Author: Anthony Trollope
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: mackenzie, miss
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2009-02-02
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 1434450333
ISBN-13: 9781434450333

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882 ) became one of the most successful, prolific, and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope’s best-loved works, known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire," revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. Trollope has always been a popular novelist. Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness (who never travelled without a Trollope novel), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbr

Author: Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: reviews, essays, horizon, fantastic
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2009-03-10
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1434403203
ISBN-13: 9781434403209

In this new collection of his nonfiction, well-known critic and novelist Darrell Schweitzer covers a broad range of matters fantastical, including a massive reconsideration of The Lord of the Rings, pieces on Neil Gaiman and E. R. Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros, the "death" of the horror field, and a not entirely irrelevant visit to the Stoogeum, the world’s largest Three Stooges Museum-plus more essays about H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Arthur C. Clarke, Hugo Gernsback, Robert Nathan, alternate histories, and the culture of bookselling. A marvelous read for an evening’s lite

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: god, kingdom
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2007-09-24
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1557429286
ISBN-13: 9781557429285

Tolstoy’s 1893 book, subtitled "Christianity Not as a Mystical Teaching but as a New Concept of Life," introduced such vital concepts as non-violent resistance to 20th Century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Although Tolstoy is best known as one of the great Russian novelists, his place as a social reformer and peace advocate cannot be underestimated.

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: native, return
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1434479072
ISBN-13: 9781434479075

Hardy’s 6th-published novel that follows a reddleman’s experiences in a pagan heath, with Victorian plot and complications. Controversial for its time. "This is the quality Hardy shares with the great writers...this setting behind the small action the terrific action of unfathomed nature." --D. H. Lawrence

Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: profit, price, value
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2008-03-30
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 1434463117
ISBN-13: 9781434463111

Socialist essay.

Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: swallowdale
Number of Pages: 460
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 143447884X
ISBN-13: 9781434478849

The second installment in the "Swallows and Amazons" children’s book series focuses on camping adventures.

Author: Honore De Balzac
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: arcis, member
Number of Pages: 492
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 143445553X
ISBN-13: 9781434455536

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled "La Comédie Humaine," which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.
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