Missing Persons  |
| Lewis Shiner ( - ) http://www.lewisshiner.com |
Lewis Shiner is a two-time finalist for the Nebula (Frontera, Deserted Cities of the Heart), a finalist for the Philip K. Dick (Frontera), and won the World Fantasy award for Glimpses.
In Missing Persons we collect three of Lewis's own favorite suspense / mystery short stories, written between 1998 and 2004.
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| The Odyssey |
| Homer (700BC - 700BC) |
The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems of Homer. The action takes place after Homer's Iliad and details the journey home of the Greek hero Odysseus (Ulysses). The journey takes years, in part due to the Gods' disagreements over his eventual fate, and it is only when he is finally home that his troubles really begin. |
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| Beautiful Joe |
| Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861 - 1947) |
1894 Best Seller.
A fictionalised 'autobiography' of the true story of a dog named 'Beautiful Joe'.
Joe's abusive original owner savagely mistreated him.
The book became very popular and greatly contributed to the worldwide awareness of animal cruelty.
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| The Red Badge of Courage |
| Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900) |
1895 Best Seller.
One of the most influential anti-war stories ever written The Red Badge of Courage was adapted as a film in 1951 by John Huston.
Crane wanted to show what war was like and achieved a ground breaking 'psychological portrayal of fear'.
The story follows an archetypical 19 year old recruit in the American Civil War.
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| The Man of the Forest |
| Zane Grey (1872 - 1939) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1920.
Milt Dale, the man of the forest, overhears a plot to kidnap a young woman and cannot in good conscience do nothing. He sets out to save the girl ...
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| The Lives of the Twelve Caesars |
| C.Suetonius Tranquilius (72 - 130) |
The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies: Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire (Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, titus, and Domitian). The Twelve Caesars was very important after it was written in 121 CE and remains an important historical source. It was one of the major sources for Robert Graves' I Claudius and Claudius the God later adapted and dramatised by the BBC. |
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| Coniston |
| Winston Churchill (1871 - 1947) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1906.
It is important to note that the author is not the famed English politician and author, but an unrelated American writer.
A fictionalized look at mid 1800s New Hampshire politics. Churchill shares with many a nostalgic view of the Granite State while exposing corruption at all levels of it's politics.
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