The Western has been the favorite type for American adventure stories since the nineteenth century.While the American West was being settled,newspapers and “dime novels” could depend on stories of the frontier settlements and tell tales about living in the untamed wilderness to sell.The public ba...
ry. While the American West was being settled, newspapers and "dime novels" could depend on stories of the frontier settlements and tell tales about living in the untamed wilderness to sell. The public back East was eager to read about the West, even if the stories were more fiction than ...
THE CLEFT by Doris Lessing In the Nobel winner’s latest, an old Roman senator retells the origin of humanity, beginning with the Clefts, a community of women living in a coastal wilderness... THE EAGLE by Jack Whyte The concluding volume of The Camulod Chronicles, the story of King ...
inXinqingnian(New Youth), a radical monthly magazine published in Beijing. In it Hu called for a new nationalliteraturewritten not in the classical language but in thevernacular, the living “national language” (guoyu).Chen Duxiu, the editor ofXinqingnian, supported Hu’s views in his own ...
But will they be able to withstand the onslaught of Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living, once he sets his eyes upon them?The triple-threat talents (writers, artists, and ThunderCats superfans) of DECLAN SHALVEY and DREW MOSS join forces to bring this exciting new entry in the ThunderCats canon to ...
Ten-year-old Kenny, his parents, his little sister, and his older brother—"an official juvenile delinquent"—are an African American family living in Flint, Michigan. In 1963, the family drives to Alabama to visit Grandma. The visit brings the family closer together as they deal with intens...
And my goodness when it comes to Jake Morreau he is the epitome of hunky, smirking charm. First and foremost, he doesn’t scoff when his introverted mouse of a neighbor admits that she writes romance for a living, and instead takes it upon himself to read one of her novels. I can’...
Blend Real and Fantasy:Urban and historical fantasy blend real and magical elements. The tensions between the mundane and mystical make for resonant fiction. For example, magicians living secretly among us regular folk in urban fantasy. Or retelling actual historical events with folkloric twists like...
(1789–1851) , writer; born in Burlington, N.J. Raised in prosperous circumstances in his father's frontier settlement at Cooperstown, N.Y., he attended Yale University (but was expelled for a prank) and spent several years in the navy (1806–11). Living as a country gentleman, he wr...
The Lathe of Heaven ByUrsula K. Le Guin What if your dreams could control your reality? What would you dream of—an end to world hunger, to prejudice and discrimination? What about world peace? Such power may seem enticing to many, but not to George Orr. Living in a future (and still...