The famous volume with a compelling appeal to fantasy enthusiasts and anyone interested in Russian history.A constant thread woven throughout the history of Russian literature is that of fantasy and an escape from the bounds of realism. Worlds Apart is the first single-volume anthology that explores this fascinating and dominant theme of Russian literature—from its origins in the provincial folk tale, through its emergence in the Romantic period in the tales of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Turgenev, to its contemporary incarnation under the clouds of authoritarianism, revolution, mechanization, and modernization—with all-new translations of the key literary masterpieces that reveal the depth and ingenuity of the Russian imagination as it evolved over a period of tumultuous political, social, and technological upheaval.Alexander Levitsky, perhaps the world's foremost expert on this genre, has selected and provided engaging and informative introductions to...

The engagement ring on her finger had not assuaged the keen romantic longing in Anita's eye. Will she find romance in Leyenda, her dead mother's island home? What is the mystery behind her engagement, and what strange compulsion is directing her feet? Circles of fate are spinning her into a cruel intrigue, attracting her to Felipe Sanchez, whose barbaric way of life is totally alien to her gentle nature.

This facsimile of Melville's historical novel appears in a paperback classroom edition, with a commentary by Hennig Cohen. "Israel Potter" is the story of a neglected hero of the American Revolution.

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Ben and Selene's relationship is complicated. Related by marriage, family by choice and luck. They were more than friends, but less than lovers. Selene was everything pure and good in the world. She was love and light. She was his best friend, his only friend. She was the one woman he couldn’t have. So he kept his distance from her, but now he needed her. When Ben showed up in her life again, Selene was hit with feelings she wasn't supposed to have. She wanted to memorize the angles of his face, travel the length of his body with her hands, get drunk with lust on his taste again. She wanted to do so many things with him that weren’t allowed. Now she's working for him and living with him. Can they keep their feelings hidden from each other? Or is their love too strong to resist?**

