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Peltse and Pentameron
In these two novellas, Volodymyr Dibrova tells the story of how the Soviet system was sustained by individuals who never truly believed in it, but...
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Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860
In this new edition of The Piazza Tales, the editors of the acclaimed Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville have used the...
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Nine Fairy Tales
Karel Capek, author of the acclaimed War with the Newts, is one of the great Czechoslovak writers of the twentieth century. These fairy tales bear...
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Years of Estrangement
This book contains two narratives, each of which offers a clear and moving portrait of how German Jews came to terms with the changes in their lives...
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Beware of Pity
After Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig was perhaps the most well-known and widely read author writing in German before the Nazi period. Beware of Pity was...
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Salg!
Dagböcker 1910–1923
Jag är ingenting annat än litteratur», skriver Kafka med en berömd formulering den 21 augusti 1913. Skrivandet, begäret efter skriften, den...
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Don Quixote in Exile
Peter Furst's biographical novel is the chronicle of a Jew who fled Germany in the 1930s.
The odyssey begins in Monte Carlo, where a narrator...
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War with the Newts
Working in the fantastic satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Karel Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent...
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Encyclopaedia Acephalica
The ideas of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) are being increasingly recognised as offering vital insights into the whole areas of human existence, and...
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Death and the Dervish
Sheikh Nuruddin is a dervish at a Sarajevo monastery in the eighteenth century during the Turkish occupation. When his brother is arrested, he...
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Eros, Magic and the Murder of Professor Culianu
On May 21, 1991, University of Chicago professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified...
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Years of Estrangement
This book contains two narratives, each of which offers a clear and moving portrait of how German Jews came to terms with the changes in their lives...
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Lady Windermere’s Fan
Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink...
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Point de lendemain
Ce récit, ciselé avec précision, entrelaçant l'ingénuité prétendue du narrateur, la peinture du plaisir et l'évocation d'un caractère de...
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Dagsrester
Min far hade suttit tyst en hel timme vid min säng. När han satte på sig hatten sa jag, ja, det här samtalet är lätt att sammanfatta. Nej, sa...
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Tings Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria....
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The Peacock Emperor Moth
The brevity of Marcel Cohen's stories is matched by their intensity. Written in a style that seems both classical and avant-garde, each shows us...
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The Sound and the Fury
Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, this novel explores intense, passionate family...
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Brev om Cézanne
Rainer Maria Rilkes brev till hustrun Clara om mötet med Cézannes bilder på den retrospektiva utställningen 1907 och om vägen in i ett nytt...
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All men are mortal
When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the thought that in his...
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Elias Portolu
Winner of the 1926 Nobel Prize for Literature
After serving time in mainland Italy for a minor theft, Elias Portolu returns home to Nuoro, in...
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Blått är det förlorades färg
Med sin rena, klara stil och psykologiskt nyanserade vardagsskildring är Gustaf Rune Eriks en av novellens främsta företrädare i Sverige. Urval...
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