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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a story that they tell on the solitary farms on the borders of the Catskill mountains where I grew up. It is a mistake to think that country is settled and modern just because the big highways stretch from city to city and the factories hold out clean jobs that pay better than the scratch-the-soil farming on shale rock. For between every farm is a stretch of woodland and every farm has its own woods and by night there are deer and rabbits and even wolves and the big lynxes that prowl south of Canada in a hungry season. And every now and again to some lonely farm-girl who roams the edges and center of the deep woods by night a child will be born like Helma Lassiter . . .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He seemed to be nothing more than a tramp. And yet for some reason Ira Kaplan found himself drawn to the man almost as much as he was repulsed by him. He spoke English of a sort all the words were recognizable but together they defied interpretation. What could he want Who could he be.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sometimes she had walked for days at a time in that dream; she would wake to find food that she could not remember gathering. Somehow pervasive the dream voices had taken over; the whispering winds had been full of voices and even hands. She had fallen ill and lain for days sick and delirious and had heard a voice which hardly seemed to be her own saying that if she died the wind voices would care for Robin.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hunger and sleepless nights had knobbed his cheekbones and honed his chin to a sharp point. An almost visible air clung to him a hot aura that seemed to result from veins full of lava and eyeballs spilling out a heat that could not be held within him. He had the face every transie had the face of a man who was either burning with fever or who had seen a vision.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Yellow Wallpaper is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature illustrating attitudes in the nineteenth century toward women's physical and mental health. The story also has been classified as Gothic fiction and horror fiction. The story is written as a collection of first person journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house that he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal entries from him so that she can recuperate from what he calls a 'temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency ' a diagnosis common to women in that period.Her husband controls her access to the rest of the house. In the end she imagines that there are women creeping around behind the patterns of the wallpaper and comes to believe that she is one of them. She locks herself in the room now the only place where she feels safe refusing to leave when the summer rental is up.Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A newly married couple are traveling when they get caught in a thunderstorm. Forced to pull off the road they take refuge in the first way station they can find. But the old mansion is not what it seems and the two could not have imagined what awaited them within.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No self-respecting artist can object to suffering for his art . but not in a society where art is outdated by technology! From the author of Marching Morons.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Collected here in one volume is the United States Constitution with all of the Amendments and seven important Ant-Federalist papers by writers such as Patrick Henry Samuel Adams and George Clinton. The Anti-Federalists were opposed to a strong federal government. They were concerned that if too much power was given to the federal government states' rights would necessarily be eroded.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ernest Hemingway was one of America's best known and most beloved authors. This was a his first published book. These three stories and ten poems served notice that a major new talent had arrived and the rules of American Literature were about to change.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One thing Man never counted on to take along into space with him was the Eternal Triangle-especially a true-blue triangle like this!Evelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Galaxy Super Science Fiction and Fantastic Universe. Her stories were witty well written often humorous and always unforgettable.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jack Berry is told not to take his boat out into deep waters. But as any young man who has been told not to do a thing would he does it anyway and discovers on island. When exploring the island he meets a beautiful young woman named Mary. She lives with her aunts on the island and has never been to the mainland. Mary is convinced that it's the year 1933. Jack is sure she's just been misinformed and plans to prove to her that it's many years later than that. But is he right.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Guy Burckhardt wakes up screaming but can't remember the nightmare that caused his fright. Slowly over the next couple of days he comes to realize he's been reliving the same day over and over. And things only get stranger and more frightening from there. One of the true classics of science fiction.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Zadig is a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. Voltaire did not attempt historical accuracy with this book. Many of the problems Zadig faces are thinly disguised references to social and political problems of Voltaire's own day. Zadig is philosophical in nature and presents human life as being beyond human control. It is a story of religious and metaphysical orthodoxy both of which Voltaire challenges with his presentation of the moral revolution taking place in Zadig himself. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He came to her handsome and youthful in appearance. He had been alive far longer than she could have imagine. In that time he had faced many dangers but was she the danger that would undo him and send him to eternal damnation.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Just because you can doesn't mean you should.It was Andersen's odd talk that marked the beginning of it for us. Of course that wasn't the real beginning. I suppose you might say it really started when Becquerel first puzzled over his fogged photographic plates. But to us Andersen's premonitions were the start. We called him the 'Melancholy Dane.' But that was just a joke though his tall cadaverous appearance fitted it. He wasn't really a gloomy sort and was a first-class nuclear chemist. That was why he surprised us with what he said at dinner that night. 'I have a feeling that what we are doing here is against the cosmic scheme ' he said in his slow English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No one had ever escaped from Venus' dread Stellar Legion. And as Thekla the low-Martian learned no one had ever betrayed it and-lived.Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first woman to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories novels and scripts for Hollywood. She wrote the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back shortly before her death in 1978.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Women rule because of their greater ability to use and understand logic while men can't be trusted to be anything other than emotional. Venus Is a Man's World takes you on a humorous satirical romp that only William Tenn could pull off. Wry witty and intelligent.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Don't imagine my dear that by what I'm going to say I mean to exercise the authority of a mother always ready as you know I am to listen in my turn to your reasons when I think them good; my intention is not to lay my commands on you but to give you my advice; it is my heart which speaks to you and that experience I have had in the world makes me foresee evils which I would endeavor to prevent: you have been at court I think not above two months; believe me 'tis a dangerous situation: the perfidious group of courtiers always look on a new-comer with an eye of malevolence and soon find out all his imperfections: from the first moment they condemn him without pity or remorse; and which is still worse their judgment is irrevocable: be guarded against their malice: on the first step we take in life the rest of it must in a great measure depend: if you once make yourself ridiculous the world will think you always so: the impression will remain: it is in vain as you advance in years to change your conduct and assume a more serious behavior: you will suffer a long time from old prejudices: even if we do grow better we are still suspected; and I have often known men pay dearly in their old age for the errors of their youth: have a little regard therefore to the world and remember you ought to live now more for that than for yourself.Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Destiny reached out a hand to Algernon Weaver-but he was a timid man at first. But on the strange world of Terranova there was much to be learned-of destiny and other things.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - They're a group of rebels in the far future trying to save mankind. Join them as they travel through both space and time tying to defeat a fascist government that wants to control time itself. The Rebels are seeking a better future but will they find it or will they create a future that's even worse than what they're trying to prevent An exciting ride through time! You won't soon forget the stunning conclusion.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It's more than a little careless to lose a battleship even in interstellar space. Enter Slippery Jim diGriz better known as the Stainless Steel Rat the fastest talking con-man in the galaxy. Jim will need to go undercover to find the missing Battleship and make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. A fast paced comical science fiction romp!