The Complete Novels of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka; Edwin Muir (Translator)

In AmericaKarl Rossmann is 'packed off to America by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it should be. Kafka, a Czech writing in German, never acutally visited America; so, as Max Brod commented, '...

Hafiz - I Heard God Laughing - Poems of Hope and Joy

Shirazi Hafiz

From the renowned translator of The Gift, a rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet to Western readers, the poems of Hafiz are not classical literature from a remote past but cherished wisdom from a dear and intimate friend that continue to be quoted in daily life. With uncanny insight, Hafiz ca...

The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History

Peter H. Wilson

'Hugely impressive...Wilson is an assured guide through the millennium-long labyrinth of papal-imperial relations' Literary Review A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of...

At the Mountains of Madness

H P Lovecraft

At the Mountains of Madness H.P. LovecraftOn an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in thes...

The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt Volume 2

Feldstein, Al

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