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Darrell Schweitzer
Darrell Schweitzer (born 1952)

literary critic, poet, journalist

  • Villanova University

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The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Living Dead
Cosmic Knights
Isaac Asimov präsentiert Märchenwelt der Fantasy. Die schönsten Geschichten [20 short stories]
Darker masques
Excalibur
Conan's world and Robert E. Howard
The Secret History Of Vampires
Swords Against Darkness V
The Neil Gaiman Reader
Speaking of horror
Windows of the imagination
Discovering Classic Fantasy Fiction
Mask of the Sorcerer
On writing science fiction
Full moon city
The shattered goddess
The Thomas Ligotti Reader
Cthulhus Reign
Speaking of the Fantastic II
The dream quest of H. P. Lovecraft
Discovering Modern Horror Fiction I
Another Round at the Spaceport Bar
The White Isle (Weird Tales)
Discovering Stephen King
Science Fiction Voices, No. 1 (Popular Writers of Today, Vol. 23)
Sekenre
Tom O'Bedlam's night out and other strange excursions
Weird Tales 338
Pathways to Elfland
Discovering Classic Horror Fiction I (Discovering (Wildside))
We are all legends
The Robert E. Howard Reader
The Great World & the Small
Weird Tales 336
Discovering H.P. Lovecraft
Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II
The white isle
Transients, and other disquieting stories
The meaning of life and other awesome cosmic revelations
Nightscapes
Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II (Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No 16)
Refugees from an Imaginary Country
More Science Fiction Voices
Exploring Fantasy Worlds
Exploring fantasy worlds
Discovering modern horror fiction
Science Fiction Story Reader 12
Speaking of the Fantastic
Science Fiction Voices, No. 5
Another round at the spaceport bar
Science fiction voices no. 1
Horror of Horrors
The Barsoom Chronicles 4 Thuvia Maid of Mars
Discovering modern horror fiction
Another round at the spaceport bar
Discovering H.P. Lovecraft
Discovering classic horror fiction I
Essays, Lovecraftian
Discovering Classic Horror Fiction I (Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, #27)
Discovering H.P. Lovecraft
Tales fromthe spaceport bar
Discovering classic fantasy fiction
Discovering Stephen King
Discovering H.P. Lovecraft
Discovering Stephen King
Three Suns of Amara
Groping Toward the Light
Necromancies and Netherworlds
Romance of the Forest
Necromancies and Netherworlds
Groping Toward the Light
Weird Trails
Great World and the Small
Macintyre's Improbable Bestiary
Damon Knight
Damon Knight (1922-2002)

