The Drugs and Other Stories (Алистер Кроули); Wordsworth Editions, 2015

This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Of the fifty-four stories in the present volume, only thirty-five were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear in this collection for the first time.

Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922. Like their author, his stories are fun, smart, witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in places in which he had lived, and knew well: Belle Epoque Paris, Edwardian London, pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the First World War.

The title story The Drug stands as one of the first accounts — if not the first — of a psychedelic experience. His Black and Silveris a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre. Atlantis is a masterpiece of occult fantasy that can stand with Samuel Butler’s Erewhon. Frank Harris considered The Testament of Magdalen Blair the most terrifying tale ever written. This second edition adds several additional stories, including the Qabalistic allegory Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum, featuring the author’s previously unpublished annotations.

Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories.

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Основные характеристики товара

Параметр	Значение
ISBN	978-1-84-022734-5
Автор(ы)	Алистер Кроули
Автор	Crowley A.
Авторы	Crowley A.
Вес	0.42кг
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2015
Год публикации	2015
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Wordsworth Editions
Издательство	Wordsworth
Кол-во страниц	672
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	672
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Переплет	Мягкий переплёт
Переплёт	Мягкий
Раздел	Книги на английском языке
Серия	Tales of mystery & The supernatural м
Тип обложки	мягкая
Формат	126x197мм
Язык	Английский