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The Pangborn Defence
Par Norm Sibum. 2008
The Pangborn Defence, a departure from Sibum's previous verse, will be something of a surprise for those who have followed…
his career. Poems written as letters to personages both real and imagined, there are political undertones to many rarely seen in Sibum's ouevre. But there is still the same attention to detail, the same craftsmanship, humour, love and originality.Rochester Knockings
Par Jennifer Grotz, Hubert Haddad. 2015
"Hats off to one of the most inventive writers of French literature. . . . Hubert Haddad concocts a colorful…
novel, funny and inventive, as clever as the Fox sisters themselves."--Jean-François Delapré, Saint Christophe bookstoreThe Fox sisters grew up just outside of Rochester, NY, in a house that had a reputation for being haunted, due in large part to a series of strange "rappings" or "knockings" that plagued its inhabitants. Fed up by whatever was responsible for the knockings, the youngest of the sisters (who was twelve at the time) challenged the ghost and ended up communicating with the spirit of Charles Haynes, who had been murdered in the house and buried in the cellar.Thanks to the enthusiasm of one Isaac Post, the Fox sisters became instantly famous for talking to the dead, launching the Spiritualist Movement in the US. After taking Rochester by storm, the sisters moved to New York where they were the most famous mediums of the time, giving séances for hundreds of people.Then, it all fell apart, and the sisters were exposed as frauds. Nevertheless, even today the Fox sisters are considered to be the founders of Spiritualism, one of the most popular religious movements of the past couple centuries (consider the success of Long Island Medium and the hundreds of thousands who visit Lily Dale every year).Rich in historical detail, Rochester Knockings novelizes the rise and fall of these most infamous of mediums. Hubert Haddad was born in Tunisia, and is the author of dozens of works, including the novels Palestine (winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie), Tango chinois, and La Condition magique (winner of the Grand Prix du Roman de la Société des Gens de Lettres).The Properties of Things
Par David Solway. 2007
The Properties of Things continues David Solway's explorations in the realm of fictive translation, this time that of the obscure…
thirteenth century scholar Bartolomaeus Anglicus. The result is a poetic alphabetary, ranging from the bawdy to the sublime.David Solway has been called "an internationalist of the imagination." He remains one of the country's most brilliant and inventive poets.Now in November
Par Josephine W. Johnson, Nancy Hoffman. 1962
Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this first novel (1934) depicts a white, middle-class urban family that is turned into dirt-poor farmers…
by the Depression and the great drought of the thirties. The novel moves through a single year and, at the same time, a decade of years, from the spring arrival of the family at their mortgaged farm to the winter 10 years later, when the ravages of drought, fire, and personal anguish have led to the deaths of two of the five. Like Ethan Frome, the relatively brief, intense story evokes the torment possible among people isolated and driven by strong feelings of love and hate that, unexpressed, lead inevitably to doom. Reviewers in the thirties praised the novel, calling its prose "profoundly moving music," expressing incredulity "that this mature style and this mature point of view are those of a young women in her twenties," comparing the book to "the luminous work of Willa Cather," and, with prescience, suggesting that it "has that rare quality of timelessness which is the mark of first-rate fiction." Pulitzer Prize WinnerPoetry Slam: A Neurotica Short Story
Par D. B. Shuster. 2014
Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper…
place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of ... submitting to their will, her "evil" twin cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education.Poetry Slam Professor Melanie Stevenson's naughty twin crashes an open mic event and lets everyone there, including the stranger she seduces, imagine the racy woman reciting suggestive poetry is the unplugged version of the uptight professor.Note: This is a short story, approximately 5,000 words in length.Woman on Top: A Neurotica Short Story
Par D. B. Shuster. 2015
Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper…
place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of ... submitting to their will, her "evil" twin cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education.Woman on Top Professor Melanie Stevenson's "evil" twin decides the Department Chair needs to be punished for his... misdeeds in the library. While her kinky tease is designed to render poetic payback, another university woman takes Simon...in hand with a far more sinister and sophisticated version of "woman on top."Note: This is a short story, approximately 5,000 words in length.Scholarly Pursuit: A Neurotica Short Story
Par D. B. Shuster. 2014
Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper…
place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of ... submitting to their will, her "evil" twin cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education.Scholarly Pursuit Professor Melanie Stevenson's chairman would like to continue the liaison Melanie's evil twin started while impersonating her. She has no knowledge of what took place during that heated encounter, but Simon wants more and will stop at nothing in his scholarly pursuit.Note: This is a short story, approximately 5,000 words in length.Tongue-Lashing from the Chair: A Neurotica Short Story
