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Jack Vance, MagicianLike the professional wizards and sorcerers he so often writes about, Jack Vance has long been a master magician when it comes to storytelling, turning out marvelous tricks with words, using his wonderful knack for names, detail and dialog, his fine eye for rendering the vagaries of the human condition to deliver high adventure set on fascinating worlds and in fabulous realms that are second to none.In a career spanning nearly sixty years, this peerless F&SF Grand Master has taken us from the Dying Earth to Lyonesse, from the Oikumene of the Demon Princes to the farthest corners of the Gaean Reach, Alastor Cluster and beyond, bringing alive on the page magical places we can only dream about.Dream Castles presents a generous serving of this celebrated magician's 'performances,' ten fascinating tales from his long and influential career, among them his two Miro Hetzel adventures, 'The Dogtown Tourist Agency' and 'Freitzke s Turn', the intriguing 'The Narrow Land,' a second outing for Jean Parlier in 'Cholwell s Chickens,' and the classic space opera of 'Son of the Tree.'Dream Castles shows a true magician storyteller perfecting his craft, one moment as journeyman finding a voice all his own, the next as fully-fledged maestro intent on exploring worlds and delivering adventure and wonder in equal parts, the very stuff that dreams are made of.

Jack Vance, MagicianLike the professional wizards and sorcerers he so often writes about, Jack Vance has long been a master magician when it comes to storytelling, turning out marvelous tricks with words, using his wonderful knack for names, detail and dialog, his fine eye for rendering the vagaries of the human condition to deliver high adventure set on fascinating worlds and in fabulous realms that are second to none.In a career spanning nearly sixty years, this peerless F&SF Grand Master has taken us from the Dying Earth to Lyonesse, from the Oikumene of the Demon Princes to the farthest corners of the Gaean Reach, Alastor Cluster and beyond, bringing alive on the page magical places we can only dream about.Dream Castles presents a generous serving of this celebrated magician's 'performances,' ten fascinating tales from his long and influential career, among them his two Miro Hetzel adventures, 'The Dogtown Tourist Agency' and 'Freitzke s Turn', the intriguing 'The Narrow Land,' a second outing for Jean Parlier in 'Cholwell s Chickens,' and the classic space opera of 'Son of the Tree.'Dream Castles shows a true magician storyteller perfecting his craft, one moment as journeyman finding a voice all his own, the next as fully-fledged maestro intent on exploring worlds and delivering adventure and wonder in equal parts, the very stuff that dreams are made of.

Contents: 'Jack hath not Jill': Failed Courtship in Lyly and Shakespeare, David Bevington; Truth and Art in History Plays, G.K. Hunter; Chronicles and Mythmaking in Shakespeare's Joan of Arc, Richard F. Hardin; King John and Embarassing Women, Juliet Dusinberre; Golding's Ovid, Shakespeare's 'Small Latin', and the Real Object of Mockery in 'Pyramus and Thisbe', Anthony Brian Taylor; Ovid and the Sonnets; or, did Shakespeare Feel the Anxiety of Influence?, Jonathan Bate; The Play of Sir Thomas More and Some Contemporary Events, E.A.J. Honigmann; 'Nobody's Perfect': Actors' Memories and Shakespeare's Plays of the 1590s, Lois Potter; The Boyhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, P.H. Parry; Shakespeare's 'Brawl Ridiculous', Charles Edelman; Shakespeare's Handwriting, Giles E. Dawson. Also Shakespeare Performances in England 1987-8, and The Year's Contributions to Shakespeare Studies.

Funeral Party 2 is a sublime collection of fine darkness and decadence--carefully compiled with the libertine in mind. Includes fiction from Jack Ketchum, John Shirley, Lucy Taylor, Rob Hardin and Thomas S. Roche. Artwork from Trevor Brown, Hans Bellmer, Miguel Angel Martin, Milo Sacchi, George Kuchar, and Mike Kuchar. Interviews with Ulli Lommel, Jack Ketchum, The New Grand Guignol Theatre; articles from Whitehouse, Peter Sotos, Philip Nutman and more. From deviant behavior to violent sex, Funeral Party covers it all from dark to darkest!

Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of albums from the folk legend on one CD. This release contains the two albums Jack recorded for Warner/Reprise in 1968 and 1970 and includes songs by Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, Kris Kristofferson, Jagger and Richards, Johnny Cash and, of course, Woody Guthrie.