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Title	Author	Description
Count d'Orgel's Ball Count d'Orgel's Ball	Raymond Radiguet Radiguet	A playful, Wildean meringue of missed meaning and romantic tangles. Contributors: Annapaola Cancogni
The Day of the Owl Day of the Owl	Leonardo Sciascia Sciascia	This short, beautifully paced novel is a mesmerizing description of the Mafia at work. Contributors: George Scialabba , Archibald Colquhoun and Anthony Oliver
Dirty Snow Dirty	Georges Simenon Simenon	Dirty Snow, widely acknowledged as one of Simenon's finest books, is a study of the criminal mind comparable to Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me. Contributors: William T. Vollmann , Marc Romano and Louise Varese
Envy Envy	Yuri Olesha Olesha	Envy is an anarchic comedy of co-dependency and complete misunderstanding. Contributors: Ken Kalfus , Marian Schwartz
Equal Danger Equal Danger	Leonardo Sciascia Sciascia	District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Contributors: Carlin Romano , Adrienne Foulke
An Ermine In Czernopol Ermine in Czernopol	Gregor von Rezzori Rezzori	The first of Rezzori’s three books based on memories of his Austro-Hungarian hometown, a “melting pot for dozens of ethnic groups, languages, creeds, temperaments, and customs.” While the story centers on the downfall of a once glamorous Hussar, it is really about childhood enchantment and the richness of a vanished world. “A flashing novel of ideas.” —Time Contributors: Daniel Kehlmann , Philip Boehm
The Glass Bees Glass Bees	Ernst Jünger Junger	In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Contributors: Bruce Sterling , Elizabeth Mayer and Louise Bogan
The Golovlyov Family Golovlyov Family	Shchedrin Shchedrin	This is a tragic story, deeply moving, and by means of the figures that pass through it, relentlessly depicts the Russia that so inevitably prepared the Revolution. The book is a classic in its own country, and it is obvious why. —The Spectator Contributors: James Wood , Natalie Duddington
Grief Lessons (Paperback): Four Plays by Euripides Grief Lessons	Euripides Euripides	"Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief." Celebrated contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson presents new translations of four plays by Euripides. Contributors: Anne Carson
The Inferno of Dante Alighieri Inferno Of Dante Alighieri	Ciaran Carson Alighieri	This is a truly original retelling of Dante's epic journey that will surprise and renew the twenty-first-century reader's faith in the art of translation.