Halcyon Press Ltd: 195 books

THE OLD WIVES' TALE follows the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, to their old age. It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English journalist,...

PROBLEM ON BALAK AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION STORIES contains eight stories by science fiction writer Roger D. Aycock (1914-2004), who wrote under the name Roger Dee.  He enjoyed a prolific career during the Golden Age of Science Fiction and was a regular contributor to pulp science fiction magazines...

ROUGH BEAST AND OTHER GOLDEN AGE SCIENCE FICTION STORIES contains twelve stories by science fiction writer Roger D. Aycock (1914-2004), who wrote under the name Roger Dee. He enjoyed a prolific career during the Golden Age of Science Fiction and was a regular contributor to pulp science fiction magazines...

THE DREAM CYCLE STORIES includes seventeen stories central to H.P. Lovecraft's "Dream Cycle" myths.  Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. •...

This is the first of the series of three Comedies--'The Acharnians,' 'Peace' and 'Lysistrata'--produced at intervals of years, the sixth, tenth and twenty-first of the Peloponnesian War, and impressing on the Athenian people the miseries and disasters due to it and to the scoundrels who by their...

Cadet George Hanlon of the Inter-Stellar Corps had to make an important decision, the most difficult of his short lifetime. With graduation just a few short weeks ahead, he was asked to join the Corps' Secret Service, but in order to accept he had to be expelled from the Corps in disgrace. Why had...

THE LIBATION BEARERS is the second drama of the ORESTEIA.  It tells of Electra and Orestes planning their revenge against Clytemnestra and her lover for the death of Agamemnon. Aeschylus (c. 524 BC – c. 455 BC) was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived,...

THE BRANDING IRON AND OTHER WESTERNS includes three western romance novels by Katharine Newlin Burt.  Burt (1882-1977) was a noted western writer and married to fellow writer Maxwell Struthers Burt.  Together the couple homesteaded the Bar BC Ranch near Moose, Wyoming, whose environs served...

TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of THE GREAT GATSBY.  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. • The Jelly-Bean • The Camel's Back • May Day • Porcelain and Pink...

FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS is a collection of eight short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of THE GREAT GATSBY.  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. • The Offshore Pirate • The Ice Palace • Head and Shoulders • The...

THE WORKS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD contains twenty-one novels and short stories by Roaring Twenties author F. Scott Fitzgerald, including 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' 'This Side of Paradise,' and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.'  Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation....

Fruyling's World ... rich in the metals that kept the Terran Confederation going—one vital link in a galaxy-wide civilization. But the men of Fruyling's World lived on borrowed time, knowing that slavery was outlawed throughout the Confederation—and that only the slave labor of the reptilian natives...

THE ALIEN AND THE YEAR WHEN STARDUST FELL includes the novels THE ALIEN and the post-apocalyptic THE YEAR WHEN STARDUST FELL by noted writer Raymond F. Jones. THE ALIEN Just speculate for a moment on the enormous challenge to archeology when interplanetary flight is possible - and relics...

THE ALIEN AND OTHER GOLDEN AGE SCIENCE FICTION STORIES includes nine novels and short stories by noted writer Raymond F. Jones. This collection includes the novels THE ALIEN and the post-apocalyptic THE YEAR WHEN STARDUST FELL. • A Stone and a Spear • The Alien • The Colonists • Cubs...