A plague of blindness strikes the Earth, and a terrified humanity almost spontaneously devolves into a primitive state of animal fear. But things will get much, much worse...alien life-forms are on they way, and they are hungry.
'In a decade marked, much like our own, by simple fears, John Wyndham refused to make simple metaphors' - M John Harrison. A world paralyzed by genetic mutation: Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty percent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as ...
Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense - it was like listening to one end of a telephone conversation while someone argued, cajoled and reasoned with another ...
Aliens have impregnated the women of Midwich, and their children are very, very strange. This classic novel of paranoia has been filmed several times under the title "Village of the Damned".
Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fireballs race through the sky above the deepest trenches of the oceans. Something is about to show itself, something terrible and alien, a force capable of causing global catastrophe.
It came from a lichen. When biochemist Francis Saxover discovered its remarkable properties, the implications terrified him. But Diana Brackley foresaw the coming of a new evolutionary order and with it, a revolution.
After four centuries of almost complete neglect, Piero della Francesca is now one of the best known and best loved of all Renaissance painters - to such an extent that the route from one work to another has become the tourists' "Piero della Francesca Trail". Sir John Pope-Hennessy takes a fresh look at the facts of Piero's career and the ...
This text shows how the Renaissance cult of individuality brought with it a demand that the features of the individual be perpetuated. The author describes the process by which Titian and other artists transformed the portrait from a record of appearance to an analysis of character.
This short novel was originally published some 10 years after Wyndham's death. Arriving on a remote island, 40 settlers are determined to create a perfect utopian society in memory of their recently deceased benefactor, the man who funded the project. Shortly after their arrival though, things begin to go rather spectacularly wrong and, as one by ...
This title is part of a series that presents retold, shortened versions of classic novels that are suitable for children working at Key Stages Two and Three. This retelling of "The Day of the Triffids" intends to lose none of the strength and character of the original.
For the fourth edition of this introduction to Italian sculpture, the author has thoroughly revised the text, notes and bibliographies, incorporating all the significant new research and publications since the last major revision in 1970-2. Volume III, ranging from 1500 to the late-17th century, begins and ends with two outstanding personalities: ...
Aircraft designer Dale Currance undertakes a journey to Mars in an effort to capture the prize being offered to the first man to complete an interplanetary journey, but a female stowaway throws his plans into disarray.
For the fourth edition of this introduction to Italian sculpture, the author has thoroughly revised the text, notes and bibliographies, incorporating all the significant new research and publications since the last major revision in 1970-2. Volume II, spanning the 15th century, is dominated by the revolutionary genius of Donatello, whose work is ...
Originally created for the Aragonese Library in Naples in about 1,445, the manuscript from which this book was photographed features 15th-century paintings from di Paolo that are notable for both the superb quality of their execution and for their vivid, almost modern imaginative power. 128 full-color plates.
For the fourth edition of this introduction to Italian sculpture, the author has thoroughly revised the text, notes and bibliographies, incorporating all the significant new research and publications since the last major revision in 1970-2. Volume I covers the period from about 1150 to 1400. The sculptors dealt with include Nicola and Giovanni ...
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