Denver Lindley Books

ARCH OF TRIUMPHIt is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic—a German doctor and refugee living in Paris—has been treating some of the city's most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians.Forbidden to return to his own country, and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic manages to hang on—all the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany. And though he's given up on the possibility of love, life has a curious way of taking a turn for the romantic, even during the worst of times. . . .

My Belief: Essays on Life and Art is a collection of essays by Hermann Hesse. The essays, written between 1904 and 1961, were originally published in German, either individually or in various collections between 1951 and 1973. This collection in English was first published in 1976, edited by Theodore Ziolkowski.

This unique selection of twenty-three stories - all but three available in English for the first time - offers an unparalleled spectrum of Hermann Hesse's writing from 1899 to 1948. The reader can trace Hesse's development from the aestheticism of his youth through to the realism and surrealism of the next decade to the classicism of his old age. All his stories, as Hesse himself realized, are concerned primarily with his own secret dreams, his own bitter anguish and his own lifelong quest to penetrate the mysteries of man's inner reality. <b>Stories of Five Decades</b> is a rewarding and distinguished display of the full range of Hesse's hypnotically vivid and lyrical story-telling as it blossomed over a lifetime. <i>There could be no better introduction to Hesse than this skilfully selected volume</i> - <b>Financial Times</b> <i>All the stories in this book are a kind of dream journey</i> - <b>Times Literary Supplement</b> <i>A really fascinating collection of short stories...if you enjoy Hesse's strange and beautiful prose which so often opens up unknown avenues for speculation, these will richly satisfy</i> - <b>The Scotsman</b> Cover Illustration: Justin Todd