Author: Su Tong
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novellas, three, lantern, red, raise
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0060596333
ISBN-13: 9780060596330
The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial China -- worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction -- belie his prose of stunning and simplebeauty. The title novella, "Raise the Red Lantern," which became a critically acclaimed film, tells the story of Lotus, a young woman whose father’s suicide forces her to become the concubine of a wealthy merchant. Crushed by loneliness, despair, and cruel treatment, Lotus finds her descent into insanity both a weapon and a refuge. "Nineteen Thirty-Four Escapes" is an account of
Author: Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Keywords: bearers, lantern
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 1994-06-30
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0374443025
ISBN-13: 9780374443023
Threatened by a tide of invaders, the last of the Roman Auxiliaries are to leave Britain forever. But Aquila, a young legionnaire, chooses to stay behind, in order to join the fight to save his native land.
Author: Gerri Brightwell
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Keywords: novel, lantern
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-01-06
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0307395359
ISBN-13: 9780307395351
London, 1893. Elderly Mrs. Bentley is on her deathbed, and her son Robert has returned from France. But in the Bentleys’ well-appointed home, everyone has their secrets, including Robert’s beautiful and elusive wife, the orphan maid she hires from the country, and the mysterious young woman who arrives, claiming to be the bride of Robert’s drowned brother.Robert is quickly developing a reputation in anthropometry, the nascent science of identifying criminals by body measurements. Yet soon he is caught up in the deceptions swirling around him, for no one under his roof is quite what they
Author: John T Cullen
Publisher: Clocktower Books
Keywords: road, lantern
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2000-09-05
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0743309219
ISBN-13: 9780743309219
"John T. Cullen has created a richly-realized far-future world in which strange wonders are revealed as considerable suspense builds. The characters are interesting, and the plot moves well, but the real star here is the universe in which the events take place, especially the inhabited moon, Shur, with its complex starfaring alien culture, reminiscent of Imperial Japan, but with strange complications--including multi-use fungi gardens and a third gender. Cullen’s handling of detail is remarkable...a world that fans of sprawling, far-future SF will enjoy immersing themselves in, reminisce
Author: G. G. Coulton
Publisher: Kormendi Press
Keywords: lantern, friar
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-11-20
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1443777358
ISBN-13: 9781443777353
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: Ronald Frame
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: bearers, lantern
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-10-02
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1582431558
ISBN-13: 9781582431550
A bewitching story of obsession, love, and treachery set on the coast of Scotland. "There are hints of Hitchcock in [his] disturbing tales." -Daily Mail Sent away from home for the first time, Neil Pritchard spends the long summer of 1962 with his Aunt Nessie in claustrophobic Auchendrennan on the Solway Firth, a seascape of fast tides and sinking sands. Eager for a pastime to fill the long dull days, Neil sings for Euan Bone, a young Scottish composer whose star is rising fast. Becoming Bone’s muse, Neil spends afternoons at the composer’s home, hours that become the focu
Author: Various
Publisher: DC Comics
Keywords: stories, greatest, lantern
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-08-30
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1401209610
ISBN-13: 9781401209612
"In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil’s might beware my power... Green Lantern’s light!" This unforgettable mantra is spoken by all the brave heroes who have inherited the mantle of Green Lantern and use their power ring and will- power to fight the forces of evil. This volume of GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD shines the spotlight on all the Green Lanterns who have defended Earth from villainy including the original ring-slinger Alan Scott, test pilot Hal Jordan, architect John Stewart, and artist Kyle Rayner.
