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Ladataan... Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger ClimesTekijä: Kevan Manwaring (Toimittaja)
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SUMMARY: From the flood myths of Babylon, the Mahabharata and the Bible, to 20th century psychological storms, this foray into troubled waters, heat waves, severe winters, hurricanes, and hailstones, offers the perfect read on a rainy day--or night. Featuring a selection of some of the finest writers in the English language--Algernon Blackwood, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and more--this collection of weird tales will delight and disturb Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinSisältää nämä:The Lightning-Rod Man (tekijä: Herman Melville) August Heat [short story] (tekijä: W. F. Harvey) Summer Snow Storm (tekijä: Adam Chase) The Birds [short story] (tekijä: Daphne Du Maurier) Horror Horn (tekijä: E. F. Benson) August Heat (tekijä: W. F. Harvey) Monsoons of Death (tekijä: Robert Silverberg) Caterpillars [short story] (tekijä: E. F. Benson) (epäsuora) The Room in the Tower [short fiction] (tekijä: E. F. Benson) (epäsuora) Tämän lyhennelty versio:
Since Odysseus' curious crew first unleashed the bag of winds gifted him by Aeolus, the God of Winds, literature has been awash with tales of bad or strange weather. From the flood myths of Babylon, the Mahabharata and the Bible, to 20th century psychological storms, this foray into troubled waters, heat waves, severe winters, hurricanes, and hailstones, offers the perfect read on a rainy day--or night. Featuring a selection of some of the finest writers in the English language--Algernon Blackwood, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and more--this collection of weird tales will delight and disturb. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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-History of a Six Weeks' Tour (extract) (1817) by Mary Shelley
-The Lightning-Rod Man (1854) by Herman Melville
-A Descent Into the Maelstrom (1841) by Edgar Allan Poe
-The Great Snow (1876) by Richard Jefferies
-The Horror-Horn (1923) by E.F. Benson
-May Day Eve (1907) by Algernon Blackwood
-August Heat (1910) by W.F. Harvey
-A Mild Attack of Locusts (1955) by Doris Lessing
-Through the Vortex of a Cyclone (1907) by William Hope Hodgson
-The Wind-Gnome (1893) by Jonas Lie
-Summer Snow Storm (1956) by Adam Chase
-The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes (1950) by Margaret St. Clair
-Monsoons of Death (1942) by Gerald Vance
-The Purple Cloud (extract) (1901) by M.P. Shiel
-The Birds (1952) by Daphne du Maurier