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Kicki and Eva-Lena have been best friends since they were teenagers in the 1960s. They are now in their forties and try to carry on with their lives after many hard experiences. Kicki has two children together with Rune, her ex-husband, who still affects them with his...
Vladimir Petrovich Voldemar, a 16-year-old, is staying in the country with his family and meets Zinaida Alexandrovna Zasyekina, a beautiful 21-year-old woman, staying with her mother, Princess Zasyekina, in a wing of the manor. This family, as with many of the Russian...
This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the...
A collection of short stories in the distinctive style of Henrik Neergaard. Enjoy stories like Do not let the sun go down on your anger, The serpent and the forbidden fruit, Hard work should give a pay-off, The Christmas market,A very nice cup of tea,A modern day Romeo...
'The ties of friendship and family are tested one final time in this capstone entry into the Stolen Lives trilogy. As the newly established family finally begins to develop a sense of normalcy, the turbulent past of both Linda and the Conley clan come to light all at...
Another life is possible, they say. How to achieve this ? Can we believe it, when we only have the words to reinvent our life ? Can we believe it until we lose our reason ? Did the wife not grant the husband under the title "my dear and tender" the power she...
When Elizabeth opened the letter from Australia, mailed three weeks before, she was wondering who that George who had sent it could be. She was even more surprised by its content. This is a collection of novellas (The Letter, The Painter, Desperate for Love,...
It all began with hijacked airplanes on September 11th, 2001; it was the beginning of the end. In 2003, the U.S. government initiated an invasion of Iraq to retrieve an ancient artifact from the desert, a weapon of mass destruction that bends the fabric of space-time. A...
Long before Jack Kerouac penned his famous American roadtrip epic, Sinclair Lewis wrote what may in fact be the seminal work of the genre. This cheerful little road novel, published in 1919, is about Claire Boltwood, who, in the early days of the 20th century, travels...
Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life. The novel introduces...
Fear spreads to the faces of the starship crew. The target, the asteroid JANUS, appears on all monitors. The dark secret of the Space Mining Company comes unstoppable and threatening. The young robotics specialist Rea and the resourceful planetologist Todd fought for...
Special service after purchase: For the booking of an exclusive round of discussions/reading with the publisher, questions, wishes or suggestions write an email to books.gabrielarch [at] t-online.de The work The erotic motive in literature uses some methods of...
Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success.
My reader. Perhaps you have had the good fortune to visit Egypt! If such be the case, you have undoubtedly stood among the giant columns of the Temple to the Sun-god Amen in the Northern Apt (Karnak). You have marveled at the ever changing colors which light up the...
The Trial (German: Der Process) is a novel by Franz Kafka about a character named Josef K., who awakens one morning and, for reasons never revealed, is arrested and prosecuted for an unspecified crime. According to Kafka's friend Max Brod, the author never finished the...
Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928. Printed privately in Florence in 1928, it was not printed in the United Kingdom until 1960 (other than in an underground edition issued by Inky Stephensen's Mandrake Press in 1929). Lawrence...
We are all backwoodsmen and barbarians together-we others dwelling beyond the Ditch, in the outer darkness of the Mofussil. There are no such things as commissioners and heads of departments in the world, and there is only one city in India. Bombay is too green, too...
When you are buried alive, you learn a lot about yourself, the meaning of your past experiences and the future that you would like to have, if you get the chance to live it. When Ben, a middle-aged professional who seemingly has it all, the money, the cars, the...
A FRIEND of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me one day, as if between jest and earnest, "Fancy! since we last met I have discovered a haunted house in the midst of London." "Really haunted? and by what,-ghosts?" "Well, I can't answer these...
One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through...
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