Hesperus Press
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Memories: An Oasis in Time
$17.99 Read moreThe story of Kamel Abu Jaber (1932-2020) is in some ways the story of the modern day Kingdom of Jordan. In this short and sweet collection of memories, Kamel recounts his tribal past, being a Christia… [more below]
- Author: Abu Jaber, Kamel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1843919893
- Language: English
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On Reading
$12.95 Read more“To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire an… [more below]
- Series: On
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1843916169
- Language: English
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The Diary of Adam and Eve: And Other Adamic Stories
$12.95 Add to cartWritten in diary form, The Diary of Adam and Eve is an ingenious, witty, and ultimately delightful retelling of the dawn of human creation with many a grain of truth for today’s gender disputes. Maste… [more below]
- Series: Hesperus Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1843910055
- Language: English
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The Jordanians: And the People of the Jordan
$13.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1980, The Jordanians presents historical and statistical data as well as an entertaining and witty narrative that treats the reader to a peek into the Middle Eastern cultural herita… [more below]
- Author: Abu Jaber, Kamel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1843919877
- Language: English
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Carmilla
$17.95 Add to cartPredating Bram Stoker’ Dracula, Carmilla is the ultimate gothic vampire tale–stylish, menacing, sensual, and spellbinding
You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.
When a mysterious
- Series: Hesperus Classics
- Author: Le Fanu, J. Sheridan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1843914727
- Language: English
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Wings
$16.95 Add to cartA key text in the history of gay literature, Wings was published in 1906 to the scandalized reaction of contemporary society and the generations which followed. Its central theme of aestheticized sens… [more below]
- Series: Modern Voices
- Author: Kuzmin, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 28 2007
- ISBN10: 184391431X
- Language: English
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Mine-Haha: Or on the Bodily Education of Young Girls
$14.95 Add to cartAt once a dystopian fantasy and a critique of sexual norms, Mine-Haha describes a unique boarding institution for girls–part idyllic refuge, part prison–where pupils are trained only in the physical… [more below]
- Series: Modern Voices
- Author: Wedekind, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1843914557
- Language: English
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A Dog’s Heart: A Monstrous Story
$12.95 Add to cartThrough surreal, often grotesque humour, Bulgakov gives an ingenious new twist to the “Frankenstein” parable, in a new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and on S
- Series: Hesperus Modern Voices
- Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: June 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1843914026
- Language: English
