Suicide, the act of killing oneself voluntarily and intentionally, is clearly one of the most important themes developed by Pirandello during his long literary career. Although he never focused on self-destruction as an end in itself, he made ample use of
Luigi Pirandello shoot-拍摄
Originally published in Italian in 1915, Shoot! is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian camera operator Serafino Gubbio, Shoot! documents the infancy
Luigi Pirandello The Late Mattia Pascal-已故的马蒂亚·帕斯卡
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new cours
Luigi Pirandello Tales of Madness-疯狂的故事
Nobel Prize Winner Luigi Pirandello set out to write one short story per day for one whole year. Death kept him from fulfilling that goal; nevertheless, he came close to achieving it. Although there are several themes in the collection, the one on madness
Luigi Pirandello One, None and a Hundred-thousand-一个,没有一个,十万个
The great Pirandello's (1867-1936) 1926 novel, previously published here in 1933 in another translation, synthesizes the themes and personalities that illuminate such dramas as Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Vitangelo Moscarda ``loses his
Vitangelo Moscarda ``loses his
Hermann Hesse The Journey to the East-东方之旅
In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse's Journey to the East tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Mozart, and
Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game-玻璃球游戏
简介:The final novel of Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature.
Set in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been
Set in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been
Hermann Hesse Rosshalde-罗沙尔德
Rosshalde is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of conventional society.
Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged
Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged
Hermann Hesse Narcissus and Goldmund-纳尔齐斯和歌尔德蒙
Narcissus and Goldmund tells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposite: Narcissus, an ascetic monk firm in his religious commitment, and Goldmund, a romantic youth hungry for knowledge and worldly experience. First publishe
Hermann Hesse Beneath the Wheel-车轮下面
In Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheel or The Prodigy, Hans Giebenrath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a
Hermann Hesse Klingsor's Last Summer-克林索的最后一个夏天
Written over the course of a few weeks in July and August 1919, it was published in December 1919 in the Deutsche Rundschau. It was later published (by Samuel Fischer) in a volume which included Kinderseele and Klein und Wagner. The story is an account of
Hermann Hesse Gertrude-格特鲁德
With Gertrude, Herman Hesse continues his lifelong exploration of the irreconcilable elements of human existence. In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artists--his friend Heinrich Muoth, a broodi
Hermann Hesse Peter Camenzind-彼得·卡门津德
Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to the road in search of new experience. Traveling through Italy and France, Camenzind is increasingly disillusioned by the suffering he discovers around him; af
Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf-草原狼
Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a m
Hermann Hesse Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth-黛米安:艾米尔·辛克莱的青春故事
Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Ersten Weltkrieg schrieb, eine ebenso ungewöhnliche wie spannende Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte. Daß dieses im Herbst 1917 vollendete Buch erst im Juni
François Mauriac Viper's Tangle-毒蛇缠结
The masterpiece of one of the twentieth century’s greatest Catholic writers, Vipers’ Tangle tells the story of Monsieur Louis, an embittered aging lawyer who has spread his misery to his entire estranged family. Louis writes a journal to explain to them—a
François Mauriac Proust's Way-普鲁斯特之路
The thinking and suffering of the author of Remembrance of Things Past are intimately exposed in these letters to Mauriac. Mauriac, François Mauriac 1885-1970, French writer. Mauriac achieved success in 1922 and 1923 with Le Baiser au l�preux and Genitrix
François Mauriac The Unknown Sea-未知的海
The Unknown Sea follows the fate of the Revolu family after the financial failure and suicide of its patriarch. Oscar Revolu’s death hurls his family, once poised to enjoy lives of success and happiness, into disgrace and destitution. His wife Lucienne is
François Mauriac Therese Desqueyroux-德斯奎罗酒店
Pour éviter le scandale et protéger les intérêts de leur fille, Bernard Desqueyroux, que sa femme Thérèse a tenté d'empoisonner, dépose de telle sorte au'elle bénéficie d'un non-lieu. Enfermée dans la chambre, Thérèse tombe dans une prostra
Jean-Paul Sartre The Wall-墙
'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor--seemingly there for the men's solace--their mental descent is charted in exq
Shmuel Yosef Agnon Two Scholars Who Were in our Town and other Novellas-我们镇上的两位学者和其他中篇小说
New and revised translations from the Hebrew Including the Novellas Two Scholars Who Were in Our Town In the Heart of the Seas In the Prime of Her Life Tehilla. The volume's title story Two Scholars Who Were in Our Town tells of the epic clash betwee
