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  • The Mystery of Kama and Brahma’s Courtesans
    Jane de La Vaudère / Brian Stableford
    Presented here for the first time in English, in a superb translation by Brian Stableford, are The Mystery of Kama and Brahama’s Courtesans, two outrageous, full-length novels from the pen of Jane de La Vaudère.In this pair of India-set adventures, the eccentric author pulls out all the stops, filling the pages with garish eroticism and gruesome cruelty, telling two tales of ex...
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    26,98 €

  • The Enchanted Ring
    Philothée O’Neddy / Théophile Dondey / Brian Stableford
    Philothée O’Neddy, one of the most flamboyant and outspoken members of the defiantly and insistently eccentric group of French writers known as the Jeunes France, whose members included Théophile Gautier, Petrus Borel and Gérard de Nerval, produced little fiction during his lifetime, but that he did produce was of the highest order. His longest prose work, Histoire d’un anneau ...
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    13,37 €

  • Elsewhere and Other Stories
    G. Albert Aurier / Gabriel-Albert Aurier / Brian Stableford
    Gabriel-Albert Aurier, though primarily remembered nowadays as an art critic, especially as a vociferous early advocate of the work of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, was also an ardent and very active member of the Symbolist Movement during the years immediately prior to his premature death from typhus.Along with a number of short stories, the present volume contains his po...
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    15,15 €

  • For Reading in the Bath
    Catulle Mendès / Brian Stableford
    For Reading in the Bath, here presented in English for the first time in a delightful translation by Brian Stableford, is one of a number of risqué collections of ultra-short fiction produced by Catulle Mendès (1841-1909) during the fin de siècle. Always poetic, often perverse, and sometimes even chaste, these highly amusing, masterfully constructed tales of amour and immoralit...
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    17,35 €

  • Faustina and Other Stories
    Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt / Renée Vivien / Brian Stableford
    Renée Vivien and her lover Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt collaborated on two volumes of short prose, Copeaux and Netsuké, which, translated for the first time into English by Brian Stableford, are here brought together in a single volume.Filled with extravagant exercises in symbolism and bitter-sweet narratives that often hinge on problematic confrontations between two female cha...
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    23,92 €

  • TALES OF ENCHANTMENT AND DISENCHANTMENT
    Brian Stableford
    The Contes de fées, defined here as tales that contain fées, i.e.: “fays” (as opposed to “fairies,” which in British literary history referred to imaginary entities often different from the French fées), were invented by aristocratic women of the 17th century, such as Madame d’Aulnoy, the Comtesse de Murat, Madame Leprince de Beaumont, etc.In making visible the operations of th...
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    54,87 €

  • Halyartes
    Éphraïm Mikhaël / Brian Stableford
    Presented here, for the first time in English, in a translation by Brian Stableford, are the complete prose poems of Éphraïm Mikhaël, a disciple of Mallarmé and an important member of the Symbolist Movement. Though he died when only twenty-three years old, of tuberculosis, Mikhaël made a significant contribution to the Movement. The works translated here only give a foretaste o...
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    10,65 €

  • Babels, Balloons and Innocent Eyes
    Charles Morice / Brian Stableford
    Charles Morice (1860-1919), a Symbolist writer and art critic who was an early champion of people such as Paul Verlaine, Rodin, Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin, produced during his lifetime a great deal of literature, but only a single volume of short prose pieces, Quincaille, from which the stories and prose-poems in this current volume are taken, translated into English by Bri...
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    17,28 €

  • The Insubstantial Pageant
    Brian Stableford
    'As above, so below.'This is the message Simon Cannick receives from his ailing mother, approaching her life’s end, the first time he meets her. A mystical commonplace, or is there more to it?While Simon connects with his newly discovered family—half-sister Marianne and her middle-aged delinquent daughter, Zoe—the portents gather. Strange manifestations might be messages from t...
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    24,08 €

  • The Torch-Bearers
    Bernard Lazare / Brian Stableford
    The Torch-Bearers tells the story of an itinerant Anarchist preacher who comes to the corrupt city of Geronta in the company of a fellow vagabond, where he begins preaching in parables, that being his preferred method of enlightenment. He hears a number of other story-tellers narrating their own parables, to which he opposes his own in order to expose their ideological flaws.He...
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    18,54 €

