Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
Keywords: ireland, tales, folk, amp, fairy
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 1998-03-02
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0684829525
ISBN-13: 9780684829524

THE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME INTRODUCTION TO IRELAND’S RICH FOLKLORE: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS’S MAGICAL SELECTION OF TRADITIONAL IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland combines two books of Irish folklore collected and edited by William Butler Yeats -- Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, first published in 1888, and Irish Fairy Tales, published in 1892. In this delightful gathering of legend and song, the familiar characters of Irish myth come to life: the mercurial trooping fairies, as ready to make mischief as to do good; the solitary and industrious Lepraca

Author: Abraham Merritt
Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
Keywords: mirage, dwellers
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1991-11-25
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0020228724
ISBN-13: 9780020228721

MERRITT’S MASTERWORK - OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! Two men in one body! That’s how Lief Langdon had always felt. One part of him was a modern day adventurer, the other was a strange half-memory of another life where he was a High Priest sacrificing living people to Khalk’ru, a demon god from another time and space. Then Langdon stumbled through the mirage into a hidden Arctic valley, where he fell under the spell of Evalie, as beautiful outwardly as she was inwardly, and her friends the Little People, elfin warriors constantly warring with Lur, the Witch-Woman, and her dem

Author: Fitzgerald
Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
Keywords: damned, beautiful
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 1982-12-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0684178168
ISBN-13: 9780684178165

Young, beautiful and wealthy, Gloria and Anthony want their marriage to be "a live, glamorous performance". Seemingly perfectly matched, their love begins to deteriorate as each discovers imperfections in the other. In a desperate search for happiness they live riotously - until the final crack-up.

Authors:LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newman,
Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
Keywords: chicago, south, death, life, america
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-05-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0671004646
ISBN-13: 9780671004644

Through two award-winning National Public Radio documentaries, and now this powerful book, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman have made it their mission to be loud voices from one of this country’s darkest places, Chicago’s Ida B. Wells housing project. Set against the stunning photographs of a talented young photographer from the projects, Our America evokes the unforgiving world of these two amazing young men, and their struggle to survive unrelenting tragedy. With a gift for clear-eyed journalism, they tell their own stories and others, including that of the death of Eric Morse, a f

Author: David Lehman
Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
Keywords: poetry, journal, mirror, daily
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2000-01-04
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0684864932
ISBN-13: 9780684864938

Following in the footsteps of such poets as Emily Dickinson, William Stafford, and Frank O’Hara, David Lehman began writing a poem a day in 1996 and found the experience so rewarding that he continued for the next two years. During that time, some of these poems appeared in various journals and on Web sites, including The Poetry Daily site, which ran thirty of Lehman’s poems in as many days throughout the month of April 1998.For The Daily Mirror, Lehman has selected the best of these "daily poems" -- each tied to a specific occasion or situation -- and telescoped two years into

Author: Dinitia Smith
Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
Keywords: illusionist
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-03-10
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0684848198
ISBN-13: 9780684848198

The Illusionist is the sensuous and haunting tale of Dean Lily, an amateur magician whose arrival in Sparta, New York, upsets the landscape of this small town on the wane. Dean, a master of the sleight of hand, is also a master of seduction and charm -- which becomes apparent as he woos and wins the hearts of more than one of Sparta’s female citizens.But the enigmatic newcomer has more to hide than the tricks of his trade -- his mysterious identity and his closely guarded privacy arouse suspicion and jealousy -- and while he cures Sparta of its midwinter ennui, he also unleashes a destru

Author: Horatio Alger
Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
Keywords: match, mark, dick, ragged
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 1962-11-01
List price: $6.00
ISBN-10: 0020413904
ISBN-13: 9780020413905

Two famous novels by Horatio Alger that focus on rags-to-riches tales.