Product Description“A you-can’t-put-it-down book. . . . Alice Adams has found a new way to tell the great American dynasty stories we all love.” --The Washington Post Alice Adams’ second novel is the portrait of a Southern-born woman as she reviews her life.From Louisa Calloway’s Southern girlhood to her debut to her first marriage, all the time surrounded by a certain tradition and all the time resisting. In lieu of her conservative, bigoted father, she chooses men who are liberal, free-spoken, Jewish. Nevertheless her first marriage is unhappy, but her second promises to be sounder, as she discovers what she really wants, can have, can become—what she really is. Views: 38
More adventures of the Fielding children - Tom, Carrie, Em and Michael - who live in the derelict house at World's End with their family of animals. Their first winter at World's End is packed with incident and excitement that involves children and animals alike ... Views: 38
One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael created a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and established Oz as a writer of international acclaim. Like all great books, it has an enduring power to surprise and mesmerize.Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael tells the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named Michael. As the years pass and Hannah's tempestuous fantasy life encroaches upon reality, she feels increasingly estranged from him and the marriage gradually disintegrates.Gorgeously written and profoundly moving, this extraordinary novel is at once a haunting love story and a rich, reflective portrait of place. Views: 38
"In a universe that had been ravaged by a thousand years of interplanetary warfare between the star-shattering Romaghins and the equally voracious Setessins, there seemed now but one thing that might bring the destruction to an end. That would be the right catalyst in the hands of the right people. The right catalyst could well be the individualist rebel, Tohm… he who had once been a simple peasant and who had been forcibly changed into a fearfully armored instrument of mechanical warfare — the man-tank Jumbo Ten. But the right people? Could they possibly be the hated driftwood of biological warfare — those monsters of a cosmic no-man's land — the Muties?" Views: 38
During the Xmas holiday in 1975, Adrian conceived the
concept of his enigmatic and shadowy character, the Voidal, a warrior doomed to
wander the limitless worlds of a bizarre omniverse in company with his unusual
sidekick, Elfloq the familiar, in search of his past, his identity and his soul.
Inspired by a combination of fantasy works, including Clark Ashton Smith, H. P.
Lovecraft and the extraordinary French artist, Philipe Druillet, it was the
beginning of a strange and tortured odyssey, a dark fantasy that was finally
brought to a climax nearly 40 years later.
Illustrated by Award winning British artist, Jim
Pitts.
Spectre Press, 1977. Softcover, 24 pp.
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"… The Voidal is a sort of destroying angel used by the
Dark Gods to work their will and vengeance. Stripped of memory, in each story,
he attempts to gain knowledge of who or what he is and regain his memory. To
describe the stories, think of H. P. Lovecraft writing sword and sorcery,
returning to the Dreamlands but written in his later, darker style. There is
some Michael Moorcock influence present with the idea of the "omniverse" and the
Voidal being sent to different dimensions. Cole uses words to create names in
the manner of Tolkien. Names such as Tallyman, Nighteye, Windwrack appear. Cole
combines simple Anglo-Saxon words to create new ones. He has a very unique style
and good command of language. Fans of Clark Ashton Smith take note though I
would not call Adrian Cole's writing style Smith-ish…"
-Morgan Holmes, REHupa (The Robert E. Howard
United Press Association)
"…as inventive as Jack Vance, with much of Michael
Moorcock's brooding gloom…"
-Lin Carter Views: 38
Kim Bennett, a speech therapist, agrees to stay at the Sussex country home of her friend, Gwen Barrington, to help her nephew Drew's child, Jane, who has a bad stammer. Kim becomes convinced that the little girl's problems are somehow linked with a family tragedy two years ago, but investigating this brings hostility and danger. Romantic Suspense/Gothic Romance by Nancy Buckingham; originally published by Lancer Books as Secret of the Ghostly Shroud Views: 38
Gary Myers' "House of the Worm" is an excursion into the rich worlds of H.P. Lovecraft. This slim volume from Arkham House is a collection of short stories that delve deep into his various Mythos. Myers admits in his introduction that he does take some liberties with his titular tale, "The House of the Worm", even admitting, in his own words, "…perhaps heresy…" is the best way to describe the story. Myers combines the creations of a number of Mythos contributors, illustrating his extensive knowledge of this sub genre. Each tale stands on its own, at times only taking place near another tale's happenings. Some of the stories, such as "House of the Worm" and "Yohk the Necromancer" deal with the worship of almost forgotten deities and its horrible results. Others like "Xiurhn" and "Passing of a Dreamer" handle human greed for wealth and/or power with that deliciously horrible HPL style. In fact, there seems to be an effort to at least approximate HPL's style throughout. All the stories all follow a single style as a result. Views: 37
[b]The Under Dogs[/b] is the first novel of the Madame Rosika Storey detective series (she had already appeared in short story form); it first appeared as a six-part serial in [i]Argosy[/i], Jan 3 to Feb 7, 1925. There are distinct fingerprints of Frank Packard's 1914 novel [i]Jimmie Dale[/i], although the criminals are both more believable and less vicious in Footner's variation on a theme.
