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just finished twilighttttt?
i haven’t heard of the book until the movie came out so after i saw the movie i thought i would read the book. after i read it i was very disappointed. i heard it was a GREAT book. and it was, it just sounds like it was written by a 5th grader! it just sounds REALLY CHEESY! like one of those creepy all time low fan fictions that teenagers write. like the scene after the baseball game when edward tells emmet to strap bella into the harness. it just sounded very weird. i don’t know what it was but it sounded like a 5th grader wrote it. sure its got all those big words lol but it was poorly written. can anyone tell me why its so popular?? (i do plan on reading the rest of the series) and can you recommend a good series that is like twilight? thank you!!
Yeah, the problem is you saw the movie THEN read the book, then you would be much more disappointed with the movie. Stephenie Meyer, in my opinion, is a great writer because her books aren’t really about the facts that Edward is a vampire, the books are about Bella and Edward’s struggles through love. The reason people love it is because its a beautiful romance that you can really enjoy if you take the time to read it. Sure, it isn’t PERFECT, but its close.
Oh, by the way, don’t stop reading Twilight after New Moon, that’s the slowest one. The two books after that are MUCH better. =]
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The Fan [VHS] $0.95 Lurid thrillers don’t get much more shameless than this movie, in which Robert De Niro plays a pathological baseball fan whose obsession is focused on a San Francisco Giants all-star outfielder (Wesley Snipes). While the newly signed baseball star is having trouble getting his favorite uniform number from a competitive teammate (Benicio Del Toro), De Niro is having career troubles at the knife com… |
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61 [VHS] $0.99 When asked to comment during Barry Bonds’s 2001 pursuit of the single-season home run record that he himself shattered in 1998, Mark McGwire said, “I was lucky enough to reach 70, and now they’re all talking about it like it’s a piece of cake.” It wasn’t for Bonds, it wasn’t for McGwire, and it certainly wasn’t for Roger Maris, who in 1961 competed with his much more popular teammate Mickey Mant… |
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Mr Baseball [VHS] $2.94 … |
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Oprah Winfrey Presents Mitch Albom’s for One More Day $2.85 FOR ONE MORE DAY (DVD MOVIE)… |
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Poser 9 $129.95 Poser 9 provides the world s easiest way to create captivating art and animation with 3D characters. Simple-to-learn tools and included characters let artists focus on making art. Poser es with over 3GB of ready-to-pose humans and animals textures props and 3D scene elements. In the Face Room customize Poser characters from facial photographs; add dynamic hair and clothing; dress the Poser virtual… |
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MLB Minnesota Twins Coloring & Activity Book $3.19 Minnesota Twins Coloring & Activity Book… |
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MLB Tampa Bay Devil Rays Coloring & Activity Book $1.82 Tampa Bay Rays Coloring & Activity Book… |
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MLB Philadelphia Phillies Coloring & Activity Book $7.49 Philadephia Phillies Coloring & Activity Book… |
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Calico Joe $24.95 A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball… Whatever happened to Calico Joe? It began quietly enough with a pulled hamstring. The first baseman for the Cubs AAA affiliate in Wichita went down as he rounded third and headed for home. The next day, Jim Hickman, the first baseman for the Cubs, injured his bac… |
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The Art of Fielding: A Novel $11.99 At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.Henry’s fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Ow… |
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The World’s Greatest Books: Fiction $24.37 No Synopsis Available |
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Books Speaking to Books : A Contextual Approach to American Fiction $29.25 No Synopsis Available |
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The Fiction Class $10.09 A witty honest and hugely entertaining story for anyone who loves books or has a difficult mother. And let"s face it that"s practically everybody . . . On paper Arabella Hicks seems more than qualified to teach her fiction class on the Upper West Side: she"s a writer herself; she"s passionate about books; she"s even named after the heroine in a Georgette Heyer novel. On the other hand she"s thirty-eight single and has been writing the same book for the last seven years. And she has been distracted recently: on the same day that Arabella teaches her class she also visits her mother in a nursing home outside the city. And every time they argue. Arabella wants the fighting to stop but as her mother puts it "Just because we"re family doesn"t mean we have to like each other." When her class takes a surprising turn and her lessons start to spill over into her weekly visits she suddenly finds she might be holding the key to her mother"s love and dare she say it her own inspiration. After all as a lifelong lover of books she knows the power of a good story.A witty honest and hugely entertaining story for anyone who loves books or has a difficult mother. And let"s face it that"s practically everybody . . . On paper Arabella Hicks seems more than qualified to teach her fiction class on the Upper West Side: she"s a writer herself; she"s passionate about books; she"s even named after the heroine in a Georgette Heyer novel. On the other hand she"s thirty-eight single and has been writing the same book for the last seven years. And she has been distracted recently: on the same day that Arabella teaches her class she also visits her mother in a nursing home outside the city. And every time they argue. Arabella wants the fighting to stop but as her mother puts it "Just because we"re family doesn"t mean we have to like each other." When her class takes a surprising turn and her lessons start to spill over into her weekly visits she suddenly finds she might be holding the key to her mother"s love and dare she say it her own inspiration. After all as a lifelong lover of books she knows the power of a good story. |
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The Great God Baseball: Religion in Modern Baseball Fiction $39 No Synopsis Available |
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Classic British Fiction: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 15 Books (Fiction Other Than Sherlock Holmes) In A Single File $1.19 This book-collection file includes 15 books: The Adventures of Gerard; Beyond the City; The Captain of the Polestar and Other Stories; A Desert Drama, Tragedy of the Korosko; The Doings of Raffles Haw; A Duet With Occasional Chorus; The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard; The Firm of Girdlestone; The Green Flag; The Last Galley. Impressions and Tales; The Mystery of Cloomber; The Parasite; The Stark Munro Letters; Tales of Terror and Mystery; and Through the Magic Door. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was an author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. |
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Books – Textbook, Fiction, Non-Fiction in Indonesia : A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 $97.45 No Synopsis Available |
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Genre Study : Teaching with Fiction and Nonfiction Books $47.53 No Synopsis Available |
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World’s Greatest Books – Volume 03 – Fiction $27.3 No Synopsis Available |
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World’s Greatest Books – Volume 04 – Fiction $25.67 No Synopsis Available |
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World’s Greatest Books – Volume 05 – Fiction $26.49 No Synopsis Available |
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World’s Greatest Books – Volume 06 – Fiction $27.12 No Synopsis Available |
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World’s Greatest Books – Volume 08 – Fiction $26.31 No Synopsis Available |
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World’s Greatest Books – Volume 07 – Fiction $26.22 No Synopsis Available |
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World’s Greatest Books – Volume 01 – Fiction $27.21 No Synopsis Available |
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World’s Greatest Books – Volume 02 – Fiction $27.4 No Synopsis Available |
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Write and Publish Non-Fiction Books in Seven Days $8.77 No Synopsis Available |
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D. H. Lawrence Travel Books and Fiction $21.94 No Synopsis Available |
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A Manual Of The Art Of Fiction $2.29 pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. This MANUAL OF THE ART OF FICTION is a revised and amplified edition of Materials and Methods of Fiction, by Clayton Hamilton, which was first published in 1908. The earlier work was immediately recognized as an important piece of constructive criticism and has held its position ever since as one of the leading books in its field. On the tenth anniversary of its appearance, the publishers have asked the author to prepare this annotated and enlarged edition, particularly for the use of students and teachers in schools and colleges. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE& COMPANY. Garden City, New York, 1918 |
