A Sketch of My Life
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) wrote several autobiographical essays, and this is one of them. Written in 1929 on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Prize, it offers an initial assessment of his life and...
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Cold Crematorium: Reporting from Auschwitz
Debreczeni (1905–1978) was a prominent Hungarian writer and journalist who spent most of his life in Yugoslavia. The book, halfway between memoir and chronicle, begins with his arrival at Auschwitz in 1944...
Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood (Cooma, Australia, 1965) is an acclaimed novelist who has received several major literary awards. I read The Natural Way of Things (the English title of El retiro), encouraged by several...
Marble Hall Murders
This book is part of the Magpie Murders series, featuring Susan Ryeland.
Susan Ryeland, a retired editorial reader, has returned to London. She now works for a small publishing house, and the...
Jane Eyre
Published in 1847 under the male pseudonym Currer Bell, Jane Eyre is a novel that blends several genres: a love story, a Gothic novel and, above all, a profound exploration of dignity and inner freedom....
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Katerina marries for convenience the son of a wealthy merchant in a flourishing Russian town. Her husband, who had already been married, was sterile and lived only for his work, thus condemning her to a...
The Cathedral Clergy
Is a novel by Nikolai Leskov, a series of "romantic chronicles" (as the author called them) of the fictional town of Stargorod. It is his only full-length novel translated into English. It was first...
The Enchanted Wanderer
A novel published in 1873, one of the most notable works by Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (1831–1895), an author admired by Maxim Gorky, Walter Benjamin, and Thomas Mann. During a boat trip on Lake Ladoga, the...
Nefertiti Lived Here
Mary Chubb (1903–2003) was an English writer and archaeologist. The book is a chronicle of an archaeological campaign funded by the Egypt Exploration Society, which took place between November 1930 and...
The Life of Saint Benedict
Biography of Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480–547). It is the second book of the author’s Dialogues; perhaps the oldest and most reliable source on the life of the patriarch of Western monasticism.
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