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		<title>Red Spectres: Russian 20th-century Gothic-fantastic tales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russian writers from Pushkin to Bulgakov and beyond have produced outstanding ghost stories, supernatural thrillers, and other tales of the uncanny. In the first decades of the 20th century the Gothic-fantastic genre flourished in Russia, despite official efforts to stamp it out. Few of these stories have been translated or published outside Russia. This collection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phaedra with New Year’s Letter and other poems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marina Tsvetaeva’s verse drama Phaedra is perhaps the most extraordinary of all literary treatments of the Phaedra legend. It is primarily about female passion, and its most powerful figures are the female ones. Dangerously high voltage runs through all of them – Phaedra herself; her Nurse from childhood; and even the offstage Antiope, Amazon queen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.angelclassics.com/tsvetaeva/phaedra-with-new-year%e2%80%99s-letter-and-other-poems/</link>
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		<title>Poems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 2012 marks the centenary of the death, by drowning at the age of 24, of one of the major figures of early German modernism – the poet and short story writer Georg Heym, a member of the brilliant ‘Expressionist’ generation that included the painters Emil Nolde, Franz Marc and Wassili Kandinsky and the young [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.angelclassics.com/heymg/poems-2/</link>
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		<title>Poems &amp; Prose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An undeniable aura surrounds the name of Georg Trakl, whose admirers included Rilke, Heidegger, Kraus, Kokoschka and Wittgenstein and the composers Berg, Webern and Hindemith who set his poems. He is the sombre visionary of the modern age; the autumnal, melancholy moods that predominate in his poetry herald the calamity of the First World War [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the Tweed: A tour of Scotland in 1858</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This delightful account of a journey round Scotland with the artist Lepel as companion, from Edinburgh to Inverness and back via the West Coast and Western Isles, reads as freshly today as when it was first published. Fontane wrote it before becoming a celebrated novelist. From his years of working in Britain as a journalist he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.angelclassics.com/fontane/beyond-the-tweed-a-tour-of-scotland-in-1858/</link>
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		<title>The Thief and other stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The tales that Heym wrote in the last year of his life, the most powerful in German literature since Kleist, have a strong gothic flavour and prefigure the great era of the Expressionist film. An ageing, Apocalypse-crazed dropout who sees it as his God-given mission to steal and cut up the Mona Lisa, a sweet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.angelclassics.com/heymg/the-thief-and-other-stories/</link>
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		<title>On Tangled Paths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1870s Berlin, an aristocratic officer in a glamorous cavalry regiment and a seamstress supporting herself and her invalid foster-mother with piecework defy convention by falling seriously in love.What might have been a simple tale of conflict between love and duty becomes, in Fontane&#8217;s hands, something more sophisticated.The contrast between the lovers&#8217; whole-hearted view of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.angelclassics.com/fontane/on-tangled-paths/</link>
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		<title>No Way Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hugh Rorrison and Helen Chambers follow their breakthrough version of Effi Briest with a new translation of another fine novel by Fontane, Unwiederbringlich – No Way Back (1891), set in Copenhagen and Schleswig-Holstein on the eve of the Prussian takeover of the territory in 1864. Affable but unsophisticated Count Holk, of an ancient German Schleswig [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carsten the Trustee; with The Swallows of St George’s, The Last Farmstead, and By the Fireside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[‘I value in particular,&#8217; writes Eda Sagarra in her Introduction, ‘two features of Storm&#8217;s writing. First, his multiple perspectives, the way in which he seems to invite the reader to look over the shoulder, as it were, of the teller of the story, and judge accordingly. And secondly, his sense of place, his supreme sense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.angelclassics.com/storm/carsten-the-trustee/</link>
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		<title>Young Pushkin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yury Tynyanov’s novel on the formative years of Russia’s greatest poet was first published in serial form between 1935 and 1943. Tynyanov pioneered a new kind of historical-biographical novel in Russia. ‘I begin,’ he wrote, ‘where documents leave off.’ In a blend of encyclopedic knowledge and creative imagination, he thrillingly brings early 19th-century Russia to [...]]]></description>
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