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Lovecraft Short Stories (Hardcover, New edition): S.T. Joshi Lovecraft Short Stories (Hardcover, New edition)
S.T. Joshi
R650 R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Save R113 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

H.P. Lovecraft was the inventor of cosmic horror, of weird fiction and the Cthulhu mythology. His stories, incubated by a lonely and febrile childhood, found purchase in the fertile earth of pulp fiction where he inspired many other writers, from Robert E. Howard, to Robert Bloch and Clark Ashton Smith, many of whom also collaborated on the several short stories, some of which are also included here, in this special deluxe edition. This title, alongside H.G. Wells Short Stories, is a companion volume to our hugely successful Gothic Fantasy series of classic and modern writers.

The Dreams in the Witch House - And Other Weird Stories (Paperback): H. P Lovecraft The Dreams in the Witch House - And Other Weird Stories (Paperback)
H. P Lovecraft; Introduction by S.T. Joshi; Notes by S.T. Joshi
R516 R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Save R86 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The dreams were wholly beyond the pale of sanity . . . " Plagued by insane nightmare visions, Walter Gilman seeks help in Miskatonic University's infamous library of forbidden books, where, in the pages of Abdul Alhazred's dreaded Necronomicon, he finds terrible hints that seem to connect his own studies in advanced mathematics with the fantastic legends of elder magic. The Dreams in the Witch House, gathered together here with more than twenty other tales of terror, exemplifies H. P. Lovecraft's primacy among twentieth-century American horror writers. This volume is a companion to the other two Penguin Classics edition of Lovecraft's work: The Call of the Cthulhu and The Thing on the Doorstep. This original collection presents the definitive texts of the work, including a newly restored text of "The Shadow out of time" along with S. T. Joshi's invaluable introduction and notes. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Madness of Cthulhu Anthology (Volume One) (Paperback, Annotated Ed): S.T. Joshi The Madness of Cthulhu Anthology (Volume One) (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
S.T. Joshi
R286 R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Save R51 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Sixteen stories inspired by the 20th century's great master of horror, H.P. Lovecraft, and his acknowledged masterpiece, 'At the Mountains of Madness', in which an expedition to the desolation of Antarctica discovers evidence of an ancient ruin built by horrific creatures at first thought long-dead, until death strikes the group. All but two of the stories are original to this edition, and those reprints are long-lost works by science fiction masters Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Silverberg.

Black Wings of Cthulhu 2: Eighteen Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (Paperback, Annotated Edition): S.T. Joshi Black Wings of Cthulhu 2: Eighteen Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (Paperback, Annotated Edition)
S.T. Joshi; Caitl in R Kiernan 1
R294 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R51 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In the second volume of the crticially acclaimed Black Wings series, S.T. Joshi - the world's foremost Lovecraft scholar - has assembled eighteen more brand-new and imaginative horror tales, inspired by the greatest writer of the supernatural H.P. Lovecraft.

Leading contemporary horror authors, including John Shirley, Richard Gsin, Brian Evenson, Rick Dakan, Jason V. Brock, Rick Dakan, Jason C. Eckhardt, Brian Evenson, Tom Fletcher, Richard Gavin, Caitlín R. Kiernan, John Langan, Nick Mamatas, Nicholas Royle, Darrell Schweitzer, John Shirley, Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jonathan Thomas, Donald Tyson, Don Webb, and Chet Williamson, will draw upon themes, images, and ideas from the life work of the master of the genre to deliver a rich feast of terror.

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (Paperback): H. P Lovecraft The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (Paperback)
H. P Lovecraft; Introduction by S.T. Joshi; Notes by S.T. Joshi 1
R478 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R107 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1920s. This new Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition brings together a dozen of the master's tales-from his early short stories "Under the Pyramids" (originally ghostwritten for Harry Houdini) and "The Music of Erich Zann" (which Lovecraft ranked second among his own favorites) through his more fully developed works, "The Dunwich Horror," The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and At the Mountains of Madness.

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories presents the definitive corrected texts of these works, along with Lovecraft critic and biographer S. T. Joshi's illuminating introduction and notes to each story.

