Author : Kelly Creagh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442402016
A page-turning psychological mystery that is equal parts horror, humor, and romance, "Nevermore" is the story of Varen--a Poe fan and Goth--and Isobel--a cheerleader and unlikely heroine.
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Top Five Books LLC
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1938938097
This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven includes: • All 25 illustrations by Gustave Doré for Harper & Brothers’ 1884 edition • An informative Introduction • A detailed Biography of Edgar Allan Poe • The illustrated version and text-only version of the full poem No poem has ever received the kind of immediate and overwhelming response that Poe’s “The Raven” did when it first appeared in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845. It made Poe an overnight sensation (though his great fame never brought him much wealth) and the poem, a powerfully haunting elegy to lost love, remains one of the most beloved and recognizable verses in the English language. The illustrations that accompany this Top Five Classics edition are reproductions of the renowned French artist Gustave Doré’s steel-plate engravings created for Harper & Brothers’ 1884 release of The Raven. It would be Doré’s last commission as he died shortly after completing the 25 illustrations in January 1883. His illustrations would become famous in their own right, evoking as they do the lyrical and mystical air of Poe’s masterpiece.
Author : Karen Lange
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426303982
Nevermore brings one of America’s most enigmatic writers to the attention of a new generation of children. This intriguing photobiography examines the life and times of the author and poet who would have a huge influence on future generations of writers, poets, artists, and even songwriters. Poe pioneered the psychological horror story, the detective story, and the emerging genre of science fiction. Through his dark tales and unforgettable verse, as well as his literary criticism, he made major contributions to the development of the modern short story and modern poetry in America. Thanks to the translations of the French writer Charles Baudelaire, Poe also gained a wide audience throughout Europe. His work influenced not only writers, but also avant-garde artists, who saw in him a kindred soul. Karen Lange’s gripping narrative combines with the book’s vivid illustrations of Poe’s various haunts to create an atmospheric account of America’s most famous Romantic writer. The story shifts from his birth in Boston to Richmond, from Hampton Roads to Philadelphia, from New York City to his mysterious death in Baltimore. Nevermore is a rich appreciation of an American master, whose macabre tales of mystery took shape in tandem with his own strange and ultimately tragic life story.
Author : Robert Gwaltney
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 2022-01-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781952439247
WHEN AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD, WHISKY DRINKING, PIANO PRODIGY ENCOUNTERS A WEALTHY FAMILY POSSESSING SUPERNATURAL BEAUTY, HER ENSUING OBSESSION UNLEASHES FAMILY SECRETS AND A CATACLYSMIC PLAGUE OF CICADAS. The summer of 1956, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence, Georgia, a natural event with supernatural repercussions, unhinging the life of Analeise Newell, an eleven-year-old piano prodigy. Amidst this emergence, dark obsessions are stirred, uncanny gifts provoked, and secrets unearthed. During a visit to Mistletoe, a plantation owned by the wealthy Mayfield family, Analeise encounters Cordelia Mayfield and her daughter Marlissa, both of whom possess an otherworldly beauty, a lineal trait regarded as that Mayfield Shine. A whisper and an act of violence perpetrated during this visit by Mrs. Mayfield all converge to kindle Analeise's fascination with the Mayfields. Analeise's burgeoning obsession with the Mayfield family overshadows her own seemingly, ordinary life, culminating in dangerous games and manipulation, setting off a chain of cataclysmic events with life-altering consequences-all of it unfolding to the maddening whir of a cicada song. When an eleven year old, whisky drinking, piano prodigy encounters a wealthy family possessing supernatural beauty, her ensuing obsession unleashes family secrets and a cataclysmic plague of cicadas. "Following in the magnificent footsteps of Carson McCullers and Harper Lee, Robert Gwaltney creates a wonderful snapshot of the friendship that forms between Analeise and Etta Mae, two eleven-year-old girls in '50s small town Georgia... This is a book to love and remember, and every book club in America would be wise to snap it up."- Robert Goolrick, #1 New York Times bestselling author "The gothic beauty of a relentless Georgia summer is brought to life through Gwaltney's deliberate details and exquisite imagery, while all the while evil lurks beneath the surface; from where or what the reader does not know but is as convinced by Gwaltney's expert storytelling as he is."-Zoe Fishman, bestselling author of Invisible Air and Georgia Author of the Year 2020 "Gwaltney's Southern Gothic, THE CICADA TREE mesmerizes and seduces, the language redolent and deadly, the characters steeped in secrets and madness, and the whole of it an enthralling and perfect read. Easily my favorite book of the year."-Kim Taylor Blakemore, bestselling author of After Alice Fell
Author : Robert Abbamonte
Publisher : Robert Abbamonte
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2006-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598003963
Jim Hargrove and Debra Simms are private investigators, and someone has murdered their latest client. They find themselves caught in a deadly cat-and-mouse game, which leads them into the dangerous world of the Colombian drug cartels and an ever-rising body count.
