The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a novel by Hanns Heinz Ewers, originally published in German in 1907. The story follows the journey of a young man named Anselmus, who becomes entangled in a world of magic and sorcery after falling in love with a woman named Veronika. Anselmus is taken under the wing of a powerful sorcerer named Archivarius Lindhorst, who teaches him the secrets of alchemy and the occult. However, Anselmus soon discovers that Lindhorst has ulterior motives and is not the benevolent mentor he appears to be. As Anselmus delves deeper into the world of magic, he must confront his own fears and desires in order to navigate the dangerous and unpredictable terrain of the supernatural realm. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a classic work of German Romanticism, filled with vivid imagery, philosophical musings, and darkly fantastical themes.1927. Illustrated by Mahlon Blaine. Ewers varied and stormy literary career began in 1901 with the publication of a volume of rhymed satires entitled A Book of Fables, written in collaboration with Theodor Etzel. This led to an association with Ernst von Wolzogen and the formation of a literary vaudeville theater. The Sorcerer�������s Apprentice was his first novel.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Illustrated English translation of Hanns Heinz Ewers’ decadent novel, Alraune, the second volume in his Frank Braun The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Alraune, and Vampire. Inspired by medieval beliefs in the occult properties of the mandrake root (alraune), which was thought to grow under gallows from the fallen semen of hanged men, an arrogant student, Frank Braun, persuades his vicious uncle, Jacob ten Brinken, to create a child through artificial insemination using sperm from a condemned man and a prostitute as the mother. The child, Alraune, grows into an extremely beautiful but thoroughly perverse young woman with a mysterious power to subject others and to bring riches and ruination. Alraune was first published in German in 1911. This Birchgrove Press edition is based on an English translation published by The John Day Company, New York, in 1929 that was illustrated by Mahlon Blaine.

Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871-1943) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Filmemacher, Globetrotter und Kabarettist. Ewers' Geschichten kreisen um die Themen Phantastik, Erotik, Kunst bzw. Künstler und Reisen in exotische Länder. Seine teils äußerst drastischen Darstellungen machten ihn zum skandalumwitterten Bestsellerautor, gleichzeitig musste er sich immer wieder gegen den Vorwurf zur Wehr setzen, seine Werke seien trivial, unmoralisch oder pornographisch. In seinem dritten Roman, Vampir. Ein verwilderter Roman in Fetzen und Farben (1920), zeichnete Ewers diese Entwicklung anhand seines alter egos Frank Braun nach. Aus dem Buch: "In dem Jahre, in dem die ganze Welt wahnsinnig wurde, war er hinausgezogen - zum andern Mal. Er sagte immer: zum andern Mal; er zählte nicht, ob es das siebente Mal war, oder das zehnte, das zwölfte. Drei Jahre war er nun schon zu Hause geblieben, über drei Jahre schon in seiner alten Heimat: Europa. Er wußte wohl, daß er krank war; Europa machte ihn krank, die Heimat, die er liebte. Nach einem Jahre wußte er es selbst; nach zwei Jahren sahen es seine Freunde; nach drei Jahren merkten es alle, die mit ihm sprachen. Die Nerven vielleicht - Aber er wußte auch, was ihn heilen mochte. Oder eigentlich: nicht heilen. Wohl aber: ihm neue Kraft geben für neue Jahre in der Heimat. Wenn er die Gluten der Tropen trank, wenn er die Einsamkeiten der Wüsten atmete, wenn seine Sehnsucht sich badete in den Unendlichkeiten aller Meere."