Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: karenina, anna
Number of Pages: 740
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0809596814
ISBN-13: 9780809596812

Anna Karenina may be the greatest single novel ever written; it may also be just plainly and sublimely good. Regardless, there is no doubt that Anna Karenina (generally considered Tolstoy’s finest novel) is a sublime achievement. Anna, miserable in a loveless marriage, succumbs to the desire for the dashing Vronsky. That sort of thing didn’t stand one in good stead in 19th-century Russia; bad goes to worse, and the end Anna comes to is the stuff of legend. Tolstoy seamlessly captures a weaves a tapestry of Russian society -- as Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolsto

Author: Henry James
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: miller, daisy
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1592243002
ISBN-13: 9781592243006

It was in Rome during the autumn of 1877; a friend then living there but settled now in a South less weighted with appeals and memories happened to mention -- which she might perfectly not have done -- some simple and uninformed American lady of the previous winter, whose young daughter, a child of nature and of freedom, accompanying her from hotel to hotel, had "picked up" by the wayside, with the best conscience in the world, a good-looking Roman, of vague identity, astonished at his luck, yet (so far as might be, by the pair) all innocently, all serenely exhibited and introduced: this at le

Author: Joseph Devlin
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: correctly, speak, write
Number of Pages: 129
Published: 2007-02-05
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1557429170
ISBN-13: 9781557429179

This book has no pretension about it whatever -- it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner. Some broad rules are laid down, the observance of which will enable the reader to keep within the pale of propriety in oral and written language. Many idiomatic words and expressions, peculiar to the language, have been given, besides which a number of the common mistakes and pitfalls have bee

Author: Damien Broderick
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: enlightenment, new, polymathy, minds, ferocious
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2005-04-22
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0809544733
ISBN-13: 9780809544738

Two centuries ago, the first Enlightenment failed when its dream of reason smashed into the passions and fury of stubborn humans. Without a deep, broad understanding of the world, the emerging Enlightenment was left floundering, its best impulses perverted into the bloody excess of the French Revolution. Arguably, its idealism and noble goals led directly, and shockingly, to the 20th century’s totalitarian nightmares. Now the 21st century is learning anew the Faustian hunger to know everything that can be known. But Enlightenment values of reason and tolerance, enriched by new knowledge,

Author: Rodgers, Alan
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: mountain, battle, menace
Number of Pages: 106
Published: 2003-02-06
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1587151979
ISBN-13: 9781587151972

Outside Cincinnati, Ohio, there is a wasteland that used to be Wright-Patterson Air Force base. Three years ago the aliens invaded there, turning Wright-Pat into a nuclear wasteland, the detritus of a terrible battle. It was no ordinary battle, but a battle with something utterly unworldly, something unhuman and inhuman, a force no man could ever hope to master. . . . Now the aliens have returned -- their agents walk among us, indistinguishable from you or I. The Aliens have landed. And nothing in the world will ever be the same.

Author: Barker, Becky
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: lady, sassy
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 2003-02-04
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1587152754
ISBN-13: 9781587152757

Sassy Lady / When big-city life lost its luster for petite, dark-eyed Maggie Malone, she went to Oklahoma in search of change. But it had to be the right change -- Maggie was a bundle of energy who couldn’t sit still for a minute. She wanted a job that challenged her, and the staff position on the McCain ranch seemed to fit the bill. / The only challenge she couldn’t accept was the sexy invitation in the eyes of the ranch foreman. . . .

Author: Achmed Abdullah
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: bagdad, thief
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2008-02-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1434460290
ISBN-13: 9781434460295

Achmed Abdullah’s classic fantasy novel, based on the silent film of the same title, starring Douglas Fairbanks.