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  • Neo-Gothic Narratives
    ’Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times. ...
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    180,40 €

  • 21st-Century Horror
    Sunand Tryambak Joshi
    The literature of terror and the supernatural has been experiencing a renaissance over the past several decades, and with the advent of the new millenium a diverse cadre of writers have expanded the bounds of weird fiction and enriched it with their penetrating visions. This book is the first to present a broad analysis of horror fiction as written by writers in their forties a...
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    36,52 €

  • Två fantasistycken
    Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
    Berättat av fantasins och sällsamheternas mästare:I kortromanen Lille Zachris, kallad Cinober är feerna, trollkarlarna och magin bannlysta ur furst Paphnutius rike för att inte störa det viktiga upplysningsarbetet. Men somliga dröjer kvar under antagna identiteter och kommer behändigt till nytta när den förnäme studenten Cinober anländer till universitetsstaden. Han skapar ored...
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    27,42 €

  • Study Guide to Faustus and Other Works by Christopher Marlowe
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Christopher Marlowe, the foremost Elizabethian tragedian of his day. Titles in this study guide include Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great, The Jew of Malta, and Edward II. As Shakespeare’s most important predecessor and influencer of English drama, Marlowe’s plays are most...
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    8,55 €

  • Study Guide to Othello by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Othello, the inspiration behind many operas, films, and literary adaptations. As a tragedy of the seventeenth-century, Othello’s performance continues today due to the timeless themes of racism, love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge and repentance. Moreover, Shakespeare was ins...
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    15,66 €

  • Study Guide to King Lear by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s King Lear, listed as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. As a theatrical work of the seventeenth-century, King Lear provides commentary on power dynamics within family and political structures. Moreover, it shows how the use of imagery in a narrative contributes to the...
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    8,42 €

  • Study Guide to Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a romance characterized by love sonnets, rhyme, and imagery of light and dark. As a tragedy of the late-sixteenth-century, Romeo and Juliet displays Elizabethan belief in astrology and fate as it applies to the two star-crossed lovers. Moreover, the story...
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    11,19 €

  • Study Guide to Madame Bovary and Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Gustave Flaubert, the prime influencer of French realist literature. Titles in this study guide include Madame Bovary and Three Tales. As a leading exponent of literary realism, Flaubert’s work illustrates elaborate devotion to style and aesthetics. Moreover, he emphasizes the...
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    8,38 €

  • Study Guide to Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Other Works by Samuel Beckett
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1969. Titles in this study guide include All That Fall, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, and Waiting for Godot. As an unconventional but modernist author of the war-ravaged twentieth-century, B...
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    6,75 €

  • Study Guide to Ivanhoe and Other Works by Sir Walter Scott
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Sir Walter Scott, the inventor and greatest practitioner of the historical novel. Titles in this study guide include Ivanhoe, The Heart of Midlothian, and Quentin Durward. As a noteworthy voice of nineteenth century literature, Scott’s writings gave way to a new and vivid tell...
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    12,77 €

  • Study Guide to Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which centers around the holiday time for rejoicing and practical jokes twelve days after Christmas.As a comedy of the early-seventeenth-century, Twelfth Night is regarded as Shakespeare’s most masterful work of literature when it comes to theme, structure, a...
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    8,46 €

  • Study Guide to A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of Shakespeare’s most famous and widely performed plays for the stage. As a comedy of the sixteenth-century, Shakespeare expertly examines the unpredictability and impact of romantic love. Moreover, love is the most prominent theme, expressed...
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    6,75 €

  • Study Guide to The Comedies by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by William Shakespeare, considered one of the greatest playwrights in history. Titles in this study guide include Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor, All’s Well that Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale, and...
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    17,20 €

  • Study Guide to Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, the last of Shakespeare’s political tradegies. As an unusual and intense, intellectual drama, Shakespeare employs single narrative line and striking images, but the most effective moments in the play are developed through understated silence. Moreover, he imple...
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    12,93 €

  • Study Guide to Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakepeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2, the gripping third installment of kingship and rebellion. As a detail-rich history of the sixteenth century, Shakespeare skillfully combines history and comedy, moving from intense battle scenes of kings to simple scenes of country life. Moreover, his com...
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    8,36 €

  • Gothic incest
    Jenny DiPlacidi / TBD
    Challenges dominant accounts of gender and sexuality in Gothic literature by demonstrating the complexities of the incest thematic through interdisciplinary readings of incest in texts from 1764-1847. ...
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    36,63 €

  • Skymningstankar och nattvakor
    Helena Nyblom / Selma Lagerlöf / Zacharias Topelius
    På en grushög längst inne i valvet satt den vansinniga och höll i sin famn ett halvmurket benrangel, kring vilket några gulgråa, ursprungligen vita tyglappar fladdrade för luftdraget... Och den galna satt och vyssjade benranglet som ett litet barn och sjöng så gott hon kunde sina barndomsvisor, och i hennes förr så vilda ögon glänste nu den renaste, lycksaligaste modersglädje.M...
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    28,75 €