The Angry Right - Why Conservatives Keep Getting it Wrong (Hardcover): S.T. Joshi The Angry Right - Why Conservatives Keep Getting it Wrong (Hardcover)
S.T. Joshi
R754 R666 Discovery Miles 6 660 Save R88 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since 1968, Republican presidents have occupied the White House far longer than Democratic presidents, and recently Republicans have controlled both houses of Congress as well. In spite of these electoral triumphs, leading spokespersons on the right continue to depict conservatives as an embattled minority. Lashing out at their liberal opponents, sharp-tongued partisan advocates like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Sean Hannity never tire of issuing jeremiads against what they perceive as the inexorable tide of liberal abuses that threatens to overwhelm the Republic.
But if Republicans have won the battle at the voting booths, why is the right so angry?
As S. T. Joshi reveals in this incisive profile of twelve leading conservatives, the rage at the heart of the right is fueled by a gnawing sense that conservatives long ago lost the hearts and minds of the American people. Since the F.D.R. administration, conservatives have unsuccessfully opposed legislative and judicial reforms that today are considered so mainstream as to be, well, "conservative." In effect, yesterday's liberalism is today's conservatism, and this has been the direction of social and political change since the age of the Model T.
Examining the writings of such conservative icons as Russell Kirk, William F. Buckley Jr, Phyllis Schlafly, and nine others, Joshi uncovers statements that most people today would consider not just radical but outrageous:
In the 1950s, Russell Kirk opposed Social Security because he said it was "un-Christian."
In the same decade, William F. Buckley Jr. argued against the desegregation of public schools on the grounds that it would be an infringement of states' rights (an argument also used a century earlier to defend slavery).
In the 1970s, Phyllis Schlafly declared that women's liberation is a "disease" and a "homewrecker."
Knowing that these positions are today indefensible, conservative spokespersons have little recourse but to engage in passionate invective that attempts to portray their opponents as extremists. Joshi characterizes the aggrieved lament of conservatives as the last gasp of those who know their ideas will be confined to the dustbin of history.

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - (Penguin Orange Collection) (Paperback): H. P Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - (Penguin Orange Collection) (Paperback)
H. P Lovecraft; Edited by S.T. Joshi 1
R521 R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Save R121 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin's iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. This definitive collection reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical-and visionary-American writer.

A Means to Freedom - The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (Volume 1) (Paperback, Annotated edition): H. P... A Means to Freedom - The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (Volume 1) (Paperback, Annotated edition)
H. P Lovecraft, Robert E Howard; Edited by S.T. Joshi
R883 Discovery Miles 8 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Means to Freedom - The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (Volume 2) (Paperback, Annotated edition): H. P... A Means to Freedom - The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (Volume 2) (Paperback, Annotated edition)
H. P Lovecraft, Robert E Howard; Edited by S.T. Joshi
R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I Am Providence - The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 2 (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition): S.T. Joshi I Am Providence - The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 2 (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)
S.T. Joshi
R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As the second volume of S. T. Joshi's comprehensive biography of H. P. Lovecraft begins, we find Lovecraft dwelling in misery in a one-room apartment in Brooklyn Heights: his wife, Sonia, has had to move to the Midwest for work, and he must rely on the companionship of the Kalem Club, the informal band of friends in the New York area. In 1926, in part through the intervention of his close friend Frank Belknap Long, Lovecraft finally decided to return to his native Providence, Rhode Island, effectively ending his marriage. That return spurred the greatest spurt of literary creativity he would ever experience: in less than a year, such works as "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," and "The Colour out of Space" would emerge from his pen, establishing Lovecraft as the leading weird fictionist of his generation. In spite of his increasing poverty, antiquarian travel occupied much of Lovecraft's time, and he gained an impressive knowledge of such oases of antiquity as Charleston, Quebec, St. Augustine, and Richmond. These voyages both renewed his connection with the past and infused his literary work, as such later tales as "The Whisperer in Darkness" and "The Shadow over Innsmouth" drew ever more profoundly upon his far-flung travels. Intellectually, Lovecraft evolved as well. Recent developments in science confirmed his materialism and his atheism, and the onset of the Great Depression gradually caused him to reassess his political and economic theory; he emerged as a moderate socialist and advocate of the New Deal. Late in life he became a giant in the world of fantasy fandom--a development that foreshadowed his worldwide fame in the decades following his early death.

