Set in a small town in Switzerland, The Pledge centers around the murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim’s mother he will find the perpetrator. After deciding the wrong man has been arrested for the crime, the detective lays a
This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other cont
Selected and with an Introduction by Theodore Ziolkowski.In the spring of 1922, several months after completing Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse wrote a fairy tale that was also a love story, inspired by the woman who was to become his second wife. That story, P
"[This collection] says more about art than any other book I know...These letters distill for the reader the essence of what a painting truly is...The greatness of Cézanne could be conveyed only by an artist equally great."--HOWARD MOSS, The New YorkerVi
One didn't dare to inhale for fear of breathing it in. It was the sound of eighteen hundred airplanes approaching Hamburg from the south at an unimaginable height. We had already experienced two hundred or even more air raids, among them some very heavy o
ContentsThe Child Who Believed · Grace Amundson · It’s a Good Life · Jerome Bixby · The Door · E. B. White · Mysterious Kôr · Elizabeth Bowen · Nights at Serampore · Mircea Eliade ·The Dead Fiddler · Isaac Bashevis Singer · The Phoenix · S
This a previously-published edition of ISBN 3257230478Möbius, ein umworbener weil genialer Physiker, will eine gefährliche Verstrickung von Wissenschaft und Politik verhindern und täuscht darum vor, geisteskrank zu sein, damit er in einer Klinik versch
This is the first complete English translation of the play that many critics consider to be Durrenmatt's finest work. Unlike an earlier version adapted for the English-language stage, this translation adheres faithfully to the author's original play as it
