Philip Wylie

A book of letters to a friend, in which Jurgenson discusses different aspects of her bereavement after her two young daughters are killed in a car accident, "The Disappearance" combines raw honesty with the solidly balanced craft of the French epistolary novel. An elegiac, lyrical memoir about living when your children live no more. What do you do, how do you live, when your two precious daughters are killed, their lives ended by a drunk driver at just four & seven years of age? How do you stay in a world from which they've been removed? How do you cope when you turn to them, & they are not there? Genevieve Jurgensen lost her two daughters a dozen years before she began this clear, precise, breathtaking book in an attempt to answer these questions to herself, to her friends, to the world. The outcome is a heart-stopping, powerful testament, in all its anguish surprisingly hopeful. While never forgetting her two daughters & the impact they had on her life, Jurgensen & her husband, Laurent (the moving portrait of their marriage is worth the price of this book alone), go on to have two more children. Told without an ounce of sentiment, The Disappearance will make you miss, for at least a passing moment, two lively little girls you never actually met-& thus have a sense of what it must be like for Jurgensen to miss them every waking hour, every day. It is a story, told brilliantly, of compelling & universal interest.

Wylie offers his "well-informed, outspoken opinions" on mankind's chances of surviving the coming century while it destroys the environment and remains ignorant of science.

The survivors of When Worlds Collide find themselves struggling to establish a new society on the world of Bronson Beta, which has assumed the orbit of the now-destroyed Earth. Within a short time, the survivors discover the remnants of a lost and advanced alien civilization, and that the survivors are not alone. What follows is an epic struggle for the future of mankind.

The battle is still raging, and it’s out-and-out war. Jake, the other Animorphs, and Ax have found a way to slow the Yeerks down, but now the Yeerks have decided the best way to win is to just destroy everything and everyone who gets in their way. Just when things look more than hopeless, Jake and the others discover help where they least expected: Taxxons. Creatures so foul and heartless it’s almost hard to believe that they are capable of having any feelings. But Jake and the others soon discover that the Taxxon resistance has its own problems with the Yeerks. And, for once, it looks like Earth may have a chance....

Some of the best salt-water fishing fiction ever written. Captain "Crunch" and his First Mate "Des" pilot the charter boat "Poseidon" out of the Miami Beach blue-water docks with various charters in search of the denizens of the Gulf Stream. Comedy, pathos, and adventure ensue.

"Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living - from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion - Generation of Vipers ranks with the works of De Tocqueville and Emerson in defining the American character and malaise. Wylie's classic, written with devastating wit and a pen as sharp as a barber's razor, wages war on all forms of American hypocrisy. Remarkably, or perhaps not so, what Philip Wylie has to say rings as true today as when he first wrote Vipers, and no doubt it will continue to offend and outrage both the Left and Right. Harsh, bitter, and filled with venom toward those who have corrupted the America that "could have been," Generation of Vipers will be read with pleasure and indignation a century from now."--BOOK JACKET.

Inspired by H. G. Wells's 1897 science-fiction novella Invisible Man, Wylie's 1931 book features a recluse named William Carpenter, who possesses the greatest scientific mind in the world. After developing a chemical compound that makes him invisible, Carpenter sets out to destroy his enemies and turn the nation into an "autocracy of science" and a beacon utopia.

Spared from death in the gladiator arena, Marcus Cornelius Primus's training continues at the court of Julius Caesar in Rome, where he serves as guardian to Caesar's young niece and goes undercover to foil a plot to murder Caesar.