literary critic, journalist, editor, critic, poet

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Happy Endings
A Shocking Thing
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
Galaxy
Science Fiction of the forties
Supermen
Science fact/fiction
The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction. A 30-year retrospective
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (The Future in Question / Space Mail)
Fifty short science fiction tales
The Second Omni book of science fiction
The man in the tree
Why do birds
The Future in Question
Time Waits For Winthrop
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two
Beyond the barrier
A pocketful of stars
Laughing Space
One side laughing
The Seventh Galaxy Reader
In search of wonder
A Century of Science Fiction
Three novels: Rule golden, Natural state, [and] The dying man
The world and Thorinn
Isaac Asimov presents the golden age of science fiction. Sixth Series
A science fiction argosy
The observers
Far out
Creating short fiction
The Clarion awards
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 22 (1960)
The golden road
Far out
Dimension X
Giants
TV 2000
A for Anything
The Last Man on Earth
A century of great short science fiction novels
The Futurians
Two novels
Off centre
Nebula Award Stories
Orbit 14
In Search of Wonder
Tomorrow's children
Cosmic Stories, March 1941
The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
Orbit 10
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 15 (1953)
Orbit 15
First voyages
Humpty Dumpty
Orbit 16
Damon Knight's Orbit 12
Out of this world
The other foot
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12 (1950)
Western classics from the great pulps
Orbit 16
Late Knight edition
Space Science Fiction Super Pack
Worlds to come
CV
Damon Knight's orbit 7
A for anything
Best stories from Orbit, volumes 1-10
Thirteen French science-fiction stories
Hell's pavement
One hundred years of science fiction
A reasonable world
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 (1956)
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 21 (1959)
A century of great short science fiction novels
Orbit 3
In deep
Science Fiction of the Thirties
Better than one
Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940
Orbit 5
Perchance to Dream
Turning on
Charles Fort
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1964
The dark side
Cities of wonder
DimensionX
Tomorrow and Tomorrow; Ten Tales of the Future,
Masters of Evolution / Fire in the Heavens
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 16 (1954)
Hell's Pavement
The best of Damon Knight
Beyond tomorrow
Charles Fort: prophet of the unexplained
Turning points
Beyond the Barrier
Perchance to dream
Tomorrow X 4
Why dobirds
Worlds to Come
Creating short fiction
Turning on
Damon Knight's Collection 1
World without children and The Earth Quarter
Orbit 21
Towards Infinity
Cv
Orbit 17
Orbit
Perchance to dream
First contact
Orbit Fifteen
Reasonable World
Earth Quarter & Envoy to New Worlds
Anthology of Sci-Fi V21, the Pulp Writers
Cities of wonder
The best of Damon Knight
Tomorrow and tomorrow
Damon Knight SF Gateway Omnibus
Orbit Twenty
Orbit 19
Orbit Eighteen
Best Damon Knight
Worlds to come
Web of the Worlds & Rule Golden
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction
Le pavé de l'enfer
Toward infinity
The Worshippers
Off centre
A century of science fiction
Orbit Two
Science fiction of the thirties
Nebula award stories
The World and Thorinn
Mind Switch
Beyond the Barrier
A pocketful of stars
Turning On
World Without Children and the Earth Quarter
Orbit
Special Delivery by Damon Knight, Science Fiction, Adventure
First Contact
In Deep
Damon Knight SF Omnibus (eBook)
The World and Thorin
Westerns of the 40's : classics from the great pulps
NEBULAS AWARD STORIES 1
The Other Foot
Orbit 9
Orbit
Far Out
Off Centre
Beyond tomorrow
DARK SIDE, THE.
Cities of wonder
Nine new SF stories especially written for Orbit 4 (A Berkley medallion book)
Hell's Pavement
Orbit: No. 4
Humpty Dumpty
Orbit 2
Futurians
Man in the Tree
Los mundos
Orbit Thirteen
Orbit 11
The dark side
Three Novels
5 Unearthly Visions
Voorbij De Barriere
Why Do Birds
Double Meaning
Cv
A century of science fiction
Beyond the Barrier
The Man In The Tree
Toward Infinity
Turning Points
In Deep
Orbit 6
The world and Thorinn
In Search of Wonder
Perchance to Dream
The Other Foot
Isaac Asimov Präsentiert Sagenwelt Der Fantasy
Special Delivery by Damon Knight, Science Fiction, Adventure
The Metal Smile
Special Delivery
The World and Thorinn
for Anything
Natural State
A century of science fiction;
Damon Knight's collection
Special Delivery
In Search of Wonder
Hell's cartographers : some personal histories of science fiction writers
Tout et n'importe quoi
Turning Points
Analogue Men
Damon Knight's Collection 4. Neue Science Fiction Stories
Toward Infinity
Doorway to Kal-Jmar
Dimension X
Observers
Tomorrow X 4. A Stellar Quartet of Short Science Fiction Novels
The Mote in Time's Eye
Rule Golden
Mind switch
De 10 Sterkste Korte Verhalen Van Damon Knight
Orbit
Thirteen French science-fiction stories
Nebula Award Stories 1965
Die Analog-Maschine
Worshippers
The man in the tree
The Dark Side
Elsewhere X 3
The Metal Smile
Better Than One
The Shape of things
Pocketful of Stars
Charles Fort
DARK SIDE, THE.
The Worshippers by Damon Knight, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
First Contact
Worshippers
Turning on
First Flight
The Best of Damon Knight
CITIES OF WONDER
Special Delivery
A Century of Science Fiction
Three novels
Reasonable World
Passée la barrière du temps
The people maker
The goldenroad
Computer streiten nicht
Panne in der Hölle
Rule Golden and Double Meaning
Ne vivez pas dans le passé
Les Univers
Nebula Award stories
LE PAVÉ DE L'ENFER
Nebula award series, 1965
Monad
Humpty Dumpty
A for anything
Lafferty in Orbit
Towards infinity
First flight
A pocketful of stars
Yet more Penguin science fiction
Orbit 13
Rule Golden and Other Stories
Nebula Award Stories 1965
Far out
Three novels
Worlds to come
Natural State And Other Stories
The dark side
Zweibeiner sehen dich an
The best of Damon Knight
Analogue men
Margie Walker
Margie Walker (born 1952)

