Marguerite Yourcenar

Pamiętniki Hadriana – jedna z najbardziej znanych powieści historycznych francuskiej pisarki Marguerite Yourcenar. Książka została opublikowana we Francji w 1951 roku i od razu zyskała ogromne uznanie. Przetłumaczona została na 16 języków. Powieść ta jest stylizowana na list cesarza rzymskiego Hadriana do Marka …

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 …