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A romanticized biography of British adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Three great journeys (India, the Hajj to Mecca, Africa, and the search for the source of the Nile) told from the perspectives of his Indian, Arab, and African companions/guides.
An Egyptian boy from poverty dreams of becoming a doctor ("hakim" in Arabic means doctor/sage). With immense perseverance, he rises to world fame, but must choose between ambition and his roots.
Paris on the eve and during World War I. Young Richard Dalleau, full of ambition and a hunger for life, embarks on a journey of success, love and moral trials that will lead him into a vortex of misfortune.
A historical novel about the great love of Croatian poet Petar Preradović and his first wife Pavica (Pava) from a Dalmatian noble family. A touching story of love, marriage, war and tragic fate in the turbulent 19th century.
The Kaiser's Coolies (1930) is an anti-militarist novel by Theodor Plievier. Based on his own experience, it depicts the brutal life of ordinary sailors in the German navy during World War I and the sailors' mutiny of 1917.
The book presents a selection of short stories by about 15 Austrian authors, trying to show the development of Austrian short prose - from realism and naturalism through modernity and expressionism to post-war and postmodernist literature.