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Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
Norilana Books, 2008
You hold in your hands a cornucopia of modern cutting-edge fantasy. The first volume of this extraordinary new annual anthology series of fantastic literature explodes on the scene with works that sidestep expectations in beautiful and unsettling ways, that surprise with their settings and startle with the manner in which they cross genre boundaries, that aren't afraid to experiment with storytelling techniques, and yet seamlessly blend ...
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Siddhartha 1 review
Hermann Hesse
Norilana Books, 2007
Great Buy
I'm usually concerned about purchasing items on line, especially books. I can honestly say that this experience was worth it. I would recommend this seller to anyone interested in purchasing good quality books at extremely reasonable prices.
Buy with confidence, I did!
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Freckles 26 reviews
Gene Stratton Porter
Norilana Books, 2006
Another Wonderful Vintage Romance
I read this at an impressionable age and fell in love with stalwart Freckles and the Limberlost Swamp and his Angel. Pretty sentimental by today's standards, this book champions saving the forests and wetlands. The descriptions are beautiful and evocative. A great romance.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray1 review
Oscar Wilde
Norilana Books, 2007
one of the great psychological novels
This is one of the greatest stories ever of the struggle and torment between good and evil, between animal versus spiritual influences that resides within our mind and soul . An absolute masterpiece. A more modern version of Dante's inferno.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXII 4 reviews
Norilana Books, 2007
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXII
I have collected these wonderful compilations of high adventure of the feminine kind since the very first volume! I am so glad that they are still on going despite Ms. Bradley's passing. Every story is as always a gem! Very worthwile addition to anyone's collection!
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The Picture of Dorian Gray2 reviews
Oscar Wilde
Norilana Books, 2007
"Beauty is a form of Genius."
Oscar Wilde was one of the foremost representatives of Aestheticism, a movement based on the notion that art exists for no other purpose than its existence itself ("l'art pour l'art"), not for the purpose of social and moral enlightenment. Born in Dublin and a graduate of Oxford's Magdalen College, he initially worked primarily as a journalist, editor and lecturer, but gradually turned to writing ...
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Candide135 reviews
Voltaire
Norilana Books, 2006
All is for the best in this world
Candide is an ambitious book. It should be an example for all `would-be' writers all over the world. It is not less than a frontal attack on the greatest philosopher of Voltaire's time, Leibniz, for whom the world he lived in was `the best possible'.
'Dear Pangloss (= know everything), when you were hanged, dissected, cruelly beaten, did you still think that everything was for the best in this ...
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Quo Vadis2 reviews
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Norilana Books, 2006
A must-read, in Polish or in translation
Probably one of the greatest books ever written in Polish. Makes one see why Sienkiewicz received a Nobel Prize in literature. Great story, set in 1st century Rome during the persecution of the first Christians. Its themes are timeless: finding good in the midst of evil, faith and the presence of God in dark times, true love versus lust. Beautifully written and compelling.
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Wives and Daughters37 reviews
Elizabeth Gaskell
Norilana Books, 2008
wives and daughters by elizabeth gaskell
I love this story. For anyone that likes Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre. This is in a similar vein but less intense. Very good read and video.
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A Girl of the Limberlost1 review
Gene Stratton Porter
Norilana Books, 2006
So good my mom had to read it at the same time as me!
I started reading this book right after I got it.
My mom had looked it over and was wanting to read it too, so we both took turns reading chapters. It was funny because when I was reading, my mom would keep asking when I would be done with that chapter. She did not like waiting in suspence and neither did I. I stayed up past 2:00 in the morning just reading away. By the next day, both my ...
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Ruth11 reviews
Elizabeth Gaskell
Norilana Books, 2008
Ruth is a classic novel by the brilliant Elizabeth Gaskell which will hold your interest until the last page
Ruth is a tale of redemption set in early nineteenth century England.
Ruth is a young seamstress who is seduced at the age of 16 by a despicable and stupid cad whose name is Henry Bellingham. He deserts her on a holiday in Wales forcing the pregnant Ruth to flee.
Ruth finds a lodging and Christian love at the home of an elderly clergyman the Rev. Benson, his maiden sister Faith and their ...
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East of the Sun and West of Fort Smith
William Sanders
Norilana Books, 2008
EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF FORT SMITH by award-winning author William Sanders is the definitive story collection from one of speculative fiction's most original and controversial authors. Includes an introduction by Rick Bowes. "William Sanders is wickedly funny, a great storyteller, and a writer with peculiar ideas." -- Claude Lalumière in Locus "Sanders is witty, caustic, clever, cynical, and not very PC at all." -- Tom ...
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The Egoist
George Meredith
Norilana Books, 2007
The Egoist (1879) by George Meredith is a sophisticated, brilliantly written dissection of a self-absorbed young man of society and the very different women who fall within his sphere. In this comedy with serious overtones, Sir Willoughby -- a highly eligible bachelor, and the Egoist in question -- courts, proposes and loses brides repeatedly, and then wonders at his own inexplicable predicament. The answer might be encapsulated in the ...
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Michael O'Halloran11 reviews
Gene Stratton Porter
Norilana Books, 2007
I love this book.
I've read Michael O'Halloran several times over the years. I love it as much today as I did the first time I read it.
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North and South 2 reviews
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Norilana Books, 2007
North & South
I first saw the DVD and than purchased the book. The DVD has become my favorite over Pride and Prejudice. The acting is superb and the story line, athough not quite accurate to the book, is very well told. The plot kept my interest throughout the 4 hours of viewing. I would recommend anyone who enjoys the English period pictures to watch this movie.
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Consuelo: A Romance of Venice2 reviews
George Sand
Norilana Books, 2007
Magickal
This book was the guiding compass in my teenage years - art, music,coming of age, love, honor, mystery. It is truly remarkable, gripping, mystical, deep, full of underlying human mythology. I think it will hold its grip on anyone regardless of age, however! Man or woman, child or older being. Enjoy, especially those who will travel its path for the first time! I am surprised there is no film ...
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Warrior Wisewoman1 review
Norilana Books, 2008
Another Norilana Books Anthology to add to your reading list
This is another anthology from the new publisher Norilana Books. It's a great collection of really thought provoking and moving stories.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Lew Wallace
Norilana Books, 2007
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace is one of the most popular and beloved 19th century American novels. This faithful New Testament tale combines the events of the life of Jesus with grand historical spectacle in the exciting story of Judah of the House of Hur, a man who finds extraordinary redemption for himself and his family. A classic of faith, fortitude, and inspiration.
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Miss Mackenzie4 reviews
Anthony Trollope
Norilana Books, 2008
Trollope's gentle satire wins through here.
Anthony Trollope spends so much time doing the things that well-meaning creative writing profesors now tell one never to do--his editorial voice peppers each novel, he avoids subtle foreshadowing in favor of telling you essentially what will happen next, and he consistently drives plot towards a theme. Yet Trollope, a consummate Victorian, seems intrinsically modern whereas many more ...
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A Hero of Our Time48 reviews
Mikhail Lermontov
Norilana Books, 2006
The influence of the superfluous man proves ultimately vast.
Lermontov is a sleeper by which I mean that he is lesser known and read outside Russia than other immortals. This novel was recommended to me by a Russian friend from Georgia and I was delighted to find a germinal work influenced greatly by Pushkin and Lord Byron. I read Hero of Our Time after Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Both Puskin and Lermontov were mad for Byron's poetry as he had earned a ...
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