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“ladislav klima”

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  • Visions & Apparitions

    Selected Tales of the Uncanny

    by Ladislav Klíma ...
    Visions & Apparitions brings together in English for the first time the greater part of Ladislav Klíma’s ghost stories. Klíma employed the horror genre as a way to explore his subjectivist philosophy, and by all accounts he enjoyed writing them to pass the time. At times playful and lyrical, if not outright comical, the stories were written at various stages, with the final text, ostensibly about ... Read more

    $15.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch

    A Grotesque Romanetto

    by Ladislav Klíma ...
    Philosopher, novelist, essayist, madman, no Czech writer has had a greater impact on underground culture than Ladislav Klíma (1878-1928). Mentor to artists as diverse as Bohumil Hrabal and the Plastic People of the Universe, Klíma's approach to philosophy was similar to that of the sages of ancient India: philosophy should not be limited to speaking or writing about it, it should be lived. ... Read more

    $15.85 CAD

  • Glorious Nemesis

    by Ladislav Klíma, Translated by Marek Tomin ...
    Set in the Dolomite Alps of the Tyrol, Glorious Nemesis is a balladic ghost story that plumbs the depths of love and death, crime and reincarnation. Sider, a man of twenty-eight, is confronted by a giant mountain named Stag's Head and an ancient hovel standing under a high, black cliff. Out one day on a hike, he encounters two women who will mark his fate: the elder Errata, dressed in red, and the ... Read more

    $15.00 CAD

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    Translated by Miroslaw Lipinski ...
    Dedalus have unearthed a series of aptly decadent titles where elements erotic and grotesque combine. The Dark Domain is a collection of psycho-fantasies, doom-saturated tales of lonely men lost in hostile terrain, but the East European melancholy lifts to provide wonderful odd scenes, like the watchmaker whose death stops all the town clocks and the phantom train that always turns up unannounced, ... Read more

    $8.49 CAD

  • Little Snow Landscape

    by Robert Walser ...
    Translated by Tom Whalen ...
    A collection of previously unpublished short prose by one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century fiction.Little Snow Landscape opens in 1905 with an encomium to Robert Walser’s homeland and concludes in 1933 with a meditation on his childhood in Biel, the town of his birth, published in the last of his four years in the cantonal mental hospital in Waldau outside Bern. Between these ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Blaugast

    A Novel of Decline

    by Paul Leppin, Cynthia Klima (Translator) ...
    Blaugast is a tale of ruin. A bored clerk, Klaudius Blaugast, pursues his desires down a path spiraling into complete degradation. Homeless and destitute, having lost everything to the evil prostitute Wanda, he seeks redemption in a Prague that has become sybaritic and uncaring — a city in which he has become an outcast among the outcasts. Flashbacks to incidents in his past, hallucinatory ... Read more

    $15.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memoirs of a Madman and November

    by Gustave Flaubert ...
    Translated by Andrew Brown ...
    One of Flaubert's earliest writings, but published only after his death, Memoirs of a Madman presents us with a young man as he reflects - alternating between musings on the present and memories of the past - on the years that have brought him to "madness", recalling the innocence of his boyhood, the first stirrings of sexual awakening and his abrupt initiation into the adult world. Also included ... Read more

    $4.79 CAD

  • The Outsider

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by H. P. Lovecraft ...
    The Outsider is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact. (Goodreads) This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Pale Fire

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita."Half-poem, half-prose...a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. One of the great works of art of this century." —Mary McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of The ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

    A Novel

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    In a small town at the foot of the northern highlands in Albania, a decade after the fall of the Communist regime, the harsh blood-for-blood law of the fearsome Kanun mountain folk is emerging from hibernation, like everything else that was forbidden under the fifty years of Communist rule. Mysterious happenings that are two thousand years old, two centuries old, or even just two years old ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Snow White, Blood Red

    by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling ...
    Series Book 1 - Fairy Tale Anthologies
    Fairy tales retold—with a twist—from "some of our best storytellers" including Neil Gaiman, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and others ( The Washington Post).In this "no holds barred . . . nightmarish . . . provocative" collection, bestselling and award-winning fantasy masters put a dark, disturbing, and erotic spin on your favorite bedtime stories—and give you something entirely new to trouble your ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Books of Paradys

    by Tanith Lee ...
    Series series The Secret Books of Paradys
    Four books of dark fantasy and eroticism from "a literary great . . . A series of Gothic, interlinked stories set in an alternate Paris" ( The Washington Post).With these four books, together now in one collection, escape to a city known by three names—Paradys, Paradise, and Paradis—where you'll find many strange stories and novellas exploring gender, identity, sexual transgression, and more . . ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus