Article 173 of alt.etext: Path: wiretap.Spies.COM!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!andromeda.rutgers.edu!ehrlich From: ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Heyward Ehrlich) Newsgroups: alt.etext Subject: Re: Spectrum Press etexts on disk Message-ID: Date: 19 Aug 93 17:23:36 GMT References: <24tk2g$ooc@genesis.MCS.COM> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 665 Date: 18 Aug 93 23:17:59 EDT From: Spectrum Press <71022.251@compuserve.com> SPECTRUM PRESS CATALOG - AUGUST 1993 UPDATE Thank you for requesting our list. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This present letter contains 662 lines, so you will need to scroll it on your screen. ---------------------------------------------------------------- If you have not yet notified us, and you would like to receive periodic E-mail updates of this catalog, please send us an E-mail letter stating: "send new releases info". 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All prices are the same for PC and Mac disks. ----------------------------------------------------------------- August 1993 List (Please note: We ship PC 3.5" unless you specify otherwise) 5.25" or 3.5" PC disks same price PC or Mac formatted disks same price (* = available on 3.5" disk(s) only) << Contemporary Fiction and Poetry >> Anselmo, Peter: DEMON HEAT The story of a female vampire whose desperate needs force the destruction of one victim after another. A tour de force of sex and vampirism. A book destined to be an erotic classic. >From the Obelisk Library. $5.95 Order #103 Barton, D.J.: THE VICTORY OF B-POSTIVE A wife, her husband, and her mother tear each other apart in a classic family struggle. An artful story of a modern dysfunctional nuclear family. $5.95 Order #156 Brown, Tim W.: ON SANGAMON Set in a post-industrial Chicago wasteland. A contemporary novel depicting the lives of a rock drummer and his poet friend. A blend of narrative and folklore by a skillful young writer. $5.95 Order #147 Brown, Tim W. (ed.): THE BEST OF TOMORROW A tenth anniversary anthology of the best fiction and poetry to appear in the literary magazine TOMORROW. Two dozen accomplished writers. $5.95 Order #186 Campbell, Ewing: THE TEX-MEX EXPRESS An avant-garde novel of the Southwest. A pilgrimage by train from the Gulf of Mexico to the Mexican border and back on the occasion of a thirtieth anniversary class reunion. The novel reconstructs the time, place, and lives of the participants through multiple voices in which humor and sorrow coexist with unsettling effects. $5.95 Order #142 Dittmeier, Ray: GOLIATH A zany satire that reminds one of Alfred Jarry and UBU ROI. Only this is us, here and now, one hundred years after King Ubu. $5.95 Order #155 Fairburn, Laura: LENORE A tale of obsession and love in the 19th century. Plague, shipwrecks, war, jealousy, and a dying man lusting for revenge. $5.95 Order #148 Fairburn, Laura: OVERRULED BY HEAVEN A woman's struggle for freedom from a passionless marriage and a loveless affair. A carefully crafted novel by a new Canadian writer. $5.95 Order #149 Fitz Gerald, Gregory: OCTOBER BLOOD Short stories. Exceedingly well-written fantasy tales illustrating the vagaries of contemporary society. $5.95 Order #158 Fong, Joseph: WHERE THE PEARL RIVER FLOWS (*) A novel of politics, betrayal, and survival in modern China. An authentic voice from a part of the world still a mystery to Westerners. $5.95 Order #202 Hauptschein, David: GROUP PLASTIC SURGERY Literary mayhem in a world of absurdity. A satire about society's preoccupation with sexuality and physical beauty, and its aversion to illness and deformity. $5.95 Order #199 Jones, E.N.: ON THE TOWN Erotic tales of Old New York. The secret lives of the Manhattan aristocracy at the turn of the century. From the Obelisk Library. $5.95 Order #161 Joyce, Jocelyn: THE LONDON SEASON Edwardian erotic novel. A spellbinding look at the sexual underpinnings of turn-of-the century London. The heroine is completely riveting. From the Obelisk Library. $5.95 Order #150 Khadmy, Cathy: SHOCK WAVE A new Israeli writer. A novel of murder and marriage, darkness and light. The author's first novel with an American setting. $5.95 Order #195 Lusk, Martha Larche: BODY AND SOUL (*) Novel about a Texas town in 1939. Rape, adultery, heartbreak, and death at the height of the Great Depression. An authentic rendering of a troubled time. $7.95 Order #129 Lusk, Martha Larche: IF BUTTERFLIES RETURN (*) Murder and deception as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl. A writer with exceptional talent tells a haunting provocative story. $7.95 Order #154 Machann, Clinton: JASON JACKSON (*) A gripping tragedy with the country