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Classic British Fiction: 10 Books By G.K. Chesterton In A Single File $1.19 This book-collection file includes 10 books: The Ball and the Cross, The Club of Queer Trades, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Man Who Was Thursday, Manalive, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Trees of Pride, Tremendous Trifles, and The Wisdom of Father Brown. According to Wikipedia: "Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." He wrote in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations. For example: "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." As a Christian apologist he is widely admired throughout many religious denominations, as well as by many non-Christians[citation needed]. As a political thinker, he cast aspersions on both Liberalism and Conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. |
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Classic British Literature: 19 Non-Fiction Books By G.K. Chesterton $1.19 This book-collection file includes 19 non-fiction books by G.K. Chesterton: Alarms and Discursions, All Things Considered, The Appetite of Tyranny, The Crimes of England, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens, The Defendant, Eugenics and Other Evils, Heretics, Lord Kitchener, A Miscellany of Men, The New Jerusalem, Orthodoxy, Robert Browning, A Short History of England, Twelve Types, Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays, Varied Types, The Victorian Age in Literature, and What's Wrong with the World. It also includes the individual essays The Barbarism of Berlin and George Bernard Shaw. According to Wikipedia: "Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox."He wrote in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations. For example: "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." As a Christian apologist he is widely admired throughout many religious denominations, as well as by many non-Christians[citation needed]. As a political thinker, he cast aspersions on both Liberalism and Conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. |
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Classic American Fiction: 17 Books By Gertrude Atherton In A Single File $1.19 This file includes 17 books by Gertrude Atherton: The Avalanche, The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories, Black Oxen, The Californians, The Conqueror, The Doomswomen, The Gorgeous Isle, The Living Present, Rezanov, Senator North, The Sisters-in-Law, Sleeping Fires, The Spinners' Book of Fiction, Splendid Idle Forties, The Valiant Runaways, What Dreams May Come, and The White Morning. According to Wikipedia, "Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American writer… After her husband's death, in 1887, she was free to pursue her writing career as a protégée of Ambrose Bierce, eventually writing 60 books and numerous articles and short stories. She first submitted The Randolphs of Redwood: A Romance (March 31, 1883-May 5, 1883) to The Argonaut under the pseudonym Asmodeus. When she revealed to her family that she was the author, it caused her to be ostracized. In 1888, she left for New York, leaving Muriel with her grandmother, and London, and would eventually return to California. Atherton's first signed novel, What Dreams May Come, was published in 1888 under the pseudonym Frank Lin… Atherton explored the history and culture of Spanish California in Monterey, San Juan Bautista, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara. From these experiences came Before the Gringo Came (1894)… She is best remembered for her "California Series," several novels and short stories dealing with the social history of California. The series includes The Splendid, Idle Forties (1902); The Conqueror (1902), which is a fictionalized biography of Alexander Hamilton; and her sensational, semi-autobiographical novel Black Oxen (1923), about a middle-aged woman who miraculously becomes young again after glandular therapy. The latter was made into a silent movie in 1923. |
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Classic British Fiction: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 3 Books About War, In A Single File $1.29 This book-collection file includes three non-fiction books, two about the Boer War and one about WWI — The Great Boer War, The War in South Africa, and A Visit to Three Fronts, June 1916. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was an author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. |
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Write Great Fiction – Plot & Structure $11.09 Fiction writers can now learn to craft an engaging plot with this new book from the best-selling author and columnist.James Scott Bell offers clear, concise information that will help you create a believable and memorable plot including techniques for crafting strong beginnings, middles and endings, with easy to understand plotting diagrams and charts. Bell also provides brainstorming techniques for developing original plot ideas and tips and tools for correcting common plot problems. The Write Great Fiction series will cover all the essentials for writing fiction, including dialogue, characters, viewpoint, setting, description and more. Be sure to look for all the books in this new series from Writer’s Digest Books! |
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Classic American Fiction: 27 Books By Francis Marion Crawford In A Single File $1.19 This file includes: Adam Johnsone's Son, An American Politician, Casa Braccio, A Cigarett-Maker's Romance, Doctor Claudius, Don Orsino, Fair Margaret, Greifenstein, The Heart of Rome, In the Palace of the King, The Little City of Hope, Man Overboard! Marietta, Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster, Mr. Isaacs, Paul Patoff, The Primadonna, A Roman Singer, Sant' Ilairo, Saracinesca, A Tale of a Lonely Parish, Taquisara, The Upper Berth, Via Crucis, The White Sister, Whosoever Shall Offend, and The Witch of Prague. According to Wikipedia: "Francis Marion Crawford (August 2, 1854 – April 9, 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories… Year by year Crawford published a number of successful novels. Late in the 1890's he began to write the historical works. These are: Ave Roma Immortalis (1898), Rulers of the South (1900) renamed Southern Italy and Sicily and The Rulers of the South in 1905 for the American market, and Gleanings from Venetian History (1905) with the American title Salvae Venetia, itself reissued in 1909 as Venice; the Place and the People. In these his intimate knowledge of local Italian history combines with the romanticist's imaginative faculty to excellent effect. His shorter book Constantinople (1895) belongs to this category. After most of his fictional works had been published, most came to think he was a gifted narrator; and his books of fiction, full of historic vitality and dramatic characterization, became widely popular among readers to whom the realism of problems or the eccentricities of subjective analysis were repellent. In The Novel: What It Is (1893), he defended his literary approach, self-conceived as a combination of romanticism and realism, defining the art form in terms of its marketplace and audience. The novel, he wrote, is "a marketable commodity" and "intellectual artistic luxury" that "must amuse, indeed, but should amuse reasonably, from an intellectual point of view. . . . Its intention is to amuse and please, and certainly not to teach and preach; but in order to amuse well it must be a finely-balanced creation. . . ." The Saracinesca series is perhaps known to be his best work, with the third in the series, Don Orsino (1892) set against the background of a real estate bubble, told with effective concision. The second volume is Sant' Ilario [Hilary] (1889). A fourth book in the series, Corleone (1897), was the first major treatment of the Mafia in literature, and used the now-familiar but then-original device of a priest unable to testify to a crime because of the Seal of the Confessional; the novel is not one of his major works, having failed to live up to the standard set by the books earlier in the series. Crawford ended Rulers of the South (1900) with a chapter about the Sicilian Mafia. Crawford himself was fondest of Kha |
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THE BASEBALL NOVEL: A History and Annotated Bibliography of Adult Fiction $51.94 No Synopsis Available |
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Classic British Literature: Five Non-Fiction Books By Joseph Conrad $1.19 This book-collection file includes five books: The Mirror of the Sea, Notes on Life and Letters, Notes on My Books, A Personal Record, and Some Reminiscences. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language a fact that is remarkable as he did not learn to peak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a Polish accent). Conrad is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, V.S. Naipaul, Italo Calvino and J. M. Coetzee. |
