„Ask the Dust“ is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexic ..

He's the fascinating romantic lead in what is perhaps the most enduringly popular novel in the English language. Yet Jane Austen reveals tantalizingly little about him, nor does she ever give readers insight into his take on the action of the book. A ..

Dakota half-breed Hannah Hops Along lives on the edge. She lives on the prairie's edge between the Badlands and the reservation. She lives at the edge of contemporary culture, fiercely protecting the ancient traditions of her tribe. And leapfrogging the ed

The Band of the Hawk — what's left of them — are on the run, Guts and Casca having rescued the Hawks' leader, Griffith, from the horrors of the King of Midland's dungeons. Starved, tortured mercilessly and imprisoned in an iron mask, Griffith hangs ..

This volume contains a collection of some of the best short stories ever written by Edgar Allan Poe. A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these classic short stories. Contained within this volume are the following: The Gold-B ..

„Stefan Zweig was a dark and unorthodox artist; it's good to have him back.“–Salman Rushdie The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime ..

Als Mädchen durchschritt Amélie Nothomb eine lange und schmerzliche magersüchtige Phase und kompensierte die fehlende Nahrung durch das Lesen. Heute erinnert sie sich.

A collection of twelve birthday stories from some of the most distinguished authors of recent years. Selected and introduced by Haruki Murakani, author of }Norwegian Wood{.

Contes" Il était une fois un roi et une reine? ", " il était une fois une petite fille de village? " Il suffit de cette clé magique pour que s?ouvre ŕ nous le monde oů paraissent tour ŕ tour la belle au bois dormant, le petit chaperon rouge, la barbe ..

Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here, he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage cause ..

When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, Lucas Corso is brought in to authenticate a fragment of a manuscript purported to be „The Three Musketeers.“ He is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and a swashbu ..

From the author of THE DISCOVERY OF CHOCOLATE – a romantic historical quest set in Renaissance Florence and China surrounding the search for ultramarine. THE COLOUR OF HEAVEN is a fictional account of a young man who travelled to what are now Afghani ..