and familiar Tolkien artists are represented in this fabulous volume\, breathing an extraordinary variety of life into 58 different scenes\, each of which is accompanied by appropriate passage from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion -6323,Resurrection (The Penguin classics),Leo Tolstoy,2009,Penguin,3.25,Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel\, Resurrection is an intimate\, psychological tale of guilt\, anger and forgiveness Serving on the jury at a murder trial\, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha\, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces the consequences of his actions\, he decides to give up his life of wealth and luxury to devote himself to rescuing Katyusha\, even if it means following her into exile in Siberia. But can a man truly find redemption by saving another person? Tolstoy's most controversial novel\, Resurrection (1899) is a scathing indictment of injustice\, corruption and hypocrisy at all levels of society. Creating a vast panorama of Russian life\, from peasants to aristocrats\, bureaucrats to convicts\, it reveals Tolstoy's magnificent storytelling powers. Anthony Briggs' superb new translation preserves Tolstoy's gripping realism and satirical humour. In his introduction\, Briggs discusses the true story behind Resurrection\, Tolstoy's political and religious reasons for writing the novel\, his gift for characterization and the compelling psychological portrait of Dmitri. This edition also includes a chronology\, notes and a summary of chapters. For more than seventy years\, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1\,700 titles\, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors\, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. -2714,Return of the King Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings,J. R. R. Tolkien,2012,HarperCollins,4.60,Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit\, this is the final part of Tolkien s epic masterpiece\, The Lord of the Rings\, featuring an exclusive cover image from the film\, the definitive text\, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men\, Dwarves\, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle agains the Dark. Meanwhile\, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. The devastating conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien s classic tale of magic and adventure\, begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers\, features the definitive edition of the text and includes the Appendices and a revised Index in full. To celebrate the release of the first of Peter Jackson s two-part film adaptation of The Hobbit\, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY\, this third part of The Lord of the Rings is available for a limited time with an exclusive cover image from Peter Jackson s award-winning trilogy. -7350,Return of the Shadow,[John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien],2000,Mariner Books,5.00,In this sixth volume of The History of Middle-earth the story reaches The Lord of the Rings. In The Return of the Shadow (an abandoned title for the first volume) Christopher Tolkien describes\, with full citation of the earliest notes\, outline plans\, and narrative drafts\, the intricate evolution of The Fellowship of the Ring and the gradual emergence of the conceptions that transformed what J.R.R. Tolkien for long believed would be a far shorter book\, 'a sequel to The Hobbit'. The enlargement of Bilbo's 'magic ring' into the supremely potent and dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord is traced and the precise moment is seen when\, in an astonishing and unforeseen leap in the earliest narrative\, a Black Rider first rode into the Shire\, his significance still unknown. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed while his indentity remains an absolute puzzle\, and the suspicion only very slowly becomes certainty that he must after all be a Man. The hobbits\, Frodo's companions\, undergo intricate permutations of name and personality\, and other major figures appear in strange modes: a sinister Treebeard\, in league with the Enemy\, a ferocious and malevolent Farmer Maggot. The story in this book ends at the point where J.R.R. Tolkien halted in the story for a long time\, as the Company of the Ring\, still lacking Legolas and Gimli\, stood before the tomb of Balin in the Mines of Moria. The Return of the Shadow is illustrated with reproductions of the first maps and notable pages from the earliest manuscripts. -6760,Roverandom,J. R. R. Tolkien,1999,Mariner Books,4.38,Rover\, a dog who has been turned into a toy dog encounters rival wizards and experiences various adventures on the moon with giant spiders\, dragon moths\, and the Great White Dragon. By the author of The Hobbit. Reprint. -8873,Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand,Ursula K. Le Guin,2004,Shambhala Publications,5.00,A series of interlinking tales and a novella by the author of the Earthsea trilogy portrays the triumphs and struggles of several generations of women who independently control Klatsand\, a small resort town on the Oregon coast. Reprint. -2378,Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott (Women in American History),[Lucretia Mott, Holly Byers Ochoa, Carol Faulkner],2002,University of Illinois Press,5.00,Dedicated to reform of almost every kind - temperance\, peace\, equal rights\, woman suffrage\, nonresistance\, and the abolition of slavery - Mott viewed women's rights as only one element of a broad-based reform agenda for American society. -1502,Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends,Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol,2009,Vanderbilt University Press,4.00,Nikolai Gogol wrote some letters to his friends\, none of which were a nose of high rank. Many are reproduced here (the letters\, not noses). -5996,Smith of Wooten Manor & Farmer Giles of Ham,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,1969,Del Rey,4.91,Two bewitching fantasies by J.R.R. Tolkien\, beloved author of THE HOBBIT. In SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR\, Tolkien explores the gift of fantasy\, and what it means to the life and character of the man who receives it. And FARMER GILES OF HAM tells a delightfully ribald mock-heroic tale\, where a dragon who invades a town refuses to fight\, and a farmer is chosen to slay him. -2301,Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,1969,Del Rey,5.00,Two bewitching fantasies by J.R.R. Tolkien\, beloved author of THE HOBBIT. In SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR\, Tolkien explores the gift of fantasy\, and what it means to the life and character of the man who receives it. And FARMER GILES OF HAM tells a delightfully ribald mock-heroic tale\, where a dragon who invades a town refuses to fight\, and a farmer is chosen to slay him. -2236,Steering the Craft,Ursula K. Le Guin,2015,Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,4.73,A revised and updated guide to the essentials of a writer's craft\, presented by a brilliant practitioner of the art Completely revised and rewritten to address the challenges and opportunities of the modern era\, this handbook is a short\, deceptively simple guide to the craft of writing. Le Guin lays out ten chapters that address the most fundamental components of narrative\, from the sound of language to sentence construction to point of view. Each chapter combines illustrative examples from the global canon with Le Guin's own witty commentary and an exercise that the writer can do solo or in a group. She also offers a comprehensive guide to working in writing groups\, both actual and online. Masterly and concise\, Steering the Craft deserves a place on every writer's shelf. -4724,THE UNVANQUISHED,William Faulkner,2011,Vintage,3.50,Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction\, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family\, who\, with their code of personal responsibility and courage\, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions. -5948,That We Are Gentle Creatures,Fyodor Dostoevsky,2009,OUP Oxford,4.33,In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism\, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from 'living life'. Despite his sentimental friendship with Nastenka\, his final withdrawal into the world of the imagination anticipates the retreat into the 'underground' of many of Dostoevsky's later intellectual heroes. A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how such withdrawal from reality can end in spiritual desolation and moral indifference and how\, in Dostoevsky's view\, the tragedy of the alienated individual can be resolved only by the rediscovery of a sense of compassion and responsibility towards fellow human beings. This new translation captures the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky's writing\, while the introduction examines the stories in relation to one another and to his novels. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship\, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features\, including expert introductions by leading authorities\, helpful notes to clarify the text\, up-to-date bibliographies for further study\, and much more. -1937,The Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky (Modern Library),Fyodor Dostoevsky,2012,Modern Library,4.33,This collection\, unique to the Modern Library\, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works\, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights\, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss\, to the famous Notes from the Underground\, a story of guilt\, ineffectiveness\, and uncompromising cynicism\, and the first major work of existential literature. Among Dostoevsky's prototypical characters is Yemelyan in The Honest Thief\, whose tragedy turns on an inability to resist crime. Presented in chronological order\, in David Magarshack's celebrated translation\, this is the definitive edition of Dostoevsky's best stories. -2776,The Devil and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics),Leo Tolstoy,2003,OUP Oxford,5.00,'It is impossible to explain why Yevgeny chose Liza Annenskaya\, as it is always impossible to explain why a man chooses this and not that woman.' This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form\, as a group they are representative of his style\, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Stories as different as 'The Snowstorm'\, 'Lucerne'\, 'The Diary of a Madman'\, and 'The Devil' are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that characterizes Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy. 'Strider' and 'Father Sergy'\, as well as reflecting Tolstoy's own experiences\, also reveal profound psychological insights. These stories range over much of the Russian world of the nineteenth century\, from the nobility to the peasantry\, the military to the clergy\, from merchants and cobblers to a horse and a tree. Together they present a fascinating picture of Tolstoy's skill and artistry. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship\, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features\, including expert introductions by leading authorities\, helpful notes to clarify the text\, up-to-date bibliographies for further study\, and much more. -4231,The Dispossessed,Ursula K. Le Guin,1974,Harpercollins,4.26,Frequently reissued with the same ISBN\, but with slightly differing bibliographical details. -7480,The Hobbit,J. R. R. Tolkien,2012,Mariner Books,4.64,Celebrating 75 years of one of the world's most treasured classics with an all new trade paperback edition. Repackaged with new cover art. 500\,000 first printing. -6405,The Hobbit or There and Back Again,J. R. R. Tolkien,2012,Mariner Books,4.63,Celebrating 75 years of one of the world's most treasured classics with an all new trade paperback edition. Repackaged with new cover art. 500\,000 first printing. -2540,The Inspector General (Language - Russian) (Russian Edition),[Nicolai Gogol, Thomas Seltzer],2014,CreateSpace,3.50,The Inspector-General is a national institution. To place a purely literary valuation upon it and call it the greatest of Russian comedies would not convey the significance of its position either in Russian literature or in Russian life itself. There is no other single work in the modern literature of any language that carries with it the wealth of associations which the Inspector-General does to the educated Russian. -2951,The Insulted and Injured,Fyodor Dostoevsky,2011,Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing,4.00,The Insulted and Injured\, which came out in 1861\, was Fyodor Dostoevsky's first major work of fiction after his Siberian exile and the first of the long novels that made him famous. Set in nineteenth-century Petersburg\, this gripping novel features a vividly drawn set of characters - including Vanya (Dostoevsky's semi-autobiographical hero)\, Natasha (the woman he loves)\, and Alyosha (Natasha's aristocratic lover) - all suffering from the cruelly selfish machinations of Alyosha's father\, the dark and powerful Prince Valkovsky. Boris Jakim's fresh English-language rendering of this gem in the Doestoevsky canon is both more colorful and more accurate than any earlier translation. --from back cover. -2130,The J. R. R. Tolkien Audio Collection,[John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien],2002,HarperCollins Publishers,4.89,For generations\, J R R Tolkien's words have brought to thrilling life a world of hobbits\, magic\, and historic myth\, woken from its foggy slumber within our minds. Here\, he tells the tales in his own voice. -9801,The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics),Fyodor Dostoevsky,2008,Oxford University Press,4.40,A remarkable work showing the author's power to depict Russian character and his understanding of human nature. Driven by intense\, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge\, the four Karamazov brothers all become involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father. -5469,The Lays of Beleriand,[John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien],2002,Harpercollins Pub Limited,4.42,The third volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war\, The Silmarillion. This\, the third volume of The History of Middle-earth\, gives us a priviledged insight into the creation of the mythology of Middle-earth\, through the alliterative verse tales of two of the most crucial stories in Tolkien's world -- those of Turien and Luthien. The first of the poems is the unpublished Lay of The Children of Hurin\, narrating on a grand scale the tragedy of Turin Turambar. The second is the moving Lay of Leithian\, the chief source of the tale of Beren and Luthien in The Silmarillion\, telling of the Quest of the Silmaril and the encounter with Morgoth in his subterranean fortress. Accompanying the poems are commentaries on the evolution of the history of the Elder Days. Also included is the notable criticism of The Lay of The Leithian by CS Lewis\, who read the poem in 1929. -2675,The Lord of the Rings - Boxed Set,J.R.R. Tolkien,2012,HarperCollins,4.56,This beautiful gift edition of The Hobbit\, J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy\, features cover art\, illustrations\, and watercolor paintings by the artist Alan Lee. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable\, unambitious life\, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent\, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest\, unaware that on his journey to the Lonely Mountain he will encounter both a magic ring and a frightening creature known as Gollum. Written for J.R.R. Tolkien's own children\, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies worldwide and established itself as a modern classic. -7140,The Lord of the Rings Poster Collection: Six Paintings by Alan Lee (No. 1),[J. R. R. Tolkien, Alan Lee],2002,HarperSport,4.75,A selection of stunning poster paintings from the celebrated Tolkien artist Alan Lee - the man behind many of the striking images from The Lord of The Rings movie. The 50 paintings contained within the centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings in 1992 have themselves become classics and Alan Lee's interpretations are hailed as the most faithful to Tolkien's own vision. This new poster collection\, a perfect complement to volume one\, reproduces six more of the most popular paintings from the book in a format suitable either for hanging as posters or mounting and framing. -5127,The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol,1992,Courier Corporation,3.75,Four short stories include a satirical tale of Russian bureaucrats and a portrayal of an elderly couple living in the secluded countryside. -8875,The Two Towers,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,2007,HarperCollins UK,4.64,The second volume in The Lord of the Rings\, This title is also available as a film. -4977,The Unvanquished,William Faulkner,2011,Vintage,3.50,Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction\, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family\, who\, with their code of personal responsibility and courage\, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions. -4382,The Wolves of Witchmaker,Carole Guinane,2001,iUniverse,5.00,Polly Lavender is mysteriously lured onto Witchmaker's grounds along with her best friends Tony Rico\, Gracie Reene\, and Zeus\, the wolf they rescued as a pup. The three must quickly learn to master the art of magic because they have been chosen to lead Witchmaker Prep against a threat that has grim consequences. -7912,The Word For World is Forest,Ursula K. Le Guin,2015,Gollancz,4.22,When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens\, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude\, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans\, led by Selver\, to retaliate against their captors\, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives\, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts\, there is no turning back. -1211,The brothers Karamazov,Fyodor Dostoevsky,2003,Bantam Classics,1.00,In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov\, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling\, profound\, complex\, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry\, the sensualist\, Ivan\, the intellectual\, Alyosha\, the mystic\, and twisted\, cunning Smerdyakov\, the bastard