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W. Somerset Maugham: Then and Now

RANDOM HOUSE, 2001

Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance.

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W. Somerset Maugham: Up at the Villa

RANDOM HOUSE, 2005

Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. But a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that shatters her serenity.

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Washington Irving: Sleepy Hollow - Unheimliche Geschichten

ANACONDA VERLAG GMBH, 2024

Sleepy Hollow ist eine schaurige Schlucht im Staat New York. Dort treibt der Geist eines ehemaligen Söldners sein Unwesen.

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Washington Irving: Sleepy Hollow und andere unheimliche Geschichten

INSEL VERLAG, 2009

Washington Irving ist der »Erfinder« und erster Vertreter der amerikanischen Short story. Vor allem seine unheimlichen Geschichten wie Die Legende von Sleepy Hollow und Rip van Winkle sind bis heute äußerst populär und wurden mehrfach verfilmt.

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Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Collins Classics)

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2012

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Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

SIGNET BOOK, 2006

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Weihnachten in unserer Zeit (1): Besinnliche Geschichten für Erwachsene

BOOKS ON DEMAND GMBH, 2016

Ein Bahnangestellter bemerkt am Heiligabend eine defekte Schienenstrecke, doch niemand schenkt ihm Gehör.

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Wilbur Smith: A Sparrow Falls

PANMACMILLAN, 2009

Sean Courtney, who made and lost ?5 million on the goldfields of the Witwatersrand and fought his way through the bloody battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War, now makes his final appearance as soldier, statesman and power in the land.

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Wilbur Smith: Assegai

PANMACMILLAN, 2010

It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories.

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Wilbur Smith: The Angels Weep

PAN BOOKS, 2015

The Angels Weep is the third bestselling book in Wilbur Smith's Ballantyne Novels - an epic exploration into the dark past of colonial Africa.

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Wilbur Smith: When the Lion Feeds

PANMACMILLAN, 2009

The first in the Courtneys of Africa series from the worldwide bestselling master storyteller.

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Wilhelm Raabe: Das Odfeld

RECLAM, 1977

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Wilhelm Raabe: Die Akten des Vogelsangs

RECLAM, 2023

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William Boyd: A Good Man in Africa

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2010

Escapee from suburbia, overweight, oversexed ... Morgan Leafy isn't overburdened with worldly success. Actually, he is refreshingly free from it. But then, as a representative of Her Britannic Majesty in tropical Kinjanja, it was not very constructive ..

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William Boyd: An Ice-cream War

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2013

An Ice-cream War is William Boyd's hilarious bestselling novel of love and battle

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William Boyd: Fascination

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011

This is William Boyd's third volume of short stories following his acclaimed collections On the Yankee Station (1981) and The Destiny of Nathalie X (1995).

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William Boyd: On the Yankee Station

PENGUIN BOOKS, 1988

Adolescent sex in a Scottish boys' public school, oddballs on the seedy side of America, murder in a quiet Devon cottage...

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William Boyd: The Dream Lover - Short Stories

BLOOMSBURY, 2008

Funny, moving and sharply observed, these stories are confirmation of Boyd's status as one of English fiction's finest writers. Here are twenty-four gripping tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood.

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