Author: Eiríkr Magnússon
Publisher: London, Quaritch
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Of Kings and Things
Author: Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1913689077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
An introduction to the Decadent writer Stanislaus Eric Stenbock for the general reader, offering morbid stories, suicidal poems, and an autobiographical essay. Described by W. B. Yeats as a “scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men,” Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860–1895) is surely the greatest exemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century. A friend of Aubrey Beardsley, patron of the extraordinary pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon, and contemporary of Oscar Wilde, Stenbock died at the age of thirty-six as a result of his addiction to opium and his alcoholism, having published just three slim volumes of suicidal poetry and one collection of morbid short stories. Stenbock was a homosexual convert to Roman Catholicism and owner of a serpent, a toad, and a dachshund called Trixie. It was said that toward the end of his life he was accompanied everywhere by a life-size wooden doll that he believed to be his son. His poems and stories are replete with queer, supernatural, mystical, and Satanic themes; original editions of his books are highly sought by collectors of recherché literature. Of Kings and Things is the first introduction to Stenbock's writing for the general reader, offering fifteen stories, eight poems and one autobiographical essay by this complex figure.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1913689077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
An introduction to the Decadent writer Stanislaus Eric Stenbock for the general reader, offering morbid stories, suicidal poems, and an autobiographical essay. Described by W. B. Yeats as a “scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men,” Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860–1895) is surely the greatest exemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century. A friend of Aubrey Beardsley, patron of the extraordinary pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon, and contemporary of Oscar Wilde, Stenbock died at the age of thirty-six as a result of his addiction to opium and his alcoholism, having published just three slim volumes of suicidal poetry and one collection of morbid short stories. Stenbock was a homosexual convert to Roman Catholicism and owner of a serpent, a toad, and a dachshund called Trixie. It was said that toward the end of his life he was accompanied everywhere by a life-size wooden doll that he believed to be his son. His poems and stories are replete with queer, supernatural, mystical, and Satanic themes; original editions of his books are highly sought by collectors of recherché literature. Of Kings and Things is the first introduction to Stenbock's writing for the general reader, offering fifteen stories, eight poems and one autobiographical essay by this complex figure.
Mr. King’s Things
Author: Genevieve Cote
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1894786211
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Mr. King likes new things. When his stuff gets the slightest bit old, he just tosses it into the pond. But when a pond monster frightens Mr. King, he must think of new ways to deal with old messes - with delightful results!
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1894786211
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Mr. King likes new things. When his stuff gets the slightest bit old, he just tosses it into the pond. But when a pond monster frightens Mr. King, he must think of new ways to deal with old messes - with delightful results!
Kings of Broken Things
Author: Theodore Wheeler
Publisher: Little A
ISBN: 9781503941465
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"During the waning days of World War I, three lost souls find themselves adrift in Omaha, Nebraska, at a time of unprecendented nationalism, xenophobia, and political corruption. Adolescent European refugee Karel Miihlstein's life is transformed after neighborhood boys discover his prodigious natural talent for baseball. Jake Strauss, a young man with a violent past and desperate for a second chance, is drawn into a criminal underworld. Evie Chambers, a kept woman, is trying to make ends meet and looking every which way to escape her cheerless existence. As wounded soldiers return from the front and black migrant workers move north in search of economic opportunity, the immigrant wards of Omaha become a thinderbox of racial resentment stoked by unscrupulous politicians. Punctuated by an unspeakable act of mob violence, the fates of Karel, Jake, and Evie will become inexorably entangled with the schemes of a ruthless political boss whose will to power knows no bounds."--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: Little A
ISBN: 9781503941465
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"During the waning days of World War I, three lost souls find themselves adrift in Omaha, Nebraska, at a time of unprecendented nationalism, xenophobia, and political corruption. Adolescent European refugee Karel Miihlstein's life is transformed after neighborhood boys discover his prodigious natural talent for baseball. Jake Strauss, a young man with a violent past and desperate for a second chance, is drawn into a criminal underworld. Evie Chambers, a kept woman, is trying to make ends meet and looking every which way to escape her cheerless existence. As wounded soldiers return from the front and black migrant workers move north in search of economic opportunity, the immigrant wards of Omaha become a thinderbox of racial resentment stoked by unscrupulous politicians. Punctuated by an unspeakable act of mob violence, the fates of Karel, Jake, and Evie will become inexorably entangled with the schemes of a ruthless political boss whose will to power knows no bounds."--Page 4 of cover.
Kings & Things
Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902984841
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902984841
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Saga Library
Author: Eiríkr Magnússon
Publisher: London, Quaritch
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher: London, Quaritch
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Fifty Comedies and Tragedies
Author: Francis Beaumont
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Beaumont and Fletcher
Author: Francis Beaumont
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher; in Seven Volumes
Author: Francis Beaumont
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The British drama
Author: British drama
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
The modern British drama
Author: British drama
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description