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Claude Monet - Waterlilies and the Garden of Giverny by Flame Flame Tree (Created by); Julian Beecroft
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterworks Ser.
A gorgeous new edition with the cover printed on silver. Towards the end of his life and much inspired by Japanese water gardens, Monet spent a great deal of time in his beloved Giverny. Adorned with poppies, blue sage, dahlias and irises, the waters were disturbed only by bamboos and water lilies. His ...Show more
Claude Monet: Waterlilies and the Garden of Giverny by Flame Tree
Category: Herron Books | Series: Masterworks
Towards the end of his life and much inspired by Japanese water gardens, Monet spent a great deal of time in his beloved Giverny. Adorned with poppies, blue sage, dahlias and irises, the waters were disturbed only by bamboos and water lilies. His water garden was originally created to satisfy a need to ...Show more
Clearings : Six Colonial Gardeners by PAUL FOX
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants | Series: Melbourne University Press Masterworks S.
The stories of six colonial Australian gardeners and their transformation of the Australian landscape are told in this revealing look at 19th-century botany, horticulture, and plant collecting. Original writings, illustrations, and photographs from this time period help to reveal the progress of the gar ...Show more
Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception. Harlan Ellison's 1967 collection of science fiction stories set an almost impossibly high standard, as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards - not surpising with a contributors list that reads like a who's who ...Show more
Dark Benediction by Walter M. Miller
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Walter M. Miller Jr is best remembered as the author of A Canticle for Leibowitz, universally recognized as one of the greatest novels of modern SF. But as well as writing that deeply felt and eloquent book, he produced many shorter works of fiction of stunning originality and power. His profound intere ...Show more
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
When Bill Masen wakes up in his hospital bed, he has reason to be grateful for the bandages that covered his eyes the night before. For he finds a population rendered blind and helpless by the spectacular meteor shower that filled the night sky, the evening before. But his relief is short-lived as he re ...Show more
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
A young man arrives in the anarchic city of Bellona, in a near future USA. This world has two moons but could otherwise be our own. The man, known only as 'the Kid', begins to write a novel called Dhalgren that begins where it ends. Dhalgren is about the possibilites of fiction and about the special dem ...Show more
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
《仿生人会梦见电子羊吗?》 By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They e ...Show more
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 by Philip K Dick
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
The science fiction masterpiece behind the cult classic films Bladerunner and Bladerunner 2049. World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser w ...Show more
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 by Philip K Dick
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but beref ...Show more
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F.Masterworks
Philip K. Dick is the bestselling author of MINORITY REPORT and BLADE RUNNER