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...8 great spoofs of 'types' of fiction by the premier Canadian humorist Leacock, taken from his book Nonsense Novels. The title of each parody gives away it's genre: Soaked in Seaweed or, Upset in the Ocean; Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective; Q. A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural; Guido the Gimlet of Ghent: A Romanc...

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...Πρόκειται για μία επιλογή δεκατριών διηγημάτων του Ιταλού βεριστή συγγρεφέα Τζοβάνι Βέργκα (1840-1922). It's a selection of thirteen novels by Giovanni Verga, an Italian relist writer (1840-1922). ...

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Τζιοβάνι Βέργκα (1840-1922) Επιλογή δεκατριών διηγημάτων. Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) Selection of thirteen novels.

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...Her published novels include, The Blue Flame, The Emerald Dagger, and The Silver Angel, the first three fantasy novels in her Daradawn series. She has also co-authored, Shadow Worlds, a science fiction suspense work with Darrell Bain, and ...

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Six novels by Guy De Maupassant translated into Greek.

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...The three short novels comprising The Secret Trilogy share characters, plots and locales across different genres: a mystery (Squatter with a Lexus) , an urban fantasy (Secret Sidewalk), and a ghost story (Hidden Highway). A secret thread run...

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...ealist Art - Written surrealist composition, or first and last draft - How not to be bored in company - How to make speeches - How to write false novels - How to catch the eye of a woman you pass in the street - Against death...

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...Cities" by Charles Dickens, is part of a computerised reading program devised by journalist/author Dave McKay. The program, which paraphrases classic novels, primarily targets people who are learning English as a second language. It enables older students to quickly read classic novels despite having a very limited reading vocabulary. Each book has a number on the cover, s...

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... contributions not only in mathematics, but also in li~ratuIe. He is the father of The Paradorut Literary Movement and is the author of many stories, novels, dramas, poems....

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...Journey to the West is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. It was written in the 16th century during the Ming Dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. The novel is a fictionalized account of the legendary pilgrimage to India of the Buddhist monk Xuanzan...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, th...

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... THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de fo... ...AL LINCOLN’S JOURNAL BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal ` Christ’s Journal ` Leon... .... -- 1st ed. p. cm. Summary: "A collection of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesb... ...Philosophy, Willamette University oices from the Past is a quintet of novels that describe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progres... ...his death in an automobile accident in 1990, the manu- scripts of the five novels were discovered among his as yet unpublished papers. He had been at... ...his fiction, including When the Owl Cries and Adiós Mi México, historical novels set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and descrip- tive of hacie... ...ficant, unique, highly individual, and important creators. In each of the novels that make up Voices from the Past, his interest is to portray the i... ...their writings and the substance of the testimony of others. Yet the five novels are fiction: They re-express in an author’s creation lives now buri... .... His work can be divided into three categories: He is the author of many novels, short stories, and poems; second, as a fine artist, his drawings, ...

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...rgin, also known as Outlaws of the Marsh, All Men Are Brothers, Men of the Marshes, or The Marshes of Mount Liang, is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Attributed to Shi Naian, whom some believe to be Luo Guanzhong, the novel details the trials and tribulations of 108 outlaws during the mid Song Dynasty. It is a novel based on the outlaw Song Ji...

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...el is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels. Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered by Wilkie Collins and others in the 1860s, The Beetle is narrated from the perspectives of multiple characters, a technique used in many late nineteenth-century ...

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...Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “horrid” gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror — but the superficial world of Bath proves hazardous enough. (Summary by Ka...

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...stories—an anti-fantasy book that pokes some good-natured fun at the serious tone and dependence on magic common to many epic fantasy adventure genre novels. There are no dragons here, but there are some androids. This is the story of Prince Donald of Westgrove. He is the idealistic third son of the king, and he comes to believe that he may be the only one able to prote...

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...Phineas Finn is the fourth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. At the end of Phineas Finn, the second novel in the series, Phineas had returned to Ireland and married his childhood sweetheart after having left the House of Commons. As Phineas Redux opens, Phineas is working as a ...