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  • Study Guide to Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, an immediate popular success when it was published as Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World in 1726. As a novel of eighteenth century Britain, Gulliver’s Travels was a satire on human nature and a parody of the ''''travellers’ tales'''' literary s...
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    12,81 €

  • Stories of Shape-Shifting
    Robert E Howard
    Compiled and introduced by Mythologist and lycanthropy specialist Wulfric Thorsson, this book collects all the works by famed pulp writer Robert E. Howard concerning the themes of physical transformation and metamorphosis. Werewolves are here, and werehyenas and other beastmen, as well as startling depictions of arcane changes and unnatural hybrids.The stories are superbly ente...
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    14,06 €

  • A Gothic Bibliography
    Montague Summers
    First published in 1940, 'A Gothic Bibliography' contains an extensive list of some of the most notable Gothic novels compiled by Montague Summers. Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that usually combines fiction with horror, romance, and death. The genre’s origin is attributed to the novel, 'The Castle of Otranto', which was written by English author Horace Walpole and fi...
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    37,69 €

  • The Big Somewhere
    Steven Powell
    James Ellroy’s identity as a crime writer is rooted in his extraordinary life story and relationship with his home city of Los Angeles. Beginning with the unsolved murder of his mother, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, in 1958, Ellroy’s early life played a large role in shaping his obsessions with murder, the criminal underworld of L.A. and the redemptive power of the feminine. Ellroy’s...
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    55,11 €

  • Imagining the Unimaginable
    Glyn Morgan
    Imagining the Unimaginable examines popular fiction’s treatment of the Holocaust in the dystopian and alternate history genres of speculative fiction, analyzing the effectiveness of the genre’s major works as a lens through which to view the most prominent historical trauma of the 20th century. It surveys a range of British and American authors, from science fiction pulp to Pul...
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    160,95 €

  • Littérature Fantastique Belge et Belgitude
    Anchal Verma
    Littérature Fantastique Belge Et Belgitude a un double but. D’abord, découvrir l’univers fantastique belge francophone de Jean Ray, afin d’examiner chez Jean Ray, l’essence du fantastique, par le biais de son recueil de nouvelles fantastiques Le Grand Nocturne. Cet ouvrage a aussi pour but d’examiner des traits de la belgitude, autrement dit, de dévoiler, dans quelle manière la...
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    20,50 €

  • Argentina Noir
    Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz
    An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000. ...
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    41,51 €

  • Studier i svart
    Annika Johansson / Bertil Falk / Rickard Berghorn
    Vad skulle ske ifall farao Kheops mumie uppväcks i ett politiskt oroligt år 2126 och ställer sig i spetsen för striderna? Detta märkliga ”tänk om”-scenario uttänktes redan 1826 av Jane Loudon, en ung engelsk författarinna. Hennes futuristiska roman The Mummy! blev populär läsning som inspirerade ingen mindre än Edgar Allan Poe. En bestseller som sedan föll i komplett glömska i ...
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    28,03 €

  • The Binge Watcher's Guide Dr. Who A History of Dr. Who and the First Female Doctor
    Mackenzie Flohr
    Mackenzie Flohr believes in order to call yourself a true Whovian, you must follow the Doctor's message. The Binge Watcher's Guide to Doctor Who will take you on a journey through time and space, showing you how Doctor Who became the longest running show on television by weaving through its history, starting with our current incarnation of the Doctor, played by Jodie Wh...
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    16,98 €

  • A Cello for Bihar
    Rakesh Chopra
    The year was 1950. Khem Rao was just another child born in a remote farming village in Bihar. His life’s script was expected to be no different to anyone else born under the same circumstances. However, destiny had other plans.This book charts the course of his extraordinary life and his prodigious music talent. This is a story of hardship. Of trial and tribulations. Of the han...
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    15,56 €

  • The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel Critical Temporalities and the End Times
    Diletta De Cristofaro
    Traditional apocalyptic texts concern the advent of a better world at the end of history that will make sense of everything that happened before. But what is at stake in the contemporary shift to apocalyptic narratives in which the utopian end of time is removed? The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel offers an innovative critical model for our cultural obsession with ’the end...
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    174,10 €

  • El Gringo de la Avioneta
    Adolfo Ariza Navarro
    Lo que dijeron de Rafael, el hermano de Gilberto, fue que lo asesinaron para robarle una pistola de oro. De Gilberto no dijeron nada ni del gringo ni del maletín repleto de dólares. De la caída de la avioneta supimos todos. Se necesitaba ser ciego para no haber observado el incendio que produjo al chocar contra los árboles. En la radio informaron que llevaba droga para los Esta...
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    7,80 €

  • Blasco Ibáñez en Norteamérica
    Emilio Sales Dasí
    En 1919 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez viajó a Estados Unidos, laureado por un éxito espectacular. ¿Fue acaso un inesperado golpe de fortuna lo que convirtió 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' en todo un fenómeno editorial que iba a permitir a Blasco sumar un interesante nuevo capítulo a su hasta entonces novelesca biografía? Sea cual sea la respuesta, el triunfo del escritor en Nort...
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    18,00 €

  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    Washington Irving
    The year is 1790. The Revolutionary War has settled, but the ghosts of combat remain.One particularly vengeful specter—a Hessian soldier whose head was most unfortunately removed by a cannonball—is rumored to haunt the borderland glen to Tarry Town known as Sleepy Hollow.Ichabod Crane—a mindfully superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut—finds himself in service to this tiny ...
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    16,32 €

