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777: Vel Prolegomena Symbolica Ad Systemam Sceptico-Mysticae Viae Explicandae, Fundamentum Hieroglyphicum Sanctissimorum Scientiae Summaeby Aleister CrowleyISBN 0900684240 (0-900684-24-0)
Hardcover, Metaphysical Research Group
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Amorous Initiationby O.V. De L. MiloszISBN 0892814187 (0-89281-418-7)
Hardcover, Inner Traditions
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The Angel of the West Windowby Gustav Meyrink, Mike MitchellISBN 0946626650 (0-946626-65-0)
Softcover, Dedalus Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Angel of the West Window'Book summary:A complex and ambitious novel which centres on the life of the Elizabethan magus John Dee, in England, Poland and Prague, as it intertwines past and present, dreams and visions, myth and reality in a world of the occult, culminating in the transmutation of physical reality into a higher spiritual existence. John Dee, through his 20th century descendent, is led by the Green Angel to the "Other Side of The Mirror." [via]
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The Armed Hands, and Other Stories and Piecesby Frederick Rolfe, Cecil WoolfISBN 0900821132 (0-900821-13-2)
Hardcover, Cecil & Amelia Woolf
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Around the World With Auntie Mameby Patrick DennisISBN 0899669395 (0-89966-939-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Auntie Mameby Patrick DennisISBN 0899667260 (0-89966-726-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Autumn Sonata: Selected Poems of Georg Traklby Georg Trakl, Daniel SimkoISBN 0918825946 (0-918825-94-6)
Softcover, Acorn Alliance
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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 1419153366 (1-4191-5336-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. [via]
Axelby Phillippe A. Villiers De Lisle-AdamISBN 0948166053 (0-948166-05-3)
Softcover, Dufour Editions
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The Ballad of Reading Gaolby Oscar WildeISBN 1406502367 (1-4065-0236-7)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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Becalmedby J.K. Huysmans, Terry HaleISBN 0947757309 (0-947757-30-9)
Softcover, Atlas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Becalmed'Book summary:The protagonist of "Becalmed" seeks spiritual shelter in the countryside. He finds not rest but a nightmare a gruesome crumbling house, peasants both stupid and cunning, and the landscape indeed the whole natural world in a ghastly state of decay. "A hemorrhage of ordure," Huysmans calls it. His descriptions of Gothic intensity provide a total inversion of naturalism which is emphasized by the remarkable dream passages which intercut the novel.
In many ways this is Huysmans most extraordinary book, and despite its immediately following "Against Nature," Zola called it "his most intense work" later André Breton celebrated it in his "Anthology of Black Humour." [via]
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Beyond Life Dizain Des Demiurgesby James Branch CabellISBN 1417903430 (1-4179-0343-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Life Dizain Des Demiurges'Book summary:1924. Contents: Wherein We Approach All Authors at Their Best; Which Deals with the Demiurge; Which Hints at the Witch-Woman; Which Admires the Economist; Which Considers the Reactionary; Which Values the Candle; Which Indicates the Mountebank; Which Concerns the Contemporary; Which Defers to the Arbiters; and Wherein We Await the Dawn. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Blue of Noonby Georges BatailleISBN 0893960047 (0-89396-004-7)
Hardcover, Urizen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue of Noon'Book summary:The writing is superlative ... daringly imaginative, intended only for those awake and aware of the possibilities of excess - in literature and in life. Along with Cline and Breton, Bataille writes as if he were dropping a bomb; in a fore-flash he creates a world of demented funereal sexuality.?Detroit Free Press
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is one of Bataille's most overtly political works, exploring the ambiguity of sex as a subversive force and synthesizing the fetishes of violence, power and death that mesmerized an age.
In this classic of twentieth century eroticism, the reader is taken on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligensia, torn between identification with the victims of history and the glamour of its victors.
Georges Bataille was born in 1897 and died in 1962. His combination of scholarship and creative genius assured his pre-eminence among his generation of French intellectuals.
