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Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars. More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy...

Clifford D. Simak

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Published in the bicentenary year of Frederick Douglass’s birth and in a Black Lives Matter era, this edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass presents new research into his life as an activist and an author. A revolutionary reformer who traveled in Scotland, Ireland, England, and Wales as well as the US, Douglass published many foreign-language editions of his Narrative. While there have been many Douglasses over the decades and even centuries, the Frederick Douglass we need now is no iconic, mythic, or legendary self-made man but a fallible, mortal, and human individual: a husband, father, brother, and son. His rallying cry inspires today’s activism: “Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!” Recognizing that Douglass was bought and sold on the northern abolitionist podium no less than on the southern auction block, this edition introduces readers to Douglass’s multiple declarations of independence. The Narrative appears alongside his private correspondence as well as the early speeches and writings in which he did justice to the “grim horrors of slavery.” This volume also traces Douglass’s activism and authorship in the context of the reformist work of his wife, Anna Murray, and of his daughters and sons.

Frederick Douglass

Desert of Death's Domain

THE ANTIS! It’s just as certain, though, that Perry Rhodan and his men–as well as Atlan–have not paid enough attention lately to the Antis because of the turbulent events of the recent past. Thus the Antis, the followers of the galaxy-wide Baalol cult, have been given an opportunity to start their 10-year-plan of horror without any outside interference. The terrifying potential that this plan is intended to have humanity and other intelligent life forms in the galaxy is perceived for the first time by the agents of Division 3 now stationed on the planet Lepso, as they are advancing into... THE DESERT OF DEATH'S DOMAIN!

Perry Rhodan

The Age of Napoleon

The Age of Napoleon surveys the amazing chain of events that wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the Age of Democracy: The French Revolution---from the storming of the Bastille to the guillotining of the King The revolution's leaders Danton, Desmoulins, Robespierre, Saint-Just---all cut down by the reign of terror they inaugurated. Napoleon's meteoric rise---from the provincial Corsican military student to the Emperor commanding the largest army in history Napoleon's fall---his army's destruction in the snows of Russia, his exile to Elba, escape and reconquest of the throne, and ultimate defeat at Waterloo by the combined forces of Europe. * The birth of romanticism and the dawning of a new age of active democracy and a rising middle class, laying the foundation for our own era.

Will Durant

Lay the Marble Tea

First published in 1959, Lay the Marble Tea, a collection of twenty-four poems, was Brautigan's first published collection of poetry; his third poetry book publication.Where most of Brautigan's later poetry was written in the first person, this collection offered a variety of historical and literary narrators. These poems, as did most of his subsequent work, blurred the boundaries between poetry and prose.

Richard Brautigan

A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...

Ray Bradbury

More Things in Heaven

A revised version of THE ASTRONAUTS MUST NOT LAND (1963). It isn't every day that the impossible happens. But when it does, and you're a witness, you have to start looking for answers. The authorities won't talk. So you decide to find out for yourself. That's what Drummond did. And when he found out. it changed the universe!

John Brunner

Collected Stories

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Franz Kafka’s imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real.This edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways that bring out the writer’s extraordinary range and intensity of vision. --randomhouse.com Children on a country road -- Unmasking a confidence trickster -- The sudden walk -- Resolutions -- Excursion into the mountains -- Bachelor's ill luck -- The tradesman -- Absent-minded window-gazing -- The way home -- Passers-by -- On the tram -- Clothes -- Rejection -- Reflections for gentlemen-jockeys -- The street window -- The wish to be a red Indian -- The trees -- Unhappiness -- The judgment -- The stoker -- The metamorphosis -- In the penal colony -- A country doctor: The new advocate -- A country doctor -- Up in the gallery -- An old manuscript -- Before the law -- Jackals and Arabs -- A visit to a mine -- The next village -- An imperial message -- The cares of a family man -- Eleven sons -- A fratricide -- A dream -- A report to an academy -- The bucket rider -- A hunger artist: First sorrow -- A little woman -- A hunger artist -- Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk -- Descriptions of a struggle -- Wedding preparations in the country -- The student -- The angel -- The village schoolmaster (The giant mole) -- Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor -- The hunter Gracchus -- The proclamation -- The bridge -- The Great Wall of China -- The knock at the manor gate -- An ancient sword -- New lamps -- My neighbor -- A crossbreed (A sport) -- A splendid beast -- The watchman -- A common confusion -- The truth about Sancho Panza -- The silence of the siren -- Prometheus -- The city coat of arms -- Poseidon -- Fellowship -- At night -- The problem of our laws -- The conscription of troops -- The test -- The vulture -- The helmsman -- The top -- Hands -- A little fable -- Isabella -- Home-coming -- A Chinese puzzle -- The departure -- Advocates -- Investigations of a dog -- The married couple -- Give it up! -- On parables -- The burrow.

Franz Kafka

The City and the Stars

Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel. Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar. For millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rule the stars. But then, as legend has it, the invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, a Unique, to break through Diaspar's stifling inertia, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the Invaders.

