John Lucas: 24 books
by John Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
'A veritable successor to Douglas Adams,John Lucas has demonstrated with his debut novel a capacity to fuse witty satire and the more inventive elements of science fiction. If you liked Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy you will definitely like this imaginative and humorous view of the place our planet...
Thomas Beecham
An Obsession with Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
Thomas Beecham was one of Britain's greatest conductors of orchestral music and opera as well as an entrepreneur and impresario of exceptional energy and brilliant wit. This new life places him - musically, politically and socially - in the troubled times in which he lived and corrects the stories...
92 Acharnon Street
A Year in Athens
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Greece has always had its admirers, though none seems to have cherished the Athenian tavernas, the murderous traffic and the jaded prostitutes, the petty bureaucratic tyrannies, the street noise and the heroic individualists with the irony and detachment of John Lucas. 92 Acharnon Street is a gritty...
by Jeremy Holt, John Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Harry Houdini, master magician and covert spy for the United States, has been kidnapped. The only man who can save him is his estranged son Josef, who, like his father, knows the power of magic—and how it can be more than just an illusion.
Josef Houdini takes after his father: A gifted...
by Rick Loverd, Jeremy Haun, John Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
What is happening to these men? They are Berserkers, descendants of an ancient Norse bloodline that grants them incredible, feral strength, a strength that comes at the direst of costs.
by Rick Loverd, Jeremy Haun, John Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
What is happening to these men? They are Berserkers, descendants of an ancient Norse bloodline that grants them incredible, feral strength, a strength that comes at the direst of costs.
by John Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The collection of essays presented in this volume represents some of the best recent critical work on William Blake as poet, prophet, visual artist, and social and political critic of his time.
The critical range that is represented includes examples of Marxist, New Historicist, Feminist and...
by Rick Loverd, Jeremy Haun, John Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
What is happening to these men? They are Berserkers, descendants of an ancient Norse bloodline that grants them incredible, feral strength, a strength that comes at the direst of costs.
by Rick Loverd, Jeremy Haun, John Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
What is happening to these men? They are Berserkers, descendants of an ancient Norse bloodline that grants them incredible, feral strength, a strength that comes at the direst of costs.
The Literature of Change
Studies in the Nineteenth Century Provincial Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
First published in 1977, this book studies three important nineteenth-century novelists: Mrs Gaskell, William Hale White and Thomas Hardy. They are all provincial novelists who wrote about social change and the attendant problems and pressures this brought with it. Unlike previous critics, who have...
by John Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Forget about Ann Landers and Dear Abby. Tammy deals with real problems and doesn't give a rip if your mother-in-law is a nosy know-it-all or if you're unsure where to seat the second wives at your daughter's wedding. That's all crap. Tammy deals with real problems like: 1. What should you wear to your...
The Melancholy Man
A Study of Dickens's Novels
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
First published in 1980, this book surveys Dickens’ growing power to drive deep into the causes of his contemporary conditions. It reveals the importance of nature to Dickens as a rich metaphor of human freedom and potentiality, and emphasises his concern with time and the problems of freedom. The...
Sister States, Enemy States
The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
The fifteenth and sixteenth states to join the United States of America, Kentucky and Tennessee were cut from a common cloth -- the rich region of the Ohio River Valley. Abounding with mountainous regions and fertile farmlands, these two slaveholding states were as closely tied to one another, both...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
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