Other books by Georges Bataille also published by Marion Boyars are Eroticism, Story of the Eye, Literature and Evil, L'Abbe C, and My Mother, Madame Edwarda and the Dead Man. [via]More editions of Blue of Noon:
Book of Masksby Remy De GourmontISBN 0947757813 (0-947757-81-3)
Softcover, Atlas Pr
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Chronicles of the House of Borgiaby Frederick William Rolfe, Frederick CorvoISBN 1410225089 (1-4102-2508-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of the Pacific
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Collected Poemsby Edwin Rolfe, Cecil WoolfISBN 0900821116 (0-900821-11-6)
Hardcover, Cecil & Amelia Woolf
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Come, Fill the Cup: The Rubaiyat or Omar Khayyamby Edward Fitzgerald, A. W. KuISBN 0965574318 (0-9655743-1-8)
Softcover, Tortellini Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Come, Fill the Cup: The Rubaiyat or Omar Khayyam'Book summary:Edward FitzGerald's great free translation of the quatrains by the Persian poet, Omar Khayyám, contains many of the most quoted and beloved lines of English poetry. 2009 will mark the 150th anniversary of this passionate and ironic poem, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Come, Fill the Cup ~ The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám contains the 1st and 4th editions of the poem, commentary and notes by Fitzgerald, and remarks by notable critics of his era. Included also are variations of lines from the 2nd and 3rd editions. [via]
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The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasyby Richard HuijingISBN 0946626693 (0-946626-69-3)
Softcover, Dedalus Ltd
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Deidre O'callaghan: Hide that Canby Bono, Deidre O'Callaghan, Deirdre O'CallaghanISBN 095420798X (0-9542079-8-X)
Hardcover, Prestel Pub
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Don Tarquinioby Frederick William RolfeISBN 1419116487 (1-4191-1648-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Doors of Perception & Heaven And Hellby Aldous HuxleyISBN 1417628596 (1-4176-2859-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doors of Perception & Heaven And Hell'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Two classic texts in one volume reveal Huxley's explorations into the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Anna Maria Hong, Cynthia Brantley JohnsonISBN 1416500219 (1-4165-0021-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Kaplan guarantees that readers will improve their SAT score using guidesor get their money back.
Vocabulary is a critical part of studying for the SATs. Memorizing words that are written on flashcards can be difficult because they are not put in the context of a sentence. Kaplans SAT Score-Raising Classics make learning SAT vocabulary words easier and more enjoyable for students. Classic novels that are taught throughout high school can now be read while learning vocabulary words that frequently appear on the SAT exam.
Designed for easy use, these books feature the actual text on one side of the page, with the word definitions on the opposite side. In addition, the vocabulary words are in easy-to-spot bold typeface throughout.
Each Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic features:
- The complete text of the classic novel
- Hundreds of vocabulary words tested on the SAT exam
- Definitions for each highlighted work on the facing page
- A pronunciation guide
- An index for easy reference
Kaplans SAT Score-Raising Classics series give readers get an invaluable learning tool and an enjoyable reading experience. [via]
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Glennis ByronISBN 1551111365 (1-55111-136-5)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:[via]Awareness of Dracula as a masterly gothic thriller has increased ever since its publication in 1897, and the novel is regarded as one of the most seminal horror stories ever written, having inspired countless copycat tales and literary spin-offs. The tale of young Englishman Jonathan Harker's journey to Transylvania, into the very heart of Count Draculas evil realm, is compelling, but it is perhaps the journey of the vampire to Englandand the dangers he poses to Jonathans beloved Minathat is more horrifying. 
