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  • Such Things May Be
    James Wade
    Such Things May Be by James Wade (1930-1983), collects a number of the author's genre short stories, poetry, non-fiction and non-genre work from the 1960s onwards. Edited by Edward P. Berglund, the book will have James Wade's introduction to the original collection which never gained publication, plus Fritz Leiber's Foreword. The book includes tales from Lovecraft’s...
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    21,56 €

  • Northwest Vignettes Volume Two
    Northwest Writers
    Eckley Guerin and Patricia Williams compiled this eclectic collection of original nonfiction narrative short stories and essays by Northwest writers. The two retired friends from Astoria, Oregon, became involved in their community, volunteering and helping with various area organizations. Upon discovering an abundance of regional writing talent, the two ladies began a project t...
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    10,87 €

  • Northwest Vignettes Volume One
    Northwest Writers
    This eclectic collection of original nonfiction narrative short stories and essays by Northwest writers was compiled by Eckley Guerin and Patricia Williams. The two retired friends from Astoria, Oregon, became involved in their community, volunteering and helping with various area organizations. Upon discovering a bounty of regional writing talent, the two ladies began a projec...
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    10,87 €

  • Comic Connections
    Sandra Eckard
    This book is intended to be both an introduction to comics as well as a text for specific, ready-to-use activities that instructors can immediate use. ...
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    36,74 €

  • Kaka Ke Thahake
    Hathrasi Kaka
    काका हाथरसी हास्यरस के सच्चे कवि ही नहीं, काव्य-ऋषि थे। उनकी कविताओं के तीन रंग हैं-सामाजिक, राजनीतिक और सांस्कृतिक। इन तीनों रंगों में काका हाथरसी ने कभी साहित्यिक शालीनता और शिष्टता की मर्यादा का उल्लंघन नहीं किया। उनका हास्य गुदगुदाता है, मन में आह्लाद पैदा करता है, समाज की विसंगतियों और विकृतियों का पर्दाफाश भी करता है, लेकिन कभी किसी को दुःख अथवा पीड़ा नहीं पहुँचाता। उनका ...
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    21,77 €

  • Otra vez el paraíso
    Clinton Ramírez C.
    Otra vez el paraíso es una fábula astuta- sobre las paradojas de la fama y el éxito. Fernando Legarda, famoso exmontañista, decide , pasar vacaciones en Taganga, pueblo marino del Caribe Colombiano. Allí, en la terraza de una cabaña, intentará-a punta de whisky- liquidar los saldos de un amor tardío. Veterinario de prestigio, buen mozo e idolatrado por sus hazañas en el Everest...
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    9,25 €

  • Toxic
    Eve Langlais
    Her kiss is ... TOXIC. Don’t play with your food, the first rule of etiquette vampires are taught, however Raphael, a mortal doctor, keeps tempting her, which is a problem—for him. Her brand of love is deadly to humans, almost as deadly as the coming menace; demons. The infiltration of their world by the murderous monsters is why the vampire queen has decided they must forge an...
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    7,90 €

  • The Flame Imperishable
    Jonathan S. McIntosh / Jonathan SMcIntosh
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    31,65 €

  • The Flame Imperishable
    Jonathan S. McIntosh / Jonathan SMcIntosh
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    24,88 €

  • The Inklings and King Arthur
    Sørina Higgins
    In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and Barfield brought hope to their times and our own in their Arthurian literature. Although studies of the “Oxford Inklings” abound, astonishingly enough, none has yet examined their great body of Arthurian work. Yet each of these major writers tac...
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    44,53 €

  • Inklings and King Arthur
    Sorina Higgins
    In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and Barfield brought hope to their times and our own in their Arthurian literature. Although studies of the 'Oxford Inklings' abound, astonishingly enough, none has yet examined their great body of Arthurian work. Yet each of these major writers tac...
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    56,97 €

  • Dragon Ball Culture Volume 5
    Derek Padula
    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 Pikkoro!Akira Toriyama starts us off by introducing three new characters into the story. These are Tenshinhan, Chaozu, and their evil mas...
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    21,59 €

  • Death and Immortality in Middle-earth
    Daniel Helen
    Death and Immortality in Middle-earth: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2016J.R.R. Tolkien deplored allegory and rejected any suggestion that The Lord of the Rings has an inner meaning or message. In reading back the tale, however, he became aware of a dominant motif: ‘The real theme for me is […] Death and Immortality: the mystery of the love of the world in the hear...
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    22,52 €

  • Henry Green
    Peter Wolfe
    By mid-career, many successful writers have found a groove and their readers come to expect a familiar consistency and fidelity. Not so with Henry Green (1905-1973). He prefers uncertainty over reason and fragmentation over cohesion, and rarely lets the reader settle into a nice cozy read. Evil, he suggests, can be as instructive as good. Through Green’s use of paradoxical a...
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    73,27 €

  • Poetry And Stories For Primary And Lower Secondary Schools
    Michael Rosen
    This is a short guide for teachers on how to teach poetry – reading, responding and writing. It is full of ideas on where and how to start, descriptions of why it's such a valuable activity. It's for you to use, adapt and change as you think best for the school and students you have in front of you.  ...
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    4,93 €

  • Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination
    Farrell O'Gorman / Farrell O’Gorman
    In Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination, Farrell O’Gorman presents the first study of the recurrent role of Catholicism in a Gothic tradition that is essential to the literature of the United States. In this tradition, Catholicism is depicted as threatening to break down borders separating American citizens-or some representative American-from a l...
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    66,49 €

  • Dead Reckonings No. 22 (Fall 2017)
    The Hippocampus Press Review of Horror and the Weird in the Arts examines recent releases in print, film, and television. Ramsey Campbell contributes his regular column, together with reviews, articles, interviews, features on art and artists, and reminiscences of the 2017 NecronomiCon Providence convention, including a substantial travelogue by the convention's Poet Laurea...
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    7,48 €

  • Urbaine & Insane
    Aden Rossinni
    Urbaine and Insane is a pulp that gives writers the opportunity to express themselves in a loose format that is about the writing, and not the 'genre'. Any format is acceptable from flash fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, chapters of novels etc. The subject matter is anything that pertains to the urban environment and how it makes us feel, how it threatens us, abu...
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    8,64 €

  • John McGahern
    This volume brings together contributions from a variety of disciplines to address the writer’s legacy and literary achievements. Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a writer illuminate his body of work in new and challenging ways, expanding the boundaries of the McGahern debate. ...
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    169,69 €

  • Star-Begotten
    James Gunn
    Hugo Award winning writer James Gunn (1923-2020) has been called 'the last Golden Age author' of science fiction. In a career of almost 70 years, he wrote or edited 45 books and more than 100 short stories and participated in the production of films, radio and television programs and comic books. ...
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    36,72 €

  • Los espíritus de la ciencia ficción
    Luis C. Cano / Luis CCano
    Los espiritus de la ciencia ficcion efectua un analisis comparativo de tres de las novelas fundacionales de la ciencia ficcion hispanoamericana, publicadas como folletines en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX: Viaje maravilloso del senor Nic-Nac al planeta Marte de Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (Argentina, 1875), Desde Jupiter de Francisco Miralles (Chile, 1877) y Querens de Pedro Cas...
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    83,88 €

  • Investigating Turkey
    David Mason
    This book shows how Turkish detective fiction written between 1928 and 1945 aided in the top-down process of transmitting concepts of Turkish nationalism to the public by adhering very closely to Kemalist concepts of Turkish nationalism. ...
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    79,91 €

  • Penthusiasm
    Anna Hitch / Maggie Harkness / Steve Hoselitz
    This collection of work comes from a group of seven writers called Penthusiasts, based in the lovely town of Usk in Monmouthshire. It includes short stories ranging in length from one page to nine, some humorous, some creepy and sone with a lovely touch of irony. The poems include both funny and sad ones, and these are also factual pieces recalling childhood memories, for insta...
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    6,66 €

  • Patricia A. McKillip and the Art of Fantasy World-Building
    Audrey Isabel Taylor
    From wondrous fairy-lands to nightmarish hellscapes, the elements that make fantasy worlds come alive also invite their exploration. This first book-length study of critically acclaimed novelist Patricia A. McKillip’s lyrical other-worlds analyzes her characters, environments and legends and their interplay with genre expectations. The author gives long overdue critical atte...
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    50,38 €

  • The Ascendance of Harley Quinn
    Since her first appearance in 1992, Harley Quinn--eccentric sidekick to the Joker--has captured the attention of readers like few new characters have in eight decades of Batman comics. Her bubbly yet malicious persona has earned her a loyal and growing fan base as she has crossed over into television, theater, video games, and film. In this collection of new essays, contri...
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    28,27 €

  • Poe and the Idea of Music
    Charity McAdams
    In this book, Charity McAdams discusses how Edgar Allan Poe uses music to set the scenes of his stories and poems. McAdams shows how the musical ideas used by Poe mimic the ways other authors, particularly Romanticists, used music in their works to represent a spiritually ideal artistic realm, and ultimately, how we can look at Poe's poems and stories through music to unpac...
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    115,59 €

  • Visions of the Future in Comics
    Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presaging narratives can be read as reflections of their authors’ (and readers’) hopes, fears and beliefs about the present. This collection of new essays explores the creative processes in comics production that bring plausible future...
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    57,35 €

  • Arrow and Superhero Television
    This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network’s hit television series Arrow--based on DC Comic’s Green Arrow--and its spin-offs The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl. Comic book adaptations have been big business for film studios since Superman (1978) and in recent years have dominated at the box office--five of the 11 highest grossing films of 2016 wer...
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    28,26 €

  • Apocalyptic Chic
    This book focuses on legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the modern century: humanity’s fear of extinction and quest for survival--in revenant, supernatural, or living hum...
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    135,64 €

  • Game of Thrones and the Medieval Art of War
    Ken Mondschein
    George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels and HBO’s Game of Thrones series depict a medieval world at war. But how accurate are they? The author, an historian and medieval martial arts expert, examines in detail how authentically Martin’s fictional world reflects the arms and armor, fighting techniques and siege warfare of the Middle Ages. Along the way, he explores...
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    28,28 €


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