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3 reviews
Vicente Blasco Ibanez

Borgo Press, 2002

A Great Novel
Like any great novel the characters become more compelling than the otherwise fascinating backdrop of Paris during the early stages of WW I. The story centers around a family who returns to France after one generation's absence and must come to terms with themselves and each other. This book was written during the last part of the war and the sadness of the reality of the war is evident in the ...

Dark Transformations: Deadly Visions of Change
Michael R. Collings

Borgo Press, 2007

This collection of dark transformations of horror and the supernatural includes both stories and poems, including the classic werewolf tale, "Wer Means Man," and a story of misbegotten creatures in the woods, "A Pound of Chocolates on St. Valentine's Day," plus verses both fantastical and evocative.

Ring of Fear

9 reviews
Anne McCaffrey

Borgo Press, 1971

Romantic Suspense from the Dragonlady!
This was not at all what I expected from a McCaffrey book, but it was an excellent read! There are no SF elements at all--this is a romantic suspense novel. Also, this is most definitely an adult book--a bit racier than her SF books. However, the characters were as captivating as any of her SF books. This is the story of a woman on the run with only her horses and cat. She travels from horse ...

Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry

5 reviews
William Glasser

Borgo Press, 1990

Are you tired of excuses?
People no longer have an excuse when they start to find out they have the power to choose. Understanding is fine, but it doesn't propel you forward. Please if you are sick of spinning your tires in the mud of the past and want to get unstuck, take a reality check. If you don't want to grow up, don't read this book. Don't waste your time reading this book if you don't want to take action.

Selections from Homer's Iliad

6 reviews
Allen Rogers Benner

Borgo Press, 2007

Sine Qua Non
So, you've made it through a year of college-level classical Greek -- Attic, or perhaps one of those texts that starts out with Homeric Greek. Now you're ready to read the Iliad, the single greatest work of western literature. What you now need is a good solid school text, with vocabulary, grammatical appendices, and copious notes. This is the book for you. I used this as an undergraduate ...

The Well at the World's End: Volume I (Well at the World's End)

14 reviews
William Morris

Borgo Press, 2000

Great Story - Not-So-Great Edition
I first ran into this book by accident in 1975 - it still remains one of my absolute favorites and I encourage anyone interested even remotely in fantasy or heroic romanticism to read it. However, some caveats should be observed. The ORIGINAL story was published by Kelmscott Press which used "gothic" fonts and unconventional design. Ballentine used this as the source for the 1970 edition and a ...

Vril, The Power of the Coming Race

8 reviews
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Borgo Press, 2002

The Coming Race!
_Vril: The Power of the Coming Race_ by Victorian novelist Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton first published in 1871 is a fascinating and bizarre tale of a subterranean world. The novel begins as the narrator, an American, descends into a mine shaft where an accident occurs leaving him stranded in a subterranean realm. There he encounters a mysterious race, in possession of uncanny powers, the ability ...

Charlie Chan in the Pawns of Death
Bill Pronzini, Jeffrey M. Wallmann, ...

Borgo Press, 2003

"Checkmate!" That was the last word uttered to Charlie Chan and Prefect of Police Claude DeBevre by a dying reporter. The man had been murdered . . . stabbed to death and left to die in a vacant hotel room. It is the second murder in 24 hours at the Transcontinental Chess Tournament, and Charlie Chan has been summoned from a peaceful and long-deserved vacation to help solve the crime before international scandal ruins the tournament's good name! ...

The Weird Tales Story (Weird Tales)
Robert Weinberg, E. Hoffmann Price

Borgo Press, 1999

British Goblins: Welsh Folklore, Fairy Mythology, Legends, and Traditions
Wirt Sikes

Borgo Press, 2002

Wirt Sikes's 1881 tome defines and records Welsh fairy legends as they existed -- still vital, alive, not just a mordant mythology but living folklore in that year. Like many texts of the time, it treats the subject mechanically, detailing fairy legends with such care and precision as to leach away a measuyre of the magic. But all the same, there's plenty of magic here: this is the myth that modern fasntasy grows from; and the truth is that it's ...

The Talisman

7 reviews
Sir Walter Scott

Borgo Press, 2002

Great story
I really enjoyed The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott. I really like Scott's style of writing,and his characters are interesting and humorous. Richard the Lionhearted, and his wife Berengaria, another famous person, along with Soldan Saladin, ruler of the Arabs at the time, are characters. the talisman takes place during a the Third Crusade at a time of brief piece between the Christians and the ...

The Lovers of Yvonne: Being a Portion of the Memoirs of the Sieur Gaston De Luynes

1 review
Rafael Sabatini

Borgo Press, 2002

romantic (non-explicit) swashbuckler
What a pleasure to read a book written in 1902, and find a fast moving, pulse pounding adventure story written for adults. If your taste runs to adventurous tales of old like 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' or the entertaining historical romances of Georgette Heyer you will be pleased by the pen of Rafael Sabintini. Mr. Sabintini wrote dozens of historical novels including 'Captain Blood' and 'The Sea ...

David Lindsay (Starmont Reader's Guide ; 9)

1 review
Gary K. Wolfe

Borgo Press, 2007

An excellent precis of Lindsay's life and work
This small book is ideal for anyone who has read A Voyage to Arcturus, and who is intrigued and haunted, but confused. Wolfe explains many of Lindsay's motives (as far as anyone can know them), and gives concise summaries of Lindsay's other books. Personally, I have read Arcturus, The Haunted Woman, Sphinx, and The Violet Apple, and Lindsay's vision continues to mesmerise me, despite the ...

A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft

2 reviews

Borgo Press, 1996

A perfect companion to the large biography of HPL by the same author
I read this book in one day, so I must say I greatly enjoyed it. The book's first 50 pages is a condensed biography of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the creator of what is possibly the best weird and horrifying literature available, but that sadly met his demise by cancer of the intestines at the untimely age of 47, back in 1937. Not long after this particular book was published, a full-length ...

Moonlight

3 reviews
Susan Dexter

Borgo Press, 2001

Wonderful Prequel to a great trilogy!
I have read all of Susan Dexter's Esdragon books, so it was thrilling to find this prequel to the Ring of Allaire. Moonlight is a tale of a much younger Tristan, a bumbling apprentice wizard for whom nothing ever seems to go right. This Tale has many little touches which tie it in with the previous trilogy. We see how he meets Thomas the cat, where he finds his silver Unicorn belt buckle, and ...

Color Him Gay: The Further Adventures of The Man from C.A.M.P.

1 review
Victor J. Banis

Borgo Press, 2007

this is a reissue
Please note, this novel was originally published in 1966 as a Leisure Book with the byline Don Holliday, and it is reprinted here by The Borgo Press with minor revisions. Victor J. Banis

Japanese Fairy Tales

1 review

Borgo Press, 2002

A Child's Treasury of Japanese Fairy Tales
Originally published in 1903, Yei Theodora Ozaki's translation of Sadanami Sanjin's collection of Japanese fairy tales has been the introduction of many a young child into the legends and fables of old Japan across the years. Definitely not a scholarly reference or valuable research tool for folktale researchers, Ozaki unabashedly re-crafted some of the stories, translating loosely and adding ...

Isaac Asimov (Starmont Reader's Guide)
Donald M. Hassler

Borgo Press, 2007

Well-known critic Hassler here contributes a comprehensive survey of Asimov's major fiction, from his beginnings as a short-story writer in "The Campbell Years," through his early and juvenile novels, including a complete outline and evaluation of the author's ever-popular Robot and Foundation series. Starmont Reader's Guide 40.

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