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Five historical miniatures. One of two beautifully designed hardback gift editions of Stefan Zweig's breathlessly dramatic historical sketches, out in time for Christmas.

A man delves into his mysterious lover's past, with terrifying results - a prize-winning thriller from the French master of noir

A collection of essays and speeches by the great Austrian author, translated into English for the first time. Written from 1914 to the 1940s, they are on the theme of the need for European unity free of nationalism. With a foreword by John Gray. Now in paperback.

ETA Hoffman's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King may be familiar to many, having served as the inspiration for Tchaikovsky's famous ballet. However, the ballet was based on a French retelling of the story and Hoffmann's German original is rarely translated in its entirety.

A biography of France's youngest queen that promises to 'analyse the chemistry of a woman's soul from her intimate pleasures to he public suffering under the weight of misfortune...and her tragic destiny under the guillotine.' Zweig based this biography on the correspondence the queen held with her mother and with her great love, the Count Axel De Fersen.

The wife of the far older feather-merchant, Jarmila enjoys all the pleasures her husband's wealth can buy, yet still longs for true love. Set in the idyllic landscape of rural Bohemia in the 1930s, this is the love story of Jarmila, the village beauty, and a toy maker who falls under her siren spell.

New translation of a novella by Friedrich von Schiller, written in the 1780s.

Anxious to please his father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy, Mihaly 'loses' his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic journey.

In a white city on the African shore of the Mediterranean, the Islamic fundamentalists are gaining control of the streets and the European community of artists and decadent aristocrats take refuge in memories and innumerable barely-recognised vices. Luca and Irene, a young couple, are accepted into this decaying and malicious ex-patriot society.

THE YEAR is 1920, and Luis Agua, an authorised representative of an electricity company, arrives in Vila Natal, an inhospitable village in Portugal. His objective is to convince the inhabitants of the benefits of artificial light. Before long Agua learns that the village and the castle that presides over it hide deep secrets. A noble widow in decline, a will that is both cruel and impertinent, a pioneer of aviation, an epidemic and an unexpect...

Set in Parisian society after the First World War, this is the study of a three-sided relationship between Count Anne d'Orgel, his wife Mahaut and a young man they befriend, Francois de Seryeuse. The couple then find that their marriage is qualified and confirmed by the feelings thus released.

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The Embroidered Armour examines the Greek Mysteries, mythology and legends that heralded a revolution in thinking between the time of Homer and Plato, which gave birth to the Western cultural tradition.

The King is bored, weighed down by his vast military cloak and all the other impediments to commonplace adventure. So he organises a coup against himself, and abandons his ancient throne. But what should one whose only experience is that of an absolute ruler do with himself? Why, become a con-man of course!

A rediscovered classic of politics, murder, espionage, for the first time in paperbackOn a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Introduced by Sherman Alexie, who has taken a film option on the no...

A Buddhist "Pilgrim's Progress" discussing themes of immortality of the spirit, magic and homosexuality.

Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death, brings the destruction of a war-torn Europe vividly to rise.

This volume contains a small but representative selection from the Grimms' Children's and Household Tales, the most famous and influential of all the great nineteenth-century folklore collections.

Clarissa, Delphine and Aurora - three alluring and independent young women - are stories set largely in London, a city Paul Morand loved and which continued to fascinate him long after he worked there as an attache at the French embassy.