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The Maimed (Dedalus European Classics)
 List Price: Price: $6.49 You Save: $5.50 (46%) DescriptionFranz Polzer is a man who is dominated by irrational fears; even a friendly smile seems to conceal a hidden menace. He keeps the world at bay by organising his life according to the meticulous routine of his work as a bank clerk. He even rejects promotion because it brings the unknown that will threaten to upset his ordered existence.But this precarious order is disturbed by the sexual demands of his landlady. Once the first breach has occurred, he is dragged inexorably down into an abyss of degradation which ends in a grisly murder. The horror of Polzer's fall is emphasised by the matter of fact sobriety of Ungar's narrative style.
The Kafka Collection (Worlds Classics)
 List Price: Price: $31.50 You Save: $18.50 (37%) DescriptionOne of the giants of world literature, Franz Kafka in a relatively short life wrote both major modernist novels--The Trial, The Man Who Disappeared, and The Castle--and such classics of short fiction as "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," and "The Hunger Artist." His matchless fiction shines a light on universal moral problems of guilt, responsibility, and freedom, and it exposes the mechanisms of power by which authorities subtly coerce and subjugate the citizen, as well as the individual's scope for resisting authority. Now, in The Kafka Collection, readers have a unique five-volume set that brings together the complete works of this renowned modernist master. Each book features a superb new translation by such well-known translators as Anthea Bell, Joyce Crick, Mike Mitchell, and Richie Robertson. In addition, each volume boasts an introduction by Ritchie Robertson, a leading Kafka scholar, who explores the many meanings of these famously enigmatic works, providing guidance with a wealth of explanatory notes. Each book includes a Biographical Preface which places Kafka within the context of his time, plus an up-to-date bibliography and chronology of Kafka's life.
The Dedalus Meyrink Reader (Dedalus European Classics)
 List Price: Price: $10.23 You Save: $5.76 (36%) DescriptionGustav Meyrink is one of the most important and interesting authors of early 20th-century German Literature. To establish his reputation in the English-speaking world Dedalus has translated his five novels plus a collection of his short stories and published the first ever English-language biography of Meyrink. Now is the time to produce an overview of Meyrink in a single volume. The Dedalus Meyrink Reader has excerpts from all the translated books and a whole section of hitherto untranslated material, including the stories from the collection Fledermäuse and autobiographical articles. This volume is perfect companion for both the Meyrink scholar and the first-time Meyrink reader, containing as it does the whole gamut of Meyrink's writing from his love of the bizarre, the grotesque and the macabre to the spine-chilling occult tales and his quest to know what is on the Other Side of the Mirror. Novelist, satirist, translator of Charles Dickens, dandy, man-about-time, fencer, rower, banker and mystic seer, there are many, sometimes contradictory aspects to Gustav Meyrink, who must also be the only novelist to have challenged a whole army regiment to a duel. He has left behind a unique body of work, which can be sampled and enjoyed in The Dedalus Meyrink Reader.
Pit of Corruption
 List Price: $0.99 DescriptionJack’s business in the mining industry is close to ruin, but an old friend Eddie brings him an opportunity that could solve everything, … however it's in an African country known for its crime and corruption.Before long, he is deeply committed to the venture, and has to carry on even after Eddie’s unexplained murder, and the realisation that through his financing, he has become involved with organised crime. His colleague Carol is loyal to him through all these problems, and gradually a romantic relationship grows. But he is vulnerable to temptation in Africa, and also she reveals something about herself, … Throughout the project, an old adversary is in the background, working with corrupt officials, who eventually will stop at nothing, … So it’s crime, corruption, murder, romance, and more… Buy now at the special introductory price!
Walpurgisnacht (Dedalus European Classics)
 List Price: Price: $8.30 You Save: $5.69 (41%) DescriptionComic and fantastic, gruesome and grotesque, Walpurgisnacht uses Prague as the setting for a clash between German officialdom immured in the ancient castle above the Moldau, and a Czech revolution seething in the city below. History, myth and political reality merge in an apocalyptic climax as the rebels, urged on by a drum covered in human skin, storm the castle to crown a poor violinist 'Emperor of the World' in St Vitus' Cathedral. Written in 1917 Walpurgisnacht continues the message of The Green Face of a decadent society on the brink of collapse and of a Europe past salvation. In it we see Meyrink's exceptional narrative powers at their height. "It is 1917. Europe is torn apart by war, Russia in the grip of revolution, the Austro-Hungarian Empire on the brink of collapse. It is Walpurgisnacht, springtime pagan festival of unbridled desire. In this volcanic atmosphere, in a Prague of splendour and decay, the rabble prepare to storm the hilltop castle, and Dr Thaddaeus Halberd, once the court physician, mourns his lost youth. Phantasmagorical prose, energetically translated, marvellously evokes past and present, personal and political, a devastated world." The TimesMitchell Mike News
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