European Fiction

A celebration of cabaret in Berlin and the birth of cinema, set against the rise and fall of Germany between World War I and World War II As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. The illegitimate, soon orphaned daughter of a cabaret...

Ireland is approximately the size of the state of Indiana, yet this small country boasts an extensive, rich, and fascinating history. Ireland's Forgotten Past is an alternative history that covers 13,000 years in 36 stories that are often left out of history books.

"The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha", or more simply "Don Quixote", is one of the most influential works of literature from a Spanish author. It is one of the earliest canonical novels, and is regularly cited as the best work of fiction ever published. A nameless hidalgo read so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out into the world as a knight, to bring justice under the name Don Quixote. The delusional hidalgo then recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, whose unique wit proves a marvelous addition to Don Quixote's idealistic bouts.

Peau blanche comme la neige, cheveux noirs comme l'ébène, Blanche-Neige est vraiment la plus jolie des princesses ! Pour échapper à la jalousie de la reine, elle va devoir pourtant se réfugier chez les sept nains dans la forêt. Et, grâce à eux, elle pourra peut-être épouser le beau prince charmant !

Charlotte Dean enjoys nothing more than the solitude of her London flat and the monotonous days of her work at a travel bookshop. But when her younger sister unceremoniously bursts into her quiet life one afternoon, Charlotte's world turns topsy-turvy. Beloved author D. E. Stevenson captures the intricacies of post-World War I England with a light, comic touch that perfectly embodies the spirit of the time. Alternatively heartbreaking and witty, The Young Clementina is a touching tale of love, loss and redemption through friendship.

This delightful fairy tale for all ages is filled with fantasy, wit, and wisdom. A classic penned in 1872 by author George MacDonald, it has inspired the work of his friend Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland), and many others, including C.S. Lewis (The Narnia Chronicles), J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), G.K. Chesterton (The Father Brown Mysteries), and Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time).

“My wooing began in passion, was defined by violence and circumscribed by land; all these elements molded my soul.” So writes Charles O’Brien, the unforgettable hero of bestselling author Frank Delaney’s extraordinary novel—a sweeping epic of obsession, profound devotion, and...

Als Elsa im Sommer 1949 in Island ankommt, ist sie eine von vielen. Dennoch entsteht zwischen Grassodenhaus, leuchtenden Wiesen und endlosem Meer ein Zusammenleben, das sich Elsa irgendwann nicht mehr vom Leibe halten kann. Allein ihre Anwesenheit verändert die Dynamik auf dem Hof – besonders die der Bauernsöhne. Es gibt Erwartungen, ausgesprochene und unausgesprochene.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by the English poet William Blake consists of a series of texts written in the style of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own beliefs. Composed between 1790 and 1793, the book makes reference to Milton and Swedenborg, and adopts a device from Dante's Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost: a visit to hell. Blake expresses a deliberately depolarized and unified vision of the cosmos in which the material world and physical desire are both part of the divine order.

Mes chers amis, je vais vous raconter les aventures remarquables dans lesquelles je me suis brillement illustré : De quelle façon je suis allé dans la Lune, comment j'ai sauvé une flotte de cent navires retenue prisonnière dans l'estomac d'un gigantesque poisson, dans quelles circonstances j'ai rencontré la ravissante Vénus... Beaucoup de voyageurs ont tendance à exagérer leurs récits pour les embellir. Je puis vous assurer que pour ce qui est de moi, je me contenterai de vous relater des faits authentiques.

Ce titre est composé de 100 citations de grands auteurs français. L'intérêt des citations ? Elles permettent de justifier les affirmations que nous avançons, avec l'appui de grands écrivains. Les citations sont aussi un moyen de fixer durablement dans notre mémoire la pensée d'un auteur, ou la beauté d'un texte.

Долгое время "Праздник, который всегда с тобой" публиковался по изданию 1964 года, вышедшему спустя три года после смерти писателя. Почти полвека спустя внук и сын писателя, проделали огромную работу и восстановили подлинный текст рукописи в том виде, в каком он существовал еще при жизни писателя.

In this first book of "The Forsyte Saga", Galsworthy paints a vivid portrait of a wealthy and ambitious London family at the turn of the century. Interwoven with this is the ill-fated romance of Irene and Bossiny.

Pur essendo ormai anziano, il pittore Louis Cuchas, quando qualcuno gli chiede qual è l’immagine che ha di sé stesso, risponde, senza esitazione alcuna, che lui si vede sempre come un ragazzino. Perché di fatto la sua arte è il frutto di quel modo particolare di vedere la realtà che solo l’anima pura di un ragazzino riesce a percepire.

Incontestablement l'un des grands maîtres à penser de la jeunesse contemporaine... Couronné du Prix Nobel à un âge où tant d'écrivains débutent, Albert Camus est une des consciences les plus exigeantes, les plus attentives, les plus lucides de son temps.

Noora Nieminen was destined to become a world champion. But when the sixteen-year-old skating sensation is found slain with her own skates, her promising career is unexpectedly cut short. Detective Maria Kallio is seven months pregnant, but that isn't going to stop her from putting everything she has into solving the murder. With a promotion on the line and her arrogant adversary, Pertti Ström, vying for the new job, Maria is determined to make an arrest.

The Hobbit is one of the most widely read and best-loved books of the 20th century. Now Professor Corey Olsen takes listeners deep within the text to uncover its secrets and delights. Chapter by chapter, he reveals the stories within the story: the dark desires of dwarves and the sublime laughter of elves, the nature of evil and its hopelessness, the mystery of divine providence and human choice, and, most of all, the transformation within the life of Bilbo Baggins.

Oscar Wilde told and retold his fairy tales to friends in private readings, refining them further each time before finally publishing them in two collections between 1888 and 1891 to great acclaim and lasting popularity ever since. Much of their charm is due to Wilde's intention that the stories be "studies in prose... meant partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy, and who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness."

Lecture par André Falcon de la Comédie française en 1955. "Je suis un mensonge qui dit toujours la vérité." Jean Cocteau. "Thomas l'imposteur" est le lieu clos d'un enjeu et d'un débat impossibles. Une lutte incessante entre le réel et l'imaginaire. Guillaume Thomas, l'imposteur, se fait passer pour ce qu'il n'est pas par amour pour Henriette. Il s'invente un destin de fils de Général.

Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single work.