ISBN-10: 0141398116

ISBN-13: 9780141398112

A vintage advent to Latin literature, with translations of the simplest passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and lots of others.

This vintage anthology strains the advance of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus, to the writers of the Empire similar to Lucan and Petronius, to the later writings of St Augustine. the decisions hide comedy and epic, heritage and philosophy, in prose and in verse, and every passage is prefaced through an creation to the writer and his impact. The translators diversity throughout heritage from Alexander Pope and Lord Byron to contemporaries. the result's a wide and fantastic review of the civilization of Rome and its Empire - an amazing advent to Latin literature.

Michael furnish was once born in 1914. He served as an intelligence officer throughout the moment global conflict, and as a result held educational posts on the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Khartoum and Belfast. Over his lifetime, he released approximately fifty books at the old global, starting from stories of Roman coinage, to biographies of Caesar, Nero and Jesus, to books on historic Israel and the center a while. a lot of his translations have been released in Penguin Classics. Professor provide moved to Italy in 1966, the place he spent lots of the remainder of his lifestyles till his dying in 2004.

By Orson Scott Card

ISBN-10: 1429956968

ISBN-13: 9781429956963

Seven stories of attainable fates for the human race via one in every of technological know-how fiction's so much respected authors portrays the interior struggles of characters exploring their hidden selves.

ISBN-10: 0312169310

ISBN-13: 9780312169312

This excellent assortment celebrates fantasy's heydey with 33 masterpieces of brief fiction, starting from Forties tales by way of L. Sprague de Camp, H. L. Gold, Fritz Leiber, and Manly Wade Wellman to newer stories by way of such towering glossy abilities as Peter S. Beagle, Terry Bisson, James P. Blaylock, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Crowley, Tanith Lee, Ursula ok. Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, JaneYolen, and Roger Zelazny.
Just as Gardner Dozois's anthology smooth Classics of technology Fiction (SMP, 1992) has helped new generations of readers and previous lovers detect the genre's best brief tales, so too shall this quantity enable readers to discover in a single quantity greater than dozen masterworks of fable.

ISBN-10: 0312551045

ISBN-13: 9780312551049

The thirty tales during this assortment imaginatively take us some distance around the universe, into the very middle of our beings, to the world of the gods, and the instant simply after now.  incorporated listed here are the works of masters of the shape and of vivid new skills, together with: Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth undergo, Aliete de Bodard, James L. Cambias, Greg Egan, Charles Coleman Finlay, James Alan Gardner, Dominic eco-friendly, Daryl Gregory, Gwyneth Jones, Ted Kosmatka, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen McHugh, Sarah Monette, Garth Nix, Hannu Rajaniemi, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Mary Rosenblum, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Geoff Ryman, Karl Schroeder, Gord Sellar, and Michael Swanwick.

Supplementing the tales are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s occasions and a long record of honorable mentions, making this booklet either a precious source and the only top position within the universe to discover tales that stir the mind's eye, and the heart.

ISBN-10: 1479401382

ISBN-13: 9781479401383

Nearly every body likes canine, even those that desire cats as pets. So it's no longer fantastic that writers have dedicated loads of verbiage certainly to explain their ongoing love affair with the canines breed. You'll locate herein all types of stories concentrating on canine: technology fiction tales, mysteries, horror stories, westerns, memoirs, funny bills, and first-person doggie narratives. There are famous items through writers resembling Jack London, James Oliver Curwood, Washington Irving, Saki, E. C. Tubb, John Gregory Betancourt, Robert Hood, and Jack Dann--and tales by way of authors who're really unknown today.

Here are twenty-five excellent stories of canine and their interactions with people, plus 5 bonus poems:

"The name of the Wild," through Jack London

"My buddy Bobby," by way of Alan E. Nourse

"Neb," via Robert Reginald

"My Friend," by means of nameless [poem]

"Kerfol," by means of Edith Wharton

"The Monster," via S. M. Tenneshaw

"Tinker," via E. Nesbit

"Phantom Dogs," through Elliott O'Donnell

"The canine of Hannoie," by way of E. C. Tubb

"Warlock," by way of Gordon Stables [poem]

"Spaniel and Newfoundland Dogs," by means of Edward Jesse

"A puppy of Flanders," by way of Ouida

"Guard Dog," by means of Robert Hood

"Rip Van Winkle," through Washington Irving

"Stories of puppy Sagacity," through W. H. G. Kingston

"The top Friend," by way of Meribah Philbrick Abbott [poem]

"Grab a Knife and store a Life," by way of Mark E. Burgess

"Kazan," through James Oliver Curwood

"Mercy's Reward," via Sir Edwin Arnold [poem]

"Snap: the tale of a Bull-Terrier," through Ernest Thompson Seton

"Dogs Questing," via John Gregory Betancourt

"The Widow's Dog," via Mary Russell Mitford

"The Beast of Space," through F. E. Hardart

"Oil of Dog," through Ambrose Bierce

"Spirit Dog," by way of Jack Dann

"Little Doggerel," through Robert Reginald [poem]

"A Pilgrim," by means of Robert W. Chambers

"The Open Window," through Saki

"Memoirs of a Yellow Dog," by means of O. Henry

"The Sound of the Barkervilles," through Robert Reginald.