  • Essays in Petto
    Montague Summers
    'Essays in Petto' is a collection of essays by English writer Montague Summers, first published in 1928. Within them, Summers explores the subject of Gothic literature, looking in particular at the work of notable writers including Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Byron, and others. A detailed examination of Gothic romance by a master of the supernatural. Contents include: 'Ann Radc...
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    22,31 €

  • Clark Ashton Smith
    David E. Schultz / David ESchultz / S. T. Joshi / Scott Connors / STJoshi
    In 1978, Donald Sidney-Fryer published the first full-scale bibliography of Clark Ashton Smith, Emperor of Dreams. In the more than forty years since that book’s appearance, the publication and study of Smith’s work have increased exponentially, and a new, more exhaustive bibliography is long overdue. The three compilers of this volume, all leading authorities on Smith, have no...
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    31,86 €

  • The Steampunk Handbook
    Phoebe Darqueling
    Author and lecturer Phoebe Darqueling has compiled and updated her best articles from The Steampunk Journal and beyond to surprise, inform, and delight Steampunk and Gaslamp Fantasy fans old and new. Within these pages, you'll find a stroll through the first 30 years of the Steampunk genre, background information about the technological and cultural underpinnings that inspi...
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    11,84 €

  • Patrick Modiano
    Manuel Peris Mir
    En Modiano la figura del perro es a veces un explorador anímico en el deambular del protagonista por las calles de París, a veces un guía en la búsqueda fantasmagórica de personajes desaparecidos, en ocasiones un doble simbólico del narrador, cuando no del hermano muerto, e incluso de ambos, en un sujeto desdoblado que los aúna: el perro y yo / mi hermano y yo; de forma que la ...
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    18,50 €

  • Schabraco and other Gothic Tales from the Ladies’ Monthly Museum, 1798-1828
    Jennie MacDonald
    In 1798, a prospectus appeared for The Lady’s Monthly Museum, a bold new project which – in contrast to the predominance of men’s magazines at the time – would be edited by a “Society of Ladies” and would include wholesome entertainment exclusively intended for young women. But with the inclusion of the Gothic tale “Schabraco” in its second issue, the magazine attracted immedia...
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    42,90 €

  • I dödens lustgård
    Frank Heller / Helena Nyblom / Zacharias Topelius
    En underskön vampyrkvinna med dödliga kyssar. En läkare som föryngrar sina patienter genom att operera in apkörtlar. Den förmodligen första detektivberättelsen på svenska -- ett skrämmande och tragiskt mysterium publicerat bara två år efter Morden på Rue Morgue. Och här finns novellen som August Strindberg stal intrigen ifrån till Ett drömspel.Detta och mycket mer kan läsas här...
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    24,39 €

  • Nattens paradis
    Frank Heller / Henning Berger / Runar Schildt
    -- Husch, sade han -- se, se! Och han fumlade med några knappar på väggen. Belätet reste sig morrande och knorrande, fjädrar surrade och hjul väste. Gestalten steg upp och glodde på mig med ett par grådaskiga ögonlinser. När därtill underkäken plötsligt föll ned med en smäll och visade ett gapande hål och bruna betar, ryggade jag tillbaka i avsmak. -- Ack, sade uppfinnaren -- d...
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    24,44 €

  • Horrid Mysteries - A Story from the German of the Marquis of Grosse
    Carl Grosse / Peter Will
    Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that usually combines fiction with horror, romance, and death. The genre’s origin is attributed to the novel, 'The Castle of Otranto', which was written by English author Horace Walpole and first published in 1764. 'The Horrid Mysteries' is the English translation by Peter Will of the German Gothic novel 'Der Genius by Carl Grosse'. It wa...
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    23,29 €

  • Study Guide to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, one of the most famous novels of Victorian literature. As Emily Brontës sole work, Wuthering Heights unveils the harsh reality behind a toxic and abusive relationship, in which the complex characters are unpredictable. Moreover, Brontë’s lyrical and mystic novel...
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    8,44 €

  • Study Guide to Moby Dick by Herman Melville
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, deemed by author Raymond Weaver as 'indisputably the greatest whaling novel.' As an 1851 tragic epic, Moby Dick tells the story of a captain’s expedition to track down and seek revenge on a whale from the point of view of one of the sailors. Moreover, Melville uses a...
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    8,38 €

  • Study Guide to Utopia by Thomas More
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas More’s Utopia, originally written in Latin in 1516 and considered a great political and philosophical satire. As a rhetorical work from the early 16th century, there has been much debate amongst scholars on what More’s intentions were for writing. Moreover, Utopia makes a mirror so that r...
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    6,80 €

  • Study Guide to The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for JRR Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of one of the most well-known series in the world-Lord of the Rings Trilogy. As an epic novel of the mid twentieth century, Tolkien used elements of Nordic folk, Christianity, and realism to create the Middle-earth world. Moreover, The Lord of ...
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    8,58 €

  • Study Guide to The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, a book that pioneered the feminist science fiction movement. As a science-fiction, fantasy novel of the mid to late 1900s, The Left Hand of Darkness explores androgyny, tragedy, and love. Moreover, Le Guin’s writing shows that in fantasy, journeys into...
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    8,46 €


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