poet, actor

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Remember Me
Where there's a will
Something To Celebrate
Public Affair
A Sweet Refrain
Breathless
Season's greetings
Conspiracy
Indiscretions
Stolen Moments
Love signals
Where there's a will
Season's Greetings
Amesbury
Charles Williams
Charles Williams (1886-1945)

poet, literary critic, theologian

  • University College London, St Albans School

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All Hallows' Eve
The masques of Amen House
The detective fiction reviews of Charles Williams, 1930-1935
The descent of the Dove
War in heaven
The place of the lion
The greater trumps
Descent into Hell
He came down from heaven
A Charles Williams Reader
Outlines of romantic theology ; with which is reprinted, Religion and love in Dante
Taliessin through Logres; and, The region of the summer stars
Many Dimensions
The English poetic mind
James I
Charles Williams
To Michal from Serge
Rochester
Divorce
Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury
Judgement at Chelmsford
Charles Williams
The figure of Beatrice: a study in Dante
Letters to Lalage
Poems of conformity
Poetry at present
Religion And Love In Dante
Outlines of Romantic Theology
The image of the city
Religion and love in Dante
Shadows of ecstacy
Witchcraft
Development and qualification of alternate blowing agents for Space Shuttle External Tank Thermal Protection System
Man on a leash
The new Christian year
A myth of Shakespeare
A book of Victorian narrative verse
Henry VII
Poems of home and overseas
The Arthurian Poems of Charles Williams
The region of the summer stars
The forgiveness of sins
James First
Novels
Flecker of Dean Close
A short life of Shakespeare with the sources
The house of the octopus
Reason and beauty in the poetic mind
Stories of great names
Queen Elizabeth I
Charles Williams Omnibus - War in Heaven, Many Dimensions, the Place of the Lion, Shadows of Ecstasy, the Greater Trumps, Descent Into Hell, All Hallo
Arthurian torso, containing the posthumous fragment of The figure of Arthur
The new book of English verse
Direction
Collected plays
Taliessin through Logress
Grab and Grace or It's the Second Step - Companion and Sequel to the House by the Stable
Francis Bacon
The Witch
The Death of Good Fortune - A Christmas Play
Selected writings
The House by the Stable - A Christmas Play
Windows of night
The Rite of the Passion
Seed of Adam
Seed of Adam and other plays
The Chaste Wanton
The Figure of Arthur
Die Arthur-Gedichte von Charles Williams
Three plays
The region of the summer stars
Taliessin through Logres
Cranmer of Canterbury
Religion and love in Dante
Three plays
The passion of Christ
Bacon
A book of Victorian narrative verse
The masque of the manuscript
Queen Elizabeth I
The figure of Beatrice
The silver stair
Judgement at Chelmsford
The way of exchange
Divorce
Heroes and kings
James I.
Arthurian torso
To Michal after marriage
Cecil Day-Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972)

