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Author : MacDonald Harris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cathay Stories and Other Fictions written by MacDonald Harris and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive bibliography of books and short fiction published in the English language.
Author : MacDonald Harris
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468303732
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book The Balloonist written by MacDonald Harris and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed novel of love, ambition, and Arctic adventure “told with fin de siecle elegance”—with an introduction by Philip Pullman (Kirkus Reviews). It is July 1897, at the northernmost reach of the inhabited world. Swedish inventor Gustav Crispin is determined to become the first person to set foot on the North Pole, and return, borne by hot air balloon. Making the expedition with two companions—an American journalist and a young, French-speaking adventurer—all three climb into the small wicker gondola and cuts the ropes. But as Gustav pursues his history-making ambition, and their flimsy balloon is battered by Arctic winds, his mind returns again and again to his fraught romance with the beautiful Luisa. Nominated for the National Book Award in 1977, The Balloonist was hailed by Mary Renault as a “tour de force.” The story of Gustav Crispin is “chilling and comic by turn . . . An unusual mixture of Arctic adventure and Parisian love story with philosophic overtones” (Kirkus Reviews).
Author : Fergus Bordewich
Publisher : Backinprint.com
ISBN 13 : 9780595195206
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Cathay written by Fergus Bordewich and published by Backinprint.com. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling through the chaotic landscape of modern China, Fergus M. Bordewich discovers the remains of an older world that Communism did its best to erase. “Mr. Bordewich, by searching so assiduously, so affectionately, and so understandingly for legacies of the Chinese past, may paradoxically be giving us some foretastes of a China yet to be.” —Jan Morris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chicago Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fiction, a Finding List of Novels, Stories and Other Forms of Prose Fiction in English for Adults in the Chicago Public Library, January 1, 1921 written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : MacDonald Harris
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 146831114X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Screenplay written by MacDonald Harris and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man enters an abandoned movie theater and emerges in the wonderland of 1920s Los Angeles in this “ingeniously plotted” time travel adventure (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Alys is a wealthy young dilettante in 1980s Los Angeles when he runs into the mysterious Nesselrode—who leads him into the catacombs of an empty movie house, from which he emerges in a black-and-white fantasia. This is a Los Angeles on the verge of becoming itself, a place where silent films dominate the landscape, and Alys soon finds his home in the pictures and falls in love with the seductive siren Moira Silver. But as he becomes bewitched by old Hollywood, his previous life grows more and more distant, and Alys may soon wind up trapped. Alys’s journey down the rabbit hole makes for an enthralling literary adventure from the author of The Balloonist, a National Book Award finalist and “an elegant and fastidious writer” (The New York Times Book Review). “Life and art become strangely and gloriously confused when Harris’ narrator, Alys, does some time traveling and falls in love with a star of the silent screen . . . Lyrically written.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810863456
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The A to Z of Fantasy Literature written by Brian Stableford and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.
Author : Gavin Young
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571287263
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Beyond Lion Rock written by Gavin Young and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946 Roy Farrell and Syd de Kantzow's beloved, battered wartime DC-3 touched down in Shanghai for the first time. On board was a cargo of morning coats and toothbrushes from New York, forging the first post-war supply route across the treacherous eastern Himalayas. The international airline now known as Cathay Pacific was born. Gavin Young tells the swashbuckling story of an empire of the air, a thrilling, action-packed adventure that began in an era closer to Biggles and biplanes held together by wire and safety pins than to our own. 'Pioneers like Farrell and de Kantzow would have had plenty of time to enjoy the dawn over Kangchebjunga. Would thye think of us with envy or contempt, cruising seven miles up with hundreds of passengers, air-conditioning, i-flight concerts, movies, hot four-course meals with an elaborate wine line and all mod-cons? . . . All this in forty years! Could the world have changed so much and so fast?' This is Gavin Young himself eloquently reflecting on the extraordinary changes in air travel. There can be little doubt where his own sympathies lie.
