Catálogo de libros: Estudios literarios: ficción, novelistas y prosistas

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  • The Sleep Experiment
    Jeremy Bates
    From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates comes the second book in the all-new WORLD'S SCARIEST LEGENDS series.In 1954, at the start of the Cold War, the Soviet military offered four political prisoners their freedom if they participated in an experiment requiring them to remain awake for fourteen days while under the influence of a powerful stimulant gas...
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    17,42 €

  • George MacDonald’s Children’s Fantasies and the Divine Imagination
    Colin Manlove / Colin N. Manlove
    The great Victorian Christian author George MacDonald is the wellspring of the modern fantasy genre. In this book Colin Manlove offers explorations of MacDonald’s eight shorter fairy tales and his longer stories At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin, The Wise Woman, and The Princess and Curdie. MacDonald saw the imagination as the source of fairy tales and ...
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    19,74 €

  • George MacDonald’s Children’s Fantasies and the Divine Imagination
    Colin Manlove / Colin N. Manlove
    The great Victorian Christian author George MacDonald is the wellspring of the modern fantasy genre. In this book Colin Manlove offers explorations of MacDonald’s eight shorter fairy tales and his longer stories At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin, The Wise Woman, and The Princess and Curdie. MacDonald saw the imagination as the source of fairy tales and ...
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    36,83 €

  • Reality Simulation in Science Fiction Literature, Film and Television
    Heather Duerre Humann
    In recent decades, science fiction in both print and visual media has produced an outpouring of story lines that feature forms of simulated reality. These depictions appear with such frequency that fictional portrayals of simulated worlds have become a popular sci-fi trope--one that prompts timeless questions about the nature of reality while also tapping into contemporary d...
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    61,47 €

  • Letters to Wilfred B. Talman and Helen V. and Genevieve Sully
    H. P. Lovecraft / HPLovecraft
    Wilfred B. Talman was a late member of the Kalem Club, the group of literati who gathered around H. P. Lovecraft during his years in New York (1924–26). In the 1920s Talman attempted to write weird fiction, and Lovecraft’s letters to him feature extensive advice on the story he revised for Talman, “Two Black Bottles”; Lovecraft also wrote a 6000-word synopsis for a story, “The ...
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    31,91 €

  • The Romance of the Forest
    Ann Radcliffe
    The Romance of the Forest is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe that was first published in 1791. It combines an air of mystery and suspense with an examination of the tension between hedonism and morality. The novel was her first major, popular success, going through four editions in its first three years. Furthermore, "this novel also established her reputation as the first amon...
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    21,07 €

  • The Romance of the Forest
    Ann Radcliffe
    The Romance of the Forest is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe that was first published in 1791. It combines an air of mystery and suspense with an examination of the tension between hedonism and morality. The novel was her first major, popular success, going through four editions in its first three years. Furthermore, "this novel also established her reputation as the first amon...
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    33,22 €

  • The Italian
    Ann Radcliffe
    The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) is a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe. It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lifetime (she would go on to write the novel Gaston de Blondeville, which was published posthumously in 1826). The Italian has a dark, mysterious and somber tone, and concerns the themes of love, devotio...
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    19,38 €

  • The Italian
    Ann Radcliffe
    The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) is a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe. It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lifetime (she would go on to write the novel Gaston de Blondeville, which was published posthumously in 1826). The Italian has a dark, mysterious and somber tone, and concerns the themes of love, devotio...
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    36,91 €

  • A Shadow Within
    Francesca T Barbini
    A Shadow Within: Evil in Fantasy and Science Fiction is the third Call for Papers of Academia Lunare, the non-fiction arm of Luna Press Publishing.The papers focus on the theme of Evil, a constant in human history, one that shifts with every passing decade. Evil isn’t a static presence confined to any one given time, but rather something that evolves under the influence of the ...
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    24,12 €

  • A Sicilian Romance
    Ann Radcliffe
    A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The plot concerns the turbulent history of the fallen aristocrats of the house of Mazzini, on the northern shore of Sicily, as related by a tourist who becomes intrigued by the stories of a monk he meets in the ruins of their doomed castle.The in...
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    16,38 €

  • A Sicilian Romance
    Ann Radcliffe
    A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The plot concerns the turbulent history of the fallen aristocrats of the house of Mazzini, on the northern shore of Sicily, as related by a tourist who becomes intrigued by the stories of a monk he meets in the ruins of their doomed castle.The in...
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    31,14 €

  • Tolkien’s Library
    Oronzo Cilli
    “A combination of circumstances means that we know more about J.R.R. Tolkien than about almost any other author, from any period. Nevertheless, in spite of all the efforts, there remains a certain opacity about Tolkien, both professionally and personally.As this book shows, there is a way to bridge that gap which has not been previously attempted: a fact which makes this work b...
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    35,72 €

  • Tolkien’s Library
    Oronzo Cilli
    “A combination of circumstances means that we know more about J.R.R. Tolkien than about almost any other author, from any period. Nevertheless, in spite of all the efforts, there remains a certain opacity about Tolkien, both professionally and personally.As this book shows, there is a way to bridge that gap which has not been previously attempted: a fact which makes this work b...
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    44,81 €

