The New Melusina (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

The New Melusina (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2016-09-07

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1473355516

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Many of the finest stories of magic and fantasy, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.


The King's Betrothed (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

The King's Betrothed (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2015-10-21

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1473377439

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This early work by E. T. A. Hoffmann was originally published in 1821. Born in Königsberg, East Prussia in 1776, Hoffmann's family were all jurists, and during his youth he was initially encouraged to pursue a career in law. However, in his late teens Hoffman became increasingly interested in literature and philosophy, and spent much of his time reading German classicists and attending lectures by, amongst others, Immanuel Kant. Hoffman went on to produce a great range of both literary and musical works. Probably Hoffman's most well-known story, produced in 1816, is 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King', due to the fact that - some seventy-six years later - it inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker. In the same vein, his story 'The Sandman' provided both the inspiration for Léo Delibes's ballet Coppélia, and the basis for a highly influential essay by Sigmund Freud, called 'The Uncanny'. (Indeed, Freud referred to Hoffman as the "unrivalled master of the uncanny in literature.") Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.


Sticky Monsters

Sticky Monsters

Author: John Kenn Mortensen

Publisher: Random House UK

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780224095761

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A collection of drawings of monsters.


Melusine

Melusine

Author: Sarah Monette

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780441014170

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Felix Harrowgate, a handsome, well-respected wizard among his aristocratic peers, finds his dark past as an abused slave coming back to haunt him and joins forces with Mildmay the Fox, a thief and assassin, to stop the demons of darkness. Reprint.


Le Deuxième Sexe

Le Deuxième Sexe

Author: Simone de Beauvoir

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 791

ISBN-13: 0679724516

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The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.


My Marriage

My Marriage

Author: Jakob Wassermann

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1590179226

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Alexander Herzog, a young writer, goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love affair. There he is pursued by book-loving Ganna: giddy, girlish, clumsy, eccentric, and wild. Dazzled and unnerved by her devotion to him, and attracted to the large dowry offered by her wealthy father, he thinks he can mold Ganna into what he wants. But no one can control her troubling passions. As their marriage starts to self-destruct, Herzog will discover that he can never escape her. Posthumously published in 1934 and based on Wassermann's own ruinous marriage, My Marriage is a tragic masterpiece that unfolds in shocking detail. This story of rare intensity and drama is now brought to English readers in a powerful translation by Michael Hofmann.


A Mermaid's Tale

A Mermaid's Tale

Author: Amanda Adams

Publisher: Greystone Books

Published: 2009-12-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1926812417

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From the seas of antiquity to the city streets of today, A Mermaid's Tale explores the myth and meanings of the mermaid. Beginning with Melusina, the bathing mermaid par excellence, Amanda Adams goes on to describe the seductive sirens and their honeyed songs, the powerful Arctic sea goddess Sedna, and the long-haired rusalki or Russian lore, among other legendary mermaids. As she tells their stories, she also expresses a love of the mermaid that surely no sea-bound sailor could ever match. Grounded in cultural anthropology, folklore studies, and intellectual rigor, A Mermaid's Tale also draws on literature, poetry, and mythology for its insights. It is a book filled with depth and detail as it describes Adam's swim through the ocean of her own life in search of the unusual, the beautiful, and the perfectly extraordinary.