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  • Selected Writings

    Translated by Laura de Jong ...
    In 1928, the Amsterdam house of Em. Querido published a novel about a dancer who falls in love with a woman and calls it The Divine Sin. Its author, Edith Werkendam, was reviewed from The Hague to Medan, listed in the national press among the women writers who mattered, and is today almost entirely unread. This is the first appearance of her work in English.At the centre of this volume is The ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Syntactic Constructions in English

    Construction grammar (CxG) is a framework for syntactic analysis that takes constructions - pairings of form and meaning that range from the highly idiomatic to the very general - to be the building blocks of sentence meaning. Offering the first comprehensive introduction to CxG to focus on both English words and the constructions that combine them, this textbook shows students not only what the ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

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    The Gothic Vampire Classic That Predates Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu

    Before Dracula, there was Carmilla—mysterious, seductive, and deadly. First published in 1872, Carmilla is a haunting tale of forbidden desire and supernatural terror. Sheridan Le Fanu's novella predates Dracula by 26 years and helped lay the foundation for the modern vampire myth. Set in a remote castle in the Austrian countryside, this eerie and sensual story follows young Laura as she becomes ... Read more

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  • Carmilla

    Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman’s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. Also this story predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by 25 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema.It was first published in the magazine The Dark Blue in late 1871 and early 1872 and then in the author’s ... Read more

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  • The House of the Vampire

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  • Carmilla

    “To this hour the image of Carmilla returns to my memory with ambiguous alternations—sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church. Sometimes, I start from a reverie, certain I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing-room door.”Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship—until a carriage ... Read more

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  • Vintage Vampire Stories

    Long lost to the public in out-of-print pulp magazines, dusty Victorian anthologies, and the pages of now defunct newspapers-these vintage vampire stories have truly proved immortal. Resurrected now for the year 2011, this is a stunning collection of nineteenth-century vampire stories by heavyweights such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Bram Stoker. These rare stories are arranged in chronological ... Read more

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  • The Walk

    by Robert Walser ...
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  • Children of the Night: Classic Vampire Stories

    Series series Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
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  • Carmilla (Mobi Classics)

    Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872 it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years and has been adapted many times for cinema. - Excerpted from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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  • Carmilla

    A Gothic Vampire Classic

    Before Dracula, there was Carmilla—a chilling, seductive tale that laid the foundation for vampire fiction as we know it. Set in a mysterious and secluded castle in 19th-century Styria, Carmilla tells the story of Laura, a young woman who encounters the enigmatic and alluring Carmilla. What begins as a friendship blossoms into something more intimate, but as Carmilla's true nature is slowly ... Read more

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