Marguerite Yourcenarová

Hadriánove pamäti je historický román - epištola o rímskom cisárovi Hadriánovi od autorky Marguerite Yourcenarová. Písala ho od roku 1920 do roku 1951. Dielo malo veľký úspech u čitateľov. Román je napísaný historicky veľmi korektne a erudovane. Niekoľko prvých verzií autorka vlastnoručne zničila, pretože ich …

The story of the fate of two cousins in sixteenth century northern France. The younger, sixteen-year-old Henry Maximilian, has set out to become a soldier and a poet. The elder, twenty-two-year-old Zeno, has left the seminary to make himself an alchemist-philosopher.

This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko's Smile, The Milk of Death, The Last Love of Princess Genji, The Man Who Loved the Nereids, Our Lady of the Swallows, Aphrodissia; the Widow, Kali Beheaded, The End of Marko Kraljevic, The Sadness of Cornelius Berg, and a Postscript by the Author."From China to …

Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, Coup de Grace tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conrad, his best friend from childhood; and Sophie, whose unrequited love …