John Russell: 212 books

Life has taught Colt McCoy the only important thing is security through money. It is a lesson he has been taught from childhood, through the military and eventually in Corporate America. Each stage of his life provides the next opportunity to acquire more wealth. He is provided his final opportunity...

In the course of exploring the theatrical cultures of South and East Asia, eminent Shakespeareanist John Russell Brown developed some remarkable theories about the nature of performance, the state of Western 'Theatre' today, and the future potential of Shakespeare's plays. In New Sites for Shakespeare...

The Dancing of the title was in Shakespeare's mind as he wrote: a physical and active imagination. This book studies its operation in his most frequently performed texts and encourages readers to seek out the performance possibilities of all the texts for themselves. The need to study Shakespeare's...

This guide helps students navigate A.C. Bradley's classic text, while providing an important commentary on the value of Bradley's approach and how it can be adapted to present-day interests. John Russell Brown highlights the advantages of understanding Bradley's methods and provides major insights for any student of Shakespeare.

An Anthrax Outbreak in New York City! Is it a Terrorist Attack? Is It Germ Warfare? The US has deployed illegal anthrax weapons to end a war in the ancient city-state of Astrakhan. Two of the bombs are stolen and smuggled by known terrorists into New York City. One is opened and scattered...

A Russian Nuclear Weapon Is Headed For A City Near You! Unmarked automatic rifles are passed from trucker-to-trucker by a secret militia previously unidentified by the FBI. A frightened wife whispers the name, “Truckers For A Safe America.” An Imam reports that a suitcase – sent...

In this sequel to John Russell Fearn’s classic Liners of Time, Time Liner Pilot Sandford Lee continues his battle against Elnek Jelfel, the Jovian wizard of science intent on galactic domination. Zagribud carries out their contests against an interstellar canvas, with Jelfel using his scientific powers...

In his latest book, John Russell Brown offers a new and revealing way of reading and studying Shakespeare's plays, focusing on what a play does for an audience, as well as what its text says. By considering the entire theatrical experience and not only what happens on stage, Brown takes his readers...

Adventures in the Moon, and Other Worlds To the bottom of my grave I heard the disturbing trumpet, and then the voice of the Prophet commanding that the bodies of the dead should rise, the souls be restored to them, and that all mankind should appear in the Valley of Judgment. I started out...

When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement which began in 1956 with the staging of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and has since brought forward such dramatists as Brendan Behan, Harold Pinter, N. F. Simpson, John Arden and Arnold...

Joe Shaw returns as an intergalactic space traveler in Posteagenesis. The supernatural warrior is bounced through space and time and finds himself in service to the inhabitants of new and old Earth. For new Earth, Joe travels to far off galaxies with the mission of making contact with the various...

Another classic tale from British SF pulp author John Russel Fearn, here writing as Vargo Statten. Originally published in 1950.

Shakespeare Closely Read is a collection of essays by Shakespearean scholars, all of which were originally papers presented at the 2008 International Shakespeare Conference at Stratford-upon-Avon. Each contains a close reading of Shakespearean or other Elizabethan dramatic texts in an effort to open...

For an illusionist to make a woman vanish from a cage is merely a parlor trick, because the person must go somewhere; but in this instance the woman really DOES disappear, in full view of an audience, and cannot be found afterwards. This seeming impossibility is the commencement of a completely baffling...