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Lesbian Pulp Fiction $13.79 Long before the rise of the modern gay movement, an unnoticed literary revolution was occurring between the covers of the cheaply produced lesbian pulp paperbacks of the post-World War II era. In 1950, publisher Fawcett Books founded its Gold Medal imprint, inaugurating the reign of lesbian pulp fiction. These were the books that small-town lesbians and prurient men bought by the millions — cheap, easy to find in drugstores, and immediately recognizable by their lurid covers: often a hard-looking brunette standing over a scantily clad blonde, or a man gazing in tormented lust at a lovely, unobtainable lesbian. For women leading straight lives, here was confirmation that they were not alone and that darkly glamorous, "gay" places like Greenwich Village existed. Some — especially those written by lesbians — offered sympathetic and realistic depictions of "life in the shadows," while others (no less fun to read now) were smutty, sensational tales of innocent girls led astray. In the overheated prose typical of the genre, this collection documents the emergence of a lesbian subculture in postwar America. |
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The Anthology Of Mystery Fiction $3.19 Over 30 mystery books in one collection with active table of contents.Authors include:Agatha ChristieMary Roberts RinehartG.K. ChestertonGaston LerouxArthur Doyle |
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Classic British Literature: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 6 Non-Fiction Books In A Single File $1.19 This book-collection file includes six books. Three are on war — The Great Boer War, The War in South Africa, and A Visit to Three Fronts, June 1916. Two are on Spiritualism — The New Revelation and The Vital Message. And one on Medicine — Round the Red Lamp: Facts and Fancies of the Medical Life. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was an author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. |
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The Art Of Fiction: A Guide For Writers And Readers $12.99 In 1958 Ayn Rand already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. The Art of Fiction offers invaluable lessons in which Rand analyzes the four essential elements of fiction: theme plot characterization and style. She demonstrates her ideas by dissecting her best-known works as well as those of other famous authors such as Thomas Wolfe Sinclair Lewis and Victor Hugo. An historic accomplishment this compendium will be a unique and fascinating resource for both writers and readers of fiction.In 1958 Ayn Rand already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. The Art of Fiction offers invaluable lessons in which Rand analyzes the four essential elements of fiction: theme plot characterization and style. She demonstrates her ideas by dissecting her best-known works as well as those of other famous authors such as Thomas Wolfe Sinclair Lewis and Victor Hugo. An historic accomplishment this compendium will be a unique and fascinating resource for both writers and readers of fiction. |
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Backword Books: Full Frontal — Author-On-Author Interviews About Literary Fiction Independent Publishing And Sources Of Inspiration And Desperation $4.96 BACKWORD BOOKS is a group of independent authors united under one banner to attain mainstream media coverage generate sales and bring an aura of professionalism and legitimacy to independent publishing. The Backword authors are Henry Baum Kristen Tsetsi Andrew Kent Christopher Meeks R.J. Keller Eddie Wright and Bonnie Kozek. These interviews probe the work and ideas behind their fiction. |
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Classic American Literature: Jack London: 6 Books Of Memoris, Essays And Non-Fiction In A Single File $1.19 This book-collection file includes: John Barleycorn, The Road, The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, Revolution and Other Essays, and The Cruise of the Snark. According to Wikipedia: "Jack London (12 January, 1876 – 22 November, 1916] was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. |
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Classic American Fiction: Altsheler’s French And Indian War Series, All 6 Books In A Single File $1.19 This book-collection file includes: The Lords of the Wild, The Hunters of the Hills, The Shadow of the North, The Sun of Quebec, The Rulers of the lakes, and The Masters of the Peaks. According to the original publisher, in the French and Indian War Series "Altsheler has endeavored to describe the events of the French and Indian War, the period in American History from 1754 to 1763. The central characters in the story are Robert Lennox, an American boy; Tayoga, an Onondaga Indian; and David Willet, a hunter. The books are all historically correct." According to Wikipedia, "Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 – June 5, 1919), was an American author of popular juvenile historical fiction. |
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Classic British Fiction: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 38 Books (Including Sherlock Holmes, Challenger, Other Novels, And Non-Fiction), In A Single File $1.19 This book-collection file includes 38 books — Sherlock Holmes, Challenger, historical novels, other novels, and non-fiction. Sherlock Holmes Novels and Stories: A Study in Scarlet, novel, 1887; The Sign of the Four, novel, 1890; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, collection of stories originally published 1891-1892 (A Scandal in Bohemia; The Red-headed League; A Case of Identity; The Boscombe Valley Mystery; The Five Orange Pips; The Man with the Twisted Lip; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle; The Adventure of the Speckled Band; The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb; The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor; The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet; The Adventure of the Copper Beeches); The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, collection of stories originally published 1892-1893 (Adventure 1 Silver Blaze; Adventure 2 The Yellow Face; Adventure 3 The Stock-Broker's Clerk; Adventure 4 The "Gloria Scott"; Adventure 5 The Musgrave Ritual; Adventure 6 The Reigate Puzzle; Adventure 7 The Crooked Man; Adventure 9 The Greek Interpreter; Adventure 10 The Naval Treaty; Adventure 11 The Final Problem); The Hound of the Baskervilles, novel, 1901-1902; The Return of Sherlock Holmes, collection of stories originally published 1903-1904 (The Adventure of the Empty House; The Adventure of the Norwood Builder;The Adventure of the Dancing Men; The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist; The Adventure of the Priory School; The Adventure of Black Peter; The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton; The Adventure of the Six Napoleons; The Adventure of the Three Students; The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez; The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter; The Adventure of the Abbey Grange; The Adventure of the Second Stain); The Valley of Fear, novel, 1914- 1915; His Last Bow, collection of stories originally published 1908-1913 and 1917 (The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge; The Adventure of the Cardboard Box; The Adventure of the Red Circle; The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans; The Adventure of the Dying Detective; The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; The Adventure of the Devil's Foot; His Last Bow). Challenger Novels: The Lost World and The Poison Belt. Historical Novels: Micah Clarke, 1888; The White Company, 1891; The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales, 1892; The Refugees, 1893; Rodney Stone, 1896; Uncle Bernac, 1897; Sir Nigel, 1906. Books about War: The Great Boer War; The War in South Africa; A Visit to Three Fronts, June 1916. Other Fiction: The Adventures of Gerard; Beyond the City; The Captain of the Polestar and Other Stories; A Desert Drama, Tragedy of the Korosko; The Doings of Raffles Haw; A Duet With Occasional Chorus; The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard; The Firm of Girdlestone; The Green Flag; The Last Galley. Impressions and Tales; The Mystery of Cloomber; The Parasite; The Stark Munro Letters; Tales of Terror and Mystery; Through the Magic Door. Spiritualism: The New Revelation; The Vital Message. Medicine: Round the Red Lamp, |
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Knits for Nerds : 30 Projects – Science Fiction – Comic Books – Fantasy $12.42 No Synopsis Available |
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Classic French Fiction: 4 Books By Gautier In The Original French $1.19 This collection includes: Comédie de la mort (1838), Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835), Ménagerie intime (1869), and Sacountala, a ballet (1858). According to Wikipedia: "Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as diverse as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert and Oscar Wilde. |
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Classic British Fiction: 5 Books By Ouida In A Single File $1.19 world |
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Classic American Fiction: 6 Books By Washington Irving In A Single File $1.19 This file includes: Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey, Bracebridge Hall, The Crayon Papers, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Tales of a Traveller, and Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies. According to Wikipedia: "Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra. Irving also served as the U.S. minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846. He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. After moving to England for the family business in 1815, he achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. in 1819. He continued to publish regularly and almost always successfully throughout his life, and completed a five-volume biography of George Washington just eight months before his death, at age 76, in Tarrytown, New York. Irving, along with James Fenimore Cooper, was among the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving encouraged American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. |
