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Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provides ...

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In 18th Century Spain, a young officer falls in with a band of wanderers, among them a gypsy chief, a brigand and even the Wandering Jew himself.

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Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provides ...

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S a Gothic novel quite an extraordinary piece of writing Czeslaw Milosz a work of magical intricacy which carries the torch of fantasy into our own century The baffled Alphonse is a precursor of the Kafka hero or the automata of the nouveau ...

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For more than three decades, Lucien ' one of the most notorious characters in the history of the novel ' has haunted the imaginations of readers around the world.

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The smooth steely grip of Irwin’s story-telling genius is a joy to read.” —The Washington Post “The Arabian Nightmare is a conceit worthy of Borges.” —The New York Times “[Irwin’s] fascination for inner perception, helped ...

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This is an extraordinary collection of tales that is sure to appeal to all readers of the weird and supernatural.

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Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre.

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This 1892 work was among the first novels published by an African-American woman. Its striking portrait of life during the Civil War and Reconstruction recounts a mixed-race woman's devotion to uplifting the black community.

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This edition includes all the Poe's Works of Poetry & Fiction that are included in the Poe Canon: - Poems (Alone, The Raven, etc.) - Tales (The Fall of The House of Usher, etc.) You can move quickly back and forth among Poems and Tales by ...