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The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
40 ratingsAlternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside...Categorized as:
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![The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis]()
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
42 ratingsThe story takes the form of a series of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, a junior "tempter" named Wormwood, so as to advise him on methods of securing the damnation of a British man, known only as "the Patient".Screwtape holds an administrative post in the bureaucracy ("Lowerarchy") of Hell, and acts as a mentor to Wormwood, the inexperienced tempter...Categorized as:
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![Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis]()
Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
14 ratingsMere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters, two of C. S. Lewis's most important and enduring works, are now available in this stunning, collectible hardcover edition. The most popular of C. S. Lewis's works of non-fiction, Mere Christianity, has sold several million copies worldwide... -
![The Tell-Tale Heart, Plus 3 other Tales of Mystery, Suspense by Edgar Allan Poe]()
The Tell-Tale Heart, Plus 3 other Tales of Mystery, Suspense by Edgar Allan Poe
42 ratingsThe Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeAdventures of the Noble Bachelorby Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Kitchen Table by Alan KingSight Unseen by Dorothy DavisIn the first volume of Mystery Theatre we present the "Tell Tale-Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. It is a frightening story of a troubled man's conscience driving him insane... -
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![The Screwtape letters & Screwtape proposes a toast by C.S. Lewis]()
The Screwtape letters & Screwtape proposes a toast by C.S. Lewis
18 ratingsDedicated to his friend J.R.R. Tolkien, this masterpiece of satire has entertained and enlightened millions of readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life from the vantage point of the demon Screwtape. At once wildly comic and strikingly original, the correspondence of the worldly-wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood shows C.S. Lewis at his darkest and most playful... -
![The Isle of Blood by Rick Yancey]()
The Isle of Blood by Rick Yancey
19 ratingsWhen Dr. Warthrop goes hunting the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" with his eager new assistant, Arkwright, he leaves Will Henry in New York. Finally, Will can enjoy something that always seemed out of reach: a normal life with a real family. But part of Will can't let go of Dr. Warthrop, and when Arkwright returns claiming that the doctor is dead, Will is devastated--and not convinced... -
![The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
20 ratingsA definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fictionHoward Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1920s... -
![The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso, Tim Parks]()
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso, Tim Parks
14 ratingsPresenting the stories of Zeus and Europa, Theseus and Ariadne, the birth of Athens and the fall of Troy, in all their variants, Calasso also uncovers the distant origins of secrets and tragedy, virginity, and rape. "A perfect work like no other. (Calasso) has re-created . . . the morning of our world."--Gore Vidal. 15 engravings... -
![Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis]()
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
34 ratingsIn this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis reworks the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction. This is the story of Orual, Psyche's embittered and ugly older sister, who posessively and harmfully loves Psyche...Categorized as:
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![The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar]()
The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
16 ratingsThis Norton Critical Edition collects forty-four fairy tales, from the fifth century to the present. The Classic Fairy Tales focuses on six tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood," "Beauty and the Beast," "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Bluebeard," and "Hansel and Gretel," and presents multicultural variants and sophisticated literary rescriptings... -
![Sartha - The Caravan by S.L. Bhyrappa]()
Sartha - The Caravan by S.L. Bhyrappa
10 ratingsSartha literally means a trading caravan. In ancient India, such caravans would travel to distant lands to trade with them. Sartha is a remarkable novel, which works simultaneously on two planes. It is a physical journey across India, as well as a spiritual inward journey of an eighth-century scholar born to a tradition of Vedic studies... -
![Tamed & Unleashed: The Highlander's Vivacious Wife by Bree Wolf]()
Tamed & Unleashed: The Highlander's Vivacious Wife by Bree Wolf
12 ratingsA forgotten night. A stolen child. And a stranger who feels all too familiar. Waking up alone after a drunken night with a stranger in Gretna Green, CLAUDIA DAVENPORT, sister to Viscount Ashwood, finds herself still unmarried…and with child... -
![Russian Fairy Tales by Alexander Afanasyev, Roman Jakobson]()
Russian Fairy Tales by Alexander Afanasyev, Roman Jakobson
18 ratingsTranslated by Norbert GutermanIllustrated by Alexander AlexeieffIn this most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English we meet both universal fairy-tale figures—thieves and heroes, kings and peasants, beautiful damsels and terrifying witches, enchanted children and crafty animals—and such uniquely Russian characters as Koshchey the Deathless, Baba Yaga, the Swan... -
![Morningstar by David Gemmell]()
Morningstar by David Gemmell
19 ratingsFrom the internationally bestselling author of Lion of Macedon and The Dark Prince comes an action-filled new epic fantasy based on the classic Robin Hood legend. Jarek Mace, a thief who preys upon wealthy nobles, is hailed as a hero. But is he a soldier of honor, or just a mercenary? Original... -
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![More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz]()
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
25 ratingsAll those who enjoyed shuddering their way through Alvin Schwartz's first volume of Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark will find a satisfyingly spooky sequel in this new collection of the macabre, the funny, and the fantastic...Categorized as:
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![Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World by Kathleen Ragan, Jane Yolen]()
Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World by Kathleen Ragan, Jane Yolen
12 ratingsDismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and New World settlers, from Asia and the Middle East, these 100 folktales celebrate strong female heroines...Categorized as:
