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  • Quests and Kingdoms
    K.V. Johansen / K.VJohansen / KVJohansen
    Fantasy has become an increasingly popular genre of children’s literature in recent years; Quests and Kingdoms provides a basis from which an adult unfamiliar with the genre of children’s fantasy literature may explore it. Quests is an historical survey for the interested general reader, which will be of great practical value to library and education professionals as well. Thou...
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    24,66 €

  • Rubaiyat of Rover Khayyam
    Edward Fitzhound
    'Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of WhiteHas loosed the Flood that sets my Ears upright.'With these stirring words, Rover Khayyám, the barking bard of Philadelphia, commences his spellbinding masterpiece, a canine counterpart to the well-known Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. In seventy-five carefully crafted stanzas, Rover creates an indelible impression of what it means to be a dog a...
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    8,15 €

  • Worlds Apart?
    Dunja M. Mohr
    Literary critics and scholars have written extensively on the demise of the 'utopian spirit' in the modern novel. What has often been overlooked is the emergence of a new hybrid subgenre, particularly in science fiction and fantasy, which incorporates utopian strategies within the dystopian narrative, particularly in the feminist dystopias of the 1980s and 1990s. The author ...
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    57,05 €

  • Scott Turow
    Andrew Macdonald / Gina Macdonald
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    79,68 €

  • Rooseveltian Fact And Fable
    Annie Riley Hale
    Rooseveltian Fact and Fable is a book written by Annie Riley Hale that provides a comprehensive account of the life and legacy of former US President Theodore Roosevelt. The book is divided into several sections, each of which delves into a specific aspect of Roosevelt’s life, including his childhood, political career, and personal life. Hale draws on a wide range of sources, i...
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    30,24 €

  • American Humorists
    H. R. Haweis / HRHaweis
    American Humorists is a book written by H. R. Haweis that explores the history and evolution of humor in America. The book covers a wide range of comedic styles and genres, including satire, parody, slapstick, and more. Haweis examines the contributions of famous American humorists such as Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and James Thurber, as well as lesser-known but equally influenti...
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    29,16 €

  • The Gothic Vision
    Dani Cavallaro
    The Gothic Vision examines a broad range of tales of horror, terror, the uncanny and the supernatural, spanning the late-eighteenth century to the present, and of related theoretical approaches to the realm of dark writing. It argues that such narratives are objects for historical analysis, due to their implication in specific ideologies, whilst also focusing on the recurrence ...
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    52,41 €

  • Reconsidering Tolkien
    The nine contributions to Reconsidering Tolkien approach Tolkien’s work from a variety of theoretical viewpoints. Marion Gymnich, Eduardo Segura and Guillermo Peris discuss the importance of Language and languages for Tolkien’s narrative work, while Thomas Honegger and Paul E. Kerry focus on the historical sources and the historicising framework respectively. The essays by Nata...
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    30,79 €

  • Ignatius Rising
    Deborah George Hardy / Ren? Pol Nevils / Rene Pol Nevils
    The phenomenal success of John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces, is now legendary, a story that has long beckoned a deeper exploration into the life, imagination, and demise of the writer responsible for one of American literature's most memorable characters -- Ignatius J. Reilly. In Ignatius Rising, Ren? Pol Nevils and Deborah George Hardy pre...
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    19,93 €

  • Here Comes the Reign, Sir Guillaume!
    Scott Farrell
    From jester to king, Guillaume sees the Current Middle Ages from every angle. In his second collection of humorous stories and insightful reflections, Guillaume looks at the lighter side of castle building, jousting on ESPN, learning Arthurian mythology (with the help of tequila), and making topiary animals out of duct tape. Plus, just to prove that no subject is beyond the sco...
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    15,28 €

  • Ferocious Minds
    Damien Broderick
    Two centuries ago, the first Enlightenment failed when its dream of reason smashed into the passions and fury of stubborn humans. Without a deep, broad understanding of the world, the emerging Enlightenment was left floundering, its best impulses perverted into the bloody excess of the French Revolution. Arguably, its idealism and noble goals led directly, and shockingly, to th...
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    21,22 €

  • The Anthology At The End Of The Universe
    Glenn Yeffeth
    Every aspect of the science fiction classic The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is analyzed in a variety of quirky ways in this collection of essays. Topics include the logistics of the restaurant at the end of the universe, how the Internet is creating the real Hitchhiker’s Guide, an assessment of Vogon poetry, and an analysis of computing. The essays are written by both scie...
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    17,96 €

  • Ogden Nash
    Dana Gioia / Douglas M. Parker / Douglas MParker
    For years, readers have longed for a biography to match Nash’s charm, wit, and good nature; now we have it in Douglas Parker’s absorbing and delightful life of the poet. ...
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    23,12 €

  • I Am the Other
    Maria Ferreira
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    95,18 €

