Edgar Allen Poe: His Life and Legacy (Meyers Jeffrey)(Paperback)

Edgar Allen Poe: His Life and Legacy (Meyers Jeffrey)(Paperback)

This biography of Edgar Allan Poe, a giant of American Literature who invented both the horror and detective genre, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant bu underpaid author, a temerate man and uncontrollable

Edgar Allen Poe - Classic Stories (Poe Edgar Allen)(Paperback / softback)

This anthology gathers over 20 of Poe's groundbreaking tales of the macabre and also includes his trilogy of stories featuring detective C. Auguste

The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Poe Edgar Allan)(Paperback)

The importance of Edgar Allan Poe to literary history can hardly be exaggerated; his genius and originality, both in terms of language and technique, influenced the French Symbolists of the late 19th century and thus changed the course of modern literature. Although chiefly remembered for his short

D.H. Lawrence: A Biography (Meyers Jeffrey)(Paperback)

This examination of the life and work of writer Lawrence by prolific biographer Meyers looks at Lawrence's tempestuous marriage and the intersections between his fiction (Lady Chatterly's Lover, Women in Love, Sons and Lovers) and the life that inspired

Eureka: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics 101 Pages) - Edgar Allan Poe

Initially composed by Poe as a public lecture towards the end of his career and considered by him the culmination of all his life's work, Eureka is an extended treatise about the creation, existence and the ultimate end of the world. An idiosyncratic blend of creative writing and scientific

Raven and Other Poems (Poe Edgar Allan)(Paperback / softback)

Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.” With that undying line Edgar Allan Poe ensured his immortality in the annals of American letters. What student of literature or lover of poetry is not familiar with his poem 'The Raven,” and the heartbreaking message implicit in its melancholy refrain? 'The

Mandela: His Essential Life (Hain Peter)(Paperback)

Mandela: His Essential Life chronicles the life and legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and admired statesmen. Charting his development from remote rural roots to city lawyer, freedom fighter, and then political leader, Peter Hain takes an in-depth look at Mandela's rise

Woody Allen on Woody Allen (Allen Woody)(Paperback)

Over the course of his long directing career, Woody Allen has portrayed contemporary American life with an unmistakable mixture of irony, neurotic obsession, and humor. Woody Allen on Woody Allen is a unique self-portrait of this uncompromising filmmaker that offers a revealing account of his life

Tales of Horror (Poe Edgar Allan)(Paperback)

A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved blood-stained teeth, a man is obsessed with the fear of being

Promethean Horrors: Classic Stories of Mad Science (Reyes Xavier Aldana)(Paperback)

From the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, and later weirdists such as H.P. Lovecraft came one of the most complex of villains--the mad scientist. Promethean Horrors presents some of the greatest mad scientists ever created, as

Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography (Meyers Jeffrey)(Paperback)

Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life. Despite his early success with The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald battled against failure and disappointment. This book, by the acclaimed

Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Poe Edgar Allan)(Paperback)

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘True! Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them.’ This ultimate collection of the infamous

Selected Tales (Poe Edgar Allan)(Paperback)

Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American

Pit and the Pendulum - The Essential Poe (Poe Edgar Allan)(Paperback / softback)

A selection the author's critical writings, of short fiction and poetry that demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human

The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories (Poe Edgar Allan)(Paperback)

This hair-raising collection presents some of Edgar Allan Poe's most ingenious and gripping tales, notably 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' in which the guilt-ridden narrator recounts his compulsion to commit murder. Other captivating stories include 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' concerning a most

Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend (Bair Deirdre)(Paperback)

At the height of Prohibition, Al Capone loomed large as Public Enemy Number One: his multimillion-dollar Chicago Outfit dominated organized crime, and law enforcement was powerless to stop him. But then came the fall: a legal noose tightened by the FBI, a conviction on tax evasion, a stint in

Sitting Bull - Paperback: His Life and Legacy (Lapointe Ernie)(Paperback)

A whole new perspective on an iconic legend now in paperback. The only book on Sitting Bull written by a lineal descendant, Ernie LaPointe is the great-grandson of the famous Hunkpapa Lakota chief, and he presents the family tales and memories told to him about his great-grandfather. In many ways,

A Primer of Life Histories: Ecology, Evolution, and Application (Hutchings Jeffrey A.)(Paperback)

Chester Morris: His Life and Career (Nollen Scott Allen)(Paperback)

 The prodigious but humble scion of a New York theatrical family, Chester Morris acted on Broadway as a teenager and earned an Academy Award nomination for his first role in a Hollywood ''talkie,'' Alibi (1929). He became leading man to filmdom's top female stars and starred in the popular

Red Roses For My Love (Holmes Edgar)(Paperback)

'Red Roses For My Love' is Edgar Holmes' third book of poetry, and his most personal and fulfilling yet. It is a love letter, a journey of struggles, and a beautiful journey. Unconditional love spills out of every page, from a deep well of beautiful love unlike anything else in this world. 'As long

Spacious Body: Explorations in Somatic Ontology (Maitland Jeffrey)(Paperback)

In Spacious Body, Jeffrey Maitland brings his knowledge and personal experience of Buddhism, phenomenology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, and the bodywork system of Rolfing to bear in forging concepts adequate to an understanding of embodied

Great Tales and Poems (Poe Edgar Allan)(Paperback)

A new selection for the NEA's Big Read program A compact selection of Poe's greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller's art

Grounded in Heaven: Recentering Christian Hope and Life on God (Allen Michael)(Paperback)

The Sibley Guide to Trees (Sibley David Allen)(Paperback)

David Allen Sibley, the preeminent, bestselling bird-guide author and illustrator, applies his formidable skills of identification and illustration to the trees of North America. The Sibley Guide to Trees is an astonishingly elegant guide to a complex subject. It condenses a huge amount of