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![The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You by Dorothy Bryant]()
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You by Dorothy Bryant
14 ratingsPart love story, part utopian fantasy, part spiritual fable, The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You is "a beautiful, symbolic journey of the soul" (Berkeley Monthly). Into the world of the Ata comes a desperate man, running from a fast life of fame and fortune, drugs and crime. He is led by the kin of Ata on a spiritual journey that, sooner or later, we all must take...Categorized as:
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![The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde]()
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
56 ratingsWritten in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work... -
![Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke, Alessandro Nivola]()
Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke, Alessandro Nivola
16 ratingsIt is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve of his departure, he composes a letter to his four young children, consisting of twenty virtues that provide instruction on how to live a noble life, and on all the lessons, large and small, that he might have imparted to them himself were he not expecting to die on the battlefield...Categorized as:
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![Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll]()
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
42 ratingsWhen Alice steps through a mirror, she enters a reflection of her world where backwards is forwards, the future is remembered, and only the opposite of logic makes sense. Increasingly befuddled, she's challenged by the belligerent Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the nonsense rhymes of the Jabberwocky, and the discovery that she's a pawn in a living game of chess...Categorized as:
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![Arjun: Without a Doubt by Shinde Sweety]()
Arjun: Without a Doubt by Shinde Sweety
6 ratingsExplore Mahabharata in the voices & through the eyes of Arjun & Draupadi.Note - Draupadi's narrative is denoted by *** symbol.I knew there was nothing poetic about death. I knew not that the most horrific battles are fought off the battlefield. Arjun: The idealist in a non-ideal world; the warrior whose deadliest opponent was his conscience... -
![Edge of Eternity by Randy Alcorn]()
Edge of Eternity by Randy Alcorn
14 ratingsImagine Being Pulled Into the Hereafter. While You’re Still Alive. A disillusioned business executive whose life has hit a dead-end, Nick Seagrave has lost loved ones to tragedy and his family to neglect. Now, at a point of great crisis, he unbelievably and inexplicably finds himself transported to what appears to be another world...Categorized as:
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![Poor Things by Alasdair Gray]()
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
16 ratingsOne of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankensteinthat replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter—a beautifulyoung erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant.Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion isrealized when he finds the drowned body of Bella, but his dream isthwarted by Dr... -
![Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda]()
Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda
24 ratingsIn Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda introduces readers to this new approach for the first time and explores, as he comes to experience it himself, his own final voyage into the teachings of don Juan, sharing with us what it is like to truly “stop the world” and perceive reality on his own terms... -
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![A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda]()
A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
24 ratingsCarlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical... -
![Aesop's Fables by Aesop, Ann McGovern]()
Aesop's Fables by Aesop, Ann McGovern
41 ratingsSixty-seven familiar and not so familiar fables from Aesop, including the tortoise and the hare, the frogs who wanted a king, the lion who fell in love, and the donkey who danced on the roof...Categorized as:
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![The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
31 ratingsOne of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world... -
![The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy]()
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
24 ratingsA poignant and suspenseful retelling of a classic fairy tale set in a war-torn world. In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel...Categorized as:
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![The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft
20 ratings"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Written in August–September 1923, it was first published in Weird Tales, March 1924.The story is narrated by the scion of the Delapore family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, known as Exham Priory. On several occasions, the protagonist and his cats hear the sounds of rats scurrying behind the walls...Categorized as:
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![The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles]()
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles
35 ratingsEnglish versions of Sophocles’ three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets...Categorized as:
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![The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer by Brian Bates]()
The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer by Brian Bates
10 ratingsSent on a mission deep into the forests of pagan Anglo-Saxon England, Wat Brand, a Christian scribe, suddenly finds his vision of the world turned upside down. The familiar English countryside is not what it seems: threatening spirits, birds of omen and plants of power lurk in this landscape of fallen terrors and mysterious forces... -
![The Fifth Knight by Claire Luana, Jesikah Sundin]()
The Fifth Knight by Claire Luana, Jesikah Sundin
8 ratingsFour cursed knights. One Warrior Princess. A faerie sword that binds their lives together. Fionna’s only hope to save her family lies across the Irish Sea. As a warrior princess of Ulster, the rival clann holding her father and sister for ransom knows she’ll pay any price to get them back. But even she couldn’t predict the task set before her—to steal a faerie sword from a king... -
![The Buddha and the Terrorist by Satish Kumar, Thomas Moore]()
The Buddha and the Terrorist by Satish Kumar, Thomas Moore
8 ratings“A challenging story, beautifully written, most pertinent and relevant to our time.” —Deepak Chopra Not every book will change your life, but any book can. Not every discussion will make a difference, but a conversation can change the world... -
