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The Dedalus Meyrink Reader
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Author : Gustav Meyrink
language : en
Publisher: Dedalus European Classics
Release Date : 2010
The Dedalus Meyrink Reader written by Gustav Meyrink and has been published by Dedalus European Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
Gustav Meyrink is now considered to be one of the most important German language novelists of the 20th century. This collection of stories illustrates Meyrink's fondness for the bizarre and the grotesque which reflects his personal interest in occult works.
The Golem
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Author : Gustav Meyrink
language : en
Publisher: Dedalus European Classics
Release Date : 2017
The Golem written by Gustav Meyrink and has been published by Dedalus European Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Fantasy fiction, German categories.
Mike Mitchell has revised his translation and a new introduction has been added. 'A superbly atmospheric story set in the old Prague ghetto featuring the Golem, a kind of rabbinical Frankenstein's monster, which manifests every 33 years in a room without a door. Stranger still, it seems to have the same face as the narrator. Made into a film in 1920, this extraordinary book combines the uncanny psychology of doppelganger stories with expressionism and more than a little melodrama... Meyrink's old Prague -- like Dickens's London -- is one of the great creation of city writing, an eerie, claustrophobic and fantastical underworld where anything can happen.' Phil Baker in The Sunday Times
The Angel Of The West Window
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Author : Gustav Meyrink
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Angel Of The West Window written by Gustav Meyrink and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Occult fiction categories.
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 descendant, is led by the Green Angel to the 'Other Side of the Mirror'. From the erotically alluring Assja Shotokalungin (in all her incarnations), the pliant Jane, the mischievous Queen Elizabeth 1 to the earless charlatan Kelley, the truly grotesque Bartlett Greene and the sinister Emperor Rudolph1, John Dee heads a cast which lingers in the mind long after the book has been put down.
The Short Stories Of Gustav Meyrink Volume 2
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Author : Gustav Meyrink
language : en
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Release Date : 2024-05-20
The Short Stories Of Gustav Meyrink Volume 2 written by Gustav Meyrink and has been published by SCB Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-20 with Fiction categories.
This collection contains short stories translated for the first time as well as stories featured in Dedalus anthologies. Together with volume 1 they comprise the most comprehensive collection of Meyrink short stories to appear in English. ‘Meyrink's short stories epitomised the non-plus-ultra of all modern writing. Their magnificent colour, their spine-chilling and bizarre inventiveness, their aggression, their succinctness of style, their overwhelming originality of ideas, which is so evident in every sentence and phrase that there seem to be no lacunae.’Max Brod ‘His stories recall Gogol in their black, humorous vigour.’The European Books of the Year
Vivo
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Author : Mike Mitchell (Translator)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Vivo written by Mike Mitchell (Translator) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Here is the first English bio of the cult author of The Golem, written by a prize-winning scholar. The remarkable life and the fantastic legend that was Meyrink, allowing him and those who knew him to speak in their own words wherever possible. The illegitimate son of an aristocratic politician and an actress, Meyrink established himself as a banker in Prague, while achieving notoriety as a dandy and rake, while also being a successful sportsman. About to commit suicide, he chanced on a pamphlet about life after death, put his revolver away and started a lifelong interest in the occult. He unmasked false mediums and experimented with alchemy, drugs and clairvoyancy until an affair of honor led him to challenge the whole of the Prague officer corps, setting machinations in motion which resulted in his being wrongly imprisoned. His bank then collapsed and he became a writer. Stories collected around him, so that it is often difficult to distinguish fact from fiction.
The Golem
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Author : Gustav Meyrink
language : en
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Release Date : 2010-10-25
The Golem written by Gustav Meyrink and has been published by SCB Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-25 with Fiction categories.
classic novel of Kaballah & legend, tr M Mitchell
This Woman This Man
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Author : George Sand
language : en
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Release Date : 2022-09-02
This Woman This Man written by George Sand and has been published by SCB Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-02 with Fiction categories.
"Graham Anderson's translations of both Sand's and Colet's novels are faithful and highly readable, with short but helpful introductions. Anderson's translation is far better [than the previous]: his prose is tighter, better paced, more natural sounding, modern without being anachronistic." -Raymond N. MacKenzie in The London Review of Books George Sand's fictionalised account of her notorious affair with the poet Alfred de Musset caused a sensation on its publication two years after his death, in 1859. It also prompted a volley of claim and counter-claim: two more novels rapidly appeared in the following months, Lui Et Elle, by Musset’s brother, defending his reputation; and Lui, by Louise Colet, Flaubert’s former mistress and briefly Musset’s. Then the journalists and commentators of the day joined in, with Eux, by Gaston Lavalley, and Eux Et Elles, by Adolphe de Lescure, satirising the whole sordid business
The Story Of Yoga
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Author : Alistair Shearer
language : en
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Release Date : 2020
The Story Of Yoga written by Alistair Shearer and has been published by Hurst & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Health & Fitness categories.
How did an ancient Indian spiritual discipline turn into a $20+ billion-a-year mainstay of the global wellness industry? What happened along yoga's winding path from the caves and forests of the sages to the gyms, hospitals and village halls of the modern West? This comprehensive history sets yoga in its global cultural context for the first time. It leads us on a fascinating journey across the world, from arcane religious rituals and medieval body-magic, through muscular Christianity and the British Raj, to the Indian nationalist movement and the arrival of yoga in the twentieth-century West. We discover how the practice reached its present-day ubiquity and how it became embedded in powerful social currents shaping the world's future, such as feminism, digital media, celebrity culture, the stress pandemic and the quest for an authentic identity in the face of unprecedented change. Shearer's revealing history boasts a colorful cast of characters past and present, who tell an engaging tale of scholars and scandal, science and spirit, wisdom and waywardness. This is the untold story of yoga, warts and all.
The Life Of Courage
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Author : Mike Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Release Date : 2010-09-27
The Life Of Courage written by Mike Mitchell and has been published by SCB Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-27 with Fiction categories.
A companion volume to Simplicissimus: the story of young girl named Courage, caught up in the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War, who survives, even prospers, by the use of her native cunning and sexual attraction. Completely amoral, she flits through a succession of husbands and lovers and ends her life with a band of Gypsies. The conceit here is that Courage supposedly tells her story to get back at Simplicissimus, who treats her dismissively in his own memoirs. This is a remorseless tale of lechery, knavery and trickery.
The Dedalus Occult Reader
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Author : Gary Lachman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Dedalus Occult Reader written by Gary Lachman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.
The fiction discussed in Gary Lachman's highly praised The Dedalus Book of the Occult. - Passages from Valery Bruisov, Andre Bely, William Beckford, Honore Balzac, William Beckford, Jacques Cazotte, J.K.Huysmans, Bulwer-Lytton, de Maupassant, de Nerval, Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Arthur Machen, Gustav Meyrink, Jan Potocki and Robert Irwin. - Wide-ranging publicity from The Guardian, Independent on Sunday to Fortean Times and occult magazines. - Author tour to promote the book. People have enjoyed stories of magic and the supernatural for ages, but in the late 18th century, tales of the occult became something more than a source of entertainment, or the means of enjoying the thrill of the strange and unknown. Drawing on the tradition of 'rejected knowledge', at the dawn of the modern age, numerous writers found in the occult a powerful antidote to the rising scientification of human experience. In these reports from the dark side, the weird, enigmatic and unexplainable became symbols of the human spirit's resistance to the new rational world. Dedalus Occult Reader brings together for the first time a unique collection of European fiction, offering some of the finest flowers and bizarr