Books from Dedalus
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The Bee-loud Glade: A Living Anthology of Irish Poetry
By Roger Gregg, Crazy Dog Audio TheatreFeaturing poems byLeland Bardwell, Pat Boran, Paddy Bushe Enda Coyle-Greene, Patrick Deeley, Theo Dorgan, Katherine Duffy, Gerard Fanning, Francis Harvey, Ann Joyce, Catherine Phil MacCarthy, Tom Mathews, James J. McAuley, Iggy McGovern, ...
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The Dedalus Book of Surrealism: The myth of the world
By Michael RichardsonCollection of surrealist stories by authors from seventeen different countries.
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Les Diaboliques (The She-devils)
By Jules Barbey D'AurevillyLes Diaboliques (The She-devils)
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Les diaboliques
By Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly, Robert Irwin, Ernest Augustus BoydUpon its initial publication in 1874, "Les diaboliques" was immediately declared a danger to public morality, and all the copies of the book were seized on the orders of the...
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The Angel of the West Window
By Gustav MeyrinkA complex and ambitious novel which centres on the life of the Elizabethan magus John Dee, in England, Poland and Prague, as it intertwines past and present, dreams and visions,...
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The Devil is a Gentleman: The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley
By Phil Baker"It is not only the Hammer films based on Dennis Wheatley's novels that are full-blooded, sensational entertainment, so was Wheatley's life, brilliantly evoked by Phil Baker. This gripping biography draws...
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The Orchid Keeper
By Paul PerrySecond collection of poems by one of the most hotly-tipped younger Irish poets, described by Fred D'Aguiar as "a prodigiously gifted poet".
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Memoirs of a Byzantine Eunuch
By Christopher HarrisCaptured and castrated as a boy, Zeno is sold into slavery in Constantinople. Bought by the greatest scholar of the age, he is soon drawn into a labyrinth of sex,...
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The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers
By Eça de QueirósThe Tragedy of the Street of Flowers was discovered amongst the author's papers after his death, and was only published in Portugal in 1980. This is the first English translation,...
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What Became of the White Savage
By François GardeSome time in the 1840s, Narcisse, a young French sailor is abandoned on the coast of Australia and given up for dead by his shipmates.
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The Angels of Perversity
By Remy de GourmontThe Angels of Perversity
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Stranded
By Joris-Karl HuysmansJ.-K. Huysmans' Stranded (En Rade 1887), published just three years after the iconoclastic Against Nature, sees him again breaking new ground and pushing back the boundaries of the novel form....
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Helena, Or, The Sea in Summer
By Julián AyestaFirst English translation of a 1952 Spanish masterpiece by an award-winning translator, this Spanish classic evokes the childhood transition to adolescence. .,."Aunt Josefina's fat white legs under the water; a...
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Lobster
By Guillaume LecasbleAboard the Titanic, Lobster watches Angelina devour his father before being plucked out of the aquarium himself. Just as he is put in the boiling pot, the ship hits the...
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The Land of Darkness
By Daniel ArsandIt is 1289, and Kubilai Khan rules the largest empire the world has ever known. A man of driving ambition, the Venetian merchant Vincente Montefoschi prepares to lead a caravan...
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The Other Side
By Alfred KubinAlfred Kubin (1877-1959) was one of the major graphic artists of the 20th century who was widely known for his illustrations of writers of the fantastic such as Balzac, E....
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The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy
By Johanna SinisaloThe latest volume in the Dedalus European fantasy series, this anthology of short stories includes a wide range of texts covering the period from nineteenth century until today. The richness...
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The Book of Tobias
By First Last, Sylvie GermainWhen tragedy strikes and Theodore Lebon is robbed of his adored wife, or rather her head, for only her body remains after a riding accident, the reader is once again...
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The Dedalus Book of German Decadence: Voices of the Abyss
By Raymond FurnessThe Dedalus Book of German Decadence: Voices of the Abyss
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Sexuality and Masquerade: The Dedalus Book of Sexual Ambiguity
By Emma WilsonA highly inclusive collection, "Sexuality And Masquerade" celebrates the erotics of indecision, of gender performance, of sexual artifice in its full range.