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Classic British Fiction: Thomas Hardy, 20 Books In A Single File $1.19 This "book" includes the complete text of: Desperate Remedies, 1871; Under the Greenwood Tree, 1872; A Pair of Blue Eyes, 1873; Far From the Madding Crowd, 1874; The Hand of Ethelberta, 1876; The Return of the Native, 1878; Wessex Tales, 1879; The Trumpet-Major, 1880; A Laodicean, 1881; Two on a Tower, 1882; The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid, 1883; A Changed Man and Other Tales, 1885; The Mayor of Casterbridge, 1886; The Woodlanders, 1887; Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 1891; A Group of Noble Dames, 1891; Life's Little Ironies, 1891; Jude the Obscure, 1895; The Well-Beloved, 1897; and The Dynasts, 1903. |
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Fiction Sequels for Readers 10 to 16 : An Annotated Bibliography of Books in Succession $64.94 No Synopsis Available |
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Dictionary of American Children’s Fiction, 1995-1999 : Books of Recognized Merit $128.65 No Synopsis Available |
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Dictionary of American Young Adult Fiction, 1997-2001 : Books of Recognized Merit $80.88 No Synopsis Available |
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Non-Fiction Books about Organized Crime : Blowing up Russia $9.05 No Synopsis Available |
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Classic British Fiction: G.K. Chesterton: 29 Books In A Single File, With Active Table Of Contents $1.19 This book-collection file includes 29 books — 10 books of fiction (The Ball and the Cross, The Club of Queer Trades, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Man Who Was Thursday, Manalive, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Trees of Pride, Tremendous Trifles, and The Wisdom of Father Brown) and 19 collections of essays (All Things Considered, The Appetite of Tyranny, The Crimes of England, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens, The Defendant, Eugenics and Other Evils, Heretics, Lord Kitchener, A Miscellany of Men, The New Jerusalem, Orthodoxy, Alarms and Discursions, A Short History of England, Twelve Types, Utopia of Usurers and Other, Essays, Varied Types, The Victorian Age in Literature, and What's Wrong with the World). Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." He wrote in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations. For example: "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." As a Christian apologist he is widely admired throughout many religious denominations, as well as by many non-Christians[citation needed]. As a political thinker, he cast aspersions on both Liberalism and Conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. |
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Write Great Fiction – Description & Setting $11.09 For a story to be successful, it must come alive on the page. With Description & Setting , you will learn how to make every detail count as you create believable people, places and events. This valuable reference: Shows you how to master the challenging – and often overlooked – subjects of description and setting Offers hands-on action-and-results excercises that allow you to incorporate lessons into your own work Provides busy writers, such as yourself, with accessible information through sidebars, excercises, checklists and more With clear examples from popular fiction and tips for specific genres, bringing a story to life has never been this easy or this fun. Ron Rozelle is the author of three books, including the P.E.N Prize national finalist Into That Good Night . A recipient of the Stephen F. Austin Father of Texas Award, he teaches creative writing at workshops and universities, as well as at Brazoswood High School on the Texas Gulf coast. |
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Classic American Fiction: Edith Wharton, $1.19 This book-collection file includes 13 novels (Touchstone, Valley of Decision, Sanctuary, House of Mirth, Fruit of the Tree, Ethan Frome, The Reef, the Custom of the Country, Bunner Sisters, Summer, Age of Innocence, Gllimpses of the Moon), 6 collections of stories (Crucial Instances, The Greater Inclination, Tales of Men and Ghosts, The Hermit and the Wild Woman, The Descent of Man, and Eleven Stories by Edith Wharton), a book of verse (Artemis to Actaeon), and two non-fiction books (Fighting France and In Morocco). According to Wikipedia: "Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. … The Age of Innocence (1920), perhaps her best known work, won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award. |
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The Spinners’ Boo Of Fiction $1.19 According to Wikipedia: "Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American writer. She eloped with George H.B. Atherton when she was only 19, and had two children. Her husband discouraged her writing; and the serial publication of her first novel, The Randolphs of Redwoods (1882), though unsigned, scandalized her family. After her husband's death, in 1887, she was free to pursue her writing career as a protégée of Ambrose Bierce, eventually writing 60 books and numerous articles and short stories. Atherton's first signed novel, What Dreams May Come, was published in 1888 under the pseudonym Frank Lin. She is best remembered for her "California Series," several novels and short stories dealing with the social history of California. The series includes The Splendid, Idle Forties (1902); The Conqueror (1902), which is a fictionalized biography of Alexander Hamilton…" |
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Look At The Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction $10.19 Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in postWorld War II America-a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. Here are tales both cautionary and hopeful, each brimming with Vonnegut’s trademark humor and profound humanism. A family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. A man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. A quack psychiatrist turned "murder counselor" concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. While these stories reflect the anxieties of the postwar era that Vonnegut was so adept at capturing- and provide insight into the development of his early style-collectively, they have a timeless quality that makes them just as relevant today as when they were written. It’s impossible to imagine any of these pieces flowing from the pen of another writer; each in its own way is unmistakably, quintessentially Vonnegut. Featuring a Foreword by author and longtime Vonnegut confidant Sidney Offit and illustrated with Vonnegut’ s characteristically insouciant line drawings, Look at the Birdie is an unexpected gift for readers who thought his unique voice had been stilled forever-and serves as a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius. Read "Hello, Red" and "The Petrified Ants," two of the stories from the collection, as single-story e-books before Look at the Birdie goes on sale. Available wherever e-books are sold. From the Hardcover edition. |
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Classic British Fiction: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 8 Sherlock Holmes Books In A Single File $1.19 This file includes Sherlock Holmes books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, novel, 1887; The Sign of the Four, novel, 1890; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, collection of stories originally published 1891-1892 (A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches), The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, collection of stories originally published 1892-1893 (Adventure 1 Silver Blaze, Adventure 2 The Yellow Face, Adventure 3 The Stock-Broker's Clerk, Adventure 4 The "Gloria Scott", Adventure 5 The Musgrave Ritual, Adventure 6 The Reigate Puzzle, Adventure 7 The Crooked Man, Adventure 9 The Greek Interpreter, Adventure 10 The Naval Treaty, Adventure 11 The Final Problem), The Hound of the Baskervilles, novel, 1901-1902; The Return of Sherlock Holmes, collection of stories originally published 1903-1904 (The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Dancing Men, The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, The Adventure of the Priory School, The Adventure of Black Peter, The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, The Adventure of the Three Students, The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, The Adventure of the Second Stain); The Valley of Fear, novel, 1914- 1915; His Last Bow, collection of stories originally published 1908-1913 and 1917 (The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, The Adventure of the Red Circle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, The Adventure of the Dying Detective, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, The Adventure of the Devil's Foot, and His Last Bow). According to Wikipedia: "Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was an author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. |
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Major League Baseball Poster Books : Gold Glover $10.68 No Synopsis Available |
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Major League Baseball Poster Books : Power Pitchers $10.68 No Synopsis Available |
