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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “james stauffer”
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  • Little Junior

    by James Stauffer ...
    One fateful and particularly awful night a short, sad and chubby little boy named Little Junior trudges to his bedroom window (more of a hole in the wall) and lets the world (or at least his neighborhood: Cinnamon Spice Lane) know what he wants more than anything. "I want to be evil!" he shouts into the night. All the while, his loathsome family scurries about below doing terrible deeds and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speculative Modernism

    How Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Conceived the Twentieth Century

    by James Reitter, Robert Stauffer, William Gillard ...
    Series Book 77 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Speculative modernists--that is, British and American writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror during the late 19th and early 20th centuries--successfully grappled with the same forces that would drive their better-known literary counterparts to existential despair. Building on the ideas of the 19th-century Gothic and utopian movements, these speculative writers anticipated literary ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Pathfinder

    by James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Berger ...
    The third novel in James Fennimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, starring the heroic Natty Bumppo.Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Spark of Modernism

    Twenty Speculative Stories and Writings That Defined an Era, 1886-1939

    Edited by James Reitter, Robert Stauffer, William Gillard ...
    Between the years of 1886 and 1939, the world saw the first automobiles, rapid urbanization, the decay of empires, vast economic inequality, the first airplanes and the terrifying secrets of the atom. It was a time of cataclysmic cultural and technological transformation, and spawned the rise of the literary genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror.This work assembles gems of late nineteenth ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • Maps and Legends

    Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

    by Michael Chabon ...
    The Pulitzer Prize winner explores the literary joys of sci-fi and superheroes, gumshoes and goblins, and the stories that bring us together."I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period." Such is the manifesto of Michael Chabon, an author of indisputable literary renown who maintains a fierce appreciation of the seductive arts of so-called "genre" fiction.In this lively collection ... Read more

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  • 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

    You Must Read Before You Die

    by Peter Boxall ...
    Series series 1001
    Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Heroine with 1001 Faces

    by Maria Tatar ...
    World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Hunting the Lions

    by R. M. Ballantyne ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    Very nice read. Ballantyne does a great job of painting a realistic, gritty picture of Africa, and of safari hunting from in the old days. (Goodreads) ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • To Show and to Tell

    The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

    by Phillip Lopate ...
    Series series An Essential Guide for Writers
    A long-awaited and illuminating book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate—celebrated essayist, professor of writing at Columbia University, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay.Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” (Dallas Morning News).Here, combining more ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How Literature Works

    50 Key Concepts

    by John Sutherland ...
    How Literature Works is an indispensable book for any reader seeking a greater appreciation of their favorite novel, poem, or play. It offers a lively and straightforward guide to literary thinking. With a series of compact essays, the renowned literary critic John Sutherland--widely admired for his wit and clear reasoning--strips away the obscurity and pretension of literary study. His book ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Works Of H. P. Lovecraft: Includes The Crawling Chaos, The Other Gods, The Outsider & More (Mobi Collected Works)

    by H. P. Lovecraft ...
    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books and stories. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a ... Read more

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  • In Other Worlds

    SF and the Human Imagination

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    **A marvelous collection of wide-ranging essays from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, exploring her lifelong relationship to science fiction—as a reader and as a writerThe ebook edition of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating ebook-exclusive illustrations by the author**At a time when the borders between genres are increasingly porous, she maps ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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