Arthur C. Clarke

Bamboo Death

Henry Kuttner

This Thing Don't Lead to Heaven

From Kirkus ReviewsMr. Crews' first two novels, The Gospel Singer and Naked In Garden Hills, established him as a superb writer of the absurd. This one has the same bizarre elements. It's set in the "Senior Club," an old people's home run by Axel, an enormous woman dominated by her midget masseur, Jefferson Davis, a dwarf who has convinced everyone that his hands hold the power of life. An accidental newcomer is Carlita, a Spanish-speaking Negro that no one can understand; particularly since her speech is punctuated with voodoo incantations. Jefferson Davis becomes convinced that she can "magic him" to full height. Another arrival is Junior Bledsoe, seller of cemetery plots who struck gold in St. Petersburg and is determined to do the same in the"Club." Every scene is both ridiculous and real, achingly funny and marvelously poignant. The author can make the loss of an old man's last tooth a cameo drama. Unfortunately the ending is abrupt and oddly disappointing. But Mr. Crews is a dazzling, lasting talent.

Harry Crews

Works of Honore De Balzac

Table of Contents List of Works by Genre and Title List of Works in Alphabetical Order Honore de Balzac Biography La Com?die Humaine: Scenes From Private Life: The Ball at Sceaux The Purse Madame Firmiani A Second Home Domestic Peace Paz or The Imaginary Mistress Study of a Woman Another Study of Woman La Grand Breteche (Sequel to "Another Study of Woman") Albert Savarus Letters of Two Brides A Daughter of Eve A Woman of Thirty The Deserted Woman La Grenadiere The Message Gobseck The Marriage Contract A Start in Life Modeste Mignon Beatrix Honorine Colonel Chabert The Atheist's Mass The Commission in Lunacy Pierre Grassou Scenes From Provincial Life: Ursule Mirouet or Ursula Eugenie Grandet The Celibates: - Pierrette - The Vicar of Tours - The Two Brothers or A Bachelor's Establishment Parisians in the Country: - The Illustrious Gaudissart - The Muse of the Department The Jealousies of a Country Town - An Old Maid - The Collection of Antiquities The Lily of the Valley Lost Illusions (Les Illusions perdues) *- The Two Poets - A Distinguished Provincial at Paris - Eve and David * Scenes From Parisian Life Scenes from a Courtesan's Life - Esther Happy - What Love Costs an Old Man - The End of Evil Ways - Vautrin's Last Avatar A Prince of Bohemia A Man of Business Gaudissart II Unconscious Comedians The Thirteen - Ferragus - The Duchesse de Langeais - The Girl with the Golden Eyes Father Goriot The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau The Firm of Nucingen The Secrets of a Princess Bureaucracy or The Government Clerks Sarrasine Facino Cane Poor Relations - Cousin Betty - Cousin Pons The Lesser Bourgeoisie or The Middle Classes Scenes From Political Life An Historical Mystery or The Gondreville Mystery An Episode Under the Terror The Brotherhood of Consolation or The Seamy Side of History - Madame de la Chanterie - Initiated or The Initiate Z. Marcas The Deputy of Arcis or The Member for Arcis Scenes From Military Life The Chouans A Passion in the Desert Scenes From Country Life The Country Doctor The Village Rector or The Country Parson Sons of the Soil or The Peasantry Philosophical Studies The Magic Skin (La Peau de chagrin) The Alkahest or The Quest of the Absolute Christ in Flanders Melmoth Reconciled The Hidden Masterpiece The Hated Son Gambara Massimilla Doni Juana or The Maranas Farewell The Recruit or The Conscript El Verdugo A Drama on the Seashore or A Seaside Tragedy The Red Inn The Elixir of Life Maitre Cornelius Catherine De Medici - The Calvinist Martyr - The Ruggieri's Secret - The Two Dreams Louis Lambert The Exiles Seraphita Analytical Studies The Physiology of Marriage Novels: Adieu Beatrix The Country Doctor Petty Troubles of Married Life Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan Vendetta Short Stories: At the Sign of the Cat & Racket Domestic Peace Droll Stories Volume 1 Droll Stories Volume 2 Droll Stories Volume 3 Folk-Tales of Napoleon, The Napoleon of the People; Napoleonder A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant Plays: Mercadet: A Comedy In Three Acts Pamela Giraud: A Play In Five Acts The Resources of Quinola The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts Vautrin: A Drama in Five Acts

Honoré de Balzac

The House of Fame

Geoffrey Chaucer

Dog Years

A novel set in three parts, beginning in the 1920s and ending in the 1950s, that follows the lives of two friends from the prewar years in Germany through an apocalyptic period and its startling aftermath. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Günter Grass

The Quest of the Missing Map

Prompted by the concerns of a young child, Nancy investigates a small studio on the Chatham estate. She discovers there is a connection between the mysterious occurrences at Ship Cottage and her search for a lost island. With half of a map as her only clue, Nancy sets out to find the man with the rest of the map to pinpoint the location of buried treasure. Constantly beset by danger and intrigue, Nancy courageously outwits her clever enemies who are also searching for both pieces of the map and the long-lost cache. This is the revised text from the 1942 original book. The plot is the same with minor revisions.

Carolyn Keene

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