books by Dedalus, Ltd

books by Dedalus, Ltd

books:

Dedalus, Ltd

The Man in Flames (Dedalus Europe 1999 Series)
Serge Filippini

Dedalus, Ltd, 1999

Historical Fiction. Translated from the French by Liz Nash. Fifteen years in the writing, this archetypal novel has been a major critical success in Europe and bears comparison with David Madsen's MEMOIRS OF A GNOSTIC DWARF. The story takes place in Rome in the year 1600, where the poet-philospher Giordano Bruno -- condemned by the Inquisition for ...

The Dedalus Book of Medieval Literature: The Grin of the Gargoyle (Medieval Literature)

Dedalus Ltd, 1996

The Great Shadow: And Other Stories (Empire of the Senses Series)

Mario De Sa-Carneiro

Dedalus, Ltd, 1997

The Great Shadow - A Fiction Lived, a Life Ficcioned
The Great Shadow is one of the novels of the only Sa-Carneiro's book dedication to Fiction. But is is central in the identification of the key-structure that allows that his works talk about his life, and vice-versa. No one, has constructed as Sá-Carneiro did, a ...

The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicide
Gary Lachman

Dedalus Ltd, 2008

The Great Bagarozy (Dedalus Europe 1998)

Helmut Krausser

Dedalus, Ltd, 1999

perceptive, disturbing, funny
this book describes the struggle between Lucifer and God as dictated by the devil himself, who has come down on his luck, to a psychiatrist who gradually falls in love with him. that sounds serious, but consider this: the battle between the father and the angle of ...

The Angel of the West Window (Dedalus European Classics)

Gustav Meyrink

Dedalus, Ltd, 2000

The Angel at the West Window
A man inherits the collected papers of his deceased cousin and is suddenly plagued with nightmares and flashbacks of the past and of the life of his ancestor, John Dee. Strange people start visiting him: the mysterious Lipotin, the seductive Assia Chotokalungin, both ...

The Decadent Traveller (Dedalus Concept Books)
Medlar Lucan

Dedalus, Ltd, 2000

Calvaire (Empire of the Senses)

Octave Mirbeau

Dedalus, Ltd, 1997

Sex and anachy.
Although usually considered a decadent, Mirbeau simply uses the decadent mode as a way of revealing the hypocracies of modern society. He combines psychosexual realism and sociological naturalism to incite feelings of perverse dread with the goel of destroying all ...

The Dedalus Book of Surrealism, I: The Identity of Things (The Identity of Things, Vol 1)

Dedalus Ltd, 1995

stories, first anthology in English translation

The Mandarin (European Classics)

Eca De Queiroz

Dedalus Ltd, 1999

A novella by the máster of portuguese realism
"The mandarin" is something between a short story and a novella. As happens with Machado de Assis, everybody who is interested in good literature should learn portuguese to read Eça de Queiroz in his original language. The author of "The Maias", "The crime of Father ...

The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Dedalus European Fiction Classics)

Rudolf Erich Raspe

Dedalus, Ltd, 1995

a famous & hilarious collection of tall stories
This book of tall stories was written two centuries ago, but has been famous for most of that time and went through numerous editions in Europe. The humour is not dated - this is 18th century Monty Python. In fact, the most recent film based on it was produced by an ...

The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy (European Literary Fantasy Anthologies)

Dedalus Ltd, 1991

The Dedalus Book of French Horror: The 19th Century
Terry /editor Hale

Dedalus Ltd, 1997

various translators

Monsieur De Phocas (Decadence from Dedalus)

Jean Lorrain

Dedalus Ltd, 1994

the darkest descent
In the dark fin de siecle masterpiece entitled Monsieur de Phocas, Jean Lorrain deftly employs the resources of language so as to enact, rather than merely to tell us about, the demented protagonist's increasing loss of genuine contact with the authentic world of ...