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  • مَرَاَكِبُ الّليلِ
    محمد العون
    تتلاشى الحدود بين الواقع والخيال في رواية 'مراكب الليل' للكاتب المصري محمد العون، الحائز على جائزة الدولة التشجيعية. تأخذنا هذه الرواية في رحلة شيقة ومؤثرة تحكي قصة هجرة الشباب الغير شرعية في مراكب الموت التي تهربهم من مصر إلى أوروبا عبر البحر المتوسط. بتصوير مدهش وعمق نفسي رائع، تتطرق الرواية أيضًا إلى ظروف المعيشة في القرية وما دفع الشباب للهجرة، وتكشف عن تاريخ أجدادهم وما حد...
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    14,12 €

  • On The Origin Of Paranormal Species
    Amy Laurens
    Why do werewolves transform with the moon? When did mermaids get their tails? What sinister history underpins the goblin? Uncover the answers to these questions - and more! - in this collection of seven essays from award-winning author Amy Laurens. First published in the critically acclaimed Aurealis magazine, these essays explore the mythological basis of seven of the most pop...
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    11,13 €

  • The Dark City Murders
    Mark Davie
    In 'The Dark City Murders: A Detective’s Race Against Time,' Detective James Monroe takes readers on a gripping journey through the investigation of one of the most heinous crimes in the city’s history.When a string of murders rocks the city, Detective Monroe is tasked with leading the investigation. As the body count rises, Monroe and his team race against time to identify the...
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    22,63 €

  • The Detective Novel
    S. S. Van Dine
    Delve into the intricate world of the crime fiction genre as S. S. Van Dine provides an in-depth analysis and critique of what makes a great detective story. In this essay, S. S. Van Dine examines the various elements that make a brilliant detective novel, including plot, characterisation, and setting. Exploring the works of famous detective novelists such as Edgar Allan Poe,...
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    17,23 €

  • Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764-1834
    Sam Hirst
    Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764-1832 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theologies, both Dissenting and Anglican. ...
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    158,32 €

  • The Great Illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe
    Jessica Slayton / Tony Magistrale
    An introduction to some of the most important illustrators producing work inspired by the tales and poems of American writer Edgar Allan Poe from their earliest iterations in the 1880s to the present day ...
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    50,28 €

  • Tweaking Things a Little. Essays on the Epic Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin
    Thomas Honegger
    'World-building, name-finding, language-crafting; the flaws in chivalric practice, and the ethics (Machiavellian and otherwise) that produce the moral complexities of Middle-earth and the Known World are thus the topics that Tweaking Things a Little considers. The modest title belies what lies within these covers: nimble readings, profound knowledge of the medieval world, origi...
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    52,44 €

  • Follow Me
    Francesca T Barbini
    Follow Me: Religion in Fantasy and Science Fiction is the seventh Call for Papers of Academia Lunare, the non-fiction arm of Luna Press Publishing.The papers focus on the theme of religion in fantasy and science fiction, in all its forms, in different media. Featuring papers from Ivano Sassanelli, Elyse Welles, Catherine Coundjeris, Barbara Stevenson, Eugen Bacon, Steph P Bianc...
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    22,17 €

  • Suicide and the Gothic
    Suicide and the Gothic is the first study of the representation of suicide in Gothic texts from the eighteenth century to the present. Poems, short stories, novels, films and video games are covered from European, American and Asian contexts. ...
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    35,89 €

  • Counterfactual Romanticism
    Damian Walford Davies
    Extends counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory ...
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    38,24 €

  • Personation Plots
    Clayton Carlyle Tarr
    Examines the fascination with identity fraud in sensation fiction and Victorian culture more broadly. ...
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    42,03 €

  • J. F. Gonzalez’s Shadows in the Attic
    J. F. Gonzalez
    An Unfinished History of HorrorCome and dig beneath the cobwebs, under the dust and through the forgotten boxes with horror historian J. F. Gonzalez.Collecting non-fiction works from J.F. Gonzalez, Shadows in the Attic takes the reader from Ancient times to the mid-40’s weaving a tale of the history of horror-all the while discussing writers and stories that influenced, that ca...
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    27,96 €

  • El mito del progreso
    Jon Alkorta Martiartu
    El género literario de la fantasía, aunque considerado en muchas ocasiones como una expresión literaria basada en el escapismo y despreocupada de los problemas del mundo real, ofrece tanto a escritores como a lectores posibilidades prácticamente infinitas de reflexionar sobre la sociedad humana y el mundo que nos rodea. Uno de los aspectos de la vida humana que ha ocupado por m...
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    15,59 €

  • Black Panther
    Jorge Serrano
    This interdisciplinary academic study is for readers interested in film, media, and the comic book genre. Superhero theories are abundant, especially considering their use as a tool for coping with adversity, and some note that it is an integral part of American society, young formative minds, in particular. It is not just about learning morals but also seeing how an ideal soci...
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    60,39 €

  • Biblical Themes in Science Fiction
    Biblical Themes in Science Fiction is a handbook for exploring how biblical themes appear in contemporary science fiction. Contributors examine the relationship between ancient and modern depictions of Adam and Eve, the tower of Babel, Noah’s ark, handmaids, utopian cities, the promised land, the city of Babylon, messiahs, resurrection, and the apocalypse. Essays are supplement...
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    37,88 €

  • Biblical Themes in Science Fiction
    Biblical Themes in Science Fiction is a handbook for exploring how biblical themes appear in contemporary science fiction. Contributors examine the relationship between ancient and modern depictions of Adam and Eve, the tower of Babel, Noah’s ark, handmaids, utopian cities, the promised land, the city of Babylon, messiahs, resurrection, and the apocalypse. Essays are supplement...
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    56,50 €

