Tales of Hoffmann
8 best books like Tales of Hoffmann (E.T.A. Hoffmann): Collected Fictions, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924, The Complete Stories, Collins Bird Guide, Статский советник, Point Counter Point, Selected Poems, Récits fantastiques
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 0140286802 |
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through...
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
It is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider the Russian Revolution to be the most significant...
| Author | Franz Kafka |
| ISBN | 0805210555 |
The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception...
| Author | Killian Mullarney |
| ISBN | 0007268149 |
Following on from its hugely successful launch in 1999, Collins Bird Guide – the ultimate reference book for bird enthusiasts – now enters its second edition.
With expanded text and additional colour illustrations, the second edition of the hugely successful Collins Bird Guide...
| Author | Boris Akunin |
| ISBN | 5815900605 |
Since the publication of The Winter Queen, a New York Times Notable Book and the first mystery featuring Erast Fandorin, Boris Akunin’s historical mystery series has become a worldwide sensation, selling millions of copies and propelling Akunin into the ranks of Russia’s most widely read contemporary...
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 1564781313 |
Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes...
Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived through his country's savage wars and radical traumas trying to welcome the new order. Trotsky wrote, `Certainly Blok is not one of us, but he came towards us. And that is what broke him.'
Pasternak said, `He is as free as the wind.'.
| Author | Théophile Gautier |
| ISBN | 2081207214 |
Fables de vampires, histoires de doubles et de sortilèges, ce recueil évoque par bien des traits une taverne allemande d'Hoffmann, avec ses monstres inquiétants et ses fantômes grinçants. On y retrouve, en effet, les thèmes chers à la première génération romantique, et notamment sa fascination...
