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  • Story of the Eye

    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Literature and Evil

    Translated by Alastair Hamilton ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Victorian Passions: Volume 18

    Victorian Passions Volume 18 immerses readers in the sultry undercurrents of early 20th-century erotica, spanning 1909 to 1931 with a curated anthology of classic tales that blend raw desire, libertine adventures, and social transgression. This collection captures the essence of historical erotica through vivid narratives of forbidden pleasures, where characters navigate London's shadowy demimonde ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother is a frank and intense depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is shown as the only way to transcend the boundaries of society and morality. Madame Edwarda is ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Accursed Share, Volume I

    Translated by Robert Hurley ...
    From the acclaimed French philosopher, intellectual, and novelist, a brilliant account of the social and economic costs of civilizationIn this important work, Georges Bataille uses his novel economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. He introduces here his concept of the accursed share, the surplus energy that any system, natural or cultural, must ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Blue of Noon

    Translated by Harry Mathews ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fighting and marching on the streets outside. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Limit of the Useful

    The first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher's later thought.In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L’expérience intérieure), the twentieth-century French philosopher Georges Bataille produced a nascent masterwork containing some of his most original and extensive reflections on a range of subjects. With ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Accursed Share

    an Essay on General Economy, Vol. 1: Consumption

    Narrated by James Gillies ...
    Series series The Accursed Share

    Unabridged

    6 hours 15 min

    "From the acclaimed French philosopher, intellectual, and novelist, a brilliant account of the social and economic costs of civilizationIn this important work, Georges Bataille uses his novel economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. He introduces here his concept of the accursed share, the surplus energy that any system, natural or cultural, must ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Accursed Share

    an Essay on General Economy, Vol. 1: Consumption

    Narrated by James Gillies ...
    Series series The Accursed Share

    Unabridged

    6 hours 15 min

    "From the acclaimed French philosopher, intellectual, and novelist, a brilliant account of the social and economic costs of civilizationIn this important work, Georges Bataille uses his novel economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. He introduces here his concept of the accursed share, the surplus energy that any system, natural or cultural, must ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    by Karl Jaspers ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher and one of the most original European thinkers of the twentieth century. As a major exponent of existentialism in Germany, he had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. He was Hannah Arendt’s supervisor before her emigration to the United States in the 1930s and himself experienced the consequences of ... Read more

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  • Vintage Erotica: 4 Victorian novels

    by Anonymous ...
    This file includes three anonymous Victorian erotic novels (Forbidden Fruit, Laura Middleton, and The Power of Mesmerism), plus Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Debt

    The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded

    by David Graeber ...
    Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debtHere anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD