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Alraune (Paperback)
Mahlon Blaine; Translated by S. Guy Endore; Hanns Heinz Ewers
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Illustrated English translation of Hanns Heinz Ewers' decadent
novel, Alraune, the second volume in his Frank Braun trilogy: The
Sorcerer's Apprentice, Alraune, and Vampire. Inspired by medieval
beliefs in the occult properties of the mandrake root (alraune),
which was thought to grow under gallows from the fallen semen of
hanged men, an arrogant student, Frank Braun, persuades his vicious
uncle, Jacob ten Brinken, to create a child through artificial
insemination using sperm from a condemned man and a prostitute as
the mother. The child, Alraune, grows into an extremely beautiful
but thoroughly perverse young woman with a mysterious power to
subject others and to bring riches and ruination. Alraune was first
published in German in 1911. This Birchgrove Press edition is based
on an English translation published by The John Day Company, New
York, in 1929 that was illustrated by Mahlon Blaine.
1927. Illustrated by Mahlon Blaine. Ewers varied and stormy
literary career began in 1901 with the publication of a volume of
rhymed satires entitled A Book of Fables, written in collaboration
with Theodor Etzel. This led to an association with Ernst von
Wolzogen and the formation of a literary vaudeville theater. The
Sorcerer's Apprentice was his first novel.
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