Cleveland, Ohio-born painter R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007) lived and worked in London, England from 1959 to 1997, where he pioneered a new type of figurative art in the 60s with his artist friends Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff, all of whom would find themselves dubbed the "Lo[...]

HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A STORM OF SWORDS: STEEL AND SNOW is the FIRST part of the third volume in the series. Winter approaches Westeros like an angry b[...]

HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A FEAST FOR CROWS is the fourth volume in the series. The Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne. The war in the Seven Kingdo[...]

J.R.R. Tolkien, in this extraordinary, historically important recording, leads listeners with prose, poems, and songs into the fantastic world of The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring.This audio is based on a tape that Tolkien made for his friends in August 1952. He had been working on The Lord [...]

A great modern classic and the prelude to THE LORD OF THE RINGS

Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out onto the floor when he caught a sudden thin and piercing ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's l[...]

Throughout this vast and intricate mythology, says Publishers Weekly, "one marvels anew at the depth, breadth, and persistence of J.R.R. Tolkien's labor. No one sympathetic to his aims, the invention of a secondary universe, will want to miss this chance to be present at the creation." In this capst[...]

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.[...]

For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age. Palmer argues that the American, French, and P[...]

Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad -- book four of the original Wild Cards series now in trade paperback--featuring two brand-new stories
The action-packed alternate fantasy returns for a new generation, featuring fiction from #1 "New York Times" bestselling author George R. R. Martin, Michael Cassutt, [...]

To honor the magnificent career of Jack Vance, one unparalleled in achievement and impact, George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, with the full cooperation of Vance, his family, and his agents, have created a Jack Vance tribute anthology: "Songs of the Dying Earth." The best of today's fantasy write[...]

Bok 2 - del 1.

En blodrød komet farer over himmelen. Fra det eldgamle Drakeberg til det iskalde Vinterfall hersker kaos. Blant kaoset vokser det fram fraksjoner som alle gjør krav på tronen. For å seire, må man ha det kaldeste stålet...og det kaldest hjertet. For når kongenes kamp[...]

Kuninkaan paluu : osa 2/2

Taru sormusten herrasta. Kuninkaan paluu osa 2/2.

Taru Sormusten Herrasta on kaikenikäisten klassikko, tulvillaan seikkailua, jännitystä ja huumoria. Tolkienin eepos sijoittuu omaan maailmaansa Keski-Maahan ja sen romanttiseen muinaisuuteen,[...]