Par D. B. Shuster. 2014
Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper…
place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of ... submitting to their will, her "evil" twin cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education.Tongue-Lashing from the ChairProfessor Melanie Stevenson doesn't know what her naughty twin did with her department chair while impersonating her, but her own encounters with Simon take an erotic turn and uncover an inner wildness she hopes her steady boyfriend can tame.Note: This is a short story, approximately 5,000 words in length.The Essential Max Brooks
Par Max Brooks. 2006
"Brooks [is] America's most prominent maven on the living dead...Gripping reading." --Hartford CourantThis collection, available exclusively as an ebook, brings…
together two New York Times bestselling titles from Max Brooks: The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, The Zombie Survival Guide is the key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. In World War Z, Brooks delivers an invaluable chronicle of the Zombie War, told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand.The Amalgamated Brotherhood of Spooks
Par John Kendrick Bangs. 2012
John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) has earned comparison with Mark Twain and L. Frank Baum for his humorous fantasies, including "A…
Houseboat on the Styx" and these wildly adventurous "Andiron Tales" -- featuring talking andirons, bellows and fire-pokers . . . and a voyage to the crescent MoonSpanking the Chair: A Neurotica Short Story
Par D B Shuster. 2014
Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper…
place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of ... submitting to their will, her "evil" twin cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education.Spanking the ChairProfessor Melanie Stevenson's verbally abusive department chair needs to be schooled, and her naughty twin is just the person to slap him with a punishment he'll never forget.Note: This is a short story, approximately 5,000 words in length.Fun with Toys: A Neurotica Short Story
Par D B Shuster. 2014
Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper…
place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of ... submitting to their will, her "evil" twin cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education.Fun with Toys Angry about their breakup, Professor Melanie Stevenson's ex-boyfriend shows up at her office with a box of sex toys he claims are hers, and her student, Hunter, is all too eager to encourage her to perform a show-and-tell during their one-on-one lesson.Note: This is a short story, approximately 5,000 words in length.Sex in the Stacks: A Neurotica Short Story
Par D B Shuster. 2014
Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper…
place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of ... submitting to their will, her "evil" twin cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education.Sex in the Stacks When Professor Melanie Stevenson submits to her department chair's...wishes during a private encounter in the library stacks, she never imagines she might actually be caught in a compromising position. Yet, with colleagues eager to find evidence of the Chair's misconduct, the suddenly very real threat of discovery forces her to consider whether she's prepared for the potential career consequences of her lust-driven decisions and whether she's still the "good" twin.Note: This is a short story, approximately 5,000 words in length.A Bundle of Neurotica: Eight Neurotica Short Stories (Neurotica)
Par D. B. Shuster. 2015
"A wicked romp through the hallowed halls of academia!"Laugh out loud at these clever and sexy tales. Academia has never…
been so naughty!The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of...submitting to their will, her "evil" twin, Violet, takes on the role of academic avenger and cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education. Written by a college professor, this witty series takes a darkly funny look at the neurotic people and politics of higher education. These eight consecutive short stories tell a larger tale with rich characters, escalating stakes, and steamy action. What Readers are Saying"Timid Professors, evil twins and a good dose of slightly naughty will have you chuckling over the office water cooler.""Love this series! Smart, funny, and sexy. Great brain candy!""Hot and hillarious!""These are awesome. They're over the top enough to be funny but really, really good."Excerpt from "Spanking the Chair""Spanked?" he repeated, his voice cracking. She licked her lips and nodded, knowing she had his full interest now."Yes, spanked." She coiled a lock of hair around her finger, looked down at her own knees. "You know, sometimes I miss that.""You miss being spanked?""It was so cathartic, you know? A hot hand on my backside, a good wallop, and all the bad was purged out of me. I'd done my penance and could go back to being good again." "I don't know what to say," he said. Perhaps not, but his thoughts broadcast loud and clear, as he undressed her with his eyes and likely imagined turning her over his knee. So not going to happen."Do you feel you need to be punished for what you've done?" he asked."I know corporal punishment is out of vogue," she said. "But truly, it could be so therapeutic." His head bounced like a bobble head as he communicated his willingness to give her what he most desired, him in the role of punisher.Time to change the game.She crossed her legs, leaned forward, and dropped her voice to a husky whisper. "Have you ever been spanked, Simon?"Encyclopaedia of Hell
