Mr. Dombey, a wealthy London merchant, puts all his hopes in his sickly son Paul to succeed him in running the firm, and ignores his good daughter Florence. The firm is nearly ruined by a trusted employee named Carker who also runs away with...
For the first time, the complete short fiction of L.P. Hartley is included in one volume. A novelist whose work has been acclaimed for its consistent quality, he also produced a number of masterly executed short stories. Those stories, written...
Faszinierend schildert Arthur Schnitzler das parallele, stark erotisch bestimmte Erleben des Paares Fridolin und Albertine. Er ließ sich auf mysteriöse Weise in eine orgiastische Gesellschaft führen - sie ist in die Erregung eines...