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Crime Fiction since 1800
Detection, Death, Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, to newly self-aware voices of the present...
The Twilight of the Middle Class
Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
In The Twilight of the Middle Class, Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. Reading works by Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Don...
Clark Ashton Smith
A Critical Guide to the Man and His Work, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was a major writer of fantasy and science fiction during the first half of the twentieth century. Together with H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Smith was one of the "Three Musketeers" of legendary Weird Tales magazine, and contributed some of the most...
by Vanessa Guignery
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2006
Julian Barnes's work has been marked by great variety, ranging not only from conventional fiction to postmodernist experimentation in such well-known novels as Flaubert's Parrot (1984) and A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters (1989), but also from witty essays to deeply touching short stories....
by Joe Haldeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
During the Alaskan gold rush, a woman pursues a destiny that will change the world in this alternate-history novel from a sci-fi legend.
In the tradition of Robert Heinlein (Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land), multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner Joe Haldeman set a new standard...
Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Essays by Patrick Hanan
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2004
It has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows that the opposite is true: the finest novels of the nineteenth century show a constant experimentation and evolution. In this collection of detailed and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon,...
by Mark McGinty
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Bronze Medal, Historical Fiction: 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards
Finalist - 2011 National Indie Excellence Book Awards, Historical Fiction
Finalist: 2010 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, Historical Fiction
Winner: General Fiction Honorable Mention, London Book...
by William Dean Howells, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
William Dean Howells, the realist master known as "The Dean of American Letters", produced an enormous oeuvre of works that had a lasting influence on American literature. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Howells’ complete works, with numerous illustrations,...
by Morgan Rice
Language: French
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Morgan Rice, l’auteur mondial n 1 de best-sellers d’heroic fantasy, nous offre une première série de science-fiction longuement attendue. Le SETI a reçu un signal venant d’une civilisation extraterrestre. Est-il encore temps de sauver le monde ?
“C’est une très bonne intrigue,...
Narrative Fiction
Contemporary Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns its attention to these and other questions.
In...
by Neil Clarke, Genevieve Valentine, Jack Skillingstead
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.
Our October 2017 issue (#133) contains:
Original fiction by Jack Skillingstead ("The Sum...
Le gouffre Maracot ou le monde perdu sous la mer
édition intégrale
Language: French
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Une expédition dirigée par le docteur Maracot se retrouve confrontée au mystère de l’Atlantide...
Conan Doyle est moins connu pour ses ouvrages de SF. Pourtant, « il y avait chez Conan Doyle », dira de lui Jacques Bergier, « une double personnalité provoquant un conflit entre la logique...
Classic Tales of Horror
A Collection of the Greatest Horror Tales of All-Time: At the Mountains of Madness, Carmilla, The Great God Pan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Invisible Man, The Lair of the White Worm, The Masque of the Red Death, The Vampyre
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
Ranging from the macabre to the supernatural, the collection of stories found in Classic Tales of Horror contains some of the most influential horror and dark fiction books of all-time.
Included in this classic horror anthology are:
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
The Lair...