In this book you can find horror and humor stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. All the stories are illustrated in pictures

Автор книги рассказывает нам о Советском Союзе, о советских людях. О том, каким он их увидел, прожив в стране пять лет

The shadow over innsmouth, reanimator, and more tales of primal terror

In this book you will find many stories of Jack London, which are illustrated in pictures

This book the Feminism in Korea, which has successfully positioned itself as a critical knowledge and alternative social movement, questions the abstract universalism of globalization, and intends to generate alternative values by using feminist sensitivity to concreteness, solidarity, plurality, and diversity. The essays in this collection are analyzing the bifaceted nature of globalization, the ambivalent position of Korea visà-vis globalization due to its historical and geopolitical experience, and the multiple aspects of feminism versus globalization. However, they are intended to go beyond the academic studies and abstract analyses on the implication of globalization on feminism in Korea. Their collective aim. rather, is to produce an alternative by coming up with a definition of the local that is distinct from traditional localism, identity a point of departure, and try to implement what ahs been proposed in the real world.

Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America

After years of standing against the U.S. government, Geronimo, the great warrior and spiritual leader, is coming to the end of his life. His grandson visits him where he is imprisoned, in Fort Sill, Oklakhoma, in 1908, a visit which ignites a story brimming with a little-known, thoroughly researched details about the man who said to "see into the future and walk without creating footprints." In this gripping novel, Joseph Bruchac brings history alive with one of the most legendary and fascinating figures of our time

Fed up with his parents' boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god - the town`s water tower. He recruits an unlikely group of worshippers: his snail-farming best friend, Shin, cute-as-a-button (whatever that means) Magda Price, and the violent and unpredictable Henry Stagg. As their religion grows, it takes on a life of its own. While Jason struggles to keep the faith pure, Shin obsesses over writing their bible, and the explosive Henry schemes to make the new faith even more exciting and dangerous

Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid creatures called Yahoos