For the legions of Isaac Asimov fans who have been enjoying his short fiction for over half a century, but just can't keep up with the Good Doctor's prolific appearances in print, ...
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SUMMARY:'One of the century's great masters of English prose . . . It is never too late to read or reread Evelyn Waugh' Time In this unique collection of short stories compo...
One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative frie...
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot.Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a...
From Publishers WeeklyOrphaned at 10—his mother murdered, his father a suicide—Chase was raised by his grandfather Jonah, a grifter who has used Chase as a getaway driver. After Jo...
Review"Blanding roots his tale in the birth of the advertising era, and he is particularly effective in telling the story of how Coke fought to monopolize the sale of soft drinks t...
Product DescriptionFrom his triumphant debut with Snow Crash to the stunning success of his latest novel, Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voi...
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1954, Shelby Foote was a young novelist with a contract to write a short history of the Civil War. It soon became clear, however, that he had undertaken a long-...