Product Description: Stefan Zweig was a leading talisman of a united Europe of unfettered movement, of pro-active cultural exchange, humane decency and tolerance, all polar opposites of the Nationalist regimes he loathed, and which came to power in the 1930s...read more

Product Description: Written during the Second World War, Zweig's typically passionate and readable biography of Michel de Montaigne, is also a heartfelt argument for the importance of intellectual freedom, tolerance and humanism. Zweig draws strong parallels between Montaigne's age, when Europe was torn in two by conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism, and his own, in which the twin fanaticisms of Fascism and Communism were on the verge of destroying the pan-continental liberal culture he was born into, and loved dearly...read more

Product Description: Rodenbach is known first and foremost for his famous novel Bruges la Morte. Bruges was his muse and poetic source, the landscape in which he attempted to reveal the significance of what appeared lifeless or unconnected to art. Using the symbolist devices of suggestion and mood, Rodenbach sifts the elements that make up the decaying Bruges which he sees as a medieval corpse laid out for him to 'rescue' through his interpretation of its atmosphere of melancholy, its seductive romantic decline and its lonely atmosphere...read more

Product Description: The first English translation of Roth's haunting journalistic essaysWhat seething activity in this world, an hour before its end! The ministers, Europe' racing waiters, run from one lost position to another and fresh misfortune flourishes in the ruins!Having fled to Paris in 1933 following Hitler's rise to power in Germany, Joseph Roth wrote a series of articles in that "hour before the end of the world" which he foresaw was to come and that would culminate in World War II...read more

Product Description: A brand new translation of the compelling third part of Stefan Zweig's The Struggle with the DemonThis edition of Nietzsche displays Zweig's particular forte for creatively mapping the psychology of his subject and their historical significance...read more

Product Description: Drawing in Ash, is prize-winning poet Will Stone's second collection from Salt. These compelling poems are divided into three parts, dealing with subjects such as war and genocide, and the Roman ruins of Provence - historic realities which are unpalatable and to which our current society, despite the indulgence of drawing on a vast intellectual and historical warehouse, is unable to properly determine or clarify...read more

Product Description: For the insatiably curious Zweig, travel was both a necessary cultural education and a personal balm for the depression he experienced when rooted in one place for too long. He spent much of his life weaving between the countries of Central Europe, visiting authors and friends and exploring the continent in the heyday of international rail travel...read more

Product Description: Hugues Viane has turned to the melancholy of the decaying city of Bruges as an ideal location in which to mourn the death of his wife. The city becomes the dead image of his dead wife whilst Hugues falls into psychological torment and humiliation, culminating in a deranged murder...read more

Product Description: WINNER GLEN DIMPLEX POETRY AWARD 2008. Will Stone was recently named a 'European-leaning maverick' by Hugo Williams in the TLS, which may explain why his remarkable voice has been unjustly neglected until now. Stone's poems have a visionary edge to them, replete as they are with a powerful imagery both sublime and unsettling...read more