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Major League Baseball Poster Books : Big Hitters $10.68 No Synopsis Available |
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Major League Baseball Poster Books : Hot Rookies $10.68 No Synopsis Available |
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Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence $59.99 A timely volume that uses science fiction as a springboard to meaningful philosophical discussions, especially at points of contact between science fiction and new scientific developments. Raises questions and examines timely themes concerning the nature of the mind, time travel, artificial intelligence, neural enhancement, free will, the nature of persons, transhumanism, virtual reality, and neuroethics Draws on a broad range of books, films and television series, including The Matrix, Star Trek, Blade Runner, Frankenstein, Brave New World, The Time Machine, and Back to the Future Considers the classic philosophical puzzles that appeal to the general reader, while also exploring new topics of interest to the more seasoned academic |
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Science Fiction And Philosophy: From Time Travel To Superintelligence $53.99 A timely volume that uses science fiction as a springboard to meaningful philosophical discussions, especially at points of contact between science fiction and new scientific developments. Raises questions and examines timely themes concerning the nature of the mind, time travel, artificial intelligence, neural enhancement, free will, the nature of persons, transhumanism, virtual reality, and neuroethics Draws on a broad range of books, films and television series, including The Matrix, Star Trek, Blade Runner, Frankenstein, Brave New World, The Time Machine, and Back to the Future Considers the classic philosophical puzzles that appeal to the general reader, while also exploring new topics of interest to the more seasoned academic |
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The Liar’s Companion: A Field Guide for Fiction Writers $11.59 A must-have collection of essays on the art and craft of fiction from Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block For ten years, New York Times bestselling crime novelist Lawrence Block drew on the hard-won wisdom he gained creating over one hundred books to write a monthly column for Writer"s Digest. Collected here for the first time are writings that illuminate the tricks of the authorial trade, from creating a fresh story and delivering a powerful ending, to adapting books for the screen and deciding when to make the switch to fulltime writer. Filled with wit and insight, The Liar"s Companion is a must-read for experts, amateurs, and anyone interested in learning to craft great fiction from one of the field"s modern masters. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lawrence Block, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author"s personal collection. |
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Classic American Fiction: 2 Of The 3 Books Of Altsheler’s Texan Series In A Single File $1.19 This book-collection file includes: The Texan Star (1912) and The Texan Scouts (1913). The original publisher described the series: "Three stories telling of the Texan struggle for independence and the events culminating in the capture of the erratic Santa Anna. The Texan Star: Ned Fulton, the hero, is a prisoner in the city of Mexico. He makes an exciting escape and sees the capture of San Antonio. The Texan Scouts: Ned Fulton and his friends are right in the midst of exciting events that keep the reader continually on edge. The battle of the Alamo is the climax of the story." According to Wikipedia, "Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 – June 5, 1919), was an American author of popular juvenile historical fiction. |
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Classic American Fiction: Joseph AltshelerThe Civil War Series, All 8 Books In A Single File, With Active Table Of Contents $1.29 This Kindle book includes: The Guns of Bull Run, The Guns of Shiloh, The Scouts of Stonewall, The Sword of Antietam, The Star of Gettysburg, The Rock of Chickamauga, The Shades of the Wilderness, and The Tree of Appomattox. According to the original publisher, in the Civil War Series "Altsheler covers the principal battles of the Civil War. In four of the volumes Dick Mason, who fights for the North, is the leading character, and in the others, his cousin, Harry Kenton, who joins the Confederate forces, takes the principal part." According to Wikipedia, "Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 – June 5, 1919), was an American author of popular juvenile historical fiction. |
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Frenzied Fiction $3.39 Frenzied Fiction |
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Classic American Literature: Notebooks And Other Non-Fiction By Nathaniel Hawthorne, 9 Books In A Single File $1.19 This file includes: Passages from the American Note-Books, Passages from the English Note-Books, Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books, Biographical Studies, True Stories of History and Biography, Sketches and Studies, Our Old Home, Journal of an African Cruiser, and The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair. According to Wikipedia: "Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne. He later changed his name to "Hawthorne", adding a "w" to dissociate from relatives including John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College and graduated in 1825; his classmates included future president Franklin Pierce and future poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hawthorne anonymously published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe, in 1828. He published several short stories in various periodicals which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. The next year, he became engaged to Sophia Peabody. He worked at a Custom House and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires, then to The Wayside in Concord. The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, followed by a succession of other novels. A political appointment took Hawthorne and family to Europe before their return to The Wayside in 1860. Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, leaving behind his wife and their three children. Much of Hawthorne's writing centers around New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, dark romanticism. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. His published works include novels, short stories, and a biography of his friend Franklin Pierce… Contemporary response to Hawthorne's work praised his sentimentality and moral purity while more modern evaluations focus on the dark psychological complexity. One of these contemporaries, Edgar Allan Poe, wrote important and largely flattering reviews of both Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse. Poe's negative assessment was partly due to his own contempt of allegory and moral tales, and his chronic accusations of plagiarism, though he admitted, "The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes… We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth". Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that "Nathaniel Hawthorne's reputation as |
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Voyages Of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion $7.79 Through four decades, five television series comprising over seven hundred episodes, ten feature films, and an animated series, fandom’s thirst for more Star Trek stories has been unquenchable. From the earliest short-story adaptations by James Blish in the 1960s, followed by the first original Star Trek novels during the seventies, and on throughout the eighties, nineties, and into the twenty-first century, fiction has offered an unparalleled expansion of the rich Star Trek tapestry. But what is it that makes these books such a powerfully attractive creative outlet to some and a compelling way to experience the Star Trek mythos anew to others? Voyages of Imagination takes a look back on the first forty years of professionally published Star Trek fiction, revealing the personalities and sensibilities of many of the novels’ imaginative contributors and offering an unprecedented glimpse into the creative processes, the growing pains, the risks, the innovations, the missteps, and the great strides taken in the books. Author Jeff Ayers has immersed himself in nearly six hundred books and interviewed more than three hundred authors and editors in order to compile this definitive guide to the history and evolution of an incomparable publishing phenomenon. Fully illustrated with the covers of every book included herein, Voyages of Imagination is indexed by title and author, features a comprehensive timeline, and is a must-have for every fan. |
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On Fiction $9.47 No Synopsis Available |
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Fiction $22.42 No Synopsis Available |
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Adventures Among Books $2.39 pubOne.info present you this new edition. Of the Essays in this volume "Adventures among Books, " and "Rab’s Friend, " appeared in Scribner’s Magazine; and "Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson" (to the best of the author’s memory) in The North American Review. The Essay on "Smollett" was in the Anglo-Saxon, which has ceased to appear; and the shorter papers, such as "The Confessions of Saint Augustine, " in a periodical styled Wit and Wisdom. For "The Poems of William Morris" the author has to thank the Editor of Longman’s Magazine; for "The Boy, " and "Mrs. Radcliffe’s Novels, " the Proprietors of The Cornhill Magazine; for "Enchanted Cigarettes, " and possibly for "The Supernatural in Fiction, " the Proprietors of The Idler. The portrait, after Sir William Richmond, R. A. , was done about the time when most of the Essays were written- and that was not yesterday. |