poet, literary critic, translator

  • University of Oxford, Sherborne School

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The Otterbury incident
Thou Shell of Death
There's trouble brewing
The Dreadful Hollow
The worm of death
Malice in Wonderland
Classic Detective Stories
A question of proof
Minute for murder
Head of a traveler
The beast must die
The sad variety
Bodies from the Library
The widow's cruise
A penknife in my heart
The private wound
The deadly joker
The corpse in the snowman
The morning after death
The whisper in the gloom
The smiler with the knife
End of chapter
Country House Murders
10 relatos de detectives
The Nicholas Blake treasury, vol. 2
The poetic image
The lyric impulse
Poetry for you
Notable images of virtue
A hope for poetry
The Collected Poems Of Wilfred Owen
The gate
The whispering roots
SELECTED POEMS; ED. BY JILL BALCON
The colloquial element in English poetry
An Italian visit
The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis
English lyric poems, 1500-1900
Enjoying poetry
Contemporary poets of the english language
Selected poems
Poems
The buried day
The echoing green
A lasting joy
Pegasus
A Tangled Web
Colected poems of C. Day Lewis
Dick Willoughby
The poems of C. Day Lewis, 1925-1972
C.Day Lewis Reads C.Day Lewis
The poet's way of knowledge
Short is the time
A time to dance and other poems
Clefs pour la poe sie
The Chatto book of modern poetry, 1915-1955
The lyrical poetry of Thomas Hardy
PC Pocket Guide
Noah and the waters
Alphabets Old and New for the Use of Craftsmen
A new anthology of modern verse 1920-1940
Revolution in writing
Overtures to death
Requiem for the living
Mehrauli
The minds in chains
C.Day Lewis
The Deepcut Review
Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
There's trouble brewing
Who goes home?
Collected poems 1929-1933
Steering to Glory
Collected poems, 1954
Anatomy of Oxford
We're not going to do nothing
Word over all
Christmas Eve
Child of misfortune
The room & other poems
Poems 1943-1947
On translating poetry
Poems, 1925-72
Starting point
An anthology of modern verse, 1920-1940
Beechen vigil
The poet's task :ban inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 1 June 1951
Country comets
The sad variety
The magnetic mountain
Collected poems, 1929-1936
The friendly tree
Minuto Para El Crimen
From feathers to iron
A need for poetry?
Poetry for you and The echoing green (in four parts)
The grand manner
Collected poems of C. Day Lewis 1954
C Day-Lewis reading his own poetry
Poems in wartime
Posthumous poems
Imagination and thinking
Transitional poem
A book of English lyrics
Selections from his poetry
Selected poems [of] C. Day Lewis
The Abbey that refused to die
La Bestia Debe Morir
The dreadful hollow
The poet
Collected poems
Collected poems of C. Day Lewis
C.Day Lewis
UK and US standards
The Nicholas Blake treasury
The Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy
Golova puteshestvennika
Collected poems
Poésie pour tous
Synthesis of protease substrates
Aeneid of Virgil, a New Verse Translation
Collected Poems of C. Day Lewis 1954
Selected poems
New Poems 1957
Selected poems
The Apollo Anthology
THE AENEID - A20
The Collected Poems of C.D.Lewis
The Penguin Poets
The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil
The Penguin Poets C. Day Lewis
Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis
The Nicholas Blake Omnibus
The Nicholas Blake Treasury
Smertelʹnyĭ rozygrysh
Selected poems [of] C. Day Lewis
The Nicholas Blake Treasury (Thou Shell of Death; The Beast Must Die; The Corpse in the Snowman)
Orion Volume III (3)
The Georgics of Virgil, Tr. by C. Day Lewis, with an Introd. by Louis Bromfield
The Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid of Virgil;
Complete Poems
ORION VOLUME II.
Collected Poems 1929-1933 & A hope for poetry
Naval Air Stations and the Defence of Dockyards
The friendly tree
Enjoying poetry
Milḥamot Oṭerbery
A Christmas way
Christopher Caudwell
Christopher Caudwell (1907-1937)

poet, philosopher, journalist, literary critic, politician, literary scholar, critic

