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Book Perchance to Dream

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Beaumont
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2015-10-13
  • ISBN : 069819456X
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Perchance to Dream written by Charles Beaumont and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone reboot arriving, read the stories that inspired some of the show's greatest episodes, including "The Howling Man"! The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer, with a foreword by Ray Bradbury and an afterword by William Shatner It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone—for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont’s finest stories, including seven that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes. Beaumont dreamed up fantasies so vast and varied they burst through the walls of whatever box might contain them. Supernatural, horror, noir, science fiction, fantasy, pulp, and more: all were equally at home in his wondrous mind. These are stories where lions stalk the plains, classic cars rove the streets, and spacecraft hover just overhead. Here roam musicians, magicians, vampires, monsters, toreros, extraterrestrials, androids, and perhaps even the Devil himself. With dizzying feats of master storytelling and joyously eccentric humor, Beaumont transformed his nightmares and reveries into impeccably crafted stories that leave themselves indelibly stamped upon the walls of the mind. In Beaumont’s hands, nothing is impossible: it all seems plausible, even likely. "[Beaumont’s] imagination, as Perchance to Dream amply shows, was more than most writers enjoy in the longest of lifetimes." -NPR For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Book The Beautiful People

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Beaumont
  • Publisher : eStar Books
  • Release : 2011-03-14
  • ISBN : 1612102417
  • Pages : 11 pages

Download or read book The Beautiful People written by Charles Beaumont and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The barren plains of mars held a secret, a yellow metal waiting to be found.

Book Charles Beaumont

Download or read book Charles Beaumont written by Charles Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Place Called Charlie Tango

Download or read book A Place Called Charlie Tango written by Charles Beaumont and published by Publishing Direct. This book was released on 2009 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the late 1970's during the closing stages of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia's long and bitter Bush War, this terrifyingly vivid, true-to-life account paints an unforgettable picture of life and death on a remote African outpost, deep in the arid heart of the terrorist-infested bushveld. This extraordinarily brutal yet, ultimately, heart-warming real-life drama lays bare the unrelenting horror and constant danger that all those who lived there faced in this chilling cat-and-mouse conflict, the tragic consequences of which still resonate to this day.

Book The Twilight Zone Scripts of Charles Beaumont

Download or read book The Twilight Zone Scripts of Charles Beaumont written by Charles Beaumont and published by Gauntlet Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of the late Charles Beaumont's classic Twilight Zone scripts.

Book Mass for Mixed Voices

Download or read book Mass for Mixed Voices written by Charles Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largest collection of Charles Beaumont's fiction ever in one volume. Includes many celebrity writer introductions.

Book From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles

Download or read book From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles written by Wolston Beaumont Charles Weld Forester and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Walker

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew Beaumont
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2020-11-10
  • ISBN : 1788738942
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book The Walker written by Matthew Beaumont and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Charles Dickens’ London to today’s megacities, a fascinating exploration of what urban walking tells us about modern life—for fans of Rebecca Solnit, Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City, and literary history. “A labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking,” as seen in the lives and works of Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Ray Bradbury, and other literary greats (Guardian). There is no such thing as a false step. Every time we walk we are going somewhere. Especially if we are going nowhere. Moving around the modern city is not a way of getting from A to B, but of understanding who and where we are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles, Matthew Beaumont retraces episodes in the history of the walker since the mid-19th century. From Dickens’s insomniac night rambles to restless excursions through the faceless monuments of today’s neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of self-discovery and self-escape, of disappearances and secret subversions. Pacing stride for stride alongside literary amblers and thinkers such as Edgar Allan Poe, André Breton, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and Ray Bradbury, Beaumont explores the relationship between the metropolis and its pedestrian life. Through these writings, Beaumont asks: Can you get lost in a crowd? What are the consequences of using your smartphone in the street? What differentiates the nocturnal metropolis from the city of daylight? What connects walking, philosophy and the big toe? And can we save the city—or ourselves—by taking to the pavement?

Book Hush  Child  Can t You Hear the Music

Download or read book Hush Child Can t You Hear the Music written by Charles Beaumont and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hush, Child! Can’t You Hear the Music? is a remarkable collection of black folktales and photographs from rural Georgia. During the 1930s and 1940s Rose Thompson worked as a home supervisor with the Farm Security Administration in middle Georgia. While she worked with farmers and their wives--teaching them to put up preserves, make cotton mattresses, and build chick brooders--she listened to the stories they told. Reading Hush, Child! Can’t You Hear the Music? is like spending an afternoon reminiscing on the front porch. The book is illustrated with photographs taken by Thompson and WPA photographer Jack Delano.

