A young American ambulance driver goes to war in Italy, and falls in love amid the ruins. A classic First World War novel of love, courage and survival. Ernest Hemingway’s powerful autobiographical story of war. In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of that experience came A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway’s
Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as 'The Ungrateful Rat' where a rude rodent insults all the objects he meets - until he meets the Rat Trap.There are morality tales such as 'The
Do you believe in ghosts? Not monsters, not floating objects or unexplained coincidences, but an actual presence. This book collects Victorian ghost stories, from Charles Dickens' "The Signalman" to M R James' "A Warning to the Curious", alongside more un
A groundbreaking, profound and intimate novel about capitalism’s effects on the human heart: Money to Burn is the first volume of the Scandinavian Star series, a new masterpiece of Danish literature‘A comet in Scandinavian literature’ Olga Ravn‘Startling and irresistible’ Claire-Louise BennettMaggie and Kurt are struggling to hold their marriage together after their only daughter has left home.
While charting in detail Hitler's life from his childhood to the eve of the Second World War against the politics of the times, the author unveils the man behind the public persona: his charming and repulsive traits, his talents and weaknesses, his deep-s