Considered almost impenetrable by the novel's original editor, Muriel Spark, "Goose of Hermogenes" has since acquired a legendary status as a work of surrealist and esoteric fiction. Illustrated with Ithell Colquhoun's beautiful alchemical paintings, this new edition can be fully appreciated for its intoxicating strangeness.

Ithell Colquhoun was a painter and writer who was one of the best-known English women surrealists. A friend of André Breton, she was also associated with Aleister Crowley. Her writing has been compared to that of William Blake and Walter de la Mare--the latter being a fan of her work. Richard Shillitoe is a biographer of Ithell Colquhoun and an expert on her writing and art. He runs the website www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk.