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  • Humor in Young Adult Literature
    Walter Hogan
    This examination of humorous young adult literature in light of adolescent developmental issues and theories of comedy reviews family situations, adventure stories, problem novels, satire, romance, and coming-of-age stories. Books, protagonists, and situations for and about younger teens and older teens are discussed. Librarians, teachers, parents, and teens will find this an i...
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    91,77 €

  • Flashes of the Fantastic
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    121,72 €

  • Speculations on Speculation
    James Gunn / Matthew Candelaria
    Science fiction is a field of literature that has great interest and great controversy among its writers and critics. This book examines the roots, history, development, current status, and future directions of the field through articles contributed by well-respected science fiction writers, teachers, and critics. This book can be used as a textbook for courses in theory as wel...
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    90,85 €

  • Anatomy of Wonder
    Neil Barron
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    129,75 €

  • The Dime Novel in Children’s Literature
    Vicki Anderson
    With their rakish characters, sensationalist plots, improbable adventures and objectionable language (like swell and golly), dime novels in their heyday were widely considered a threat to the morals of impressionable youth. Roundly criticized by church leaders and educators of the time, these short, quick-moving, pocket-sized publications were also, inevitably, wildly popular w...
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    42,66 €

  • American Gothic Fiction
    Allan Lloyd Smith
    Following the structure of other titles in the Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres series, American Gothic Fiction includes: A broad definition of the genre and its essential elements. A timeline of developments within the genre. Critical concerns to bear in mind while reading in the genre. Detailed readings of a range of widely taught texts. In-depth analysis of major t...
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    56,27 €

  • Unauthorized Half-Blood Prince Update
    W. Frederick Zimmerman / WFrederick Zimmerman
    An unofficial and unauthorized work of news reporting summarizing what is currently known and speculated about 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' (tm), book six in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. The author, W.F. Zimmerman, has read, analyzed, and synthesized literally thousands of news articles, Usenet postings, blogs, and on-line chats, including every public comme...
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    22,70 €

  • Gay Detective Novel
    Judith A Markowitz
    Gertrude Stein called it 'the only really modern novel form that has come into existence,' yet the mystery genre was a century old before it featured its first gay main character in a novel. Since then, gay and lesbian detective fiction has been one of the fastest growing segments of the genre. It incorporates gay and lesbian cultural elements and offers crossover appeal. Its a...
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    42,50 €

  • Star Trek Reader’s Reference to the Novels
    Alva Underwood
    Want to know more about the characters of the original series? Want to know about the origins of the Klingons and Romulans as well as other aliens? Interested in playing the Klingon Game, learning the levels of mind touch, and meeting new 'Enterprise' crew members? This third reference, focusing on the novels of 1984-1985, expands the data compiled in the references for the ...
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    26,54 €

  • Reflective Laughter
    Lesley Milne
    A witty overview of humour in Russian culture. ...
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    42,68 €

  • Reading Early Hammett
    Leroy Lad Panek
    Dashiell Hammett, like most successful writers, honed his skills in the trenches. Long before The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man made him a household name, Hammett developed his technique writing satirical magazine pieces, then moved on to churn out tales of sex, crime and adventure for pulp magazines. Characters like Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles made him famous, but Ha...
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    58,05 €

  • The Cherryh Odyssey
    Edward Carmien
    The Cherryh Odyssey brings together a dozen essays about respected science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh. Fellow author and academic Edward Carmien has gathered top voices in the field to discuss the literary life and career of Cherryh, including Burton Raffel, Jane Fancher, Janice Bogstad, Betsy Wollheim, and many others. A substantial bibliography rounds out this c...
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    23,44 €

  • The Cherryh Odyssey
    Edward Carmien
    The Cherryh Odyssey brings together a dozen essays about respected science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh. Fellow author and academic Edward Carmien has gathered top voices in the field to discuss the literary life and career of Cherryh, including Burton Raffel, Jane Fancher, Janice Bogstad, Betsy Wollheim, and many others. A substantial bibliography rounds out this c...
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    34,84 €

  • The Ring of Truth
    Joseph O'Day
    Tolkien wrote that his fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings 'is about God, and his sole right to divine honour. The Eldar and the Númenoreans believed in The One, the true God, and held worship of any other person an abomination.' Consequently, Tolkien's novel contains Christian truth and wisdom that have much to say about our beliefs, our world, our spirituality, and ourselves....
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    13,62 €

