Author: Avram Davidson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312874926
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A New Collection of Long Out-of-Print Stories From One of the Greatest Fantasists of the Twentieth Century Avram Davidson, who died in 1993, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This collection comprises his distinctive historical fantasies-tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier. Here are "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "Traveller from an Antique Land," and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are dragons, cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach." Witty, whimsical, dark, and strange, these tales of times and places that almost were will leave even the most jaded readers amazed. No one has ever written like Avram Davidson, before or since.
The Other Nineteenth Century
Author: Avram Davidson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312874926
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A New Collection of Long Out-of-Print Stories From One of the Greatest Fantasists of the Twentieth Century Avram Davidson, who died in 1993, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This collection comprises his distinctive historical fantasies-tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier. Here are "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "Traveller from an Antique Land," and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are dragons, cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach." Witty, whimsical, dark, and strange, these tales of times and places that almost were will leave even the most jaded readers amazed. No one has ever written like Avram Davidson, before or since.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312874926
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A New Collection of Long Out-of-Print Stories From One of the Greatest Fantasists of the Twentieth Century Avram Davidson, who died in 1993, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This collection comprises his distinctive historical fantasies-tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier. Here are "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "Traveller from an Antique Land," and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are dragons, cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach." Witty, whimsical, dark, and strange, these tales of times and places that almost were will leave even the most jaded readers amazed. No one has ever written like Avram Davidson, before or since.
The Conspirator
Author: Eliza Ann Dupuy
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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The Heir of Redclyffe
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Michael
Author: Grace Aguilar
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Category : Jewish women
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category : Jewish women
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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The Yellowplush Papers
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Ellen Parry
Author: Emily Edson Briggs
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Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Sylvie and Bruno
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: London ; New York : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
First published in 1889, this novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland.
Publisher: London ; New York : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
First published in 1889, this novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland.
The Firebird and the Fox
Author: Jeffrey Brooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484468
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484468
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.
The Rough and Ready Annual
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Category : Gift books
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Human Remains
Author: Jonathan Strauss
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823233790
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late 18th century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter from the city. Cemeteries were removed from urban space, and corpses started to be viewed as terrifyingly noxious substances. Working across a broad range of disciplines this book seeks to understand the meaning of the dead and their role in creating one of the most important cities of the contemporary world.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823233790
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late 18th century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter from the city. Cemeteries were removed from urban space, and corpses started to be viewed as terrifyingly noxious substances. Working across a broad range of disciplines this book seeks to understand the meaning of the dead and their role in creating one of the most important cities of the contemporary world.