A taut thriller about a small group of friends escaping a nuclear holocaust.
Lord of the World (Dover Doomsday Classics)
by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson
'A modest epic written in real-time, Maria Fusco's Legend of the Necessary Dreamer records some weeks in June 2013 when her narrator went every day to Lisbon's Palacio Pombal in order to write about it. But 'it', of course, isn't only the building, but the wraparound sensual act of perceiving. As she writes, I am trying to turn myself into a recording device...Fusco's book brilliantly examines what it means not just to look, but to think, feel and remember. Legend expands the bounds of discursio...
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (100 Bestsellers) (Readitnow)
by G K Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller.In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Lucian Gregory, an anarchistic poet, lives in the suburb of Saffron Park. Syme meets him at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. Gregory argues that revolt is the basis of poetry. Syme demurs, insisting that the essence of po...