Our catalogue
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Creative Criticism
Books in our Creative Criticism series expand the limits of criticism, drawing on a variety of genres, styles, and templates.
Poetry
Our series of poetry features translations and original texts that will take you places you didn’t know existed.
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Christopher Norris draws on a lifetime of involvement with music. Mostly know for his work in philosophy, literary theory, and the history of ideas, Norris has chosen a great range of verse forms, among them sonnet, terzanelle, quatrain, terza rima, ottava rima, and pantoum to treat individual composers, Purcell to Shostakovich and Philip Glass, and themes such as the tritone, or ‘devil in music’.
These English renderings offer a wide selection of Rilke’s New Poems (1907-8), ranging across many genres and reflecting the poet’s extraordinary gifts of inventiveness, depth, acute observation, and narrative power.
Ebook: €12.92 | Buy from Buy from This tribute to Adorno’s unequalled powers as a critic and theorist makes a case for a kind of poetry that engages issues beyond the narrowly personal remit of much contemporary verse.
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This is a collection of subtle poems, embracing a natural musical rhythm without a schematic meter and rhyme. The Black Wall offers a still picture which ultimately gives way to action and change.
Academic
Our scholarly publications chart a direction that deviates from the trodden path of corporate academic publishing.
Ebook: Free download (PDF) This book introduces Ereignis as a philosophical concept, as a technology, and as a way of life. The text is interlaced with photographs by award-winning director Stefan Chazbijewicz.
Classics
Know your Classics is a collection of carefully selected texts offered in a new, informative and entertaining frame. Introduced by internationally acclaimed professors and cultural personalities this series provides readers with novel perspectives on texts that have stood the test of time. With a newly written biography of the author, each of our books in this series are given a modern, inviting typography that places these timeless works in our contemporary era. These are unmissable remixes of classics everyone should read.
Ebook: €6.67 | Buy from Buy from The Time Machine redefined the science fiction genre to include concepts like spacetime. This edition features a newly written introduction by Poul Houe.
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Wuthering Heights traces the intense and ultimately destructive affair between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, a love that endures beyond their mortal confines. Our edition is introduced by Jørgen Veisland.
Combining elements of romance and melodrama, Oliver Twist inaugurated a new kind of fiction. This volume is edited and introduced by Jørgen Veisland.
Fiction
The Tania series: Tania is a series of erotic romances that tells the story of the amorous awakening of a young girl. The first book, Tania, begins when she is 18 years old and dating Tony, a film worker eight years her senior. In her adventures with Tony she experiences love in a manner she could never have dreamed of, discovers her own desire, and her own capacity for betrayal. As her social life grows, Tania learns that sexuality is more complicated than she had thought and that our motives sometimes are less than perfect when we encounter other people. At the end of this tale she finds herself in the arms of a much older man and begins to wonder what it is her destiny to experience.
When she grew up Tania’s friend Anna used guile and ingenuity to get what she wanted, but as she retells her story to Tania she discovers that she has to tell the truth.
After reuniting with Tony, Tania believes her future is settled. But some events during her senior year makes her think again.
Tania is tired of school and gets involved with the wrong kinds of people. But then something happens that turns her life around.
