On a quiet summer evening in a Swiss mountain village, a stranger comes to stay; the generous eve...

Andreyev depicts the fates of five failed leftist revolutionaries and two common peasants who hav...

In 1896 Marmaduke Pickthall arrived in Palestine and spent the nextcouple of years in native dres...

Count Henryk Brühl (1700–1763) was a statesman at the court of Saxony and the Polish–Lithuanian C...

Beauty on Earth

A young man declared insane by the machinations of his own mother. This book sows the seeds of st...

The novella opens in Paris on the Rue Saint-Denis with a description of a very old house. Opposit...

A mountain falls down and an alpine village is frozen in its summer state. When a ghostly figure ...

The Dead is one of the twentieth century’s most beautiful pieces of short literature.The story ce...

The Comédienne draws on Nobel Prize winner, Wladyslav Reymont's, own experiences as an actor in a...

The journal of the Francoise Krasinksa begins with her as a young girl living comfortably with he...

What might the end of the world look like, to people who inhabit high mountains, whose lives are ...