Wilder publications apr 2018 (51 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Consignment is a sharp mid-century science fiction story by Alan E. Nourse, combining medical speculation, moral pressure, and the uneasy human cost of technological progress. Nourse brings the precision of a physician and the pace of a practiced science fiction storyteller to a future in which systems meant to serve human need may also reduce human beings to inventory, obligation, or expendable material. Compact and unsettling, the story turns on the tension between efficiency, conscience, and the value of an individual life.First published during the classic magazine era of American science fiction, Consignment reflects Nourse's characteristic interest in medicine, social organisation, institutional power, and the ethical consequences of scientific advance. Readers of Golden Age science fiction, medical science fiction, dystopian speculation, classic short fiction, and socially engaged speculative writing will find here the clear narrative drive and moral seriousness that mark Nourse's best work. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - PRoblem is a sharp, comic science fiction story by Alan E. Nourse about aliens, public relations, mass panic, and the difficulty of selling the public on the terrifyingly unfamiliar. When the Grdznth arrive from a parallel universe, they are peaceful, apologetic, and useful to Earth's authorities-but they look like nightmares, appear unpredictably in public places, and frighten ordinary citizens beyond endurance. Pete Greenwood, a seasoned public-relations man, is called in to turn a social disaster into an acceptable story before politics, fear, and public hysteria make the situation impossible.Nourse turns an alien-contact premise into a brisk satire of image-making, media management, xenophobia, bureaucracy, and human sentiment. The Grdznth are not invaders in the usual pulp sense; they are refugees with a problem of their own, and Earth's reaction to them reveals as much about human beings as it does about alien life. For readers of Golden Age science fiction, vintage magazine SF, comic alien-contact stories, public-relations satire, and Alan E. Nourse's short fiction, PRoblem is a compact and clever example of mid-century speculative storytelling. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A classic Christmas story of sacrifice and generosity, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry remains one of the most widely read and enduring works of holiday literature. Centered on a young couple of modest means, the story follows their efforts to secure meaningful gifts for one another in the face of financial hardship.As Christmas approaches, each makes a private decision that reflects both love and selflessness, leading to an outcome that has become one of the most recognized and studied examples of situational irony in short fiction. The narrative is concise yet emotionally resonant, combining warmth, humor, and moral clarity within a tightly constructed form.O. Henry's storytelling is marked by precision and a distinctive narrative voice, and this work in particular has secured a lasting place in seasonal reading traditions. Frequently included in anthologies and educational settings, it continues to resonate for its treatment of giving, value, and human connection.This edition presents the original text in a clear and readable format, suitable for both individual reading and classroom use.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A sudden clash on the waters near China throws a young adventurer into danger, courage, and imperial conflict. In A Brush with the Chinese and What Came of It, G. A. Henty delivers the kind of fast-moving historical adventure that made his stories popular with generations of young readers: a dramatic encounter, a dangerous setting, and a test of nerve in the midst of war, travel, and foreign danger.Set against the background of British naval and military action in China, the story reflects Henty's familiar interest in courage under pressure, discipline, quick decision-making, and the education of character through peril. Like many of his shorter works, it combines action with historical atmosphere, giving readers a compact adventure shaped by the imperial assumptions, martial values, and global conflicts of the nineteenth century.For readers of classic boys' adventure fiction, Victorian historical fiction, naval adventure, British Empire stories, and Henty's many tales of courage in wartime, A Brush with the Chinese and What Came of It offers a brief but energetic example of his storytelling. It is especially useful for collectors, classrooms, and readers interested in the way nineteenth-century adventure fiction presented war, empire, travel, and youthful bravery.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mistaken IdentityViola and her twin brother, Sebastian, are shipwrecked. While coming ashore they are separated and she assumes he has drowned. Upon reaching shore, Viola decides to disguise herself as a young man. Mistaken identity and romance ensue.