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Romanian
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In the backwoods of Transylvania, the ambition of Lucky Mill's new innkeeper runs headlong into the interests of the region's most dangerous man. The fierce clash of wills threatens the fate of the inn, the innkeeper's marriage, and the lives of innocents.
The Lucky Mill (original title in Romanian, Moara cu noroc) is a fascinating 19th century psychological thriller, and the most important work of the Romanian realist author Ioan Slavici.
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Language
Romanian
Description
A rediscovered classic from the author of For Two Thousand Years, this remarkable novel presents nuanced snapshots of love in the early twentieth century.
Stefan Valeriu, a young man from Romania who has just completed his medical studies in Paris, spends his vacation in the Alps, where he quickly becomes, entangled with three different women. We follow Stefan after his return to Paris as he reflects on the women in his life, at times playing the...
4) Ciuleandra
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Language
Romanian
Description
Written in the interwar period and published in 1927, this psychological thriller captured the imagination of Romanian readers. The book opens with a shock as Puiu, an aristocrat, murders his wife after returning from a ball at the palace. To avoid a public trial and prison sentence, his father instead arranges to have him committed to a mental asylum.
Discussions with his psychiatrist reveal the madness and passion of Puiu through the imagery of...
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Language
Romanian
Description
This title contains both volumes of the novel Rascoala by Liviu Rebreanu, in a single book, with 424 pages.
Rascouala is a masterpiece by Liviu Rebreanu, which proves an extraordinary ability to reconstruct the life of the village and the psychology of the peasant masses.
G. Calinescu summarizes the defining feature of Rebreanu's style, pointing out the clarity, simplicity and conciseness of the ensemble, its overwhelming greatness, the fruit of the...
Author
Language
Romanian
Description
Fiction. Translated from the Romanian by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno. KYRA KYRALINA, upon publication early in the nineteen twenties, immediately established its author as a leading writer in the Modernist pantheon. The first volume in a series of volumes indebted to Oriental modes of storytelling, such as, found in The Thousand and One Nights, KYRA KYRALINA is a book of great, charm and profound, insight into the human condition.
7) Fire Cake
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Language
Romanian
Description
Don't you like green eyes? Well, here it is!
Here you are! Do not look
Too longing, that you can like it!
Oh, there are tens and hundreds of young people
Who would like to kiss me,
And, me!
Hotule! You're looking at me;
I know what you're thinking now,
That's why you're ashamed -
I wish I was a lad once
I wouldn't be ashamed of a girl
Not at all.
10) Poor Dionis
Author
Language
Romanian
Description
Si al leer este libro puedes comprender que no importan las circunstancias de tu nacimiento ni las consecuencias en las que tus malas decisiones te metieron, la aparición de esta obra se verá justificada. Si tu viaje por estas páginas logra convencerte de que siempre en la vida, lo importante es no rendirte y seguir luchando aferrado a la fe y con la ayuda de Dios provocar que la circunstancias cambien, especialmente cuando ellas erigen obstáculos...
Author
Language
Romanian
Description
When the First World War broke out, Apostol Bologa left his home in Romania and joined the Austro-Hungarian army with grand visions of battle, glory, and honor. Instead, the young officer finds himself serving on a near-perfunctory tribunal that sentences deserters and other reprobates to hanging in a small dark forest just behind the Eastern Front.
At first Bologa performs his duties with staunch military bearing, but the weight of the dead slowly...
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