Included are speeches by Martin Luther King Jr, and his "Letter from Birmingham City Jail", an interview with Rosa Parks, selections from "Malcolm X Speaks"; Black Panther Bobby Seale's "Seize the Time", a piece by Herman Badillo on the infamous Attica prison uprising; addresses by Harold Washington, Jesse Jackson, Nelson Mandela and much more.

    In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay beyond it. Though they were as much a part of the cultural and literary fabric of the age as imperial confidence, the best of the stories still retain their original power to surprise and unsettle. In Victorian Ghost Stories, the editors map out the development of the ghost story from 1850 to the early years of the twentieth century and demonstrate the importance of this form of short fiction in Victorian popular culture. As well as reprinting stories by supernatural specialists such as J. S. Le Fanu and M. R. James, this selection emphasizes the key role played by women writers--including Elizabeth Gaskell, Rhoda Broughton, and Charlotte Riddell--and offers one or two genuine rarities. Other writers represented include Charles Dickens, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and R. L. Stevenson. There is also a fascinating Introduction and a chronological list of ghost story collections from 1850 to 1910.Includes:The old nurse's story by Elizabeth GaskellAn account of some strange disturbances in Aungier Street by J.S. Le FanuThe miniature by J.Y. AkermanThe last house in C-Street by Dinah MulockTo be taken with a grain of salt by Charles DickensThe Botathen ghost by R.S. HawkerThe truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth by Rhoda BroughtonThe romance of certain old clothes by Henry JamesPichon & Sons, of the Croix Rousse by AnonymousReality or delusion? by Mrs Henry WoodUncle Cornelius, his story by George MacDonaldThe shadow of a shade by Tom HoodAt Chrighton Abbey by Mary Elizabeth BraddonNo living voice by Thomas Street MillingtonMiss Jéromette and the clergyman by Wilkie CollinsThe story of Clifford House by AnonymousWas it an illusion? by Amelia B. EdwardsThe open door by Charlotte RiddellThe captain of the "Pole-star" by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe body-snatcher by Robert Louis StevensonThe story of the rippling train by Mary Louisa MolesworthAt the end of the passage by Rudyard Kipling"To let" by B.M. CrokerJohn Charrington's wedding by E. NesbitThe haunted organist of Hurly Burly by Rosa MulhollandThe man of science by Jerome K. JeromeCanon Alberic's scrap-book by M.R. JamesJerry Bundler by W.W. JacobsAn Eddy on the floor by Bernard CapesThe tomb of Sarah by F.G. LoringThe case of Vincent Pyrwhit by Barry PainThe shadows on the wall by Mary E. WilkinsFather Macclesfield's tale by R.H. BensonThurnley Abbey by Perceval LandonThe kit-bag by Algernon Blackwood

    LGBT Studies. "CHICANA LESBIANS is a love poem, a bible, a dictionary, nothing so simple as a manifesto--this book is yet another reason to believe--to believe in the girls our mothers warned us about, brown girls, lesbians, making their own love poems, bibles, dictionaries, manifestoes, reasons to believe."--Dorothy Allison"When I was selling books at a Chicana conference, I noticed book buyers were literally afraid to touch this anthology. I say now what I said then, 'Don't be scared. Sexuality is not contagious, but ignorance is.' If you've ever been curious, been there, been voyeur, been tourist, or just plain under-informed, misinformed, or unaffirmed, here is a book to listen to and learn from."--Sandra Cisneros

    Yet the fiction books in the Borealis imprint certainly belong to a world other than our own. This line encompasses our science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and anthologies.

    John Gross, former book critic for The New York Times, has collected classics and rare gems, representative samples and personal favorites, intimate essays and learned, serious reflections and hysterically funny satire, by both British and American writers. The authors Gross has gathered form a gallery of genius, all indispensable masters of rhetoric, from Samuel Butler to Samuel Johnson, from George Eliot to George Bernard Shaw, from John Dryden to Ben Franklin, from E.B. White to Joan Didion. Including book reviews and travel sketches, history lessons and meditations, reflections on art and on potato chips, these essays sample four centuries of eloquence and insight in a collection that is at once immensely enlightening, edifying, and entertaining.

