Hans Dieter Schreeb: Hinter den Mauern von Peking

D 2001, 685 S., Pb, € 10.23
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Als 1900 der deutsche Gesandte in Peking ermordet wird, wird außer einer Entsatztruppe der Diplomat Alfons von Mumm nach China geschickt. Mumm, der keinen großen Hehl aus seiner schwulen Veranlagung macht, verliebt sich auf der Überfahrt in Leutnant Robert Berlau. In China angekommen, findet er die Städte in Trümmern, und in den Flüssen treiben Leichen. Die Revolution der »Boxer« zieht ... Weiterlesen

Nick Mamatas: Northern Gothic

USA 2001, 87 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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July, 1863: William Patten learns exactly what his life is worth. $ 300 is the amount needed to legally avoid the draft into the meat grinder of the Civil War. Drawn into New York‘ Civil War Draft Riots something snaps in William, and he prowls the cobblestones of Chelsea, looking only to kill, and drown his pain and fear in ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Waters: Affinity

UK 2000, 352 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Margaret Prior is a prison visitor in the 1870s. Set in and around Milbank, one of London's most notorious gaols for women, the story is both a both a ghost story and an intriguing lesbian literary mystery tale.

Chris Adrian: Gob's Grief

USA 2000, 387 pp., pb., € 19.95
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»Gob's Grief« recounts the lives of Gob and Tomo Woodhull, fictional twin sons of the real Victoria Woodhull, the 19th-century proto-feminist. In August of 1863, Tomo, who is 11 years old, runs off to the Civil War and dies in his first battle. Gob grows up in a profound state of grief, and by the time that he's an adult ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Praise Singer

USA 1988, 256 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Vintage
In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts. Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood through a lucky apprenticeship with a renowned ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Mask of Apollo

USA 1988, 373 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Vintage
Set in 4th-century B.C. Greece, »The Mask of Apollo« is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The King Must Die

USA 1988, 388 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Vintage
In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the man-devouring Minotaur in Crete. What the founder-hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in »The King Must Die«. Drawing on modern scholarship and archaeological findings at Knossos, Mary Renault's Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure - a king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Nature of Alexander

USA 1979, 276 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Pantheon
»The Nature of Alexander« is a popular, non-academic, very readable biography of Alexander the Great. It is Mary Renault's only non-fiction book. It's not a »neutral« book, but presents Alexander in a very favorable light. Nevertheless, it's a »popular« work, but by no means devoid of authority.