City of the Beast
The London of Aleister Crowley
$36.31
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2022
Summary
A work that combines biography and psychogeography to trace Aleister Crowley’s life in London.
“I dreamed I was paying a visit to London,” Aleister Crowley wrote in Italy, continuing, “It was a vivid, long, coherent, detailed affair of several days, with so much incident that it would make a good-sized volume.” Crowley had a love-hate relationship with London, but the city was where he spent much of his adult life, and it was the capital of the culture that created him—Crowley was a p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913689322 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1913689328 |
| Author: | Phil Baker, Timothy D'arch Smith |
| Publisher: | Strange Attractor Press |
| Imprint: | Strange Attractor Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 392g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 247mm x 139mm |
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“A well-nigh indispensable book about London.” –Keith Miller, The Times Literary Supplement
“A well-nigh indispensable book about London.”
—Keith Miller, The Times Literary Supplement
About The Author
Phil Baker
Phil Baker is a writer based in London. His books include The Devil is a Gentleman- The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley, and Austin Osman Spare- The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist, of which Alan Moore has said “Phil Baker has established himself as among the very best contemporary biographers… What he has accomplished here is little short of marvelous.”
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