music world as a backdrop. $7.95 Order #193 Miller, Marlene: ANNA GLORIA (*) An honest and modern feminist novel. A former Hollywood beauty queen finds a tragic old age. $9.95 Order #116 O'Keefe, William: LOSING EVERYTHING Short stories about life on the edge. A gritty collection by a skillful writer, the tone somewhere between Hemingway and Jim Thompson. $5.95 Order #157 Olsen, Karen (ed.): THE OBELISK READER Selections from recent and forthcoming Obelisk fiction. A book- length anthology of quality erotica. From the Obelisk Library. $5.95 Order #162 Scott, Joanna C.: CHARLIE AND THE CHILDREN A powerful and memorable novel about the Vietnam War. An American soldier is taken prisoner by the Viet Cong and finds his soul changed to the core. $5.95 Order #189 Sheen, Barbara: RAINY SEASON Short stories. A collection of new fiction by a fine-tuned literary talent. $5.95 Order #159 Spitzer, Mark: ALLEY LIFE The Colorado poems of a young poet who stands as one of the more promising figures on the American literary scene. Poems of irony and anguish, the lines striking out with an incisive and gutsy verbal clarity. $5.95 Order #118 Spitzer, Mark: POETRY SCHOOL Another collection of Spitzer's angry poems about the American scene, the poet progressing to an even stronger voice against hypocrisy. $5.95 Order #200 Van Heller, Marcus: ADAM AND EVE One of the great modern erotic novels. An explosive account of the London theater and art scene in the Fifties. High-caliber sex and high-caliber writing. From the Obelisk Library. $5.95 Order #175 Vian, Daniel: THE CAGE An avant-garde novel of lust and murder. Imagist and cinematic, the style a powerful mix of Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon. On the French Riviera, a confused tourist guide meets an American woman who shows him the way to hell and destruction. $5.95 Order #120 << Artemis Books >> Fleming, Bren: CHARLY'S GAME An erotic lesbian private-eye novel. Charly Quinn, tough, uncom- promising, and committed to pleasure, solves a murder mystery in Greenwich Village. $5.95 Order #122 Perez, Rachel: AFFINITIES Lesbian erotic short stories. This is lesbian sexual fiction at its best. Stories of lesbian women confronting themselves and the world. $5.95 Order #125 Perez, Rachel: ODD WOMAN OUT A lesbian erotic novel. The story of the dissolution of a lesbian couple. The sex is hot and the people completely real. $5.95 Order #126 Perez, Rachel: LINDA BABY A contemporary lesbian novel. A searing story of a desperate New York girl who gets torn apart by an unlucky life but yet somehow survives it. The language is strong, but appropriate to the character and the story. $5.95 Order #124 Putnam, Emily James: THE LADY (*) Classic feminist study of women in history. An era by era revelation, from the Ancient Greeks to the Antebellum South, the style readable and the material fascinating. $7.95 Order #127 << Sheridan Square Library >> Edelson, Stuart: BLACK GLASS (*) A revealing look at gays in the military. A novel of intrigue and destruction during a voyage to Vietnam in 1965. Publishers Weekly: "...unrequited passion...atmospheric." Recently published in hardcover by Dimi Press $7.95 Order #196 Engler, Robert Klein: SEEING IN THE DARK Prose and poetry out of the Chicago gay scene. Includes the complete text of Engler's novella NATIONS OF THE HEART. $5.95 Order #198 << Spectrum Classics >> Austen, Jane: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (*) Marriage and manners in the early 19th century dissected by a master writer. $7.95 Order #191 Bronte, Emily: WUTHERING HEIGHTS (*) One of the great love stories of all time. A story with an almost mystical intensity. Heathcliff remains unforgettable. $7.95 Order #143 Buchan, John: THE 39 STEPS The classic thriller. The book that set the tone for the modern suspense story. The basis of Hitchcock's classic film. $5.95 Order #130 Cather, Willa: O PIONEERS! Classic novel about the life of settlers in the Middle West. $5.95 Order #192 Cleland, John: FANNY HILL An erotic classic, complete and unexpurgated. $5.95 Order #141 Conrad, Joseph: HEART OF DARKNESS Classic novel of obsession and imperialism in Africa. The basis of the film Apocalypse Now. $5.95 Order #128 Crane, Stephen: THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE Classic American Civil War story. New orthography for the dialogue. Crane's psychological portrayal of fear and the grim aspects of war in the life of an ordinary soldier. Henry Fleming joins the army filled with romantic visions of battle that are soon shattered by the realities of combat. $5.95 Order #105 Dickens, Charles: A TALE OF TWO CITIES (*) A Dickensian epic about the French Revolution and the cities of London and