To it comes Hero Athena Hollis, a Boston bluestocking filled with self-righteousness and bent on good deeds.Then she meets Rory Frost, a cynical, wicked, shrewd and good-humored trader in slaves. What is Hero to make of him (and of her feelings for him)?"Tightly plotted, crammed with detail and irresistibly romantic." (Cosmopolitan)Note: M.M. Kaye is the author of The Far Pavilions, one of the great stories to emerge from British India.

    He made significant contributions in the fields of literature and geography, and was also a poet, traveler, soldier, diplomat, inventor, explorer, archaeologist, student of religion and more. But above all, Burton was an adventurer in both the intellectual and spiritual world.Byron Farwell spent seven years investigating virtually every place ever visited by Burton. He overcame formidable difficulties in tracking down and reading all of Burton's extant works (his widow, Isabel, had burned most of his books when he died). Still, Burton proved a highly elusive subject for his biographer. But he has at last been caught. The result is a magnificent biography and a story that fascinates and compels.

    T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was perhaps one of the two or three greatest of all writers of fantasy. His wonderful tales, translated into many languages and adapted into numerous stage works, have delighted readers for a century and a half. They open our eyes to an extraordinary world of fantasy, poetry, and the supernatural. Remarkable characters come vividly to life. With exciting speed, Hoffmann moves from the firm ground of reality to ambiguity, mystery, and romance. His imaginativeness is unsurpassed, and his handling of allegory, symbolism, and mysticism is unusually skillful. These qualities make his tales some of the most stimulating and enjoyable in the world's literature. They can be read on many levels of enjoyment; as exciting fiction brilliantly told, as a fascinating statement of many of the major concerns of the Romantic era, and as a culmination of German Romantic literature. This collection contains ten of his best tales: "The Golden Flower Pot," "Automata," "A New Year's Eve Adventure," "Nutcracker and the King of Mice," "The Sand-Man," "Rath Krespel," "Tobias Martin, Master Cooper, and His Men," "The Mines of Falun," "Signor Formica," and "The King's Betrothed."

    

    Rich in anecdotes and interwoven with lively narrative, this will be of interest to students of strategy and those interested in pure Civil War drama.

    His Spiritual insight remains unsurpassed.

    T. A. Hoffmann dwelt in the realm of "things that seem to not exist but live just the same." The truth of these words of Balzac's about Germany's greatest Romantic storyteller is confirmed by all five tales in this volume, each representing a different facet of Hoffmann's genius, yet bearing its unmistakable signature.The impact of these stories is all the more stunning because they are variations on a single theme: the pursuit of a man by a dark fate he nurtures within himself. Long before the advent of psychoanalysis, Hoffmann was aware of the threat of eruption from the unconscious. The weird lands he explores lie within ourselves.The SandmanOne of the tales selected by Offenbach for his opera Tales of Hoffmann. Nathanael, presented in childhood with a gruesome picture of the "bringer of sleep," flees all his life from a man who wants his eyes.Mademoiselle de ScuderyIn which a victim of split personality baffles the police of 17th century France.Datura FastuosaOf the awful consequences of repression and a mother fixation.The King's BrideSuch delightful whimsy! Yet it does not spare us an encounter with the more dubious aspects of ourselves.Gambler's LuckA suggestion of Edgar Allan Poe and perhaps Robert Louis Stevenson, and is there a touch of O. Henry?

    

    On the condition that they would not be sent south to fight former comrades, they exchanged gray uniforms for blue and headed west to fight Indians, escort supply trains, man lonely frontier outposts, and more.

    In this volume: H. G. Wells. The father of modern science fiction introduces us to a world of fantastic creations in The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine.Contents:The War of the WorldsThe Time MachineThe Crystal EggThe Story of the Late Mr. ElveshamThe Red RoomThe Valley of SpidersIn the AbyssIn the Avu ObservatoryThe Truth About Pyecraft

    The Description for this book, Reform in the Ottoman Empire, 1856-1876, will be forthcoming.