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The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible $14.19 The Bible is moving, inspirational and endlessly fascinating – but is it true? Starting with Genesis and the implicit background to the birth of Christ, Robin Lane Fox sets out to discover how far biblical descriptions of people, places and events are confirmed or contradicted by external written and archaeological evidence. He turns a sharp historian’s eye on when and where the individual books were composed, whether the texts as originally written exist, how the canon was assembled, and why the Gospels give varying accounts even of the trial and condemnation of Jesus. |
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Classic British Literature: Charles Dickens: 7 Non-Fiction Books In A Single File $1.19 This book-collection file includes: American Notes for General Circulation, a Child's History of England, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, Miscellaneous Papers, Pictures from Italy, Reprinted Pieces, and Speeches: Literary and Social. According to Wikipedia: "Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 1870), pen-name "Boz", was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Critics George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton championed Dickens's mastery of prose, his endless invention of unique, clever personalities, and his powerful social sensibilities, but fellow writers such as George Henry Lewes, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf faulted his work for sentimentality, implausible occurrences, and grotesque characterizations. The popularity of Dickens's novels and short stories has meant that they have never gone out of print. Many of Dickens's novels first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialized form a popular format for fiction at the time and, unlike many other authors who completed entire novels before serial production commenced, Dickens often composed his works in parts, in the order in which they were meant to appear. Such a practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by one minor "cliffhanger" after another, to keep the (original) public looking forward to the next installment. |
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Classic Brtish Fiction: Charles Dickens: 12 Christmas Stories And Books In A Single File $1.19 This Kindle book includes the long stories: The Battle of Life, The Chimes, A Christmas Carol, The Cricken and the Hearth, The Hautned Man and The Ghost's Bargain, and The Holly-Tree. It also includes the short stories: A Christmas Tree, What Christmas Is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relation's Story, The Schoolboy's Story, and Nobody's Story. According to Wikipedia: "Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (IPA: /t:lz dknz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Critics George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton championed Dickens's mastery of prose, his endless invention of unique, clever personalities, and his powerful social sensibilities, but fellow writers such as George Henry Lewes, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf faulted his work for sentimentality, implausible occurrences, and grotesque characterizations. The popularity of Dickens's novels and short stories has meant that they have never gone out of print. Many of Dickens's novels first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialized form a popular format for fiction at the time and, unlike many other authors who completed entire novels before serial production commenced, Dickens often composed his works in parts, in the order in which they were meant to appear. Such a practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by one minor "cliffhanger" after another, to keep the (original) public looking forward to the next installment. |
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Spider Spin Me A Web: A Handbook For Fiction Writers $9.99 The craft of writing is a lot like spinning a web: You take threads and weave them skillfully together and only you know where this intricate network of twists and turns begin and how it will end. Now with Lawrence Bloock’s expert advice you can learn this art of entrapping your reader in a maze of facinating fiction. Spider Spin Me a Web is the perfect companion volume to Block’s previous book on writing Telling Lies for Fun and Profit which Sue Grafton noted "should be a permanent part of every writer’s library." As helpful and supportive as always Block shares what he’s learned over the course of writing over one hundred published books: techniques to help you to write a solid piece of fiction; strategies for getting a reader (or editor) to reaad-and buy-your book; ideas for increasing your creativity and developing an environment that will nourish you and your craft. Spider Spin Me a Web is a complete guide to achieving your full potential as awriter. |
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Classic American Fiction: Mark Twain: 5 Books Of Essays, Letters, And Speeches In A Single File $1.19 This book-collection file includes books of Mark Twain's speeches and letters, plus 3 book-length collections of essays: What is Man? Sketches New and Old, and Christian Science. It also includes the following short collections and individual essays: Editorial Wild Oats, Essays on Paul Bourget, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences, and In Defence of Harriet Shelley. According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists and European royalty. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature. |
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Classic American Fiction: 7 Books Of Short Stories And Fanciful Tales By Frank Stockton $1.19 Seven books of short stories by Frank Stockton, including The Bee-Man Of Orn And Other Fanciful Tales, A Chosen Few Short Stories, John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein, The Magic Egg And Other Stories, Round-About Rambles In Lands Of Fact And Fancy, Stories Of New Jersey, and Ting-A-Ling. According to Wikipedia, "Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing, common to children's stories of the time, instead using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way in stories like "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" (1885) and "The Bee-Man of Orn" (1887), which was published in 1964 in an edition illustrated by Maurice Sendak. His most famous fable is "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (1882). |
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Classic French Fiction: Four Books By Eugene Sue In The Original French, In A Single File $1.19 This file includes (in the original French): L'Alouette du Casque, Atar Gull, Les Mystères de Paris, and Paula Monti. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Marie Eugène Sue (20 January 1804 – 3 August 1857) was a French novelist… His naval experiences supplied much of the materials of his first novels, Kernock le pirate (1830), Atar-Gull (1831), La Salamandre (2 vols., 1832), La Coucaratcha (4 vols., 1832-1834), and others, which were composed at the height of the Romantic movement of 1830. In the quasi-historical style he wrote Jean Cavalier, ou Les Fanatiques des Cevennes (4 vols., 1840) and Lautréaumont (2 vols., 1837). He was strongly affected by the Socialist ideas of the day, and these prompted his most famous works: Les Mystères de Paris (10 vols., 1842-1843) and Le Juif errant (tr. "The Wandering Jew") (10 vols., 1844-1845), which were among the most popular specimens of the roman-feuilleton. He followed these up with some singular and not very edifying books: Les Sept pêchés capitaux (16 vols., 1847-1849), which contained stories to illustrate each of the Seven Deadly Sins, Les Mystères du peuple (1849-1856), which was suppressed by the censor in 1857, and several others, all on a very large scale, though the number of volumes gives an exaggerated idea of their length. Some of his books, among them Le Juif Errant and the Mystères de Paris, were dramatized by himself, usually in collaboration with others. His period of greatest success and popularity coincided with that of Alexandre Dumas, père, with whom he has been compared. Sue has neither Dumas's wide range of subject, nor, above all, his faculty of conducting the story by means of lively dialogue; he has, however, a command of terror which Dumas seldom or never attained. After the revolution of 1848 he sat for Paris (the Seine) in the Assembly from April 1850, and was exiled in consequence of his protest against the coup d'état of 2 December 1851. This exile stimulated his literary production, but the works of his last days are on the whole much inferior to those of his middle period. Sue died at Annecy (Savoy) in 1857. |