  • The Burroughs Cyclopædia
    Clark A. Brady
    Edgar Rice Burroughs was not satisfied with creating characters and events within the world that we know; instead he created whole new worlds for histories, and he filled them with peoples, languages, cities, wars, plants, machines, and monsters that were believable to the reader, yet still alien and fantastic enough to thrill and delight. From A-Kor, the keeper of the Tow...
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    42,11 €

  • Isaac Asimov
    James Gunn
    Updates and expands science fiction scholar James Gunn’s definitive, Hugo Award-winning critical volume about Isaac Asimov and his contributions to the science fiction genre. ...
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    79,11 €

  • The Semi-Complete Guide to Sort of Being a Gentleman
    Esquire Sir Gentleman Brock Laborde
    The Semi-Complete Guide to Sort of Being a Gentleman might be the most irresponsible book written since The Bible. And a bible it is, in its own right, for the billions of men alive today who have no clue how to behave in public or private situations.Drawing from literally thousands of his countless private journals and personal scribblings, author Sir Gentleman Brock LaBorde, ...
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    13,24 €

  • Dorothy L. Sayers
    Alzina Stone Dale
    1993 marked the 100th birthday of Dorothy L. Sayers and in her honor Dale gathered a baker’s dozen of the finest and most popular mystery writers from the United States and United Kingdom who discuss the way Sayers taught them their trade. The collection was nominated for Malice Domestic’s non-fiction Agatha Award. ...
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    18,67 €

  • Humor in Young Adult Literature
    Walter Hogan
    This examination of humorous young adult literature in light of adolescent developmental issues and theories of comedy reviews family situations, adventure stories, problem novels, satire, romance, and coming-of-age stories. Books, protagonists, and situations for and about younger teens and older teens are discussed. Librarians, teachers, parents, and teens will find this an i...
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    91,77 €

  • Flashes of the Fantastic
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    121,72 €

  • Speculations on Speculation
    James Gunn / Matthew Candelaria
    Science fiction is a field of literature that has great interest and great controversy among its writers and critics. This book examines the roots, history, development, current status, and future directions of the field through articles contributed by well-respected science fiction writers, teachers, and critics. This book can be used as a textbook for courses in theory as wel...
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    90,85 €

  • Anatomy of Wonder
    Neil Barron
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    129,75 €

  • The Dime Novel in Children’s Literature
    Vicki Anderson
    With their rakish characters, sensationalist plots, improbable adventures and objectionable language (like swell and golly), dime novels in their heyday were widely considered a threat to the morals of impressionable youth. Roundly criticized by church leaders and educators of the time, these short, quick-moving, pocket-sized publications were also, inevitably, wildly popula...
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    42,66 €

  • The Gay Detective Novel
    Judith A Markowitz / Judith A. Markowitz
    Gertrude Stein called it 'the only really modern novel form that has come into existence,' yet the mystery genre was a century old before it featured its first gay main character in a novel. Since then, gay and lesbian detective fiction has been one of the fastest growing segments of the genre. It incorporates gay and lesbian cultural elements and offers crossover appeal. It...
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    42,50 €

  • American Gothic Fiction
    Allan Lloyd Smith
    Following the structure of other titles in the Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres series, American Gothic Fiction includes: A broad definition of the genre and its essential elements. A timeline of developments within the genre. Critical concerns to bear in mind while reading in the genre. Detailed readings of a range of widely taught texts. In-depth analysis of major t...
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    56,27 €

  • Unauthorized Half-Blood Prince Update
    W. Frederick Zimmerman / WFrederick Zimmerman
    An unofficial and unauthorized work of news reporting summarizing what is currently known and speculated about 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' (tm), book six in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. The author, W.F. Zimmerman, has read, analyzed, and synthesized literally thousands of news articles, Usenet postings, blogs, and on-line chats, including every public comme...
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    22,70 €

  • Star Trek Reader’s Reference to the Novels
    Alva Underwood
    Want to know more about the characters of the original series? Want to know about the origins of the Klingons and Romulans as well as other aliens? Interested in playing the Klingon Game, learning the levels of mind touch, and meeting new 'Enterprise' crew members? This third reference, focusing on the novels of 1984-1985, expands the data compiled in the references for the ...
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    26,54 €

  • Reflective Laughter
    Lesley Milne
    A witty overview of humour in Russian culture. ...
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    42,68 €

  • Reading Early Hammett
    LeRoy Lad Panek
    Dashiell Hammett, like most successful writers, honed his skills in the trenches. Long before The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man made him a household name, Hammett developed his technique writing satirical magazine pieces, then moved on to churn out tales of sex, crime and adventure for pulp magazines. Characters like Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles made him famous, but...
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    58,05 €

  • Booze and the Private Eye
    Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
    The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer--it’s an image as old as the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction itself. Alcohol has long been an important element of detective fiction, but it is no mere prop. Rather, the treatment of alcohol within the works informs and illustrates the detective’s moral code, and casts light upon the society’s attitudes to...
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    42,89 €


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