Author : Kelly Creagh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1442402075
True love takes a twisted turn in the second book of this modern gothic romance trilogy that channels the dark brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe. While Varen remains a prisoner in a perilous dream world where the terrifying stories of Edgar Allan Poe come to life, Isobel travels to Baltimore to confront the dark figure known throughout the world as the Poe Toaster. This man, the same man who once appeared to Isobel in her dreams and abandoned her in Varen’s nightmare world, holds the key to saving Varen. But when Isobel discovers a way to return to this dream world, she finds herself swept up in a realm that not only holds remnants of Edgar Allan Poe’s presence, but one that has taken on the characteristics of Varen’s innermost self. It is a dark world of fear, terror, and anger. When Isobel once more encounters Varen, she finds him changed. And now Isobel must face a new adversary—one who also happens to be her greatest love.
Author : Dian Curtis Regan
Publisher : Darby Creek Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Princesses
ISBN : 9781581960556
As living in an underground kingdom has become predictable and boring, Princess Quinn of Mandria dreams of visiting the upper Earth-which she can see via a magic pond, the only portal of light and outer life in Mandria. Cam, the wizard's apprentice, tries to use his magic ring to transport them to upper Earth, but the spell only works on Quinn. Is Princess Quinn lost forever in the outer world? Or will the desires of her heart bring her home again?
Author : Steven McCabe
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0889843716
A tale of subjugation, protest, and transformation, Never More Together tells the story of what can become of a society that fears the truth. When the inhabitants of a harmonious Edenic community are invaded by the brutal Butterfly regime, they must learn to leave behind their tradition of complicit silence, find a strong new voice amidst the cacophony of state-sanctioned propaganda, and emerge into a hopeful future of freedom and social consciousness. Steven McCabe’s visual epic of more than 100 linocuts challenges readers to look beyond the surface, to decipher the layers of meaning in each image, and to immerse themselves in a complex, dystopian world full of symbolic references to our past, present, and possibly future condition.
Author : Jerome McGann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 067474523X
The poetry of Edgar Allan Poe has had a rough ride in America, as Emerson’s sneering quip about “The Jingle Man” testifies. That these poems have never lacked a popular audience has been a persistent annoyance in academic and literary circles; that they attracted the admiration of innovative poetic masters in Europe and especially France—notably Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Valéry—has been further cause for embarrassment. Jerome McGann offers a bold reassessment of Poe’s achievement, arguing that he belongs with Whitman and Dickinson as a foundational American poet and cultural presence. Not all American commentators have agreed with Emerson’s dim view of Poe’s verse. For McGann, a notable exception is William Carlos Williams, who said that the American poetic imagination made its first appearance in Poe’s work. The Poet Edgar Allan Poe explains what Williams and European admirers saw in Poe, how they understood his poetics, and why his poetry had such a decisive influence on Modern and Post-Modern art and writing. McGann contends that Poe was the first poet to demonstrate how the creative imagination could escape its inheritance of Romantic attitudes and conventions, and why an escape was desirable. The ethical and political significance of Poe’s work follows from what the poet takes as his great subject: the reader. The Poet Edgar Allan Poe takes its own readers on a spirited tour through a wide range of Poe’s verse as well as the critical and theoretical writings in which he laid out his arresting ideas about poetry and poetics.
Author : Marie Redonnet
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803289598
Arriving in San Rosa, a mysterious border town, Deputy Willy Bost encounters a web of deceit, corruption, and betrayal as he struggles to adjust to life in a small town where he knows no one