A collection of all H. P. Lovecraft's fiction in chronological order. The Little Glass Bottle • (1897) • shortstory The Secret Cave, or John Lees Adventure • (1898) • shortstory The Mystery of the Grave-Yard • (1898) • shortstory The Mysterious Ship (short version) • (1902) • shortfiction The Mysterious Ship (long version) • (1902) • shortfiction The Beast in the Cave • (1905) • shortstory The Alchemist • (1908) • shortstory The Tomb • (1917) • shortstory Dagon • (1917) • shortstory A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson • (1917) • shortfiction Sweet Ermengarde • (1917) • shortstory Polaris • (1918) • shortstory The Green Meadow • (1919) • shortstory with Winifred V. Jackson Beyond the Wall of Sleep • (1919) • shortstory Memory • (1919) • poem Old Bugs • (1919) • shortstory The Transition of Juan Romero • (1919) • shortstory The White Ship • (1919) • shortstory The Doom That Came to Sarnath • (1919) • shortstory The Statement of Randolph Carter • [Randolph Carter] • (1919) • shortstory The Terrible Old Man • (1920) • shortstory The Tree • (1920) • shortstory The Cats of Ulthar • (1920) • shortstory The Temple • (1920) • shortstory Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family • (1990) • shortstory The Street • (1920) • shortstory Poetry and the Gods • (1920) • shortstory with anna Helen Crofts Celephaïs • (1922) • shortstory From Beyond • (1920) • shortstory Nyarlathotep • (1920) • shortfiction The Picture in the House • (1920) • shortstory The Crawling Chaos • (1920) • shortstory with Winifred V. Jackson Ex Oblivione • (1921) • poem The Nameless City • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1921) • shortstory The Quest of Iranon • (1921) • shortstory The Moon-Bog • (1921) • shortstory The Outsider • (1921) • shortstory The Other Gods • (1921) • shortstory The Music of Erich Zann • (1921) • shortstory Herbert West—Reanimator • [Herbert West: Reanimator Universe] • (1921) • novelette Hypnos • (1922) • shortstory What the Moon Brings • (1922) • poem Azathoth • (1922) • shortstory The Horror at Martin's Beach • (1922) • shortstory with Sonia H. Greene The Hound • (1922) • shortstory The Lurking Fear • (1922) • shortstory The Rats in the Walls • (1923) • novelette The Unnamable • [Randolph Carter] • (1923) • shortstory Ashes • (1923) • shortstory with C. M. Eddy, Jr. The Ghost-Eater • (1923) • shortstory with C. M. Eddy, Jr. The Loved Dead • (1923) • shortstory with C. M. Eddy, Jr. The Festival • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1923) • shortstory Deaf, Dumb and Blind • (1924) • shortstory with C. M. Eddy, Jr. Under the Pyramids • (1924) • novelette with Harry Houdini The Shunned House • (1924) • novelette The Horror at Red Hook • (1925) • novelette He • (1925) • shortstory In the Vault • (1925) • shortstory The Descendant • (1926) • shortstory Cool Air • (1926) • shortstory The Call of Cthulhu • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1926) • novelette Two Black Bottles • (1926) • shortstory with Wilfred Blanch Talman Pickman's Model • (1926) • shortstory The Silver Key • [Randolph Carter] • (1926) • shortstory The Strange High House in the Mist • (1926) • shortstory The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath • [Randolph Carter] • (1926) • novella The Case of Charles Dexter Ward • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1927) • novel The Colour Out of Space • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1927) • novelette The Very Old Folk • (1927) • shortstory The Thing in the Moonlight • (1927) • shortstory The Last Test • (1927) • novella with Adolphe de Castro History of the Necronomicon • (1938) • shortfiction The Curse of Yig • (1928) • shortstory with Zealia Bishop Ibid • (1928) • shortstory The Dunwich Horror • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1928) • novelette The Electric Executioner • (1929) • novelette with Adolphe de Castro The Mound • (1929) • novelette with Zealia Bishop Medusa's Coil • (1930) • novelette with Zealia Bishop The Whisperer in Darkness • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1930) • novella At the Mountains of Madness • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1931) • novel Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" • (1931) • shortstory The Shadow Over Innsmouth • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1931) • novelette The Trap • (1931) • novelette with Henry S.Whitehead The Dreams in the Witch House • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1932) • novelette (variant of The Dreams in the Witch-House) The Man of Stone • (1932) • shortstory with Hazel Heald The Horror in the Museum • (1932) • novelette with Hazel Heald Through the Gates of the Silver Key • [Randolph Carter] • (1932) • novelette with E. Hoffmann Price Winged Death • (1933) • novelette with Hazel Heald Out of the Aeons • (1933) • novelette with Hazel Heald The Thing on the Doorstep • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1933) • novelette The Evil Clergyman • (1933) • shortstory The Horror in the Burying-Ground • (1933) • shortstory with Hazel Heald The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast • (1933) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow The Slaying of the Monster • (1933) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow The Book • (1933) • shortfiction The Tree on the Hill • (1934) • shortstory with Duane W. Rimel The Battle that Ended the Century • (1934) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow The Shadow Out of Time • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1934) • novella “Till A’ the Seas” • (1935) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow Collapsing Cosmoses • (1935) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow The Challenge from Beyond • (1935) • shortstory with C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long The Disinterment • (1935) • shortstory with Duane W. Rimel The Diary of Alonzo Typer • (1935) • novelette with William Lumley The Haunter of the Dark • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1936) • novelette In the Walls of Eryx • (1936) • novelette with Kenneth Sterling The Night Ocean • (1936) • novelette with R. H. Barlow

The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of beauty that heightens his acute sympathy for the inequalities that surround him. Drawn into a secret circle of radical politics he makes a rash vow to commit a violent act of terrorism. But when the Princess Casamassima - beautiful, clever and bored - takes him up and introduces him to her own world of wealth and refinement, Hyacinth is torn. He is horrified by the destruction that would be wreaked by revolution, but still believes he must honour his vow, and finds himself gripped in an agonizing and, ultimately, fatal dilemma. A compelling blend of psychological observation, wit and compassion, The Princess Casamassima (1886) is one of Henry James's most deeply personal novels.

Montague Rhodes James—M. R. James—was an English academic and provost of King’s College and Eton. He started writing ghost stories to entertain his friends… one hundred and fifty years after his birth he is now revered as the father of the modern English ghost story. This collection contains all thirty-five of M.R. James’s highly acclaimed ghost stories, including the classics: "Oh Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad" and "Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook".

The universe has fallen into bloody chaos now that the dread empire of the tyrannical Shaa is no more -- at the mercy of the merciless insectoid Naxid, who now hunger for domination. But the far-flung human descendants of Terra have finally tasted liberty, and their warrior heroes will not submit. Separated by light-years, Lord Gareth Martinez and the mysterious guerrilla fighter Caroline Sula each pursue a different road to victory in tomorrow's ultimate battle -- for the new order will be far more terrible than the old ... unless one last, desperate stratagem can hold a shattered galaxy together.