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avox fantasia

In the avox fantasia series, we publish literary works of the past and present within the genre of fantastic literature that are distinguished by their intellectual, literary, and artistic value. As an independent publishing house, we allow ourselves the freedom to publish uncompromising books solely on the basis of their exceptional quality, originality, beauty, and rarity — books we make available to our readers far beyond the pursuit of maximum sales figures and far removed from the short-lived mainstream of contemporary fantasy literature.

Avox books are truly special books. On the one hand, they represent forgotten milestones in literary history, either because their authors broke entirely new ground and thereby made history, or because these works possess an extraordinary intensity, language, and authenticity capable of touching us deeply. We rescue such books from oblivion and, through painstaking work and great attention to detail, restore them into attractive and accessible modern editions — often bringing them into the German language for the very first time.

In this way, we preserve the very best of the past for the present and keep these precious literary treasures alive for future generations as well. In an age shaped by unquestioning faith in media, historical amnesia, moral indifference, and cold economic calculation — an age producing one fleeting bestseller after another — this constitutes essential cultural groundwork.

At the same time, we publish only contemporary literature that genuinely touches and moves us, books capable of offering guidance for life, inner values, and orientation. Avox books seek to preserve — or perhaps awaken anew — the very best within us. Literature, in our understanding, transcends generations and is written equally for adults and children, just as fairy tales have demonstrated for thousands of years.

Valuable books speak to the innocent and intuitively wise child within us, nurturing creativity and openness through the continual rediscovery and reinvention of our integrity, wholeness, and sense of purpose. Avox books are consciously free from violence-glorifying, fear-inducing, or manipulative content and are addressed to the human being as a whole.

avox ad fontes

Our culture’s increasing virtualization of everyday life and growing demand for instantly accessible information come at the cost of thoroughness, truthfulness, depth, and verifiability of knowledge.

The rapid cycles of updating and forgetting that characterize the internet produce an ahistorical world of permanent updates — and thus of constant, system-inherent forgetting. A media culture that no longer regards knowledge as a truth-bearing foundation of identity, but increasingly as a tool for manipulating opinion, generates precisely the opposite of what humanity considered essential for survival over thousands of years: namely, a profound understanding of our own history and therefore of the roots of our culture.

A society that treats its own history carelessly, constantly orienting itself toward superficial trends and fashions, must inevitably become ignorant, unscrupulous, and directionless through its disconnection from its sources of knowledge.

With the books of its avox ad fontes series, Avox Publishing seeks to counter this loss of orientation by making valuable historical source works available once again in unaltered form and/or by publishing scholarly and biographical works whose conclusions are consistently based on original historical sources. Only a tree with strong roots can grow in a healthy way.

Printed Books at Attractive Prices and Free Shipping

Printed books possess a long and wonderful history that we are able to experience every day with several of our senses in every single volume. That is why we love the printed book. Take advantage of our online shop to purchase Avox books at lower prices than elsewhere. All books in our online shop are available at preferential prices and with free shipping within Germany, naturally including a fourteen-day right of withdrawal. Avox is an owner-operated online bookstore of Avox Publishing.