child. Frequently lurid\, nightmarish\, always brilliant\, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle\, a pathological obsession\, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole\, Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man\, about life\, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man's eternal questions\, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time. From the Paperback edition. -8086,The grand inquisitor (Milestones of thought),Fyodor Dostoevsky,1981,A&C Black,4.09,Dostoevsky's portrayal of the Catholic Church during the Inquisition is a plea for the power of pure faith\, and a critique of the tyrannies of institutionalized religion. This is an except from the Brothers Karamazov which stands alone as a statement of philiosophy and a warning about the surrender of freedom for the sake of comfort. -8077,The unvanquished,William Faulkner,2011,Vintage,4.00,Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction\, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family\, who\, with their code of personal responsibility and courage\, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions. -8480,The wind's twelve quarters: Short stories,Ursula K. Le Guin,2017,HarperCollins,5.00,The recipient of numerous literary prizes\, including the National Book Award\, the Kafka Award\, and the Pushcart Prize\, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing\, rich characters\, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories\, each with an introduction by the author\, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts\, from medieval settings to the future. Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin\, describing her experience\, her inspirations\, and her approach to writing\, this stunning collection explores human values\, relationships\, and survival\, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time. -2847,To Love A Dark Stranger (Lovegram Historical Romance),Colleen Faulkner,1997,Zebra Books,5.00,Bestselling author Colleen Faulkner's tumultuous saga of royal intrigue and forbidden desire sweeps from the magnificent estates of the aristocracy to the shadowy streets of London to King Charles II's glittering Restoration court. -3293,Universe by Design,Danny Faulkner,2004,New Leaf Publishing Group,4.25,Views the stars and planets from a creationist standpoint\, addresses common misconceptions and difficulties about relativity and cosmology\, and discusses problems with the big bang theory with many analogies\, examples\, diagrams\, and illustrations. Original. -5327,War and Peace,Leo Tolstoy,2016,Lulu.com,3.84,Covering the period from the French invasion under Napoleon into Russia. Although not covering solely the war itself\, the serialized novel does cover the effects the war had on Russian society from the common person right up to the Tsar himself. The book starts to move more to a philosophical consideration on war and peace near the end making the book as a whole an important piece of literature. -4536,War and Peace (Signet Classics),[Leo Tolstoy, Pat Conroy, John Hockenberry],2012,Signet Classics,4.75,Presents the classical epic of the Napoleonic Wars and their effects on four Russian families. -9032,War and Peace: A Novel (6 Volumes),Tolstoy Leo,2013,Hardpress Publishing,3.81,Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition)\, as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits\, maps\, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images\, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts\, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy. -5119,William Faulkner,William Faulkner,2011,Vintage,4.00,This invaluable volume\, which has been republished to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of Faulkner's birth\, contains some of the greatest short fiction by a writer who defined the course of American literature. Its forty-five stories fall into three categories: those not included in Faulkner's earlier collections\, previously unpublished short fiction\, and stories that were later expanded into such novels as The Unvanquished\, The Hamlet\, and Go Down\, Moses. With its Introduction and extensive notes by the biographer Joseph Blotner\, Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner is an essential addition to its author's canon--as well as a book of some of the most haunting\, harrowing\, and atmospheric short fiction written in the twentieth century. -8615,Winter notes on summer impressions,Fyodor Dostoevsky,2018,Alma Books,4.75,In June 1862\, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy\, he also wished to see first-hand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities\, including Berlin\, Paris\, London\, Florence\, Milan and Vienna.His record of the trip\, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions - first published in the February 1863 issue of Vremya\, the periodical he edited - is the chrysalis out of which many elements of his later masterpieces developed. -6478,Woman-The Full Story: A Dynamic Celebration of Freedoms,Michele Guinness,2003,Zondervan,5.00,What does it mean to be a woman today? What have women inherited from their radical\, risk-taking sisters of the past? And how does God view this half of humanity? Michele Guinness invites us on an adventure of discovery\, exploring the biblical texts\, the annals of history and the experiences of women today in search of the challenges and achievements\, failures and joys\, of women throughout the ages. -8678,Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World\, Planet of Exile\, City of Illusions,Ursula K. Le Guin,2016,Orb Books,4.41,Worlds of Exile and Illusion contains three novels in the Hainish Series from Ursula K. Le Guin\, one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained here. These books\, Rocannon's World\, Planet of Exile\, and City of Illusions\, are set in the same universe as Le Guin's groundbreaking classic\, The Left Hand of Darkness. At the Publisher's request\, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. +_id:keyword,book_no:keyword,title:text,author:text,year:integer,publisher:text,ratings:float,description:text +0,2924,A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights\, A Gentle Creature\, and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (The World's Classics),[Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alan Myers, W. J. Leatherbarrow],2009,Oxford Paperbacks,4.00,In these stories Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism\, themes central to many of his great novels. This new translation captures the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky's writing\, while the introduction examines the stories in relation to one another and to his novels. +1,7670,A Middle English Reader and Vocabulary,[Kenneth Sisam, J. R. R. Tolkien],2011,Courier Corporation,4.33,This highly respected anthology of medieval English literature features poetry\, prose and popular tales from Arthurian legend and classical mythology. Includes notes on each extract\, appendices\, and an extensive glossary by J. R. R. Tolkien. +2,7381,A Psychic in the Heartland: The Extraordinary Experiences of a Small Town Doctor,Bettilu Stein Faulkner,2003,Red Wheel/Weiser,4.50,The true story of a small-town doctor destined to live his life along two paths: one as a successful physician\, the other as a psychic with ever more interesting adventures. Experiencing a wide range of spiritual phenomena\, Dr. Riblet Hout learned about the connection between the healer and the healed\, our individual missions on earth\, free will\, and our relationship with God. He also paints a vivid picture of life on the other side as well as the moment of transition from physical life to afterlife. +3,2883,A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club),William Faulkner,2005,Vintage Books,3.89,Presents three novels\, including As I Lay Dying\, in which the Bundren family journeys across Mississippi to bury their mother\, The Sound and the Fury\, in which Caddy Compson's story is narrated by her three brothers\, and Light in August\, in which th +4,4023,A Tolkien Compass: Including J. R. R. Tolkien's Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings,[Walter Scheps, Agnes Perkins, Charles Adolph Huttar, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien],1975,Open Court Publishing,4.67,The structure\, content\, and character of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are dealt with in ten critical essays. +5,2382,A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Trilogy Ser.),Ursula K. Le Guin,1991,Atheneum Books for Young Readers,4.01,A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard. +6,7541,A Writer's Diary (Volume 1: 1873-1876),Fyodor Dostoevsky,1997,Northwestern University Press,4.50,Winner of the AATSEEL Outstanding Translation Award This is the first paperback edition of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form\, it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame it incorporated an astonishing variety of material: short stories\, humorous sketches\, reports on sensational crimes\, historical predictions\, portraits of famous people\, autobiographical pieces\, and plans for stories\, some of which were never written while others appeared in the Diary itself. +7,7400,Anna Karenina: Television Tie-In Edition (Signet classics),[Leo Tolstoy, SBP Editors],2019,Samaira Book Publishers,4.45,The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the world s great writers\, and his 'War and Peace' has been called the greatest novel ever written. But during his long lifetime\, Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. The message in all his stories is presented with such humour that the reader hardly realises that it is strongly didactic. These stories give a snapshot of Russia and its people in the late nineteenth century. +8,4917,Autumn of the Patriarch,Gabriel Garcia Marquez,2014,Penguin UK,4.33,Gabriel Garcia Marquez\, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude\, explores the loneliness of power in Autumn of the Patriarch. 'Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside' As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through dusty corridors in search of their tyrannical leader\, they cannot comprehend that the frail and withered man lying dead on the floor can be the self-styled General of the Universe. Their arrogant\, manically violent leader\, known for serving up traitors to dinner guests and drowning young children at sea\, can surely not die the humiliating death of a mere mortal? Tracing the demands of a man whose egocentric excesses mask the loneliness of isolation and whose lies have become so ingrained that they are indistinguishable from truth\, Marquez has created a fantastical portrait of despotism that rings with an air of reality. 'Delights with its quirky humanity and black humour and impresses by its total originality' Vogue 'Captures perfectly the moral squalor and political paralysis that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long-term dictator' Guardian 'Marquez writes in this lyrical\, magical language that no-one else can do' Salman Rushdie +9,9896,Barn burning (A tale blazer book),William Faulkner,1979,Perfection Learning,3.50,Reprinted from Collected Stories of William Faulkner\, by permission of Random House\, Inc. +10,9607,Beowolf: The monsters and the critics,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,1997,HarperCollins UK,4.12,A collection of seven essays by J.R.R. Tolkien arising out of Tolkien's work in medieval literature +11,1985,Brothers Karamazov,Fyodor Dostoevsky,2015,First Avenue Editions,5.00,Four brothers reunite in their hometown in Russia. The murder of their father forces the brothers to question their beliefs about each other\, religion\, and morality. +12,2713,Collected Stories of William Faulkner,William Faulkner,1995,Vintage,4.53,A collection of short stories focuses on the people of rural Mississippi +13,2464,Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (Literary Conversations),Kurt Vonnegut,1988,Univ. Press of Mississippi,4.40,Gathers interviews with Vonnegut from each period of his career and offers a brief profile of his life and accomplishments +14,8534,Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics),Fyodor Dostoevsky,2017,Oxford University Press,4.38,'One death\, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!' A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece\, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender\, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crime will be justified by its elimination of 'vermin' for the sake of the greater good. But Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear\, guilt\, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile the police detective Porfiry is on his trial. It is a powerfully psychological novel\, in which the St Petersburg setting\, Dostoevsky's own circumstances\, and contemporary social problems all play their part. +15,8605,Dead Souls,Nikolai Gogol,1997,Vintage,4.28,Chichikov\, an amusing and often confused schemer\, buys deceased serfs' names from landholders' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit +16,6970,Domestic Goddesses,Edith Vonnegut,1998,Pomegranate,4.67,In this immensely charming and insightful book\, artist Edith Vonnegut takes issue with traditional art imagery in which women are shown as weak and helpless. Through twenty-seven of her own paintings interspersed with her text\, she poignantly -- and humorously -- illustrates her maxim that the lives of mothers and homemakers are filled with endless challenges and vital decisions that should be portrayed with the dignity they deserve. In Vonnegut's paintings\, one woman bravely blocks the sun from harming a child (Sun Block) while another vacuums the stairs with angelic figures singing her praises (Electrolux). In contrasting her own Domestic Goddesses with the diaphanous women of classical art (seven paintings by masters such as Titian and Botticelli are included)\, she 'expresses the importance of traditional roles of women so cleverly and with such joy that her message and images will be forever emblazoned on our collective psyche. +17,4814,El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba / No One Writes to the Colonel (Spanish Edition),Gabriel Garcia Marquez,2005,Harper Collins,4.45,Written with compassionate realism and wit\, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America\, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich\, of memories and illusions\, and of lost opportunities and present joys. +18,4636,FINAL WITNESS,Simon Tolkien,2004,Random House Digital\, Inc.,3.94,The murder of Lady Anne Robinson by two intruders causes a schism in the victim's family when her son convinces police that his father's beautiful personal assistant hired the killers\, while his father\, the British minister of defense\, refuses to believe his son and marries the accused. A first novel. Reprint. +19,2936,Fellowship of the Ring 2ND Edition,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,2008,HarperCollins UK,4.43,Sauron\, the Dark Lord\, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power - the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring - the ring that rules them all - which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit\, Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire\, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task\, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom\, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. JRR Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely\, epic and diabolic\, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. +20,8956,GOD BLESS YOU MR. ROSEWATER : Or Pearls Before Swine,Kurt Vonnegut,1970,New York : Dell,4.00,A lawyer schemes to gain control of a large fortune by having the present claimant declared insane. +21,6818,Hadji Murad,Leo Tolstoy,2022,Hachette UK,3.88,'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories' Sharon Cameron in her preface to Hadji Murad and Other Stories This\, the third volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction concentrates on his later stories\, including one of his greatest\, 'Hadji Murad'. In the stark form of homily that shapes these later works\, life considered as one's own has no rational meaning. From the chain of events that follows in the wake of two schoolboys' deception in 'The Forged Coupon' to the disillusionment of the narrator in 'After the Ball' we see\, in Virginia Woolf's observation\, that Tolstoy puts at the centre of his writing one 'who gathers into himself all experience\, turns the world round between his fingers\, and never ceases to ask\, even as he enjoys it\, what is the meaning of it'. The riverrun edition reissues the translation of Louise and Aylmer Maude\, whose influential versions of Tolstoy first brought his work to a wide readership in English. +22,3950,Hocus,Kurt Vonnegut,1997,Penguin,4.67,Tarkington College\, a small\, exclusive college in upstate New York\, is turned upside down when ten thousand prisoners from the maximum security prison across Lake Mohiga break out and head for the college +23,5404,Intruder in the dust,William Faulkner,2011,Vintage,3.18,A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man. +24,5578,Intruder in the dust: A novel,William Faulkner,1991,Vintage,3.18,Dramatizes the events that surround the murder of a white man in a volatile Southern community +25,6380,La hojarasca (Spanish Edition),Gabriel Garcia Marquez,1979,Harper Collins,3.75,Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa +26,5335,Letters of J R R Tolkien,J.R.R. Tolkien,2014,HarperCollins,4.70,This collection will entertain all who appreciate the art of masterful letter writing. The Letters of J.R.R Tolkien sheds much light on Tolkien's creative genius and grand design for the creation of a whole new world: Middle-earth. Featuring a radically expanded index\, this volume provides a valuable research tool for all fans wishing to trace the evolution of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS. +27,3870,My First 100 Words in Spanish/English (My First 100 Words Pull-Tab Book),Keith Faulkner,1998,Libros Para Ninos,4.50,Learning a foreign language has never been this much fun! Just pull the sturdy tabs and change the words under the pictures from English to Spanish and back again to English! +28,4502,O'Brian's Bride,Colleen Faulkner,1995,Zebra Books,5.00,Abandoning her pampered English life to marry a man in the American colonies\, Elizabeth finds her new world shattered when her husband is killed in an accident\, leaving her in charge of a business on the untamed frontier. Original. +29,7635,Oliphaunt (Beastly Verse),J. R. R. Tolkien,1989,Contemporary Books,2.50,A poem in which an elephant describes himself and his way of life. On board pages. +30,3254,Pearl and Sir Orfeo,[John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien],1995,Harpercollins Pub Limited,5.00,Three epic poems from 14th century England speak of life during the age of chivalry. Translated from medieval English. +31,3677,Planet of Exile,Ursula K. Le Guin,1979,Orion,4.20,PLAYAWAY: An alliance between the powerful Tevars and the brown-skinned\, clairvoyant Farbons must take place if the two colonies are to withstand the fierce attack of the nomadic tribes from the north of the planet Eltanin. +32,4289,Poems from the Hobbit,J R R Tolkien,1999,HarperCollins Publishers,4.00,A collection of J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbit poems in a miniature hardback volume complete with illustrations by Tolkien himself. Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break of day To seek the pale enchanted gold. J.R.R. Tolkien's acclaimed The Hobbit contains 12 poems which are themselves masterpieces of writing. This miniature book\, illustrated with 30 of Tolkien's own paintings and drawings from the book -- some quite rare and all in full colour -- includes all the poems\, plus Gollum's eight riddles in verse\, and will be a perfect keepsake for lovers of The Hobbit and of accomplished poetry. +33,6151,Pop! Went Another Balloon: A Magical Counting Storybook (Magical Counting Storybooks),[Keith Faulkner, Rory Tyger],2003,Dutton Childrens Books,5.00,Toby the turtle goes from in-line skates to a motorcycle to a rocketship with a handful of balloons that pop\, one by one\, along the way. +34,3535,Rainbow's End: A Magical Story and Moneybox,[Keith Faulkner, Beverlie Manson],2003,Barrons Juveniles,4.00,In this combination picture storybook and coin bank\, the unusual front cover shows an illustration from the story that's embellished with five transparent plastic windows. Opening the book\, children will find a story about a poor little ballerina who is crying because her dancing shoes are worn and she has no money to replace them. Full color. Consumable. +35,8423,Raising Faithful Kids in a Fast-Paced World,Paul Faulkner,1995,Howard Publishing Company,5.00,To find help for struggling parents\, Dr. Paul Faulkner--renowned family counselor and popular speaker--interviewed 30 successful families who have managed to raise faithful kids while also maintaining demanding careers. The invaluable strategies and methods he gleaned are now available in this powerful book delivered in Dr. Faulkner's warm\, humorous style. +36,1463,Realms of Tolkien: Images of Middle-earth,J. R. R. Tolkien,1997,HarperCollins Publishers,4.00,Twenty new and familiar Tolkien artists are represented in this fabulous volume\, breathing an extraordinary variety of life into 58 different scenes\, each of which is accompanied by appropriate passage from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion +37,6323,Resurrection (The Penguin classics),Leo Tolstoy,2009,Penguin,3.25,Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel\, Resurrection is an intimate\, psychological tale of guilt\, anger and forgiveness Serving on the jury at a murder trial\, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha\, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces the consequences of his actions\, he decides to give up his life of wealth and luxury to devote himself to rescuing Katyusha\, even if it means following her into exile in Siberia. But can a man truly find redemption by saving another person? Tolstoy's most controversial novel\, Resurrection (1899) is a scathing indictment of injustice\, corruption and hypocrisy at all levels of society. Creating a vast panorama of Russian life\, from peasants to aristocrats\, bureaucrats to convicts\, it reveals Tolstoy's magnificent storytelling powers. Anthony Briggs' superb new translation preserves Tolstoy's gripping realism and satirical humour. In his introduction\, Briggs discusses the true story behind Resurrection\, Tolstoy's political and religious reasons for writing the novel\, his gift for characterization and the compelling psychological portrait of Dmitri. This edition also includes a chronology\, notes and a summary of chapters. For more than seventy years\, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1\,700 titles\, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors\, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. +38,2714,Return of the King Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings,J. R. R. Tolkien,2012,HarperCollins,4.60,Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit\, this is the final part of Tolkien s epic masterpiece\, The Lord of the Rings\, featuring an exclusive cover image from the film\, the definitive text\, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men\, Dwarves\, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle agains the Dark. Meanwhile\, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. The devastating conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien s classic tale of magic and adventure\, begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers\, features the definitive edition of the text and includes the Appendices and a revised Index in full. To celebrate the release of the first of Peter Jackson s two-part film adaptation of The Hobbit\, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY\, this third part of The Lord of the Rings is available for a limited time with an exclusive cover image from Peter Jackson s award-winning trilogy. +39,7350,Return of the Shadow,[John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien],2000,Mariner Books,5.00,In this sixth volume of The History of Middle-earth the story reaches The Lord of the Rings. In The Return of the Shadow (an abandoned title for the first volume) Christopher Tolkien describes\, with full citation of the earliest notes\, outline plans\, and narrative drafts\, the intricate evolution of The Fellowship of the Ring and the gradual emergence of the conceptions that transformed what J.R.R. Tolkien for long believed would be a far shorter book\, 'a sequel to The Hobbit'. The enlargement of Bilbo's 'magic ring' into the supremely potent and dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord is traced and the precise moment is seen when\, in an astonishing and unforeseen leap in the earliest narrative\, a Black Rider first rode into the Shire\, his significance still unknown. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed while his indentity remains an absolute puzzle\, and the suspicion only very slowly becomes certainty that he must after all be a Man. The hobbits\, Frodo's companions\, undergo intricate permutations of name and personality\, and other major figures appear in strange modes: a sinister Treebeard\, in league with the Enemy\, a ferocious and malevolent Farmer Maggot. The story in this book ends at the point where J.R.R. Tolkien halted in the story for a long time\, as the Company of the Ring\, still lacking Legolas and Gimli\, stood before the tomb of Balin in the Mines of Moria. The Return of the Shadow is illustrated with reproductions of the first maps and notable pages from the earliest manuscripts. +40,6760,Roverandom,J. R. R. Tolkien,1999,Mariner Books,4.38,Rover\, a dog who has been turned into a toy dog encounters rival wizards and experiences various adventures on the moon with giant spiders\, dragon moths\, and the Great White Dragon. By the author of The Hobbit. Reprint. +41,8873,Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand,Ursula K. Le Guin,2004,Shambhala Publications,5.00,A series of interlinking tales and a novella by the author of the Earthsea trilogy portrays the triumphs and struggles of several generations of women who independently control Klatsand\, a small resort town on the Oregon coast. Reprint. +42,2378,Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott (Women in American History),[Lucretia Mott, Holly Byers Ochoa, Carol Faulkner],2002,University of Illinois Press,5.00,Dedicated to reform of almost every kind - temperance\, peace\, equal rights\, woman suffrage\, nonresistance\, and the abolition of slavery - Mott viewed women's rights as only one element of a broad-based reform agenda for American society. +43,1502,Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends,Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol,2009,Vanderbilt University Press,4.00,Nikolai Gogol wrote some letters to his friends\, none of which were a nose of high rank. Many are reproduced here (the letters\, not noses). +44,5996,Smith of Wooten Manor & Farmer Giles of Ham,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,1969,Del Rey,4.91,Two bewitching fantasies by J.R.R. Tolkien\, beloved author of THE HOBBIT. In SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR\, Tolkien explores the gift of fantasy\, and what it means to the life and character of the man who receives it. And