Books published in 1936
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A World Of Sound
[english | 1936]William Olaf Stapledon
Excerpts: [... and hostile beast fell upon it and devoured it, or the whole jungle suffocated it. The strain of following this struggle for existence wearied me. I closed ...... it gave a sense of richness, solidity, and vitality quite lacking in ordinary music. This queer music, moreover, had another source of wealth. It ...... and obvious. I found myself recognizing that these active ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 418
Afternoon Of An Author
[english | 1936]Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Excerpts: [... than he had for many weeks, a fact that became plain to him negatively???he did not feel ill. He leaned for a moment against the door frame between ...... like yesterday and toast, orange juice and tea. He lingered for a moment in his daughter's end of the apartment and read his mail. It was an annoying ...... years ago and the sound rights last year. Never any luck with movies, he ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 113
Anne Of Windy Poplars
[english | 1936]Lucy Maud Montgomery
Summary: [At the station.--Tirar y Soult.--Walhalla.--The doctors wife.--Anne.--An ignoble martyr.--Across the gulf.--A wayside episode.--Mademoiselle Joan.--The end of the vendetta.--A faded leaf of history.--The Yares of the Black Mountains.--Marcia.]
Genres: [fiction | juvenile] Downloads: 225
Black Canaan
[english | 1936]Robert Ervin Howard
Summary: [If you can get past the considerable racism (the setting is the Jim Crow Deep South the storys told in first person) its a creepy swamp voodoo tale comparable in its eerieness to many of the darker Conan stories. The Pool of the Black One comes to mind. I enjoyed it but you may not if you cant stand casual use of the N word.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | fantasy] Downloads: 256
Doom Of The House Of Duryea
[english | 1936]Earl Peirce
Summary: [This horror short story has a slightly different take on the vampire theme. Kind of reads like a Twilight Zone episode especially the ending. The writings a bit overblown but its still good for some mindless entertainment.]
Genres: [short story | horror | post 1930] Downloads: 271
Evil Deeds At Red Cougar
[english | 1936]Robert Ervin Howard
Excerpts: [... their wagons and taking to the bresh if they happen to meet me on the road. I warn't intending to go there in the first place. I been punching ...... of hoofs reched us, and said: Oh, I dast not! They mustn't even see me again! But I want to, I said. Where you live? Red Cougar, says she. ...... setting there wondering which branch to take, I heard hosses running again, and purty ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories | westerns] Downloads: 332
Gees First Case
[english | 1936]E Charles Vivian
Summary: [Gee S First Case by Jack Mann. Gregory George Gordon Green - or Gees as he prefers to be called - doesn t want to follow in his father s military footsteps he wants to be a detective and solve cases from mumps to murder as his billboard reads. Whether he s tracking Communists werewolves ghosts or ghouls Gees and his loyal secretary root out evil wherever it lurks - and have a great time doing it. ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective | post 1930] Downloads: 228
High Horse Rampage
[english | 1936]Robert Ervin Howard
Excerpts: [... you air the same, I begs to remane. Yore lovin' Ant Saragosa. It's heartening to know a man's kin is thinking kindly of him and forgetting petty grudges. ...... cook? I demanded. He's layin' helpless in a chaparral thicket reekin' with the fumes of vaniller extract, says Old Man Mulholland. Anyway, yo're responsible ...... says I with a vi'lent start, because they hadn't never been ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories | westerns] Downloads: 210
I Didnt Get Over
[english | 1936]Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Excerpts: [... in college and it was our twentieth reunion this year. We always called ourselves the War Babies-anyhow we were all in the damn thing and this time ...... war, -to read the names of Abe Danzer and Pop McGowan and those fellows and to think they've been dead for twenty years and we've only been getting ...... they found he was always accusing soldiers of slapping, so they let me go. ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 61
Les Montagnes Hallucinees
[french | 1936]Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Excerpts: [... il nous faudrait maintenant contourner le cap Adare et suivre la c^ote est de la terre de Victoria jusqu'`a notre base, pr'evue sur le rivage du d'etroit ...... d'ecouverts `a l'ouest, pr`es de la cha^ine de la Reine Alexandra, int'eress`erent particuli`erement Lake qui, en tant que biologiste, jugeait leurs marques ...... dans les peintures de Roerich. Impressionnant de loin. ...]
