The Manor

Author	Patrick White
ISBN	0099324512

Patrick White’s style is a unique blend of roughness and literacy that can become quite absorbing, mesmerizing even, for its timelessness. The minor details of ordinary lives fuse with poetic vision and transform the common experience of man into the absolute essence that holds the power to make...

Author	Jessica Anderson
ISBN	0333179277

In the 1830s, the penal settlement of Moreton Bay on the Brisbane River is under the command of Patrick Logan. His administration has been denounced by the liberal press in Sydney, but he scorns such criticism. How can it harm him when he had governed according to the rules?

Flogged and brutalised,...

Author	Thomas Deloney
ISBN	0854170928

Publisher: London: Printed by Eliz Allde for R. Bird, Edinburgh, Printed by J. Ballantyne and co. Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com...

Author	Cora Sandel
ISBN	0821407562

But a wound opened inside. Delight and melancholy welled up simultaneously from the depths of her mind. She could not understand why nor protect herself from them. They streamed over her together with the light, making her shrink with painful impatience. Tears came, God knows how. One moment she was...

Author

Ciril Kosmač

[narrator has returned home as WWII ends, after 15 years of fighting as a partisan; his aunt shows him the Latin verb study sheets still tacked to the ceiling of his bedroom where he studied as he lay in bed]
“Right you Are,” I smiled. “Amo--amas--amat…How odd!” I shook my head. “How odd…”
“Eh,...

Author

Antun Šoljan

Потрясающая книга, даже потрясающе безысходная книга! Гибрид "Замка" Кафки и "Чумы" сами знаете кого. Плюс вот эта вот восточная абсурдность, которая...

Author	Mykhaylo Osadchy
ISBN	0156155508

this book more than any deserves a new press run and some attention. the translation, to my ears, is already near-flawless.

it's ukrainian, but sits at the pinnacle of soviet literature, which is to say, soviet dissident literature. solzhenitsyn and shalamov and yermakov are...

Author	Martin Walser
ISBN	3518365940

Der 35-jährige Anselm Kristlein, verheiratet und Vater dreier Kinder, versucht sich seit dem Abbruch seines Studiums als Vertreter. Als ihm ein Bekannter das Abgebot unterbreitet, als Werbetexter zu arbeiten, steigt er innerhalb eines Jahres zum gefragten Experten auf. Diesen Karrieresprung...

Author

Heruy Wolde Selassie

Blattengeta Heruy Welde Sellase (8 May 1878 – 19 September 1938; ብላቴን፡ጌታ፡ኅሩይ፡ወልደ፡ሥላሴ Blatten-Geta Həruy Wäldä-səllase) was a Foreign Minister of Ethiopia and a writer in Amharic..

Author	Oles Honchar
ISBN	0880541571

The Cathedral pits the utilitarian and filthy ore smelting plant against the dilapidated, but inspiring cathedral, ignored during the Soviet era and used as a grain store. "The plants covered the whole horizon with smoke. They had no days off. Day and night they smoked with epic calm. The cathedral...

Author	Edmund Wilson
ISBN	0877457697

It took me awhile before I got really interested on this book's story. The prose is in the first person and told by an unnamed narrator. He tells the reader not only the daily happenings in his life but also more importantly, about the two women that he just met at the beginning of the story. Their names are...

Author	Xosé Neira Vilas
ISBN	1412028922

We are in front of a masterpiece of galician literature,i obviously have read it in galician but have put the title in english with the goal of give to it more universality.

I think it is in some USA list of the 1000 book one have to read before die.

Tells in first person the memories written...

Author

Erskine Caldwell

A ridiculously overheated melodrama set on a decaying southern plantation, featuring a prideful, spoiled young "aristocrat", his mother who encourages him in those traits, his neglected, weepy wife, their downtrodden servants and field hands, a "modern" cousin, an earthy lower-class tenant......

