What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War
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| Author | Lord Dunsany |
| ISBN | 1587156377 |
"Not only does any tale which crosshatches between this world and Faerie owe a Founder's Debt to Lord Dunsany, but the secondary world created by J.R.R. Tolkien--from which almost all fantasylands have devolved--also took shape and flower from Dunsany's example." --The Encyclopedia of Fantasy...
| Author | William Elliot Griffis |
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| Author | Jackie Chanel |
| ISBN | 1460934156 |
For some, music is an escape from the everyday norm. For Aiden, it's his life's blood.
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In one moment, aliens make their presence known. In one moment, millions disappear. Autumn Daniel's sister is one of those who vanishes. Unable to rest, she joins Alex Cameron to find her. But she's about to find out that things are more sinister than she believes. This science fiction thriller is the...
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0981860400 |
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published...
[...] He saw that it was the mouth of the tunnel, and glancing up he saw the giant fir-tree under which he had been sleeping with outstretched arms above him in the light of the moon. "Well-I never! what a dunderhead I am!" he said to himself-"fancy sleeping like that, why such a thing has never happened to...
| Author | William Matthew Flinders Petrie |
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Astronomy For Amateurs (Illustrated Edition)
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| Author | William Walker Atkinson |
A decent book. nothing new here though makes references to "the unknown life of Christ" and other books about ST Issa in India aka Jesus the Nazarene . i was hoping for more insight into the hidden mysteries of christinaity but its only tid bits and crumbs , which is good. the point of gnosis is for you to do...
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
| Author | Sinclair Lewis |
| ISBN | 1417916516 |
1926. Lewis, was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Possibly the greatest satirist of his age, Lewis wrote novels that present a devastating picture of middle-class American life in the 1920s. Although he ridiculed the values, the lifestyles, and even the speech of his characters,...
| Author | Ford Madox Ford |
| ISBN | 0839823509 |
In 1901 Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Ford, two of the greatest literary writers of the 20th Century, pooled their talents to write a novel about interdimensional terrorism. Almost no one has read it, and those who have do not seem to think much of it.
To critics, it is a mere curiosity, only of...
Within a Budding Grove, Part 2
| Author | Marcel Proust |
| ISBN | 1408437015 |
When Françoise draws the heavy curtains of the narrator's hotel room window at the end of À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, we realise that due to doctor's orders, and from the very beginning of his stay at the Grand Hotel in Balbec, the narrator was confined to his room for long periods each morning....
| Author | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| ISBN | 1417936886 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
After Dark is Wilkie Collins's first collection of six short stories, published in 1856. The book is a series of tales supposed to be told to poor travelling portrait-painter, William Kerby, who is forced to abandon his profession for six months in order to save his sight.
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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0195101499 |
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences," the best-known and best-loved essay in this collection, is Mark Twain's how-to guide for the would-be author. A hilarious and cutting critique of what not to do, this deliciously wicked essay also lays out what writers should and must do if they want their fiction...
| Author | L. Ron Hubbard |
| ISBN | 1592122493 |
Women. Liquor. Power.
Women. Liquor. Power.
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| Author | Bram Stoker |
| ISBN | 1847022987 |
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Rain has never chosen her own name. Nor has she met a polite apple tree, been caught in a house’s security spell, or ridden a horse . . . winged or not. What she does know is that, after having been a slave for all thirteen years of her common life, she’s free and has nowhere to go.
That all changes...
| Author | John Ruskin |
| ISBN | 0486227308 |
Can drawing — sound, honest representation of the world as the eye sees it, not tricks with the pencil or a few "effects" — be learned from a book? One of the most gifted draftsmen, who is also one of the greatest art critics and theorists of all time, answers that question with a decided "Yes." He is...
| Author | James VI, King of Scots |
| ISBN | 1599869462 |
In 1597, King James VI of Scotland and I of England, who commissioned the King James bible, wrote Demonology, setting out his beliefs on satan and witches. A historical work and important read for scholars of religion, this book allows readers to study the beliefs and ideas and King James. Demonology...
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The famous 1940 short story by Harry Bates that inspired the two movies "The Day the Earth Stood Still." The humanoid alien Klaatu and the giant robot Gnut suddenly materialize in Washington, D.C.,...
