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1) The Willows
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The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird...
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824. Considered by turns part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought, it can also be thought of as an early example of modern crime fiction, in which the story is told, for the most part, from the point of view of its criminal anti-hero. The action...
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Durante el otoño de 1912, en Praga, escribió Franz Kafka (1883-1924) La metamorfosis, la peripecia subterránea y literal de Gregor Samsa, un viajante de comercio que al despertarse una mañana "de un sueño lleno de pesadillas se encontró en su cama convertido en un bicho enorme". En pocos libros de Kafka queda tan explícito y tan nítido su mundo como en La metamorfosis, en la que el protagonista, convertido en bestia, sumido en la más absoluta...
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"Es lunes, aunque no importa –podría ser cualquier otro día laborable–. El abogado y propietario de la oficina, por el bien de todos, designa a cada uno de sus subalternos las tareas que hay que resolver. Tres sencillas palabras, pronunciadas por el último empleado contratado, harán que, desde esos despachos, el mundo comience a tambalearse.
Con su «preferiría no hacerlo», Bartleby deja perplejo a todo aquel incapaz de ver más allá de...
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Los monólogos de Ludovico es la segunda novela con que nos sorprende William Castaño-Bedoya. En esta obra, el autor de la también conmovedora Flores para María Sucel, reafirma sus dotes de recreador de la profundidad humana.
Poco a poco, Castaño-Bedoya nos va llevando por el mundo de Ludovico. En un comienzo el lector podrá pensar que se trata de un personaje que se propone mostrarnos su limitado y aburrido mundo, pero en la medida en que el...
6) Power's Play
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For a former Fool, the road to glory is lumpy, bumpy and full of pitfalls!
A year after the events of Fool's Proof, Malfred Murd is no longer a Fool, royal or otherwise. He's a newly minted nobleman- who can't help plunging back into his own special brew of trouble. This time he's taken on a task that's outrageous even for him: becoming an undercover officer, out to bust the biggest crime boss in a vast and decadent city. Will it win him the attention...
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,456 ... with the impending birth of a baby to Joe and Jess Abernathy-Vaughn. Things are nearly back to normal for fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall. The Luna City Café & Coffee is doing well, he has moved up from tending a single potted plant to a pet, and a flirtatious relationship with Kate Heisel, star reporter for the local newspaper. But his past may be about to catch...
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Este libro es fruto de la búsqueda constante de lo irreal, lo incoherente y lo fascinante. Elegantemente, el desquicio y la música de las palabras se encuentran, de manera poco inocente, para mezclar sus colores y cegar a la mismísima oscuridad, desmintiendo los miedos lógicamente ilógicos de lo desconocido, volviendo a la rutina un juego de riesgos reales y nutritivos.
El contenido emocional de esta compilación surge del florecimiento de lo...
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Three short Sci-Fi stories from Award-winning author Michael Lynes.
The Dust Bunny - Aliens have invaded Professor Ford's bedroom and they have a big problem...
Above All Seems Desolate - Life takes second chances...
The END - All Things Considered - Creation never felt so wrong.
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David Alexander sets strong and resourceful characters into settings that are simultaneously familiar and bizarre. His stories are everyone's, at least everyone that is paying attention to the continual apocalypse of life and relationship on the cusp of the 21st century. In Haywire Car Alarm Deep In September Night Alexander carries the vision of modern life to hallucinogenic heights and answers the dilemma of dream and reality: Each are so vitally...
12) Gutter Ball
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John's down to the last day on his rent and one whole moldy sandwich to eat. To add insult to injury, somebody left a bowling ball on the kitchen table. John's never seen it before, didn't know how it got there, or what he's supposed to do with it. It has to belong to somebody, and so he sets out to find out who. Maybe he'll pick a job or something to eat along the way, too.
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Can an academic find love and happiness in the field?
The world of academia sees him as an expert on potatoes, but now that he's trying to solve a real world problem, the challenges he faces require real action, even farming. Can he rise to the occasion. Will he find true love in the potato patch, and more importantly can he do it without losing the thread of interlocking Rubaiyat in the process? The combination of hard work and great poetic sensibilities...
14) Talk to Me
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I am a guy how lives in his brain when he's alone. Loneliness some times is quite painful. We, the people, have been designed to live with each other. It's about how we act as a human. Being sad or cunning, happy or kind. We will die and leave this world. Life is short and there's nothing at the end. We will go without even an inch of a cloth. So be happy. Do what makes you hopeful. Life is not about fighting for things. Please be kind. Welcome to...
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Phil Bowers was a comedian and jazz trombone player par excellence! He also compiled jokes to use in any and all situations over his 97 years of life as a husband to wife Carolyn, a singer, and the mother of their eight children. (And each had a sister)!His biography will be published later this year- his wife Carolyn Bowers published her biography just this past year. But this book, written entirely by Phil, or Soupy as was his childhood nickname...
17) Skunk Hunt
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Killed in a botched robbery, Skunk McPherson returns to life via a series of letters to his children. In them he plants clues that send Mute, Sweet Tooth and Doubletalk McPherson on a wild hunt for hidden loot, all the while trailed by lovers and ex-lovers, Skunk's old cronies, private detectives, the police and a host of unsuspected relatives. Death and comedy combine in a spectacularly twistedjourney of self-discovery.
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Fairy tale movies and commercials are everywhere. They are very popular. And that's great, because all those fairy tale characters need the work. All the Snow Whites, Three Pigs and a variety of Big Bad Wolves all are clients of the Madre and Gander Employment Agency. That's how Humpty Dumpty finally gets a crack into Show Business.
Madre and Gander is a casting agency where they supply all the fairy tale denizens a film production can ask for. Ethel...
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NEW WORLDS RADIATION GAME is the tale of a couple's surreal adventure as they journey through a fantasy inner space, after ingesting an unknown substance. Part sci-fi fantasy, part absurdist prose, part outsider art graphic novel, ALL BIZARRO! Non-explicit, but recommended for adults. First published and printed by Perry Mark Stratychuk in 1998.
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Mal and Loll is the same person; born in a man's body, but always struggling to accept things as they are. Mal pushes herself to the fore and Loll has to take second place in a life of manic schizophrenia and bizarre circumstances. Mal gets cancer but decides to fight to the bitter end with anybody and anything which stands in the way of her pleasure; trouble is it's not the end but the beginning.
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