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Resultaten voor 'david lindsay'
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A Voyage to Arcturus
The book I think is most underrated: David Lindsey, A Voyage To Arcturus.
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A Voyage to Arcturus (Cram Edition)
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A Voyage to Arcturus + The Haunted Woman
A Voyage to Arcturus and The Haunted Woman bring together David Lindsay's most distinctive explorations of metaphysical fiction. The former, first published in 1920, transforms the planetary romance into a radical spiritual allegory, sending Maskull to the alien world of Tormance, where shifting bodies, senses, and moral systems dramatize a quest beyond ordinary reality. The latter relocates visionary experience to a haunted English house, blending psychological mystery with supernatural symbolism. Lindsay's prose is austere, strange, and philosophically charged, standing apart from Edwardian romance while anticipating modern speculative and existential literature. David Lindsay (1876-1945) was a Scottish writer whose life was marked by commercial frustration, war service, and a persistent concern with ultimate questions. Having worked in business before serving in the First World War, he turned to fiction with an intensity that suggests dissatisfaction with conventional realism and inherited religious forms. His novels repeatedly seek a language for transcendence, suffering, desire, and the instability of identity. This volume is recommended to readers interested in visionary fantasy, philosophical fiction, and the stranger margins of modernism. Difficult, haunting, and unforgettable, Lindsay's work rewards those willing to enter fiction as an ordeal of perception and belief.
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Ripcord
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Rabbit Hole
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The Balusters
Broadway Edition€ 20,95 -
A Voyage to Arcturus
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A Voyage to Arcturus
On hearing the title A Voyage to Arcturus, one might picture an astronaut strapping themselves into a rocket and flying into space for a swashbuckling adventure. Nothing could be further from what this book actually is.Voyage is in fact a fascinating, bizarre, bewildering, and thought-provoking sort of acid-fueled Pilgrim's Progress: a philosophical allegory told through the frame of a psychedelic gender-bending journey to an alien planet.After a terrifying séance, the protagonist, Maskull, is offered the chance of an adventure on a different world. He agrees, and the reader follows him on his blood-soaked path through lands representing different philosophies and ways of life as he searches for the world's godhead, Surtur. Or is it Crystalman?Voyage features fiction wildly ahead of its time, and is hardly classifiable as either science fiction or fantasy; one might even say that the book is better approached as a philosophical work than a straightforward narrative. It's not a book for a reader seeking simple fiction, but rather for a reader seeking a thoughtful, imaginative, and totally unexpected exploration of philosophy and of life.Decades ahead of its time, Voyage was praised by contemporaries like C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and by modern authors like Clive Barker and Alan Moore. Many modern reviewers consider it a masterpiece of 20th century fiction and the work of an underappreciated genius. A century later it boasts a significant cult following, having inspired movies, plays, albums, and even operas, as well as a modern sequel by famous literary critic Harold Bloom-the only work of fiction he ever wrote.
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Spiritual Warfare
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Mayflower Bastard
A Stranger Among the PilgrimsThe author revisits the Mayflower, focusing on the life of Richard More, a boy without parents who made the historic journey in the care of strangers.
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A Voyage to Arcturus
Reproduction of the original. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the public in good condition in order to preserve their cultural heritage.
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A Voyage to Arcturus
Reproduction of the original. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the public in good condition in order to preserve their cultural heritage.
€ 59,90