The Mammoth Book Of Westerns

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 178033916X
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Westerns written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western, though a singularly American art form, is one of the great genres of world literature with a truly global readership. It is also durable despite being often unfairly maligned. Ever since James Fenimore Cooper transformed frontier yarns into a distinct literary form, the Western has followed two paths: one populist - what Time magazine famously billed 'the American Morality Play' - capable of taking many points of view, from red to redneck, but always populist, with a sentimental attachment to the misfit; the other literary - eschewing heroism, debunking with unsettling candour many of the myths of the West. It can sometimes be difficult to draw a sure line between the two forms, but both are represented in this outstanding collection which includes stories by Rick Bass, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Larry McMurtry, Mari Sandoz, Christopher Tilghman, and Mark Twain, among many others.

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Publisher : Wordsworth Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781840226492
Total Pages : 1407 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collector's Book of Westerns written by and published by Wordsworth Classics. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection from some of the greatest classic writers of the compelling body of literature that immortalized ranchers and cowpunchers, trappers and prospectors, gamblers and lawmen.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 9781854870896
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of the Western written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Constable. This book was released on 1991 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1849019150
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Dracula written by Stephen Jones and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How will the King of Vampires adapt to the social and technological changes brought by the twenty-first century? Could the Count's condition be cured by modern medicine? How does the mythology perpetuated by literature and movies affect the existence of a real bloodsucker? What if Dracula found himself ruler of a world controlled by vampires? Or perhaps political and ecological catastrophe will result in the Count's final destruction? This tribute to the world's greatest vampire collects together more than 200,000 words of Dracula fiction by masters of dark fantasy such as: Hugh B. Cave, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Basil Copper, John Gordon, Brian Hodge, Nancy Holder, Nancy Kilpatrick, Roberta Lannes, Thomas Ligotti, Paul J. McAuley, Nicholas Royle, Guy N. Smith and many more. It also includes a brand new story from Charlaine Harris.

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510723846
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women written by Stephen Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five uncanny and erotic tales of vampires written by supernatural fiction’s greatest mistresses of the macabre. "Fashions change, and the urbane vampire created by Byron and cemented in place by Stoker has had to move on . . . Are you, like me, ready for the new dusk?" —Ingrid Pitt, from her Introduction Prepare to arm yourself with garlic, silver bullets, and a stake. Featuring the only vampire short story written by Anne Rice, the undisputed queen of vampire literature, and boasting an autobiographical introduction and original tale by Ingrid Pitt, the star of Hammer Films' The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, this is one anthology that every vampire fan—vampiric feminist or not—will want to drink deep from. From the classic stories of Edith Wharton, Edith Nesbit, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon to modern incarnations by such acclaimed writers as Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tanith Lee, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Angela Slatter, these blood-drinkers and soul-stealers range from the sexual to the sanguinary, from the tormented Good to the unspeakably Evil. Among those memorable Children of the Night you will encounter are Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Byronic vampire Saint-Germain, Nancy A. Collins' undead heroine Sonja Blue, Tanya Huff's vampiric detective Vicki Nelson, and Freda Warrington’s age-old lovers Karl and Charlotte. Nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and now revised and updated, The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women fulfils the bloodlust of the somnambulist horror fan, delivering the ultimate bite.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780881847918
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of the Western written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1991 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of western tales by such authors as Elmer Kelton, Max Brand, Zane Grey, Thomas Thompson, and Stephen Crane

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1849014280
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories written by Ian Watson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know today. As well as original stories specially commissioned from bestselling writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics such as Kim Stanley Robinson's story of how World War II atomic bomber the Enola Gay, having crashed on a training flight, is replaced by the Lucky Strike with profoundly different consequences. Praise for the editors: 'Mr Watson wreaks havoc with what is accepted - and acceptable.' The Times 'One of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers.' New Scientist

Author : Trisha Telep
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 178033043X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Futuristic Romance written by Trisha Telep and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love will find a way - 19 fantastic future-set romances. The good news is, in the future there will be no shortage of romance. On space ships, on newly-colonized planets or on a barely recognizable Earth, life forms, whether human, alien or something in between, will find their way to love. As giant corporations grasp new opportunities for profit and future armies clash, both in deep space and 'dirtside', former romantic partners try to put the past behind them and time-travelling rebels set out to romance the past. These science fiction stories of future love and lust - by Marcella Burnard, Bianca d'Arc, Jess Granger, Linnea Sinclair, C. L. Wilson and many more - are brimming with passion and humour. So, even though in space no one can hear you scream, they might just be able to hear you laugh.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780337000
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of the West written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded edition of Jon E. Lewis's ever-popular account of the American West. The book is at once a history and a compendium of western lore. It tells what life on the frontier was really like and gives a human portrait of the tough and sometimes violent way of life experienced by the early pioneers. The gunfighters and the cowboys, women, Indians and others, all have their part to play - and as well as the historical accounts there are intriguing anecdotes of everyday life on the plains, from how Montana cowboys warmed up their horses' bits, to the words of the Navajo medicine chants.

Author : Michael Ashley
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
ISBN 13 : 9781841190891
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy written by Michael Ashley and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of magic and mayhem from fantasy writers.