William Harrison Ainsworth was a best-selling 19th-century historical novelist whose tales of highwaymen captivated read......more

My Cue to Fight is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth examination of how the greatest playwright in the E......more

For the Russian modernists, Italy’s cataclysmic terrain proved no less arresting than its art and culture. Earthquakes, ......more

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Celebrate Annie Ernaux with this stunning collection of interviews, critical an......more

Italian literature is among the most ancient and influential Western literatures. With its classics spanning from the Mi......more

Digital Combat examines how contemporary warfare and historical traumas reshape the study and practice of film in Easter......more

What if poetry could teach us to live differently - alongside plants, animals, and water? Channeling Nature: Plants, Ani......more

Ukrainian dark prose that draws on the conventions of the British and western European Gothic novel emerged in the ninet......more

A lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inn......more

"Were I the Author of This Tale" foregrounds Tolstoy’s lifelong habit of intervening in the work of others. Tolstoy’s wo......more

"I am supposed to tell you some of the words I heard deep down in the sea where there is much silence and so much happen......more

Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so cr......more

In the decades following the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the former province of Galicia inspired the literary imagin......more

After she encounters a poem about love and friendship etched on the Homomonument in Amsterdam, Hélène Giannecchini is mo......more

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Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance polymath, whose creative, humanist energie......more

Born out of the pain and loss of a fragmented present, Iya Kiva’s poetry, collected in English translation in Silence Dr......more

Born out of the pain and loss of a fragmented present, Iya Kiva’s poetry, collected in English translation in Silence Dr......more

Originally published in 1963, this is a study of the greatness of Dante, Michelangelo and Milton, and of the differences......more

Günter Grass is one of the writers who grew up in a Germany already in the grip of Nazism. None of them has found better......more

Rainer Nägele’s There and Away charts a series of autobiographical topographies or "topobiographies" that map a life beg......more

The first published defense of women by a Netherlandish author. Jehan Baptista Houwaert’s Excellence and Nobility of Wom......more

An uncompromising account of a Bosnian writer’s life as an exile in America. Considered a literary icon of Bosnia, Dario......more

This book offers readers worldwide the first edition of Juan Isidro Fajardo’s Índice de todas las comedias impresas hast......more

Dante’s Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighier......more

A detailed study of the Nítída saga and its presentation of women and the Icelandic worldview, including questions of id......more

First published in 1843 as part of Either Or, The Seducer’s Diary by S ren Kierkegaard, also translated as Diary of a Se......more

In the early days of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the residents of a small co-op community outside of Kyiv find th......more

In the early days of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the residents of a small co-op community outside of Kyiv find th......more

Spanish writer, intellectual, and feminist Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) was a master of the short form and practitione......more

Giovanni P. Marana, author of the letters in this volume was an Italian living in France in the seventeenth century. He ......more

WINNER OF THE 2023 RESTLESS BOOKS PRIZE FOR NEW IMMIGRANT WRITING In imaginative prose that interrogates the past with a......more

The English-language debut of a beautiful and beguiling cycle of experimental texts by the legendary Marguerite Duras. I......more

Sébastien Nicolas de Chamfort (1741-1794) was hailed by Friedrich Nietzsche as "the wittiest of all moralists ... a man ......more

For Goethe, his Faust was his "main business" (Hauptgeschäft), an opus magnum or divinum within the framework of which h......more

For Goethe, his Faust was his "main business" (Hauptgeschäft), an opus magnum or divinum within the framework of which h......more

Crip Authority explores how Renaissance writers and artists with disabilities drew on consolatory literature to enhance ......more

Meyer Fortes and Sonia Donen grew up in a Jewish immigrant community in South Africa, where they met and fell in love. I......more

The aim of this translation is to provide the first English translation of Buddenbrooks by a native speaker of English s......more

The Forest Song represents the crowning achievement of Lesia Ukrainka’s mature period and is a uniquely powerful poetic ......more