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Jazz Books In The 1990s: An Annotated Bibliography $37.29 Jazz Books in the 1990s: An Annotated Bibliography contains over 700 entries covering adult non-fiction books on jazz published from 1990 through 1999. International in scope the books included range from such places as Finland Slovakia Australia Japan India and South Africa as well as Canada the United Kingdom and the United States. Entries are organized by category including biographies history individual instruments essays and criticism musicology regional studies discographies and reference works. Greenberg has amassed an impressive collection of entries with each entry including the author title publisher year and number of pages and also indicating when a book contains a bibliography discography footnotes musical transcriptions illustrations photographs or any other additional material. The discography entries also note whether books contain unissued material or reissues. Three indexes-by title author and subject-make this a valuable and comprehensive reference guide for researchers students and jazz aficionados alike.Jazz Books in the 1990s: An Annotated Bibliography contains over 700 entries covering adult non-fiction books on jazz published from 1990 through 1999. International in scope the books included range from such places as Finland Slovakia Australia Japan India and South Africa as well as Canada the United Kingdom and the United States. Entries are organized by category including biographies history individual instruments essays and criticism musicology regional studies discographies and reference works. Greenberg has amassed an impressive collection of entries with each entry including the author title publisher year and number of pages and also indicating when a book contains a bibliography discography footnotes musical transcriptions illustrations photographs or any other additional material. The discography entries also note whether books contain unissued material or reissues. Three indexes-by title author and subject-make this a valuable and comprehensive reference guide for researchers students and jazz aficionados alike. |
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Classic American Fiction: 8 Books Of Short Stories By Nathaniel Hawthorne In A Single File $1.19 This file includes: From Mosses from an Old Manse, The Great Stone Face and other Tales of the White Mountains, A Book of Autographs, The Dolliver Romance (fragments), Other Tales and Sketches, Tanglewood Tales, and Twice-Told Tales (edition of 1889). According to Wikipedia: "Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne. He later changed his name to "Hawthorne", adding a "w" to dissociate from relatives including John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College and graduated in 1825; his classmates included future president Franklin Pierce and future poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hawthorne anonymously published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe, in 1828. He published several short stories in various periodicals which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. The next year, he became engaged to Sophia Peabody. He worked at a Custom House and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires, then to The Wayside in Concord. The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, followed by a succession of other novels. A political appointment took Hawthorne and family to Europe before their return to The Wayside in 1860. Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, leaving behind his wife and their three children. Much of Hawthorne's writing centers around New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, dark romanticism. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. His published works include novels, short stories, and a biography of his friend Franklin Pierce… Contemporary response to Hawthorne's work praised his sentimentality and moral purity while more modern evaluations focus on the dark psychological complexity. One of these contemporaries, Edgar Allan Poe, wrote important and largely flattering reviews of both Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse. Poe's negative assessment was partly due to his own contempt of allegory and moral tales, and his chronic accusations of plagiarism, though he admitted, "The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes… We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth". Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that "Nathaniel Hawthorne's reputation as a writer is a very pleasing act, because his writing is not good for anything |
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The Del Rey Book Of Science Fiction And Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works By Speculative Fiction’s Finest Voices $5.99 Ellen Datlow is the queen of anthology editors in America." -Peter Straub With original stories by Jeffrey Ford, Pat Cadigan, Elizabeth Bear, Margo Lanagan, and others From Del Rey Books and award-winning editor Ellen Datlow, two of the most respected names in science fiction and fantasy, comes a collection of fifteen all-new short stories, plus a science fiction novella, that could count as a virtual "best of the year" anthology. Here you will find slyly twisted alternate histories, fractured fairy tales, topical science fiction, and edgy urban fantasy. In "Daltharee," World Fantasy Award-winning author Jeffrey Ford spins a chilling tale of a city in a bottle-and the demented genius who put it there. In "Sonny Liston Takes the Fall," John W. Campbell Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear pens a poignant and eerie requiem for the heavyweight forever associated with his controversial loss to Cassius Clay. From hot new writer Margo Lanagan comes "The Goosle," a dark, astonishing take on Hansel and Gretel. In the novella "Prisoners of the Action," Paul MccAuley and Kim Newman take a trip down a rabbit hole that leads to a Guantanamo-like prison whose inmates are not just illegal but extraterrestrial. Many of the writers you’ll recognize. Others you may not. But one thing is certain: These stars of today and tomorrow demonstrate that the field of speculative fiction is not only alive and well-it’s better than ever. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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Men At Work: The Craft Of Baseball $5.79 In his classic tribute to America’s pastime-now with a new introduction-political commentator Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and lifelong sports enthusiast George F. Will travels from the baseball field to the dugout to the locker room to get to the root of the game we all love. He breaks down the sport to its four basic components managing pitching hitting and fielding and analyzes the way four of its notables manager Tony La Russa pitcher Orel Hershiser outfielder Tony Gwynn and shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. approach the game. One of the most acclaimed sports books ever written Men at Work is a revelatory and often surprising study of professional baseball. |
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The Dickson Baseball Dictionary $31.89 Hailed as "a staggering piece of scholarship" ( Wall Street Journal ) The Dickson Baseball Dictionary is the most complete resource on the lexicon of baseball in the English language. More than twenty-five years in the making with the help of more than 400 baseball and lexical experts this masterful third edition expanded by more than 30 percent with over 10 000 terms and 18 000 definitions provides the comprehensive history and meanings of words and phrases from around the world of baseball. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals as well as contemporary sources Paul Dickson"s brilliant illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of our most treasured baseball expressions ("tearin" up the pea patch " "can o" corn " "catbird seat " etc.). Termed "baseball"s Webster " Dickson has spent nearly a decade painstakingly revising and writing new definitions for words both well-known and obscure including those introduced by Latin-American ballplayers and statistical expressions relating to fantasy baseball and the SABR/ Moneyball era. More than 200 photos throughout the book-many rare and previously unpublished-illuminate various historical and contemporary terms. Because of its deep and broad coverage its authoritativeness and its rich and colorful descriptions The Dickson Baseball Dictionary will prove indispensable to baseball fans and word lovers alike. The expanded and now-definitive work on the language of baseball-"That rarest of sports books a valuable reference work that provides absorbing and enlightening reading." ( Sports Illustrated ) |
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The Baseball Fan’s Bucket List $13.79 No sport’s fans are more in touch with the history and ephemera of their game than baseball fans. Hitting the sweet spot of our national pastime, The Baseball Fan’s Bucket List presents a list of 162 "absolute must" things to do, see, get, and experience before you kick the bucket. Entries range from visiting Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ (site of the first pro baseball game), to starting a baseball card collection; experiencing Opening Day; attending your favorite team’s Fantasy Camp; reading classic books like Ball Four, and much more! Each entry includes interesting facts, entertaining trivia, and practical information about the activity, item, or travel destination. Also included is a complete checklist so the reader can keep a running tally of their Bucket-List achievements. With today’s tabloid stories of steroid abuse and off-the-field shenanigans encroaching on baseball’s idyllic charm, this unique guidebook encourages readers to celebrate all that’s good about being a fan. |
