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  • Horror Fiction in the 20th Century

    Exploring Literature's Most Chilling Genre

    by Jess Nevins ...
    Providing an indispensable resource for academics as well as readers interested in the evolution of horror fiction in the 20th century, this book provides a readable yet critical guide to global horror fiction and authors.Horror Fiction in the 20th Century encompasses the world of 20th-century horror literature and explores it in a critical but balanced fashion. Readers will be exposed to the ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • Homefront Horrors

    Frights Away From the Front Lines, 1914-1918

    by Jess Nevins ...
    The anxiety and dread of wartime Britain is recaptured in this anthology of horror stories and supernatural fiction dating from 1914 – 18. Rather than taking war as their theme, the tales offer readers escapist fare populated by ghosts, ghouls, and other malevolent spirits. Written amid the golden age of horror fiction — the decades between the turn of the twentieth century and 1940, when tales of ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • Sphinx

    A Neo-Gothic Novel from Brazil

    by Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto, Jess Nevins ...
    Translated by Kim F. Olson ...
    Series series MLA Texts and Translations
    At his boardinghouse in Rio de Janeiro, the Englishman James Marian is seen as handsome but eccentric. Then another boarder learns Marian's secret: a fusion of a female head and a male body, Marian is the creation of a surgeon with occult powers. Despite his wealth and mysterious abilities, Marian is unable to live fully as either a man or a woman, traveling the world in order to repress his ... Read more

    $45.35 CAD

  • The Victorian Bookshelf

    An Introduction to 61 Essential Novels

    by Jess Nevins ...
    This introductory guide to the canon of Victorian literature covers 61 novels by authors from Jane Austen to Emile Zola. Brief critical essays describe what each book is about and argue for its cultural, historical and literary importance. Literary canons remain a subject of debate but critics, readers and students continue to find them useful as overviews--and examinations--of the great works ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger

    The 4,000-Year History of the Superhero

    by Jess Nevins ...
    Using a broad array of historical and literary sources, this book presents an unprecedented detailed history of the superhero and its development across the course of human history.How has the concept of the superhero developed over time? How has humanity's idealization of heroes with superhuman powers changed across millennia—and what superhero themes remain constant? Why does the idea of a ... Read more

    $84.19 CAD

  • Darkness and Dawn

    The Complete Dystopian Science Fiction Masterwork

    by George Allan England ...
    Series series Dover Doomsday Classics
    A young engineer and his secretary awake in the ruins of a Manhattan skyscraper to discover that they've been asleep for 1,500 years. The city's architecture isn't all that's crumbled ― humanity has degenerated into roving tribes of murderous, misshapen creatures. Together, the survivors of the old world must escape from New York and not only survive but also lay the foundations for a new ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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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

    $7.99 CAD

  • Film

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Wood ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there are very few films, even in ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature

    by Emer O'Sullivan ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from about 12 to 18 years old). Its forms include picturebooks, pop-up books, anthologies, novels, ... Read more

    $142.19 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel

    Edited by Stephen E. Tabachnick ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Since the graphic novel rose to prominence half a century ago, it has become one of the fastest growing literary/artistic genres, generating interest from readers globally. The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the distinct development of this art form both in America and around the world. This Companion also explores the diverse ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The A to Z of Fantasy Literature

    by Brian Stableford ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD

  • All Men Are Liars

    by Alberto Manguel ...
    In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew—or thought they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece In Praise of Lying. But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies become increasingly contradictory, murky, and suspect. Is everyone lying, or just telling their own ... Read more

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