They Were Counted

Author	Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
ISBN	0679731210

The Leopard is a story of a decadent and dying aristocracy threatened by the forces of revolution and democracy. Set against the political upheavals of Italy in the 1860s, it focuses on Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince of immense sensual appetites, wealth, and great personal magnetism. Around this...

Author	Rebecca West
ISBN	0812971221

"I heard, amazed, his step ring strong upon the stone, for I had felt his absence as a kind of death from which he would emerge ghostlike, impalpable."

Two women await the return of a soldier, Chris, from World War I. His wife, Kitty, is an upper-class woman, still mourning the death of their child....

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

Anton Chekhov

*Illustrated
*Includes Table of Contents

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his 44 years of life. Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be one of the greatest writers in history, particularly...

Author	Sybille Bedford
ISBN	0141188057

The Kaiser's Germany is the setting of Sybille Bedford's first and best-known novel, in which two families -- one from solid, upholstered Jewish Berlin, the other from the somnolent, agrarian Catholic South -- become comically, tragically, irrevocably intertwined. "Each family," writes the author,...

Author	Giorgio Fontana
ISBN	8838931720

Milano, estate 1981: siamo nella fase più tarda, e più feroce, della stagione terroristica in Italia. Non ancora quarantenne, Giacomo Colnaghi a Milano è un magistrato sulla linea del fronte. Coordinando un piccolo gruppo di inquirenti, indaga da tempo sulle attività di una nuova banda armata,...