This wonderful survey of the famed artist's early work features 44 color plates in addition to several black-and-white vignettes and spot illustrations. Most of the images depict fantastic dwarfs, giants, elves, and fairies as well as naturalistic illustrations far removed from the fairy world. An e[...]
This book includes text in English and French. Known only to literati since its original small press publication in 1975 and two subsequent small press editions, widely published poet Eric Greinke's innovative American versions of Rimbaud's best poems have received critical acclaim as the best trans[...]
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Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, most of which he produced before the age of eighteen. This book brings together his poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat," "The Orphans' New Year", "After the Flood", a[...]
Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, and the Hugo- and Nebula-winning Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke is one of the greatest science fiction writers of the century and surely the most celebrated science fictionauthor alive. He iswith H.G. Wells, Isa[...]
English illustrator Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was known as "The Beloved Enchanter." Twenty-four of his finest and most imaginative works appear in this captivating card collection, among them plates from "The Romance of King Arthur, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Midsummer Night's Dream, "and" [...]
Duckworth are proud to present this first modern edition of The Tragedy of Arthur by William Shakespeare. The long-lost play surfaces in Phillips's new novel, a sublime faux memoir framed as the introduction to the play's first printing. Arthur and his twin sister, Dana, maintained an unusual relat[...]
Professor J.Q.R. Forster leads a dangerous expedition to Jupiter's moon, Almathea. Forster's rival and arch nemesis, Randolph Mays "accidentally" crash-lands on Amelthea's surface with plans for claiming Forster's discoveries as his own. Only Sparta can prevent sabotage.[...]
Her code name is Sparta. Her beauty veils a mysterious past and abilities of superhuman dimension -- the product of advanced biotechnology. World-renowned professor J.Q.R. Forster's expedition to Jupiter's moon has not proven uneventful. In a furious blaze of ice-geysers, the moon's surface rips of[...]
Features messages from spirit in which the author gives a description of the afterlife and its multiple planes of existence. This book challenges Spiritualist assumptions at the time and was instrumental in the founding of the spiritual organisation called The White Eagle Lodge.[...]
"What makes something a work of art?" This was the question that philosopher Arthur C. Danto (1924-2013) asked himself after seeing Andy Warhol's "Brillo Box" at a 1964 exhibition at the Stable Gallery in New York City. The philosophy of art was not Danto's primary area of inquiry at the time, but W[...]
These are insightful first-hand accounts, first published in 1952, of everyday life in rural Yorkshire in the mid-eighteenth century.[...]
"The Tragedy of Arthur" is an emotional and elaborately constructed tour de force from bestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Arthur Phillips, "one of the best writers in America" ("The Washington Post").
Its doomed hero is Arthur Phillips, a young man struggling with a larger-than-life f[...]
Born in Wales in 1863, Machen was a London journalist for much of his life. Among his fiction, he may be best known for the allusive, haunting title story of this book, "The White People," which H. P. Lovecraft thought to be the second greatest horror story ever written (after Blackwood's "The Willo[...]