An ambitious and far reaching allegorical voyage which, though not exactly a success, was Melville's first attempt at a book on the scale of Moby-Dick. Here is a passage which is reflective of the style, and outlook, of Mardi:So, if after...
Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a...
"Wir alle haben im Dachgeschoss der Seele ein Geheimnis unter Verschluss. Das hier ist das meine." So beginnt Óscar Drai seine Erzählung. Der junge Held des Romans sehnt sich danach, am Leben Barcelonas teilzuhaben, und streift am liebsten...