Authors:Janet G. Husband, Jonathan F. Husband,
Publisher: Alpha Pub House
Keywords: series, novels, guide, annotated, sequels
Number of Pages: 792
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0838909671
ISBN-13: 9780838909676

"Sequels", the most popular and long-lasting guide to novels in series, returns with greatly expanded series listings. Mysteries continue to be a mainstay, with fantasy, science fiction, and romance listings, plus non - genre fiction selections from authors such as Edward Abbey and Lawrence Durrell.The authors have carefully sifted through a growing group of series to select those most likely to be available in a medium-sized public library, weeding out esoteric, obscure, and less popular series. This classic reference includes hundreds of annotated series, title and subject indexes, and sugge

Author: Jasper Fforde
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: sequels, among, first, thursday
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-07-24
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0670038717
ISBN-13: 9780670038718

Literary sleuth Thursday Next is out to save literature in the fifth installment of Jasper Fforde’s wildly popular series Beloved for his prodigious imagination, his satirical gifts, his literate humor, and sheer silliness, Jasper Fforde has delighted book lovers since Thursday Next first appeared in The Eyre Affair, a genre send-up hailed as an instant classic. Since the no-nonsense literary detective from Swindon made her debut, literature has never been quite the same. Neither have nursery rhymes, for that matter. With two successful books of the Nursery Crime series under

Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: sequels, heritage, innsmouth
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 2009-03-10
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 143440286X
ISBN-13: 9781434402868

Eleven new tales of fantasy and horror based upon the classic originals by H. P. Lovecraft, Oscar Wilde, Hans Christian Andersen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, H. Rider Haggard, and Bram Stoker.

Authors:Hope Apple, Merle L. Jacob,
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: second, sequels, guide, annotated, continued
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2000-10-10
List price: $87.95
ISBN-10: 157356155X
ISBN-13: 9781573561556

Keeping track of prolific authors who write fiction series was quite challenging for even the most ardent fan until To Be Continued debuted in 1995. Now, readers will be happy that the soon-to-be-released second edition has added 1,600 new books and 400 new series. To Be Continued, Second Edition, maintains the first volume’s successful formula that featured concise A-to-Z entries packed with useful information, including titles, publishers, publication dates, genre categories, annotations, and subject terms. Among the genre categories that can be found in To Be Continued are romance, sc

Author: Martin W. Huang
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: chinese, fiction, rewritings, continuations, legs, sequels, snakes
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2004-11
List price: $51.00
ISBN-10: 0824828127
ISBN-13: 9780824828127

Snakes’ Legs examines sequels (xushu), a common but long-neglected literary phenomenon in traditional China. What prompted writers to produce sequels despite their poor reputation as a genre? What motivated readers to read them? How should we characterize the nature of the relationship between sequels and rewritings? Contributors to this volume illuminate these and other questions, and the collection as a whole offers a comprehensive consideration of this vigorous genre while suggesting fascinating new directions for research. Xushu as a discursive practice reinforces the paradox that

Authors:G. F. Forrest, John Kendrick Bangs, Bret Harte, O. He
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: parodies, sequels, pastiches, holmes, unauthorized, sherlock, watson
Number of Pages: 66
Published: 2009-03-09
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 1434458946
ISBN-13: 9781434458940

Included in this volume: "WATSON!" by Captain A. E. Dingle THE ADVENTURE OF THE DIAMOND NECKLACE, by G. F. Forrest THE STOLEN CIGAR-CASE, by Bret Harte THE ADVENTURES OF SHAMROCK JOLNES, by O. Henry MR. RAFFLES HOLMES, by John Kendrick Bangs