The World-Thinker and Other Stories
Author | : Jack Vance |
Publisher | : Spatterlight Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1619470004 |
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Author | : Jack Vance |
Publisher | : Spatterlight Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
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Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1619470004 |
Author | : Jack Vance |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2018-03-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781985320215 |
This volume might have been titled "The Early Jack Vance", as it features stories from the first dozen years of Vance's career, when his major outlet was pulp magazines. In these stories, Vance already displays the lively imagination and mastery of the English language that came to characterize his entire career. The World-Thinker, Vance's first published story, features two types who would recur often in Vance's writing: the assured and competent hero, and the feisty, equally-competent heroine. They deal with an entity who, like Vance himself, creates fully-formed worlds at will.
Author | : Jack Vance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Jack Vance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
A massive (over 230,000 words) gathering of fiction by the master of science-fantasy.
Author | : Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2012-11-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0191633380 |
'What holds sway over this country without morals, beliefs, or feelings? Gold and pleasure.' Sexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them is the dominant theme in the three short works collected in this volume. In Sarrasine an impetuous young sculptor falls in love with a diva of the Roman stage, but rapture turns to rage when he discovers the reality behind the seductiveness of the singer's voice. The ageing artist in The Unknown Masterpiece, obsessed with his creation of the perfect image of an ideal woman, tries to hide it from the jealous young student who is desperate for a glimpse of it. And in The Girl with the Golden Eyes, the hero is a dandy whose attractiveness for the mysterious Paquita has an unexpected origin. These enigmatic and disturbing forays into the margins of madness, sexuality, and creativity show Balzac spinning fantastic tales as profound as any of his longer fictions. His mastery of the seductions of storytelling places these novellas among the nineteenth-century's richest explorations of art and desire. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author | : Edward Bellamy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Ernest R. Trattner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2008-06-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781436704359 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author | : Jack Vance |
Publisher | : Spatterlight Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-02-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781619471191 |
Big Planet is populated by an odd assortment of splinter societies, where beauty and evil dwell in uneasy proximity. The self-styled Bajarnum of Beaujolais seeks to rule the planet; Claude Glystra leads a commission from Earth to investigate, but his ship is sabotaged in orbit and crashes far from safety. Glystra must trek 40,000 miles across the vast surface of Big Planet to Earth Enclave if he is to succeed - but his first challenge is to survive. Big Planet is Volume 4 of the Spatterlight Press Signature Series. Released in the centenary of the author's birth, this handsome new collection is based upon the prestigious Vance Integral Edition. Select volumes enjoy up-to-date maps, and many are graced with freshly-written forewords contributed by a distinguished group of authors. Each book bears a facsimile of the author's signature and a previously-unpublished photograph, chosen from family archives for the period the book was written. These unique features will be appreciated by all, from seasoned Vance collector to new reader sampling the spectrum of this author's influential work for the first time. - John Vance II
Author | : Kate Milliken |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Short stories, American |
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Author | : Anna Maria Hall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2009-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781104509224 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.