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A witty early work by P. G. Wodehouse that captures the lightness, irony, and comic observation that would later make him one of the most beloved humorists in English literature.Written during the formative years of Wodehouse's career, The Politeness of Princes showcases the author's gift for playful satire and gentle mockery of social conventions. Even in these early writings, Wodehouse demonstrates the qualities that would later define his famous Jeeves and Wooster stories-an effortless comic tone, elegant dialogue, and a keen eye for the absurdities of polite society.The piece reflects the Edwardian world in which Wodehouse first made his literary reputation, a world of manners, expectations, and quiet comic rebellion. Beneath the polished surfaces of etiquette and propriety, Wodehouse reveals the delightful foolishness of social pretensions and the human quirks that lie behind them.For readers interested in the origins of Wodehouse's unmistakable comic voice, The Politeness of Princes offers an engaging glimpse into the early development of a writer who would go on to become one of the great masters of humorous fiction.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Time and the Gods is one of Lord Dunsany's earliest and most influential collections of mythic fantasy, establishing the dreamlike cosmology that would shape modern fantasy literature.First published in 1906, this volume continues the imaginative architecture introduced in The Gods of Pegana, presenting a series of prose-poems and short mythic tales set in an invented divine cosmos ruled by capricious gods and governed by inexorable Time. In these brief, luminous narratives, Dunsany constructs an entire mythology-at once distant and strangely intimate-where gods quarrel, cities fall, prophets speak, and destiny moves with quiet inevitability.Written in elevated yet musical prose, the collection stands as a foundational work of early twentieth century fantasy fiction. Dunsany's influence would later be acknowledged by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft and J. R. R. Tolkien, and his mythic method helped define the tonal and structural possibilities of modern secondary-world fantasy. Time and the Gods remains essential reading for those interested in the origins of high fantasy, mythopoeic fiction, and the poetic tradition of imaginative literature.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - There's nothing like exciting fantasy to escape boredom. The problem is to know whether it's actually a fantasy.Dipping low and weaving in and out among the glittering towers, one might see the moving walks, the studied revolution of the giant street ventilators, hot in the winter and cool in summer, the tiny doors opening and closing, the park fountains shooting their methodical columns of water into the air. Farther along, one would flit across the great open field on which the glossy spaces.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The stories gathered here range from speculative thought experiments to biting parodies, each grounded in Tenn's distinctive voice-wry, intelligent, and unafraid to challenge convention. Whether examining alien encounters, alternate realities, or the unintended consequences of technological progress, Tenn consistently turns familiar science fiction premises on their head, revealing deeper truths beneath the surface.Long regarded as a master of satirical science fiction, William Tenn occupies a unique place in the Golden Age and post-Golden Age tradition. His work bridges the gap between classic pulp storytelling and more modern, self-aware speculative fiction, influencing generations of writers who followed.This edition presents Tenn's stories in a clean, readable format, preserving the original text while making it accessible for contemporary readers and collectors of classic science fiction.Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Marley's Chain: A Positronic Book is a classic Alan E. Nourse science fiction story of prejudice, displacement, and survival in a changed future America. Tam returns to Earth after years of working in space, only to discover that the world he left behind no longer has a place for him. He is a Sharkie, marked by his years beyond Earth, and the ordinary doors of society-work, service, dignity, welcome-are closed against him. What begins as a homecoming becomes a confrontation with exclusion, fear, and the desperate choices forced on those pushed outside the accepted order.Nourse uses the compact force of mid-century magazine science fiction to examine social division through the language of space travel, labour, and altered identity. Marley's Chain belongs to the tradition of classic speculative fiction in which future settings reveal the moral failures of the present: who is allowed to belong, who is treated as less than human, and what survival may demand from those denied ordinary justice. For readers of vintage science fiction, social science fiction, dystopian themes, prejudice narratives, and Golden Age speculative fiction, this Positronic edition presents a sharp and still-relevant story from one of the field's distinctive voices. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Marion Zimmer Bradley's Death Between the Stars is a compact Golden Age science fiction story of identity, danger, and suspicion aboard a starship. First published in 1956, the story opens with a rigid distinction between human and nonhuman life, as the narrator boards the starship Vesta and immediately confronts the rules, anxieties, and prejudices of interstellar society. Its premise places personal survival and social fear against the vast machinery of space travel, using the short-story form to explore alienness, loyalty, and the uneasy boundaries of civilization. Bradley's early science fiction helped establish the imaginative territory she would later develop across planetary romance, space opera, and speculative adventure. Death Between the Stars will appeal to readers of classic science fiction, vintage magazine SF, women science fiction writers, space-travel stories, alien-contact fiction, and mid-century speculative fiction. Concise, atmospheric, and built around a strong narrative hook, it is a sharp example of the magazine-era science fiction that helped shape modern genre storytelling. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Fritz Leiber's A Pail of Air is a chilling classic of post-apocalyptic science fiction, first published in the December 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. In a future where a passing dark star has torn Earth away from the Sun, the planet has become a frozen wanderer in space. The oceans, the air, and nearly all life have frozen solid. One small family survives inside a sealed shelter, venturing outside in protective clothing to gather frozen oxygen in pails so they can continue to breathe. Told through the eyes of a young boy, the story combines cosmic catastrophe with domestic intimacy, turning the end of the world into something at once terrifying, tender, and strangely practical. Leiber's premise is pure Golden Age science fiction, but the emotional force comes from the family's fragile routine: warmth, air, memory, discipline, and the desperate hope that they may not be entirely alone. For readers of classic science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, survival stories, Galaxy-era SF, and compact speculative masterpieces, A Pail of Air remains one of Leiber's most memorable short works. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A science fiction narrative examining perception, prediction, and the consequences of knowledge beyond ordinary limits. In Second Sight, Alan E. Nourse develops a premise in which the ability to anticipate events alters the balance between individual agency and external constraint, raising questions about control, responsibility, and unintended outcome.The narrative proceeds through a structured escalation of discovery, testing the central idea against practical and social conditions. Nourse's method emphasizes clarity and logical development, allowing the speculative element to unfold through cause and effect rather than abstraction. Character response remains grounded in problem-solving, with the conceptual framework driving the progression of events.Positioned within mid-twentieth-century American science fiction, the work reflects a disciplined, idea-centered approach in which scientific implication and narrative structure are closely aligned.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The story begins at sunset in Salem, Massachusetts, as young Goodman Brown leaves Faith, his wife of three months, for an unknown errand in the forest. Faith pleads with her husband to stay with her but he insists the journey into the forest must be completed that night. In the forest he meets a man, dressed in a similar manner to himself and bearing a resemblance to himself. The man carries a black serpent-shaped staff.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them: instead of realizing their true talents, they waste their time solving the social problems caused by capitalism, without taking their common cause away.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An early comic novel in which Wodehouse employs satire and absurdity to reimagine the defence of England against an improbable invasion.First published in 1909, The Swoop; or, How Clarence Saved England presents a deliberately exaggerated scenario in which multiple foreign powers simultaneously invade England, only to be thwarted by unlikely circumstances and an equally unlikely hero. Wodehouse uses the premise to parody contemporary anxieties about invasion and national preparedness, transforming public concerns into material for comic treatment.The narrative reflects an early phase of Wodehouse's career, preceding the development of his later, more refined comic style associated with Jeeves and Wooster. Even so, the work displays his characteristic control of tone, timing, and understatement, combining farcical situations with a measured narrative voice. The Swoop remains of interest both as a satire of its period and as an example of Wodehouse's evolving approach to humour.