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    Marcel Schwob - A Short Story Collection

    Labelled the "precursor of Surrealism", French author Schwob had great influence on people such as Borges.

    by Marcel Schwob ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 14 min

    Mayer André Marcel Schwob was born in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France on 23rd August 1867 into a cultivated Jewish family.As a child he devoured the works of Poe and Stevenson in French and then again in English. His attachment to the bizarre and dark was already forming.His education at the Lycée of Nantes earned him the 1st Prize for Excellence. In 1881, he was in Paris with his maternal uncle ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imaginary Lives

    by Marcel Schwob ...
    Series Book 11 - European Literature Collection
    Imaginary Life narrates the "life of some poets, gods, murderers and pirates, as well as several princesses and gallant ladies...". But it does not do so in the conventional way of biographers, who only appreciated "public life or grammar", "the ideas of great men" and those points where their lives "joined the general actions", but in an artistic way. Neither biographies nor history speak of the ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imaginary Lives

    by Marcel Schwob ...
    Translated by Chris Clarke ...
    “The art of the biographer consists specifically in choice. He is not meant to worry about speaking truth; he must create human characteristics amidst the chaos.”—Marcel SchwobImaginary Lives remains, over 120 years since its original publication in French, one of the secret keys to modern literature: under-recognized, yet a decisive influence on such writers as Apollinaire, Borges, Jarry and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The King in the Golden Mask

    by Marcel Schwob ...
    Translated by Kit Schluter ...
    First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, The King in the Golden Mask gathers 21 of Marcel Schwob’s cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, these stories describe moments of unexplained violence both historical and imaginary, often blending the two through Schwob’s collaging of primary source documents into fiction. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Imaginary LIves

    by Marcel Schwob ...
    Marcel Schwob (1867-1905) was one of the key symbolist writers, standing in French literature alongside such names as Stéphane Mallarmé, Octave Mirbeau, André Gide, Léon Bloy, Jules Renard, Rémy de Gourmont, and Alfred Jarry. His best-known works are Double Heart (1891), The King In The Gold Mask (1892), and Imaginary Lives (1896). Imaginary Lives contains twenty-two mythopoeic literary ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Book of Monelle

    by Marcel Schwob ...
    Translated by Kit Schluter ...
    When Marcel Schwob published The Book of Monelle in French in 1894, it immediately became the unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by such contemporaries as Stéphane Mallarmé, Alfred Jarry and André Gide. A carefully woven assemblage of legends, aphorisms, fairy tales and nihilistic philosophy, it remains a deeply enigmatic and haunting work more than a century later, a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Stories From The Shadows – The French

    Embrace the darkness

    by Marcel Schwob, Prosper Merimee, Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Guy De Maupassant, Anatole France, Honoré de Balzac, Jean Lorrain ...
    Narrated by Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 4 min

    An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moll Flanders

    by Marcel Schwob, Daniel Defoe ...
    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed, and on this account we must be content to leave the reader to pass his own opinion upon the ensuing sheet, and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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    Strong, The

    A tale from the French symbolist writer known mainly to be the primary influence on Jorge Luis Borges

    by Marcel Schwob ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    14 min

    Mayer André Marcel Schwob was born in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France on 23rd August 1867 into a cultivated Jewish family.As a child he devoured the works of Poe and Stevenson in French and then again in English. His attachment to the bizarre and dark was already forming.His education at the Lycée of Nantes earned him the 1st Prize for Excellence. In 1881, he was in Paris with his maternal uncle ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Opium Gates, The

    A tale from the French symbolist writer known mainly to be the primary influence on Jorge Luis Borges

    by Marcel Schwob ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    16 min

    Mayer André Marcel Schwob was born in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France on 23rd August 1867 into a cultivated Jewish family.As a child he devoured the works of Poe and Stevenson in French and then again in English. His attachment to the bizarre and dark was already forming.His education at the Lycée of Nantes earned him the 1st Prize for Excellence. In 1881, he was in Paris with his maternal uncle ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Arachne

    A tale from the French symbolist writer known mainly to be the primary influence on Jorge Luis Borges

    by Marcel Schwob ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    13 min

    Mayer André Marcel Schwob was born in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France on 23rd August 1867 into a cultivated Jewish family.As a child he devoured the works of Poe and Stevenson in French and then again in English. His attachment to the bizarre and dark was already forming.His education at the Lycée of Nantes earned him the 1st Prize for Excellence. In 1881, he was in Paris with his maternal uncle ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Spiritualism

    A tale from the French symbolist writer known mainly to be the primary influence on Jorge Luis Borges

    by Marcel Schwob ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    12 min

    Mayer André Marcel Schwob was born in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France on 23rd August 1867 into a cultivated Jewish family.As a child he devoured the works of Poe and Stevenson in French and then again in English. His attachment to the bizarre and dark was already forming.His education at the Lycée of Nantes earned him the 1st Prize for Excellence. In 1881, he was in Paris with his maternal uncle ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus