In five linked episodes, Lermontov builds up the portrait of a man caught up in and expressing the sickness of his times. A marvelous novel and an early landmark in Russian literature, A Hero of Our Time served as an inspiration for many later Russian authors, including Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
From the author of "The Call of the Wild" comes the compelling story of the long and perilous sea voyage of Wolf Larsen, captain of the "Ghost", and his reluctant crewman Humphrey Van Weyden.
Using the strength given to him by Psychomech to restore his dead lover to life and vanquish his enemies, Richard Garrison soon learns of the Psychosphere, another plane where mental powers rule. Original.
Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.
The science fiction masterpiece continues in the “major event,”( Los Angeles Times) Children of Dune.With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert’s Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. The Children of Dune are twin sib...more