Author: John Collier
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
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 Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Roald Dahl. With a cast of characters that ranges from man-eating flora to disgruntled devils and suburban salarymen (not that it's always easy to tell one from another), Collier's dazzling stories explore the implacable logic of lunacy, revealing a surreal landscape whose unstable surface is depth-charged with surprise.
Fancies and Goodnights
Author: John Collier
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
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 Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Roald Dahl. With a cast of characters that ranges from man-eating flora to disgruntled devils and suburban salarymen (not that it's always easy to tell one from another), Collier's dazzling stories explore the implacable logic of lunacy, revealing a surreal landscape whose unstable surface is depth-charged with surprise.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
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 Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Roald Dahl. With a cast of characters that ranges from man-eating flora to disgruntled devils and suburban salarymen (not that it's always easy to tell one from another), Collier's dazzling stories explore the implacable logic of lunacy, revealing a surreal landscape whose unstable surface is depth-charged with surprise.
His Monkey Wife
Author: John Collier
Publisher: eNet Press
ISBN: 1618865072
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
A schoolmaster in the heart of Africa takes his best and most attentive student, a chimp, to England. The chimp, Emily, has learned to read and obtained a classically trained mind. We listen as her thoughts become a searchlight upon the English culture of the 1920s. A remarkable social satire, and a best seller.
Publisher: eNet Press
ISBN: 1618865072
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
A schoolmaster in the heart of Africa takes his best and most attentive student, a chimp, to England. The chimp, Emily, has learned to read and obtained a classically trained mind. We listen as her thoughts become a searchlight upon the English culture of the 1920s. A remarkable social satire, and a best seller.
Fancies and Goodnights Vol 2
Author: John Collier
Publisher: eNet Press
ISBN: 1618865153
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Playful and wickedly mischievous, John Collier's short stories will reappear in your memory to make you smile or laugh or sigh long after the title and author are forgotten. A wonderful collection of all John Collier's brilliantly structured and perfectly crafted tales not found in Fancies and Goodnights.
Publisher: eNet Press
ISBN: 1618865153
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Playful and wickedly mischievous, John Collier's short stories will reappear in your memory to make you smile or laugh or sigh long after the title and author are forgotten. A wonderful collection of all John Collier's brilliantly structured and perfectly crafted tales not found in Fancies and Goodnights.
Fancies and Goodnights Vol 1
Author: John Collier
Publisher: eNet Press
ISBN: 1618865021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This collection of John Collier short stories won the International Fantasy Award in 1951. His fantastic ability to mix satire with thought provoking 'what ifs' is clearly seen in this compilation of thirty-two short stories.
Publisher: eNet Press
ISBN: 1618865021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This collection of John Collier short stories won the International Fantasy Award in 1951. His fantastic ability to mix satire with thought provoking 'what ifs' is clearly seen in this compilation of thirty-two short stories.
The New Gilded Age
Author: David Remnick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular culture
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
In this expanded paperback edition, "The New Yorker's" best writers--including Joan Didion, John Updike, Jonathan Harr, and others--express how our unprecedented bubble economy has changed the ways in which we live today.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular culture
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
In this expanded paperback edition, "The New Yorker's" best writers--including Joan Didion, John Updike, Jonathan Harr, and others--express how our unprecedented bubble economy has changed the ways in which we live today.
The John Collier Reader
Author: John Collier
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Includes the novel His monkey wife and short stories.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Includes the novel His monkey wife and short stories.
Queen's Quorum
Author: Ellery Queen
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819602299
Category : Crime in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819602299
Category : Crime in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Naming Ceremony
Author: Chip Livingston
Publisher: Lethe Press
ISBN: 1590214943
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In the sixteen short stories and profound essays that comprise Naming Ceremony, Chip Livingston examines the worlds we create for ourselves by exploring the names we are called and those we call ourselves. Life as neologism, fiction as the idiolect for readers to explore the Other, the Outsider. Livingston's characters express in word and deed the names that confirm individuality as well as validating their roles among family, culture, and politics while being mindful of self and sexuality.
Publisher: Lethe Press
ISBN: 1590214943
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In the sixteen short stories and profound essays that comprise Naming Ceremony, Chip Livingston examines the worlds we create for ourselves by exploring the names we are called and those we call ourselves. Life as neologism, fiction as the idiolect for readers to explore the Other, the Outsider. Livingston's characters express in word and deed the names that confirm individuality as well as validating their roles among family, culture, and politics while being mindful of self and sexuality.
The Tenant
Author: Roland Topor
Publisher: Centipede Press
ISBN: 9781933618067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Topor's nightmare vision of paranoia with a new introduction by famed horror writer Thomas Ligotti.
Publisher: Centipede Press
ISBN: 9781933618067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Topor's nightmare vision of paranoia with a new introduction by famed horror writer Thomas Ligotti.
Defy the Foul Fiend; Or, The Misadventures of a Heart
Author: John Collier
Publisher: New York : A. A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher: New York : A. A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description