  • Women’s Space
    From the Star Wars expanded universe to Westworld, the science fiction western has captivated audiences for more than fifty years. These twelve new essays concentrate on the female characters in the contemporary science fiction western, addressing themes of power, agency, intersectionality and the body. Discussing popular works such as Fringe, Guardians of the Galaxy and Mas...
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    57,54 €

  • The Secret Ceremonies
    The works of Anglo-Welsh author Arthur Machen (1863–1947) made an indelible and ever-expanding impression in the genre of horror and the supernatural, and have always inspired both ardent advocates and determined opponents. In the 1890s, Oscar Wilde, Jerome K. Jerome, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle admired his work, but the majority of critics were hostile, and he was often seen as...
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    24,67 €

  • Suicide and the Gothic
    Suicide and the Gothic is the first study of the representation of suicide in Gothic texts from the eighteenth century to the present. Poems, short stories, novels, films and video games are covered from European, American and Asian contexts. ...
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    169,86 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral s...
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    16,31 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral s...
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    31,08 €

  • Lovecraft Annual No. 13 (2019)
    S. T. Joshi
    TABLE OF CONTENTSThe Lovecraftian Solar System ....... Fred S. Lubnow“Hungry fer Victuals I Couldn’t Raise nor Buy”: Anthropophagy in Lovecraft ....... Duncan NorrisThe Rings of Cthulhu: Lovecraft, Dürer, Saturn, and Melancholy ....... Andrew Paul Wood“The Cats”: An Environmental Ditty ....... Cecelia Hopkins-DrewerLovecraft’s Consolation ....... Matthew Beach“The Inability of ...
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    16,24 €

  • Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 3
    Elena Tchougounova-Paulson / Sean Moreland
    This third collection, like the previous two, contains the most novel and cutting-edge scholarship in Lovecraftiana, taking familiar topics down unfamiliar paths, amply demonstrating that H. P. Lovecraft's work has more resonance in modern culture than ever before. All in all, a bumper crop of criticism and anaysis that will appeal to academics and Lovecraft's most erud...
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    21,86 €

  • Lord of a Visible World
    H. P. Lovecraft / HPLovecraft
    H. P. Lovecraft’s letters are among the most remarkable literary documents of their time, and they are a major reason why he has become such an icon in contemporary culture. He wrote tens of thousands of letters, some of them of great length; but more than that, these letters are incredibly revelatory in the depth of detail they provide for all aspects of his life, work, and th...
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    27,09 €

  • The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
    Horace Walpole
    The Castle Of Otranto tells the story of Manfred, lord of the castle, and his family. The book begins on the wedding-day of his sickly son Conrad and princess Isabella. Shortly before the wedding, however, Conrad is crushed to death by a gigantic helmet that falls on him from above. This inexplicable event is particularly ominous in light of an ancient prophecy, 'that the castl...
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    17,61 €

  • H.G. Wells and All Things Russian
    Galya Diment
    ’H. G. Wells and All Things Russian’ examines Wells’s keen interest in Russian culture and development, and how Russia and the Soviet Union were, in turn, profoundly influenced by his works and his visits to the country. ...
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    180,18 €

  • Justice and Popular Culture
    George A. Gonzalez / George AGonzalez
    This book examines how humanity faces of the absence of a coherent, universal conception of justice. By analyzing Star Trek, this book argues that in order to obtain true democracy and justice the productive forces of society must be geared toward achieving a thriving society, the whole individual, and the ecology. ...
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    115,76 €

  • Guarding the Mermaid
    Eve Langlais
    Duty or love? Will a guard make the right choice? Becky needs a scoop to make her mark in the journalism world and gets her chance when she’s hired as a nurse for a top-secret clinic hidden in the Rockies. What she doesn’t expect is to become one of the patients and kept prisoner.The doctors are playing God and have found a way to change people. Change them into something else....
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    10,41 €

  • Ngaio Marsh
    Bruce Harding
     Considered one of the 'Queens of Crime'--along with such greats as Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham--Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) was a gifted writer and a celebrated author of classic British detective fiction, as well as a successful theater director. Best known for the 32 detective novels she published between 1934 and 1982, she was appointed a Dame Comma...
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    73,13 €

  • Dead Reckonings No. 25 (Spring 2019)
    Ramsey Campbell
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    7,38 €

  • Tolkien and the Classics
    The origins of this collection, and of the whole Tolkien and the Classics project, are twofold. First, there is the ever-growing awareness of the importance of making scholars and critics realize how much J.R.R. Tolkien is, in all respects, a great literary classic, comparable to those already accepted as ‘canonical’. Second, the desire to offer a publication that could be enjo...
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    30,46 €

  • A Nurse for the Wolfman
    Eve Langlais
    An exciting new series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Eve Langlais that is sure to thrill and chill.What happens when a nurse falls for the wolfman?The job offer is a dream come true. Three times her usual salary. Free meals and a suite. The only catch?Margaret can’t tell anyone about it.Hidden in the Rockies, the clinic is well protected and…odd. It doesn...
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    10,42 €


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