Wakefield Press is an independent American publisher devoted to the translation of overlooked gems and literary oddities in small, affordable, yet elegant paperback editions. Our publications include the Wakefield Handbooks series (the guidebook as imagined through literature), the Imagining Architecture series (architecture as imagined through literature), and the Imagining Science series (science as imagined through literature), as well as forays into classic experimental fiction (literature as imagined through literature). Authors range from literary giants to those underrepresented (or unknown) in English.
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New Invention and the Latest Innovations
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On Homo rodans and Other Writings
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The Answer to Lord Chandos
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Trouble in the Swaths
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The Science of Love and Other Writings
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The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
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The City of Unspeakable Fear
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Great Liberty
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The Dice Cup
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The Tower of Love
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Stapelia Mixta
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With Their Hearts in Their Boots
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The Messengers
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Vacated Landscape
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De Profundis
German Expressionist writings.
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Black–White–Red: Grotesques
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The Mill: A Cosmos
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Potsdamer Platz; or, The Nights of the New Messiah: Ecstatic Visions
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Munchausen and Clarissa: A Berlin Novel
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Samalio Pardulus
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The Pig: In Poetic, Mythological, and Moral-Historical Perspective
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Rakkóx the Billionaire & The Great Race
Vendor:Paul ScheerbartRegular price $13.95Regular priceUnit price per
The Envelope-Silence
A Surrealist library.
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On Homo rodans and Other Writings
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The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
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The Subversion of Images
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Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings
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The Arthritic Grasshopper: Collected Stories, 1934–1944
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The Trumpets of Jericho
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The Leg of Lamb: It's Life and Works
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Imagining Architecture
Fantastical architecture, imaginary urbanism, and hallucinatory dwellings.
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Bruges-la-Morte
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Munchausen and Clarissa: A Berlin Novel
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The Construction of the Tower of Babel
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The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets
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The Cathedral of Mist
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Rakkóx the Billionaire & The Great Race
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Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel
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Imagining Science
Outsider science, extreme empiricism, aberrant experiments, and imaginary speculations—literary explorations in fictional science.
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Stapelia Mixta
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New Invention and the Latest Innovations
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The Science of Love and Other Writings
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Sens-Plastique
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Principles of Cerebral Mechanics
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The Pig: In Poetic, Mythological, and Moral-Historical Perspective
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Pataphysical Essays
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The Library of Cruelty
Tales of love, crime, war, and madness, from the surreal to the sarcastic.
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The Tower of Love
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With Their Hearts in Their Boots
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The Answer to Lord Chandos
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Trouble in the Swaths
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Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis: On Killing Oneself
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Vercoquin and the Plankton
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An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
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The Die Is Cast
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The Margins of Dada
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At the Blue Monkey: 33 Outlandish Stories
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My Papa and the Maid of Orléans and Other Grotesques
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The Unruly Bridal Bed and Other Grotesques
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The Emperor of China, The Mute Canary & The Executioner of Peru
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Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor
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The School of the Strange
Belgian and French weird fantasy.
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The Messengers
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The City of Unspeakable Fear
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The Impersonal Adventure
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Malpertuis
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Circles of Dread
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Waystations of the Deep Night
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The Great Nocturnal: Tales of Dread
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Cruise of Shadows: Haunted Stories of Land and Sea
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Verse, from the adverse to the perverse.
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Great Liberty
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The Dice Cup
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The Central Laboratory
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The Thief of Talant
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Life in the Folds
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Wakefield Galleries
Rogues galleries, roll calls, personnel files, and eccentric rosters.
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The Illuminated, or The Precursors of Socialism: Tales and Portraits
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Brief Lives of Idiots
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Psychology of the Rich Aunt
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Imaginary Lives
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Exemplary Departures
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Wakefield Handbooks
The how-to manual reimagined: guidebooks on a variety of satirical, parodic, and quixotic subjects.
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A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go
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Treatise on Modern Stimulants
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The Physiology of the Employee
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A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer
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The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments
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Treatise on Elegant Living
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