John Fante
John Fante was a writer who captured Los Angeles on the page.
The Beautiful Boy
The Beautiful Boy is a book by Germaine Greer. It's a study of the youthful male face and form, from antiquity to the present day, from paintings and drawings to statuary and photographs.
Masquerade
Masquerade is a children’s book, written and illustrated by Kit Williams, which sparked a treasure hunt by concealing clues to the location of a jewelled golden hare, hidden somewhere in Britain. It became the inspiration for a genre of books known today as armchair treasure hunts.
Andrei Bely
Andrei Bely was a Russian novelist. His novel Petersburg was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as one of the four greatest novels of the 20th century.
At Swim-Two-Birds
At Swim-Two-Birds is widely considered to be Flann O'Brien's masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.
Liar’s Poker
Liar's Poker is a non-fiction, semi-autobiographical book by Michael Lewis describing the author's experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s.
Duino
Duino Castle is the castle where Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his Duino Elegies.
Duchess Anna Amalia Library
Duchess Anna Amalia Library possesses a total of one million units. Since its profile is dominated by the educational concept of the era around 1800 and its collections from the time between 1750 and 1850 are particularly extensive, the epoch from Enlightenment to Late Romanticism is the major focus of the library’s work.
Chester Himes
Chester Himes was an American writer. His works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels. In 1958 he won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière; two of his novels were made into feature films: Cotton Comes to Harlem directed by Ossie Davis in 1970 and A Rage in Harlem starring Gregory Hines and Danny Glover in 1991.
Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics
Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed chemistry journal that covers all disciplines of explosives.