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Ullsmere: A Poem is a work of poetry written by John Charles Bristow and published in 1835. The poem tells the story of a fictional village called Ullsmere, which is located in the English Lake District. The village is described as a tranquil and idyllic...

The Moniad: A Satire is a book written by Truth in 1867. It is a satirical work that pokes fun at the political and social issues of the time. The book is divided into four parts, each of which focuses on a different aspect of society. The first part is...

The Natural Or The Supernatural? is a book written by A Layman in 1874. The book explores the debate between naturalism and supernaturalism, examining the arguments for and against each position. The author argues that the natural world can be explained...

In this new book, Noga Applebaum surveys science fiction novels published for children and young adults from 1980 to the present, exposing the anti-technological bias existing within a genre often associated with the celebration of technology. Applebaum...

Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era explores a fascinating connection between two seemingly unrelated Romantic-era discourses, outlining the extent to which eighteenth and early nineteenth century theories of sympathy were generated by crises of...

In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls' literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She illuminates...

En esta historia de drama y misterio, Bound-Nights At School nos sitúa en el pueblo de Lotos, en un país llamado Lustaphir. Un niño llamado Nicky es asesinado y su grupo de tres amigos se comprometen en la misión de descubrir los motivos tras su muerte.

Joyce Porter is the funniest crime writer you've never heard of- until now. Creator of DCI Wilfrid Dover, Scotland Yard's laziest and rudest detective, Eddie Brown, a schoolteacher forced into Cold War spycraft against his...

About A Dish of OrtsRead the thoughts of the man who influenced three generations of philosophers and writers. Lovers of fantasy, literary apologetics, and Christian thought will appreciate A Dish of Orts, MacDonald's work on using the imagination to...

From space opera to weird fiction to indie games and NaNoWriMo, this collection represents the best in nonfiction dedicated to geekery. Founded by Holly Lyn Walrath, Interstellar Flight Magazine is an online SFF and pop culture mag devoted to essays...

Questo volume offre una prima mappatura critica dei personaggi leviani, e mira a dare avvio a indagini sulla loro costruzione, sulla loro configurazione narrativa e linguistica, così come sul loro statuto ontologico all'interno del mondo possibile...

This study brings us closer to understanding the relationship between fashion and literature. In Machado de Assis' Dom Casmurro, fashion serves as a literary strategy that supports the ironic approach of the book. This book gives insight into Brazilian...

Robert Kirkman (b. 1978) is probably best known as the creator of The Walking Dead. The comic book and its television adaptation have reinvented the zombie horror story, transforming it from cult curiosity and parody to mainstream popularity and critical...

Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner, Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob Salkowitz, Kalervo A. Sinervo, Jeremy Stoll, Valerie Wieskamp,...

In The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces, prominent scholar Thierry Groensteen offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works. He covers over half a century of...

Winner of the Children's Literature Association Edited Book AwardFrom the jaded, wired teenagers of M.T. Anderson's Feed to the spirited young rebels of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy, the protagonists of Young Adult dystopias are introducing...

This book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical interpretations of the text over its history. A...

""Literary Pastimes of Early Life"" is a book written by Walter Graham Blackie and published in 1899. The book is a memoir of the author's childhood and his love for literature. The author takes readers on a journey through his early life, describing his...

Have you ever imagined how difficult it is to want to practice your faith and not be able to? Whether because your vision is no longer the best, or because your head no longer helps you read huge texts, as you get older, your physical abilities are not...

"Valley of the Croen" is a captivating literary work that offers readers a thrilling journey into an alternate dimension where imagination and reality collide. Set against the strange and evocative "Valley of the Croen," this literary masterpiece...

“Rick Ollerman’s detailed critical essays, written about both modern and classic crime writers, have an electric-charged verve so brilliant the modern reader is compelled to develop a new understanding, a new appreciation, even a new...

Son Goku battles the demon king!In Dragon Ball Culture Volume 5 we'll reunite with Goku and his friends as they compete in the 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai. Then we'll join them as they fight in a life or death battle against the Demon King...

