In this outstanding biography, Ralph Freedman traces Rilke's extraordinary career by combining detailed accounts of salient episodes from the poet's restless life with an intimate reading of the verse
Offers an in-depth fictional portrait of Sir John Franklin, a legendary Arctic explorer, who sets out to discover the Northwest Passage via canoe. Reprint.
Framing the life of the 19-century explorer Sir John Franklin (1786–1847), this novel explores not only the adventures of his career, but also enters a world where the quality of life is considered to
A powerful new translation of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s masterpiece of youthful rebellion—with a foreword by James Franco A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyon
