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  • The Flame (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Tale of Love, Lust and Art in Venice

    Translated by Dora Ranous ...
    The Flame (Il fuoco, 1900) is D'Annunzio's sumptuous Venetian novel of artistic vocation, erotic domination, and cultural ambition. Centered on the visionary poet Stelio Effrena and the aging actress Foscarina, it transforms a love affair into a meditation on creation, sacrifice, and the dream of a renewed Latin art. Written in a highly wrought, sensuous prose, the book belongs to European ... Read more

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  • Gradiva - A Pompeiian Fancy

    This antiquarian volume comprises Wilhelm Jensen's 1902 novel, Grandiva. First published in the "Neue Freie Presse", this text was inspired by an eponymous Roman bas-relief and would become the foundation for Sigmund Freud's seminal 1907 work 'Delusion and Dream'. Freud’s copy of this book can be found on the wall of his study in the Freud Museum at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London. A seminal book in ... Read more

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  • Zanoni Book One: The Musician

    The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe, A Weiser Books Collection

    Series Book 1 - The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe
    Master of modern occultism, Lon Milo DuQuette, (author of Enochian Vision Magick and The Magick of Aleister Crowley) introduces the newest Weiser Books Collection—The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. Culled from material long unavailable to the general public, DuQuette curates this essential new digital library with the eye of a scholar and the insight of an initiate.An ancient manuscript and ... Read more

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  • Zanoni Book Three: Theurgia

    The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe, A Weiser Books Collection

    Series Book 3 - The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe
    Master of modern occultism, Lon Milo DuQuette, (author of Enochian Vision Magick and The Magick of Aleister Crowley) introduces the newest Weiser Books Collection—The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. Culled from material long unavailable to the general public, DuQuette curates this essential new digital library with the eye of a scholar and the insight of an initiate.An ancient manuscript and ... Read more

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  • The Virgin of the Seven Daggers

    Excursions into Fantasy

    by Vernon Lee ...
    He lusts and kills in equal measure.The brutal Don Juan – an unrepentant sinner – makes a pact with the Virgin of the Seven Daggers. He promises to forever proclaim her supreme beauty and asks that in return she save him from damnation.Emboldened by the deal and driven by insatiable greed, he embarks on a necromantic journey to an enchanted palace beneath the Alhambra. In an orgy of beasts, demons ... Read more

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  • The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence

    The Black Feast

    Series Book 2 - Dedalus Anthologies
    The Decadent Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe’s most striking and exotic works of literature. The Decadents, convinced that civilisation was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. J.-K. Huysmans ... Read more

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  • The Pole

    The Pole is a short story, that was written in close cooperation with Claire Clairmont. ... Read more

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  • Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents

    June 19th, 1780. - Shall I tell you my dreams? - To give an account of my time is doing, I assure you, but little better. Never did there exist a more ideal being. A frequent mist hovers before my eyes, and, through its medium, I see objects so faint and hazy, that both their colours and forms are apt to delude me. This is a rare confession, say the wise, for a traveller to make: pretty accounts ... Read more

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  • Beautiful Chaos

    German Romantic Tales 1797-1819

    by Ludwig Tieck ...
    The German Romantic Movement was the first to embrace chaos. Its first theorist was Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829); it was Schlegel who in 1795 expounded a philosophy of the fragment, claiming that the fragment represented a "chaos of everything sublime, beautiful and bewitchingâ€. Inspired by Goethe's 1795 fable of the Green Snake, but rejecting his outmoded classicism, young writers of the ... Read more

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  • One of Cleopatra's Nights

    And Other Fantastic Romances

    Translated by Lafcadio Hearn ...
    Dashing adventurers with more than their fair share of derring-do, lovely ladies in peril -- these fast-paced action tales have something for everyone. The title story is a heart-pounding thriller set in Egypt, and the other pieces in the collection are equally enthralling. ... Read more

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  • The Poems And Prose Poems Of Charles Baudelaire

    The Poems And Prose Poems Of Charles Baudelaire by Charles Baudelaire. ... Read more

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  • The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal (Translated by William Aggeler with an Introduction by Frank Pearce Sturm)

    Upon its original publication in 1857 Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal” or “The Flowers of Evil” was embroiled in controversy. Within a month of its publication the French authorities brought an action against the author and the book’s publisher claiming that the work was an insult to public decency. Eventually the French courts would acknowledge the literary merit of Baudelaire’s work but ... Read more

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