The short stories of Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name Saki, have remained in print continuously for over a hundred years. This collection is the first of its kind to present his stories as they were originally published in newspapers and...

Gherasim Luca (1913-1994) laisse une œuvre protéiforme qui relève de la littérature mais aussi des arts plastiques. Dans une approche poétique de l'ensemble de son œuvre et de ses archives pour la plupart inédites, l'ouvrage en analyse la genèse et la...

Tolkien is one of our most beloved fantasy writers. Such was the power of his imagination that much has been written on his invented world, languages, and myth. This book is an invitation to tread the paths of Tolkien's realm, exploring three regions of...

Back during the heady days of the dotcom boom, struggling writer Paul T. Riddell, overdosed on reruns of Max Headroom and incredible hubris, decided to try his hand at Internet journalism. Between 1998 and 2002, he wrote for an audience of dozens on...

Too often remembered solely as the psychiatrist and cultural critic whose testimony in Senate subcommittees sparked the creation of the Comics Code, Fredric Wertham was a far more complex man. Author Bart Beaty traces the evolution of Wertham's...

Thirty-four review essays of science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors and musical groups, including works by the following: Poul Anderson, Kim Antieau, Jackie Askew, Ataraxia, Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, David Britton, Philip George Chadwick,...

Well-known critic and novelist Brian Stableford here discusses the writers, editors, and publishers who helped create the modern genre of science fiction: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Camille Flammarion, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Hugo...

This selection of the best critical articles from the well-known literary magazine, Australian SF Review, includes essays by John Bangsund, John Baxter, Martin Bridgstock, Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, Damien Broderick, John Foyster, Bruce...

In Beyond Horatio's Philosophy: The Fantasy of Peter S. Beagle, David Stevens examines the fantasy of American writer Peter S. Beagle. He finds a consistent view of the world and an almost overpowering sense of humor, leading him to conclude that Beagle...

In this new collection of his nonfiction, well-known critic and novelist Darrell Schweitzer writes about The Lord of the Rings, Neil Gaiman, E. R. Eddison, the Three Stooges, H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Nathan, alternate...

La ciencia ficción en América Latina. Crítica. Teoría. Historia. ofrece un enfoque integral sobre la ciencia ficción en América Latina al abordar la historia y la crítica del género en la región.

Making an important contribution to studies in Literature and Philosophy, this book reads Jorge Luis Borges philosophically, particularly in reference to his use of representation and reality. Rather than attempting to subordinate Borges to a set of...

Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of 'the South' of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move between various national traditions of the gothic...

This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons why...

Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of...

This book brings together a carefully selected range of contemporary disciplinary approaches to new areas of Gothic inquiry. Moving beyond the representational and historically based aspects of literature and film that have dominated Gothic studies, this...

Responding to the increasingly powerful presence of dystopian literature for young adults, this volume focuses on novels featuring a female protagonist who contends with societal and governmental threats at the same time that she is navigating the...

This book examines the manifestations of materiality across different gothic media to show the inhuman at the heart of literature, film and contemporary media, outlining a philosophy of horror that deals with the horror of the nonhuman, the machine and...

This book investigates fiction in English, written within, and published from India since 2000 in the genre of mythology-inspired fiction in doing so it introduces the term 'Bharati Fantasy'. This volume is anchored in notions of the 'weird' and thus...

""Kazimierz W.: Dramat w trzech aktach (1792)"" to sztuka teatralna autorstwa Juliana Ursyna Niemcewicza. Akcja dzieje si���� w XV wieku i opowiada histori���� Kazimierza Wielkiego, kr������la Polski, kt������ry staje przed trudnym wyborem mi����dzy...

""Goethes Faustdichtung in ihrer k�����nstlerischen Einheit dargestellt"" ist ein Buch des deutschen Literaturkritikers und Schriftstellers Veit Valentin aus dem Jahr 1894. Das Werk befasst sich mit Johann Wolfgang von Goethes ber�����hmtem Drama...