Expatriate
Hedda Gabler (version 2)
Hedda Gabler has just returned from her honeymoon. She has married out of ennui, and is already heartily sick of her husband, who is a plodd…
The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation)
At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly ph…
The Tree of Heaven
One of the most heart-breaking of all World War I novels, this family epic was written in the midst of the War itself, and shows the intense…
The Last Ditch
An amusing but deeply poignant story, “The Last Ditch” describes the wartime experiences of a British aristocratic family who gradually real…
The Creators: A Comedy
Jane Holland is a genius, the greatest of a group of extraordinary literary friends. She has an intense artistic and intellectual kinship wi…
The New Idealism
The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossifie…
Alcestis (Way Translation)
Alcestis, queen of Pherae, is one of the noblest heroines in all of Greek drama. Her husband Admetus is the supposedly virtuous king of Pher…
Backwater (Pilgrimage, Vol. 2)
"Backwater" is the second volume of "Pilgrimage," a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson con…
Mr. Waddington of Wyck
May Sinclair’s 1921 novel tells the story of the ridiculous Mr. Horatio Bysshe Waddington, a pompous, self-deluded poser making his way thro…
Little Eyolf (Mencken Translation)
One of the four profound plays of Ibsen’s late period (along with “The Master Builder,” “John Gabriel Borkman,” and “When We Dead Awaken”), …
The Master Builder (Gosse & Archer Translation)
Halvard Solness is a master architect who has ruthlessly forged a preëminent career without regard for the feelings of those around him…
Martin Schüler
Romer Wilson's first novel is a study in the life of Genius, a theme that would preoccupy her throughout her life. The eponymous Martin Sch…
Nocturne of Remembered Spring, and Other Poems
Written at the height of the Great War, the poems of this volume are suffused with a sense of melancholy and tragedy. Some of the poems (su…
A Man's World
The mysterious Frank Ware is a woman writer forced to write under a masculine pseudonym in order to win literary respect. Adding to her enig…
Tasker Jevons: The Real Story
In this May Sinclair wartime masterpiece, dashing newsman Walter Furnival is an absurdly good catch: handsome, successful, athletic, intelli…
Out of Bohemia: A Story of Paris Student-Life
Beryl Carrington is a naïve young American artist following her ideals to Paris, where she meets three young men, all also artists and …