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A short tale of courage and vigilance, set within the domestic and natural spaces of British India. First published in 1894 as part of The Jungle Book, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi recounts the actions of a young mongoose who comes to live with an English family and undertakes the defence of their household against a pair of cobras.Kipling's narrative is direct and controlled, combining elements of fable with precise observation of animal behaviour. The story proceeds through a sequence of encounters that test the mongoose's alertness and resolve, presenting a clear structure of threat and response within a confined setting. Its economy of form and clarity of movement have contributed to its continued presence in both literary collections and educational reading.Situated within Kipling's broader engagement with the natural world and imperial setting, the tale reflects a late nineteenth-century perspective while maintaining its distinct narrative focus on action, character, and environment.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The family from which I am derived is not an ignoble one, but hath descended all along from the priests; and as nobility among several people is of a different origin, so with us to be of the sacerdotal dignity, is an indication of the splendor of a family.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Maiwa's Revenge, or the War of the Little Hand continues H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain adventures with a compact, violent, and fast-moving tale of pursuit, vengeance, and frontier war. When Quatermain is drawn into the story of Maiwa, a woman seeking justice against a brutal ruler, the result is a fierce expedition into danger, where personal wrongs, tribal conflict, imperial-era violence, and survival in the African interior collide. Haggard's gift for atmosphere, peril, and mythic adventure gives the story its restless force.First published in 1888, Maiwa's Revenge belongs to the larger world of Allan Quatermain, one of the most enduring adventure figures of nineteenth-century fiction. The novella reflects the imperial assumptions and racial attitudes of its age, but it also remains an important work in the development of lost-world fiction, colonial adventure, and popular action storytelling. This edition will interest readers of H. Rider Haggard, Victorian adventure fiction, historical adventure, classic pulp forerunners, African-set adventure fiction, and the early traditions that helped shape later jungle, expedition, and lost-world narratives.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Man of Means is a sparkling comic sequence about sudden money, social ambition, romantic confusion, and the uncomfortable fact that good fortune often creates more trouble than it solves. Roland Bleke is an ordinary young man whose life changes when financial success comes his way through a series of lucky accidents. Wealth should make things easier. Instead, it draws Roland into awkward courtship, dubious ventures, social absurdity, theatrical schemes, publishing complications, and the kind of comic entanglements that only P. G. Wodehouse could make feel inevitable.Written in collaboration with C. H. Bovill, these six linked stories first appeared in magazines in the 1910s and follow Roland through the episodes of his improbable rise. The collection includes 'The Episode of the Landlady's Daughter,' 'The Episode of the Financial Napoleon,' 'The Episode of the Theatrical Venture,' 'The Episode of the Live Weekly,' 'The Diverting Episode of the Exiled Monarch,' and 'The Episode of the Hired Past.' Together they form an early Wodehouse comic narrative full of misplaced confidence, social climbing, amiable foolishness, and the cheerful collapse of well-laid plans.This SMK edition is suited to readers of classic British humour, comic fiction, early twentieth-century short stories, P. G. Wodehouse, light satire, and linked story collections. A Man of Means is a lesser-known but delightful part of the Wodehouse shelf: a brisk, funny, and highly readable reminder that money may open doors, but it also invites people, problems, and perfectly ridiculous complications through them.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An early school story by P. G. Wodehouse, set within the traditions of the English public school and centred on rivalry, honour, and youthful intrigue.The Pothunters, Wodehouse's first published novel, presents a narrative rooted in the conventions of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century school fiction. Set at St Austin's, the story follows a group of boys whose discovery of ancient artefacts-'pothunting'-intersects with a series of disciplinary and competitive tensions within the school. The plot develops through misunderstandings, loyalties, and the gradual restoration of order, reflecting the moral framework typical of the genre.Although distinct in tone from Wodehouse's later comic masterpieces, the novel reveals early evidence of his clarity of style and narrative control. Its setting and structure place it within the lineage of British school stories, while offering a straightforward and engaging account of institutional life. The Pothunters remains of interest both as a period work and as the starting point of one of the most recognisable literary careers of the twentieth century.