Howard Phillips Lovecraft forever changed the face of horror, fantasy, and science fiction with a remarkable series of stories as influential as the works of Poe, Tolkien, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Despoilers of the Golden Empire is a science fiction novelette by Randall Garrett, originally published in Astounding Science Fiction in March 1959 under the pseudonym David Gordon.
When the Romans first emerged from the mist of fable, they were already a race of land-owners who held their property in severalty, and, as the right of alienation was established, the formation of relatively large estates had begun.
Recovering from a gas that caused him to sleep for five hundred years, Anthony "e;Buck"e; Rogers helped an enslaved America strike its first blow for freedom against the alien Han.
They fought with whatever was handy, not bothering to figure the odds - An excellent classic science fiction novel by the great Alan Nourse, guaranteed to keep you enthralled page after page, futuristic idea after futuristic idea!
When Madeline Hammond stepped from the train at El Cajon, New Mexico, it was nearly midnight, and her first impression was of a huge dark space of cool, windy emptiness, strange and silent, stretching away under great blinking white stars.
There are dreadful -- perhaps scurrilous -- rumors about the Borgias of renaissance Italy, and here Dumas, author of such classics as THE THREE MUSKETEERS, in his Celebrated Crimes series, dishes up the dirt in all its ugly glory.
One of the most distinguished critics and innovative authors of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published two novels before this collection appeared in 1921.
Death at the Excelsior and Others is a posthumously published compilation of short stories by Wodehouse, including: Death at the Excelsior, Misunderstood, The Best Sauce, Jeeves and the Chump Cyril, and others.
The work of William James contributed greatly to the burgeoning fields of psychology, particularly in the areas of education, religion, mysticism and pragmatism.
The New Adam finds himself not in Eden, but in a crowded world of men and women who look like him but who cannot comprehend his powers or his unique mentality.
Often considered one of the greatest novel of the 20th century, James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, is both a feat and feast of sheer literary brilliance.
The Altar of the Dead: a tale which contains not one hint of the supernatural and yet demonstrates with absolute clarity the firm hold the the dead may maintain over the fate of the living.
EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937) was one of the most remarkable women of her time, and her immense commercial and critical success-most notably with her novel "e;The Age of Innocense"e; (1920), which won a Pulitzer Prize-have long overshadowed her small but distinguished body of supernatural fiction.
My object has been to keep social rather than political facts in view, and throughout to supply by illustration from contemporary accounts some of the characteristic detail which is apt to be crowded out in political histories.
This astonishing science-fiction classic begins like a prophecy of today's space achievements--a missile is fired from Earth to hit the surface of the Moon.
