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  • Tarr
    Wyndham Lewis
    Percy Wyndham Lewis’s 'Tarr' is a sharp and satirical novel exploring the tumultuous intersection of art, bohemianism, and intellectual life in the early 20th century. Set against the backdrop of pre-World War I Europe, this English fiction delves into the lives of artists and thinkers navigating a world on the brink of dramatic change.A powerful example of modernism, 'Tarr' of...
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    36,43 €

  • The Flower Beneath the Foot
    Augustus John / Ronald Firbank / Wyndham Lewis
    'The Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a record of the early life of St. Laura de Nazianzi and the times in which she lived' by Ronald Firbank is a classic work of satire and social commentary. This literary fiction offers a humorous yet insightful exploration of religion, centered around the early life of St. Laura and the world she inhabited.Firbank’s unique voice shines through...
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    33,81 €

  • The Flower Beneath the Foot
    Augustus John / Ronald Firbank / Wyndham Lewis
    'The Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a record of the early life of St. Laura de Nazianzi and the times in which she lived' by Ronald Firbank is a classic work of satire and social commentary. This literary fiction offers a humorous yet insightful exploration of religion, centered around the early life of St. Laura and the world she inhabited.Firbank’s unique voice shines through...
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    20,18 €

  • Tarr
    P. Wyndham Lewis
    Set in Paris, ''Tarr'' offers a darkly humorous exploration of the lives of two artists: Frederick Tarr, an audacious young Englishman, and Otto Kreisler, a disillusioned middle-aged German painter spiraling into self-destruction. The narrative unfolds as both men vie for the affection of two women-a traditional German, and Anastasya Vasek, a bold modernist. Wyndham Lewis craft...
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    16,64 €

  • Paleface
    Wyndham Lewis
    Distinguished and highly original, the irrepressible controversialist Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) is known for his sharp wit and sardonic insight. Though Lewis was a prolific British author, Paleface: The Philosophy of the Melting Pot, ringing perhaps a bit too true and nearly prophetic, remains one of his lesser known works, serving as a lively and provocative exposition of raci...
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    34,79 €

  • Tarr
    Wyndham Lewis
    Tarr, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of the...
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    29,22 €

  • The Art of Being Ruled
    Wyndham Lewis
    Wyndham Lewis’ scathing critique of modern democracy and mass society, now back in print.'The working of the ’democratic’ electoral system is of course as follows. A person is trained up stringently to certain opinions; then he is given a vote, called a ’free’ and fully enfranchised person; then he votes (subject, of course, to new and stringent orders from the press, where occ...
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    18,95 €

  • Hitler
    John Borzoi Chapman / Wyndham Lewis
    Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was a British novelist, painter, essayist, and polemicist. Credited with being the founder of the only modernist movement from Britain, Vorcticism, Lewis approached politics as an aesthetic discipline. His 1931 work Hitler was written after his visit to Germany that year, and highlights the charged atmosphere and uneasy tension that permeated Berlin. B...
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    32,27 €

  • Tarr
    Wyndham Lewis
    Tarr turned to Hobson, and seized him, conversationally, by the hair.  “Well, Walt Whitman, when are you going to get your hair cut?”  “Why do you call me Walt Whitman?”  “Would you prefer Buffalo Bill? Or is it Shakespeare?”  “It is not Shakespeare—”  “‘Roi je ne suis: prince je ne daigne.’—That’s Hobson’s choice.—But why so much hair? I don’t wear my hair long. If you had as ...
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    15,58 €

  • Tarr
    Wyndham Lewis
    Tarr is Wyndham Lewis’ stunning debut novel, here in its original 1918 version. A full-scale Nietzschean assault on bourgeois values, Tarr is set in the cafes and bars of Paris in the early 20th century, and tells the tale of the artists and intellectuals of that time. ...
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    23,95 €

  • The Soul of Marshal Gilles de Raiz - With Some Account of His Life and Times, His Abominable Crimes, and His Expiation
    D. B. Wyndham Lewis / DBWyndham Lewis
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    32,58 €

  • America And Cosmic Man
    Wyndham Lewis
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    33,62 €

  • The Revenge for Love
    Wyndham Lewis
    Published in the shadow of the Spanish Civil War The Revenge for Love is a political thriller attacking the fraudulence and feeble-mindedness of life in the Britain of the 1930s. A brilliant satire on a world that has lost its sense of self and been seduced by the appeal of Communism it is one of a handful of books (it could be compared to Orwell’s Coming Up for Air or Koest...
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    18,52 €

  • The Wild Body
    Wyndham Lewis
    Wyndham Lewis can claim to be one of a tiny handful of British artists who had a European reach and ambition. Creator with Ezra Pound of Vorticism editor designer and author of the great art manifesto Blast a great painter and portraitist novelist polemicist and hater of the Bloomsbury movement through a long life Lewis remained controversial belligerent and very funny....
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    19,30 €