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At the turn of the eighteenth century, in an Iceland that exists as an oppressed colony of Denmark, farmer Jon Hreggvidsson finds himself a fugitive on a trumped up charge of murder after making a bawdy joke at the expense of the Danish king and becomes caught in the middle of a troubled love affai

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Includes the stories of a young boy who recognizes evil for the first time, a writer struggling to balance the demands of creativity and fame, and common people coping with the changes of exile and revolution.

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In 1990 East Germany, Enrico Turmer turns his back on art and signs on to work at a newly started newspaper. This huge life change, in the midst of Germany's unifying upheaval, is captured in the letters Enrico writes to the three people he loves most.

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English translations of four plays which dramatize the theme of man's responsibility for his own actions, by the leader of French existentialism.

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"A luminous epiphany of life . . . engaging and complex . . . vivid and alive".--Washington Post Book World. An old man falls madly in love and does valiant battle against polluters in this ineffably joyful novel--Cheever's last.

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Looks at one day in the lives of the Guardado family, peasants caught up in the terror and corruption of El Salvador.

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Traces a poor Icelandic farmer's journey to Mormon Utah and back, as he desperately tries to reunite his broken family.

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In 19 opulent essays, Ozick probes Dostoevsky for insights into the Una-bomber, questions the role of the public intellectual, and dares to wonder what poetry is.

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The author's personal beliefs and his reactions to the major issues of his lifetime are reflected in these selected writings.

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This edition presents the original versions of 30 poems, which Auden revised to conform to his evolving political and literary attitudes later in his career.

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Moving with sinuous ease from a claustrophobic Midwestern college town in the 1950s to Greenwich Village on the night of the Stonewall rebellion, Edmund White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel is a portrait of the artist as a young gay man finding his way within a country that has no room for sexual dissidents.

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A nameless man who chooses to exist in a small cardboard box records life in the box and his observations of the world from its small window as he wanders the streets of Tokyo.

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Compiled from four decades of reporting, this is celebrated journalist Kapuscinski's most complete portrait of the Africa that he has made the focus of his great career. Kapuscinski's unorthodox approach and his profound respect for the people he meets challenge conventional understandings of modern Africa.

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Didion's unerring sense of America and its spirit, her acute interpretation of its institutions and literature, and her incisive questioning of the stories it tells itself make this fiercely intelligent book a provocative and important tour de force from one of our greatest writers.

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Determined that he will someday be a great poet, Olaf Karason pursues his dream in the face of the contempt and indifference of the people around him, taking up a life of poverty, loneliness, failed love affairs, and sexual scandal as he journeys across Iceland to seek his goal. Reprint. 17,500 firs