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Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts Into Books $8.19 Dan Poynter’s definitive guide to writing non-fiction. How to pick your topic, break it down, do research, writing tricks & tips, evaluate your publishing options and get into print faster, easier and cheaper. Preparing your manuscript for an agent, publisher or printer. Fifth revised edition. |
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Classic British Fiction: Henry Fielding: All 5 Fielding Books In A Single File $1.19 This book-collection file includes Fieldings five classic novels: Joseph Andrews, 1742; Jonathan Wild, 1743; Tom Jones, 1749; A Journey From This World to the Next, 1749; and Amelia, 1751. With the active (hyperlinked) table of contents, click on a book title to go to that book; and use the Back button to return to the table of contents. According to Wikipedia: "Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones. |
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Classic American Literature: 6 Non-Fiction Books By Washington Irving In A Single File $1.19 This file includes: The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, Astoria, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, Old Christmas, and Oliver Goldsmith. According to Wikipedia: "Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra. Irving also served as the U.S. minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846. He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. After moving to England for the family business in 1815, he achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. in 1819. He continued to publish regularly and almost always successfully throughout his life, and completed a five-volume biography of George Washington just eight months before his death, at age 76, in Tarrytown, New York. Irving, along with James Fenimore Cooper, was among the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving encouraged American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. |
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Classic British Fiction: Seven Books By Saki (H.H. Munro) In A Single File With Active Table Of Contents $1.19 This file includes: Beasts and Super-Beasts, The Chronicles of Clovis, Reginald, Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, The Toys of Peace, The Unbearable Bassington, and When William Came. According to Wiipedia: "Hector Hugh Munro (December 18, 1870 – November 13, 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, was a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. "The Open Window" may be his most famous, with a closing line ("Romance at short notice was her speciality") that has entered the lexicon. In addition to his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was the custom of the time, and then collected into several volumes) he also wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire, the only book published under his own name; a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a Parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland), and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, an early alternate history. He was influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, and himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse. |
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Dictionary of Children’s Fiction from Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and Selected African Countries: Books of Recognized Merit $123.78 No Synopsis Available |
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Educator’s Companion to Children’s Literature, Volume 1: Mysteries, Animal Tales, Books of Humor, Adventure Stories, and Historica L Fiction $30.55 No Synopsis Available |
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Native American Fiction Books : Waterlily, Truth and Bright Water, the Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Storyteller $8.81 No Synopsis Available |
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South African Non-Fiction Books : Babylon’s Ark, Long Walk to Freedom, Mandela $8.66 No Synopsis Available |
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25 Reproducible Literature Circle Role Sheets for Fiction and Nonfiction Books, Grades 4-6 Revised and Updated $10.68 No Synopsis Available |
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A Catalogue of Books in First Editions Selected to Illustrate the History of English Prose Fiction from 1485 to 1870 $22.42 No Synopsis Available |
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Chatto & Windus Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in Fiction and General Literary Collections, Sept. 1 1905 $21.21 No Synopsis Available |
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Chatto & Windus Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in Fiction and General Literary Collections, Sept. 1 $24.13 No Synopsis Available |
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Small Books and Pleasant Histories : Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England $44.85 No Synopsis Available |
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Star Trek: Voyages Of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion $33.99 Through four decades five television series comprising over seven hundred episodes ten feature films and an animated series fandom’s thirst for more Star Trek stories has been unquenchable. From the earliest short-story adaptations by James Blish in the 1960s followed by the first original Star Trek novels during the seventies and on throughout the eighties nineties and into the twenty-first century fiction has offered an unparalleled expansion of the rich Star Trek tapestry. But what is it that makes these books such a powerfully attractive creative outlet to some and a compelling way to experience the Star Trek mythos anew to others? Voyages of Imagination takes a look back on the first forty years of professionally published Star Trek fiction revealing the personalities and sensibilities of many of the novels’ imaginative contributors and offering an unprecedented glimpse into the creative processes the growing pains the risks the innovations the missteps and the great strides taken in the books. Author Jeff Ayers has immersed himself in nearly six hundred books and interviewed more than three hundred authors and editors in order to compile this definitive guide to the history and evolution of an incomparable publishing phenomenon. Fully illustrated with the covers of every book included herein Voyages of Imagination is indexed by title and author features a comprehensive timeline and is a must-have for every fan. |
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351 Books Of Irma Acuri: A Novel $11.89 Metaphysical literary suspense from a compelling new voice in fiction For most of his adult lifethrough two marriages and countless travelsthe mathematician Philip Mazyrk has carried on a love affair with Irma Arcuri. Now Irma has vanished and left Philip her entire library of 351 books, five of them written by Irma herself. Buried in the text of this libraryCervantes to Turgenyev, Borges to Fowleslay the secrets of Irmas disappearance and, in the novels Irma has written, the story of her elusive and romantic past with Philip. Philip, a math genius who sees equations in every facet of life, reads the novels and begins to sense a more profound and troubling design at work. A mysterious woman appears; his ex-wife reveals a terrible secret; his stepdaughter, Nicole, long troubled by the free-spirited nature of her parents lives, approaches a dangerous turn; and Nicoles teenage brother has fled. As clues, warnings, and implications both inside and outside the library mount, Philip begins to realize that he too is trapped in a narrative. Who is Irma Arcuri? What is really buried in the library? And, most important, whose story is this? Like the work of Milan Kundera or John Fowles, Bajos novel is brazenly passionate, sexy, even transgressive, yet thrillingly mysterious. Addictive, compelling, and clever, The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri will captivate fans of The Time Travelers Wife and The Shadow of the Wind .Metaphysical literary suspense from a compelling new voice in fiction For most of his adult lifethrough two marriages and countless travelsthe mathematician Philip Mazyrk has carried on a love affair with Irma Arcuri. Now Irma has vanished and left Philip her entire library of 351 books, five of them written by Irma herself. Buried in the text of this libraryCervantes to Turgenyev, Borges to Fowleslay the secrets of Irmas disappearance and, in the novels Irma has written, the story of her elusive and romantic past with Philip. Philip, a math genius who sees equations in every facet of life, reads the novels and begins to sense a more profound and troubling design at work. A mysterious woman appears; his ex-wife reveals a terrible secret; his stepdaughter, Nicole, long troubled by the free-spirited nature of her parents lives, approaches a dangerous turn; and Nicoles teenage brother has fled. As clues, warnings, and implications both inside and outside the library mount, Philip begins to realize that he too is trapped in a narrative. Who is Irma Arcuri? What is really buried in the library? And, most important, whose story is this? Like the work of Milan Kundera or John Fowles, Bajos novel is brazenly passionate, sexy, even transgressive, yet thrillingly mysterious. Addictive, compelling, and clever, The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri will captivate fans of The Time Travelers Wife and The Shadow of the Wind . |
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Diamond Classics : Essays on 100 of the Best Baseball Books Ever Published $51.94 No Synopsis Available |