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.
All Our Yesterdays
Author: Henry Major TomlinsonPublisher: Musson
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
1930. Tomlinson was a shipping clerk, a journalist, a war correspondent, a newspaper editor, and a travel writer and novelist. His subject matter is often natural history or the foolishness of mortals. His accounts of the sea, travel, and the Great War have not been surpassed. His antiwar novel, All Our Yesterdays, begins: The traffic of Dockland, where my omnibus stopped, loosened into a broadway. There the vans and lorries, released from the congestion of narrow streets, opened out and made speed in an uproar of iron-shod wheels and hooves on granite blocks. I could hear progress. It was on its way. It was pouring about in a triumphant muddle of noise too loud to be doubted. There was no need to repose on faith in the favored evolution of man. That wonderful conjuration of good things out of this planet by the steam-engine and the cotton-jenny was dominant.
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.
Saturday Review of Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Science Fiction Dialogues
Author: Science Fiction Research AssociationPublisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
Author: William Hope HodgsonPublisher:
ISBN: 1537803174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Detective stories in which the great Thomas Carnacki investigates the supernatural using scientific tools, such as photography, and tools that are augmented by theories of the supernatural, such as the electric pentacle, which uses vacuum tubes to repel supernatural forces.