Michael Sims explore les liens complexes entre la nature, la science et la culture, en examinant les facettes fascinantes de l'existence humaine et du monde naturel. Son écriture navigue avec fluidité entre l'observation factuelle et la réflexion poétique, offrant aux lecteurs une compréhension plus profonde du monde qui les entoure et de leur place en son sein. Sims se consacre à découvrir des récits cachés et à enrichir notre perception du quotidien à travers des essais perspicaces et captivants. Son travail suscite la curiosité et invite à la contemplation des complexités de la vie.
"The Adventures of Henry Thoreau-chronicling the ten years in his life beginning with Harvard in 1837 and ending as he walked away from Walden Pond after living in his long dreamed-of cabin for only two years--tells the dramatic (and at times heartbreaking) story of how a troubled young man found a meaningful life in a tempestuous era"-- Provided by publisher
The best Victorian detective stories, now in a scintillating new collection by the acclaimed editor of Dracula's Guest.
A scintillating new collection of the best Victorian ghost stories, as suspenseful and entertaining as anything written today, by the editor of Dracula's Guest and The Dead Witness
Michael Sims brings together the very best vampire stories of the Victorian era-from England, America, France, Germany, Transylvania, and even Japan-into a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Oval Portrait" and Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" to Guy de Maupassant's "The Horla" and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Good Lady Ducayne." Sims also includes a nineteenth-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and rounds out the collection with Stoker's own "Dracula's Guest"-a chapter omitted from his landmark novel.Vampires captivated the Victorians, as Sims reveals in his insightful introduction: In 1867, Karl Marx described capitalism as "dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor"; while in 1888 a London newspaper invoked vampires in trying to explain Jack the Ripper's predations. At a time when vampires have been re-created in a modern context, Dracula's Guest will remind readers young, old, and in between of why the undead won't let go of our imagination.
A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
A revealing chronicle of the iconic American writer's formative years evaluates the decade between his graduation from Harvard and his departure for his Walden Pond cabin to describe the influences that rendered him an advocate for non-violent activism and environmentalism. 30,000 first printing.
A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.
Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for the first time, the best crime fiction from the gaslight era gathered in a single volume. All the legendary thieves are present - from Colonel Clay to Get Rich Quick Wallingford - burgling London and Paris, coming New York and Ostend, laughing all the way to the bank. Also featured are stories by distinguished writers from outside the mystery and detective genres, including Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, and William Hope Hodgson.
Exploring the human body from head to toe, this book combines cultural history and evolutionary theory to create a unique narrative. It offers accessible insights into anatomy while delving into the mythology, religious beliefs, and historical perspectives that inform our understanding of each body part. The blend of science and storytelling makes it both educational and entertaining, providing readers with a fascinating lens to examine the complexities of the human form.
Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, dystopian societies, even dangerously independent machines, all inspiring the speculative fiction of the Victorian era. In Frankenstein Dreams, Michael Sims has gathered many of the very finest stories, some by classic writers such as Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, and H.G. Wells, but many that will surprise general readers. Dark visions of the human psyche emerge in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "The Monarch of Dreams," while Mary E. Wilkins Freeman provides a glimpse of "the fifth dimension" in her provocative tale "The Hall Bedroom." With contributions by Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Fuller, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others, each introduced by Michael Sims, whose elegant introduction provides valuable literary and historical context, Frankenstein Dreams is a treasure trove of stories known and rediscovered.--Provided by Publisher.
Broken Pieces is a drama that will captivate you as a reader. Spencer is a world-renowned lawyer who experiences situations in his life. Spencer grows up in a middle-class environment with both parents. However, he is faced with obstacles that he does not fully understand or have any prior experience with. Spencer is known for getting the job done whatever the cost. Spencer understands that friends are important and is keenly aware that his college buddies provide him with a feeling of belonging, bring fun and laughter, lend an extra hand, offer emotional support, and give guidance when he needs it. However, Spencer doesn't realize that their influence goes well beyond the moment. Spencer's identity is further shaped by his close friends and the women he has dated. However, his humility does take a toll on his relationships with the people in his life. He doesn't try to be vindictive with situations that occur in his life, but in the end, he has to take a stance. By the end of the book, you will have praised Spencer, cried on behalf of Spencer, and relate to many of the life experiences he encounters in the book. How will it all end? What would you do if you were Spencer? This is a must-read!