Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy - Prijzen

Roughing It

The celebrated author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn mixes fact and fiction in a rousing travelogue that serves as "a portrait of the artist as a young adventurer."...

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Nineteen of Plath's surviving stories, the earliest dating from 1952, are joined by five of her best pieces of journalism and selected excerpts from her diaries. Reissue.

Is Sex Necessary?

Enhanced by more than fifty hilarious drawings, a zany look at the mysteries of romance, love, marriage, and sex--first published in 1929--shares the whimsical views of two of America's leading humori...

Terrarium

With round-the-clock drugs, games, and eros parlors to entertain them and virtual weather to sustain them, humans live inside a global network of domed cities known collectively as the Enclosure. Ha...

Titan

Literary Occasions

Charting half a lifetime spent exploring the written word, these eleven articles include Naipaul's boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of...

Who Is Dracula's Father?

When it was first published in 1897 - 120 years ago - Irish author Bram Stoker's Dracula was ranked by the Daily Mail above work by Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as Wuthering Heights. Yet...

Bell's Breakthrough

Third graders travel back in time and find Professor Alexander Graham Bell, who's given up on the telephone annd is working on a new invention. Abigail and her friends must get him back on track. Illu...

The Book of the Sword

When I was six months old, I dropped from the sky -- the lone survivor of a deadly Japanese plane crash. The newspapers called me Heaven. I was adopted by a wealthy family in Tokyo, pampered, and prot...

The Heroines

Up in the dusty attic of Prairie Bluff Homestead, Anne-Marie keeps all of her beloved books locked safely away. For her treasured novels - and the tragic heroines who make them so irresistible - have...

Billy Budd, Sailor

Hayford and Sealts's text was the first accurate version of Melville's final novel. Based on a close analysis of the manuscript, thoroughly annotated, and packaged with a history of the text and persp...