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Death at the Excelsior and Others gathers P. G. Wodehouse's early mystery, comic, and adventure stories in a lively collection that shows his range beyond the world of Jeeves and Blandings. The title story, 'Death at the Excelsior,' presents a hotel mystery involving sudden death, suspicion, and detection, while the other stories move through schemes, mistaken identities, romantic complications, criminal plots, and the brisk comic situations that made Wodehouse one of the most beloved writers of the twentieth century.These stories show Wodehouse working with popular magazine forms of his day: crime fiction, light adventure, farce, romance, and humorous social comedy. Even when the machinery of mystery or suspense is in motion, the real pleasure lies in the sharp timing, verbal wit, cheerful absurdity, and lightly satirical eye that became his unmistakable signature. The collection offers readers a glimpse of Wodehouse as a versatile storyteller before and beyond his most famous series characters.For readers of classic British humor, Golden Age mystery, comic short fiction, and early twentieth-century magazine stories, Death at the Excelsior and Others is an entertaining and revealing volume. It captures Wodehouse's gift for turning danger, confusion, and social embarrassment into polished comic entertainment.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet. The cast of characters head to England, and from there on it is a typically Wodehousian romantic farce, set at the stately Dreever Castle, overflowing with imposters, detectives, crooks, scheming lovers and conniving aunts.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Prefect's Uncle is one of P. G. Wodehouse's early school stories, a comic boarding-school novel of cricket, mischief, loyalty, and impossible family embarrassment. At Beckford College, Gethryn is a respected prefect, cricketer, and senior boy until Reginald Farnie arrives at the school. Farnie is younger, troublesome, and thoroughly disruptive-and, unfortunately for Gethryn's dignity, he also happens to be his uncle. Project Gutenberg describes the novel as a 1903 school story in which Gethryn must balance his responsibilities as a prefect with family loyalty after Farnie's behaviour causes trouble. First published in 1903, A Prefect's Uncle belongs to Wodehouse's earliest period, before Jeeves, Wooster, Blandings, and the later country-house comedies made him one of the great comic writers in English. The machinery is already visible: social embarrassment, youthful rebellion, cricket matches, school rules, comic misunderstanding, and the absurdity of authority placed under pressure. For readers of classic British humour, school stories, early Wodehouse, cricket fiction, and Edwardian comic novels, this is a useful and entertaining look at the young Wodehouse learning how to make order collapse gracefully.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An early school story by P. G. Wodehouse, set within the competitive and tradition-bound world of the English public school. The Gold Bat centres on life at Wrykyn School, where rivalries between houses, questions of loyalty, and the pursuit of athletic distinction shape the daily experience of its pupils. The narrative follows a group of boys as they navigate cricket matches, disciplinary expectations, and internal conflicts, with particular attention given to the tensions between individual ambition and collective responsibility. At the heart of the story lies the symbolic 'Gold Bat,' awarded for excellence in cricket, around which much of the action and rivalry is organised.Written early in Wodehouse's career, the novel reflects the conventions of Edwardian school fiction while already displaying elements of the author's characteristic wit and timing. Though more restrained than his later comic works, it nevertheless reveals a developing sense of narrative rhythm and an interest in the codes of behaviour that govern closed social institutions. The school itself is rendered with clarity and economy, its customs and hierarchies forming a coherent backdrop to the unfolding events.First published in 1904, The Gold Bat belongs to a tradition of British school stories that includes the works of Talbot Baines Reed and others, contributing to a literary form concerned with discipline, camaraderie, and the shaping of character. It remains of interest both as an early example of Wodehouse's writing and as a representative text within its genre.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A collection of short fantasy tales by Lord Dunsany, presenting early imaginative fiction that helped shape the development of modern fantasy literature. The Book of Wonder gathers a sequence of stories marked by invention, atmosphere, and controlled narrative form.The tales proceed through self-contained episodes, often set in imagined lands and structured around encounters with the extraordinary. Dunsany's method emphasizes economy of language and tonal consistency, allowing suggestion and implication to carry much of the narrative effect. The collection maintains a unified voice while offering variation in setting and theme.Positioned within early twentieth-century fantasy, the work is associated with the formative period of the genre and has influenced later writers of imaginative fiction. It remains a representative example of Dunsany's approach to short-form fantasy.