By Franz Kafka
In this open letter to his father – a letter which was never sent – Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession in which writer and man are gathered together in front of an ambivalent figure of auth…
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By Camille Selden and Heinrich Heine
Offering a personal, poignant, more intimate look at the final seven months of Heine’s life in Paris, Mouche which will surprise and enchant in equal measure all the admirers of the great German lyric poet and all music lovers. This edition contains short biographies of the characters mentioned in t…
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Part of Alma’s 101 Pages series, The Marquise of O is a masterpiece of psychological literature by German writer, Heinrich von Kleist. It is accompanied here by two other celebrated stories, ‘The Earthquake in Chile’ and ‘The Foundling’, showcasing the range of their author’s narrative abilities and…
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By Franz Kafka
Published the year after the author’s death, but written ten years earlier, The Trial is the most acclaimed of Kafka’s three novels, and is both a haunting meditation on freedom and the powerlessness of the individual in the face of state power, and an ominous prefiguration of the totalitarian exces…
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By Franz Kafka
In this open letter to his father – a letter which was never sent – Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession in which writer and man are gathered together in front of an ambivalent figure of auth…
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By Jules Renard
A delightful variation on the long tradition of bestiary writing, Jules Renard’s Histoires Naturelles have captured the imagination of readers and artists since they were first published in 1896, with Ravel famously setting five of the poems to music. Presented in a new version by acclaimed translat…
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