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Title: THE TOTAL LIBRARY

Author: Jorge Luis Borges

Translator: Esther Allen | Suzanne Jill Levine | Eliot Weinberger

Editor: Eliot Weinberger

Though best known in the English-speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose.. . .

Title: ANGELS AND INSECTS

Author: A S Byatt

In these breathtaking novellas, A S Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic. . .

Title: THE MAJOR WORKS

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Editor: H J Jackson

Though he endured periods of waning fame in his own lifetime, Samuel Taylor Coleridge is now known as one of the most important figures in English literature. His collection of. . .

Title: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Translator: Jessie Coulson

Introduction: Richard Peace

In Crime and Punishment we find Rodion Raskolnikov, a simple man who poses a simple question—can murder ever be justified? At once a broad philosophical investigation and a depiction of a. . .

Title: THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Foreword: Michael Davitt Bell

Although direct references to Swedenborg in Hawthorne’s work are rare, there is no doubt that he was heavily exposed to Swedenborgian ideas throughout his life—at Brook Farm; from Emerson and. . .

Title: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

Author: James Joyce

Foreword: Seamus Deane

In whichever way James Joyce’s iconic Portrait is viewed—aesthetic experiment, modernist manifesto, compelling Bildungsroman—its influence can still be felt today. Moreover, the parallels between Stephen Dedalus and Sweden’s own ‘Daedalus of. . .

Title: Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné 1: Volume 1 – Spiritualistic Drawings (1896-1905)

Author: Hilma af Klint

Editor: Kurt Almqvist and Daniel Birnbaum

The drawings in this first volume of a new catalogue raisonné represent an intense ten-year period of Hilma af Klint’s (1862-1944) life that would lay the foundation for her later. . .

Title: Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné 2: Volume 2 – The paintings for the Temple 1906-1915

Author: Hilma af Klint

Editor: Kurt Almqvist and Daniel Birnbaum

Between 1906 and 1915, Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created 193 paintings that she would title The Paintings for the Temple. Colourful, mostly abstract, with biomorphic imagery, these works expressed af. . .

Title: Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné 3: Volume 3 – The Blue Books (1906-1915)

Author: Hilma af Klint

Editor: Kurt Almqvist and Daniel Birnbaum

Hilma af Klint rarely exhibited her work during her lifetime, and her magnum opus, The Paintings for the Temple, was shown to the public in the series of exhibitions that. . .

Title: Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné 4: Volume 4 – Parsifal and The Atom 1916-1917

Author: Hilma af Klint

Editor: Kurt Almqvist and Daniel Birnbaum

Hilma af Klint is now regarded as a pioneer of abstract art. Her work from the early 20th century predates the first purely abstract paintings by Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich.. . .