A rediscovered classic of Hungarian literature, this spellbinding collection vividly depicts the darkest impulses of the human psyche against the backdrop of Europe’s moral and social decline on the eve of World War I.
Géza Csáth (pen name of...
Author Ina Seidel poetically dramatizes the life of 18th century German explorer George Forster. Destined to grow up a distinguished man of science who, while little more than a boy, accompanied that great seaman, Captain Cook (with what a bold,...
"The Water Wheel recounts both the real and imagined-real adventures of one John B. Sanford in New York and London over a short period in 1927. The novel is completely dominated by Sanford, a self-assumed individualist—and self-styled 'lawclerk,...