And don't overlook to go looking this booklet shop for "Wildside Megapack" to determine extra volumes within the sequence, together with extra animal tales (like Cats), plus mysteries, experience tales, westerns, ghost tales, technology fiction -- and masses, even more!

By Leigh Ronald Grossman

ISBN-10: 1434430790

ISBN-13: 9781434430793

Experience OF ask yourself is a large, reasonably cheap, single-volume anthology designed to provide scholars a feeling either one of literature and historical past; the e-book comprises canonical works, tales written in line with these works, and essays on significant issues and issues within the box. The ebook will facilitate a number of types of speculative fiction path, no matter if the direction is targeted on specific subject matters, on a chronological examine writers, or at the roots of latest SF. starting with early twentieth-century writers, experience of ask yourself maintains up in the course of the so much acclaimed present-day writers. tales should not taken care of as simply educational workouts, yet contextualized, that's very important in analyzing a style the place such a lot writers comprehend one another and the connection among author and reader is a significant component in how tales are created.
the gathering comprises greater than 2 hundred tales, poems, and bibliographic essays (contributed through professors who educate technological know-how fiction and via professionals), with an emphasis at the roots of contemporary SF. every one tale writer is given a biographical advent to boot.

By Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

ISBN-10: 1434449211

ISBN-13: 9781434449214

A stellar assymbly of a lot of today's such a lot inventive and comprehensive storytellers has accrued round the tribal hearth to embroider well-worn yarns with new golden thread. Black Swan, White Raven revisits the stories that charmed, enthralled, and terrified us in our early early life - wearing us aloft into the fit, beating center of adored fantasy to inform once more the tales of Rumpelstiltskins and napping beauties, merely this time from an edgy, provocative and exceedingly grownup standpoint. the subjects and archetypes of our loved adolescence fiction are reexamined in a darker mild by way of 21 awesome teller of stories who deftly discover the ironic, the outrageous, the enigmatic and the erotic on the center of the world's best-known fables, whereas revealing the sobering truths and lies at the back of "happily ever after."

Encouraged through the real-life breakthroughs lined within the pages of MIT expertise evaluation, popular writers Brian W. Aldiss, David Brin, and Greg Egan subscribe to the most popular rising authors from all over the world to ascertain the way forward for the net, biotechnology, computing, and extra. This assortment beneficial properties 12 all-new tales, an specific interview with technology fiction legend Neal Stephenson, and a full-color gallery of paintings by means of technological know-how Fiction corridor of Famer Richard Powers.

By Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN-10: 0486113140

ISBN-13: 9780486113142

Good points forty-one of Poe's such a lot memorable poems — between them "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror Worm," "Eldorado" and "Annabel Lee" — display the intense spectrum of Poe's character and his virtuoso command of poetic language, rhythms and figures of speech. Alphabetic lists of titles and primary strains.

ISBN-10: 0345439902

ISBN-13: 9780345439901

Explore attention-grabbing, usually chilling "what if" money owed of the realm which can have existed–and nonetheless may but . . .

Science fiction’s such a lot illustrious and visionary authors preach the final word exchange historical past assortment. right here you’ll adventure mind-bending stories that problem your perspectives of the earlier, current, and destiny, including:

• "The fortunate Strike": while The fortunate Strike is selected over The Enola Gay to drop the 1st atomic bomb, destiny takes an unforeseen flip in Kim Stanley Robinson’s gripping tale.
• "Bring the Jubilee": Ward Moore’s novella masterpiece deals a insurgent victory at Gettysburg which adjustments the process the Civil battle . . . and all of yankee history.
• "Through highway No Wither": After Hitler’s victory in international conflict II, Nazi officials confront their future in Greg Bear’s apocalyptic imaginative and prescient of the future.
• "All the Myriad Ways": homicide or suicide, Ambrose Harmon’s loss of life leads the police down an unlimited variety of pathways in Larry Niven’s remarkable and defining story of possible choices and consequences.
• "Mozart in Mirrorshades": Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner discover a terrifying period because the destiny crashes into the past–with disastrous results.
. . . in addition to works via Poul Anderson • Gregory Benford • Jack L. Chalker • Nicholas A. DiChario • Brad Linaweaver • William Sanders • Susan Shwartz • Allen Steele • and Harry Turtledove himself!

The definitive assortment: fourteen seminal trade historical past stories drawing readers right into a universe of dramatic danger and never-ending ask yourself.