Includes cover images, plot summaries, and critical analyses of the genre's most significant novels during the past twenty-five years.
A collection of condensed versions of many famous novels. The condensations have an average length of 8 pages and also contain a brief biography about the authors.
Informative and readable, David Pringle's choices focus on landmark works by the likes of Ray Bradbury, Alfred Bester and J.G. Ballard, unearth less prominent talents such as Ian Watson, Octavia Butler and Joanna Russ, and highlight ...
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"[...] Would to God the mortal days of geniuses like Dostoievsky could be so extended that for all the years of one's life, one would have such works, still not quite finished, in one's lucky hands!
That's what I do here. It's the story of one year in Wellington, but the events are shown out of order. The book starts in the late spring/early summer, then goes to the early spring, then mid-summer, etc. It is not in chronological order.
5 Malcolm Lowry, The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry, ed. Kathleen Scherf (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1992), 170, 174. 6 Lowry wrote poetry throughout his adult life, producing a substantial body of poems even as ...
And One Hundred Times to China is a novel of terror, courage, and one family’s fight for survival with life’s greatest gift as its only weapon—their love for one another.
One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle 'A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again' THE TIMES 'The book I wish I had written .
This list has been built up week by week in The Observer since September 2013, and selected by writer and Observer editor Robert McCrum. With a short critique on each book, this is a real delight for literary lovers.
But as Golden Age, its final installment, opens in 1987, the next generation of Langdons face economic, social, political—and personal—challenges unlike anything their ancestors have encountered before.