Paris. $9.95 Order #144 Doyle, Arthur Conan: ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (*) A major story collection. Incudes the complete text of the short novel A STUDY IN SCARLET. $9.95 Order #107 Dumas, Alexandre: THE LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS Story of a tragic affair. A man and woman lost to a deep love and strangled by intrigue. $5.95 Order #108 Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm: SELECTED FAIRY TALES Witches, goblins, ghosts and high magic -- all the ingredients of childhood nightmares. $5.95 Order #194 Hardy, Thomas: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (*) Classic novel about the contrast of patient and generous love with unscrupulous passion. A crescendo of love, hate, and murder. $7.95 Order #182 Joyce, James: DUBLINERS (*) The famous short story collection. A 20th century literary master- piece. $7.95 Order #172 Louys, Pierre: THE SONGS OF BILITIS (tr. R.F.Santini) 19th century poetry, a true tour de force. Classic poems about the love of women for women in Ancient Greece. A remarkable enterprise by a well-known French writer. $5.95 Order #123 Milton, John: PARADISE LOST (*) The great epic on the Old Testament theme of Man's first disobedience in the Garden of Eden, with Satan the dominant character. $7.95 Order #152 Orczy, Baroness: THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (*) Famous thriller about the French Revolution. The basis of several classic films. $5.95 Order #145 Poe, Edgar Allan: COLLECTED STORIES AND POEMS (*) A superb collection of works by the American master of suspense. All the better known prose and poetry is included. $5.95 Order #176 Shakespeare, William: HENRY VIII A special scholar's edition of this historical play by Shakespeare. John Fletcher may have written parts of it. A faithful rendering of the original folio manuscript. $5.95 Order #151 Shakespeare, William: TIMON OF ATHENS A great tragedy. A benefactor finds his friends are not friends at all. Based on a work by Plutarch. $5.95 Order #164 Shakespeare, William: KING LEAR One of the great tragic themes of all literature. A masterpiece. $5.95 Order #165 Shakespeare, William: MACBETH The great dramatist at his finest. Acclaimed in all languages. $5.95 Order #166 Shakespeare, William: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA The history may be distorted, but the dramatic tragedy remains universal. $5.95 Order #167 Shakespeare, William: CORIOLANUS Tragedy and politics in Ancient Rome. $5.95 Order #168 Shakespeare, William: HAMLET Perhaps the best known of Shakespeare's works; the universally acclaimed tragedy. $5.95 Order #171 Shakespeare, William: TAMING OF THE SHREW One of the great Shakespeare comedies about marriage. $5.95 Order #180 Shakespeare, William: OMNIBUS (THREE TRAGEDIES) (*) A special student edition. HAMLET, MACBETH, and KING LEAR in three separate directories on one disk. A Shakespeare glossary is included. $14.95 Order #187 Shelley, Mary: FRANKENSTEIN Classic horror story. It still reads better than ever nearly two hundred years later. $5.95 Order #134 Sophocles: OEDIPUS TRILOGY Three plays: OEDIPUS REX, OEDIPUS AT COLONUS, and ANTIGONE. Masterworks of classic Greek theater. $5.95 Order #190 Stoker, Bram: DRACULA (*) The original classic tale of vampires and werewolves. The source for all the films and their sequels. $7.95 Order #173 Twain, Mark: A CONNECTICUT YANKEE AT KING ARTHUR'S COURT (*) Vintage Twain. A keen satire of the Old World, chivalry, religion, castles, etc. $7.95 Order #135 Twain, Mark: TOM SAWYER The enduring classic, as delightful as ever. The book comes to life again on a computer screen. $5.95 Order #136 Twain, Mark: THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (*) Great American novel. A masterful creation by Twain. $7.95 Order #137 Twain, Mark: THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER A Twain romp and a children's classic. A prince and a pauper exchange lives. $5.95 Order #138 Twain, Mark: COLLECTED SPEECHES (*) A complete collection of Mark Twain's speeches. An incomparable voyage of wit and wisdom. $7.95 Order #170 Verne, Jules: 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (*) The marvelous adventures of Captain Nemo, the undersea explorer. A classic of imaginative science-fiction. $5.95 Order #178 Verne, Jules: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (*) Another Verne classic science-fiction novel, once again the basis for a Hollywood film. $5.95 Order #179 Wallace, Lew: BEN HUR (*) The spectacular novel of Romans, chariots, Christians, slaves. The basis of several films of the same name. $9.95 Order #177 Wells, H.G.: THE TIME MACHINE Classic science-fiction novel. Jules Verne for