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Sanine is an early novel of progressive thought by Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (1878-1927), Russian author, and proponent literary Naturalism.
A strange tale of love among the celestial bodies and the secret history of planet Mars, published in 1922.
Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920) was a historian, journalist and adventure writer, best known for "Indian Fights and Fighters".
Randall Parrish (1858-1923) wrote American historical novels such as "My Lady of the North" and "A Sword of the Old Frontier."
The Weavers is "A Tale of England and Egypt" by Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, (1862-1932), Canadian novelist and British politician.
Jerusalem Delivered (La Gerusalemme liberata) is Torquato Tasso's (1544-1595) fictionalized account of the first crusade in epic poem form.
The tale of one man's life, written by authors who knew him. Derek Curtis-Bennet (1904-1956) and Roland Wild (author of The Arctic Command and Extension Night).
John George Wood, or Rev J. G. Wood, (1827-1889), was a popular English writer on natural history, and not very modest about it.
Francis Lynde (1856-1930) wrote fiction set in the Carolinas concerned with mining and western expansion.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. "The Rival" is a great comedy of manners, and "The School for Scandal" established his work in London.
Running for sixteen issues in 1919, 'The Thrill Book' was a magazine of 'strange, bizzare, occult, mysterious tales,' but not quite a fantastic-fiction magazine, mixing various types of adventure stories with often outstanding fantasy, horror, and science fiction. This volume is a facsimile reprint of the first issue.
Famous western author Zane Grey documents his fishing excursions in Australia. And don't miss Grey's companion volume, "Tales of the Angler's El Dorado, New Zealand," available in a matching edition.
Included in this volume: "The Voyage to New Zealand, 1925," "Island Stopover," "Destination: Bay of Islands - the Angler's El Dorado," "Hunting the Big Game Fish," "Bounty from The Sea," "The Lure of the Great Striped Marlin," "A World-Record Fish and the Fight with a Broadbill," "Monster from the Deep," "Good Luck After Bad," "The Poor Knights and Sunken Reef."
The fifth issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine -- a special Holmes Fiction Issue -- features an amazing new Holmes short novel by Carla Coupe, "The Adventure of the Haunted Bagpipes," plus great Holmes stories and features by Bruce I. Kilstein, Mark Wardecker, Gary Lovisi, Paula Volsky, Marc Bilgrey, Stan Trybulski, Len Moffatt. Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Lenny Picker, Alan McCright, and M J Elliott. Our biggest issue ever, at 196 pages!
In the distant future, when science has evolved into an art indistinguishable from magic, Kirin the thief finds himself forced down on an alien planet. Gathering allies, he must defeat the Witch Queen -- who plans nothing less than the conquest of the entire galaxy! A thrilling sword-and-planet adventure in the grand tradition of Leigh Brackett and C.L. Moore.
Lin Carter was an American author, editor, and critic known for his contributions to the fantasy and science fiction genres. He is best remembered for his "Thongor" sword-and-sorcery series and for his role in reviving interest in classic fantasy literature through his work as editor of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. Carter also wrote extensively in the tradition of authors like H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and his efforts helped introduce a new generation of readers to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord Dunsany, and others.
William Sage (1864-?) wrote several historical romances.
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869-1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946), the self-styled "Prince of Storytellers," wrote thrillers and other popular genres. He invented the "rogue male" school of spy fiction and became an international best-seller for half a century."Mr. Oppenheim is a past master of the art of constructing ingenious plots and weaving them around attractive characters."--London Morning PostThis edition includes a new introduction by literary scholar Darrell Schweitzer.
A sequel to "Phineas Finn". Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire," revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, gender issues and conflicts of his day.
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire," revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, gender issues and conflicts of his day.
British Professor of English Literature, Earnest A. Baker, calls the literary epoch between the demise of Fielding (Tom Jones) and Goldsmith (The Vicar of Wakefield) until the appearance of Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) "difficult to characterize, which would be called dull if it were judged by purely literary standards." But he manages to find a gem or two in examining the explosion of novels in this period.
Mrs. Cecil Chesterton (Ada Elizabeth Jones Chesterton, 1869-1962) was a journalist, dramatist and founder of the National Care Forum for Homeless Women. Sister-in-law to G.K. Chesterton, he said about her, "she not only could do everything, but she would do anything. Her work was patchwork of the wildest and most bizarre description; and she was almost continuously in a state of hilarious irony in contemplation of its contrast." My Russian Venture relates the story of Mrs. Chesterton's journey to the Soviet Union in the late 1920s, including the difficulties in undertaking the trip at all and her observations and interactions with people she meet on her travels.
This novel critiques the British Prison System of its time. John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890) poet and novelist, As belonged to the Irish Republican Brotherhood in youth. He was transported to Western Australia. After escaping to the United States, he became a prominent spokesperson for Irish sentiment and culture.
Bayard Veiller (1869-1943) was an American screenwriter, producer and film director.
Robert William Chambers (1865-1933), American artist and writer, produced popular work in the genres of weird fiction, historical fiction, and romance. He is known best for "The King in Yellow."
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (1871-1945) American novelist and journalist, pioneered the naturalist school. Book includes McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers, The Lost Phoebe, The Second Choice, A Story of Stories, Married, and more.
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