The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the Land of Flanders & Elsewhere

8 best books like The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the Land of Flanders & Elsewhere (Charles de Coster): Lord of Light, Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard, Krabat, The Lais of Marie de France, The Kindly Ones, Алые паруса, Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard, Пищеблок

Lord of Light

Author	Roger Zelazny
ISBN	0060567236

Prince Siddhartha attained enlightenment at the foot of the Bodhi tree and became the Buddha: his teachings swept across India, striking at the roots of decadent Brahmanism. The Hindu priests were understandably alarmed, but were helpless against the doctrine of the eightfold path as the stale air...

Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard

Author	Pierre de Marivaux
ISBN	2030345911

Pour juger de la qualité du fiancé qu'on voudrait lui imposer, Silvia prend la place de Lisette, sa servante. Mais Dorante, le fiancé, a eu la même idée de son côté... Le dispositif ainsi truqué, la partie commence : jeu de l'amour, mais surtout jeux de l'esprit, marivaudage grâce auquel la...

Krabat

Author	Otfried Preußler
ISBN	3522144104

Krabat - das ist ein 14jähriger Waisenjunge, im Großraum Lausitz/Dresden, im 17.Jahrhundert, der ein Bettlerleben führt. Eines Tages sucht er sein Glück bei einem Müllermeister, der ihn zu sich lockt und als Geselle anstellt. Sofort stellt sich heraus, dass mehr hinter dem "Meister" stecken...

The Lais of Marie de France

Author	Marie de France
ISBN	0140447598

This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of her but she was probably the Abbess of the abbey at Shaftesbury in the late 12th century, illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet and hence the half-sister of Henry II of England. It was to a king, and...

The Kindly Ones

Author	Jonathan Littell
ISBN	0061353450

Named one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The Times of London "Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." A former Nazi officer, Dr. Maximilien Aue has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. An intellectual steeped in...

Алые паруса

Author	Alexander Grin
ISBN	5170261691

Scarlet Sails, a beloved Russian fairy-tale for adults and children alike, is a story about dreams coming true, no matter how silly or futile or far-reached they may seem.

(Because of this book, I even had a sailor suit when I was little :D)

Who hasn't had wild childhood dreams that we...

Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard

Author

Mark Finn

Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan, King Kull, and others that defined heroic fantasy, lived and died in the small town of Cross Plains, Texas. While his books remain in print, Howard himself has fallen into obscurity, his life mired in speculation and half-truth. This engaging biography traces the...

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Author

Алексей Иванов

1980 год, в пионерский лагерь «Буревестник» прибывает очередная смена, а вместе с ней студент Игорь, получивший работу вожатого. Постепенно его захлестнет...