In his poignant memoir, "Paul's Awakening," Dutch psychiatrist and author Frederik van Eeden recounts the life and death of his son, Paul, who passed...
This novel by Ishikawa Takuboku, a renowned tanka poet, provides a glimpse into the lives of journalists working in Tokyo. It follows the story of a g...
This collection of five short stories, written under the pseudonym Lanoe Falconer, showcases the poignant and insightful writing of Marie Elizabeth Ha...
This book is a semi-autobiographical novel that tells the story of Seizou Hayashi, a young man who becomes an elementary school teacher in rural Japan...
This book, 'Picture' by Victor Daley, is a collection of poems by the Australian poet. Daley was a prominent figure in the late 19th and early 20th ce...
This libretto, originally written in Italian and translated into English, serves as the foundation for Giacomo Puccini's renowned opera, "La Bohème."...
This biography of Emily Brontë, written by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, explores the life and work of the renowned author of "Wuthering Heights." It d...
Germana, a young noblewoman in 1853 Paris, is consumed by tuberculosis and facing an imminent death. This dire situation becomes the catalyst for a ca...
Nami-ko, a young woman from a noble Japanese family, is happily married to Takeo, a naval officer. However, tragedy strikes when Nami-ko contracts tub...
This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by Katherine Mansfield, a pioneering modernist author from New Zealand, offers a glimpse into the c...
This book is a firsthand account of a young couple's journey across the western United States in 1908. The author, Ethel Grace Lynn, was diagnosed wit...