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Title	Author	Description
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll	Alvaro Mutis Mutis	Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. Contributors: Francisco Goldman , Edith Grossman
The Adventures of Sindbad Adventures of Sindbad	Gyula Krúdy Krudy	Rogue, romantic, and seducer, Sindbad, Krúdy's most famous creation, returns in dreams to lovers he has left, lovers who have died. The women in turn tell their stories, creating a beautifully melancholy vision of the twilight of the Habsburg Empire. “[Krúdy’s] literary power and greatness are almost past comprehension...” —Sándor Márai Contributors: George Szirtes
An African in Greenland African in Greenland	Tete-Michel Kpomassie Kpomassie	"Kpomassie is indisputably a man of extraordinary charm; he is also sharp and perceptive and honest?unencumbered by a sense of obligation to his hosts that might have prevented him from telling us what they are really like."— Katherine Bouton, The Nation Contributors: Al Alvarez , James Kirkup
As a Man Grows Older As a Man Grows Older	Italo Svevo Svevo	A brilliant study of hopeless love and hapless indecision. It is a masterwork of Italian literature, here beautifully rendered into English in Beryl de Zoete's classic translation. Contributors: James Lasdun , Beryl de Zoete
Asleep in the Sun Asleep in the Sun	Adolfo Bioy Casares Casares	Bioy Casares's strange, sly novel may be read as a fable of modern politics or as a meditation on the elusive parameters of the self. Above all, it is an almost scarily perfect comic turn, as well as a pure delight. Contributors: James Sallis , Suzanne Jill Levine
Beware of Pity Beware of Pity	Stefan Zweig Zweig	The most widely read author writing in German prior to the rise of the Nazis, Zweig captures the torment of betrayal in a powerful study of affliction. Contributors: Joan Acocella , Phyllis and Trevor Blewitt
The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved Bog People	P.V. Glob Glob	Conceived as a kind of a detective story, this classic of archaeological history—out of print for over thirty years—is a fascinating account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the Iron Age in Europe. Contributors: Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul T. Barber , Rupert Bruce-Mitford
The Book of My Life Book of My Life	Girolamo Cardano Cardano	At once picaresque adventure and campus comedy, curriculum vitae and last will, The Book of My Life is an extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait. Contributors: Anthony Grafton , Jean Stoner
The Case of Comrade Tulayev Case Of Comrade Tulayev	Victor Serge Serge	The best novel ever written about the Stalinist purges is also a classic tale of risk and adventure that stands beside Malraux's Man's Fate and Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Contributors: Susan Sontag , Willard R. Trask
The Child Child	Jules Vallès VallÌ¬s	Vallès's book is one of the funniest books in French literature, a triumph of insubordinate comedy over the forces of order and the self-appointed defenders of decency. Contributors: Douglas Parmée, Douglas Parmée