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NEW BOOKS:

Publication date: July 15, 2008:
Pre-order now for our discount!

Geoffrey Sutton:
Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literatur of Esperanto.
Hardcover, dust jacket, 740 pages; 9" x 6"; ISBN 978-1-59569-090-6. More info here...

NEW: Winter Ridge. A Love Story
by Bruce Kellner

Mature love story explores the power of memory, music and enduring love: Approaching old age, Silas Harmon closes his San Francisco bookshop to retire to the summer cottage in Kentucky where he spent his youth. There he encounters - for the first time in fifty-five years - the lonely Polish refugee with whom he had a love affair when he was sixteen and she was thirty-two. Together they must now confront how that forbidden alliance influenced both their lives and how it will influence the few years ahead of them... More...

The Rougon-Macquart
(Emile Zola)

Ten out of the twenty books of
Zola's Rougon-Macquarts series,
- and some only here at Mondial:

See all our Zola novels and novellas!

Firecrackers
(A Realistic Novel)
by Carl Van Vechten

The long-unprinted novel is considered an authentic portrait of the 1920s and explores the eternal search for happiness

First published in 1925, the novel centers around a wide cast of characters whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mysterious Gunnar O'Grady in 1920s New York. Though, like most Van Vechten novels, there is more than actually meets the eye.
"Of the four (out of seven) novels that deal directly with what he called 'the splendid drunken twenties' in New York, Firecrackers was published at the heart of the period and comes closest to depicting the Jazz Age in all its variety." More...

Bitterness
An African Novel
(Malama Katulwende)

Julius Chongo Award 2006
for Best Creative Writing

Tribal and social affiliations and the student riots at the University of Zambia, in a captivating and intelligent story about love, political involvement and individual responsibilities. --- This is one of the most realistic and passionate contemporary novels about the life of young people in today's Africa, written by Malama Katulwende, a Zambian poet and intellectual. Based on real events, this novel provides an insight into African history, daily life, and culture, at the example of an oppressive society. Imagine Europe's revolts of 1968 in Austral Africa...
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FRENCH CLASSICS: GERMAN CLASSICS: DANISH CLASSICS:

Anatole France: The Gods Are Athirst (Les dieux ont soif)

France's novel about the last phase of the French Revolution, the "terror" of Robespierre, Danton and Marat.

Theodor Storm: The Rider of the White Horse (The Dykemaster)
A classic German novella, in which a man wrestles with the most elementary forces of nature.

Martin Andersen NEXO (Nexö): Ditte Everywoman (Complete: Parts 1 to 3: Girl Alive. Daughter of Man. Towards the Stars.) The story of a poor young peasant girl and her life in rural Denmark and in Copenhagen, in the first half of the 20th century.

Edmond and Jules de Goncourt: Germinie Lacerteux

The Fathers of the Prix Goncourt with their most famous naturalistic novel, based in Paris.

Heinrich von Kleist: Michael Kohlhaas (A Tale from an Old Chronicle)
Based upon the figure of Hans Kohlhase, a 16th century merchant who turned violent after being attacked and victimized by the authorities.

Martin Andersen NEXO (Nexö):
Pelle the Conqueror (Complete: Parts 1 to 4: Boyhood. Apprenticeship. The Great Struggle. Daybreak)
Classic about the life of a poor boy.

Anatole France: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Bonnard, a highly esteemed scholar, encounters unexpected problems when he embarks upon a search for an ancient document that takes him into his own life history.

Heinrich Heine: Germany. A Winter Tale (Bilingual Edition: Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen)

Germany. A Winter Tale is a satirical verse epic by German author Heinrich Heine (1797-1856).

  
ITALIAN LITERATURE:

Anatole France: Penguin Island
Penguin Island (1908) has been called "the best social satire ever written" (Toni Ungerer). The story takes place in Antarctica, where a fictional penguin population mirrors the foibles of human beings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther
A loosely autobiographical novel. It was Goethe's first major success, turning him from an unknown into a celebrated author overnight.

