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Two comedies by a cousin of French King Louis XIV. THE SPIRIT OF CONTRADICTION is an hilarious play about a woman whose sole aim in life is to prevent others (mostly in her own family) from getting...

The IPR Bureau (whose motto is "Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyranny") works to bring newly discovered planets up to the point where they have a planetary democratic...

"THERE were once four children who had the good fortune to find in the sandpit a strange creature. Its eyes were on long horns like snail's eyes, and it could move them in and out like telescopes. It...

Baron Munchausen is a fictional German nobleman. The character is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von M?nchhausen (1720-1797) Born in Bodenwerder, Electorate of...

In the third book of The Lords of Dus series, Garth the Overman acquires the Sword of Bheleu, a powerful weapon tied to the chaotic god of destruction. As Garth wields the sword, he begins to lose...

The main characters are the Scottish knight Kenneth, a fictional version of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, who returned from the third Crusade in 1190; Richard the Lionheart; Saladin; and...

When they were fourteen years old, Dick and Doc were attending an excellent English school where there were a great many future dukes and earls and arch-bishops and lord mayors, who, when they saw...

Richard Hannay certainly didn't go looking for the mystery. He was hardly a reader of the newspaper, let alone a fan of dime novels -- and all the same, the mystery found him. First in the form of a...

In March 1844 the French magazine Le Siecle, printed the first installment of a story by Alexandre Dumas. It was based, Dumas claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the...

In March 1844 the French magazine Le Siecle, printed the first installment of a story by Alexandre Dumas. It was based, Dumas claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the...

Paul de Kock and Adolphe Gu?n?e present a humorous dramatic prequel to the well-known Alexandre Dumas tale of The Three Musketeers. The four would-be adventurers--D'Artagnan, Aramis, Porthos, and...

The Throne of BonesAuthor: Brian McNaughtonPublisher: Borgo PressPublication Date: Jan 31, 2025Number of Pages: 288 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1587151987ISBN-13: 9781587151989

Tour de Nesle (The Tower of Death) is one of Alexandre Dumas's greatest and most powerful plays, a tale of power and conviction, although its historical accuracy is far from certain. Queen Marguerite...

Four French comedies by Jean-Fran?ois Regnard (with Charles Dufresny), who's considered to be the best comic playwright of his age after Moli?re. The sardonic and amusing THE TREE OF CHASTITY has a...

Jean-Fran?ois Regnard (1655-1709) is considered by many critics to be the best writer of comedic plays in seventeenth-century French literature, excepting only Moli?re. Regnard based many of his...

Sterren, a simple gambler with no special talents, is suddenly thrust into the role of warlord by a distant kingdom. Forced to lead an army despite his complete lack of experience, Sterren must...

The commemorative brass plate in the abandoned Derbyshire village church showed Sir Humphrey and Lady Sybil de Latours standing together. At the side of the man is a lion, and beside Sybil a fanged...

Two French comedies of love and life and the relations between men and women. In THE VILLAGE COQUETTE a Widow trains a country girl, Lisette, in the ways of a Parisian coquette, thinking to make her...

"In the historical romance The Virgin of the Sun, the Englishman Hubert de Hastings travels to Peru during the fourteenth-century. There he witnesses Incan civilization, tours Machu Picchu and falls...

The Volcano OgreAuthor: Lin CarterPublisher: Borgo PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 1999Number of Pages: 228 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 158715059XISBN-13: 9781587150593

This volume is the second of a set of three showcasing the work of Fr?d?ric Boutet, the other two volumes being The Antisocial Man and Other Strange Stories, and Claude Mercoeur's Reflection and...

Paul Heisenberg is mysteriously endowed with the ability to jump through time. Together with thousands of eventual followers, he begins a journey that eventually takes him a billion years into the...

The Wallet of Kai LungAuthor: Ernest BramahPublisher: Borgo PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2001Number of Pages: 180 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1587152088ISBN-13: 9781587152085

The Warrior of World's EndAuthor: Lin CarterPublisher: Borgo PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 1974Number of Pages: 164 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1587153394ISBN-13: 9781587153396

The problem was that the fisherman had fallen on hard times, and had turned to smuggling. And putting a stop to smuggling was William Barrow's sworn duty. It's a recipe for disaster: nothing good can...

The Weird Tales StoryAuthor: Robert WeinbergPublisher: Borgo PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 1999Number of Pages: 144 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1587151014ISBN-13: 9781587151019

In this epic fantasy, Ralph of Upmeads embarks on a perilous quest to find the legendary Well at the World's End, a mystical source of eternal life and wisdom. Set in a richly detailed medieval...

A popular and enthusiastic guide to the major continuing western hero characters of the American pulp magazine era, complete with bibliography, index, and illustrations of pulp covers, and with a new...

Jan Darzek, former private detective from Earth and now First Councilor of the Galaxy, has encountered his most baffling case. The planet Nifron D has been inexplicably turned into a sun. A quarter...

The White IsleAuthor: Darrell SchweitzerPublisher: Borgo PressPublication Date: Jan 31, 2025Number of Pages: 148 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1587151146ISBN-13: 9781587151149