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The imagined autobiography of a movie star who appeared in German films across the Weimar and Naz...
Marie Grubbe is loosely based on the true story of a Danish noble woman of the same name. A wealt...
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Celebrates the influence of occult thought and sensibility on some of the great poets and writers...
Mike Mitchell's new translation replaces S. Goodrich's 1912 version of the first German bestselli...
'A century after its first publication, this book is still capable of shocking. The opening satir...
First published in 1880, same year as Edgar Degas' 'The Dancing Lesson and Edouard Manet's solo s...
The identity of Venice, Queen of the Adriatic, is inseparable from the waters of the lagoon by wh...
One night at Trieste in September 1943 a seriously wounded soldier is found on the quay. The doct...
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This is the first English translation of Liane de Pougy's 1901 novel A Woman's Affair (Idylle Sap...
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George Sand's fictionalised account of her notorious affair with the poet Alfred de Musset caused...
Aboard the Titanic, Lobster watches Angelina devour his father, before being plucked out of the a...
In 1943, despite her own physical disabilities and the stress of living in a Paris under Nazi occ...
In Les Diaboliques there are six tales of female temptresses - she-devils - in which horror and t...
A chilling noir novel set in the Belfast of The Troubles in which Pat Gray introduces us to the f...
Spanning 100 years of Italian history, seen through the lives of a peasant family, this truly uni...
Robert Baldick's Life of J.-K. Huysmans has become not just a standard reference work, to be cons...
Serrano is an isolated village where a madwoman roams. But is she really mad or is she marginaliz...