This is Goethe's first novel, published in 1774. Written in diary form, it tells the tale of an unhappy, passionate young man hopelessly in love with Charlotte, the wife of a friend - a man who he alt…
The scrawled sign, peddling young siblings on a farmhouse porch, captures the desperation sweeping the country in 1931. It’s an era of breadlines, bank runs, and impossible choices.…
In the fourth century, the wildernesses of Egypt and Palestine were inhabited by a strange breed of spiritual the first Christian hermits. Thomas Merton's affection for these "Desert Fathers" shines i…
A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its Italian public when first published. It is the gripping story of a woman's descent into devastating …
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his …
Žena je ubila muža, nasmrt ga je ubola nožem, bilo je to ubojstvo na mah. Ni susjedi ni obitelj ne mogu vjerovati da je to bila u stanju učiniti jer, bez obzira na povremene svađe, oni su bili sasvim …
Na početku bijaše brodolom iz kojeg je jedan mladić jedva izvukao živu glavu nasukavši se na obali otočnog mjestašca poznatog po zaštitnici svetoj Margareti, zaduženoj za čudotvorno povećanje natalite…
First-century Corinth is a city teeming with commerce and charm. It’s also filled with danger and corruption—the perfect setting for Ariadne’s greatest adventure.
