The Death of the Adversary
Title | The Death of the Adversary PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Keilson |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2010-07-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429979941 |
Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II, The Death of the Adversary is the self-portrait of a young man helplessly fascinated by an unnamed "adversary" whom he watches rise to power in 1930s Germany. It is a tale of horror, not only in its evocation of Hitler's gathering menace but also in its hero's desperate attempt to discover logic where none exists. A psychological fable as wry and haunting as Badenheim 1939, The Death of the Adversary is a lost classic of modern fiction.
The Adversary
Title | The Adversary PDF eBook |
Author | Emmanuel Carrère |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2002-01-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780312420604 |
The true story of a man who spun a web of lies around his life takes readers deep inside the mind of a psychotic man who managed to convince thousands of people that he was a successful, credentialed physician.
Comedy in a Minor Key
Title | Comedy in a Minor Key PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Keilson |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2010-07-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429980249 |
A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation—and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners—Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple who first hide a Jew they know as Nico, then must dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia. This novella, first published in 1947 and now translated into English for the first time, shows Hans Keilson at his best: deeply ironic, penetrating, sympathetic, and brilliantly modern, an heir to Joseph Roth and Franz Kafka. In 2008, when Keilson received Germany's prestigious Welt Literature Prize, the citation praised his work for exploring "the destructive impulse at work in the twentieth century, down to its deepest psychological and spiritual ramifications." Published to celebrate Keilson's hundredth birthday, Comedy ina Minor Key—and The Death of the Adversary, reissued in paperback—will introduce American readers to a forgotten classic author, a witness to World War II and a sophisticated storyteller whose books remain as fresh as when they first came to light.
The Tomb
Title | The Tomb PDF eBook |
Author | F. Paul Wilson |
Publisher | Tor Books |
Pages | 429 |
Release | 2011-03-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429956712 |
The Tomb kicks off the Repairman Jack series that Stephen King calls "one of the best all-out adventure stories I've read in years." Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesn't deal with appliances. He fixes situations—situations that too often land him in deadly danger. His latest fix is finding a stolen necklace which, unknown to him, is more than a simple piece of jewelry. Some might say it's cursed, others might call it blessed. The quest leads Jack to a rusty freighter on Manhattan's West Side docks. What he finds in its hold threatens his sanity and the city around him. But worst of all, it threatens Gia's daughter Vicky, the last surviving member of a bloodline marked for extinction. "One of the all-time great characters in one of the all-time great series." --Lee Child At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Adversary
Title | The Adversary PDF eBook |
Author | Julian May |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 515 |
Release | 1984-04-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547892462 |
In the final novel of the award-winning sci-fi saga, both humans and aliens face destruction as a new time-portal opens a path back to the twenty-second century. Human time-travelers from the sophisticated Galactic Milieu of the twenty-second century came to the Pliocene Epoch seeking a Garden of Eden. What they found was slavery under the knightly Tanu race, who had been exiled to Earth from a far galaxy. Freed by the usurper Aiken Drum, the humans enjoy a brief period of dominance. But now King Aiken's rule is threatened by the dwarfish Firvulag, who scheme to destroy both humans and Tanu in an ultimate Gotterdammerung. This menace becomes almost incidental when Aiken discovers that his realm is about to be invaded by another human who possesses psychic powers even greater than his own. Marc Remillard, the instigator of the Metapsychic Rebellion, nearly conquered the Galactic Milieu before escaping through the time-portal after his defeat. Marc and his followers are out to overthrow Aiken just as a new time-gate is about to be built—one that will provide a two-way portal between the Many-Colored Land and the future world of the Milieu. The Adversary brings Julian May’s Locus Award-winning series—which also includes The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Tore, and The Nonborn King—to a rousing climax.
Reprisal
Title | Reprisal PDF eBook |
Author | F. Paul Wilson |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2011-12-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0765321661 |
This is the fifth book in Wilson's Adversary Cycle, updated by the author and available for the first time in trade paperback, and released in preparation for the grand climax of the Repairman Jack cycle. Poised and waiting for the moment he can unleash an ancient wave of horror that will extinguish humanity, the son of clone Jim Hanley, Jonah, poses as a graduate student in a small southern town to hide his venomous vampiric identity.
Monstrous Adversary
Title | Monstrous Adversary PDF eBook |
Author | Alan H. Nelson |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780853236788 |
The Elizabethan Court poet Edward de Vere has, since 1920, lived a notorious second, wholly illegitimate life as the putative author of the poems and plays of William Shakespeare. The work reconstructs Oxford’s life, assesses his poetic works, and demonstrates the absurdity of attributing Shakespeare’s works to him. The first documentary biography of Oxford in over seventy years, Monstrous Adversary seeks to measure the real Oxford against the myth. Impeccably researched and presenting many documents written by Oxford himself, Nelson’s book provides a unique insight into Elizabethan society and manners through the eyes of a man whose life was privately scandalous and richly documented.