What happens when you marry into a family that includes a Nobel Prize winner who is arguably the finest American writer of the twentieth century? Lawrence Wells, author of In Faulkner’s Shadow: A Memoir, fills this lively tale with stories that answer just that. In 1972, Wells married Dean Faulkner, the only niece of William Faulkner, and slowly found himself lost in the Faulkner mystique. While attempting to rebel against the overwhelming influence of his in-laws, Wells had a fro...

2025 Silver Book Award Winner in the category of Humor/Satire awarded by Bestsellersworld.com2025 Bronze Book Award Winner in the category of Biography/Memoir awarded by Bestsellersworld.comNominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Life WritingPart literary mystery, part an examination of what constitutes fiction versus reality, Ghostwriter is based on the true story of author...

In 1570 Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, 20, Lord Great Chamberlain, a headstrong young nobleman with literary ambitions, enters into a romance with Queen Elizabeth I. As the queen's chief of courtly entertainment de Vere organizes a stable of writers producing plays and masques. His peers nickname Vere "the Spear-shaker."Fearing court gossip about the royal affair, Elizabeth orders Oxford to marry Lord High Treasurer William Cecil's 14-year-old daughter, Anne.After his...

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator’s sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed. The victim was an old man with a filmy "vulture-eye", as the narrator calls it. The narrator emphasizes the careful calculation of the murder, attempting the perfect crime, complete with dismembering and hiding th...

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the vernacular phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" referring to persons with an unpredictably dual nature: outwardly good, but some...

For every published article there is a backstory of behind-the-scenes adventures. Between 1980 and 2000, Dean Faulkner Wells and Lawrence Wells traveled coast to coast on magazine assignments. Backstory: A Literary Life on the Run reveals how unexpected events played a major role in each article. The collection of twenty-five articles begins with Dean’s interview with Willie “Suicide” Jones, her late father’s wing walker and fellow barnstormer, and ends with Dean’s fond recollecti...

In the early 1970s, with Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones rewriting film history, John Warren Wells hired on to write the script for a high-quality pornographic movie. Originally published by Dell, Different Strokes includes the remarkable script he delivered, the production diary he kept, an interview with the film's leading lady—and a 2012 afterword that puts it all into uncanny perspective. You'd better read the book; you'll probably never get to see th...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 171 thru 175 reaches across more than two centuries of imaginative storytelling, bringing together Voltaire, Ray Bradbury and Henry Hasse, H. G. Wells, and Lawrence M. Jannifer in a collection that travels from distant stars to haunted rooms and dangerous city streets.Micromegas by Voltaire was first published in 1752, long before science fiction had a name. A gigantic traveler from a planet orbiting Sirius journeys to Saturn and ...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works...

Long before humanity reached the Moon, writers were already traveling far beyond it.Lost Sci-Fi Books 161 thru 180 gathers twenty extraordinary stories spanning more than two centuries of imagination, including a remarkable tale from 1752 and classics from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s. These are stories from an age when the universe seemed limitless and every distant planet, mysterious visitor and unexplained phenomenon offered another doorway into the unknown.The collection...

In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric states lacked the mechanisms to dominate the distant (and in some cases, nearby) societies with which they interacted. Core/periphery exploitation needs to be demonstrated, not simply ass...