    Long years from now the stories here may still touch someone, cause that person to blink, and put the book down for a second, and stare off through the hallow air, and shirver in wonder." Contents 1 • Preface (The Legend Book of Science Fiction) • (1991) • essay by Gardner Dozois7 • The Country of the Kind • (1956) • shortstory by Damon Knight22 • Aristotle and the Gun • (1958) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp59 • The Other Celia • (1957) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon78 • Casey Agonistes • (1958) • shortstory by Richard McKenna [as by Richard M. McKenna ]90 • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith116 • The Moon Moth • (1961) • novelette by Jack Vance157 • The Golden Horn • [Tales of a Darkening World] • (1962) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn196 • The Lady Margaret • [Pavane] • (1966) • novelette by Keith Roberts (aka The Lady Anne)238 • This Moment of the Storm • (1966) • novelette by Roger Zelazny273 • Narrow Valley • (1966) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty287 • Driftglass • (1967) • shortstory by Samuel R. Delany309 • The Worm That Flies • (1968) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss331 • The Fifth Head of Cerberus • (1972) • novella by Gene Wolfe397 • Nobody's Home • (1972) • shortstory by Joanna Russ416 • Her Smoke Rose Up Forever • (1974) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.437 • The Barrow • (1976) • shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin447 • Particle Theory • (1977) • shortstory by Edward Bryant472 • The Ugly Chickens • (1980) • novelette by Howard Waldrop499 • Going Under • (1981) • novelette by Jack Dann [as by Jack M. Dann ]521 • Salvador • (1984) • shortstory by Lucius Shepard543 • Pretty Boy Crossover • (1986) • shortstory by Pat Cadigan557 • The Pure Product • (1986) • novelette by John Kessel580 • The Winter Market • (1985) • novelette by William Gibson603 • Chance • (1986) • novelette by Connie Willis637 • The Edge of the World • (1989) • shortstory by Michael Swanwick654 • Dori Bangs • (1989) • shortstory by Bruce Sterling671 • Afterword (The Legend Book of Science Fiction) • (1991) • essay by Gardner Dozois

    Omnibus of the two previous “People” books, Pilgrimage and The People: No Different Flesh, plus the other four stories in the series, two previously uncollected.Contents:Zenna Henderson - an Appreciation by Anne McCaffreyPilgrimage (novel)"Ararat""Gilead""Pottage""Wilderness""Captivity · na F&SF Jun ’58 "Jordan · nv F&SF Mar ’59 The People: No Different Flesh novel"No Different Flesh""Deluge""Angels Unawares""Troubling of the Water""Return""Shadow on the Moon""The Indelible Kind""Incident After""The Walls""Katie-Mary’s Trip"

    WuMorning Terrors — Peter CrowtherMisadventures in the Skin Trade — Don D’AmmassaCircle of Lias — Lawrence C. ConnollyWatching the Soldiers — Dirk StrasserOne in the A.M. — Rachel DrummondA Side of the Sea — Ramsey CampbellPainted Faces — Gerard Daniel HournerMonotone — Lawrence GreenbergDead Leaves — James C. DobbsFrom the Mouths of Babes — Bentley LittleThe Late Mr. Havel’s Apartment — David HerterUnion Dues — Gary BraunbeckEarshot — Glenn IsaacsonFee — Peter Straub

    The Ends of the Earth is a testimonial to a genius of the genre, and a major American writer. Winner of the 1992 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.Contents:The Ends of the Earth (1989)Delta Sly Honey (1987)Bound for Glory (1989)The Exercise of Faith (1987)Nomans Land (1988)Life of Buddha (1988)Shades (1987)Aymara (1986)A Wooden Tiger (1988)The Black Clay Boy (1987)Fire Zone Emerald (1985)On the Border (1987)The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter (1988)Surrender (1989)

    IntroductionOne: The River PlateHoracio Quiroga: The Dead ManJulia Cortázar: AxolotlArmonía Somers: Waiting for PolidoroJorge Luís Borges: The Circular RuinsJuan Carlos Onetti: The Dog Will Have Its DayAdolfo Bioy Casares: The IdolManuel Puig: Relative Humidity 95%Two: ChileIsabel Allende: Toad's MouthThree: BrazilJorge Amado: The Miracle of the BirdsMurilo Rubião: The Ex-Magician from the Minhota TavernClarice Lispector: LoveJoaquim Maria Machado de Assis: The PsychiatristMoacyr Scliar: The PlaguesJoão Guimarães Rosa: The Third Bank of the RiverJoão Ubaldo Ribeiro: It Was a Different Day When They Killed the PigLygia Fagundes Telles: The CorsetRubem Fonseca: LonelyheartsPaulo Emílio Salles Gomes: Twice with HelenaFour: MexicoCarlos Fuentes: The Doll QueenJuan Rulfo: LuvinaFive: The CaribbeanRosario Ferré: The GiftReinaldo Arenas: Bestial Among the FlowersAna Lydia Vega: Story-BoundGabriel García Márquez: The Last Voyage of the Ghost ShipGuillermo Cabrera Infante: The Phantom of the EssoldoAlejo Carpentier: Journey Back to the Source

    This, the second of the two volumes, covers poets from Blake to Heaney, and provides an excellent portrayal of a wide variety of eighteenth to twentieth century poets.The richness and variety of this tradition are represented in this collection by all the great and familiar names, but also some of the less well-known poets who have often provided startling exceptions to the poetry of their age. The result is a rich and multi-coloured tapestry of the depth, diversity, and energy of poetry written in Britain and Ireland.Beginning with William Blake, this second volume, covers many of the Romantic poets (Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats). It gives a generous survey of nineteenth century verse, including that of Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins, and Lewis Carroll, with poets from the twentieth-century being represented by poets such as Graves, Betjeman, Larking, Hughes, and Heaney.