  • Errant Vice
    Jean Lorrain / Brian Stableford
    Errant Vice, here presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of the key compositions of the Decadent Movement. A blackly comic novel starring Count Wladimir Noronsoff, the last of an accursed branch of a Russian aristocratic family, this is arguably the most outrageous of Jean Lorrain’s works, with a richness of perversity and a quasi-i...
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    24,14 €

  • Misty Thule
    Adolphe Retté / Brian Stableford
    Adolphe Retté’s Misty Thule, originally published in 1891 and here translated into English for the first time by Brian Stable-ford, is one of the key documents of the Symbolist Movement, and one of the most extreme illustrations of its philosophy. Deliberately breaking the usually-imposed boundaries of poetry and prose, sensation and fantasy, stories and chapters, syntax and pu...
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    15,59 €

  • The Double Star and Other Occult Fantasies
    Jane de La Vaudère / Brian Stableford
    Jane de La Vaudère was one of the most unusual writers of the fin de siècle, renowned both for her scandalously scabrous Parisian novels, and her accounts of moeurs antiques, some of which—notably Le Mystère de Kama (1901)—set new standards of excess.Presented here is her first volume of short stories to be available in English, superbly translated by Brian Stableford: nine ext...
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    22,07 €

  • Lilith’s Legacy
    Renée Vivien / Brian Stableford
    Bringing together four entire collections of the prose poems and short stories of the lesbian Symbolist 'Renée Vivien' (Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877-1909), the current volume is compromised predominately of works which have never before appeared in English. It is as much by virtue of her idiosyncrasies as because of her considerable artistry that Pauline Tarn/Renée Vivien was, and r...
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    17,50 €

  • The Bull-Man and the Grasshopper
    Jean Richepin / Brian Stableford
    The Bull-Man and the Grasshopper, first published in 1876 as Une histoire de l’autre monde, and here presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, tells the story of Jean Pioux and Marius Mazuclard, two bizarre street performers who are arrested for participating in the brief rule of the Paris Commune and sentenced as deportees to New Caledonia.A...
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    12,30 €

  • The Demi-Sexes and The Androgynes
    Jane de La Vaudère / Brian Stableford
    Presented here in English for the first time, in a bravura translation by Brian Stableford, are two highly unusual novels from one of the fin-de-siècle’s most eccentric writers.The Demi-Sexes, originally published in 1897, was the first of Jane de La Vaudère’s novels seriously to explore the territory of the conventionally unmentionable, which it does forthrightly, in its first...
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    21,80 €

  • The Alchemy of Blood
    Brian Stableford
    Mathieu Galmier, formerly of the Pasteur Institute, has to leave Paris under a cloud when one of his pioneering experiments in hematology goes awry. He is given refuge -- of sorts -- in London by Sir Juliam Templeforth.Unfortunately, the rewards both men hope to reap from continuing the experiments are slow to materialize. The research hits snags, and its human costs are beginn...
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    12,30 €

  • The Death of Balzac
    Octave Mirbeau / Brian Stableford
    Here, presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of Octave Mirbeau’s darkest works: a fictionalized account of the death of the giant of French letters, ­Honoré de Balzac. Among his journalistic endeavors, Mirbeau contributed a large number of short stories to the newspapers in the fin-de-siècle period, and he honed his skill in that ki...
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    13,21 €

  • The Pool of Mnemosyne
    Brian Stableford
    Brian M. Stableford’s latest novel, The Pool of Mnemosyne, concludes the saga of the immortal Axel Rathenius, from the artists’ colony of Mnemosyne, an island located off the northern coast of what in our world is called France, in the Everlasting Empire, 2,000 years after the birth of the Divine Caesar... Rathenius now returns to Mnemosyne after his meeting with the legendary ...
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    26,42 €

  • Spirits of the Vasty Deep
    Brian Stableford
    St. Madoc, on the coast of North Wales, seems like a suitably quiet place for an aging writer to work; when Simon Cannick moves into Raven Cottage he thinks it might even be too quiet. Stopping by the pub, he learns of local lore concerning mermaids, spirits and the Murden family who inhabit the nearby Abbey. Perhaps some of this might furnish Simon with material, but soon he f...
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    19,52 €

