avox fantasia
In the avox fantasia series, we publish literature of the past and present that is distinguished by literary, artistic, and spiritual value within the broad realm of the fantastic. As an independent publishing house, we allow ourselves the freedom to publish uncompromising books solely because of their quality, originality, beauty, and rarity, far beyond the pursuit of maximum sales and far beyond the fast-moving mainstream of contemporary fantasy.
Avox books are special books. On the one hand, they preserve forgotten milestones of literary history: books whose authors opened new paths and made history, or whose intensity, language, and truthfulness still have the power to move us deeply today. We rescue such works from oblivion and, with great care and attention to detail, restore them to an attractive and readable form for modern readers, often for the first time in German.
In this way, we preserve the best of the past for the present and keep these precious treasures alive for future generations. In an age devoted to fashion, detached from history, marked by eroding values and cold economics, with an endless succession of ephemeral bestsellers, this is the kind of foundational work we undertake.
On the other hand, we publish contemporary literature only when it genuinely touches and moves us and when it is capable of offering orientation, inner values, and help for life. Avox books seek to preserve or reawaken what is best within us. In our understanding, literature speaks across generations and can be written for adults and children alike, just as fairy tales have shown us for thousands of years.
Valuable books address the innocent, intuitively knowing child within us, whose creativity and openness allow us to grow in integrity, wholeness, and meaning. Avox books are consciously free of content that glorifies violence, spreads fear, or manipulates the reader. They are addressed to the whole human being.
avox ad fontes
Our culture of increasing virtualisation and the growing demand for instant access to information comes at the cost of thoroughness, truthfulness, depth, and verifiability. The accelerating cycles of update and forgetting on the internet produce an ahistorical world of permanent updates and the system-inherent process of continual forgetting.
A media culture that treats knowledge less as a foundation of identity and truth and increasingly as an instrument for manipulating opinion creates the opposite of what human beings have regarded as essential for thousands of years: precise knowledge of their own history and thus of the roots of their culture.
A society that treats its own history carelessly, continually orienting itself towards empty appearances and passing fashions, is inevitably left without knowledge, conscience, or orientation when cut off from its sources of knowledge. Through the books in its avox ad fontes series, Avox Verlag counters this loss of orientation by making valuable historical source works available again in an unaltered form and by publishing scholarly and biographical works whose conclusions are consistently based on original historical sources. Only a tree with strong roots can grow healthily.
Printed books at favourable prices with free shipping
Printed books possess a long and wonderful history that we experience every day with several of our senses in every copy. This is why we love the printed book. Take advantage of our online shop to purchase Avox books at lower prices than elsewhere. All books are available in our online shop at preferential prices and with free shipping within Germany, naturally including a fourteen-day right of withdrawal. Avox is an owner-managed online bookshop operated by Avox Verlag.