FARMER GILES OF HAM tells a delightfully ribald mock-heroic tale\, where a dragon who invades a town refuses to fight\, and a farmer is chosen to slay him. +45,2301,Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,1969,Del Rey,5.00,Two bewitching fantasies by J.R.R. Tolkien\, beloved author of THE HOBBIT. In SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR\, Tolkien explores the gift of fantasy\, and what it means to the life and character of the man who receives it. And FARMER GILES OF HAM tells a delightfully ribald mock-heroic tale\, where a dragon who invades a town refuses to fight\, and a farmer is chosen to slay him. +46,2236,Steering the Craft,Ursula K. Le Guin,2015,Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,4.73,A revised and updated guide to the essentials of a writer's craft\, presented by a brilliant practitioner of the art Completely revised and rewritten to address the challenges and opportunities of the modern era\, this handbook is a short\, deceptively simple guide to the craft of writing. Le Guin lays out ten chapters that address the most fundamental components of narrative\, from the sound of language to sentence construction to point of view. Each chapter combines illustrative examples from the global canon with Le Guin's own witty commentary and an exercise that the writer can do solo or in a group. She also offers a comprehensive guide to working in writing groups\, both actual and online. Masterly and concise\, Steering the Craft deserves a place on every writer's shelf. +47,4724,THE UNVANQUISHED,William Faulkner,2011,Vintage,3.50,Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction\, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family\, who\, with their code of personal responsibility and courage\, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions. +48,5948,That We Are Gentle Creatures,Fyodor Dostoevsky,2009,OUP Oxford,4.33,In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism\, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from 'living life'. Despite his sentimental friendship with Nastenka\, his final withdrawal into the world of the imagination anticipates the retreat into the 'underground' of many of Dostoevsky's later intellectual heroes. A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how such withdrawal from reality can end in spiritual desolation and moral indifference and how\, in Dostoevsky's view\, the tragedy of the alienated individual can be resolved only by the rediscovery of a sense of compassion and responsibility towards fellow human beings. This new translation captures the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky's writing\, while the introduction examines the stories in relation to one another and to his novels. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship\, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features\, including expert introductions by leading authorities\, helpful notes to clarify the text\, up-to-date bibliographies for further study\, and much more. +49,1937,The Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky (Modern Library),Fyodor Dostoevsky,2012,Modern Library,4.33,This collection\, unique to the Modern Library\, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works\, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights\, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss\, to the famous Notes from the Underground\, a story of guilt\, ineffectiveness\, and uncompromising cynicism\, and the first major work of existential literature. Among Dostoevsky's prototypical characters is Yemelyan in The Honest Thief\, whose tragedy turns on an inability to resist crime. Presented in chronological order\, in David Magarshack's celebrated translation\, this is the definitive edition of Dostoevsky's best stories. +50,2776,The Devil and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics),Leo Tolstoy,2003,OUP Oxford,5.00,'It is impossible to explain why Yevgeny chose Liza Annenskaya\, as it is always impossible to explain why a man chooses this and not that woman.' This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form\, as a group they are representative of his style\, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Stories as different as 'The Snowstorm'\, 'Lucerne'\, 'The Diary of a Madman'\, and 'The Devil' are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that characterizes Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy. 'Strider' and 'Father Sergy'\, as well as reflecting Tolstoy's own experiences\, also reveal profound psychological insights. These stories range over much of the Russian world of the nineteenth century\, from the nobility to the peasantry\, the military to the clergy\, from merchants and cobblers to a horse and a tree. Together they present a fascinating picture of Tolstoy's skill and artistry. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship\, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features\, including expert introductions by leading authorities\, helpful notes to clarify the text\, up-to-date bibliographies for further study\, and much more. +51,4231,The Dispossessed,Ursula K. Le Guin,1974,Harpercollins,4.26,Frequently reissued with the same ISBN\, but with slightly differing bibliographical details. +52,7480,The Hobbit,J. R. R. Tolkien,2012,Mariner Books,4.64,Celebrating 75 years of one of the world's most treasured classics with an all new trade paperback edition. Repackaged with new cover art. 500\,000 first printing. +53,6405,The Hobbit or There and Back Again,J. R. R. Tolkien,2012,Mariner Books,4.63,Celebrating 75 years of one of the world's most treasured classics with an all new trade paperback edition. Repackaged with new cover art. 500\,000 first printing. +54,2540,The Inspector General (Language - Russian) (Russian Edition),[Nicolai Gogol, Thomas Seltzer],2014,CreateSpace,3.50,The Inspector-General is a national institution. To place a purely literary valuation upon it and call it the greatest of Russian comedies would not convey the significance of its position either in Russian literature or in Russian life itself. There is no other single work in the modern literature of any language that carries with it the wealth of associations which the Inspector-General does to the educated Russian. +55,2951,The Insulted and Injured,Fyodor Dostoevsky,2011,Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing,4.00,The Insulted and Injured\, which came out in 1861\, was Fyodor Dostoevsky's first major work of fiction after his Siberian exile and the first of the long novels that made him famous. Set in nineteenth-century Petersburg\, this gripping novel features a vividly drawn set of characters - including Vanya (Dostoevsky's semi-autobiographical hero)\, Natasha (the woman he loves)\, and Alyosha (Natasha's aristocratic lover) - all suffering from the cruelly selfish machinations of Alyosha's father\, the dark and powerful Prince Valkovsky. Boris Jakim's fresh English-language rendering of this gem in the Doestoevsky canon is both more colorful and more accurate than any earlier translation. --from back cover. +56,2130,The J. R. R. Tolkien Audio Collection,[John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien],2002,HarperCollins Publishers,4.89,For generations\, J R R Tolkien's words have brought to thrilling life a world of hobbits\, magic\, and historic myth\, woken from its foggy slumber within our minds. Here\, he tells the tales in his own voice. +57,9801,The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics),Fyodor Dostoevsky,2008,Oxford University Press,4.40,A remarkable work showing the author's power to depict Russian character and his understanding of human nature. Driven by intense\, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge\, the four Karamazov brothers all become involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father. +58,5469,The Lays of Beleriand,[John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien],2002,Harpercollins Pub Limited,4.42,The third volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war\, The Silmarillion. This\, the third volume of The History of Middle-earth\, gives us a priviledged insight into the creation of the mythology of Middle-earth\, through the alliterative verse tales of two of the most crucial stories in Tolkien's world -- those of Turien and Luthien. The first of the poems is the unpublished Lay of The Children of Hurin\, narrating on a grand scale the tragedy of Turin Turambar. The second is the moving Lay of Leithian\, the chief source of the tale of Beren and Luthien in The Silmarillion\, telling of the Quest of the Silmaril and the encounter with Morgoth in his subterranean fortress. Accompanying the poems are commentaries on the evolution of the history of the Elder Days. Also included is the notable criticism of The Lay of The Leithian by CS Lewis\, who read the poem in 1929. +59,2675,The Lord of the Rings - Boxed Set,J.R.R. Tolkien,2012,HarperCollins,4.56,This beautiful gift edition of The Hobbit\, J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy\, features cover art\, illustrations\, and watercolor paintings by the artist Alan Lee. