The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides: Dead Letters (Lachman Gary)(Paperback)

The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides: Dead Letters (Lachman Gary)(Paperback)

Writers have been killing themselves for centuries. From Petronius in ancient Rome to the 20th Century Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, writers, more than any other kind of artist, have taken their own lives in an extraordinary number of ways. With bullets, poison, drugs and swords, poets,

Dedalus Book of the Occult: A Dark Muse (Lachman Gary)(Paperback / softback)

Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder (Snyder Gary)(Paperback)

The Secret Teachers of the Western World (Lachman Gary)(Paperback)

This epic study unveils the esoteric masters who have covertly impacted the intellectual development of the West, from Pythagoras and Zoroaster to the little-known modern icons Jean Gebser and Schwaller de Lubicz. Running alongside the mainstream of Western intellectual history there is another

The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (Roskill Mark)(Paperback)

A literary classic, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh Captures the voice of one of the most beloved and important artists of all time. Though Vincent van Gogh is often thought of as a mad genius, in The Letters of Vincent van Gogh the thoughtful, effervescent, and sensitive man is revealed to

Swedenborg: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas (Lachman Gary)(Paperback)

A clear and concise overview of the life and work of the immensely influential but little understood eighteenth-century mystic-scientist Emanuel Swedenborg. 'Lachman identifies all the roles Swedenborg inhabited (spiritual thinker, psychic, scientist, inventor, statesman, traveler, and possibly

A Secret History of Consciousness (Lachman Gary)(Paperback)

For the last four centuries, science has tried to account for everything in terms of atoms and molecules and the physical laws they adhere to. Recently, this effort was extended to try to include the inner world of human beings. Gary Lachman argues that this view of consciousness is misguided and

Horse Crazy (Indiana Gary)(Paperback)

'This story, if it is one, deserves the closure of a suicide, perhaps even the magisterial finality of what is usually called a novel, but the remnants of that faraway time offer nothing more than a taste of damp ashes, a feeling of indeterminacy, and the obdurate inconclusiveness of passing time.'

Rudolf Steiner - An Introduction to His Life and Work (Lachman Gary)(Paperback / softback)

A popular biography of one of the most creative and prolific figures of the early twentieth

Think, Write, Speak - Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career.Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a

Dai Greatcoat - A Self-Portrait of David Jones in his Letters (Jones David)(Paperback / softback)

Through a selection of letters to friends and literary peers, the author presents insight into the life and work of David Jones. He covers the last fifty years of his life, editing and arranging Jones' correspondence with a linking commentary to form a biographical

By the Time You Read This I'll Be Dead (Peters Julie Anne)(Paperback)

A significant book about one girl's struggle with suicide, from National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters. Daelyn is fifteen years old, and in her mind she is a failure. She tried slitting her wrists, and she was rescued. She tried swallowing chemicals, and after burning through her esophagus

Introducing Swedenborg: Correspondences: Correspondences (Lachman Gary)(Pevná vazba)

Emanuel Swedenborg's system of correspondences is one of the most influential theories in the history of ideas. Instrumental in the rise of Romanticism, Symbolism and Modernism, and cited as key to the work of Goethe, R.W. Emerson, Honor de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Wassily Kandinsky and Arnold

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Awakening Upon Dying (Padmasambhava)(Paperback)

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Awakening Upon Dying, with introductory commentary by Dzogchen Buddhist master Ch gyal Namkhai Norbu, is a new translation of the ancient text also known as The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Intermediate State. Both a practical guide and intriguing

The Porcupinity of the Stars (Barwin Gary)(Paperback)

Winner of the 2011 Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry In this much-anticipated new collection, poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language, imaginative flight and quiet beauty that have made him unique among contemporary poets. As the Utne Reader

Tibetan Book of the Dead (Padmasambhava)(Paperback / softback)

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Budge E. a. Wallis)(Paperback)

Love Letters of Great Men (Becon Hill)(Paperback)

Searching for the book of love letters from the Sex in the City movie? This book contains those letters as well as some of the most passionate and romantic poems and love letters ever written. Explore the private longings and passions of the greatest men in history and the women they loved. Find

The Undiscovered Country (Bagoo Andre)(Paperback)

'A manifesto, a literary criticism, a personal chronicle of literary life, a book of days, a stage wherein famous writers such as Walcott, Thomas, Gunn, Espada, and others become actors, The Undiscovered Country discovers many things, but one thing for sure: Andre Bagoo is a fearless, brilliant

Letters Against the Firmament (Bonney Sean)(Paperback)

Winner of: 2015 Verso Book of the Year Letters Against the Firmament is a user's report on the end of the world, a treatise against Tory terror, a proposal for a new zodiac, a defence of poetry, a hex against the devourers of planet earth. The Letters are fierce epistolary poems, a vivid account

The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book: 120 Classic Conundrums for Book Lovers (Somerville Neil)(Paperback)

Make a literary escape into the pages of a puzzle book--test your knowledge of Shakespeare, Twain, Proust, Tolkien, and more Are you bursting with literary knowledge that you'd like to put to the test? Or do you just want a moment's distraction filling in a Harry Potter- or Lord of the

Dedalus Book of Decadence - Moral Ruins(Paperback / softback)

The Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Tokarczuk Olga)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'A brilliant literary murder mystery.' --Chicago Tribune 'Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work.' --Annie Proulx In

Walking the Twilight Path: A Gothic Book of the Dead (Belanger Michelle)(Paperback)

Powerful and evocative, this postmodern Book of the Dead is for mystics, witches, goths, and anyone attracted to the beauty and mystery of death--a vital and transformational force that is integral to our daily lives. Become familiar with this intrinsic, yet denied, aspect of our lives as you