The Snuggly Satyricon, Paperback - Brian Stableford

How many people, over the centuries, must have read the famous Satyricon attributed to Titus Petronius, more commonly known as Petronius Arbiter, a...

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They're essentially frustrating-things I glimpse out of the corner of my eye, but which disappear as soon as I try to look at them directly. For me...

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Weird fiction has long been not only unappreciated but actively maltreated by orthodox esthetic evaluation, but its stature has improved considerab...

Autor: Petroniu

Known as the 'Patron Saint of Club Golfers' throughout the world, Dr Frank Barney Gorton Stableford is recognised as one of the most prominent figu...

The Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the fath...

Reducere. DescriptionSatyricon is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry (prosimetrum). It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petron...

One of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient world, The Satyricon offers an unmatched satirical portrai...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): PetroniusTranslator: Sarah RudenNumber of pages: 208Collection: Hackett ClassicsPublication date: 2...

The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian Petronius (d. AD 66) but pos...

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Against a vast and cruel horizon of caustic poetics, Jae-yong is suffering from ennui; can cannibalism save him? Yves Hermite has a hypodermic need...

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Originally published in 1888, The Modesty of Sodom, the outrageous text for which Gustave Guiches (1860-1935) is most remembered, is here presented...

Gaurav Monga's Costumes of the Living functions less as naked commentary on contemporary fashion than as a sartorial taxonomy of the human system a...

Here, presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of Octave Mirbeau's darkest works: a fictionalized accou...

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The Reign of Satan, written by the radical Benjamin Gastineau and originally published in 1848, the same year the author was convicted for writing ...

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Reducere. The Crowds of Lourdes, first published in 1906, was J.-K. Huysmans last book, and certainly his greatest work of non-fiction. Written in a style th...

Reducere. The nineteen stories contained herein, all beautifully translated for the first time into English by Sue Boswell, combine work published by Marcel ...

DescriptionNikonor is an eccentric and scholarly snob, a mycomaniac who has just made it to the Ch teau de la Charlanne where he spent his childhoo...

S verine takes a position as a live-in maid in a house of idleness and luxury. She's informed during her interview that the cleaning and daily meal...

Vehicle for warped desire or major contribution to the modern novel, The Cutest Girl in Class steals the prosthetic hand of modern existence, glove...

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"The Bride of Christ, " which is the longest work of fiction cult author Montague Summers ever produced, and certainly one of his finest, is presen...

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This is the first volume of a new integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. Conceived as companion to the highly-regarded, best-selling 4...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean LorrainTranslator: Brian StablefordJean Lorrain, one of the leading figures of the Decadent Movement, was a master of ...