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Not George Washington is a comic novel of literary ambition, misadventure, and social satire, following the efforts of a young writer navigating the uncertain world of publishing and reputation. Told through a lively and often self-aware narrative voice, the story traces the rise and fall of its protagonist as he attempts to establish himself in literary society, only to encounter a series of humorous setbacks and complications.Blending satire with farce, Wodehouse and Westbrook draw on their own early experiences in journalism and writing, creating a work that reflects both the aspirations and absurdities of literary life. The novel offers a portrait of ambition tempered by reality, where success proves elusive and circumstance often intervenes in unexpected ways.Not George Washington stands as an early example of Wodehouse's comic style, combining wit, light irony, and social observation. It remains of interest both as an entertaining narrative and as a glimpse into the formative period of one of the most distinctive voices in English humor.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Love Among the Chickens is P. G. Wodehouse's early comic novel of romance, bad planning, poultry farming, and magnificent financial irresponsibility. Jeremy Garnet is drawn into the latest scheme of his old friend Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, a man of boundless confidence and almost no practical sense, who has decided that running a chicken farm in Dorset is the sure road to prosperity. What follows is a classic Wodehouse comedy of misplaced optimism, rural chaos, unpaid bills, romantic complications, social embarrassment, and chickens behaving exactly as chickens are likely to behave when placed at the centre of a business plan.First published in 1906 and later revised by Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens is notable as the first appearance of Ukridge, one of Wodehouse's great comic forces of disruption. The novel shows the young Wodehouse already developing the machinery that would define his mature comic fiction: impossible schemes, buoyant dialogue, emotional entanglements, amiable disaster, and an instinctive sympathy for people who should know better but rarely do. For readers of classic comic fiction, British humor, romantic farce, early Wodehouse, and light English novels, Love Among the Chickens remains a brisk and charming entry in the Wodehouse canon.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - P. G. Wodehouse's early school novel captures the rivalries, pranks, and spirited competitions of life at an English public school.Set at the fictional Eckleton School, The Head of Kay's follows the adventures of a group of boys navigating the challenges of school life, friendship, and rivalry among the different houses. At the center of the story is Kay's House, whose members find themselves drawn into a series of contests and conflicts with their schoolmates.As tensions rise between competing houses, the boys must learn lessons about loyalty, leadership, and fair play. Wodehouse blends humor, lively dialogue, and fast-moving episodes to portray the world of early twentieth-century school life with warmth and wit.Written before the author achieved international fame for the Jeeves and Wooster stories, The Head of Kay's reveals the beginnings of Wodehouse's distinctive comic style. The novel remains a charming example of the classic British school story tradition.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Where the great plain of Tarphet runs up, as the sea in estuaries, among the Cyresian mountains, there stood long since the city of Merimna well-nigh among the shadows of the crags. I have never seen a city in the world so beautiful as Merimna seemed to me when first I dreamed of it. It was a marvel of spires and figures of bronze, and marble fountains, and trophies of fabulous wars, and broad streets given over wholly to the Beautiful. Right through the centre of the city there went an avenue fifty strides in width, and along each side of it stood likenesses in bronze of the Kings of all the countries that the people of Merimna had ever known. At the end of that avenue was a colossal chariot with three bronze horses driven by the winged figure of Fame, and behind her in the chariot the huge form of Welleran, Merimna's ancient hero, standing with extended sword. So urgent was the mien and attitude of Fame, and so swift the pose of the horses, that you had sworn that the chariot was instantly upon you, and that its dust already veiled the faces of the Kings. And in the city was a mighty hall wherein were stored the trophies of Merimna's heroes. Sculptured it was and domed, the glory of the art of masons a long while dead, and on the summit of the dome the image of Rollory sat gazing across the Cyresian mountains towards the wide lands beyond, the lands that knew his sword. And beside Rollory, like an old nurse, the figure of Victory sat, hammering into a golden wreath of laurels for his head the crowns of fallen Kings.…