Draculaby Steven P. JonesISBN 0944735479 (0-944735-47-9)
Softcover, Heroes World
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Draculaby Tim Wynne-Jones, Bram Stoker, Laszlo GalISBN 1550139002 (1-55013-900-2)
Hardcover, Key Porter Kids
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The Eighteen Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Centuryby Holbrook JacksonISBN 0972042814 (0-9720428-1-4)
Softcover, Waterlow Co
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The Green Faceby Gustav Meyrink, Rottensteiner, Franz (AFT), Mike MitchellISBN 0946626928 (0-946626-92-8)
Softcover, Dedalus Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Face'Book summary:Meyrink's second, and most mystical, novel from 1916: this is the first time this Dedalus edition has been available in North America. Published in Germany to critical and commercial acclaim, it is set in Amsterdam, used as a symbol of European decadence: the city is ultimately destroyed. The Green Face has classic Meyrink features: * a mystical wedding * a galaxy of grotesque characters * the haunting atmosphere of the ghetto In an Amsterdam that very much resembles the Prague of The Golem, a stranger, Hauberisser, enters by chance a magician's shop. The name on the shop, he believes, is Chidher Green; inside, among several strange customers, he hears an old man, who says his name is Green, explain that, like the Wandering Jew, he has been on earth ""ever since the moon has been circling the heaven."" When Hauberisser catches sight of the old man's face, it makes him sick with horror, haunting him. The rest of the novel chronicles Hauberisser's quest for the elusive and horrible old man. [via]
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Hauntingsby Vernon LeeISBN 1428022198 (1-4280-2219-8)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hauntings'Book summary:This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. [via]
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High Placeby James Branch CabellISBN 0884117952 (0-88411-795-2)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Place'Book summary:"In the sulphurous The High Place, the amoral hero Florian enters the sleeping-beauty story and (unlike Jurgen with Helen) does not draw back at the sight of excessive beauty. Complications ensue: Beauty is realistically diminished during pregnancy, the first-born child is forfeit to Satan under the pact that guaranteed Florain's success, and an irascible saint is eager to call down holy fire on transgressors. Florian treads close to damnation and is saved only when Satan and the angel Michael conspire to let recent events become, again, a dream: he has a rare second chance and learns better." -- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy [via]
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The Hill of Dreamsby Arthur MachenISBN 1414256787 (1-4142-5678-7)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 1404306978 (1-4043-0697-8)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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The House of Souls 1922by Arthur MacHenISBN 1417981059 (1-4179-8105-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Souls 1922'Book summary:A Collection of Stories. [via]
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The Immoralistby Andre Gide, Dorothy BussyISBN 1417909781 (1-4179-0978-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Immoralist'Book summary:With today's headlines and talk shows, it takes a lot to shock a reader--certainly more than was required in 1902, when André Gide's The Immoralist was first published. What was seen then as a story of dereliction translates today into a tale of introspection and fierce self-discovery. While traveling to Tunis with his new bride, the Parisian scholar Michel is overcome by tuberculosis. As he slowly convalesces, he revels in the physical pleasures of living and resolves to forgo his studies of the past in order to experience the present--to let "the layers of acquired knowledge peel away from the mind like a cosmetic and reveal, in patches, the naked flesh beneath, the authentic being hidden there."
But this is not the Michel his colleagues knew, nor the man Marceline married, and he must hide his new values under the patina of what he now reviles. Bored by Parisian society, he moves to a family farm in Normandy. He is happy there, especially in the company of young Charles, but he must soon return to the city and academe. Michel remains restless until he gives his first lecture and runs into Ménalque, who has long outraged society, and recognizes in him a reflection of his torment. Finally, Michel heads south, deeper into the desert, until, as he confides to his friends, he is lost in the sea of sand, under a clear, directionless sky.