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable\, unambitious life\, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent\, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest\, unaware that on his journey to the Lonely Mountain he will encounter both a magic ring and a frightening creature known as Gollum. Written for J.R.R. Tolkien's own children\, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies worldwide and established itself as a modern classic. +60,7140,The Lord of the Rings Poster Collection: Six Paintings by Alan Lee (No. 1),[J. R. R. Tolkien, Alan Lee],2002,HarperSport,4.75,A selection of stunning poster paintings from the celebrated Tolkien artist Alan Lee - the man behind many of the striking images from The Lord of The Rings movie. The 50 paintings contained within the centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings in 1992 have themselves become classics and Alan Lee's interpretations are hailed as the most faithful to Tolkien's own vision. This new poster collection\, a perfect complement to volume one\, reproduces six more of the most popular paintings from the book in a format suitable either for hanging as posters or mounting and framing. +61,5127,The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol,1992,Courier Corporation,3.75,Four short stories include a satirical tale of Russian bureaucrats and a portrayal of an elderly couple living in the secluded countryside. +62,8875,The Two Towers,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,2007,HarperCollins UK,4.64,The second volume in The Lord of the Rings\, This title is also available as a film. +63,4977,The Unvanquished,William Faulkner,2011,Vintage,3.50,Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction\, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family\, who\, with their code of personal responsibility and courage\, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions. +64,4382,The Wolves of Witchmaker,Carole Guinane,2001,iUniverse,5.00,Polly Lavender is mysteriously lured onto Witchmaker's grounds along with her best friends Tony Rico\, Gracie Reene\, and Zeus\, the wolf they rescued as a pup. The three must quickly learn to master the art of magic because they have been chosen to lead Witchmaker Prep against a threat that has grim consequences. +65,7912,The Word For World is Forest,Ursula K. Le Guin,2015,Gollancz,4.22,When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens\, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude\, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans\, led by Selver\, to retaliate against their captors\, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives\, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts\, there is no turning back. +66,1211,The brothers Karamazov,Fyodor Dostoevsky,2003,Bantam Classics,1.00,In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov\, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling\, profound\, complex\, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry\, the sensualist\, Ivan\, the intellectual\, Alyosha\, the mystic\, and twisted\, cunning Smerdyakov\, the bastard child. Frequently lurid\, nightmarish\, always brilliant\, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle\, a pathological obsession\, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole\, Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man\, about life\, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man's eternal questions\, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time. From the Paperback edition. +67,8086,The grand inquisitor (Milestones of thought),Fyodor Dostoevsky,1981,A&C Black,4.09,Dostoevsky's portrayal of the Catholic Church during the Inquisition is a plea for the power of pure faith\, and a critique of the tyrannies of institutionalized religion. This is an except from the Brothers Karamazov which stands alone as a statement of philiosophy and a warning about the surrender of freedom for the sake of comfort. +68,8077,The unvanquished,William Faulkner,2011,Vintage,4.00,Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction\, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family\, who\, with their code of personal responsibility and courage\, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions. +69,8480,The wind's twelve quarters: Short stories,Ursula K. Le Guin,2017,HarperCollins,5.00,The recipient of numerous literary prizes\, including the National Book Award\, the Kafka Award\, and the Pushcart Prize\, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing\, rich characters\, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories\, each with an introduction by the author\, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts\, from medieval settings to the future. Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin\, describing her experience\, her inspirations\, and her approach to writing\, this stunning collection explores human values\, relationships\, and survival\, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time. +70,2847,To Love A Dark Stranger (Lovegram Historical Romance),Colleen Faulkner,1997,Zebra Books,5.00,Bestselling author Colleen Faulkner's tumultuous saga of royal intrigue and forbidden desire sweeps from the magnificent estates of the aristocracy to the shadowy streets of London to King Charles II's glittering Restoration court. +71,3293,Universe by Design,Danny Faulkner,2004,New Leaf Publishing Group,4.25,Views the stars and planets from a creationist standpoint\, addresses common misconceptions and difficulties about relativity and cosmology\, and discusses problems with the big bang theory with many analogies\, examples\, diagrams\, and illustrations. Original. +72,5327,War and Peace,Leo Tolstoy,2016,Lulu.com,3.84,Covering the period from the French invasion under Napoleon into Russia. Although not covering solely the war itself\, the serialized novel does cover the effects the war had on Russian society from the common person right up to the Tsar himself. The book starts to move more to a philosophical consideration on war and peace near the end making the book as a whole an important piece of literature. +73,4536,War and Peace (Signet Classics),[Leo Tolstoy, Pat Conroy, John Hockenberry],2012,Signet Classics,4.75,Presents the classical epic of the Napoleonic Wars and their effects on four Russian families. +74,9032,War and Peace: A Novel (6 Volumes),Tolstoy Leo,2013,Hardpress Publishing,3.81,Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition)\, as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits\, maps\, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images\, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts\, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy. +75,5119,William Faulkner,William Faulkner,2011,Vintage,4.00,This invaluable volume\, which has been republished to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of Faulkner's birth\, contains some of the greatest short fiction by a writer who defined the course of American literature. Its forty-five stories fall into three categories: those not included in Faulkner's earlier collections\, previously unpublished short fiction\, and stories that were later expanded into such novels as The Unvanquished\, The Hamlet\, and Go Down\, Moses. With its Introduction and extensive notes by the biographer Joseph Blotner\, Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner is an essential addition to its author's canon--as well as a book of some of the most haunting\, harrowing\, and atmospheric short fiction written in the twentieth century. +76,8615,Winter notes on summer impressions,Fyodor Dostoevsky,2018,Alma Books,4.75,In June 1862\, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy\, he also wished to see first-hand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities\, including Berlin\, Paris\, London\, Florence\, Milan and Vienna.His record of the trip\, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions - first published in the February 1863 issue of Vremya\, the periodical he edited - is the chrysalis out of which many elements of his later masterpieces developed. +77,6478,Woman-The Full Story: A Dynamic Celebration of Freedoms,Michele Guinness,2003,Zondervan,5.00,What does it mean to be a woman today? What have women inherited from their radical\, risk-taking sisters of the past? And how does God view this half of humanity? Michele Guinness invites us on an adventure of discovery\, exploring the biblical texts\, the annals of history and the experiences of women today in search of the challenges and achievements\, failures and joys\, of women throughout the ages. +78,8678,Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World\, Planet of Exile\, City of Illusions,Ursula K. Le Guin,2016,Orb Books,4.41,Worlds of Exile and Illusion contains three novels in the Hainish Series from Ursula K. Le Guin\, one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained here. These books\, Rocannon's World\, Planet of Exile\, and City of Illusions\, are set in the same universe as Le Guin's groundbreaking classic\, The Left Hand of Darkness. At the Publisher's request\, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/scoring.csv-spec b/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/scoring.csv-spec index