by Jan de Hartog Translated by Carlos Peacock Original title: Hollands glorie
Hollands Glorie was first published in 1940, shortly after the Nazis had occupied the Netherlands. Buying this novel of Dutch heroism on the high seas was then an act of symbolic resistance and quickly turned the book into one of the supreme bestsellers of twentieth-century Dutch literature. (more...)
by Hermann Hesse Translated by Richard & Clara Winston Original title: Klingsors letzter Sommer
Klingsor’s Last Summer is a set of three short novellas that build in intensity to the title story; the blazing last summer of an artist possessed by a such an irresistible sense of life and beauty he extinguishes his own flame.