What Gide's story lacks in sensationalism is fulfilled by his descriptive prose, which evokes the exotic nature of Michel's inner and outer journey: "I did not understand the forbearance of this African earth, submerged for days at a time and now awakening from winter, drunk with water, bursting with new juices; it laughed in this springtime frenzy whose echo, whose image I perceived within myself." --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Playsby Oscar Wilde, Alyssa HaradISBN 1416500421 (1-4165-0042-1)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays'Book summary:Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship Wilde's classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest , and his other popular plays -- Lady Windermere's Fan , An Ideal Husband , and Salome -- challenged comtemporary notions of sex and sensibility, class and cultural identity. This Enriched Classic Edition includes: ? A concise introduction that gives readers important background information ? A chronology of the author's life and work ? A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context ? An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations ? Detailed explanatory notes ? Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work ? Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction ? A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. Series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson [via]
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Innocence And Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, And Nabokovby Kevin OhiISBN 1403969760 (1-4039-6976-0)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Jewel of Seven Starsby Bram StokerISBN 1404311181 (1-4043-1118-1)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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Journey to the Orientby Gerard De NervalISBN 0918825091 (0-918825-09-1)
Softcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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Justine or Good Conduct Well Chastisedby Marquis De Sade, Rex SaviourISBN 0954996674 (0-9549966-7-4)
Softcover, Bondage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Justine or Good Conduct Well Chastised'Book summary:If de Sade had submitted the original version of Justine to us (from prison) in 1791 we would have rejected it, because it is pure sadism, as is to be expected from the original 'sadist', even though it is wrapped up in philosophy. However, it is now freely available in English as a classic, and has been so for quite a while. This version is simplified rather than toned down, but the actual ages of juveniles have been omitted.. de Sade uses his narrative as a vehicle for expressing his opinions at very great length. This and the obscurity of some passages, and the constant repetitions, makes it difficult for the average reader. Here is an effort to rectify this, an honest attempt to make the essence of a masterpiece more easily available by retelling it without losing the strength or the flavour, and enough of the philosophy is retained to make de Sade's opinions clear. [via]
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Katinkaby Herman BangISBN 094024246X (0-940242-46-X)
Softcover, Fjord Pr
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The King in Yellowby Robert William ChambersISBN 0971830509 (0-9718305-0-9)
Softcover, Sattre Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The King in Yellow'Book summary:Toward the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States had practically completed the programme, adopted during the last months of President Winthrop s administration. [via]
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Krystynaby Simon WiesenthalISBN 0929497376 (0-929497-37-6)
Softcover, Ariadne Press
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The Last Oblivion: Best Fantastic Poems of Clark Ashton Smithby David E. Schultz, S. T. JoshiISBN 0967321557 (0-9673215-5-7)
Softcover, Hippocampus Pr
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The Lord Of The Seaby M. P. ShielISBN 1419170694 (1-4191-7069-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord Of The Sea'Book summary:See now a shocking scrimmage, a rush and crush for precedence, surge upon surge of men jostling each other in a struggle to get near him, sticks reaching awkwardly over heads to inflict far forceless blows, and on his face the fists; a hundred roaring "Order!", fighting against the tide; three hundred shrieking, "Kill him!" "Have him done with!" "Dash out his brains!", and pressing to that job. Sergeant-at-Arms, meanwhile, Clerk-attending-the-Table, and the physician, had run to give the alarm; but it was by one of those miracles of wild minutes, when turbulent sprites appear to mix themselves in the business of men, worse.... [via]
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Magick in Theory and Practiceby Aleister CrowleyISBN 0939708329 (0-939708-32-9)
Softcover, Magickal Childe
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magick in Theory and Practice'Book summary:2011 Reprint of 1929 Edition. Illustrated. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Many consider this work by Crowley to be the foremost book on ceremonial magic written in the twentieth century. It was written especially for beginners and one of Crowley's better books. Illustrated with graphs and charts. The original was privately printed in 1929 after Crowley failed to find a publisher in London and has been considered a scarce work since that time. [via]
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Masochism: Coldness and Crueltyby Gilles DeleuzeISBN 0942299558 (0-942299-55-8)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty'Book summary:In his stunning essay, Coldness and Cruelty, Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of the late 19th-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze's essay, certainly the most profound study yet produced on the relations between sadism and masochism, seeks to develop and explain Masoch's "peculiar way of 'desexualizing' love while at the same time sexualizing the entire history of humanity." He shows that masochism is something far more subtle and complex than the enjoyment of pain, that masochism has nothing to do with sadism; their worlds do not communicate, just as the genius of those who created themMasoch and Sadelie stylistically, philosophically, and politically poles a part.
