The Flame (Il fuoco, 1900) is D'Annunzio's sumptuous Venetian novel of artistic vocation, erotic domination, and cultural ambition. Centered on the visionary poet Stelio Effrena and the aging actress Foscarina, it transforms a love affair into a meditation on creation, sacrifice, and the dream of a renewed Latin art. Written in a highly wrought, sensuous prose, the book belongs to European Decadence and Aestheticism, while also absorbing Wagnerian ideas of total art and the symbolic charge...

This antiquarian volume comprises Wilhelm Jensen's 1902 novel, Grandiva. First published in the "Neue Freie Presse", this text was inspired by an eponymous Roman bas-relief and would become the foundation for Sigmund Freud's seminal 1907 work 'Delusion and Dream'. Freud’s copy of this book can be found on the wall of his study in the Freud Museum at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London. A seminal book in the development of psychoanalysis, this text is a must-have for those with a keen interest in...

Master of modern occultism, Lon Milo DuQuette, (author of Enochian Vision Magick and The Magick of Aleister Crowley) introduces the newest Weiser Books Collection—The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. Culled from material long unavailable to the general public, DuQuette curates this essential new digital library with the eye of a scholar and the insight of an initiate.An ancient manuscript and hidden occult powers all tangled into a love story, Zanoni is one o...

Master of modern occultism, Lon Milo DuQuette, (author of Enochian Vision Magick and The Magick of Aleister Crowley) introduces the newest Weiser Books Collection—The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. Culled from material long unavailable to the general public, DuQuette curates this essential new digital library with the eye of a scholar and the insight of an initiate.An ancient manuscript and hidden occult powers all tangled into a love story, Zanoni is one of the most unsung ...

He lusts and kills in equal measure.The brutal Don Juan – an unrepentant sinner – makes a pact with the Virgin of the Seven Daggers. He promises to forever proclaim her supreme beauty and asks that in return she save him from damnation.Emboldened by the deal and driven by insatiable greed, he embarks on a necromantic journey to an enchanted palace beneath the Alhambra. In an orgy of beasts, demons and slumbering infantas Don Juan is called upon to uphold hi...

The Decadent Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature. The Decadents, convinced that civilisation was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. J.-K. Huysmans described Decadence as a 'black feast' and The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence offers a veritab...

The Pole is a short story, that was written in close cooperation with Claire Clairmont.

June 19th, 1780. - Shall I tell you my dreams? - To give an account of my time is doing, I assure you, but little better. Never did there exist a more ideal being. A frequent mist hovers before my eyes, and, through its medium, I see objects so faint and hazy, that both their colours and forms are apt to delude me. This is a rare confession, say the wise, for a traveller to make: pretty accounts will such a one give of outlandish countries: his correspondents must reap great benefit, no do...

The German Romantic Movement was the first to embrace chaos. Its first theorist was Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829); it was Schlegel who in 1795 expounded a philosophy of the fragment, claiming that the fragment represented a "chaos of everything sublime, beautiful and bewitchingâ€. Inspired by Goethe's 1795 fable of the Green Snake, but rejecting his outmoded classicism, young writers of the movement such as Wackenroder, Tieck and Novalis began to utilise the format of the fairy-tale (märc...

Dashing adventurers with more than their fair share of derring-do, lovely ladies in peril -- these fast-paced action tales have something for everyone. The title story is a heart-pounding thriller set in Egypt, and the other pieces in the collection are equally enthralling.

The Poems And Prose Poems Of Charles Baudelaire by Charles Baudelaire.

Vernon Lee's "Belcaro; Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions" is a thoughtful exploration of art and aesthetics through a series of essays that engage deeply with various cultural themes. Written with a lyrical prose that merges philosophical inquiry with personal reflection, Lee examines the interplay between beauty, nature, and artistic expression. The work reflects the intricacies of the late 19th-century discourse on aesthetics, contextualizing its insights within the broader Ro...