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.
Recent Titles
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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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Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis - On Killing Oneself
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The Impersonal Adventure
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Vercoquin and the Plankton
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Bruges-la-Morte
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Black–White–Red: Grotesques
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The Illuminated, or The Precursors of Socialism: Tales and Portraits
Vendor:Gérard de NervalRegular price $22.95Regular priceUnit price per
De Profundis
German Expressionist writings.
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The Creator
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Rakkóx the Billionaire & The Great Race
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The Pig: In Poetic, Mythological, and Moral-Historical Perspective
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Samalio Pardulus
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Munchausen and Clarissa: A Berlin Novel
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Potsdamer Platz; or, The Nights of the New Messiah: Ecstatic Visions
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The Mill: A Cosmos
Vendor:Bess Brenck KalischerRegular price $13.95Regular priceUnit price per
The Envelope-Silence
A Surrealist library.
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The Leg of Lamb: It's Life and Works
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The Trumpets of Jericho
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The Arthritic Grasshopper: Collected Stories, 1934–1944
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Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings
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The Subversion of Images
Vendor:Paul NougéRegular price $14.95Regular priceUnit price per -
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The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
Vendor:Philippe SoupaultRegular price $12.95Regular priceUnit price perComing soon
Imagining Architecture
Fantastical architecture, imaginary urbanism, and hallucinatory dwellings.
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Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel
Vendor:Paul ScheerbartRegular price $17.95Regular priceUnit price per -
Rakkóx the Billionaire & The Great Race
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The Cathedral of Mist
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The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets
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The Construction of the Tower of Babel
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Munchausen and Clarissa: A Berlin Novel
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Bruges-la-Morte
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Imagining Science
Outsider science, extreme empiricism, aberrant experiments, and imaginary speculations—literary explorations in fictional science.
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An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
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The Perpetual Motion Machine: The Story of an Invention
Vendor:Paul ScheerbartRegular price $12.95Regular priceUnit price per -
The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy
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Pataphysical Essays
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The Pig: In Poetic, Mythological, and Moral-Historical Perspective
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Principles of Cerebral Mechanics
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Sens-Plastique
Vendor:Malcolm de ChazalRegular price $24.95Regular priceUnit price per
The Library of Cruelty
Tales of love, crime, war, and madness, from the surreal to the sarcastic.
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The High Life
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The Book of Monelle
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The Conductor & Other Tales
Vendor:Jean FerryRegular price $13.95Regular priceUnit price per -
Disagreeable Tales
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Murder Most Serene
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A Terrace in Rome
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Sweating Blood
Vendor:Léon BloyRegular price $17.95Regular priceUnit price per
The Margins of Dada
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Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor
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The Emperor of China, The Mute Canary & The Executioner of Peru
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The Unruly Bridal Bed and Other Grotesques
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My Papa and the Maid of Orléans and Other Grotesques
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At the Blue Monkey: 33 Outlandish Stories
Vendor:Walter SernerRegular price $15.95Regular priceUnit price per
The School of the Strange
Belgian and French weird fantasy.
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Whiskey Tales
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Cruise of Shadows: Haunted Stories of Land and Sea
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The Great Nocturnal: Tales of Dread
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Circles of Dread
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Malpertuis
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The City of Unspeakable Fear
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The Impersonal Adventure
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Subverse
Verse, from the adverse to the perverse.
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The Massacre of the Innocents
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The Thief of Talant
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The Central Laboratory
Vendor:Max JacobRegular price $22.95Regular priceUnit price per -
The Dice Cup
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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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Treatise on Elegant Living
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The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments
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A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer
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The Physiology of the Employee
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Treatise on Modern Stimulants
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A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go
Vendor:Pierre Lusson, Georges Perec, and Jacques RoubaudRegular price $14.95Regular priceUnit price per
Forthcoming Titles
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The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
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The Answer to Lord Chandos
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The Science of Love and Other Writings
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