(Estoque A42312 ); capa possui leve marca de dobradura; contracapa preservada; lombada preservada; miolo preservado; Bordas Preservada; páginas sem grifos e rasuras; Para mais detalhes solicitar foto; quantidade de páginas 373. - 201652245 _PI5280660_

(Estoque N. ZC-390); Capa e contracapa preservadas; lombada, miolo e bordas preservados; páginas sem grifos e rasuras; quantidade de páginas: 173. Para mais detalhes, solicitar foto. - 201652113

Exemplar em ótimo estado de conservação. AM P 174

Exemplar em ótimo estado de conservação. AM P 174

Exemplar em ótimo estado de conservação. AM P 170

Exemplar em ótimo estado de conservação. AM P 174

Exemplar em ótimo estado de conservação. AM P 171

Exemplar em bom estado de conservação, AM P 173

marcas de manuseio he writes a clear, light prose, and he makes his interests, however bizarre, seem important. - punch one of the more earnest and interesting writers of his generation. - the guardian he has the kind of story-telling power which could charm the birds off the trees. - the journal (newcastle upon tyne)

Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900, its an offer thats too good to refuse. Theres only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives elderly Mrs. Allardyce, and the Rolfes will be responsib...

Harmonicas bridegroom

Lets go play at the adams (paperbacks from hell)

Livro familiar spirit (paperbacks from hell)

Livro narrow rooms (valancourt 20th century classics)

Livro the glass cage

Livro the god of the labyrinth

The mysterious warning

The philosophers stone

The sins of the cities of the plain

The year is 1969, and in the British city of Randelwyck, racial tensions are simmering, the situation made worse by an acute housing shortage. Legendary architect Sir George Strand has a solution: two new state-of-the-art high-rise apartment towers linked by walkway bridges, symbolizing the bridging of differences and a closer link between the divided citizenry. But when a professor hints there ma...

The year is 1969, and in the British city of Randelwyck, racial tensions are simmering, the situation made worse by an acute housing shortage. Legendary architect Sir George Strand has a solution: two new state-of-the-art high-rise apartment towers linked by walkway bridges, symbolizing the bridging of differences and a closer link between the divided citizenry. But when a professor hints there ma...

A book I greatly admire. - Graham GreeneOne of the most interesting first novels I have read for some time. Short and dramatic, and written with a fine simplicity. I could not put it down until I knew all that was to happen that Saturday night. - Sunday TimesA first novel of outstanding merit . . . In Mr. Hampson we have a new writer of strong and wholly original talent. - Harold Nicolson, Daily E...

Gillian Freeman is among the finest contemporary novelists. - Brigid Brophy, New StatesmanRealistic and unsentimental . Their relationship is handled with delicacy and has an authentic ring. - Sunday Telegraph[S]ober and scrupulously documented . accurately and touchingly demonstrates the unselfconscious and comparatively guiltless love which working-class men often feel for each other. - Time and...

One of the greatest works of science fiction ever written. - Richard DawkinsWithout a question the most intelligently written science fiction story I have ever read . . . A terrific yarn. - Charlotte ObserverAn eerie story which demands the readers attention from start to finish. - Denver Post[A] rattling good story . . . a really thrilling book. There is a largeness, generosity, and jollity about...

The best writer in the genre since H. P. Lovecraft. - Los Angeles Herald-ExaminerOutstanding in the genre. - August DerlethIn the same class as M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood. - Michael and Mollie HardwickOne of the last great traditionalists of English fiction. - Colin WilsonFrederick Plowright, a well-known scientific photographer, is recruited by Professor Clark Ashton Scarsdale to accompany...

Armand Gervase has it all. He is a famous artist, his paintings are hung in national galleries, and he is celebrated worldwide. His best-known painting, depicting an alluring Egyptian woman about to murder her lover, is known for its minute, historic detail, yet Armand has no experience with Egypts ancient past . . . or does he?Rejecting the idea of heaven and hell, soul and spirit, Armand embrace...

One of the more earnest and interesting writers of his generation. - The GuardianMr Wilsons vitality comes through. He writes a clear, light prose, and he makes his interests, however bizarre, seem important. - PunchCompelling. - New StatesmanGerard Sorme thinks the key to a more meaningful life lies in an expansion of human consciousness, and he believes that one way to expand it is through sexua...

The finest writer of paperback originals in America. - Stephen KingReaders of weak constitution should beware. - Publishers WeeklyMcDowell has a flair for the gruesome. - Washington PostWelcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy Alabama small town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. Now they are about to endure another: fourteen-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of ...

Charles Jackson (1903-1968) achieved international success with his first book, The Lost Weekend (1944), a groundbreaking novel about alcoholism that sold more than 600,000 copies and was adapted for an Academy Award-winning film version. Jackson followed this triumph with a novel that was even more daring, The Fall of Valor (1946), arguably the first major American novel to deal openly with the t...

Garnet Montrose returns home from Vietnam to small-town Virginia with injuries so terrible that people become ill at the sight of him. Seeking assistance and companionship in his isolation, Garnet hires two young male caretakers, Quintus and Daventry. His interest and curiosity are awakened by the books Quintus reads to him, but in the handsome Daventry he finds a powerful, transformative love unl...

One of the great pulp writers, Fredric Brown (1906-1972) combined a flair for the horrific, a quirky sense of humor, and a wild imagination, and published many classic novels in the mystery and science fiction genres. But he was also a master of the short-short story, tales only a page or two in length, but hard-hitting and with a wicked twist at the end. Nightmares and Geezenstacks (1961) collect...

Nothing much ever happens in the sleepy English town of Warchester. So when a farmer is found savagely killed in some sort of animal attack, its a big story for local reporter David Pascal. The rich and eccentric Sir Darren Penward tells the police an escaped Siberian tiger from his private zoo is to blame, but Pascal isnt so sure. Especially when one witness describes something impossible: an eno...

The poetry of the Graveyard School - gloomy meditations on mortality, often composed in churchyards - was immensely popular in 18th-century England and was an important forerunner of the Romantic period and a major influence on the development of the Gothic novel. Yet, despite the unquestioned significance of the Graveyard Poets, critical attention has been scant, and until now there has been no c...

We darent go a-hunting for fear of little men - words from an old childrens song, but to the residents of one Welsh village its more than just a nursery rhyme. A legend has been handed down through the ages, telling of an ancient mountain people, dedicated to evil, who were massacred by the villagers ancestors three thousand years ago. No animals ever graze on the northern slope of the mountain wh...

Horrific, grisly and truly frightening . . . a masterpiece of terror. - Washington StarOne of the more terrifying, deliciously scary thrillers. - New York MagazineThis is a beastly business that will make your flesh creep. A magnificently malignant horror story to which you will be unavoidably committed. - Kirkus ReviewsYoull wish you never started reading the damn thing in the first place but you...