More Classics Revisited
Title | More Classics Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Rexroth |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780811210836 |
Rexroth, More Classics Revisited. the second volume of Rexroth's Classics essays.
Classics Revisited
Title | Classics Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Rexroth |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780811209885 |
Rexoth, Classics Revisited. Humourous and insightful essays on Classic literature.
Classic Horrors Revisited
Title | Classic Horrors Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | F. Wesley Schneider |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-02-03 |
Genre | Fantasy games |
ISBN | 9781601252029 |
The most frightening terrors of fantasy gaming have deep roots in history, mythology, and popular culture. From the seductive allure of the vampire to the fierce fury of the werewolf, Classic Horrors Revisited spotlights 10 of the spookiest, scariest monsters of the game, providing context, rules, and a host of ideas that breathe new life (and sometimes unlife) into commonly used creatures that all-too often can be uncommonly boring. Written by the macabre Managing Editor of the Pathfinder Adventure Paths, F. Wesley Schneider, Classic Horrors Revisited features exciting takes on the derro, flesh golem, gargoyle, ghost, ghoul, hag, mummy, vampire, werewolf, and zombie.
Novel on Yellow Paper, Or, Work it Out for Yourself
Title | Novel on Yellow Paper, Or, Work it Out for Yourself PDF eBook |
Author | Stevie Smith |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811212397 |
Smith, Novel on Yellow Paper. Amusing novel by the famous English poetess.
Nothing to Pay
Title | Nothing to Pay PDF eBook |
Author | Caradoc Evans |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811212908 |
When Caradoc Evans's novel Nothing to Pay appeared in 1930, it met with much admiration and also much resistance. His ruthless exposure of the Nonconformist establishment undermined the commonly held view that the Welsh were a pastoral, God-fearing people. As Jeremy Brooks put it The Independent, "What the Welsh could not forgive was that they recognized themselves only too clearly in Evans's satirical portraits." But Dylan Thomas praised Evans's work relentlessly, and H.G. Wells said in a lecture: "There was one, who is too little esteemed, who has done the thing [of telling about the trade shops] with a certain brutal thoroughness, and he tells a great deal of truth. That is Caradoc Evans in his book Nothing to Pay." (In America, H.L. Mencken saw in Evans the fundamentalists of the South laid bare, and offered one hundred free copies of his story collection to the local YMCA.) Nothing to Pay relates the story of Amos Morgan, an ambitious draper from Cardiganshire who works his way up to London through the shop trade. Largely autobiographical, this novel was admired by the Welsh literati and has since become a classic of Welsh literature, not only for its scathing satire, but for its brilliant linguistic inventiveness and poetic style.
Shadowlife
Title | Shadowlife PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Grzimek |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811211529 |
A detective novel which offers a gripping overview of the purpose and function of poetic fiction in the twenty-first century.
Three Italian Chronicles
Title | Three Italian Chronicles PDF eBook |
Author | Stendhal |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811211505 |
Three novellas of Italian passion by the great French author tell of the infamous trial of a young Roman noblewoman for the murder of her father, the illicit liaison and subsequent trial of an abbess, and the fortunes of a Roman aristocrats daughter who falls in love with a wounded soldier.