Par Mahendra Singh, Tony Millionaire, Martin Olson. 2011
A tour de force of darkness, Encyclopaedia of Hell is a manual of Earth written by Lord Satan for his…
invading hordes of demons, complete with hundreds of unpleasant illustrations, diagrams, and a comprehensive and utterly repulsive dictionary of Earth terms.Since the customs and mores of humanity are alien and inconceivable to demons, Satan wrote this strangely poetic military handbook for the enlightenment and edification of his demon armies. A masterpiece expressing Satan's hatred for humanity and himself, the Encyclopaedia includes "Techniques of Stalking and Eating Humans," "Methods of Canning Human Pus," and "Dicing and Slicing Orphaned Children."Why the invasion? During the last century in particular, Hell has become seriously overcrowded. Satan needs more land mass for the damned and to use the human livestock to feed his hungry demon invaders.Since this book is the 666th commemorative edition, this Encyclopaedia contains special commemorative material.Martin Olson's savage wit provides the firepower for a preposterous literary feat unaccomplished since Mark Twain passed-channeling the real voice of Satan. Over the past fifteen years, Olson has written and produced nine comedy specials, inflicted on the populace via CBS, HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, and A&E.MacTrump: A Shakespearean Tragicomedy of the Trump Administration, Part I
Par Ian Doescher, Jacopo Della Quercia. 2019
For readers craving a humorous antidote to the sound and the fury of American politics, this clever satire, written in…
iambic pentameter in the style of Shakespeare, wittily fictionalizes the events of the first two years of the Trump administration.No one thought that MacTrump—Lord of MacTrump Towers, Son of New York—would ascend to the highest position in the kingdom. Yet with the help of his unhappy but dutiful wife Lady MacTrump, his clever daughter Dame Desdivanka, and his coterie of advisers, MacTrump is comfortably ensconced in the White Hold as President of the United Fiefdoms, free to make proclamations to his subjects through his favorite messenger, McTweet.The Democrati, mourning the loss of their cherished leader O’Bama, won’t give up without a fight. They still remember the disastrous reign of George the Lesser, and they can see Putain’s dark influence on MacTrump. Their greatest hope is MacMueller, tasked with investigating the plot that empowered MacTrump’s rise to the throne.As Desdivanka schemes to overthrow her father’s councilors, and as Donnison and Ericson—trapped in their own Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-like storyline—prove useless to their father, MacTrump soon realizes he has no true allies. Will he be able to hold on to his throne? Only time will tell in this tragicomic tale of ambition, greed, and royal ineptitude.Faust: A Tragedy, Part I
Par Eugene Stelzig, Johann Wolfgang van Goethe. 2019
Goethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one…
that stands in the company of other leading canonical works of European literature such as Dante’s Inferno and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This is the first new translation into English since David Constantine’s 2005 version. Why another translation when there are several currently in print? To invoke Goethe’s own authority when speaking of his favorite author, Shakespeare, Goethe asserts that so much has already been said about the poet-dramatist “that it would seem there’s nothing left to say,” but adds, “yet it is the peculiar attribute of the spirit that it constantly motivates the spirit.” Goethe’s great dramatic poem continues to speak to us in new ways as we and our world continually change, and thus a new or updated translation is always necessary to bring to light Faust’s almost inexhaustible, mysterious, and enchanting poetic and cultural power. Eugene Stelzig’s new translation renders the text of the play in clear and crisp English for a contemporary undergraduate audience while at the same time maintaining its leading poetic features, including the use of rhyme. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills
Par Seth Grahame-Smith. 2007
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. From ghosts, vampires, and zombies to serial killers, cannibalistic hillbillies, and haunted Japanese videocassettes, How…
to Survive a Horror Movie shows how to defeat every obstacle found in scary films. Readers will discover: * How to Perform an Exorcism * What to Do If You Did Something Last Summer * How to Persuade the Skeptical Local Sheriff * How to Vanquish a Murderous Doll * How to Survive an Alien Invasion * How to Tell If You've Been Dead Since the Beginning of the Movie and much, much more. Complete with useful instructions, insane illustrations, and a list of 100 important films to study, How to Survive a Horror Movie is essential reading for prom queens, jocks, teenage babysitters, and anyone employed by a summer camp. From the Trade Paperback edition.The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 3
By Edgar Allan Poe.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2
By Edgar Allan Poe.