The Child of Pleasure
by Gabriele D'Annunzio

The Child of Pleasure and its protagonist Andrea Sperelli introduced the Italian culture of the late 1800's to Aestheticism and a taste for decadence.

André Gide: Strait is the Gate (La Porte étroite)
A novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism.

Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter: Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century (Immensee. Peter Schlemihl. Brigitta)

 
BRITISH AND US LITERATURE:

André Gide: Prometheus Illbound (Le Prométhée mal enchaîné) - "Prometheus Illbound" is one of the most characteristic books of André Gide: a work of pure intellectual fantasy, where the subtle brain of the author has full play.

Sigmund Freud: Dream Psychology (Psychoanalysis for Beginners)
An Introduction to Dream Analysis and Psychoanalysis.

Gertrude Stein: Three Lives (Introduction by Carl Van Vechten)
Thre short stories by Gertrude Stein. First published in 1909, this book of short stories has consistently maintained a striking underground reputation.

André Gide et al.: Recollections of Oscar Wilde
Nobel Prize winner André Gide, Ernest La Jeunesse and Franz Blei present their "Recollections" of the last years of Oscar Wilde.

Karl Marx: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Historical essay about Napoleon III.

Oscar Wilde (et al. - anonymous): Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal (Gay Erotic Classic)
The homoerotic love of Camille and Teleny is shattered by social reprisals.

Romain Rolland: Pierre and Luce
Paris, 1918: Amidst the cries of fanatic patriots bent on war, a tender relationship slowly develops between two young Parisians.

 Friedrich Engels: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Introduction by Karl Marx)
Engels' introduction into socialism: A social-historical essay.
 Agatha Christie: Two Novels (The Mysterious Affair at Styles. The Secret Adversary.)
Gustave Flaubert: Salammbo (Salambo)
The action of this classic French novel takes place before and during the Mercenary Revolt, an uprising of mercenaries in the employ of Carthage in the 3rd century BC.

Gottfried Keller: Ursula

Love during the time of the Swiss Reformation. Swiss-German classic novella.

 Jack London: Before Adam. Children of the Frost.

Two novellas.

Honore de Balzac: Ursula (Ursule Mirouet)
Among all the novels of Balzac, none depicts so penetratingly the small-mindedness, avarice and envy of the provincial lower middle classes.

Gottfried Keller: The Village Romeo and Juliet

Love and death in the Swiss country. A Swiss-German classic novella.

Jack London: The Iron Heel

Utopian / sci-fi novel.

 

Honore de Balzac: Maitre Cornelius
Balzac's famous medieval love story, in which he turns King Louis XI of France into a detective.

 

  

Jack London: War of the Classes. Revolution. The Shrinkage of the Planet.

Three political essays.

Victor Hugo: The Man Who Laughs (By Order of the King)
A novel, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. Although among Hugo's more obscure works, it was adapted into a popular 1928 film, directed by Paul Leni and starring Conrad Veidt and Olga Baclanova.

  

Jerome K. Jerome: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Humorous essays

Victor Hugo: History of a Crime (The Testimony of an Eye-Witness)
Victor Hugo's docu-novel about Napolen III ("Napoleon le petit").

  

Susan Coolidge: Clover

Fourth book of the Kathies series for young adults.
Emile Zola: Fruitfulness
One of Emile Zola's later novels, the first novel of a new series called "The Four Evangiles"		  

Diane Stingley: Say What?!? Highlights from the Glory Days of the First George W. Bush Administration

Political Satire

Jules Verne: An Antarctic Mystery (The Sphinx of the Ice Fields)

Adventures à la Jules Verne, this time on the ocean!

 

James Baldwin: Fifty Famous People

Illustrated Book of Short Stories - For Kids and Teenagers
Emile Zola: The Fête at Coqueville (The Coqueville Spree)
Check out the humorous Zola - in one of his master novellas!		    
 

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