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On Venus, Regan is a professional hunter trying to earn enough money to leave, even though he feels uneasy about a job he has agreed to take. Mrs. Holloway, a wealthy Terran bored with ordinary game, hires him to guide her after the sacred red roebuck, a rare animal protected by Venusian belief. As Regan prepares for the hunt, his doubts deepen when an old holy man denounces him as a defiler.
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Vernon Randall Hume, a corporation lawyer and father of three, is trapped on a devastated Earth during an alien invasion by gray, mechanized soldiers. Exhausted and injured, he hides in a swamp after witnessing the killing of a woman, while memories of his previous life and family keep breaking through his fear. The story follows his struggle to survive in a ruined landscape where distance, hunger, and terror no longer feel familiar.
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Mike, an out-of-work crooner, hears that Vera has been placed by a mysterious new agent and goes with her to a remote office in Pennsylvania. Inside, he finds a strange gathering of struggling performers and meets the Quoron brothers, whose talent agency seems to operate from an isolated, highly unusual setting. The story centers on his hope that this odd operation can get him back into show business.
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Set in African American domestic life across Virginia and New York, the book follows Joel Marshall, the son of people marked by slavery, as he turns childhood dreams of greatness into work, business, and church standing. It also shows his marriage, his wife’s modest outlook, and the birth of a son whose name becomes a point of disagreement because of Joel’s hopes for the child’s future.
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A weary gold prospector named Comanche Cal gives up on a shallow, worked-out claim after finding no color in the pan. He is then confronted by an exhausted stranger who is leading his burro, claims to be wanted, and identifies himself as a Hollibaugh, a family known for taking what they want. Their exchange turns into a dry, ironic partnership as the stranger suggests they travel together and even talks about going after the sheriff.
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Set in Piperock, Montana, this western follows Sheriff Magpie Simpkins and his companion Ike Harper as they deal with the town’s talk about law enforcement and the pressure to act against local outlaws. A sudden gunfight in town brings the Piegan Kid into view during an attempted robbery at the Cattlemen’s bank, and Magpie and Ike are drawn into the chase after him. The story centers on their rough-and-ready pursuit and the comic, dangerous burdens of Magpie’s office.
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In a vast galactic council of gods, Dalen proposes creating a new biped species, despite the resistance of the senior god Mogar. Mogar argues that physical beings are self-destructive and should not be trusted with life, while Dalen quietly insists that intelligence should be joined with sentiment. The story centers on their conflict over whether such a creation should be allowed in the IX Galaxy.
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Holbrook Jackson’s study presents the 1890s as a distinctive British cultural epoch, focusing on tendencies in art and ideas rather than a strict chronology. It links literary, artistic, and social movements in England with wider European influences, and treats the decade as one of experiment, conflict, and changing attitudes toward life, religion, and art. The revised edition notes that it largely follows the 1913 text, with added notes, clarifications, and a new illustration.
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This volume traces the impact of the Union of the Crowns on Scotland and follows the religious and political struggle that grew under James VI and Charles I. It covers disputes over episcopacy, the new liturgy, the rise of Covenanting opposition, the framing and spread of the Covenant, and the opening stages of conflict involving the Scottish Parliament, the English Parliament, and royal authority. The contents also include the Westminster Assembly and the adoption of the Westminster Confession of Faith, alongside Montrose’s campaigns and later negotiations over the king.
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In a Marsport bar, the narrator meets a gaunt spaceman in rope-soled espadrilles who asks for zwiff and begins telling a strange hard-luck story. The tale shifts to a repair stop on a small, dense planetoid with breathable atmosphere, glittering soil, and metallic, crystal-like trees. As the account continues, the planetoid seems increasingly uncanny, and the speaker reflects on a life that is not soft and wet but something harder and stranger beyond human experience.
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The opening presents Maxwell Drewitt and his companion Timothy Ryan in a cottage near Duranmore Bay, Ireland, while framing the story as Maxwell’s life. It characterizes Drewitt as outwardly composed but morally untrustworthy, and Ryan as an easier, more ambivalent man shaped by circumstance. Their conversation centers on a troubled marriage plan involving Drewitt’s uncle, Kincorth, and the financial disorder surrounding the family estate.
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This travel book describes the author’s observations of Japan and Formosa, with particular attention to Japanese family life, etiquette, housing, and everyday customs. One episode centers on arriving in Tokyo after a hotel fire, then being received into a Japanese home where the details of greeting, footwear, bathing, and sleeping reveal cultural differences and the practical inconveniences of Westerners living in such houses. The listed subjects also place the work within descriptions of social life and customs in both Japan and Taiwan.
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This volume gathers selected poems by Thomas Gordon Hake from books issued over more than fifty years, including early work from The Piromides and later pieces from The New Day, alongside verses not previously published. The collection presents Hake as a 19th-century English poet with a solemn, meditative voice, often concerned with dreams, sleep, and deliberate thought. It also frames his verse as distinctive in tone and carefully shaped across a long career.
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James E. Gunn’s short science-fiction story follows Sam Newman, a commercial pilot whose troubled marriage to wealthy Fran ends in murder. Fleeing with only a little fuel left, he brings a yacht down on a green world that seems to offer life, wonder, and a possible new beginning. The tale frames his arrival as both an escape and the start of a tragic encounter, tied to his own violent nature and the strange life he finds beyond Earth.
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This volume gathers a selection of Alice Meynell’s literary essays, chosen from pieces not yet reprinted in book form. The essays shown here focus on Shakespeare, especially his treatment of kingship, royalty, and the contrast between splendor and mortality in the plays. The opening material also includes an editor’s note explaining the selection’s preparation at the request of the Oxford University Press.
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