Not for sale in Estonia! Encountering the enigmatic dandy Count Vittorio Alta-Carrara in a Parisian eatery, the narrator finds himself invited to a "Hashish Club", where in the dim light of red-filtered candles, a roomful of "recumbent wanderers" e...

Not for sale in Estonia! Marcel Schwob's 1896 novella "The Children's Crusade" retells the medieval legend of the exodus of some 30,000 children from all countries to the Holy Land, who traveled to the shores of the sea, which – instead of parting...

Not for sale in Estonia! "Imaginary Lives" remains, over 120 years since its original publication in French, one of the secret keys to modern literature: under-recognized, yet a decisive influence on such writers as Apollinaire, Borges, Jarry and A...

Not for sale in Estonia! First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, "The King in the Golden Mask" gathers 21 of Marcel Schwob's cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, t...

Not for sale in Estonia! "The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets" brings together two short books, originally published in 1903, by the antierotic godfather of German science fiction, Paul Scheerbart. "The Stairway to the Sun" contains four...

Not for sale in Estonia! When Marcel Schwob published "The Book of Monelle" in French in 1894, it immediately became the unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by such contemporaries as Stephane Mallarme, Alfred Jarry and Andre...