Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Devoted Friend/The Nightingale and the Rose
10 best books like Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Devoted Friend/The Nightingale and the Rose (P. Craig Russell): Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories, Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur!, The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, Sita: Daughter of the Earth, The Variable Man and Other Stories, Christmas in the Trenches, With Morning Comes Mistfall, The U.S. Constitution: And Fascinating Facts about It, The Traveler, The Snows of Kilimanjaro/The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 0964853906 |
Included are these stories:
"Even the Queen": Virtually every new technology spawns Luddites who insist it's a bad thing. In this case, an entire cult is involved.
Winner, 1992 Nebula Award and 1993 Hugo Award, Best Short Story.
"At the Rialto": A look at a scientific conference...
| Author | Syd Hoff |
| ISBN | 0064442373 |
Readers first fell in love with Danny and his prehistoric pal in the I Can Read classic Danny and the Dinosaur, created by Syd Hoff in 1958. Now the popular pair are together again in an adventure sure to please beginning readers
What would happen if a dinosaur came to a birthday party? Come to Danny's...
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English author and poet. He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling...
| Author | Saraswati Nagpal |
| ISBN | 9380741251 |
In an ancient age, when gods and goddesses walked with mortals...
...Sita is the kind-hearted and intelligent princess of the kingdom of Videha. Married to Rama, prince of Ayodhya, her journey in life takes her from exhilaration to anguish.
Along the way, she has to leave behind the luxury...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0722129629 |
Billed as a complete novel along with a selection of shorts, The Variable Man itself is more of a novella these days. A man is pulled accidentally from his own time into the 22nd century where his very existence is a variable factor that the computers planning the war against Centarus can't plan for.
This...
| Author | John McCutcheon |
| ISBN | 1561453749 |
Decided this would be a good read for Christmas Eve and I was right! This is one of my favorite Christmas stories and it’s really touching and emotional (I mean the real Christmas truce story that this book is about, not the Robot Chicken version, though if you haven’t seen that, look it up, it’s great!).
What’s...
This was a wonderful story about a journalist who travels with a team of researchers who try and find the "Bigfoot" of Wraithworld. Wraithworld is a planet covered in thick mist and beautifully weird forests. The thing that the researchers are trying to find are called wraiths, hence the name of the planet....
| Author | Terry L. Jordan |
| ISBN | 1891743007 |
Mr. Jordan pads out the pages of this otherwise-short book with the most basic facts about the great (and not-so-great) men who helped craft the greatest and most influential system of governing the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, he writes with a "gee-whiz" sensibility that begins to grate almost...
| Author | Daren Simkin |
| ISBN | 0374116393 |
Once there was a boy named Charlie, who had a nice life—but it wasn’t quite perfect. He had to spend too much of his time doing things he didn’t want to do. So one day he packed up all his time in a suitcase, locked it up, and set off to find a better way to spend it. Charlie traveled the world looking for...
| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
| ISBN | 0736650695 |
In The Snows of Kilimanjaro the protagonist perishes of gangrene alone out in the bush, recognizing his failure as a writer: a writer who never had the nerve to write. He dies with stoic acceptance and a view of the famous summit unseen by any alive. In The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Francis is...
| Author | J.M. DeMatteis |
| ISBN | 0007233396 |
I read this book immediately after reading the first in the series The Road to Inconceivable back to back, so I am doing a sort of joint review. Even if you haven't read the first book, please check out my journal entry on it as there are a couple of great stories there.
This book is grand, even better...
The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist: Volume 3
| Author | Michael Chabon |
| ISBN | 1593074921 |
A secret - I bought this book for the contribution of one man. Being Will Eisner's final published work and his only-time return to the Spirit, I felt that I had no choice. Will, as always, proves my faith in him justified. His peculiar look at two pseudo-superheroes, complete with tongue-in-cheek reference...
In this final volume, the big confrontation between Fig and the Conception, between Fig and Lotus Blossom, between Lotus Blossom and the Magical Physicians, between Fig and Lotus Blossom and Harry, between - okay, between everyone and everyone else, and it's been building since issue one. What will...
Wodehouse Steampunk! Reggie Worcester and Reeves, his gentleman’s personal gentle-automaton, are consulting detectives in an alternative 1903 where an augmented Queen Victoria is still on the throne and automata are a common sight below stairs. Humour, Mystery, Aunts and Zeppelins!
“A...
| Author | Norman Bridwell |
| ISBN | 0590442961 |
While this may have taken me quite some time to finish, i find my review of this book will not. Simply put, the idea of a large, building sized dog having a role in the economy is ridiculous- How would they even collect taxes? He's a large dog, surely he cannot file tax returns? Nonetheless, the story is reminiscent...
| Author | B.G. Hennessy |
| ISBN | 0689874332 |
"Nothing ever happens here," the shepherd thinks. But the bored boy knows what would be exciting: He cries that a wolf is after his sheep, and the town's people come running. How often can that trick work, though? B.G. Hennessy's retelling of this timeless fable is infused with fanciful whimsy through...
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0895986841 |
"Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open."
—Bernard Kerik
A wealthy banker holds a party at his commodious home, where a group of intellectuals argue as to which is the more humane punishment: a swift execution, or life imprisonment in a Russian jail. One kills swiftly, the...
| Author | Vincent van Gogh |
| ISBN | 1435107101 |
I visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam today. They've presented the pieces as a journey through the emotional life of the artist.
It was really exciting turning around a corner and being confronted with the original painting of an image I've seen countless times in my life. Bedroom in Arles...
| Author | P. Craig Russell |
| ISBN | 1561632139 |
"The Birthday of the Infanta" is a historical fiction for children by the Irish author Oscar Wilde. The action of "The Birthday of the Infanta" takes place in Spain at an unspecified point in the past. It is the twelfth birthday of the Infanta, the only daughter, and only child, of the King of Spain. For...
