If you've never been to Paris, here is your chance to experience it; if you have been there, here is your chance to return. Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by French and Francophone writers who have been inspired by the mystery and
No work of fiction has explored the undercurrents of love between a writer and a reader as seductively as "Hallucinating Foucault", a breathtaking literary debut. "One of the best novels of the year".--A.S.
So begins The Doctor, a provocative, illuminating novel based on a true story about a brilliant female physician who is compelled to live as a man under the name James Miranda Barry. Patricia Duncker traces Barry's incredible life over the course of five
From the author of Hallucinating Foucault, a playfully erudite novel about George Eliot, literature, and a surprising romance.In Berlin, Max Duncker and his brother, Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business, which owes its success to one woman: the Si
The thrilling tale of a secret European sect and the musical mastermind at its center, from a critically acclaimed novelist at the top of her form. The bodies are discovered on New Year’s Day, sixteen dead in the freshly fallen snow. The adults lie stif
With this posthumously published anthology--a successor to his bestselling Italian Folktales--Italo Calvino, a contemporary surveyor of the otherwordly, pays homage to twenty-six of his nineteenth-century precursors. The resulting volume is both an educat
Sixteen short stories by Stephen King, William Tenn, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, August Derleth, Richard Matheson, Tanith Lee, and others deal with the nightmarish theme of female vampires. Reprint.
Pour l'amour de l'ingénue d'une troupe de comédiens nomades, le jeune baron de Sigognac qui se morfondait au château de la Misère en compagnie d'un valet, d'une haridelle, d'un chien et d'un chat, joue sur les tréteaux le rôle de Matamore, le « tra
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