cb38204a71ab0..72632c62603aa 100644 --- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/scoring.csv-spec +++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/scoring.csv-spec @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ from books metadata _score | sort c_score desc, book_no asc | LIMIT 2; -book_no:keyword | title:text | c_score:double -2675 | The Lord of the Rings - Boxed Set | 6.0 -4023 | A Tolkien Compass: Including J. R. R. Tolkien's Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings | 6.0 +book_no:keyword | title:text | c_score:double +1463 | Realms of Tolkien: Images of Middle-earth | 6.0 +2675 | The Lord of the Rings - Boxed Set | 6.0 ; singleMatchWithKeywordFieldScoring @@ -28,15 +28,15 @@ from books metadata _score | sort book_no; book_no:keyword | author:text | _score:double -2713 | William Faulkner | 2.3142893314361572 -2883 | William Faulkner | 2.3142893314361572 -4724 | William Faulkner | 2.3142893314361572 -4977 | William Faulkner | 2.3142893314361572 -5119 | William Faulkner | 2.3142893314361572 -5404 | William Faulkner | 2.3142893314361572 -5578 | William Faulkner | 2.3142893314361572 -8077 | William Faulkner | 2.3142893314361572 -9896 | William Faulkner | 2.3142893314361572 +2713 | William Faulkner | 1.7589385509490967 +2883 | William Faulkner | 1.7589385509490967 +4724 | William Faulkner | 1.7589385509490967 +4977 | William Faulkner | 2.6145541667938232 +5119 | William Faulkner | 2.513157367706299 +5404 | William Faulkner | 1.7589385509490967 +5578 | William Faulkner | 2.513157367706299 +8077 | William Faulkner | 1.7589385509490967 +9896 | William Faulkner | 2.6145541667938232 ; qstrWithFieldAndScoringSortedEval @@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ from books metadata _score | limit 3; book_no:keyword | title:text | _score:double -2675 | The Lord of the Rings - Boxed Set | 2.7583377361297607 -7140 | The Lord of the Rings Poster Collection: Six Paintings by Alan Lee (No. 1) | 1.9239964485168457 -2714 | Return of the King Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings | 1.9239964485168457 +2675 | The Lord of the Rings - Boxed Set | 2.5619282722473145 +2714 | Return of the King Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings | 1.9245924949645996 +7140 | The Lord of the Rings Poster Collection: Six Paintings by Alan Lee (No. 1) | 1.746896743774414 ; qstrWithFieldAndScoringSorted @@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ from books metadata _score | limit 3; book_no:keyword | title:text | _score:double -2675 | The Lord of the Rings - Boxed Set | 2.7583377361297607 -7140 | The Lord of the Rings Poster Collection: Six Paintings by Alan Lee (No. 1) | 1.9239964485168457 -2714 | Return of the King Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings | 1.9239964485168457 +2675 | The Lord of the Rings - Boxed Set | 2.5619282722473145 +2714 | Return of the King Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings | 1.9245924949645996 +7140 | The Lord of the Rings Poster Collection: Six Paintings by Alan Lee (No. 1) | 1.746896743774414 ; singleQstrScoringManipulated @@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ from books metadata _score | LIMIT 2; book_no:keyword | author:text | add_score:double -2378 | [Carol Faulkner, Holly Byers Ochoa, Lucretia Mott] | 2.0 -2713 | William Faulkner | 7.0 +2378 | [Carol Faulkner, Holly Byers Ochoa, Lucretia Mott] | 3.0 +2713 | William Faulkner | 6.0 ; testMultiValuedFieldWithConjunctionWithScore @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ from books metadata _score ignoreOrder:true book_no:keyword | title:text | author:text | _score:double -8480 | The wind's twelve quarters: Short stories | Ursula K. Le Guin | 14.489097595214844 +8480 | The wind's twelve quarters: Short stories | Ursula K. Le Guin | 11.193471908569336 ; multipleWhereWithMatchScoring @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ from books metadata _score | sort book_no; book_no:keyword | title:text | author:text | _score:double -8480 | The wind's twelve quarters: Short stories | Ursula K. Le Guin | 14.489097595214844 +8480 | The wind's twelve quarters: Short stories | Ursula K. Le Guin | 11.193471908569336 ; combinedMatchWithFunctionsScoring @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ from books metadata _score | sort book_no; book_no:keyword | title:text | author:text | year:integer | _score:double -5335 | Letters of J R R Tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | 2014 | 5.448054313659668 +5335 | Letters of J R R Tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | 2014 | 4.733664035797119 ; singleQstrScoring @@ -167,8 +167,8 @@ from books metadata _score | LIMIT 2; book_no:keyword | author:text | _score:double -2378 | [Carol Faulkner, Holly Byers Ochoa, Lucretia Mott] | 0.9976131916046143 -2713 | William Faulkner | 5.9556169509887695 +2378 | [Carol Faulkner, Holly Byers Ochoa, Lucretia Mott] | 1.3697924613952637 +2713 | William Faulkner | 4.631696701049805 ; singleQstrScoringGrok @@ -183,9 +183,9 @@ from books metadata _score | LIMIT 3; book_no:keyword | title:keyword | _score:double -8875 | The | 2.9505908489227295 -4023 | A | 2.8327860832214355 -2675 | The | 2.7583377361297607 +8875 | The | 2.769660472869873 +1463 | Realms | 2.6714818477630615 +2675 | The | 2.5619282722473145 ; combinedMatchWithScoringEvalNoSort @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ from books metadata _score ignoreOrder:true book_no:keyword | title:text | author:text | year:integer | c_score:double -5335 | Letters of J R R Tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | 2014 | 6 +5335 | Letters of J R R Tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | 2014 | 5.0 ; singleQstrScoringRename @@ -215,9 +215,9 @@ from books metadata _score | LIMIT 3; book_no:keyword | rank:double -8875 | 2.9505908489227295 -4023 | 2.8327860832214355 -2675 | 2.7583377361297607 +8875 | 2.769660472869873 +1463 | 2.6714818477630615 +2675 | 2.5619282722473145 ; singleMatchWithTextFieldScoring @@ -231,11 +231,11 @@ from books metadata _score | limit 5; book_no:keyword | author:text | _score:double -2378 | [Carol Faulkner, Holly Byers Ochoa, Lucretia Mott] | 0.9976131916046143 -2713 | William Faulkner | 4.272439002990723 -2847 | Colleen Faulkner | 1.7401835918426514 -2883 | William Faulkner | 4.272439002990723 -3293 | Danny Faulkner | 1.7401835918426514 +2378 | [Carol Faulkner, Holly Byers Ochoa, Lucretia Mott] | 1.3697924613952637 +2713 | William Faulkner | 3.2750158309936523 +2847 | Colleen Faulkner | 1.593343734741211 +2883 | William Faulkner | 3.2750158309936523 +3293 | Danny Faulkner | 1.593343734741211 ; combinedMatchWithFunctionsScoringNoSort @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ from books metadata _score ignoreOrder:true book_no:keyword | title:text | author:text | year:integer | _score:double -5335 | Letters of J R R Tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | 2014 | 5.448054313659668 +5335 | Letters of J R R Tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | 2014 | 4.733664035797119 ; combinedMatchWithScoringEval @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ from books metadata _score | sort book_no; book_no:keyword | title:text | author:text | year:integer | c_score:double -5335 | Letters of J R R Tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | 2014 | 6 +5335 | Letters of J R R Tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | 2014 | 5.0 ; singleQstrScoringEval @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ from books metadata _score book_no:keyword | c_score:double 8875 | 3.0 -7350 | 2.0 +7350 | 1.0 7140 | 3.0 ; @@ -289,14 +289,16 @@ required_capability: metadata_score required_capability: qstr_function from books metadata _score -| where qstr("title:rings") +| where qstr("title:gentle") | eval _score = _score + 1 | keep book_no, title, _score -| limit 2; +| limit 10 +; +ignoreOrder:true -book_no:keyword | title:text | _score:double -4023 | A Tolkien Compass: Including J. R. R. Tolkien's Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings | 2.6404519081115723 -2714 | Return of the King Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings | 2.9239964485168457 +book_no:keyword | title:text | _score:double +2924 | A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights, A Gentle Creature, and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (The World's Classics) | 3.158426523208618 +5948 | That We Are Gentle Creatures | 3.727346897125244 ; QstrScoreOverride @@ -304,12 +306,14 @@ required_capability: metadata_score required_capability: qstr_function from books metadata _score -| where qstr("title:rings") +| where qstr("title:gentle") | eval _score = "foobar" | keep book_no, title, _score -| limit 2; +| limit 10 +; +ignoreOrder:true -book_no:keyword | title:text | _score:keyword -4023 | A Tolkien Compass: Including J. R. R. Tolkien's Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings | foobar -2714 | Return of the King Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings | foobar +book_no:keyword | title:text | _score:keyword +2924 | A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights, A Gentle Creature, and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (The World's Classics) | foobar +5948 | That We Are Gentle Creatures | foobar ;