Books with title The Illustrated Man

The Old Man in the Corner is an unnamed armchair detective who appears in a series of short stories written by Baroness Orczy. He examines and solves crimes while sitting in the corner of a genteel London tea-room in conversation with a female journalist. He was one of the first of this character-type created in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The character's moniker is used as the title of the collection of the earliest stories featuring the character.

The Magic Shop is the story of a boy named Gip and his mystical experience in a certain magic shop, as told by his father.This magic shop seems to be a little different than all the others, which is just fine, because this little boy seems to be a little different than all the others as well.The shop owner, with one ear larger than the other, entertains the boy and the father with magic tricks, pulling baubles out of thin air.The shopkeeper reminds the father, repeatedly, that this is not just any magic shop, this is “The Genuine Magic Shop”, making sure to emphasize the “Genuine” in the title.The magic tricks and illusions increase in complexity until the father is no longer comfortable with what he’s seeing, given the shopkeeper’s frequent reminders, but the boy is rapt with excitement.This short story comes to a rather abrupt end, and would make a great start for a script for a Twilight Zone episode. In fact, I think it might have been inspiration for one or two such scripts.Wells is one of those writers who can really exercise a language in his writing. He uses his vocabulary as a palette with which he paints a scene. If I were to describe his writing style as a painting technique, it would be as much impressionist as realist. Sometimes he describes things in a literal detail and other times he hints at details in the descriptions, letting your mind fill in the rest.That said, there are a few times where I tripped up reading it, some of the turn-of-the-century vernacular escaped me. For example;“It was being borne in upon me just how tremendously rum this place was; it was, so to speak, inundated by a sense of rumness. There was something a little rum about the fixtures even, about the ceiling, about the floor, about the casually distributed chairs.”

Ruggedo, the former Nome King, tries once again to conquer Oz. He secretly enters Oz bringing with him powerful magic in the form of a Munchkin boy names Kiki Aru who has learned the most powerful magic word of all. A word so powerful that even The Wizard of Oz and Glenda do not know it. Will Dorothy, Ozma, and their friends learn the secret to this magic word in time to save Oz?This edition features over 100 superb illustrations by John R. Neill.

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. The Moonstone and The Woman in White are widely considered Wilkie Collins' best novels. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel. Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage in 1877, but the production was performed for only two months.

The "Genius" is a semi-autobiographical novel by Theodore Dreiser, first published in 1915. It concerns Eugene Witla, a talented painter of strong sexual desires who grapples with his commitment to his art and the force of his erotic needs. The book sold 8,000 copies in the months immediately following publication but encountered legal difficulties when it was declared potentially obscene.[1] Dreiser's publisher was nervous about continuing publication and recalled the book from bookstores, and the novel did not receive broad distribution until 1923. When The "Genius" was reissued by a different publisher, the firm of Horace Liveright