The Time Machine
2.490 kr.The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution and human hopes. With this book, Wells invented an entirely new genre and did it better than any of his imitators.
An immediate bestseller, it has delighted and unnerved generations of readers, and will no doubt keep on doing so until some of the events predicted in the book make readers extinct.
The Story of an Hour
2.490 kr.There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name.
Nuns, maidens, adventurers – with electricity, The Story of an Hour brings together stories of female freedom, as Kate Chopin asks the question: what will emancipation feel like for women, looking at the horizon and the future, to the frontier?
A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past
2.490 kr.Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, towns and traditions of his youth. Selected here are some of his finest personal essays about Algeria and its environs, including the luminous ‘Nuptials at Tipasa’, one of his earliest works where he developed the themes that would inform his later philosophy: to thrive now, without hope for paradise, as mortal life alone can be worthwhile.
The Shadow out of Time
2.490 kr.Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before.
After five years of ‘strange amnesia’, Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee remains haunted by madness and memories that cannot be real. Desperate for answers he travels to Western Australia, joining an archaeological excavation into Earth’s deep past.
Journey with Peaslee to discover his fate in the story described by author Lin Carter as ‘Lovecraft’s single greatest achievement in fiction’.
Paris France
2.490 kr.All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection, and then you are civilised and life goes on normally in a latin way.
Gertrude Stein’s Paris France, published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, is a witty account of Stein’s life in France, and the perfect introduction to her work.
A Hunger-Artist
2.490 kr.The whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people’s participation grew; everyone wanted to see the hunger-artist at least once a day; on the later days there were season-ticket holders who sat for days on end in front of his little cage.
Reading these stories by the master of the absurd is like entering a dreamworld in which nothing, and yet somehow everything, makes sense.
The Driver’s Seat
2.490 kr.Muriel Spark claimed The Driver’s Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise – heading for the holiday of a lifetime in an extraordinarily garish dress and with violence on her mind – you will understand why.
A Dog’s Heart
2.490 kr.What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov’s topsy-turvy world, the dog starts to walk on two legs, drink, smoke, thieve, chase women and recite every swear word in Russian. The perfect candidate for a government official, in other words. This rude, riotous send-up of the Soviet Union, banned immediately on publication, is satire red in tooth and claw.
The Blazing World
2.490 kr.I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.
In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a vision: there was a crack in reality at the North Pole leading to a utopian parallel universe, where gender roles, scientific orthodoxy and political norms had been razed to the ground. She slipped through the portal and returned with the first science fiction novel in English – an explosive account of the Blazing World.
The Gender of Sound
2.990 kr.Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control: women, catamites, eunuchs and androgynes all fall into this category.
From the myths of antiquity to Margaret Thatcher via Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein, The Gender of Sound charts the gendering of sound in Western culture. Carson invites us to listen again, and in doing so to reimagine our conceptions of human order, virtue and selfhood.
Putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.
Milli trjánna
4.890 kr.Milli trjánna er safn 47 fjölbreyttra og meitlaðra smásagna. Bókin hefur hlotið einróma lof og færði höfundinum Bókmenntaverðlaun Norðurlandaráðs árið 2011. Í kjölfarið hafa verk hans verið þýdd og gefin út víða um lönd og njóta vaxandi vinsælda og virðingar. Þessi nýja útgáfa er hluti af heildarsafni verka Gyrðis.
Suðurglugginn
4.890 kr.Hér tekur Gyrðir upp þráðinn þar sem frá var horfið í Sandárbókinni og spinnur nýja frásögn um hlutskipti listamanns, í þetta sinn er það rithöfundur sem dvelur í sumarhúsi í grennd við lítið þorp og glímir við að skrifa skáldsögu, verk sem neitar stöðugt að taka á sig þá mynd sem höfundurinn leitast við að skapa. Þessi útgáfa er hluti af heildarsafni verka Gyrðis.
Ljóðasafn – Guðrún Hannesdóttir
7.690 kr.Stórglæsilegt ljóðasafn með öllum tíu ljóðabókum skáldkonunnar ásamt greinargóðum eftirmála sem Bergljót Soffía Kristjánsdóttir ritar, en þar segir m.a.: „Af náttúruljóðum Guðrúnar lýsir einatt sjálf gleði lífsins og aðdáunin á undrum þess …“
Ljóðasafn II – Gyrðir Elíasson
7.390 kr.Annað bindið af ljóðasafni Gyrðis geymir 3 bækur sem hafa verið ófáanlegar um áratuga skeið en eru nú saman komnar í einu lagi í vandaðri heildarútgáfu á verkum skáldsins. Hér birtast Tvö tungl, Vetraráform um sumarferðalag og Mold í Skuggadal. Ómissandi verk í safn allra bókaunnenda.
Tímaskjól
4.890 kr.Þriðja skáldsaga eins athyglisverðasta höfundar evrópskra samtímabókmennta. Bókin kom fyrst út í Búlgaríu 2020 og hefur síðan sópað til sín fjölda verðlauna, en þar ber hæst Alþjóðlegu Booker-verðlaunin 2023. Veska A. Jónsdóttir og Zophonías O. Jónsson þýddu úr búlgörsku.