London Must Die!Writers have been trashing London for well over 100 years now, and this collection contains some of the best from pioneering science fiction authors such as H. G. Wells, Fred H. White, Owen Oliver, Edgar Wallace, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and more! Disaster fiction was very popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and these writers penned many such tales of doom and despair.Tremble as voracious giant insects descend upon the unsuspecting pop...

Evelyn Waugh's beloved masterpiece, with an introduction by Paula ByrneThe most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Jul...

Campaigner, insurgent, fugitive, rebel commander, commodity kingpin, elected president, exile and finally prisoner, Charles Taylor sought to lead his country to change but instead ignited a conflict which destroyed Liberia in over a decade of violence, greed and personal ambition. Taylor's takeover threw much of the neigbouring region into turmoil, until he was finally brought to face justice in The Hague for his role in Sierra Leone's civil war.In this remarkable and eye-opening b...

Introducing sixteen short stories from some of the best English writers over two hundred years of our history.The Penguin Book of English Short Stories celebrates the shorter format through some of the most widely known writers of all time. Though many are known for their novels, they provide a mesmerizing, multi-faceted portrait of a country and its people. Some stories are classics, such as James Joyce's The Dead; others - like Mr Loveday's ...

The Women's War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War, edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, recounts the manner in which Southern women experienced the war and the changes it brought about in their lives. Filled with excerpts from the letters, books, diaries, and postwar writings the women left behind, it reveals the other side of the war—the women's war—through first-person accounts of women running farms, buying and selling ...

FIFTEEN STORIES ABOUT THE MOST HEINOUS CRIME OF ALL…Of all the crimes humankind can commit, the act of murder—of cold-bloodedly taking another human life—is often the most shocking, and can tear couples, families, and even entire towns apart.Mystery Writers of America is proud to present this volume in the Classics series, featuring fourteen stories by acclaimed writers, all exploring the terrible crime of murder. From chill-master Robert Bloch comes a stor...

This book addresses topics related to the impact of invasive species including biosecurity, demographics, species diversity and food security. It is meant for researchers, upper-level students, and policy makers and provides a factual basis for the underlying science and a discussion of that information with respect to current and future impacts and possible solutions. This book explores the nexus of climate change and biological invasions, resulting impacts (biological and economic) and a...

Al igual que ocurre con otros volúmenes de la Colección Mejores Cuentos, la presente antología reúne historias de los más destacados cuentistas de Inglaterra. La cantidad de grandes escritores ingleses es vasta, de tal manera que es una tarea muy ardua seleccionar pocos cuentos entre tantos excelentes. Por otro lado, el lector puede tener la máxima certeza de que encontrará en esta obra cuentos hermosos escritos por cuentistas de talento incuestionable, como Dicken...

These horror stories -- never before compiled in one volume -- are carefully crafted, compelling and believable. Written in about the same decade as the Sherlock Holmes series, they will convince you that Arthur Conan Doyle was a master of more than just the detective story.

Three dramas by Barry Hines and an abridged reading of his classic Kes (A Kestrel for a Knave)Yorkshire-born author Barry Hines is renowned for his 1968 novel *A Kestrel for a Knave (*later turned into Ken Loach’s award-winning film Kes) and for scripting the BAFTA-winning BBC TV film Threads. The titles in this collection explore his signature theme – working-class life in Northern England – and include a trio of radio dramas al...

Kritik und Leser sind sich einig: Sherlock Holmes war – und ist – der größte Detektiv aller Zeiten. Und er wird es bleiben, auch in der Zukunft.Unter der Schirmherrschaft von Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg und Charles Waugh haben sich die gewitztesten Verfasser der Phantastik zusammengetan, um erfindungsreich und wortgewandt zu beweisen, dass der Meister der Deduktion auch in der Ära der Mikrochips und Computer unschlagbar ist – auch wenn gelegentlich Maschinen dazu dienen, sein...

?Wiedersehen mit Brideshead? ist das englische Gegenstück zum amerikanischen ?Großen Gatsby?: das Porträt der Schönen und Reichen in den Jahren zwischen den Weltkriegen, die Chronik einer Vertreibung aus dem Paradies bei Anbruch der modernen Zeit - und die Geschichte einer unmöglichen Liebe.Evelyn Waugh, geboren 1903 in Hampstead, war Maler, Lehrer, Reporter und Kunsttischler, bis er in der Schriftstellerei sein Metier fand und zu einem der wichtigsten englischen Autoren des 20. Ja...