    Bitter Music presents Partch's ideas about the place of music in society, his work as a composer, his compositions, and his unique instruments.The anthology opens with "Bitter Music," a journal Partch kept while he wandered the American West as a transient during the Depression. Partch himself had thought the journal was lost. Deeply personal, it provides important biographical information on a formative period in his life and hints at the insecurity that pervaded his career, the institutional support he enjoyed one year and the economic hardship he endured the next. An important work of American Depression literature, the journal is unique for its inclusion of musically notated speech and folk and popular music. A second journal, "End Littoral" records a hiking trip along the rugged California coastline. The anthology also offers twelve essays detailing Partch's provocative analysis of the relation of music and the composer to society. Two are published here for the first time; the others appeared in often obscure or ephemeral publications between 1941 and 1972. Included as well are twelve extended discussions by Partch of his own compositions, in the form of introductions or program notes, of which ten are published here for the first time. The anthology concludes with librettos or scenarios for six of his major narrative or dramatic compositions.

    All author proceeds from the book will go to the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project. 6 photographs. Dried corsages. Like swans on still water. Saturday night. Mellow on morphine. Letter from home. Like Emily Dickinson. Second tour. Grandfathers rocking. My dead are not silent. Initiated in agony / Dana Shuster --Okinawa 1969. Seventeen summers after Vietnam / Mary Pat O'Connor --7 times 52. Flashback. The best act in Pleiku. Holy Saturday 1971. Dreams that blister sleep / Sharon Grant --Vietnam 1965 / Judith Drake --Saigon. Mamsan. Pre-op. Road show. Combat zone. Snafu / Kathleen Trew --In this land. The kid. Wounds of war. July 20, 1969. Dying with grace. Confession. Crone. In the war zone. Knowing / Marilyn McMahon --A boom, a billow. Vo Thi Truong. Walking class. Row upon endless row. The Moon is a nuisance / Lady Borton --Kenny / Emily Strange --How do you say I love you in a war? Dear Mom. I know you've waited. Do you really want to know / Bobbie Trotter --Two villages. Vermont Vietnam (I) / Grace Paley --Vietnam. A nurse's lament. We went, we came. Our own parade / Janet Krouse Wyatt --My son's childhood / Xuan Quynh --Vigil. Recollection. Some days. The walk to the Wall. In war and peace. Guided journey. Flashdance. Camouflage. Peace. Coral Bay / Joan A. Furey --Sister Mary. The coffee room soldier. Vietnam, oppressive heat. I hold them. Cordwood / Penny Kettlewell --The friendship only lasted a few seconds. Being a vet is like losing a baby / Lily Lee Adams --The Vietnamese mother / Huong Tram --Hello, David. I went to Vietnam to heal. Where's the tripwire, Jack? / Dusty --Cheated. To my unknown soldier boy / Mary Lu Ostergren Brunner --The trouble is triteness / Winifred Schramm --Flashbacks. The tears. The "Vietnam vet". The tears. Death speaks. Under the covers. Keep mum. The general's car. Armistice Day. The statue. The peace to end all wars / Norma J. Griffiths --How many sounds? It's too easy. TV wars--first blood part II. Middle East montage. For Molly. Making friends / Lynda Van Devanter Buckley --To An Phu. From this distance I talk to you / Ha Phuong --Saving lives. Unseen. Hindsight / Mary O'Brien Tyrrell --One small boy / Kathleen F. Harty --Recovery / Mary Beyers Garrison --In memoriam / Joan Parrot Skiba --Eyes / Helen DeCrane Roth --Left behind. Our war. It's been so long. "Thanks, nurse". / Diane Carlson Evans --Dark angel / Joan Arrington Craigwell --My war. Unnamed. Reunited / Diane C. Jaeger --The gift in wartime. Dream of peace / Tran Mong Tu --Where are they now? / Margaret Flatt --Montagnard bracelets. Crying. Saigon? / Sara J. McVicker --Look into my eyes and see. When the parade passed by / Joyce A. Merrill --Images at the Wall / Linda Spoonster Schwartz --Even now / Bernadette Harrod --Confessional. Short 1968-1990 / Lou McCurdy Sorrin --How do you say goodbye? / Penni Evans --My letter to the Wall / Nguyen Ngoc Xuan --Poem without name / Minh Duc Hoai Trinh

    This anthology brings together vivid stories and poems of Native American, Hispanic American, African American, and Asian American writers.

