Mistress of Mistresses
10 best books like Mistress of Mistresses (E.R. Eddison): Kees de jongen, The Emperor of Dreams, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition, The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition, The Well of the Unicorn, De asielzoeker, Agent of Byzantium, The Collected Stories, The Green Pearl and Madouc, Darker Than You Think
| Author | Theo Thijssen |
| ISBN | 9026956037 |
“Vele mensen schijnen Kees Bakels niet eens te hebben gekend, en dat is eigenlijk niet goed te begrijpen. Is hij niet zowat de belangrijkste jongen geweest, die er ooit heeft bestaan?”
Na de vele herdrukken en verfilming van Kees de jongen sinds de eerste druk in 1923, kunnen we rustig stellen...
From the vampire-haunted alleyways of mediaeval Averoigne to the shining spires of dying Zothique, Clark Ashton Smith weaves his literary sorcery, transporting us to forgotten realms of necromancies and nightmares, lost worlds and other dimensions. In the enchanted regions of Hyperborea, Atlantis...
Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition
| Author | Anne Frank |
| ISBN | 0553586386 |
Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of...
The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition
| Author | Anne Frank |
| ISBN | 0385508476 |
The only complete collection of writings by Anne Frank, this impressive volume contains three of the extant versions of her Diary (including pages that came to light in 1998), Tales from the Secret Annex (he lesser known short stories, fables, and personal reminiscences), and Cady's Life (her unfinished...
| Author | Fletcher Pratt |
| ISBN | 0345297296 |
Robbed of lands and heritage by the rapacious Vulkings, young Airar Alvarson had only his limited gift for sorcery to aid him against a world of savage intrigues. Then he met a mysterious sorcerer and was given a strange iron ring -- a ring that led him into a futile conspiracy and soon had him fleeing for...
| Author | Arnon Grunberg |
| ISBN | 9038827067 |
Een beetje humaan uitbuiten, daar doe je de mensen een groot plezier mee. Christian Beck, vertaler van gebruiksaanwijzingen, ontdekt alternatieve vormen van geluk en liefde. Ooit ontmaskerde hij zelfbedrog en illusies terwijl zijn vrouw in de woestijn dieren bestudeerde. Nu leeft hij voor haar....
| Author | Harry Turtledove |
| ISBN | 0865531838 |
This particular book isn't really a novel. It's a collection of short stories about Basil Argyros, essentially a secret agent in 14th century Byzantine empire.
Except this Byzantine empire is a bit different than the one in our past due to a few minor changes:
1) An Arab named Moaumet,...
| Author | Richard Yates |
| ISBN | 0312420811 |
Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0575075171 |
In Lyonesse: The Green Pearl and Madouc the magical lands of high enchantment - the Elder Isles, the land, long-vanished beneath the ocean, from which King Arthur's ancestors fled to Britain - come to brilliant life again. In this ancient land the realm of chivalry and the world of faerie exist side by...
| Author | Jack Williamson |
| ISBN | 0312869924 |
Who is the child of the night? That's what small-town reporter Will Barbee must find out. Inexorably drawn into investigating a rash of grisly deaths, he soon finds himself embroiled in something far beyond mortal understanding.
Doggedly pursuing his investigations, he meets the mysterious...
| Author | Jonathan Carroll |
| ISBN | 0575073675 |
For Joe Lennox, successful young writer, Vienna provides a refuge from the tragedy of his brother's death, until he starts up a friendship with the eccentric India Tate and her magician husband Paul. Gradually Joe falls in love with India, but Paul finds out - before he suddenly drops dread. And now Joe...
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0312890338 |
Congratulations on your purchase/borrowing/piracy of "Peace" by Gene Wolfe! We who have come before you hope you will be very, very satisfied with your purchase, and will come back to it for years to come! Before you enjoy your copy for the first (or second) time, here are some helpful tips:
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| Author | Leonard Michaels |
| ISBN | 0374126542 |
Leonard Michaels was a master of the short story. His collections are among the most admired, influential, and exciting of the last half century. The Collected Stories brings them back into print, from the astonishing debut Going Places (1969) to the uncollected last stories, unavailable since they...
| Author | Leon de Winter |
| ISBN | 9023414462 |
Lekker spannend boek wat je niet makkelijk weglegt. Dankzij een stevige griep in een dag uitgelezen.
Maar ook een boek dat tot nadenken stemt. De fel-realistische beschrijving van Israël dat in 2024 is gereduceerd tot een verpauperde stadstaat te midden van onverminderd vijandige moslim...
| Author | Anne Frank |
| ISBN | 0837172063 |
Revised and expanded version of the Critical Edition, originally published in 1986. A complete collection of Anne Frank's known writings -- different versions of her diary (as well as five recently discovered diary pages), fables, personal reminiscences and her unfinished novel, Cady's Life....
| Author | Amy Fusselman |
| ISBN | 0142002356 |
Named "It" Discovery Writer of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Amy Fusselman took readers and critics alike by storm when McSweeney's published this powerful little book. In The Pharmacist's Mate, she writes of her father's death and her own attempts to become pregnant, weaving in excerpts from...
De dagboeken van Anne Frank
Deze uitgave is een integrale en letterlijke weergave van hetgeen Anne Frank gedurende ruim twee jaar als dagboek bijhield. Van dit dagboek bestaan een eerdere en een latere, door haarzelf herschreven versie.
Deze editie geeft per pagina de samenhang weer tussen:
a. Anne's eerste versie
b....
How to Be an Existentialist: or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses
| Author | Gary Cox |
| ISBN | 1441188436 |
How to Be an Existentialist is a witty and entertaining book about the philosophy of existentialism. It is also a genuine self-help book offering clear advice on how to live according to the principles of existentialism formulated by Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, and the other great existentialist philosophers....