Book Open Wound

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jason Karlawish
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2011-08-30
  • ISBN : 0472028049
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book Open Wound written by Jason Karlawish and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shotgun misfires inside the American Fur Company store in Northern Michigan, and Alexis St. Martin's death appears imminent. It's 1822, and, as the leaders of Mackinac Island examine St. Martin's shot-riddled torso, they decide not to incur a single expense on behalf of the indentured fur trapper. They even go so far as to dismiss the attention of U.S. Army Assistant Surgeon William Beaumont, the frontier fort's only doctor. Beaumont ignores the orders and saves the young man's life. What neither the doctor nor his patient understands—yet—is that even as Beaumont's care of St. Martin continues for decades, the motives and merits of his attention are far from clear. In fact, for what he does to his patient, Beaumont will eventually stand trial and be judged. Rooted deeply in historic fact, Open Wound artfully fictionalizes the complex, lifelong relationship between Beaumont and his illiterate French Canadian patient. The young trapper's injury never completely heals, leaving a hole into his stomach that the curious doctor uses as a window to understand the mysteries of digestion. Eager to rise up from his humble origins and self-conscious that his medical training occurred as an apprentice to a rural physician rather than at an elite university, Beaumont seizes the opportunity to experiment upon his patient's stomach in order to write a book that he hopes will establish his legitimacy and secure his prosperity. As Jason Karlawish portrays him, Beaumont, always growing hungrier for more wealth and more prestige, personifies the best and worst aspects of American ambition and power.

Book Nightwalking

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew Beaumont
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2015-03-24
  • ISBN : 178168796X
  • Pages : 595 pages

Download or read book Nightwalking written by Matthew Beaumont and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating literary portrait of London explored at night by some of the city’s most iconic writers throughout history “Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today – home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the sun’s down. If nightwalking is a matter of “going astray” in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and forgotten aspects of the city. In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations and the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey; and, among the lamp-lit literary throng, the supreme nightwalker Charles Dickens. We discover how the nocturnal city has inspired some and served as a balm or narcotic to others. In each case, the city is revealed as a place divided between work and pleasure, the affluent and the indigent, where the entitled and the desperate jostle in the streets. With a foreword and afterword by Will Self, Nightwalking is a fascinating literary exploration of the writers who traverse the city at night and the people they meet.

Book Best of Beaumont

Download or read book Best of Beaumont written by Charles Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Snotty to Sub

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wolston B. C. W. Forester
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-09-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 81 pages

Download or read book From Snotty to Sub written by Wolston B. C. W. Forester and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "From Snotty to Sub" by Wolston B. C. W. Forester. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book The Frenchman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack Beaumont
  • Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
  • Release : 2023-02-28
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book The Frenchman written by Jack Beaumont and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the experiences of a real French spy, Jack Beaumont’s first-hand knowledge and experiences make this thriller plausible and frightening as you’re plunged into the very real world of terror, espionage, and danger. Alec de Payns is an undercover operative in the ultra-elusive French Y Division of the DGSE, a foreign intelligence service equivalent to the CIA or MI6. Code named Aguilar, de Payns is one of the division’s most accomplished agents working to neutralize international threats on a daily basis while simultaneously trying to balance his home life as a husband and father. When a routine mission to infiltrate a dangerous terrorist group unexpectedly goes belly up, Alec is faced with the unthinkable: that he may have been betrayed by someone in his close-knit team—and they may be trying to pin the blame on Alec himself. Back in Paris, Alec is assigned to investigate a secretive biological weapons facility in Pakistan which the DGSE believes to be producing a newly weaponized strain of bacteria, intended for release in France. As Alec works to uncover the facility’s secrets, he must also fight to clear his name and discover who the mole is before it’s too late. It’s not just his reputation that’s at stake—it’s the lives of his wife, two young children, and the entire population of Paris.

Book Running from the Hunter

Download or read book Running from the Hunter written by Harold Lee Prosser and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) burst upon the science fiction scene in the 1950s, writing award-winning short stories, teleplays for The Twilight Zone and other TV programs, and screenplays for The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, Burn Witch Burn!, The Premature Burial, and many others. This reprint of the 1996 edition provides a comprehensive survey of the author's work, with chronology, bibliography, and index.

Book The Intruder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Beaumont
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-03-19
  • ISBN : 9781613470299
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Intruder written by Charles Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic novel of racism and suspense by a legendary American writer.

Book The Intruder

Download or read book The Intruder written by Charles Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: