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“A fresh and masterful exploration of what it means to be haunted." —B.R. Yeager, author of Negative Space
With only weeks left to live, retired auto body mechanic Milo...
The most current multidisciplinary and multivocal engagement with Sade's enduring influences on modernism and the philosophical need for continued analysis of his work and...
On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to stall their biological clocks or even...
Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as “daringly imagined and darkly romantic—a moral thriller,” Destiny Express captures both the glamour and the terror of an era, dramatizing the p...
Alles beginnt, sogar das Ende, als Lajos von Lázár, das blonde Kind mit den wasserblauen Augen, zur Welt kommt. Seinem Vater, dem Baron, wird der Sohn nie geheuer sein, al...
Meneer Beerta is het eerste deel van Het Bureau, een roman in zeven delen, die de menselijke verhoudingen op en rondom een wetenschappelijk instituut tussen de jaren 1957 ...
A novel of pagan terror from the author of The Ritual and The Reddening.
Disaster strikes quickly and without warning. What should have been a glorious weekend of kayak...
The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised
In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks...
It’s about to get very dark.
Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and dreadful with his fifth horror collection, which weaves sixteen weird...
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) is judged by many to be Romania’s most original philosopher and greatest poet of the twentieth century. While scholars with access to his works in...
In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship ...
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven mont...
On February 1, 1929, Carl Panzram, the self-described “meanest man who ever lived”, stepped through the gates at the Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas. Upon entering the ...
Jest to opowieść o losach Beniamina, który wpada w sidła miłości i zostaje w zamku pogańskiej Aspazji, zapominając o rodzinie, ojczyźnie i całym świecie. Powieść Żmichowsk...
To a small English village, it is a vast organic presence, as ancient as time itself and seething with hidden life and forbidden legends...
To its victims, it is a name...
When European missionaries first arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan th...
Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe
John J. Callanan
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(0)A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalised and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of t...
Termeer, the narrator of A Posthumous Confession, is a twisted man and a troubled one. The emotionally stunted son of a cold, forbidding, and hypocritical father, Termeer ...
"The Muqaddimah," often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-centu...
