Michael Sims: 14 books
Dracula's Guest
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Before Twilight and True Blood, even before Buffy and Anne Rice and Bela Lugosi, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers everywhere indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.
Michael Sims brings together the...
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau
A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man who kept quitting jobs evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism.
Working from nineteenth-century...
Frankenstein Dreams
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
From Mary Shelley to H.G. Wells, a collection of the best Victorian science fiction from Michael Sims, the editor of Dracula's Guest.
Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they...
Arthur and Sherlock
Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
2018 Edgar Award Nominee
Shortlisted for the H. R. F. Keating Award from the International Crime Writers Association
From Michael Sims, the acclaimed author of The Story of Charlotte's Web, the rich, true tale tracing the young Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes and the modern...
Apollo's Fire
A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
It?s the oldest story on Earth. You relive it every day.
So much of our shared daily experience in the world is shaped by the sometimes dramatic, sometimes subtle effects of the Earth?s spin, its tilt on its axis, the alternation of light and darkness, the waxing and waning of the moon, the...
The Phantom Coach
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula's Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about...
Adam's Navel
A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
In this amusing and brilliantly conceived book, Michael Sims introduces you to your body. Moving from head to toe, Sims blends cultural history with evolutionary theory to produce a wonderfully original narrative in which he analyzes the visible parts of the body. In this fascinating brew of science...
The Story of Charlotte's Web
E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
While composing what would become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White obeyed that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats-White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours as...
The Dead Witness
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The Dead Witness gathers the finest adventures among private and police detectives from the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth--including a wide range of overlooked gems creating the finest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories. "The Dead Witness," the 1866 title story...
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Timeof Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
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An exclusive collection-the first- ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era
collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present-Arsène Lupin and A. J. Raffles, Colonel...
The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime
Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And,...
by Michael Sims
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
MY THREE MAIN HOBBIES ARE COOKING, READING COMIC BOOKS AND STUDING THE BIBLE. I HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PEOPLE'S PERSON. I LOVE AND ENJOY MEETING PEOPLE ESPECIALLY LEARNING ABOUT OTHER INDIVIDUALS HISTORIES AND CULTURES. IN THE LATTER YEARS OF MY LIFE WHILE WORKING AS A COOK, BARTENDER AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE...
Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect
A Collection
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel...
Military Caregivers
Cornerstones of Support for Our Nation's Wounded, Ill, and Injured Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Military caregivers are an essential part of our nation's ability to care for returning wounded warriors. Far too often, their own needs are neglected. The RAND Corporation and the Elizabeth Dole Foundation lay the groundwork to inform policy and program development relative to the needs of military caregivers that often differ from the needs of the general caregiving population.