Black Wings of Cthulhu 1: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (Paperback, Annotated Edition): S.T. Joshi Black Wings of Cthulhu 1: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (Paperback, Annotated Edition)
S.T. Joshi
R302 R253 Discovery Miles 2 530 Save R49 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From the depths of R'lyeh come twenty-one brand-new, utterly terrifying, and thoroughly entertaining short stories of horror and the macabre!

Taking their inspiration from works by Lovecraft himself, prominent writers such as Caitlin R. Kiernan, Brian Stableford, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Shea, Darrell Schweitzer, Donald R. Burleson, and David J. Schow delve deep into the psyche, expanding on concepts H.P. Lovecraft created and taking them in new directions.

The result is stories that are wholly original, some even featuring Lovecraft himself as a character. Black Wings editor S.T. Joshi is the recognized authority on all things Lovecraftian, and is famous for his restorations of Lovecraft's original works. He has assembled a star-studded line-up in a book that is essential for every horror library.

Black Wings of Cthulhu 5: Twenty New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (Paperback, Annotated Edition): S.T. Joshi Black Wings of Cthulhu 5: Twenty New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (Paperback, Annotated Edition)
S.T. Joshi
R293 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R50 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

H. P. Lovecraft's brand of cosmic horror has long forced readers to an inexorable truth there are powers in the universe whose immensity dwarfs petty human conflicts. Inspired by Lovecraft and brought together by editor S. T. Joshi, the stories in Black Wings of Cthulhu 5 explore the very essence of fear.

Between these covers lie many of the finest Lovecraftian authors, including Sunni K Brock, Donald R. Burleson, Mollie L. Burleson, Nicole Cushing, Jason C. Eckhardt, Sam Gafford, Wade German, Cody Goodfellow, David Hambling, Lynne Jamneck, Mark Howard Jones, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nancy Kilpatrick, W. H. Pugmire, John Reppion, Darrell Schweitzer, Jonathan Thomas, Donald Tyson, Robert H. Waugh, and Stephen Woodworth.

Black Wings of Cthulhu 4: Seventeen Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (Paperback, Anniversary Edition): S.T. Joshi Black Wings of Cthulhu 4: Seventeen Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (Paperback, Anniversary Edition)
S.T. Joshi
R294 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R51 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Through his collaborations with today's most talented and acclaimed practitioners of Lovecraftian fiction, editor S. T. Joshi has made the Black Wings of Cthulhu series essential for every library of horror and the macabre. Volume four offers up seventeen new masterpieces, each exploring the roots of fear employed so famously by the master himself, H. P. Lovecraft.Between these covers there lies a who's who of the supernatural, including Fred Chappell, Jason V Brock, Gary Fry, Richard Gavin, Cody Goodfellow, Lois H. Gresh, Caitli n R. Kiernan, Charles Lovecraft, Will Murray, John Pelan and Stephen Mark Rainey, W. H. Pugmire, Ann K. Schwader, Darrell Schweitzer, Simon Strantzas, Melanie Tem, Jonathan Thomas, Donald Tyson, and Stephen Woodworth.

The Autopsy - Best Weird Stories of Michael Shea (Paperback): Michael Shea The Autopsy - Best Weird Stories of Michael Shea (Paperback)
Michael Shea; Edited by Linda Shea, S.T. Joshi
R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ramsey Campbell, Certainly (Paperback): S.T. Joshi Ramsey Campbell, Certainly (Paperback)
S.T. Joshi
R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Last Oblivion - Best Fantastic Poems of Clark Ashton Smith (Paperback): Clark Ashton Smith The Last Oblivion - Best Fantastic Poems of Clark Ashton Smith (Paperback)
Clark Ashton Smith; Edited by S.T. Joshi, David E. Schultz
R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Penumbra No. 1 (2020) - A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism (Paperback): S.T. Joshi Penumbra No. 1 (2020) - A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism (Paperback)
S.T. Joshi
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Swords & Steam Short Stories (Hardcover): S.T. Joshi Swords & Steam Short Stories (Hardcover)
S.T. Joshi; Contributions by Andrew Bourelle, Beth Cato, Amanda C. Davis, Daniel J. Davis, …
R650 R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Save R113 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Following the great success of the early Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this exciting title in the series is packed with swashbuckling and steam-punking up to your eyeballs. Adventures and alt-historical tales from classic authors are cast with previously unpublished stories by exciting budding contemporary writers.

Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood; Introduction by S.T. Joshi; Notes by S.T. Joshi
R423 R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Save R104 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing workincluding the title story, the inspiration for Val Lewton's classic film Cat People; "The Willows," which Lovecraft singled out as "the single finest weird tale in literature"; "The Wendingo"; "The Insanity of Jones"; and "Sand."

This original Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition includes a fascinating Introduction and invaluable notes by S.T. Joshi.

The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken - Plays and Criticism (Hardcover): S.T. Joshi The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken - Plays and Criticism (Hardcover)
S.T. Joshi
R2,953 Discovery Miles 29 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Throughout his career as a literary critic, H. L. Mencken was intent on elevating the bold, the daring, and the innovative over the hackneyed, the trite, and the superficial, and his drama criticism exhibits this tendency to the fullest. Though known primarily as a newspaperman and commentator, Mencken also wrote several one-act plays, as well as a full-length work. In The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, S. T. Joshi has assembled for the first time Mencken s dramatic works, comprising six one-act plays and the lengthy three-act play Heliogabalus. These plays, which have never been reprinted since their original appearances in newspapers or in Mencken s early volume A Book of Burlesques (1916), exhibit Mencken s penchant for satire and ridicule. Several of the plays, such as In the Vestry Room and The Wedding: A Stage Direction, display Mencken s oft-expressed cynicism about the institution of marriage. Another related play is Asepsis, a satire on exaggerated concerns about sexual health in young married couples. Other plays take aim at the cultural deficiencies of the common people, such as Death: A Philosophical Discussion, which relays the hackneyed reactions of a group of mourners over the death of a friend. Mencken s most significant play by far is Heliogabalus, a play he co-wrote with his frequent collaborator, George Jean Nathan, in which Mencken expresses his scorn of the Christian religion. The second half of this book features a selection of Mencken s early writings (1905 17) on drama, most of which have never been reprinted. Various essays on Shakespeare, Shaw, Synge, Strindberg, Ibsen, and others exhibit Mencken s keenness as a literary critic and his understanding of the aesthetic possibilities of the drama. With an introduction by the editor who provides an overview of Mencken s work as a dramatist and drama critic, this collection will be of interest to amateur and even professional drama companies, theatre historians, and of course, anyone interested in the writings of Mencken.

Letters to C. L. Moore and Others (Paperback, Annotated edition): H. P Lovecraft Letters to C. L. Moore and Others (Paperback, Annotated edition)
H. P Lovecraft; Edited by David E. Schultz, S.T. Joshi
R856 Discovery Miles 8 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
H.L. Mencken - An Annotated Bibliography (Hardcover, New): S.T. Joshi H.L. Mencken - An Annotated Bibliography (Hardcover, New)
S.T. Joshi
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Baltimore native Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was an essayist, literary critic, magazine editor, novelist, and journalist. Starting as a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald at the turn of the century, Mencken eventually became associated with the Baltimore Sun and his work for the newspaper spanned five decades. In H.L. Mencken: An Annotated Bibliography, S.T. Joshi provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive bibliography of the writings of H. L. Mencken ever assembled. It presents detailed information on his book publications from 1903 to the present, with a full list of editions and reprints. Most significantly, it presents for the first time a comprehensive annotated listing of his magazine and newspaper work (including more than 1,500 anonymous editorials for the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Evening Sun, and other papers, which have never been listed in any previous bibliographies), a thorough index to his book reviews, and a full list of interviews Mencken gave during his lifetime. Word counts of nearly every item in the bibliography have been supplied, and the book has been thoroughly indexed by name, title, and periodical. Because every item has been annotated, scholars and students can, for the first time, gain an idea of the subject-matter of all Mencken's writings, especially his magazine and newspaper work. The indexes will allow users to locate any given item with ease. The chronological arrangement of each section allows users to understand the growth and development of Mencken's work, making this volume an invaluable resource.

