These are essays, indeed, but generally not the sort taught in schools – or that I taught for forty years: not in the elegant Intro/Thesis/Proof/Conclusion tradition but more in the older tradition of Michel de Montaigne and les essais, and of satire. That is, they are «attempts,» explorations, and, well, also traps, where I wander around a bit in apparent innocence and then spring on readers a possibly outrageous idea, one they wouldn’t have co ...
This volume collects 8 pioneering essays (and a humorous epistolary exchange) by the late H.P. Lovecraft scholar, George T. Wetzel. This is the largest single volume of Wetzel's nonfiction ever published. Included are:<P> "Biographic Notes on Lovecraft" (from HPL, 1971)<BR> "The Mechanistic Supernatural of Lovecraft" (from Fresco, 1958)<BR> "The Cthulhu Mythos: A Study" (from HPL: Memoirs, Critiques and B ...
The Walt Whitman MEGAPACK™ collects more than 500 classic poems, essays, and letters of Walt Whitman, including «Leaves of Grass,» Whitman's magnum opus. ...
James Arthur Anderson takes a structuralist approach to dissecting the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). This book offers both scholars and fans alike new insight into the work of the best-known American horror writer of the first half of the 20th century. As critic S. T. Joshi states: «Anderson's thorough familiarity with Lovecraft's texts (essays and letters, as well as stories), and with the best scholarship on Lovecraf ...
The Frederick Douglass Megapack provides a selection of the works of Frederick Douglas, including 2 autobiographies as well as essays, speeches, and slave narratives. Included are:<p> NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE<BR> MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM<BR> RECEPTION SPEECH<BR> THE NATURE OF SLAVERY<BR> INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY<BR> WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?<BR> T ...
Polished over 20 years of use at the university level, this book combines Professor Collings's lucid instruction with practical exercises to introduce beginners to poetry, and to encourage more practiced poets to expand their horizons. Twenty poetic exercises that will strengthen and hone your craft! ...
The Russian Short Story Megapack: 25 Classic Tales collects some of the finest and most famous of all Russian literature, by such authors as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo N. Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Anton P. Chekhov, and many more. <P> Complete table of contents: <P> THE QUEEN OF SPADES, by Alexsandr S. Pushkin<BR> THE GENERAL'S WILL, by Vera Jelihovsky<BR> THE CLOAK, by Nikolay V. Gogol<BR> THE DISTRICT DOCTOR, ...
Our third offering of kitty delights and delectables features 25 cat stories, 2 nonfiction compilations of cat anecdotes, and 9 poems–but the emphasis overall is decidedly more modern than in our previous cat Megapacks. Heading the list this time are: Mary A. Turzillo, who contributes 8 tales and poems; A. R. Morlan, author of 6 stories; Michael Hemmingson, who's penned 3 moving poems; Damien Broderick, writer of 2 otherworldly cat tales; K ...
Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is…Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time, looks with avid eagerness upon the ways of the Others, human or alien ...