Author	Saunders Lewis
ISBN	1854111957

Opinion on Monica has been deeply divided since its publication in 1930. Saunders Lewis's first novel was fiercely attacked by Welsh-speaking critics for its portrayal of sexual obsession and manipulation. For the first time the psychology which was such a feature of the work of contemporary authors...

Author	Felix Timmermans
ISBN	3458331301

Der lebensfrohe und naturverbundene Pallieter, über dessen Alter und bisheriges Leben der Leser nichts Genaueres erfährt, lebt auf einem kleinen Hof im Tal des Flüsschens Nethe zusammen mit seiner frommen Schwester Charlot, die ihm den Haushalt führt, sowie dem Pferd Beiaard, dem Hund Lubas...

Author	Ward Ruyslinck
ISBN	0720622255

This is the story of a married couple who have lived in semi-isolation in a tumbledown shack on the outskirts of a town. Theirs has become almost an animal existence. Silvester, the husband, does not believe in love, beauty, God, or even in himself. His wife Margriet lives in constant fear of war. Whatever...

Author	S.Y. Agnon
ISBN	0805206477

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people."

The book is basically about a group of Jewish men (rabbis mostly) from Poland who decides to go to a pilgrimage to Jerusalem....

Author

Maro Douka

Myrsini Panayotou, an Athenian girl about to start university, learns of the coup d'etat that brought to power the infamous dictatorship of the "Colonels" in her country in the early hours of Friday, 21st April 1967. The child of a well-to-do family, Myrsini enthusiastically joins the underground...

Author	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
ISBN	0520063155

So this is a love story supposedly, with innumerable sup-plots. Every time a new character shows up we get yet another tangent. Whats odd is that not only do the actual characters get bored with some of the sub-stories but the author apologises to the reader at least ten times about how repetitive it can...

Author	Camilo José Cela
ISBN	0871133792

Awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, Camilo José Cela has long been recognized as one of the preeminent Spanish writers of the twentieth century. Journey to the Alcarria is the best known of his vagabundajes, Cela’s term for his books of travels, sketchbooks of regions or provinces. The...

Author	Shahan Shahnour
ISBN	0903039109

aras yayıncılık'ın geçen sene yayımladığı şaheserlerden biri. diasporada yaşayan bir ermeni'nin sessiz çığlıkları, unutmaya çalıştığı geçmişi, yaşadığı tutkulu aşk hikâyesi...
1915'te fransa'ya göç eden bir ermeni'nin hayatta kalma savaşı, zanaatiyle...

Author	George Konrád
ISBN	0140099468

"Kibaszott nyomasztó ez, bazdmeg.
Az, bazdmeg" - párbeszéd emberek között, akik együtt olvassák ezt a könyvet.

Láttam régen egy interjút egy mozdonyvezetővel. Beszélt a munkájáról, bemutatta a vonatot (kimentek a legközelebbi megállóhoz, és látni fogjátok...

Author	Jerzy Andrzejewski
ISBN	0810115190

Originally published in Poland in 1948, and acclaimed as one of the finest post-war Polish novels, Ashes and Diamonds takes place in the spring of 1945, as the nation is in the throes of its transformation to People' Poland. Communists, socialists, and nationalists; thieves and black marketeers;...

Author	Israel J. Singer
ISBN	0805208607

Un romanzo corale nel quale un’intera comunità, quella hassidica galiziana, assume il ruolo di coprotagonista accanto al protagonista, a colui il cui nome dà il titolo al libro: egli arriva adolescente silenzioso e timoroso dalla vicina e al contempo lontana Russia, dalla corte hassidica di...

Author

Louis Aragon

Another attempt by a left-wing apostle to prove that pre-war Europe "rushed to its doom" without so much as lifting a finger in protest. The aftermath of Armageddon, of course, is the world's glorious opportunity to embrace Russia's New Theology, guaranteed to cure or kill. - The American Mercury,...