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Paradise Lost John Milton 9781554813506
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £13.31Reviled as a regicide, isolated in a personal darkness, and aging, John Milton did not relinquish his voice. He somehow used that tireless voice, rather, to create Paradise Lost, one of the enduring... -
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum 9781554816248
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £14.83Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554816248Author L. Frank BaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher... -
The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction Jason Haslam 9781554816118
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £34.46Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554816118Author Jason HaslamFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher... -
Her Kind: Stories of Women from Greek Mythology Jane Cahill 9781551110424
RRP: £43.75SciFier: £32.26Medea betrayed her father and left her homeland for the love of Jason. Then when he abandoned her, she murdered her children. But did she? And what of Clytemnestra, the conniving adulteress? For ten... -
The Dreamer Awakes by Alice Kane
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £29.51The late Alice Kane was born in Ireland in 1908. Moving with her parents to Canada in 1921, she was educated in New Brunswick and at McGill University in Montreal before beginning a career with the... -
Burning Brightly by Kay Stone
RRP: £42.95SciFier: £34.33Burning Brightly is the first full-length book treatment of professional storytelling in North America today. For some years there has been a major storytelling revival throughout the continent, with... -
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) by James De Mille
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £21.43Drifting on a sailing boat off the Canary Islands, four British gentlemen take turns reading a manuscript that they find inside a copper cylinder discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean. The... -
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 9781551119793
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £15.34In this narrative of the gullible ship's doctor Lemuel Gulliver and his extraordinary travels, Jonathan Swift takes readers through a series of apparently child-like fantasy worlds of tiny people and... -
The Wood Beyond the World William Morris 9781551119823
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £21.43A groundbreaking fantasy novel, The Wood Beyond the World tells the story of a young man, Golden Walter, who finds himself in a strange and frightening world after being abandoned by his wife and... -
Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 9781551114163
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £19.73This 1818 novel is set in a former abbey whose owner, Christopher Glowry, is host to visitors who enjoy his hospitality and engage in endless debate. Among these guests are figures recognizable to... -
Dracula Bram Stoker 9781551111360
RRP: £14.95SciFier: £14.47To borrow a phrase used by one of the characters in the novel, Dracula is "nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance." In her introduction to this edition Glennis Byron first discusses the... -
Tales of Wonder Matthew Gregory Lewis 9781551118352
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £23.92In the late eighteenth century, Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis, a notorious author of lurid Gothic novels and plays, began to gather this collection of horror ballads. Including original and... -
The Coming Race Edward Bulwer-Lytton 9781551115153
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £17.16"As I drew near and nearer to the light, the chasm became wider, and at last I saw, to my unspeakable amaze, a broad level road at the bottom of the abyss, illumined as far as the eye could reach by... -
The Coming Race Edward Bulwer-Lytton 9781551118369
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £17.16The Coming Race is the crowning achievement of the genre of hollow earth fiction, in which a hero makes a perilous journey underground and discovers a superior race. The customs and political systems... -
The Romance of the Forest Ann Radcliffe 9781554815388
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £16.19Adeline, the protagonist of Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest, became a model for later Gothic heroines. Passionate, imaginative, and sensitive, in the course of the novel she travels rapidly... -
Flatland Edwin Abbott 9781551116907
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £14.66Flatland (1884) is an influential mathematical fantasy that simultaneously provides an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry and a satire on the Victorian class structure, issues of science and... -
Vampire Literature by Robin A. Werner
RRP: £39.95SciFier: £31.04Vampire Literature: An Anthology is the first anthology of vampire literature designed specifically for use in the higher education classroom. As Nina Auerbach argues in her introduction to Our... -
The Four Branches of The Mabinogi by Anonymous
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £15.34Set in a primal past, the Mabinogi bridges many genres; it is part pre-Christian myth, part fairytale, part guide to how nobles should act, and part dramatization of political and social issues. This... -
Peter Pan J. M. Barrie 9781551117935
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £16.19For twenty-six years after his first mention of the character, J.M. Barrie worked on the story of Peter Pan as he appeared through different incarnations: the three-act play Peter Pan, or the Boy who... -
King Lear William Shakespeare 9781551119670
RRP: £14.95SciFier: £13.48This volume includes the text of the play as prepared by Craig Walker for The Broadview Anthology of British Literature-a text notable both for outstanding introductory material and annotations, and... -
The Man in the Moone Francis Godwin 9781551118963
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £19.05Arguably the first work of science fiction in English, Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone was published in 1638, pseudonymously and posthumously. The novel, which tells the story of Domingo... -
The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold by John William Polidori
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £19.05In 1816, John William Polidori travelled to Geneva as Lord Byron's personal physician. There they met Mary Godwin (later Shelley) and her lover Percy Shelley and decided to while away a wet summer by... -
The Time Machine: An Invention H.G. Wells 9781551113050
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £14.66Wells was interested in the implications of evolutionary theory on the future of human beings at the biological, sociological, and cultural levels, and The Time Machine, short and readable, draws on... -
The Monk Matthew Gregory Lewis 9781551112275
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £16.04The Monk is the most sensational of Gothic novels. The main plot concerns Ambrosio, an abbot of irreproachable holiness, who is seduced by a woman (or perhaps a demon) disguised as a novice, and who... -
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales (19th Century) Edgar Allan Poe 9781554810468
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £17.16Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems are among the most haunting and indelible in American literature, but critics for decades persisted in seeing Poe as an anomaly, or even an anachronism. His works,... -
The Quest of the Holy Grail by Anonymous
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £19.05The Old French Lancelot-Graal is an important but massive work, providing a place for King Arthur not only in the history of Britain but also in Christian history. This new translation of one... -
Oroonoko Aphra Behn 9781554811625
RRP: £13.95SciFier: £12.63The best-known work by Aphra Behn, widely considered the first professional woman writer in England, Oroonoko is an important contribution to the development of the novel in English. Though it... -
The Invisible Man H.G. Wells 9781554812738
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.77The Invisible Man stands out as possessing one of the most complicated heroes, or perhaps anti-heroes, in literature. A thoroughly unlikeable character, the Invisible Man is defined by his arrogance,... -
The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations Arthur Machen 9781554815043
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £16.01First published in the height of the yellow nineties and in the shadow of the Oscar Wilde trials, Arthur Machen's The Three Impostors (1895) remains a relatively obscure text even as Machen receives... -
The Library Window Margaret Oliphant 9781554814183
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £14.66In this Victorian tale, a young woman recuperating at her aunt's house in a Scottish town is spending a good deal of time looking out at the world through an upstairs window. Across the way is a... -
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £17.16First published in 1666>>>, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle's Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World is the first fictional portrayal of women and the new science. In Blazing... -
In A Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £15.34From the predatory same-sex desire in "Carmilla" to the ghostly hallucinations in "Green Tea," the five supernatural stories in In a Glass Darkly reflect a profound and deeply disturbing uncertainty... -
The Island of Doctor Moreau H.G. Wells 9781551113272
SciFier: £19.08A classic of science fiction and a dark meditation on Darwinian thought in the late Victorian period, The Island of Doctor Moreau explores the possibility of civilization as a constraint imposed on...