I Am Providence - The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 1 (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition): S.T. Joshi I Am Providence - The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 1 (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)
S.T. Joshi
R901 Discovery Miles 9 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born to a well-to-do family in Providence, Rhode Island. As a child, he revealed remarkable precocity in his early interests in literature and science. Ill-health dogged him in youth, rendering his school attendance sporadic; and in 1908 he experienced a nervous breakdown that rendered him a virtual recluse for several years. In 1914 he discovered the world of amateur journalism and began slowly emerging from his hermitry. He wrote tremendous amounts of essays, poetry, and other work; in 1917, under the encouragement from W. Paul Cook and others, he resumed the writing of horror fiction, and his career as a dream-weaver began anew. In 1921 Lovecraft met his future wife, Sonia H. Greene, at an amateur journalism convention. It was at this time that he began expanding his horizons, both geographical and intellectual: he traveled widely, from New England to New York to Cleveland; and he absorbed such literary and intellectual influences as Lord Dunsany, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Machen. In 1924 he and Sonia decided to marry, and Lovecraft moved to New York to pursue his literary fortune. But, as the first volume of this biography concludes, his metropolitan adventure would be bittersweet at best. S. T. Joshi's award-winning biography H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996) provided the most detailed portrait of the life, work, and thought of the dreamer from Providence ever published. But that edition was in fact abridged from Joshi's original manuscript, and this expanded and updated two-volume edition restores the 150,000 words that Joshi omitted and, in addition, updates the texts with new findings.

The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 1 - The Abyss Triumphant (Paperback, Annotated edition): Clark Ashton Smith The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 1 - The Abyss Triumphant (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Clark Ashton Smith; Edited by S.T. Joshi, David E. Schultz
R743 Discovery Miles 7 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Clark Ashton Smith was one of the most remarkable and distinctive American poets of the twentieth century. His tremendous output of poetry, totaling nearly 1000 original poems written over a span of more than fifty years, is of the highest craftsmanship and runs the gamut of subject matter from breathtaking "cosmic" verse about the stars and galaxies to plangent love poetry to pungent satire to delicate imitations of Japanese haiku. This edition prints, for the first time, Smith's entire poetic work, including hundreds of uncollected and unpublished poems. The poems have been arranged chronologically by date of writing, so far as can be ascertained. This first volume includes poetry from the first two to three decades of Smith's career, when he published such noteworthy volumes as The Star-Treader (1912), Ebony and Crystal (1922), and Sandalwood (1925). Smith's early work was written under the tutelage of the celebrated California poet George Sterling, but Smith quickly surpassed his mentor in the writing of cosmic and lyric verse. Smith's greatest poetic triumph, perhaps, was The Hashish-Eater, a poem of nearly 600 lines that strikingly evokes the myriad suns of unbounded space and the baleful monsters that may lurk therein. But Smith could also write such touching elegies as "Requiescat in Pace," a dirge for a woman whose death affected him deeply. All poems have been textually corrected by consultation with manuscripts and early appearances, and have been extensively annotated by editors S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz.

The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 2 - The Wine of Summer (Paperback, Annotated edition): Clark Ashton Smith The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 2 - The Wine of Summer (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Clark Ashton Smith; Edited by S.T. Joshi; David E. Schultz
R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This second volume of Clark Ashton Smith's complete original poetry contains the poems he wrote in the decades following the death in 1926 of his early mentor, George Sterling. Although much affected by Sterling's passing, Smith carried on in his poetic work, seeking new modes of expression and expanding his range beyond the cosmic and lyrical verse that had dominated his early career. Having taught himself French in the mid-1920's Smith began composing original poems in French. After focusing primarily on the writing of fantastic fiction from 1925-35, he resumed his poetic output with such masterworks as The Hill of Dionysus. In the late 1940's he experimented with haiku, and in the 1950's having taught himself Spanish, he wrote numerous original poems in Spanish. Also among his later output are a number of witty satires on the vagaries of modern poetry. In its entirety, Clark Ashton Smith's work stands as one of the great literary contributions to twentieth-century poetry. All poems have been textually corrected by consultation with manuscripts and early appearances, and have been extensively annotated by editors S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. This volume also contains an exhaustive commentary on all the poems and a complete title and first line index.

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