When All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one of our few national galleries of character." Diana Trilling, reviewing it for the Nation, wrote, "For sheer virtuosity, for the sustained drive of its prose, for the speed and the evenness of its pacing, for its precision of language...I doubt indeed whether it can be matched in American…
Di tengah kesibukan Jones Salvage Yard, tiba-tiba terdengar jeritan melengking yang menyeramkan. Ternyata suara menakutkan tersebut berasal dari sebuah beker! Itulah awal dari penyelidikan terbaru Trio Detektif yang seru. Siapa yang membuat jam tersebut? Apa alasannya? Pengusutan awal membawa Trio Detektif pada ruangan penuh jam menjerit serta pesan-pesan membingungkan. Jupiter, Pete, dan Bob y…
Di alam semesta Walking Dead, tidak ada penjahat yang lebih hebat dari Gubernur. Lalim yang menjalankan kota bertembok Woodbury, dia memiliki rasa keadilannya sendiri yang sakit: apakah itu memaksa tahanan untuk melawan zombie di arena untuk hiburan penduduk kota, atau memotong pelengkap orang-orang yang melintasinya. Gubernur terpilih sebagai "Villain of the Year" oleh majalah Wizard pada tahu…
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet. With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected…
Providing a collection of some of the most provocative and influential writings of film theory in the past thirty years, this anthology aims to provide a polylogue among theorists, deprovincializing the subject. Film Theory multiplies the perspectives and positions, the situations and locations, from which film theory is spoken.
Stranger in a Strange Land, winner of the 1962 Hugo Award, is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars. Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: he has never seen a woman and has no knowledge of Earth's cultures or religions. But he brings turmoil with him, as he is the legal heir to an enormo…
Extreme weather has the ability to leave us devastated, but with the easy-to-follow Extreme Weather Survival Manual you'll be ready for anything Mother Nature throws at you. Dennis Mersereau and the editors of Outdoor Life magazine offer their life saving advice to help you survive blizzards, hurricanes, firestorms and much more. As a weather reporter, it's only natural that Dennis Mersereau…
"The story drips with suspense, wrapping readers into the narrative just as easily as the man in the black cloak binds his young victims. Serafina’s friendship with Braeden is heartfelt and believable... mystery fans will enjoy this book. " —School Library Journal “The chills and adventure will… surely please.” —Booklist “Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there…
Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man's journey to discover the heroism within himself. Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, finds his loyalties torn between the guardian who will ultimately betray him and the leader of a secret fellowship, The Black Arrow. As Shelton is draw…