Wolf of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume One
10 best books like Wolf of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume One (Harold Lamb): The Dying Earth, The Black Tulip, Cold Comfort Farm, Dragons of Light, Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies, Treasures of Fantasy, Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology, The Sword & Sorcery Anthology, Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies 4), Pax Romana
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0671831526 |
I did not like this book much the first time I read it, but after reading it a second time while visualizing its characters as puppets, I found I liked it much more.
This book—particularly the first three stories—irritated me. I found its wizards to be contemptible creatures, morally...
| Author | Alexandre Dumas |
| ISBN | 0140448926 |
'To have discovered the black tulip, to have seen it for a moment...then to lose it, to lose it forever!'
Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But after his powerful godfather is assassinated,...
| Author | Stella Gibbons |
| ISBN | 0143039598 |
Update I've just watched the film. It's even better than the book, by a long way. It's very affectionate, and very much played for gentle laughs. The cast is fantastic, some of the best actresses around including Eileen Atkins and Joanna Ab Fab Lumley, Stephen Fry and Ian McKellan. The attention to detail...
| Author | Orson Scott Card |
| ISBN | 1557850372 |
The dragons are coming! Here are thirteen original tales about that most popular of fabulous beasts--the dragon! Edited by Orson Scott Card, this book features works by authors such as Roger Zelazny, Michael Bishop, Craig Shaw Gardner, Steve Rasnic Tem and more.
The Ice Dragon by George R....
Since its first issue in March 1923, Weird Tales - "The Unique Magazine" - has provided countless readers with the most innovative and offbeat fantasy, suspense and horror stories. Almost every important writer of fantastic fiction in the first half of this century - including H.P. Lovecraft, Robert...
| Author | Margaret Weis |
| ISBN | 0061056308 |
Here be dragons--and elves, wizards, and unicorns and all the wonders of fantasy!
Here they are, collected in one indispensable volume--the most acclaimed stories of our time by the world-famous authors who have made fantasy the most exciting and popular genre in all literature.
Known...
| Author | James Lowder |
| ISBN | 1569757887 |
THE BEAST STALKS THE NIGHT!
The change comes on with startling speed. Moonlight transforms the kindly stranger into something else--something wild, vicious and beyond the reach of reason. The curse has taken hold. From dark urban alleys and fog-shrouded heaths to unsettling futurescapes...
| Author | David G. Hartwell |
| ISBN | 1616960698 |
Terrifying barbarians, cunning mages, and daring heroes run rampant through these exceptional examples of the exciting sword and sorcery genre. In “Tower of the Elephant,” Conan takes up jewel thievery but proves to be far better with his sword. “The Flame Bringers” finds antihero Elric...
| Author | Sophocles |
| ISBN | 0226307867 |
"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic
"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought...
| Author | Adrian Goldsworthy |
| ISBN | 0297864289 |
Best-selling author Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Pax Romana, the famous peace and prosperity brought by the Roman Empire at its height in the first and second centuries AD. Yet the Romans were conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates to...
The Big Book of Adventure Stories
A hair-raising collection of adventure stories that's so big and enthralling if you open it you may never be seen again: enter at your own risk.
Everyone loves adventure, and Otto Penzler has collected the best adventure stories of all time into one mammoth volume. With stories by Jack London,...
| Author | Jessica Amanda Salmonson |
| ISBN | 0879979704 |
An extremely strong collection with much to recommend in it. Salmonson had a laser-like focus on exactly what she wanted, but her attitude bled through at points. Her assertive views about the state of heroic fantasy at the time--testosterone-drenched pastiche--eventually sounded like a chip on...
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
| Author | Thomas Sowell |
| ISBN | 1594030863 |
This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which Sowell has become famous. As late as the 1940s and 1950s, he argues, poor Southern rednecks were regarded by Northern employers and law enforcement officials as lazy, lawless, and sexually immoral. This...
