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Friday, July 31, 2020

The Hotel Majestic by Georges Simenon

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Too many unconnected dots The Hotel Majestic is the 41st work of detective fiction in Belgian author Georges Simenon’s series of Inspe...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Facino Cane by Honoré de Balzac

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The clarinetist of Monte Cristo Honoré de Balzac’s series of writings known as the Comédie Humaine consists of around 90 works of lite...
Monday, July 27, 2020

The Fellowship of the Talisman by Clifford D. Simak

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Preachy sword-and-sorcery fantasy Fantasy literature isn’t really my thing, but I am a huge fan of Clifford D. Simak’s science fiction,...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Brazilian Tales, edited by Isaac Goldberg

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Foundations of a national literature Machado de Assis As one might expect, Brazilian Tales, published in 1921, is a collection o...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Jean-Christophe, Volume 1: Dawn, Morning, Youth, Revolt by Romain Rolland

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The first four stages of a musician’s life French novelist, playwright, and essayist Romain Rolland won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Liter...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Martin Paz by Jules Verne

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Romantic thriller in colonial Peru Martin Paz, a novella by Jules Verne, was originally published in 1852 as a serial in the French li...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by Captain Adam Seaborn

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Hollow-Earth Utopia These days we still have to contend with a few Flat Earthers, but if you were around two hundred years ago it’s lik...