Venus in Furs, the most famous of all of Masoch's novels, was written in 1870 and belongs to an unfinished cycle of works that Masoch entitled The Heritage of Cain. The cycle was to treat a series of themes including love, war, and death. The present work is about love. Although the entire constellation of symbols that has come to characterize the masochistic syndrome can be found herefetishes, whips, disguises, fur-clad women, contracts, humiliations, punishment, and always the volatile presence of a terrible coldnessthese do not eclipse the singular power of Masoch's eroticism. [via]More editions of Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty:
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Maurice Guestby Henry Handel RichardsonISBN 1404317198 (1-4043-1719-8)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Maurice Guestby Hugh Walpole, Henry Handel RichardsonISBN 1417942088 (1-4179-4208-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Measure for Measureby William ShakespeareISBN 1406821004 (1-4068-2100-4)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Nocturne and Five Tales of Love and Deathby Gabriele D'Annunzio, Raymond RosenthalISBN 0910395411 (0-910395-41-1)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writingsby Oscar WildeISBN 1416500278 (1-4165-0027-8)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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The Pure and the Impureby Colette, Judith ThurmanISBN 094032248X (0-940322-48-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Purple Cloudby M. P. ShielISBN 140680553X (1-4068-0553-X)
Softcover, Echo Library
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The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: Three Translations of the Rubaiyatby Omar Khayyam, Herbert Cole, Edward Fitzgerald, Richard Le GallienneISBN 0974566713 (0-9745667-1-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: Three Translations of the Rubaiyat'Book summary:Though few translations have had as much impact as Edward Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, anyone who wishes to truly appreciate Omar Khayyám needs to read more than one translation. This volume contains Edward Fitzgerald's classic translation with all its variations, Justin McCarthy's elegant and mystical literal translation and Richard Le Gallienne's sharp and poetic version. For the first time the reader can appreciate the range of Omar Khayyám and his interpreters in a single volume. [via]
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Roman Nights and Other Storiesby Pier Paolo PasoliniISBN 0910395209 (0-910395-20-9)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Edward Fitzgerald, Omar KhayyamISBN 0894717170 (0-89471-717-0)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzgeraldISBN 1406811564 (1-4068-1156-4)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Seven Menby Max BeerbohmISBN 1404309217 (1-4043-0921-7)
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Smarra & Trilbyby Charles Nodier, Judith LandryISBN 0946626790 (0-946626-79-0)
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The Sorcerer's Apprenticeby Hanns Heinz Ewers, Ludwig LewisohnISBN 1417905808 (1-4179-0580-8)
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St Lydwine of Schiedam. Agnes Hastingsby J.K. HuysmansISBN 0895550873 (0-89555-087-3)
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Stalin: The Court Of The Red Tsarby Simon Sebag MontefioreISBN 1400076781 (1-4000-7678-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalin: The Court Of The Red Tsar'Book summary:Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimesas many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulaghas given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century. But though the facts of Stalins reign are well known, this remarkable biography reveals a Stalin we have never seen before as it illuminates the vast foundationhuman, psychological and physicalthat supported and encouraged him, the men and women who did his bidding, lived in fear of him and, more often than not, were betrayed by him.
In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalins court from the time of his acclamation as leader in 1929, five years after Lenins death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of seventy-three. Through the lens of personalityStalins as well as those of his most notorious henchmen, Molotov, Beria and Yezhov among themthe author sheds new light on the oligarchy that attempted to create a new world by exterminating the old. He gives us the details of their quotidian and monstrous lives: Stalins favorites in music, movies, literature (Hemmingway, The Forsyte Saga and The Last of the Mohicans were at the top of his list), food and history (he took Ivan the Terrible as his role model and swore by Lenins dictum, A revolution without firing squads is meaningless ). We see him among his courtiers, his informal but deadly game of power played out at dinners and parties at Black Sea villas and in the apartments of the Kremlin. We see the debauchery, paranoia and cravenness that ruled the lives of Stalins inner court, and we see how the dictator played them one against the other in order to hone the awful efficiency of his killing machine.
