Author: Eugene J BiancheriPublisher: EUGENE JOSEPH BIANCHERI
ISBN:
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
H. C. Koenig: Reader and Collector
Author: Eugene J BiancheriPublisher: EUGENE JOSEPH BIANCHERI
ISBN:
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Frankenstein 200
Author: Rebecca BaumannPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025303907X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Two centuries ago, a teenage genius created a monster that still walks among us. In 1818, Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, and in doing so set forth into the world a scientist and his monster. The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, famed women's rights advocate, and William Godwin, radical political thinker and writer, Mary Shelley is considered the mother of the modern genres of horror and science fiction. At its core, however, Shelley's Frankenstein is a contemplation on what it means to be human, what it means to chase perfection, and what it means to fear things suchsuch things as ugliness, loneliness, and rejection. In celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, the Lilly Library at Indiana University presents Frankenstein 200: The Birth, Life, and Resurrection of Mary Shelley's Monster. This beautifully illustrated catalog looks closely at Mary Shelley's life and influences, examines the hundreds of reincarnations her book and its characters have enjoyed, and highlights the vast, deep, and eclectic collections of the Lilly Library. This exhibition catalog is a celebration of books, of the monstrousness that exists within us all, and of the genius of Mary Shelley.
Saturday Review of Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
Book Description
Science Fiction Dialogues
Author: Science Fiction Research AssociationPublisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
British Fantasy and Science-fiction Writers Before World War I
Author: Darren Harris-FainPublisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Essays on British writers of fantasy and science fiction during a time when science, technology and industrialization made increasingly impressive inroads from the Enlightenment to World War I.A gradual emphasis on social improvement, including literature, involved efforts to increase literacy through expanding material to read. During this period, publication of newspapers, penny dreadfuls and dime novels lead to pulp magazines and other popular periodicals.
Book-of-the-Month Club News
Author: The Double Shadow
Author: Clark Ashton SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780809533664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Clark Ashton Smith -- one of the "big three" classic authors from the legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales (the others being H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard) -- began writing early in the twentieth century. By the 1920s, he became a regular poet and author in Weird Tales magazine, helping to usher in its golden age. "The Double Shadow" was originally published by the Auburn Journal in 1933 in an oversized edition limited to only 1,000 copies. Smith carefully signed and hand-corrected many typographical errors for years to come. A collection of six stories ranging from contemporary horror to weird alternate-world fantasy, it remains a fascinating introduction and showcase to his decadently jeweled prose.
Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina
Author: Charleston (S.C.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Census
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Night Land
Author: William Hope HodgsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"This to be Love, that your spirit to live in a natural holiness with the Beloved, and your bodies to be a sweet and natural delight that shall be never lost of a lovely mystery.... And shame to be unborn, and all things to go wholesome and proper, out of an utter greatness of understanding; and the Man to be an Hero and a Child before the Woman; and the Woman to be an Holy Light of the Spirit and an Utter Companion and in the same time a glad Possession unto the Man.... And this doth be Human Love...." "...for this to be the especial glory of Love, that it doth make unto all Sweetness and Greatness, and doth be a fire burning all Littleness; so that did all in this world to have met The Beloved, then did Wantonness be dead, and there to grow Gladness and Charity, dancing in the years."
The Derelict
Author: William Hope HodgsonPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Derelict is a short story by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. An elderly ship's doctor recounts a strange event that happened to him some years earlier, in the context of discussing his ideas about a fundamental life force that can manifest itself in the presence of proper materials. While sailing as a passenger, a sudden storm disables the ship. In the aftermath, a derelict vessel is discovered. Excerpt: "'Seen anything of Carnacki lately?' I asked Arkright when we met in the City. 'No,' he replied. 'He's probably off on one of his jaunts. We'll be having a card one of these days inviting us to No. 472, Cheyne Walk, and then we'll hear all about it. Queer chap that.'"