John Collier

• Nov-1993
• / General Fiction
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With the skill of a consummate artist, Collier ( Petrouchka ) turns the ordinary into the extraordinary in this highly evocative picture book. The spare, poetic text is told from a imaginative child's point of view, and, like Judi Kurjian and David W...

• Dec-1996
• / General Fiction
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• May-2000
• / Literary
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"A work of genius" "The Boston Globe"

"From the first sentence of the novel the reader is aware that he is in the presence of a magician Collier] casts a spell and he does so always with a smile." Paul Theroux

"A wayward masterpiece Whatever ...

• May-2012
• / Fantasy
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All the short stories of John Collier are now collected in two volumes, Fancies and Goodnights Vol 1 and Fancies and Goodnights Vol 2. Vol 1 won the International Fantasy Award in 1951 His fantastic ability to mix satire with though provoking 'what i...

• Nov-2012
• / Fantasy
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All the short stories of John Collier are now collected in two volumes, Fancies and Goodnights Vol 1 and Fancies and Goodnights Vol 2. Playful and wickedly mischievous, John Collier's short stories will reappear in your memory, to make you smile or ...

• Apr-2024
• / Thriller
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• Apr-2024
• / Horror
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• Apr-2024
• / Horror
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• / Horror
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John Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition of weird writing that includes E.T.A. Hoffmann and...

• / Fantasy
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Wilkinson is a professor of mathematics who feels that the abstract beauty of science must be founded on objective truth. In fact, he could imagine no ecstasy so exalted as the contemplation of a perfect balance only to be achieved after presiding in...

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