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Crime Fiction since 1800

Detection, Death, Diversity

by Stephen Knight
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...
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The Twilight of the Middle Class

Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work

by Andrew Hoberek
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...
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Clark Ashton Smith

A Critical Guide to the Man and His Work, Second Edition

by Steve Behrends
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...
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by Vanessa Guignery
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....
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by Joe Haldeman
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...
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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

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,...
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by Mark McGinty
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...
Cover of Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Delphi Classics)
by William Dean Howells, Delphi Classics
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,...
Cover of Arrivée (Les Chroniques de l'Invasion, Tome Deux): Un Thriller de Science-fiction
by Morgan Rice
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,...
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Narrative Fiction

Contemporary Poetics

by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
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...
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by Neil Clarke, Genevieve Valentine, Jack Skillingstead
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...
Cover of Le gouffre Maracot ou le monde perdu sous la mer
by Arthur Conan Doyle
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...
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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

by H. P. Lovecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen
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...
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