  • The Death of Broceliande
    Brian Stableford
    Alastor, the son of an iron-master, has no inclination to follow his father’s trade, preferring to work with wood. He and his musically-talented sister Catrianne leave the foundry to go and live in a town, where Alastor soon begins to specialize in making musical instruments. One day, while delivering an unusual musical instrument to a hamlet high in the mountains, he is thrown...
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    14,38 €

  • Misanthropic Tales
    S. Henry Berthoud / Brian Stableford
    Misanthropic Tales, first published in 1831, is the first collection of stories in a genre that was given numerous other titles—all equally inappropriate—by various practitioners before and after the one that eventually caught on to a greater extent than its rivals: Contes cruels. These are stories that set out to oppose the conventions of fiction that encourage embellishments ...
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    15,61 €

  • The Frail Soul
    Camille Mauclair / Brian Stableford
    There are, Monsieur, the man with the singular eyes said to me, ill-intentioned people who look at me with an impertinent pity and claim that I am mad. They will tell you that, but do not believe them; I have pronounced that word in order to destroy in you immediately the striking impression that it produces. Those people are wicked; they were my friends once, but now they spy ...
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    13,45 €

  • The Emerald Princess
    Félicien Champsaur / Brian Stableford
    The Emerald Princess, originally published in 1928 as La Princesse émeraude, is one of the more whimsical productions of a rather self-indulgent period of Félicien Champsaur’s career, deliberately harking back to the stylistic extravagances of the Decadent Movement. In this attempt by the author to go beyond anything he had done before, in producing a kind of ultimate femme fat...
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    18,37 €

  • The Mirror of Legends
    Bernard Lazare / Brian Stableford
    Here available in English for the first time, in a splendid translation by Brian Stableford, The Mirror of Legends, one of the important collections of French Symbolist Bernard Lazare (1865–1903), offers a melange of stories based on Greek, mythological and Biblical sources. In prose coiling as effusively as the smoke from a swinging censer, the esoteric lore of centuries is pa...
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    18,28 €

  • Further Beyond
    Brian Stableford
    Crawford Tillinghast was killed when a machine that he built in order to break down the barriers between dimensions exploded, and his three domestic servants disappeared, leaving his old friend David Dearden as the only witness to the catastrophe. Now Dearden has to return to the house where the unexplained tragedy occurred. in order to help Tillinghast's widow put the esta...
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    14,44 €

  • Masks in the Tapestry
    Jean Lorrain / Brian Stableford
    Jean Lorrain, one of the leading figures of the Decadent Movement, was a master of the conte cruel. Presented here, for the first time in English, are ten such tales: stories of princes and princesses; mock-fairytales that seem to pervert the innocence of their settings with a triumphant immorality, plunging the reader into an atmosphere of voluptuousness and sensuality.“Whoeve...
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    14,57 €

  • The Latin Orgy
    Félicien Champsaur / Brian Stableford
    Gladiators and whores, dancers and acrobats—the insatiable lust of an empress and the cruelty of the Circus. All this and much more swirl through the pages of The Latin Orgy, a key text of the decadent fiction, and the author, Félicien Champsaur’s, most successful work.Here translated into English for the first time, is Champsaur’s superbly evocative masterpiece of scandal, whi...
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    25,12 €

  • Bluebirds
    Catulle Mendès / Brian Stableford
    Bluebirds by Catulle Mendès (1841-1909), here delightfully translated for the first time into English by Brian Stableford, is fascinating, not only because it illustrates a particular evolution within the pattern of the author’s own works, but because that pattern reflects a more general one associated with the evolution from the French Romanticism of the first half of the nine...
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    17,77 €

  • The Unknown Collaborator
    Victor Joly / Brian Stableford
    Histoires ténébreuses by Victor Joly, here translated as The Unknown Collaborator and Other Legendary Tales, was first published in Brussels by Auguste Schnee & Co. in 1857. It collects three novellas and a short story, all affiliated, albeit a trifle belatedly and more than a little ironically, to the Romantic Movements of France and Germany, fusing the two influences in a fas...
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    17,12 €


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