    "An engrossing celebration of mystery stories by today's top women writers".--Mary Higgins Clark.

    Bold women warriors, wise women, sorceresses wielding the powers of light - all are ready to aid those in need with no thought to the perils them themselves will face.Let some of today's fines fantasy writers - Mercedes Lackey, Jennifer Roberson, Diana Paxson, and their fellow visionaries - carry you off to the enchanted lands where stalwart heroines pit their skills against such terrors as:an ancient dragon that has long held a kingdom hostage to its terrible hunger...a stealer of magics who seeks to drain the power from all who cross her path...a mortal so caught in evil's thrall that not even his own family is safe from harm...and all the other enemies that only those long-trained to battle with sword and spell can hope to overcome...

    by Tahira Naqvi.includes "The Quilt and Other Stories, The Heart Breaks Free, and The Wild One.

    

    Yet the fiction books in the Borealis imprint certainly belong to a world other than our own. This line encompasses our science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and anthologies.

    The selections are grouped under ten major metaphysical problems and each section is preceded by an introduction by the editors.

    "A refreshingly honest treatment of a complex subject."--Library Journal ¶"A wide and useful collection."--Booklist

    Provocative and encyclopedic, the book covers subjects from psychic detection, reincarnation and alternative history to vampires, doppelgangers and Odic forces.

    Writers include Robert Aickman, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Edith Wharton, and others.

    

    Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions —all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.

    An anthology presenting translations of sixty documents from a golden age of ancient Egyptian culture (c. 2081-1600 BC), the documents illustrate all aspects of life and the place of literacy in an early civilisation. The 'voices' range from the high formal literature of religious rituals and royal monuments to the hurried requests of the bureaucrats and the jokes of harrassed workmen. They tell a tale not only of the intellectual beliefs of the elite, but of family feuds, love and murder, as well as the pastoral dreams of a society trying to attain its vision of absolute order in a chaotic universe.

    government's murderous assault on Iraq heralded increasingly sharp conflicts among imperialist powers, the rise of rights and fascist forces, growing instability of international capitalism and more wars.

    Fisher"John Ovington Returns", by Max Brand"Fishhead", by Irvin S. Cobb"The Outcast", by E. F. Benson"The Yellow Sign", by Robert W. Chambers"The Derelict", by William Hope Hodgson"The Novel of the White Powder", by Arthur Machen"The Highwayman", by Lord Dunsany"Daemon", by C. L. Moore"The Burial of the Rats", by Bram Stoker"The Day of the Deepies", by Murray Leinster"The Horror of the Heights", by Arthur Conan Doyle"The Lonesome Place", by August Derleth"The Shadow and the Flash", by Jack London"That Low", by Theodore Sturgeon"The Human Angle", by William Tenn"The Toys of Fate", by Tod Robbins"The Counter Charm", by Margaret St. Clair"Guardian Angel", by Arthur C. Clarke"Mimic", by Donald A. Wollheim"The Music of Erich Zann", by H. P. Lovecraft"The Dancing Partner", by Jerome K. Jerome"Lukundoo", by Edward Lucas White"The Man Who Collected Poe", by Robert Bloch"Thus I Refute Beelzy", by John Collier"Homecoming", by Ray Bradbury"Worms of the Earth", by Robert E. Howard

    Is the Death Flower, which feeds on human blood and misery, the only way to control people's inhumanity?Will Medoc, a fur trader, continue to travel from planet to planet destroying entire species?Can Stephen return from the future with a video-tape of post-holocaust London and so prevent the onslaught of World War III?Danger, romance and tragedy - and a disturbing hint of menace - make this an utterly compelling collection of science fiction stories.

    EstlemanExit by Andrew Henry VachssDeathman by Ed GormanIntroduction to The Red Scarf by Bill PronziniThe Red Scarf by Gil BrewerBut You'll Never Follow Me by Karl Edward WagnerThe Tunnel of Love ["Hell Is My Legacy"] by Robert BlochTony by William Relling Jr.By the Hair of the Head by Joe R. LansdaleRed Light [Ms. Michael Tree] by Max Allan CollinsTaking the Night Train by Thomas F. MonteleoneStoner by William F. NolanIntroduction to Anatomy of a KillerAnatomy of a Killer by Peter RabeNight Walker by Robert J. RandisiDust to Dust by Marcia MullerFaces by F. Paul Wilson

    The readings are divided thematically into four sections, each with an introduction to the theme and followed by comprehension exercises and a photo essay. The themes--city life, family life, human relations, and the effect of progress on society--were selected to pique student interest in contemporary Italian literature.

    Reproduces an album with the poems and imaginary portraits of the great writers that flourished in the imperial court of Japan from the ninth to thirteenth centuries.