  • Letters with Donald and Howard Wandrei and to Emil Petaja
    H. P. Lovecraft / HPLovecraft
    It is safe to say that Donald Wandrei (1908–1987) was one of Lovecraft’s leading correspondents. In 1924 Wandrei came in touch with his literary idol, Clark Ashton Smith, and two years later Smith referred him to Lovecraft. There began a rich, expansive communication in which both sides of the correspondence are preserved largely intact, allowing for an unprecedented glimpse in...
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    32,00 €

  • Dead Reckonings No. 26 (Fall 2019)
    Ramsey Campbell
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    8,06 €

  • Monstrous Imaginaries
    Maaheen Ahmed
    Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries persist in today's popular culture. Comics monsters, questioning the distinction between human and monster, self and other, are valuable conduits of Romantic inclinations.Engag...
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    49,92 €

  • Monstrous Imaginaries
    Maaheen Ahmed
    Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries persist in today's popular culture. Comics monsters, questioning the distinction between human and monster, self and other, are valuable conduits of Romantic inclinations.Engag...
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    158,08 €

  • Cuentos para quinceañeras
    James Fenimore Cooper
    James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) se considera el primer gran novelista norteamericano de fama internacional gracias a sus historias de aventuras, en especial El último de los mohicanos. Antes de consolidarse como tal, sin embargo, probó suerte con la narrativa breve y acometió la redacción de algunos relatos de índole sentimental e intimista, de los que solo acabó dos: «Imagin...
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    12,50 €

  • The Tragic Thread in Science Fiction
    Robert H. Waugh
    For decades, Robert H. Waugh has been a scintillating critic of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. A leading analyst of H. P. Lovecraft, Waugh now brings his critical talents to the assessment of an array of fantasy and science fiction writers, past and present. In a trilogy of essays, Waugh studies David Lindsay’s pioneering novel A Voyage to Arcturus (1920), probing its re...
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    20,16 €

  • Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes
    Neil McCaw
    Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes contains a variety of information about Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, as both narratives and also cultural phenomena. The volume will help readers look deeper into those stories and the meanings of the various reference points within them, as well as achieving a deeper understanding of the range of contexts of Holmes, Con...
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    135,19 €

  • Providence After Dark and Other Writings
    T.E.D. Klein
    Best known as a writer of supernatural horror, T.E.D. Klein, author of The Ceremonies and Dark Gods, has also written essays, articles, op-ed pieces, and reviews that are provocative, erudite, occasionally splenetic, and always highly opinionated. This book, compiled by S. T. Joshi, presents a wide selection of Klein’s nonfiction, including:  • A lively account of the first Wo...
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    31,82 €

  • Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination
    Kristen Lillvis
    Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers, filmmakers, and musicians, including Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Julie Dash, and Janelle Monáe. In this innovative study, Kristen Lillvis supplements historically situated conceptions of blackness with imaginative proje...
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    28,20 €

  • Gothic Remixed Monster Mashups and Frankenfictions in 21st-Century Culture
    Megen de Bruin-Molé
    The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters. Too engaged with tradition for some and not traditional enough for others, these ’monster mashups’ are often criticized as a sign of the artistic and moral degeneration of contemporary culture. These hybrid c...
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    173,76 €

  • Superheroes and Masculinity
    Superheroes and Masculinity: Unmasking the Gender Performance of Heroism explores how heteropatriarchal representations of gender are portrayed within superhero comics, film, and television. The contributors examine how hegemonic masculinity has been continually perpetuated and reinforced within the superhero genre and unpack concise critiques of specific superhero representati...
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    122,57 €

  • Gothic for Girls
    Julia Round
    Today fans still remember and love the British girls' comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities. Yet its unique history has drawn little critical attention. Bridging this scholarly gap, Julia Round presents a comprehensive cultural history and detailed discussion of the comic, preserving both the inception and development of this important publication as w...
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    52,36 €

  • Gothic for Girls
    Julia Round
    Today fans still remember and love the British girls' comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities. Yet its unique history has drawn little critical attention. Bridging this scholarly gap, Julia Round presents a comprehensive cultural history and detailed discussion of the comic, preserving both the inception and development of this important publication as w...
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    160,52 €

  • Lab Lit
    Lab Lit: Exploring Literary and Cultural Representations of Science is the first formal, systematic, scholarly investigation of laboratory literature from the perspective of literary studies. Lab Lit as a new genre has received a lot of public and media attention due to its compelling presentation of science practitioners and the relatable explanations of the scientific advance...
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    128,99 €

  • The Theology of George MacDonald
    John R. de Jong / John Rde Jong
    George MacDonald (1824-1905) was writing at a time of Evangelical unease. In a society ravaged by Asiatic cholera, numbed by levels of infant mortality, and fearful of revolution and the toxicity of industry (to name but a few of the many challenges), the "gospel" proclaiming eternal damnation for unbelievers was hardly good news; rather, Christianity was increasingly viewed as...
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    32,83 €

  • The Theology of George MacDonald
    John R. de Jong / John Rde Jong
    George MacDonald (1824-1905) was writing at a time of Evangelical unease. In a society ravaged by Asiatic cholera, numbed by levels of infant mortality, and fearful of revolution and the toxicity of industry (to name but a few of the many challenges), the ""gospel"" proclaiming eternal damnation for unbelievers was hardly good news; rather, Christianity was increasingly viewed ...
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    49,00 €


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