Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the Ivo Andri Grand Prize for best novel of 2022From the INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR Eugene Vodolazkin winner of the BIG BOOK AWARD, the LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD, and the READ RUSSIA AWARDFor fans of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Umberto EcoVodolazkins new novelBrisbaneis a sophisticated and frequently moving study in dissonance, dedicated to pointing out contrasts between art and life, beauty and decay, intention and outcome.
This story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor ex-NCO to one of the most successful men in Paris, most of which he achieves by manipulating a series of powerful, intelligent, and wealthy mistresses.
True religion is a union of the soul with God, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or, in the Apostle's phrase, "e;It is Christ formed within us.
Once in a long time a man is fished out when it is just too late, and dies in the boat before you can get him aboard, and-well, I don't know that I ever told that story since it happened-I knew a fellow who went over, and came back dead.
He dipped out of the brighter level into a premature night below; evening was gathering quickly, and with each step Connor felt the misty darkness closing above his head.
Brand's famous plot twists turn this tale of a tough lawman chasing a potentially innocent outlaw through the mountain desert into one delightful surprise after another.
When he recovered his senses, it would be difficult to shoot effectively in the dark, for this was not the gloom of night-it was an absolute void, black, thick, impenetrable.
A tough guy, an evil man, and his angel daughter make fascinating bedfellows as they attempt to save a family gold mine in this intriguing tale from Max Brand.
Loaded with greater heroes, nastier villains, and more action than you could hope to find in other Westerns, this great horse opera by the legendary Max Brand is impossible to put down.
Twists and turns abound as a man with no prior wilderness experience tracks the cold, calculating killer of his father across the open plains and mountains of the wild west.
'An Enemy of the People' addresses the irrational tendencies of the masses, and the hypocritical and corrupt nature of the political system that they support.
This riveting novel tells of the seduction of a British schoolgirl by a dashing soldier, John Montraville, who brings her to America and there abandons her, pregnant and ill.
Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style.
'Cousin Phillis' is a haunting story about Paul Manning, a youth of nineteen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of adolescence.
'Ulysses' takes place in a single day, 16 June 1904, also known as Bloomsday, it sets the characters and incidents of the Odyssey of Homer in modern Dublin and represents Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope and Telemachus in the characters of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, and contrasts them with their lofty models.
