Brilliant Authors Beyond Borders…
Uniquely Portable Magic
No Ballyhoo
Mauro Mevlud Martino - -
"A modern and intelligent fairy tale set into a muti - ethical and multi religious New York City in the prospective of different generations. Full of humour and kindness, the reader can enjoy one gentle love story between a young Jew and a Muslim that grow day after the day in the streets of the ‘unofficial’ capital of the modern world. Martino’s ...
Self-Portrait in Bloom
Niloufar Talebi - -
In the aftermath of World War II, “a new dynamism” was taking shape in Persian poetry. Award-winning translator Niloufar Talebi explains how Iranian poets were increasingly instrumental in “freeing Persian poetry from the state of decline and stagnation.” Into this backdrop emerges the poet Ahmad Shamlou in this part-memoir, part-biography, ...
Buddenbrooks (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
Thomas Mann - -
Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family ...
Peter and Wendy or Peter Pan (Wisehouse Classics Anniversary Edition of 1911 - with 13 riginal illustrations)
James Matthew Barrie - -
Now published by Wisehouse Classics, this is the unabridged Anniversary Edition of the original 1911 published novel "Peter and Wendy" (or "Peter Pan") with the original therteen illustrations by F. D. Bedford.
"Peter and Wendy" or "Peter Pan" is J. M. ...
