From the moment that Master and Commander, the first of Patrick O'Brian's sequence of novels about the 19th century naval office Jack Aubrey and his surgeon colleague Stephen Maturin, was published in 1970, critics hailed the book as a masterpiece of historical recreation. Patrick O'Brian died in 20[...]

Lyrical, mysterious, and laden with symbolism, Franz Kafka's novels and stories have been translated into more than forty languages ranging from Icelandic to Japanese. In Transforming Kafka, Patrick O'Neill approaches these texts through the method he pioneered in Polyglot Joyce and Impossible Joyce[...]

Introduces the 2000 basic Japanese characters that are now in everyday use, a mastery of which makes it possible to read most modern Japanese. This book has been tested and refined by many years of use in university classes.[...]

Edited by Carl Abrahamsson. Cover art by Fredrik Söderberg. Material by Gary Lachman, Tim O?Neill, Phil Farber, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Ezra Pound, Gary Dickinson, Robert Podgurski, Mel Lyman, Peter Grey, Kevin Slaughter, Lionel Snell, Carl Abrahamsson and many more, on topics as diverse as the p[...]