A fantasy novel from the author of Jurgen, much enhanced by 12 outstanding illustrations rendered in photogravures onto debossed Japanese vellum. Cabell became an overnight sensation with Jurgen and Pape, who had previously illustrated fairy tales, became an equal sensation with his illustrations for the same banned book. Figures of the Earth, A Comedy of Appearances, is the lead story in the Manuel saga.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Sidonia von Borcke (1548–1620) was a Pomeranian noblewoman who was tried and executed for witchcraft. In posthumous legends, she is depicted as a femme fatale, and she has entered English literature as Sidonia the Sorceress.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
Ever since her village burned, Alina has been afraid of fire. But when she discovers a mysterious gem inside dying embers, she becomes enthralled by the strange object. Where did it come from? Who left it there? And why, just for a moment, did she forget her fear?
Miriam Cait seeks love, or rather, her friend seeks it for her. Her friend’s latest date suggestion is refused on account of his dark eyes. There’s something not quite right with them, and Miriam soon finds out why when he comes knocking on her door, and knocking her out.
"East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon" by Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe. Published by Good Press
Milesian immortal Chancemont LeBlanc is determined to avenge his sister’s death at the hands of the Dark Prince Pestale, who remains free after the war between the Seelie Fae and the Dark Fae. Nothing will stop Chance from fulfilling his mission of vengeance, not even the time barrier.
At the Back of the North Wind by Elizabeth Lewis and George MacDonald, Illustrated by Maria L. Kirk
A young boy's family moves to a Boston, where he is surprised to find a window that looks out over his new home...in a different time!
We call to mind nothing in fiction old or new that in the remotest degree resembles Stella Fregelius. It is unlike any of Mr. Haggard's previous novels, and Stella is kin to She only as the most unlike of the children of the same parents are kin.
Charles Perrault published The Tales Of Mother Goose in France in 1697 during what scholars call the first "vogue" of tales produced by learned French writers. The genre that we now know so well was new and an uncommon kind of literature in the epic world of Louis XIV's court.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
The Multi-Award Winning Biblical Fiction Epic Unlock Your Past, Unleash Your Future!
A big, quick-shooting story of Wyoming so typically Western in thought and action that you will feel like jumping up and joining the posse that is hunting for Race Moran.
Half in masquerade, playing the drawing-room or garden comedy of life, these persons have upon them, not less than the landscape among the accidents of which they group themselves with fittingness, a certain light that we should seek for in vain upon anything real.
The people all lived on sugar, and never quarrelled. No one was ill; and if any got broken, as sometimes happened with such brittle creatures, they just stuck the parts together and were all right again.
In this saga, Grettir's life is told from beginning to end. As a child, he is rebellious and bad-tempered. He is described as red haired, freckled, and broad around the eyes. But he is also courageous. He takes on and defeats a draugr, a walking corpse or Norse equivalent of a zombie.
I killed the first god I met.