Robert Sampson, in Yesterday's Faces: The Solvers, provides several pages of background on Madame Storey. For this novel he writes: "Matters begin with violence. A girl, promising sensational revelations, is on her way to Madame Storey's office. Before she arrives there, she is clubbed down and kidnapped. Attempting to search out the girl, Rosika and Bella (Storey's secretary cum companion — who is horrified by the idea) move into the underworld. The cool, high-fashion Rosika suddenly shows a genius for disguise and an ability to shine in low company, down among the East-side gin mills. Her investigation gradually narrows to a house on Varick Street, populated by very hard cases, male and female. There are dead men under the basement floor, a chained prisoner in the attic, and a reluctant gang of crooks being blackmailed to work the will of a master mind, dimly seen." Views: 37
Set in the troubled South Africa of the 1940s, this is the deeply moving story of a Zulu pastor, his son, and a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Passionately African, yet timeless and universal, it is a work of searing beauty.From Publishers WeeklyIn search of missing family members, Zulu priest Stephen Kumalo leaves his South African village to traverse the deep and perplexing city of Johannesburg in the 1940s. With his sister turned prostitute, his brother turned labor protestor and his son, Absalom, arrested for the murder of a white man, Kumalo must grapple with how to bring his family back from the brink of destruction as the racial tension throughout Johannesburg hampers his attempts to protect his family. With a deep yet gentle voice rounded out by his English accent, Michael York captures the tone and energy of this novel. His rhythmic narration proves hypnotizing. From the fierce love of Kumalo to the persuasive rhetoric of Kumalo's brother and the solemn regret of Absalom, York injects soul into characters tempered by their socioeconomic status as black South Africans. (May) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review"The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time."-- The New Republic (UNKNOWN )"A beautiful novel, rich, firm and moving . . ." -- The New York Times (New York Times ) Views: 37
William Shakespeare is mightily out of sorts — every scribbling wagtail cullion in London is shamelessly pilfering his ideas, and this new fellow is the cheekiest of all. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? What kind of name is that for a play? In Harry Turtledove's Tor.com Original, We Haven't Got there Yet.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Views: 37
This omnibus collection includes all of the author’s early poetry as well as the Four Quartets, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, and the plays Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party.Amazon.com ReviewEliot's poetry ranges from the massively magisterial ( The Waste Land), to the playfully pleasant ( Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats). This volume of Eliot's poetry and plays offers the complete text of these and most all of Eliot's poetry, including the full text of Four Quartets. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Eliot exerted a profound influence on his contemporaries in the arts generally and this collection makes his genius clear. About the AuthorThomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and became a British subject in 1927. The acclaimed poet of The Waste Land, Four Quartets, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, among numerous other poems, prose, and works of drama, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. T.S. Eliot died in 1965 in London, England, and is buried in Westminster Abbey. Views: 37
Book DescriptionMatt Brennon finds the old man as he lays dying near a spring, his body riddled with bullets. The old man leaves his ranch to Brennon, telling him never to sell, never to give up. For the first time in his life he really wants to kill, wants it so much his hands shake. Before the battle is over, Brennon gets the chance to do just that. Falsely accused of murder, he is forced to run from the law while harassing his enemies at the same time. When the shooting ends, however, his name is cleared, the ranch is his, and Moira Maclaren has consented to be his wife. This story was originally published in a shorter version in Giant western, June, 1951, under the title Riders of the dawn. Views: 37
In a novel that memorably evokes a rural American countryside and its wildlife, Daniel P. Mannix leads us into the magical existence of a boy groping toward maturity in a primitive but exciting environment. The story unfolds among the woods and farms of the Pennsylvania Dutch country, where the boy Billy comes from an unhappy city home to live with his great-uncle, Abe Zook, a "braucher" or hex doctor skilled in herbal healing and widely feared as a powwow man and master of magic.Under the tutelage of old Abe, Billy begins to learn the secrets of collecting herbs, running a farm and otherwise making a living from nature. His companions are the farm dog Wasser, the tame raven Grip, the trained owl Dracula. Important in his new life are two outcast animals, the bitch Blackie and the coyote Wolf, abandoned pets now gone to the wild and so elusive and savage that they are feared throughout the countryside and hunted by the superstitious farmers as werewolves. When the farmers start losing sheep and chickens, Billy joins them and their hounds in trying to run down the coyote and its mate.As season follows season the "werewolves" come to play a steadily more important role in the boy's emotional world. Billy's life is in grave danger when he meets the "werewolves" in the winter woods, and later their marauding coydog offspring. Yet his instinctive sympathy for rejected creatures makes him the ally and defender of Wolf and Blackie. At the same time, he and his great-uncle are forced to defend their own right to wrest a living from nature against the restrictions of civilization as typified by government regulations and game wardens. Gradually, surviving conflict and near-disaster, the boy develops a new maturity and purpose.This sensitive and poetic novel is distinguished by Daniel P. Mannix's talent for recreating the lives of animals and of people who live in close contact with the outdoors. Seldom does a novel so naturally combine powerful suspense, subtle humor, little-known nature lore, and a preception that reaches deep into the ways of men, boys, and animals. Views: 37
"Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" (The New York Times Book Review).Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and military historian Douglas Southall Freeman won his second Pulitzer Prize for his new and dramatic reexamination of George Washington. For years biographies had gone from idolatry to muckraking in their depictions of this somewhat marbleized Founding Father. Freeman's new interpretation was a fresh step, making Washington a living, breathing individual, flawed but heroic. An able commander who defeated the British Empire against incredible odds, Washington proved to be just as adept at wielding political power, and adroitly steered our new loosely called nation through the first stormy years of our unproven federal stewardship and the first two presidential administrations. Here with an introduction by... Views: 37
