
Nóvella – Ævintýrið
3.790 kr.Í þessari bók eru birtar tvær sígildar sögur eftir Goethe sem notið hafa mikillar hylli meðal bókmenntaunnenda allt frá því þær komu fyrst fyrir almenningssjónir fyrir tveimur öldum.
Þetta eru sögurnar Nóvella, um söngelska drenginn með flautuna og ljónið og tigrísdýrið sem sleppa úr búrum sínum hjá mannfólkinu, og Ævintýrið, um grænu slönguna og fögru liljuna þar sem vafurlogar og konungar koma við sögu.
Tvær töfrandi frásagnir, samdar af mikilli list.
Jón Bjarni Atlason annaðist útgáfuna, íslenskaði Nóvellu og ritaði eftirmála.
Kristján Árnason og Þórarinn Kristjánsson íslenskuðu Ævintýrið.
Þýski menningarjöfurinn Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749–1832) var skáld, leikskáld, skáldsagnahöfundur, náttúruvísindamaður, leikhússtjóri, stjórnmálamaður, gagnrýnandi og listamaður. Meðal frægustu verka hans er leikritið Fást (Faust) og skáldsögurnar Raunir Werthers unga (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) og Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.

Ég heyrði ugluna kalla á mig
4.390 kr.Í Kingcome-byggð við norðvesturströnd Kanada hefur fólk búið öldum saman í sátt og samlyndi við náttúruna. En nútíminn hefur hafið innreið sína með tilheyrandi vandamálum og aldagamalt veiðimannasamfélagið á undir högg að sækja. Ungur prestur sest að í byggðinni og í samvistum við innfædda öðlast hann nýjan skilning á lífinu, ekki síst mætti kærleikans.



Baron Bagge
2.490 kr.Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a peaceful, otherworldly country where festivities are in full swing… Alexander Lernet-Holenia, championed in his lifetime by Roberto Calasso, Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke, triumphs in this dreamlike novel of mystery and yearning.

Tales from the Heart : True Stories from my Childhood
2.490 kr.‘I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.’
Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the intimate, formative stories from the childhood of the legendary Caribbean writer, Maryse Condé. These affecting vignettes follow Condé’s early encounters with love, grief, friendship, as she navigates the pernicious legacy of slavery and colonialism in her home of Guadeloupe and as a student in Paris.

I am a Bird from Paradise
2.490 kr.May I remember always when
Your glance in secrecy met mine,
And in my face your love was like
A visibly reflected sign.
From the greatest and most popular of all Persian poets, a selection celebrating love, beauty and the profound connection between the human and the divine.

To Read and Dream
2.490 kr.One of the finest poets of the Victorian age, Christina Rosetti is known today for the directness, clarity and unmatched lyricism of her works. This selection brings together some of her finest verses, love lyrics and sonnets for the contemporary reader. Spanning themes like love, death, loss, womanhood and devotion to pleasures both earthly and divine, these are poems of startling beauty, as evocative and relevant today as when they were first published.

A Moment of War
2.490 kr.In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution by your own side; to kill a man with a borrowed rifle and feel nothing but shame. Moving and shrapnel-sharp, A Moment of War recalls the defeat of idealism; ‘that flush of youth which never doubts self-survival, that idiot belief in luck’.

A Confirmed Bachelor
2.490 kr.Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised medicine for many years. There he meets the Schleheim family, and is particularly drawn to their daughter Sabine. But a simple, stilted courtship soon unravels a web of hushed-up suicide and illicit sexual liaisons.
Arthur Schnitzler’s tumultuous psychodrama remains as startling now as it did on first publication.

The Price of Freedom
2.490 kr.Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakistan like no other. The Price of Freedom brings together ten of his best stories, focusing on human voices from the religious fracture that forever unhinged two newly independent nations. Powerful, piercing and deeply moving, Manto’s works are key to understanding this bloody chapter in South Asian history.

