Edgar Allan Poe's San Francisco: Terror Tales of the City Review

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(More customer reviews)Mr. Corvino, Jr. is an author that obviously knows his material well. Drawing from an impressive catalog of Edgar A. Poe-inspired madness, he pulls us into a nightmare of insanity within a world of remarkable detail. The disorienting Mesmeric adventures of the protagonist lead the reader through a macabre series of dance-steps ending in a dizzying crescendo with a corkscrew-twist!
The author "out Herod's Herod" as they say, piling perversity upon perversity in a compelling tale that is an homage to Mr. Poe, but made this reader think of Hitchcock along the way.
As an avid reader of Poe, it was fun to see how Mr. Corvino, Jr. imaginatively blended the original source material into an alchemical concoction of his own. It's also a pleasure to witness such inspired creativity sprout from literary seeds planted so long ago.



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Mark Twain's San Francisco (California Legacy) Review

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(More customer reviews)A Santa Clara University "California Legacy Books", Mark Twain's San Francisco: Being A Generous And Uninhibited cornucopia Of Reports, Speculations, Satires, Brickbats, Musings, Topical Verse, And Other Observations by the legendary American author Samuel Clemens (known world wide by his pen name of "Mark Twain") collects anecdotes, insights, commentary, poems, and legacy of this great man and beloved author. Each writing is a few pages in length at most; all are from Twain's work for any San Francisco newspaper or journal that would pay him for his free-lance writings, from 1863 to 1866. Ably edited by journalism professor Bernard Taper, ans illustrated with rarely seen cartoons from the same era by Edward Jump, Mark Twain's San Francisco is enthusiastically recommended for literary collections featuring the work of this great American.

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"This book's time span is from the fall of 1863, when Twain began frequently making the coach trip from Virginia City down to San Francisco and contributing to San Francisco journals, to December, 1866 when he left the city to embark on the voyages out of which he would make The Innocents Abroad." The editor's purpose was "to present here simply the voice of Twain as it was to be heard at a particular time and a particular place."--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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