This volume is the first complete and unexpurgated edition of James Boswell’s account of his sojourn in Italy and France......more

The final book by the founder of Surrealism, translated into English for the first time. "Cavalier Perspective shows us ......more

In eighteenth-century Britain, the study of history was understood first and foremost as the study of how states develop......more

A play about defiance of systemic racism. Juan de Mérida, an Afro-Spanish soldier aspires to social advancement in the N......more

The first English translation of Chris Marker’s early writings on film, religion, philosophy, politics, and art. Before ......more

Cyrillic manuscripts are key to understanding the pre-modern cultures of Eastern and Southeastern Europe. This collectio......more

Translated Poetry, Prose, and Interviews of Philippe Soupault (1897-1990). "These totally remarkable renderings - I won’......more

Afrika and Alemania explores the representation of Blackness in German-speaking literary, autobiographical, and cinemati......more

Earth Gods presents the early writings of Taras Prokhasko, one of Ukraine’s most prominent contemporary writers. Collect......more

Earth Gods presents the early writings of Taras Prokhasko, one of Ukraine’s most prominent contemporary writers. Collect......more

This new addition to Norvik Press’s well-established ’Lagerlöf in English’ series turns the spotlight on the power of sh......more

What is the true role of the German woman? Is she destined to be merely a servant to patriarchal expectations, or is she......more

"Canterbury Tales, Volume 2" presents a selection of tales within the overarching narrative framework conceived by Geoff......more

"The Wounds of Civil War" by Thomas Lodge, first published in 1594, is a compelling Elizabethan drama that explores the ......more

"The Tragedy of Man" is a significant dramatic poem exploring the human condition through a sweeping historical and phil......more

"Canterbury Tales, Volume 2" presents a selection of tales within the overarching narrative framework conceived by Geoff......more

"The German Reader, Consisting of Selections From the Following German Writers" is a curated collection designed to imme......more

Step back in time to experience the enchanting world of 19th-century Ireland with Rebecca Warren Brown’s "Tales of the E......more

"Paul Bercy’s French Reader for Advanced Classes: Contes Et Nouvelles Modernes Choisis Et Annotés" is designed for stude......more

"Paul Bercy’s French Reader for Advanced Classes: Contes Et Nouvelles Modernes Choisis Et Annotés" is designed for stude......more

"The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus" is a historical work offering profound insights into the earl......more

"The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Francis Cary, is a cornerstone of world literature. This epi......more

"The Purgatorio and Paradiso of the Divina Commedia" presents the second and third parts of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem,......more

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s "Faust" is a cornerstone of German literature and a profound exploration of the human condi......more

Explore the powerful and influential dramatic works of Gerhart Hauptmann, a leading figure in German Naturalism and a No......more

Explore the powerful and influential dramatic works of Gerhart Hauptmann, a leading figure in German Naturalism and a No......more

Discover the evocative beauty of Max Waldau’s poetry in "Blätter Im Winde" (Leaves in the Wind), a collection that captu......more

"L’Homère Travesti, Ou L’iliade En Vers Burlesques" is a burlesque verse adaptation of Homer’s Iliad by Pierre de Mariva......more

"L’Homère Travesti, Ou L’iliade En Vers Burlesques" is a burlesque verse adaptation of Homer’s Iliad by Pierre de Mariva......more

The Union: Cease Your Funning by Charles Kendal Bushe offers a sharp and insightful commentary on the political and soci......more

"Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage" is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts by Lord Byron. Published between 1812 and 1818, t......more

Discover the uproarious world of 17th-century French wit and humor in "The Whole Comical Works Of Mons. Scarron...". Thi......more

This collection, "Early English Poetry, Ballads and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages," offers a fascinating glimpse......more

"Balladen Door Th. Van Rijswijck" is a collection of ballads by Theodoor van Rijswijck, a 19th-century Dutch poet. This ......more

The Enamorado: A Drama by John Hunter-Duvar is a captivating work that blends elements of dramatic verse and historical ......more