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Norman Lock
A young artist meets Stephen Crane as America's hunger for empire draws them both into war
Oliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturist, and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of…
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Norman Lock juxtaposes remote times and places, historical facts and literary fictions, to create an absurdist collage reminiscent of Guy Davenport and Donald Barthelme.
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In the ninth American Novels series book, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualties.
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Retired from public life, Ralph Waldo Emerson takes up arms to save a fugitive black soldier from unjust arrest in the tenth of Lock’s American Novels –
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A black comedy touched with absurdity and a philosophical bent that puts the torch to middle-class complacency.
.. .Lock’s ideas lend tangy new flavor to an old form… HOUSE OF…
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Huck Finn’s mythic adventures–and childhood–abruptly end when he steps off his raft into Hurricane Katrina.
In Java, a master of the shadow-puppet theater seeks to possess a woman, who perishes as though by the contagion of his unnatural desire. Shadowplay is a meditation on storytelling…
Fiction. There are moments that remind me of Sax Rohmer or early 20th century science fiction, bits and pieces of language that seem to come out of Jules Verne or…
Henry David Thoreau’s principles are tested when a young man escapes from slavery into Walden Woods.
A dark and marvelous journey from the Industrial Age through Hollywood’s Golden Age, into the Digital Age and beyond.
In the sixth American Novels series book, a bankrupt merchant encounters Herman Melville and is pursued through the depths of Gilded Age Manhattan by a brutal antagonist.
A scrappy Brooklyn orphan turned vengeful assassin narrates a visionary tale of the American West.
A young surgical assistant faces his doppelganger in a chilling tale featuring Edgar Allan Poe and a lost Poe story.
In the seventh American Novels series book, a young woman joins Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Barnum’s circus to rescue her infant from the KKK.
In the eighth American Novels series book, Nathaniel Hawthorne pens a new tale to exact revenge on his ancestor, a notorious judge of the Salem witch trials.
A nineteenth-century army chaplain confesses his loss of faith in god and country to his first love, poet Emily Dickinson.
Norman Malcolm Locke
Norman Locke Skene
A practical and concise presentation of some of the operations involved in designing yacts of all types.
John Henry Norman
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Norman Kemp Smith
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.
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