Shmuel Yosef Agnon Only Yesterday-就在昨天
Israeli Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon's famous masterpiece, his novel Only Yesterday, here appears in English translation for the first time. Published in 1945, the book tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Secon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon Two Tales: Betrothed & Edo and Enam-两个故事:订婚和江户和伊娜
Two newly revised translations from the Hebrew, with new and illustrated annotations, of two novellas by Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon. Two stories clearly in dialogue with one another, sharing elements of moonstruck sleepwalkers, disengaged academics, and th
Shmuel Yosef Agnon Shira-希拉
Final novel by the Nobel Laureate. Set against the backdrop of 1930s Jerusalem. A tragic love story.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon The Parable and Its Lesson: A Novella-寓言及其教训:中篇小说
S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town (now in
Shmuel Yosef Agnon A Simple Story-简单的故事
Originally published in Hebrew 50 years ago, this is the not-so-simple story of a bygone time and place, about passion and the wisdom of community. The author asserts his values of community in a story rich in biblical allusion and redolent of the society
Shmuel Yosef Agnon Twenty-One Stories-二十一个故事
"Twenty-one Stories" by S. Y. Agnon is a remarkable anthology of Kafkaesque fables about the eternal struggle of the Jew to enter the Kingdom of God that absolutely no one should read unless he or she knows the difference between "Midrash&q
Miguel Ángel Asturias Men of Maize-玉米人
Social protest and poetry; reality and myth; nostalgia for an uncorrupted, golden past; sensual human enjoyment of the present; 'magic' rather than lineal time, and, above all, a tender, compassionate love for the living, fertile, wondrous land
Miguel Ángel Asturias Strong Wind-强风
Strong Wind is the first of Miguel Asturias' controversial Banana Republic books indicting North American exploitation of a Central American republic. In this novel, the banana plantations are dominated by Tropical Banana, Inc., a powerful North Amer
Miguel Ángel Asturias The Eyes of the Interred-埋葬者的眼睛
The third volume of Asturias’ “banana” trilogy (The Green Pope, published here in 1971, and Strong Wind, 1969) and the apotheosis of his saga of third-world expropriation and defeat by American capital. It is now World War II; American allies, “blond drun
Miguel Ángel Asturias The President-总统
Guatemalan diplomat and writer Miguel Angel Asturias (1899–1974) began this award-winning work while still a law student. It is a story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed Latin American country usually
Yasunari Kawabata The Lake-湖泊
This story of a stalker is a unique work by the first Japanese Nobel Prize winner for Literature.
The Lake is the history of an obsession. It traces a man's sad pursuit of an unattainable perfection, a beauty out of reach, admired from a distance,
The Lake is the history of an obsession. It traces a man's sad pursuit of an unattainable perfection, a beauty out of reach, admired from a distance,
Yasunari Kawabata The House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories-睡美人之家和其他故事
Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata is noted for his combination of a traditional Japanese aesthetic with modernist, often surreal trends. In these three tales, superbly translated by Edward Seidensticker, erotic fantasy is underlaid with longing
Yasunari Kawabata The Master of Go-围棋大师
Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicl
Yasunari Kawabata The Old Capital-旧都
The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital t
Yasunari Kawabata Dandelions-蒲公英
Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions—exploring love and madness—is Kawabata’s final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in April, 1972. The book concerns Ineko’s mother and Kuno, the young man who loves Ineko and wants to marry he
Yasunari Kawabata Thousand Cranes-千鹤
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Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.
While attending a traditional tea c
Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.
While attending a traditional tea c
Yasunari Kawabata Beauty and Sadness-美与悲
Beauty and Sadness (Japanese: 美しさと哀しみと Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1964 novel by Japanese Nobel Prize winning author Yasunari Kawabata.
Opening on the train to Kyoto, the narrative, in characteristic Kawabata fashion, subtly brings up issues of t
Opening on the train to Kyoto, the narrative, in characteristic Kawabata fashion, subtly brings up issues of t
Yasunari Kawabata The Dancing Girl of Izu and other Stories-伊豆舞女及其他故事
Influential Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata has constructed an autobiography through his fiction with this new collection of stories that parallel major events and themes in his life. In the lyrical prose that is his signature, these 23 tales reflect
Yasunari Kawabata The Sound of the Mountain-山声
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Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previo
Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previo