![Playing Saint by Zachary Bartels]()
Playing Saint by Zachary Bartels
6 ratingsRising mega-pastor Parker Saint was wrapped up in his ratings and his book deal. But that was before the cops and the serial killer, the Vatican operatives, and the centuries-old plot to conceal an ancient relic. Now he's just trying to stay alive.Parker Saint is an up-and-coming superstar pastor on the verge of achieving everything he's wanted--including a national TV program and major book deal... -
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![The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One by James D. Jenkins, Bernard Taylor]()
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One by James D. Jenkins, Bernard Taylor
6 ratingsSpanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted. Table of ContentsForeword by James D... -
![The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson]()
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
30 ratingsThe narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body... -
![The Lady or the Tiger? And, the Discourager of Hesitancy by Frank R. Stockton]()
The Lady or the Tiger? And, the Discourager of Hesitancy by Frank R. Stockton
18 ratingsStory summary: In ancient times, a king devised a system of justice where guilt or innocence was determined entirely by chance. The system worked this way: When a man committed a crime important enough to interest the king, notice was given that the fate of the accused person would be decided, on a given date, in the arena of the amphitheater... -
![The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke]()
The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke
18 ratingsTwo sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting... -
![The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler, J. Paul Boehmer]()
The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler, J. Paul Boehmer
14 ratingsWarsaw, 1941-an exhausted and elderly psychiatrist named Erik Cohen makes his way home to the Jewish ghetto after being interned in a Nazi labor camp. Yet only one visionary man-Heniek Corben- can see him and hear him. Heniek soon realizes that Cohen has become an ibbur-a spirit... -
![Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]()
Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
36 ratingsThis new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe's Faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature--preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest equivalent rendering of the German ever achieved... -
![The Master of the Day of Judgment by Leo Perutz]()
The Master of the Day of Judgment by Leo Perutz
10 ratingsVienna, 1909. When the celebrated actor Eugen Bischoff is found dead in his garden pavilion, suspicion falls immediately on Baron von Yosch, a well-to-do army officer who was once the lover of the dead man’s wife. By all appearances—the door was locked from the inside when the two shots rang out—the actor took his own life, but someone, or something, drove him to it... -
![The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley]()
The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley
10 ratingsA young woman obsessed with uncovering a family secret is drawn into the strange and magical history, language and landscape of Iceland. Freya Morris grows up in a typical American suburb – but every summer, she enters another realm entirely when she visits her relatives in Gimli, a tiny village in Canada settled by Icelandic immigrants... -
![Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra by Sophocles]()
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra by Sophocles
24 ratingsThis volume contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid translations, which combine elegance and modernity, are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy, and are equally suitable for reading for pleasure, study, or theatrical performance...Categorized as:
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![The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke]()
The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke
8 ratingsIt is the early 1980s. Alex Darken, devastated by a broken marriage, has retreated to a remote village in the bleak flatlands of eastern England. On the Easterness Estate he meets the volatile, aging poet Edward Nesbit and his vibrant, psychic, young American lover, Laura... -
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![Written in the Blood by Stephen Lloyd Jones]()
Written in the Blood by Stephen Lloyd Jones
8 ratings"Chilling . . . A neo-gothic treat; original, richly imagined, and powerfully told." --The Guardian (UK) for The String Diaries See the girl. Leah Wilde is twenty-four, a runaway on a black motorbike, hunting for answers while changing her identity with each new Central European town...Categorized as:
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![Abel Sanchez and Other Stories by Miguel de Unamuno]()
Abel Sanchez and Other Stories by Miguel de Unamuno
8 ratingsA book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a... -
![The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version: Volume 13 by W.B. Yeats]()
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version: Volume 13 by W.B. Yeats
6 ratingsThe Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume XIII: A Vision is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholar George Bornstein and formerly the late Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. One of the strangest works of literary modernism, A Vision is Yeats's greatest occult work. Edited by Yeats scholars Catherine E... -
![Wild Children by Richard Roberts]()
Wild Children by Richard Roberts
6 ratingsBad children are punished. Be bad, a child is told, and you’ll be turned into an animal, marked with your crime.The Wild Children are forever young, but that, too, can be a curse.Five children each tell a different story of what they became:One learns that wrong can be right, and her curse may be a blessing.Another is so Wild he must learn the simplest lesson, to love someone else... -
![Železný polmesiac by Juraj Červenák]()
Železný polmesiac by Juraj Červenák
6 ratingsLeto 1663. Osmanská ríša siaha až po Dunaj. Mierové rokovania zlyhali a k pohraničnému Ostrihomu prichádza obrovské turecké vojsko pod velením samotného veľkovezíra. Plánuje sa znovu oboriť na Viedeň, ale v ceste mu stojí moderná, dokonale vyzbrojená hornouhorská pevnosť Újvár – Nové Zámky...Categorized as:
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![The Night Brother by Rosie Garland]()
The Night Brother by Rosie Garland
6 ratingsFrom the author of The Palace of Curiosities and Vixen comes a dazzling and provocative new novel of adventure, mystery and belonging. The Night Brother shifts tantalisingly between day and night, exploring questions of identity, sexual equality and how well we know ourselves. Perfect for fans of Angela Carter, Sarah Waters and Erin Morgenstern...
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