French writer Romain Rolland was one of the great pacifists of the twentieth century. Winner of t...

Andreyev depicts the fates of five failed leftist revolutionaries and two common peasants who hav...

In 1896 Marmaduke Pickthall arrived in Palestine and spent the nextcouple of years in native dres...

Count Henryk Brühl (1700-1763) was a statesman at the court of Saxony and the Polish-Lithuanian C...

Beauty on Earth

A young man declared insane by the machinations of his own mother. This book sows the seeds of st...

The novella opens in Paris on the Rue Saint-Denis with a description of a very old house. Opposit...

On a quiet summer evening in a Swiss mountain village, a stranger comes to stay; the generous eve...

A mountain falls down and an alpine village is frozen in its summer state. When a ghostly figure ...

The Dead is one of the twentieth century's most beautiful pieces of short literature.The story ce...

The Comédienne draws on Nobel Prize winner, Wladyslav Reymont's, own experiences as an actor in a...

The journal of the Francoise Krasinksa begins with her as a young girl living comfortably with he...

What might the end of the world look like, to people who inhabit high mountains, whose lives are ...

The history of Australian and New Zealand Bushrangers from first settlement of Australia to the d...

One Man's Initiation-1917 'the greatest writer of our time' Jean-Paul Sartre John Dos Passos' fir...

This classic novel of self-discovery has inspired generations of seekers. With parallels to the e...

The ironic satire of a decaying German duchy and its rejuvenation by the appearance of an indepen...

Tsar Alexander I of Russia, while visiting England with his servant Platov is shown a number of i...

Jean-Michel Olivier's novel, L'Enfant secret, winner of the Swiss Dentan prize, is a profound exp...

Born Anna Constantia von Brockdorff in 1680, this German noblewoman rose from a minor lady-in-wai...

Adecidedly Russian adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, set in the countryside. It conc...

The old man Sage taught Maurice Farinet many things and one of them was the location of a secret ...

Swann in Love is a study of sexual jealousy that forms a fully self-contained crucial component o...

Hell (L'enfer) is a study of voyeurism written in 1908 by Henri Barbusse.When it was translated i...

Katerina is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family are cold...

The title of John Dos Passos' evocative early novel alludes to Don Quixote's horse in that most c...

The Artist as Mystic is a set of lyric conversations between aphorists Yahia Lababidi and Alex St...

'One sings here of the soul of a river, and this soul never dies.' C.F.Ramuz Nearly seventy years...