Author : Cathay O. Reta
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781098340506
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Keep Walking, Your Heart Will Catch Up written by Cathay O. Reta and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep Walking is a modern-day pilgrimage, a spiritual journey, a physical feat. Cathay was in her mid-60s and entering a new phase of life. In phase one she had been single for 29 years. Phase two followed with 33 years of marriage. Now widowed, she was looking for direction for her next 30 years. That's when she felt called to hike the Camino de Santiago, the centuries old 483-mile trail across northern Spain. With trepidation, some fear and a fervent commitment to make the hike as best she could, Cathay traveled alone to Spain and started walking. She kept walking day after day through tears, anger, laughter, sadness and great joy. Every day was a challenge, and she often questioned why she was on the Camino. Why not just go to a nice hotel and think through what to do the next 30 years? Her question was answered when a fellow sojourner said to her, You're here [on the Camino] to learn to fall in love with yourself again. After 37 days she reached her destination. Keep Walking is her story of self-discovery, of transformation, and of renewal, all set in the magical, mystical field of the stars, the Camino de Santiago.
Author : Allen Stroud
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538166070
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature written by Allen Stroud and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy is a genre in motion, gradually expanding its reach and historical sources to embrace a global identity Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature, Second Edition is a snapshot of the genre in this moment, identifying new themes and sources that are emerging to inspire, enhance and invigorate the published works of fantasy writers.
Author : Jenny Stringer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192122711
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English written by Jenny Stringer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.
Author : Leeds Public Libraries
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Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Prose fiction written by Leeds Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Review of Contemporary Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : MacDonald Harris
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468308416
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book The Carp Castle written by MacDonald Harris and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A band of misfits boards an airship to search for utopia, in this novel by the author of The Balloonist, a National Book Award finalist: “A delight” (Philip Pullman, author of The Amber Spyglass). An unemployed American metaphysician, a perpetually ill English nurse, a guilt-ridden German captain—they and a handful of others are about to board an airship called The League of Nations. Under the seductive spell of Moira, a mix of mystic, cult leader, and prophet, these haunted men and broken women will go in search of a mysterious polar promised land—but the journey may not take them where they expect it to . . . Set in the years after the First World War, this is a uniquely imaginative novel from an author praised by the Chicago Tribune as “a gifted craftsman, a meticulous writer whose powers as a storyteller are as compelling as the sexual tensions he imagines.” “His sympathy for such a range of characters in their crazinesses, their various kinds of loneliness, their sheer comedy is wonderful. I think it’s one of his very best.” —Philip Pullman, author of The Amber Spyglass “As stirring and beautiful as one of the airships that MacDonald Harris so obviously delighted in . . . Witty, sexy, surprising, and so generous to his cast of crackpots and con-artists and heartsore seekers.” —Owen King, author of Double Feature “[The author] weaves a magical web of words in his narrative of mysticism, séances and a dirigible named The League of Nations . . . The action is inspired and written in undeniably gorgeous prose.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Author : MacDonald Harris
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468312863
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Herma written by MacDonald Harris and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inventive historical novel that delves into the mysteries of gender identity, from the National Book Award–nominated author of The Balloonist. With a foreword by Michael Chabon As a child in Southern California at the dawn of the twentieth century, Herma exhibits an incredible talent for vocal mimicry. Her gift will eventually take her from the choir of her country church to the Paris Opera, thanks in no small part to the machinations of her daredevil agent. But there is a secret at the heart of their intimate relationship, in this opulent rags-to-riches tale full of excitement, sexual intrigue, and decadence, with cameos by Puccini and Proust, among others. “Set in the first decades of the twentieth century, Harris’ teeming novel explores the porous boundaries of gender identity. This inventive work will appeal to readers who are interested in the dual-gender theme. Opera lovers will also be intrigued.” —Booklist “Once I open any of MacDonald Harris’s novels I find it almost impossible not to turn and read on, so delightful is the sensation of a sharp intelligence at work.” —Philip Pullman, author of The Amber Spyglass
Author : Ernest Albert Baker
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Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Guide to the Best Fiction written by Ernest Albert Baker and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
