In a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, an extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with Abraham Van Brunt, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel.
In the spring of a certain year, not far from the close of the nineteenth century, when the political relations between the United States and Great Britain became so strained that careful observers on both sides of the Atlantic were forced to the belief that a serious break in these relations might be looked for at any time, the fishing schooner Eliza Drum sailed from a port in Maine for the banks of Newfoundland.
The Coming Conquest of England is a classic utopian novel that displayed the German lust for world domination long before either of the two World Wars.
The City of the Sun is a dialogue between "e;a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain,"e; The book describes a theocratic society where goods, women and children are held in common.
Originally written as a "e;boys' novel"e;, Kidnapped has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Seamus Heaney.
The first book of the Barsoom series introduces the reader to John Carter, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, who is mysteriously transported to Mars, where he finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility.
En esta nueva novela, Diamela Eltit se muestra tan infatigable como siempre y más aguda que nunca para retratar los desmanes de un sistema decrépito y fallido: aquel en el que a sus eslabones más débiles se les niega la posibilidad de tener un sitio digno donde vivir.
Two men who build an experimental excavating vehicle discover it cannot be turned, and it burrows 500 miles into the Earth's crust, emerging into the unknown interior world of Pellucidar.
A "e;skillfully written, wonderfully entertaining, and fascinatingly detailed"e; time-travel adventure from the author of the Caleb and Thinnes mysteries (Booklist).
This "e;unique and memorable"e; blend of futuristic dystopia and dark detective story features "e;one of the more offbeat characters in fiction"e; (Booklist).
As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, Arcot, Wade, Morey and Fuller could see below them, like a vast shining horizon, the mass of stars that formed their own island universe.
Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominated editor Warren Lapine celebrates twenty years in genre publishing with his latest effort, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination.
The paper had gone to press, graphically describing the latest of the many horrible events which had been enacted upon the Earth in the last six months.