  • Bone Island
    Nicole Fiorina
    To my beloved black sea,It was full dark when I snuck out of the castle to meet you. You wore those ripped black jeans and your new friend’s boots, with sleet from the forest still in the grooves. You moved awkwardly in your new clothes because you were still creating yourself, like one of your drawings. We drank vanilla cola from glass bottles and listened to a song about how ...
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    45,77 €

  • El recuerdo de los años perdidos
    Gordon McAllister
    Sinopsis de la novela EL RECUERDO DE LOS AÑOS PERDIDOS:Es una novela inspirada en hechos históricos sucedidos primero en medio de la GuerraCivil Española, y luego en la Unión Soviética, en medio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial,y años posteriores.La historia toma cuerpo en España en medio de la Guerra Civil. Un grupo de niños sonenviados a la Unión Soviética para salvarlos y luego,...
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    11,44 €

  • …Y la llamaron Vinland
    Gordon McAllister
    Llegaron a una tierra extraña más allá del horizonte conocido, y la llamaronVinland.Es una novela histórica, inspirada en las Sagas Islandesas, Sagas Groenlandesas y lasSagas de Erick Thorvaldsson, apodado (el Rojo), acerca de la presencia de losexploradores vikingos, en tierras de América, en hechos sucedidos en el año 1000 d/C,aproximadamente, o sea unos quinientos años antes...
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    11,44 €

  • El violinista
    Gordon McAllister
    En segundo lugar, se expone la historia de la disputa entre palestinos e israelíes,desde varios milenios La novela está inspirada en el conflicto árabe israelí, y tiene undesarrollo narrativo de doble plano.En primer lugar está la parte novelada, con diferentes personajes quienes transitan pordiferentes épocas, mostrando las incidencias de un conflicto que afecta sus vidas, atr...
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    11,44 €

  • Cuentos, relatos y poemas
    Gordon McAllister
    Este libro contiene una selección de diez y seis cuentos, relatos y anécdotas, de diversaíndole, algunos cómicos, otros trágicos y algunos otros que son tomados de vivencias dela vida real. Además contiene una selección de 44 poemas, con temas entre románticos,filosóficos, cotidianos y finalmente algunos poemas reflexivos, que nos ponen a pensaren profundidad. Entre los cuentos...
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    12,04 €

  • Harry Potter and History
    Nancy R Reagin
    A guide to the history behind the world of Harry Potter--just in time for the last Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part II)Harry Potter lives in a world that is both magical and historical. Hogwarts pupils ride an old-fashioned steam train to school, notes are taken on parchment with quill pens, and Muggle legends come to life in the form of werewolves...
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    24,91 €

  • Vampire Grooms and Spectre Brides
    Tyler R Tichelaar
    Many British and French Gothic novels are being rediscovered today that are part of the second Gothic Golden Age, an age too often overlooked, but integral to the evolution of the Gothic. While nationalism influences these works, they are a melting pot of ideas and styles from both nations. Consequently, the only way to truly understand the Gothic tradition in British literatur...
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    30,13 €

  • Vampire Grooms and Spectre Brides
    TBD / Tyler R Tichelaar
    Many British and French Gothic novels are being rediscovered today that are part of the second Gothic Golden Age, an age too often overlooked, but integral to the evolution of the Gothic. While nationalism influences these works, they are a melting pot of ideas and styles from both nations. Consequently, the only way to truly understand the Gothic tradition in British literatur...
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    35,31 €

  • Aspects of the Novel
    E.M. Forster
    Widely accepted as a pioneering work of literary criticism, Forster’s Aspects of the Novel provides the critical readers with fundamental conceptual tools to approach the study of novels. His lectures, compiled in this book, are invaluable for students and researchers who intend to pursue their critical studies on the genre of fiction, cutting across languages, cultures and lit...
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    16,39 €

  • Jean-François Vilar
    Margaret Atack
    Jean-François Vilar (1947-2014) was a leading exponent of political crime fiction in France in the 1980s and 1990s. Paris, Prague, art and ’anti-art’ from surrealism to Jacques Monory, 19th and 20th century revolutionary politics and their cortege of ever-present pasts, from the French Revolution to the Algerian War - these are only some of the drivers of his highly original no...
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    17,70 €

  • Adapting the Canon
    Adapting the Canon brings together some of the most recent and exciting research in the growing field of adaptation studies, charting the passage of canonical texts across time, cultures and different media. Spanning several Humanities disciplines, the essays in this volume explore key questions about what adaptation means for the canonical work, focusing on texts adapted into ...
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    23,35 €

  • Mary Shelley and Europe
    Antonella Braida
    Mary Shelley in Europe studies the European background of Mary Shelley’s works and their reception. This two-fold approach is inspired by Mary Shelley dans son œuvre, Jean de Palacio’s seminal work that has remained untranslated in English. The essays in the volume bring new insights on editing and establishing the canon of Mary Shelley’s works; they investigate her interest in...
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    18,74 €

  • THE TRAGEDY AT CAMBRIA
    Sherrie J. Lyons
    The Tragedy at Cambria, a three-act play written in rhyming iambic pentameter, tells a story of love, deception, and power. In the medieval kingdom of Cambria, aging King John faces a grave decision. His forebearers created extremely strict laws regarding unwed pregnancy, and now a sixteen-year-old girl, Plain Jane, is guilty of being with child. Either Jane or the baby must di...
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    19,33 €

  • Gothic Travel through Haunted Landscapes
    Lucie Armitt / Scott Brewster
    This book argues that travel in Gothic literature offers a unique and transformative perspective on recurring cultural preoccupations with fear, unknown landscapes, environmental change, surveillance, and the foreign. ...
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    180,42 €


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