In these impressions of the Italian countryside: "Twilight in Italy", "Sea and Sardina", and "Etruscan Places", the author transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.[...]

Features essays, reviews, and other prose that Auden published or prepared for publication between 1949 - when he wrote his first book of criticism, "The Enchafed Flood" - and december 1955, shortly before he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford and began the series of lectures that he publishe[...]

This collection includes The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon and The Invisible Man, all collected in a stunning leather-bound omnibus. Five of the best science fiction novels by the Grandfather of Science Fiction: unsurpassed in their timel[...]

"One finds in Mr. Nolte's selection the original reviews, then so unconventional, of Conrad, Huneker, and Dreiser...I am glad to find old pieces I remember and that Mencken never collected - especially the summaries of periods in his life...And it is therefore very much worth while to ha[...]

In his last years D. H. Lawrence often wrote for newspapers; he needed the money, and clearly enjoyed the work. He also wrote several substantial essays during the same period. This meticulously-edited collection, first published in 2004, brings together major essays such as Pornography and Obscenit[...]

In the 1920s and '30s, H P Lovecraft pioneered a new type of fiction that fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror revolutionised modern horror fiction. This title collects Lovecraft's fictions.[...]

Few writers roiled the American cultural scene like Henry Louis Mencken. Pathbreaking journalist, trenchant social observer, and unbridled humorist, Mencken was the most provocative and influential cultural critic of the last century. To read him today is to be plunged into an era whose culture wars[...]

Contains twenty four short stories, novelettes, and short novels, including "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" and "At the Mountains of Madness, " as well as twenty six poems. This edition has a fine introduction by S.T. Joshi, photographs of H.P. Lovecraft, and an attractive binding, uniform with ot[...]

Haunts is the second book in a trilogy that began with Trying to Dance, in which Engstrom writes, "I'm always looking for presence. Whenever I try, my doubts get unmasked..." These doubts and questions are prevalent in Haunts as well, but in this volume Engstrom focuses more on public spaces and lif[...]