What might the end of the world look like, to people who inhabit high mountains, whose lives are governed by the dependable revolution of the seasons? ...

Born Anna Constantia von Brockdorff in 1680, this German noblewoman rose from a minor lady-in-waiting to become the mistress of the King of Poland and ...

The novella opens in Paris on the Rue Saint-Denis with a description of a very old house .  Opposite the house, a young man stands in the pouring ...

Tsar Alexander I of Russia, while visiting England with his servant Platov is shown a number of impressive modern inventions. Platov insists that things ...

Swann in Love is a study of sexual jealousy that forms a fully self-contained crucial component of the vast, unfolding structure of Proust’s masterpiece ...

The title of John Dos Passos' evocative early novel alludes to Don Quixote’s horse in that most celebrated of Spanish novels that follows the ...

A decidedly Russian adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear , set in the countryside. It concerns the disrespectful treatment the protagonist ...

Jean-Michel Olivier’s novel, L’Enfant secret , winner of the Swiss Dentan prize, is a profound exploration of those secrets we all inherit ...

Katerina is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family are cold and unforgiving. When she embarks on a passionate affair ...

On a quiet summer evening in a Swiss mountain village, a stranger comes to stay; the generous ever helpful shoemaker, Branchu. All who did business with ...