Per Sidenius seemingly has it all. As the twentieth century dawns, this son of a poor minister has put his sad childhood behind him: he's quickly becoming famous as a forward and freethinking man of the "New Age" and is about to marry a wealthy Jewis...

No writer portrayed America's Roaring Twenties as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his stories seem as fresh today as they did nearly a century ago".F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works" features two novels: "This Side of Paradise" and "The Beautifu...

For sale in CIS only! It starts with a mishap, then a cover-up. Before he knows it, Dominic Seeley, an editor in a London publishing house, is caught in an ever-widening spiral of deception – and falling for a girl way out of his league. Actress Nic...

Ruhiton Kurmi has been in jail for seven years. Once a notorious Naxalite – a militant leftist revolutionary – he is now a withered shell; a man broken by police torture, racked with fevers and sores. The only way he can endure his life is by shuttin...

This moving tale of imprisonment and escape, persecution and loss, is narrated by the daughter of an alleged Harki, an Algerian soldier who fought for the French during the Algerian War for Independence. It was the fate of such men to be twice exiled...

During the First World War, just behind the eastern front, there was a forest, where Austrians and Hungarians used to hang deserters. To this place came Apostol Bologa, a young Romanian officer eager to serve his country. Born in a Romanian region of...

Frankenstein is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothicism and the prototype of the twentieth-century science-fiction novel. It was conceived in the Swiss Alps in mid-June 1816 after a conversation about bringing corpses to life provoked a nightma...

Ila Arab Mehta is an award-winning Gujarati author most noted for her explorations of feminist thinking. In this new translation of her beautiful and skillfully crafted novel Fence, we meet Fateema Lokhandwala, a young Muslim woman in present-day Guj...

When a thirsty fox sees some tasty-looking grapes, he's delighted. But he just can't reach them, no matter how high he jumps or how hard he tries. Bitterly disappointed, he walks off, calling them "'sour". Aesop's charming animal fable gently teaches...

Not for sale in Estonia! Hiroshi Kono is eight years old and only just beginning to question the racial and economic inequities he sees around him, when he and his family – along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans – are packed off to a concentra...