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“jan potocki”

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  • The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

    by Jan Potocki ...
    Translated by Ian MacLean ...
    Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The Saragossa Manuscript

    by Jan Potocki ...
    This is an extraordinary collection of tales that is sure to appeal to all readers of the weird and supernatural. Written in French by a Polish nobleman and first published, almost secretly, in St. Petersburg in 1804. During the wars in Spain, an officer of the Walloon Guards finds, in a deserted castle in Saragossa, a manuscript of such absorbing interest that he carries it with him on his ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript

    by Jan Potocki ...
    'As a reader you find yourself teased, intrigued and disorientated. You never quite know where you are - whether you are reading a series of lies, illusions and superstitious tales, or whether this is a great work of art with its own special kind of truth. Although the book clearly has roots in medieval forms, it is also amazingly modern - predating the works of Italo Calvino and the Magical ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • House of Open Wounds

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  • The Snow Ghost and Other Tales

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    by Various, Richard Gordon Smith, Lafcadio Hearn, Yei Theodora Ozaki ...
    Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries.From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Japan was a country and culture that lived with between realms: the world of everyday and the world of supernatural. The Snow Ghost and Other Tales brings together ... Read more

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    by Paul E. Hardisty ...
    In a near future, where civilisation has collapsed, a government of youth has taken power in North America. All older people deemed responsible for the cataclysmic climate emergency are relocated, but a breakaway group escapes exile to seek freedom … at devastating cost…'The dystopian future landscape of The Forcing comes with a heightened realism that grips and shakes you … provocative and ... Read more

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  • City of Last Chances

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    by Adrian Tchaikovsky ...
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  • Windswept

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    by Annie Worsley ...
    ‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas’ ROBERT MACFARLANE‘An instant classic of British nature-writing’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPHA few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland. It is a land ruled by great elemental forces – light, wind and water – that hold sway ... Read more

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  • A Magical Girl Retires

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    by Park Seolyeon ...
    A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul’s Mapo Bridge.But her suicide attempt is interrupted by a girl dressed all ... Read more

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