Die drei Frauen dieser Erzählungen sind die Bäuerin Grigia, eine portugiesische Aristokratin und die Verkäuferin Tonka. Als fremd-vertraute Wesen werden sie den ihnen verbundenen Männern zum Schicksal. Die äußere Wirklichkeit bildet die Kulisse für eine unergründliche innere Wirklichkeit. Mit dem Erzählband »Drei Frauen«, einem konzentrierten Meisterwerk der literarischen Moderne, begibt sich...

A native of Prague who wrote in German, he deeply felt his involvement in European culture and firmly believed that ‘the inner world of man is valuable, it is full of secret meanings and senses that only he understands.’ This edition contains Rilke’s most significant poetry books in brilliant translations by Vladimir Mikushevich.

In 1899 and 1900 Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) visited Russia. The impressions from this trip led to the publication of the ‘Book of Hours’, a very unusual work written on behalf of an Orthodox monk. In addition to the ‘Book of Hours’, this edition includes translations of other works by Rilke, Francis of Assisi and Angelus Silesius, allowing a broader look at the work of the German poet....

The Castle's original manuscript was left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark Harman’s new translation reveals levels of comedy, energy, and visual power previously unknown to English language readers.

Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury...

Anna Akhmatova was born near Odesa in 1889. Christened as Anna Gorenko, she adopted her penname from the family of her mother. She attended school in Tsarskoe Selo and lived most of her life in Saint Petersburg, the city with which so much of her poetry is intimately connected. She frequented the Tower, the famous literary salon of the symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, and in 1910 she married...

This novel is a testament of what seemed at the time a fairly ordinary childhood, in the bosom of a normal Nazi family in Landsberg.

The Argentinean tango…a dance of passion and sensuality? A dance of passion and danger! A dance, which led a young ballerina into the embrace of a mysterious man, and opened the door for her into the captivating, exotic world of Argentinean bohemia… But suddenly her loved one disappears without a trace, and she sets off on searches for him. Searches which become more and more dangerous….

A collection of short stories.

A collection of poetry and authobiographic piece in prose devoted to Vladimir Mayakovsky.

«Сиддхартха» — жемчужина прозы Германа Гессе, на страницах которой нашли свое отражение путешествия писателя по Индии, а также его интерес к восточным религиям. Местом действия является Индия времен Сиддхартхи Гаутамы — основателя одной из наиболее глубоких и мудрых религий человечества — буддизма. В этой небольшой книге Гессе удалось объяснить европейцам ее суть, создать идеальную систему...

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away by a figure who claims to come...