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Casanova's Return to Venice
One of Schnitzler’s most poignant evocations of the passing of time and the ironies of sentiment and love, Casanova’s Return to Venice tells the story of an ageing Casanova’s desperate desire to return to the city he truly loves after a life of exile, a desire which is contrasted with his still libidinous, sensuous yet […]
Andreas
This novel from the great Austrian poet, dramatist, essayist and librettist, Hugo von Hoffmansthal Andreas is a fascinating insight into the work of this renowned author. Andreas is an unfinished and posthumously-published novel of violence and naivety, pathos and melancholy. Set in the eighteenth century, it tells the story of a young Viennese aristocrat who […]
Sonnets
William Shakespeare is thought to have written his sonnets for a private audience over several years before they were first published in 1609. The verses that compose the sonnets are often subversive, elusive and intimate, shaping an erotic body of poetry in the pursuit of the depths of emotion. Shakespeare’s Sonnets express both the narrator’s […]
Magellan
‘Zweig’s accumulated historical and cultural studies remain a body of achievement almost too impressive to take in’ Clive James The life of the great Portuguese explorer who dared to sail beyond the horizon The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history-he was the first man to sail from […]
Marie Antoinette
‘Excellent biography’ New York Times Bringing to life one of the most complex characters in European history Stefan Zweig’s definitive biography gives us Marie Antoinette in the King’s bedroom, in the enchanted and extravagant worlds of the Trianon and Versailles, and with her children. And in his account of ‘The Revolution’, he describes her resolve […]
The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani
In a series of expressionist vignettes, Velibor Čolić’s The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani paints a compelling portrait of a chaotic and tragically brief career, cut short by drugs and disease. Consisting of a series of vignettes, set mostly in the painter’s studio and peopled by his wife Jeanne Hébuterne (who threw […]
Madame de
An elegant fable for the modern age, Louise de Vilmorin’s novella Madame de is a poignant tale of honour, deception and fate. This is the story of Madame de -‘s earrings. It is a story of jewellery, of love, of denial, of pain, of delight, of society, that has the simplicity of a fairy tale, […]
The French Father
Alain Elkann’s The French Father is an imagined confrontation between haughty Bourgeoisie and passionate Art – the former represented by Jean-Paul Elkann (once the director of Dior) the latter by the Surrealist Roland Topor The French Father centres on a dialogue between two men buried alongside each other in the Parisian cemetery of Montparnasse now […]
Traveller of the Century
Shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize A novel of philosophy and love, politics and waltzes, history and the here-and-now, Andrés Neuman’s Traveller of the Century is a journey into the soul of Europe, penned by one of the most exciting South-American writers of our time. […]