Claude Fragnac The fascination of jewelry depends not only on the beautiful and ingenious craftsmanship of the jeweler, but also on the beauty of many of the most precious stones....

Geogre Elliot   Middlemarch (1871-2) is perhaps the masterpiece of a writer who is now recognized as a major literary figure of the nineteenth century. Virginia Woolf hailed as 'one...

Gerda Charles The conversion of the Jews by Philip RothThe judgment of Solomon by Yehuda YaariFace from Atlantis by Nordine GordimerFist love by Isaac BabelGimpel the fool by Isaac Bashevis...

Philip Jose Farmer When Robert Wolff found a strange horn in an empty house, he held the key to a different universe. To blow that horn would open up a...

MoliereCritics have heralded Richard Wilbur's translations of Molière's seventeenth-century dramas as masterpieces. In brilliant rhymed couplets Wilbur renders into English not only the form and spirit of Molière's language but...

Noah Gordon Michael Kind was a young American Jewish, but he was also a man. A man who couldn't help that his heart led him to Leslie, a beautiful Christian....

Robert Sheckley The 10th Victim (La decima vittima) is an Italian cult sf film directed by Elio Petri in 1965. It is based on Robert Sheckley's 1953 short story "Seventh...