It is a violent and often all-too-realistic picaresque, set in war-torn Europe during the 17th-ce...

One of the first French novels to deal with prostitution in Paris. First published in 1876, Marth...

Fantastical excursions into Russia's past with Tolstoy, de Stael and Stalin

A companion volume to Simplicissimus: the story of younggirl named Courage, caught up in the turm...

Alvaro summons up the devil and gets more than he bargains for. World ex USA, Can

A Jungian box of tricks where nothing is what it seems.The young hero awakes to find himself ...

More amorous adventures for the mature marquis in Spain. The scene has shifted from verdant Italy...

A tale of murder and espionage in the spirit of the Arabian Nights

The women of harem are teaching the new sultan how to die through love. "e;From a publisher c...

Market Farm is a Swiftian satire on the untrammelled free market thinking that helped usher in th...

6 atmospheric 19th c stories about depraved femmes de fatales

A collection of bizarre, macabre and unusual short stories