A collection of short stories featuring contemporary interpretations of the wild woman archetype includes works by Alice Walker, Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood, Erica Jong, Isabel Allende, and Fay Weldon

Wild Women

Literature & Fiction

Thomas, Sue (editor)

Contemporary

Overlook Press

The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, Book 1)

A score of centuries has passed since the First Apocalypse. The No-God has been vanquished and the thoughts of men have turned, inevitably, to more worldly concerns...Drusas Achamian, tormented by 2,000 year old nightmares, is a sorcerer and a spy, constantly seeking news of an ancient enemy that few believe still exists. Ikurei Conphas, nephew to the Nansur Emperor, is the Exalt-General of the Imperial Army and a military genius. He plots to conquer the known world for his Emperor and dreams of the throne for himself. Maithanet, mysterious and charismatic, is spiritual leader of the Thousand Temples. He seeks a Holy War to cleanse the land of the infidel. Cnaiur, Chieftain of the Utemot, is a Scylvendi barbarian. Rejected by his people, he seeks vengeance against the former slave who slew his father, and disgraced him in the eyes of his tribe. Into this world steps Anasurimbor Kellhus, the product of two thousand years of breeding and a lifetime of training in the ways of thought, limb, and face. Steering souls through the subtleties of word and expression, he slowly binds all - man and woman, emperor and slave - to his own mysterious ends. But the fate of men - even great men - means little when the world itself may soon be torn asunder. Behind the politics, beneath the imperialist expansion, amongst the religious fervour, a dark and ancient evil is reawakening. After two thousand years, the No-God is returning. The Second Apocalypse is nigh. And one cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten...

R. Scott Bakker

World Literature

New York . 24 cm. 894 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Idioma Inglés .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.

The Company

LITTELL, Robert

Genre Fiction

Graphic Design

GLASER, Milton

Mountain Spirit

Science & Math

TOBIAS, Michael Charles

Nature & Ecology

The Unknown Soldier

Seymour,Gerald

Step-by-step illustrated instructions for building six different houses with a description of the necessary tools and equipment.

Housebuilding for Children

Children's Books

Walker, Lester R.

Walker, Les

A richly illustrated account of the life of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century Franz Kafka's name has become synonymous with the dark side of modernity. Born into a Jewish family in Prague in 1883, Kafka grew up amidst the social and political turmoil of the fin de siecle. His writing reflects these tensions as well as his own tortured emotional life. But it is Kafka's ability to transform his dream-like inner life into the language of the every day and, at the same time, portray the terror facing the individual in a hostile, indifferent world that makes his work still speak to us today. The illustrations in this volume include rarely seen drawings from Kafka's workbooks, images of the Prague environment that inspired his nightmarish modernist masterpieces, photos of Kafka with friends and colleagues, and reproductions of letters, manuscripts, and first edition book jackets. Along with the text by renowned Kafka scholar Jeremy Adler, they constitute an invaluable introduction and resource for students and readers of Kafka

Franz Kafka

Jeremy Adler

Le Contre-Ciel (Tusk Ivories)

Daumal, René

Poetry

Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life

Jens Andersen

Biographies & Memoirs

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