Julian: 1621 books

By the time "Idolatry" was published, the year 1874 had come, and I was living in London. From my note-books and recollections I compiled a series of papers on life in Dresden, under the general title of "Saxon Studies." Alexander Strahan, then editor of the Contemporary Review, printed them in that...

This study considers why words based on the common root of the verbs 'to wander' and 'wandern' are so prominent in the works of Goethe and the German and English Romantics. What can one infer from the phenomenon and what method should one use to unravel its mysteries. The author attempts to answer...

Words derivedfrom the verbs "to wander" and "wandern" crop up significantly and often prominently in English and German poetry. Why? Do these verbal occurrences point to some principal or power of coherence and does this power reside in the collective unconscious postulated by Carl G. Jung?

Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call "growing up" and others "selling out."

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain’s greatest writers, a twist on the workshop story and defense of Papa Hemingway, with art, love, ambition mixed in.   “Homage to Hemingway” is modeled...

Paris at the turn of the 21st century.  A New York City writer follows in the footsteps of his literary heroes only to discover the reality is far from the fantasy he pursues.  Falling in with a group of expatriate American artists, he soon discovers that things aren’t really much different ...

Photographer Libby S. has never questioned the career advice she gets from her husband, Howard, the international businessman. After all, the advance on her last book almost equaled Howard’s salary, and because of Howard she now has a particularly plum assignment… photographing the notorious Lubyanka...

Bill Hunter, TV personality, made his living by asking the rich and famous difficult and highly personal questions. But when the tables were turned and he found himself being asked about his own rather murky past, he wasn’t quite so sure of himself. Out of a job and little hope of finding another,...

A likeable but rather hapless young man decides he’s tired of small-time games and attempts to break into the big league. However, he finds himself woefully out of his depth and ends up caught out in an ingenious back-firing murder conspiracy. Entertaining and full of suspense, Symons’ plot has enough twists to keep you guessing right until the final thrilling conclusion.

**“A moving story . . . powerful, celebratory, and loving.” —Laura Cardona, La Nación Set in the midst of Argentina's military dictatorship, a poignant and evocative debut novel about family, political violence, and the consequences of dissidence** As political violence escalates...

A seductive affair twisted by secrets... To the outside world, Dane Connelly is the playboy heir of a media mogul, his life a series of one-night stands with no commitments. Only in the Salon does he satisfy his darker urges with willing partners. Life was perfect…until his best friend fell...

From the author of The Many-Colored Land comes the saga of a land beyond the horizon, where the quest for power is eternal, where magic and mystery are feared above all, and one man sought to reign. On a remote island, far in the Boreal Sea, four kingdoms have struggled against one another...

In the late '60s, Julián Ríos began work on what would have been his very first novel, but fearing that it wouldn't pass the stringent Spanish censorship under Franco, decided not to submit the completed book to publishers. Soon distracted by what would be his magnum opus—the Larva series—the manuscript...