Author: Morgan Robertso
Publisher: Wildside Pre
Keywords: tread, angels
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2008-10-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1434477746
ISBN-13: 9781434477743

A collection of sea tales by Morgan Robertson.

Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Wildside Pre
Keywords: ibsen, death, completed, ibsenism, quintessence
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 1434479064
ISBN-13: 9781434479068

Bernard Shaw’s Commentary on Ibsen’s aims and methods, including evaluations of plays: "Brand," "Peer Gynt," "Ghosts," "Hedda Gabler," and others.

Author: Edward Gibbo
Publisher: Wildside Pre
Keywords: vol, empire, roman, decline
Number of Pages: 509
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0809592355
ISBN-13: 9780809592357

British parliamentarian and soldier Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) conceived of his plan for Decline and Fall while "musing amid the ruins of the Capitol" on a visit to Rome. For the next 10 years he worked away at his great history, which traces the decadence of the late empire from the time of the Antonines and the rise of Western Christianity. "The confusion of the times, and the scarcity of authentic memorials, pose equal difficulties to the historian, who attempts to preserve a clear and unbroken thread of narration," he writes. Despite these obstacles, Decline and Fall remains a model of hist

Author: Jean Webster
Publisher: Wildside Pre
Keywords: legs, daddy
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-05-30
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1434473120
ISBN-13: 9781434473127

Jean Webster (1876-1916). She was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy.

Author: Grant Stockbridge
Publisher: Wildside Pre
Keywords: laughing, death, slaves, hound, gotham, spider
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2006-01-24
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 155742327X
ISBN-13: 9781557423276

An unseen weapon that drives men mad. A green gas which turns smiling faces into leering skulls. A master criminal who can assume at will any known identity. Add to these separate menaces three big-game hunters sworn to destroy the Spider - and you have a situation in which the brilliance and courage of Dick Wentworth will thrill you as never before!

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher: Wildside Pre
Keywords: gambler
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2005-06-21
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1557423156
ISBN-13: 9781557423153

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic Russian novel showcases the damaging effects of gambling on the human soul. Translated by C.J. Hogarth.

Author: E.F. Benso
Publisher: Wildside Pre
Keywords: mapp, miss
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 2008-11-21
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1434473988
ISBN-13: 9781434473981

Miss Mapp, a small-minded, small-town heiress of "a certain age," leads a full life . . . of spying on (and attempting to best) her neighbors. A classic comic novel from the author of "Queen Lucia." "This latest book is clever, as all that [Benson] does is clever, light, amusing, satirical, written in the smooth and easy style his earlier books have made familiar to us. Its people are real: one acknowledges their verisimilitude, and is deeply, humbly grateful to that beneficent fortune which was so kind as to cast one’s lot elsewhere than in Tilling, the home of Miss Mapp." -- The New Y