Toda una especie de crónica de costumbres que llevan el titulo de sus protagonistas y muestran el grado de empatía del autor con las femeninas y siempre populares estirpes de grandeza de su tiempo.English Translation: All a costuma...
"I have a feeling, dear ma'am, that it is not completely for her own benefit that you have summoned Melinda from America," said Lord Kenaird. "Indeed it is for her own sake," the Duchess of Mendham replied. "I intend to tur...
Original stories and illustrations; introduction by Charles Platt. Stories: Pale Roses [Tales from the End of Time] (1974) by Michael Moorcock; Wind-Dream (1974) poem by Mac King; My Wreck (1974) poem by Mac King; untitled ("In ancient fat trees...")...
Short stories by such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Joyce Carol Oates, John Gardner, and John Updike reveal experiments with myth and parable and other trends in American fiction during the past decade...
SHE WOULD USE THE ONLY WEAPONS SHE HAD, HER BEAUTY AND HER INTELLIGENCE. THE PRIZE WAS THE SAME AS IT HAD ALWAYS BEEN, THE SILVER AND GOLD THAT COULD BUY WHAT SHE WANTED. Here is the stunning saga of the passionate and daring woman who climbed fr...
The first novel in the acclaimed ""History of Bestiality"" trilogy. Living high in the Alps in a German principality, our narrator tells us he's dutifully fulfilling his obligations as a Servant of Justice and acting as a daily witness to injustice m...
TWINS IN TERROR Even before Jennie came to Handson Island with her architect husband, Jason, she had begun to feel a strange foreboding. But when Jason and Jennie arrived at the crumbling old Fletcher mansion, foreboding turned to horror. Sudd...
Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, Looking on Darkness tells the story of actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover. André Brink panders to no one's political, ideological or religious belief...
With one exception, all the members of the impoverished Greeve family built their futures round the name of Great-Aunt Tabitha and the fortune she was expected to leave them. The exception was Leslie Greeve, for whom the future meant only Oliver B...
Reluctant to play football because he stutters, Billy Joe's first game discloses that he has no reason to fear ridicule....
On the murky outskirts of our solar system, a lonely star has exploded, emitting monstrous doses of radiation . . . The year is 1983. The exploding star Briareus Delta, 132 light years away, provokes only mild interest from planet Earth. Suddenly, a...
Recently widowed, Tracy came to the forested state and old mansion left to her by her dead husbands grandmother. Tracy and her husband had shared photography for many nature books; she wonders if she can work on her own. Instead of peace, shes caught...
To touch this ancient treasure can mean death--yet the safety and well-being of an entire people depend on their retaining possession of it. What is the mystery of the priceless two-headed bull for which men fight and die? When the priceless objec...
THE AMBERGRIS ELEMENT Marooned on the strange water world of Argo, Kirk and Spock are in incredible danger... pursued by a hideous sea monster! THE PIRATES OF ORION Spock is desperately ill with a disease fatal to Vulcans ... only a miracle can ...
Across the bottomless chasm of time, they gazed hypnotically at each other - the captive mandrill, last wild species of the baboon on earth, and the fanatic scientist at the controls of his monstrous 1990s computer. Out of some deathless memory, coul...
Winner of three Oscars and the highest-grossing film of its time, Jaws was a phenomenon, and this is the only book on how twenty-six-year-old Steven Spielberg transformed Peter Benchley's number-one bestselling novel into the classic film it became.H...
Piyanah, the heroine of Scarlet Feather, is a member of a Native American tribe that has strayed from its noble heritage. Her clairvoyant mother refuses to accept the brutality of the tribe's laws and the segregation of men from women, so Piyanah and...
Quiller is in Hong Kong, where he thinks he''s on vacation. But every alleyway leads dead to danger, and Quiller gets the message: He''s never off duty. The plot moves into a high gear. Quiller always enjoyed his rides, but this one is taxing. He ...
Briony loved Christopher Clayton, but it was his brother Daniel she married -- a marriage of convenience to suit his ambition and her financial needs. Would her career as a dancer be enough to make up for the complete lack of love in her life?...
Emma Maxwell knew her stepmother, Celeste, must have some scheme in mind, even before they arrived in Venice. When she heard what it was, Emma wanted no part of it. Then she met Count Vidal Cesare, on whom Celeste had designs, and decided he was old ...
In a dynasty of lusting men and insatiable Women... there were three women with a single all-consuming passion for Edward Warner... YARICO, the sensual native girl who initiated his innocent flesh into the pleasures of pagan lust. She changed him in...
Let three complete books in one take you on a dazzling journey into science fiction''s most famous future history: Known Space!
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Kzanol was a thrint from a distant galaxy. He had been trapped on Earth in a time-stasis field f...
Fourteen stories about the strength and passion of today’s American Indian -- including six from the acclaimed Leslie Marmon Silko.
Anthropologists have long delighted us with the wise and colorful folktales they transcribed from their I...
The Brooklyn Bimbos, a five-man softball team that plays in drag, provide crude sideshow comedy across the Deep South while their star shortstop, midget Pogo Burns, oblivious to his size, exerts his masculinity in games of softball, chance, and life...
The most lauded playwright in American history, Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) won four Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize for a body of work that includes The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms, and Long Day's Journey into Nig...
Judd Stevens is a psychoanalyst faced with the most critical case of his life. If he does not penetrate the mind of a murderer he will find himself arrested for murder or murdered himself. Two people closely involved with Dr. Stevens have already bee...
Rustlers and renegades ran the town They were hair-trigger killers, all wanted by the law, but here they only law was theirs. Young Johnny Hendry aimed to be sheriff but they had the votes -- and the guns -- to stop him. So Johnny fought fire w...
a rebellious young lady risks scandal for the love of Regency London's most notorious and irresistible rake. "YOU'VE WON ME -- NOW TAKE ME!" Spirited young Lucia Mannering willingly let herself be offered as a prize in a shock...
Lisa came to the city looking for a career -- and found the magic of romance... "WHO AM I?" is a hard question to answer when you're living in the shadow of a famous newscaster. No matter how pretty and intelligent you are, you're still just you...
She dreamed of a dazzling inheritance but the family legacy was dark with evil! A family bless with wealth and power -- cursed by a legacy of violent death! Into their intrigue-ridden lives came exquisite young Miranda, who had known the sting of pov...
Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England. In his funeral oration the spokesman of...