  • Speaking of the Fantastic II
    Darrell Schweitzer
    Another selection of fascinating, informal conversations with the creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy, presented exactly as originally published.Here are authentic voices from 1983 through 2002: Peter S. Beagle, Octavia Butler, Philip José Farmer, Charles L. Harness, Michael Kandel, R.A. Lafferty, Jack McDevittTim Powers, Charles Sheffield, Susan Shwartz, Michael Swanwick, ...
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    21,31 €

  • Booze and the Private Eye
    Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
    The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer--it's an image as old as the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction itself. Alcohol has long been an important element of detective fiction, but it is no mere prop. Rather, the treatment of alcohol within the works informs and illustrates the detective's moral code, and casts light upon the society's att...
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    42,89 €

  • The Virtual Presence of Contemporary Recognition Elements in Sherlock Holmes’ Methods of Case Investigations
    Allen H. Butler / Allen HButler
    The author retired from the Defense Mapping Agency Aerospace Center in St. Louis, Missouri (now, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency).Most of his career was spent as an instructor training qualified personnel in the field of Cartography. He taught a wide range of subjects in a cartographic curriculum including image recognition as an integral phase of the mapping process. I...
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    8,09 €

  • Sense and Nonsensibility
    Alexander George / Lawrence Douglas
    Two widely published humor columnists and 'bad boys' of academia take their wit and wisdom to dazzling new lows in this irreverent send-up of highbrow literary culture.At last, the thinking person’s take on the life of the mind in today’s increasingly mindless age. Sense and Nonsensibility pokes fun at everyone from spoof-proof scholars to pompous professors; from anal-retentiv...
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    13,03 €

  • Readers in Wonderland
    Deborah O’Keefe
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    68,32 €

  • A Guide Through Narnia
    Martha C. Sammons
    A Guide Through Narnia was one of the first in-depth studies of C.S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia. The focus and organization of this revised and expanded edition is on why Lewis wrote the books as fairy tales, the best 'Form' for his ideas. It is written for both students and scholars who want to expand their understanding of these popular classics. Chapters include: -S...
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    11,52 €

  • Gothic Other
    Ruth Bienstock Anolik
    Literary use of the Gothic is marked by an anxious encounter with otherness, with the dark and mysterious unknown. From its earliest manifestations in the turbulent eighteenth century, this seemingly escapist mode has provided for authors a useful ground upon which to safely confront very real fears and horrors. The essays here examine texts in which Gothic fear is relocated on...
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    57,06 €

  • Scientifiction Novels of C.S. Lewis
    Jared Lobdell
    Used by C.S. Lewis himself, the term "scientifiction" is revived here as it once encompassed not only what we call science fiction, but also that indeterminate field of the 1940s and 1950s sometimes referred to as science fantasy (leading up to Ray Bradbury), along with a portion of that great realm that has come, since the advent of The Lord of the Rings, to be called fantasy...
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    28,27 €

  • War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
    Janet Brennan Croft
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    108,85 €

  • The Adventures of Gerard
    A. Conan Doyle / AConan Doyle / Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Adventures of Gerard is a collection of short stories written by the renowned author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The book follows the adventures of Etienne Gerard, a French Hussar officer during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard is a brave and cunning soldier, but also a vain and boastful one, who always manages to find himself in the middle of dangerous situations. The book is divid...
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    36,64 €

  • Recovery and Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker
    C. Garbowski / CGarbowski
    [Recovery and Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker] is one ofthe most persuasive and open-minded of the various appropriations ofTolkien to a religious or spiritual meaning. [...] At its heart is the anti-reductionistpsychological/religious theory of the concentration camp survivor,Viktor Frankl. Frankl explains human motivation primarily as a quest formeaning, a respon...
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    30,75 €

  • The Foolish Dictionary
    Gideon Wurdz
    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 edit...
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    13,15 €

  • A Cotswold Village
    J. Arthur Gibbs / JArthur Gibbs
    A Cotswold Village is a book written by J. Arthur Gibbs that provides a detailed and vivid description of the English countryside and the rural lifestyle of the Cotswold region. The book is set in the nineteenth century and tells the story of a small village called Bisley, which is located in the heart of the Cotswolds. The author describes the village and its surroundings in g...
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    37,59 €

  • An Antarctic Mystery
    Jules Verne
    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 edit...
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    34,88 €

  • A Journey To The Interior Of The Earth
    Jules Verne
    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 edit...
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    22,78 €

  • Around the World in 80 Days
    Jules Verne
    ''Around The World In 80 Days'' is a classic adventure novel by French author Jules Verne, first published in 1873. The story follows the wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg who makes a wager with his fellow club members that he can travel around the world in 80 days. With his faithful French servant Passepartout by his side, Fogg sets out on a thrilling journey across continents a...
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    32,14 €


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