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Derborence

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

The Reign of the Evil One

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

What if the sun...

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

The Secret Child

Jean-Michel Olivier's novel, L'Enfant secret, winner of the Swiss Dentan prize, is a profound exp...

Rosinante to the Road Again

The title of John Dos Passos' evocative early novel alludes to Don Quixote's horse in that most c...

Beauty on Earth

Oriental Encounters

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

Royal Highness

The ironic satire of a decaying German duchy and its rejuvenation by the appearance of an indepen...

The Journal of Countess Francoise Krasinska

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

Pierre and Luce

French writer Romain Rolland was one of the great pacifists of the twentieth century. Winner of t...

One Man’s Initiation

One Man's Initiation-1917 'the greatest writer of our time' Jean-Paul Sartre John Dos Passos' fir...

Hell

Hell (L'enfer) is a study of voyeurism written in 1908 by Henri Barbusse.When it was translated...