Genres: [fiction | horror] Downloads: 425
Lycanthropus
[english | 1936]C Edgar Bolen
Summary: [Dont be fooled by the page count its actually a two-stanza poem. That said its rather nice as poems go.]
Genres: [poetry | post 1930 | short story] Downloads: 437
No Cowherders Wanted
[english | 1936]Robert Ervin Howard
Excerpts: [... means of keeping their sculps onto their heads whilst collecting pelts, and purty soon one of 'em riz and said, You mavericks make me sick. For the ...... at me and Cap'n Kidd, and says: You must be him. Wouldn't no other man fit the description he gimme. Who? I says. Glaze Bannack, says he. He gimme ...... around behind a corn crib so she wouldn't see me in my scare-crow condition....]
Genres: [fiction | short stories | westerns] Downloads: 119
Not Under Forty
[english | 1936]Willa Cather
Summary: [Forty Years Among the Indians was published by the Juvenile Instructor Press in 1890 and written by Daniel Webster Jones. It is described on its Title Page as A True yet Thrilling Narrative of the Authors Experiences among the Natives. In it Jones writes his autobiography detailing his conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints his experiences during the rescue of the handcart ...]
Genres: [non-fiction] Downloads: 232
Pilgrims To The Pecos
[english | 1936]Robert Ervin Howard
Excerpts: [... ahead of us and grabbed all the best land. They claims it whether they got any legal rights or not. Legal rights be damned, snorted pap. Shotgun ...... heads and grabbed 'em by the bridles and throwed 'em back onto their haunches, and Old Man Richardson ought to of knew the stop would be sudden. T'warn't ...... with the others strung out behind, and he says to me: If this here ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories | westerns] Downloads: 265
Pistol Politics
[english | 1936]Robert Ervin Howard
Excerpts: [... four piddlin' fights a night was the usual run, and a man hadn't been shot dead in more than a week by my reckoning. Then, like my Aunt Tascosa Polk would ...... I. I'm confident they's at least thirty-five men in this camp which can read and write, says Gooseneck. That's plenty. But we got to find somebody ...... Charge it to Jerry Brennon. He spilt it. Dead men pays no bills, ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories | westerns] Downloads: 159
Proteus Island
[english | 1936]Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
Excerpts: [... and Carver squinted after it. Of course, it had to be an apteryx these islands of the New Zealand group were too deficient in fauna for it to be ...... panic, but it had flashed against the sky with a sinister appearance of abnormality. It was a monstrosity, an aberration, and the minds of Polynesians ...... that was not human, yet had a hideous suggestion of humanity gone wild, a ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 211
Red Nails
[english | 1936]Robert Ervin Howard
Excerpts: [... follow me from Zarallo's camp, or were you whipped forth for a rogue? He laughed at her insolence and flexed his mighty biceps. You know Zarallo ...... Do you think I've followed you this far, to turn around and ride off empty-handed? Be sensible, wench. I'm not going to harm you. He stepped toward ...... to the spirelike pinnacle, he stared out over the forest roof. He stood a ...]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | short stories] Downloads: 489
Redemption Cairn
[english | 1936]Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
Excerpts: [... showed up to relieve me he was hopped. He had a regular hexylamine jag, and he couldn't have piloted a tricycle. So I did the only possible thing ...... let me vent my temper without interruption, and I returned to my story. Well, I was getting down as well as could be expected. The Hera always ...... relieving each other, and you know what that's like, seeing somebody in a control ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 471
Son Of The White Wolf
[english | 1936]Robert Ervin Howard
Excerpts: [... fighting men between the Syrian coast and the Persian highlands, ready to be roused by a new word, a new prophet! The East is moving in her sleep. Ours ...... ancient Turan. Son Of The White Wolf Chapter 2 Massacre WHEN FRAULEIN OLGA VON BRUCKMANN, known as a famous German secret agent, arrived ...... do not dare! She snatched a pistol from her blouse. Before she could level it he ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 149