In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age.
For two weeks, the length of her...
Giovanni's Room is a 1956 novel by James Baldwin. The book focuses on the events in the life of an American man living in Paris and his feelings and frustrations with his relationships with other men in his life, particularly an Italian bartender...
“Mountain,” Baldwin said, “is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else.” Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American...
Why mess around with Catholicism when you can have your own customized religion?
Fed up with his parents' boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god -- the town's water tower. He recruits an unlikely group of...
"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and...
"Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu Ihrer Berufswahl. Hier ihr Kittel, Blecheimer und Mop finden Sie da drüben, Reinigungsmittel (aber nur drei Teelöffel pro Eimer!) -- ach ja, und hier drin sind die Pakete mit den Duftsteinen...
Homecomings is the sixth in the Strangers and Brothers series and sequel to Time of Hope. This complete story in its own right follows Lewis Eliot's life through World War II. After his first wife's death his work at the Ministry assumes a larger...
Stellan ENGHOLM (naskiĝis la 25-an de marto 1899 en Stokholmo, mortis la 25-an de januaro 1960[1]) estis sveda esperantisto, instruisto, verkisto kaj tradukisto. Konatiĝis kun Esperanto en 1920, sed li iĝis aktiva Esperantisto nur en 1927. Dum...