  • St Benedict's School

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Death of an Airman
The Six Queer Things
Studies in a dying culture
Romance and realism
Illusion and reality
Death of an Airman
Studies and further studies in a dying culture
Studies in a dying culture
Further studies in a dying culture
Crime in Kensington
Illusion and reality
Scenes and actions
The concept of freedom
Collected Poems, 1924-1936
The crisis in physics
Death of an airman
The concept of freedom
Pacifism and violence
The crisis in physics
Studies in the dying culture
Death of a Queen
The Perfect Alibi
Illusion and reality
Consciousness
The corpse with the sunburned face
Liberty
Studien zu einer sterbenden Kultur
Further studies in a dying culture
Death of an Airman
Fatality in Fleet Street
Poems
Muerte de un aviador
Great flights
British airways
Olen bir kultur uzerine incelemeler
Bürgerliche Illusion und Wirklichkeit
Reality
The breath of discontent
Death of a queen
Men and nature
Dialéctica y literatura
Charles Osborne
Charles Osborne (1927-2017)

music critic, journalist, poet, music publicist, literary critic

  • University of Queensland

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Spider's web [adaptation]
Black Coffee [adaptation]
The unexpected guest [adaptation]
The life and crimes of Agatha Christie
Murder In Three Stages
The life and crimes of Agatha Christie
The unexpected guest
Verdi
W.H. Auden
The complete operas of Verdi
The bel canto operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini
The complete operas of Richard Strauss
The complete operas of Puccini
The complete operas of Richard Wagner
The complete operas of Mozart
Spider's web [adaptation]
The Dictionary of composers
The opera lover's companion
Rigoletto
Wagner and his world
The opera house album
Kafka
Giving it away
An Anthology of Poems for Shakespeare
Schubert and his Vienna
How to Enjoy Opera
Spider's web
Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific
The importance of being earnest
The unexpected guest
The world theatre of Wagner
The Complete Operas of Mozart
The dictionary of the opera
The bel canto operas
Classic Favourite Poems
The concert song companion
The Complete Operas of Verdi
Australian stories of today
The Complete Operas of Mozart
Klemperer stories
Charles Osborne's Theatricals
The dictionary of opera
The Complete Operas of Verdi
The Complete Operas of Wagner
The Collins Book of Best-loved Verse
Max Oldaker
Favourite love poems
The Dictionary of composers
Favourite Love Poems
Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit"
The Collins Book of Best-Loved Verse
New poems 1973
New stories
Essential Practice Tests CAE with Answer Key
Works (Problem at Polynesia Bay and Other Stories / Spider's Web / Three Blind Mice and Other Stories)
Ned Kelly
The Pink Danube
Blithe spirit
Letter to W.H. Auden and other poems 1941-1984
Letter to W.H. Auden and other poems, 1941-1981
The Dictionary of composers
Kafka
Klemperer Stories
A-Z of classical music
W. H. Auden
Swansong
Swansong
Richard Wagner and His World
Dictionary of Composers
Otto Klemperer
Tales of London's old theatres
Klemperer Stories
First Nights, Second Thoughts
Raffaele Crovi
Raffaele Crovi (1934-2007)

poet, journalist

  • Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

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Le maschere del mistero
Buon sangue italiano
L' indagine di via Rapallo
Diario del Sud
L' immaginazione editoriale
Parole incrociate
Vittorini cavalcava la tigre
Storie di letteratura, storia, scienza
Il lungo viaggio di Vittorini
I luoghi della vita
Il santo peccatore
Appennino
La parola ai figli
Velasco
Dialogo con la poesia
Amore di domenica
Giornalista involontario
La gioia di Leo
Cameo
Piaceri
La valle dei cavalieri
Nerofumo
L' ippogrifo della lettura
Parabola
La letteratura popolare
Fariseo e pubblicano
Il franco tiratore
Fuori del paradiso
Il mondo nudo
L' utopia del natale (1974-1979)
La convivenza
La storia dei "Gettoni" di Elio Vittorini
Ladro di Ferragosto
La vita sopravvissuta
Ladro di ferragosto
L' inverno, con una nota di Giansiro Ferrata
Le parole del padre
La corsa del topo
Il viaggio di Astolfo
Il pesce siluro
Genesi
Linea bassa
Carnevale a Milano
Elogio del disertore