adults. $5.95 Order #139 Wells, H.G.: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS Classic science-fiction novel. The grandfather of Martian invasions of Earth. An exciting chronicle. $5.95 Order #140 Wharton, Edith: ETHAN FROME An American classic. A deadly menage a trois. Wharton is better than Henry James, more readable and more interesting. $5.95 Order #146 Wharton, Edith: THE TOUCHSTONE An early novel by an important American writer. A man betrays one woman in order to marry another. After the wedding, his secret haunts him. $5.95 Order #160 << Nonfiction and Reference >> Aristotle: ON THE SOUL The classical intellectual exercise that produced philosophical mayhem for more than twenty centuries. $5.95 Order #211 Descartes, Rene: DISCOURSE ON METHOD The famous essay on deductive thinking. The basis for 17th century Rationalism. Still significant despite the now refuted deist extrapolation. $5.95 Order #212 Douglass, Frederick: NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS The autobiography of an American slave. One of the major abolition- ist documents of the 19th century. An intellectual tour de force. $5.95 Order #174 Hamilton, Alexander, et al: THE FEDERALIST PAPERS (*) Certainly the most important source for anyone interested in the ideas and intentions and hopes of the designers of the U.S. Constitution. A massive enterprise. $9.95 Order #183 Hartman, J.G. (ed.): A SHAKESPEARE GLOSSARY A glossary of archaicisms, neologisms, poeticisms, and other verbal puzzlements in the works of Shakespeare. $5.95 Order #169 Olsen, Karen (ed.): U.S. DOCUMENTS A compendium of important U.S. historical documents and speeches ranging from the Mayflower Compact to J.F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. $5.95 Order #131 Olsen, Karen (ed.): WORLD INFOBASE Encyclopedic 1990 CIA world factbook. A massive array of factual information organized alphabetically by country. $27.95 Order #132 Olsen, Karen (ed.): NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INDEX Extensive index of National Geographic Magazine articles grouped according to various categories. $5.95 Order #153 Olsen, Karen (ed.): ELECTION 1992 (*) Complete texts of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates, and the final victory and concession speeches by the candidates. $5.95 Order #181 Olsen, Karen (ed.): ROE v. WADE U.S. SUPREME COURT TEXTS Complete texts of all the decisions of the Supreme Court justices in the landmark Roe v. Wade case. $5.95 Order #185 Olsen, Karen (ed.): U.S SUPREME COURT DECISIONS 1990 (*) Complete texts of decisions in ten important cases: Kansas & Missouri v. Utilicorp; Illinois v. Rodriguez; Sisson v. Ruby; Georgia v. South Carolina; Cruzan v. Missouri; Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois; United States v. Kokinda; Walton v. Arizona; Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health; Hodgson v. Minnesota. $9.95 Order # 203 Olsen, Karen (ed.): 1990 CENSUS EXTRACTS A selection of significant statistical data from the 1990 U.S. Census Report. $5.95 Order #204 Olsen, Karen (ed.): U.S. SUPREME COURT: PLANNED PARENTHOOD V. CASEY Complete text of the controversial 1992 abortion rights decision. $5.95 Order #209 Paine, Thomas: COMMON SENSE Famous document calling for American independence. A small piece of American history revivified on the screen. $5.95 Order #117 Rawlinson, Howard: THE CLAWS OF THE GODS: Myth, Religion, and Tyranny An anthropological and historical study of the impact of myth and religion on political and social conditions. $5.95 Order #197 Thoreau, Henry David: WALDEN & CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE The two most celebrated Thoreau works, still supremely relevant in our time. $5.95 Order #184 Tocqueville, Alexis de: DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA (SELECTIONS) A lasting classic of political and sociological analysis. The most important prefaces and chapters are here gathered in a book-length compendium. $5.95 Order #188 Voltaire: CANDIDE The famous philosophical tale. A sparkling refutation of the philosophy of Leibniz. $5.95 Order #208 ---------------------------------------------------------------- If you have questions or need tech support, you can reach us by E-mail or by voice phone during CST business hours at (312) 281-1419 ---------------------------------------------------------------- If you are on our update list and you want to be removed, please let us know by E-mail and we will remove you immediately. If you are not yet on our update list and you wish to receive our announcements by E-mail, please indicate this in an E-mail letter. ----------------------------------------------------------------- END FILE...LINES=662