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A fascinating and eye-opening account of the author's experiences in the South Seas, where he lived among the native tribes and learned their customs and traditions. The b...
This is the first study to explore the connections between late-19th-century university/college composite class portraits and the field of eugenics - which first took hold...
When, in the spring of 1978, Ella Leffland completed her most recent novel, Rumors of Peace, she knew, in her own words, "There was no subject other than Göring that I wan...
Excepcional poema narratiu
Arnau és una baixada als inferns i una oda a Barcelona, és un sopar de poetes perduts i la novel·la d'un heroi sense poema, és una broma i és...
In August 1870, during a fair in the isolated French village of Hautefaye, a gruesome murder was committed in broad daylight that aroused the indignation of the entire cou...
From 1405, in order to maintain and expand the Ming Dynasty’s tributary system, Yongle Emperor Zhu Di (reigning 1402-1424) and Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji (reigning 1425-143...
"Schattenhände klopfen gegen die Fenster, Wolkenpferde jagen heulend über den Himmel..." - diese Worte finden sich gleichsam als Motto in der Einleitung des Dichters zu di...
In this landmark study, John Carey analyzes the elitest views of some of the most highly respected literary icons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book, as ...
A Metaphysical Grotesque by Adam S. Cantwell
The German watches the door. White faces rush by like bubbles.
The Russian emerges with the parcel under his arm. Raindr...
From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making—a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of per...
The dice roll. Darkness answers.
House of Leaves meets Jumanji in this brilliantly original and twisted novel composed entirely of found documents, following an unwitti...
Als die Ethnologin Heike Behrend nach der Wende das Haus ihres Großvaters besucht, stößt sie am Arendsee in der Altmark auf den christlichen Propheten Gustaf Nagel, der 18...
Zürich - Paris, 1933/34. Hier, im ersten Jahr leidvollen Exils, entsteht Alfred Döblins Roman von Konrad, dem babylonischen Gott, der auswandern muß, weil ihn die Menschen...
A richly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire Jewish world.
The twentieth century produced a galaxy of extraordinary Jewish histori...
This major work offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, showing how these beliefs f...
A wolf sets out on an epic journey of revenge in this one-of-a-kind dark fantasy—the long-awaited second novel from the author of The Library at Mount Char.
The wolf Bl...
Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, the surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s blockbuster Southern Reach Trilogy.
Structured in three parts, each recou...
For his thesis, graduate student John Marr researches the life and work of the brilliant Timothy Hassler: philosopher whose career was cut tragically short over a decade e...
Kai T. Erikson uses the Puritan settlement in 17th-century Massachusetts as a setting in which to examine several ideas about deviant behavior in society. Combining sociol...
In A Table for Fortune , National Book Award-winner William T. Vollmann depicts from the balcony-level of history the last half-century of American politics, war, and life...
