Howard: 4650 books

Occult detectives—sometimes called psychic investigators—have been in vogue since the middle of the 19th century. This collection goes back to the roots of the occult detective story. The earliest story in this collection—Fitz-James O'Brien's "The Pot of Tulips"—originally appeared...

Can you have an affair if you don't touch? don't kiss? Can your life be unrooted to its very core by someone who drops in and disappears in a matter of weeks? Howard's life is in decline. His wife seems to barely notice his existence and his kids are doing fine despite his neglect. He goes...

"CinemaScope" was the process that ushered in the wide-screen revolution way back in 1953. The CinemaScope lens was discontinued in the late 1960s and replaced by Panavision, the anamorphic system that is still widely used today. As the wide-screen movies of the 1950s and 1960s are now enjoying...

Richard Howard has been writing stylish, deeply informed commentary on modern culture and literature for more than four decades. Here is a selection of his finest essays, including some never before published in book form, on a splendid range of subjects--from American poets like Emily Dickinson and...

Howard Zinn began work on his first book for his friends at Seven Stories Press in 1996, a big volume collecting all his shorter writings organized by subject. The themes he chose reflected his lifelong concerns: war, history, law, class, means and ends, and race. Throughout his life Zinn had returned...

In his new book, the author of the bestseller Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools examines the chronic under-performance of African American males in U.S. schools. Citing a plethora of disturbing academic outcomes for Black males, this book focuses on the historical, structural, educational,...

If you like the novels of Frederick Marryat you’ll love Edward Howard’s Rattlin, the Reefer. Rattlin, the Reefer was edited by Frederick Marryat for his friend and fellow captain Edward Howard. For several generations, however, people thought it was actually written by Marryat because it...

“For headling, nonstop adventure and for vivid, even florid, scenery, no one even comes close to Howard.”—Harry Turtledove In a meteoric career that covered only a dozen years, Robert E. Howard defined the sword-and-sorcery genre. In doing so, he brought to life the archetypal adventurer...

From Robert E. Howard’s fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard’s characters, none embodied his creator’s brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn, the last king of a doomed race. In...

The immortal legacy of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Cimmerian, continues with this latest compendium of Howard’s fiction and poetry. These adventures, set in medieval-era Europe and the Near East, are among the most gripping Howard ever wrote, full of pageantry, romance, and battle scenes...

The definitive 10-volume set of Robert E. Howard's weird fiction and poetry (with all texts meticulously restored to the original versions as published in Weird Tales and other magazines) continues with HOURS OF THE DRAGON. This volume includes "The Hour of the Dragon," the only Conan novel by Howard,...

This book is about Conan the Cimmerian written by Robert E. Howard. In this edition contains 3 stories of Conan. 1. "The Scarlet Citadel" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E....

One of the most influential and important figures of the Renaissance, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was the first poet to use blank verse in English literature, later influencing the works of Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton. This new edition of the bestselling Delphi Poets Series offers superior formatting...

In Publishing the Family June Howard turns a study of the collaborative novel The Whole Family into a lens through which to examine American literature and culture at the beginning of the twentieth century. Striving to do equal justice to historical particulars and the broad horizons of social change,...