With stunning attention to detail, Montefiore documents the crimes, small and large, of all the members of Stalins court. And he traces the intricate and shifting web of their relationships as the relative warmth of Stalins rule in the early 1930s gives way to the Great Terror of the late 1930s, the upheaval of World War II (there has never been as acute an account of Stalins meeting at Yalta with Churchill and Roosevelt) and the horrific postwar years when he terrorized his closest associates as unrelentingly as he did the rest of his country.
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar gives an unprecedented understanding of Stalins dictatorship, and, as well, a Stalin as human and complicated as he is brutal. It is a galvanizing portrait: razor-sharp, sensitive and unforgiving. [via]More editions of Stalin: The Court Of The Red Tsar:
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Story of an African Farmby Olive SchreinerISBN 1406801747 (1-4068-0174-7)
Softcover, Echo Library
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Martin A. DanahayISBN 1551112450 (1-55111-245-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hydeby Kathleen Olmstead, Jamel AkibISBN 1402726678 (1-4027-2667-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde'Book summary:[via]A single personbut with two personalities: one thats noble and kind and another thats pure, repulsive evil. Robert Louis Stevensons engrossing masterpiece about the dual nature of manand a good doctor whose thirst for knowledge has tragic consequencesserves up all the suspense and satisfying chills one expects from the best horror and science fiction.
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The Strange Case of Dr.jekyll And Mr Hydeby R. L. StevensonISBN 1421806665 (1-4218-0666-5)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr.jekyll And Mr Hyde'Book summary:Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theater, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. "I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way." In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of downgoing men. And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour. [via]
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Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allen PoeISBN 1406793019 (1-4067-9301-9)
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hallby Anne BronteISBN 1419184970 (1-4191-8497-0)
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The Three Impostorsby Arthur MacHenISBN 141918525X (1-4191-8525-X)
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The Throne of Bonesby Brian McNaughtonISBN 0965813509 (0-9658135-0-9)
Hardcover, Terminal Fright
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The Travelerby Antal SzerbISBN 0915951215 (0-915951-21-5)
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The Triumph of Deathby Gabriele D'AnnunzioISBN 0946626626 (0-946626-62-6)
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The Venice Lettersby Frederick Rolfe, Cecil WoolfISBN 0900821078 (0-900821-07-8)
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Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aestheticsby Patricia PulhamISBN 1403992134 (1-4039-9213-4)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlinby Mel GordonISBN 092291558X (0-922915-58-X)
Hardcover, Feral House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin'Book summary:Between 1921 and 1933, Berlin developed a reputation for debauchery unrivaled by any city before or since. Unlike European capitals like Paris, Barcelona, and Amsterdam, where brothel districts were extensive but discreet, in Berlin sexual tourism was a primary industry. On any given evening, over 600 establishments, from massage parlors to sex clubs to cabarets to private torture dungeons, promised unique sights and pleasures. Using tourist guidebooks that appeared before the Nazi period, historical memoirs, and more than 400 specialized journals and books, Mel Gordon has put together a controversial exploration of Berlin's erotic demiworld and its relationship to the rise of Nazism. [via]
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The Works of Aleister Crowleyby Aleister CrowleyISBN 0911662510 (0-911662-51-0)
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The Works of Aleister Crowley: With Portraitsby Aleister CrowleyISBN 0911662537 (0-911662-53-7)
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Gaspard De La Nuitby Aloysius Bertrand, T. E. D. Klein, Donald Sidney-FryerISBN 0974071129 (0-9740711-2-9)
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