A Tangled Tale
10 best books like A Tangled Tale (Lewis Carroll): Stories for Christmas, Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism, Shamans Through Time, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism, Legends of Charlemagne, The Philosopher's Handbook: Essential Readings from Plato to Kant, Tales and Sketches, Faeries (Magical Worlds of Fantasy), Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy
Author | Charles Dickens |
ISBN | 1879582414 |
The first collected Edition of Dicken's contributions to the Christmas numbers of 'Household Words' and 'All the Year Round' was issued in the 'Charles Dickens' Edition of his works in 1871, under the general title of Christmas Stories from 'Household Words' and 'All Year Round'. The present Edition...
The Daring Spectacle is award-winning San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate columnist and culture critic Mark Morford’s hilarious modern record of sex and media, politics and pop culture, love and lust, as told in ninety-two delectable parts—not including all the delicious photos and terrifying...
Author | Jeremy Narby |
ISBN | 1585423629 |
A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.
This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of...
Author | Clifton Fadiman |
ISBN | 0395368057 |
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of...
Author | Kevin Kerrane |
ISBN | 0684846306 |
This fascinating compilation of the journalist's art unites the reporter's magnificent eye for detail with the novelist's gift for storytelling. Featuring eyewitness accounts of war and social revolution, profiles of sports heroes and politicians, and eye-opening investigations into both...
Author | Thomas Bulfinch |
ISBN | 0028614771 |
Here are the world s most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for today s readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Though Bulfinch s has been heralded for more than a century, it has never...
Author | Stanley Rosen |
ISBN | 0375720111 |
An ideal introduction for the casual reader and a beneficial reference for the student, The Philosopher's Handbook features the writings of some of the world's most influential philosophers. Based on the premise that all human beings are curious about their existence, Rosen's collection brings...
Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
ISBN | 0940450038 |
This Library of America volume offers what no reader has ever been able to find—an authoritative edition of all the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne in a single comprehensive volume. Everything is included from his three books of stories, Twice-told Tales (1837, revised 1851), Mosses...
Author | Isaac Asimov |
ISBN | 0451450612 |
Features:
ANDRE NORTON
LORD DUNSANY
POUL ANDERSON
JESSICA AMANDA SALMONSON
THOMAS BURNETT SWANN
JAMES HOGG
LAFCADIO HEARN
RICHARD McKENNA
MARY E. WILKINS
PHILIP K. DICK
HENRY SLESAR
HERMINIE TEMPLETON
H. C. BAILEY
JOHANN LUDWIG TIECK
JOHN BUCHAN
ROBERT F. YOUNG
ISAAC...
Author | Rudyard Kipling |
ISBN | 1933648783 |
From ghost stories to psychological suspense, the complete horror and dark fantasy stories of Rudyard Kipling.
Rudyard Kipling, a major figure of English literature, used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursions into fantasy. Kipling is considered...
Author | Chrétien de Troyes |
ISBN | 0300070217 |
In this extraordinarily fine translation of Cligès, the second of five surviving Arthurian poems by twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, Burton Raffel captures the liveliness, innovative spirit, and subtle intentions of the original work. In this poem, Chrétien creates his most...
Author | Anonymous |
ISBN | 0140447725 |
These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded, and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of each saga, however, is very different. Gisli is a traditional Viking-age hero who is determined to exact revenge at any cost and whose death is tragic when...
I was pleasantly surprised by this book, although I can't say that I was truly overwhelmed by it. It was a pleasant story, and each of the nieces had distinct personalities that showed once again that Baum (who used the pen-name Edith Van Dyne) really felt that girls/women had as much logic, practicality,...
The Enchanted Island of Yew
Author | L. Frank Baum |
ISBN | 1603123326 |
. . . where the most unusual opportunity presents itself: the chance to transform an immortal being into a mortal. Before her eyes appears a handsome young knight: Prince Marvel. Setting out in search of adventure, he finds it aplenty on the enchanted isle, as he soon meets King of the Thieves Wul-Takim,...
The first conclusion to White’s Arthurian epic (the second being the then unpublished Book of Merlin), The Candle in the Wind shows us the absolute futility of war.
“We cannot build a future by trying to avenge the past.” Arthur arrives at this understanding at the dawn of the final battle,...