The Lord Chandos Letter: And Other Writings

Author	Arthur Schnitzler
ISBN	0141182245

“Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.”


The Bride (1918) by Klimt

It all begins with a confession of sorts as his wife Albertine tells him of a fantasy she had involving a man that she saw on their...

Author	Malcolm Lowry
ISBN	0060955228

Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life—the Day of the Dead—his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life...

Author	Ryszard Kapuściński
ISBN	1400043387

From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain.

Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming...

Author	Arthur Schnitzler
ISBN	1557131767

Viennese author Schnitzler's brief 1901 novel depicts the Austrian crisis at the turn of the century and the impending collapse of the dream of the empire. Bored at the opera, egocentric young Lieutenant Gustl contemplates which women are flirting with him; the fact that there are too many Jews in the...

Author	E.T.A. Hoffmann
ISBN	3458326340

I read this rather (no very) creepy tale years ago, and while I truly enjoyed and above all appreciated E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann, I also do not much feel like a detailed and intense rereading at this time, as the plot, the thematics actually repeatedly produced some rather vivid and glaring nightmares...

Author	Dezső Kosztolányi
ISBN	1590173392

It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays—call them Mother and Father—live in Sárszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research and quaint questions of heraldry. Mother keeps house....

Author	Jean Giono
ISBN	2070362205

"Le livre est parti parfaitement au hasard, sans aucun personnage. Le personnage était l'Arbre, le Hêtre. Le départ, brusquement, c'est la découverte d'un crime, d'un cadavre qui se trouva dans les branches de cet arbre. Il y a eu d'abord l'Arbre, puis la victime, nous avons commencé par un être...