{"product_id":"the-call-of-the-beast-maurice-magre-9781612276533","title":"The Call of the Beast","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaurice Magre (1877-1941) was one of the most far-ranging and extravagant French writers of fantastic fiction in the first half of the 20th century, and perhaps the finest of them, because of the fertility and versatility of his imagination and the manner and purpose for which he deployed it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This volume, the second of a series of twelve dedicated to Magre's works, offers three novellas: Stabbed Doves The Tender Comrades and The Call of the Beast written between 1917 and 1920. Having tried sex and opium as roads to the ideal and found them wanting, Magre found a further potential resource, in the occult underworld of Paris\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In all three works the intrusion of the fantastic is limited, confined to opium dreams in the first two and maintained in a strictly ambiguous fashion in the third. Thereafter, the fantastic was liberated in all of his fiction, initially mostly in a malign role, but eventually serving much more various functions, many of them life-enhancing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maurice Magre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1612276539\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781612276533\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hollywood Comics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Maurice Magre","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058364707071,"sku":"9781612276533","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_903361a0-6455-47da-b44d-0500221b78fa.jpg?v=1685052147","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-call-of-the-beast-maurice-magre-9781612276533","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}