Now available for the first time in English, this important addition to the Roth canon is rich in irony and exemplary of Roth's keen powers of social and political observation.
A novel fragment that was discovered among Joseph Roth's papers...
»Im Anfang war der Mythus. Wie der große Gott in den Seelen der Inder, Griechen und Germanen dichtete und nach Ausdruck rang, so dichtet er in jedes Kindes Seele täglich wieder.« Mit diesen Sätzen beginnt die erste Erzählung...
Henry James’s admiration for “this masterly little novel” has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional...
Ce roman de Guy de Maupassant a été publié en feuilleton dans la nouvelle Revue du 1er décembre 1887 au 1er janvier 1888 et en volume chez Ollendorff la même année.
Les Roland, anciens bijoutiers parisiens se sont...
A reconstruction of Melville's original text omits the "Pierre as author" subplot that was later assimilated and is accompanied by thirty full-color pictures by Maurice...
First published in 1888, "Plain Tales from the Hills" was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. Most of the stories it includes had already appeared in the "Civil and Military Gazette; " they were written before he reached the age of 22; and they...