Published in 1927 for Hermann Hesse’s fiftieth birthday, Hugo Ball’s Hermann Hesse: Sein Leben und sein Werk is one of the earliest major portraits of the author of Demian, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, and Beneath the Wheel. Ball follows Hesse from the Pietist world of Calw and Basel through Maulbronn, apprenticeship, literary struggle, marriage, war, crisis, and the move south to Ticino. The biography is especially strong on Hesse’s family atmosphere: missionary Protestantism, Swabian Pietism, the maternal world, childhood fear, nature, music, fairy tale, folk song, and the pressure of education and religious duty. Ball does not write as a detached academic critic. He reads Hesse as a spiritual and artistic figure: the last heir of Romanticism, a poet of childhood and inwardness, and a modern man caught between religious inheritance, rebellion, analysis, and the collapse of European civilization. Written shortly before Ball’s own death, this biography remains a revealing document of Hesse’s early reception and of Ball’s late religious-literary criticism.

Barbara Cartland was the most prolific and popular romantic author of the Twentieth Century enchanting millions of readers with her unequalled tales of pure romance, dashing heroes, beautiful heroines, and of course, her trademark happy endings.



Now, as a tribute to Her Majesty the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee and to Barbara’s enduring appeal to romantics everywhere, her publishers have launched her past collection - The Eternal Collection.



The collection includes - Elizabethan Lover, The Little Pretender, A Ghost in Monte Carlo and A Duel of Hearts which were all in circulation at the time Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1952. The books are available at the Kindle Store at Amazon.co.uk – or from Amazon.com.



Ian McCorquodale, Barbara Cartland’s son, said, “My mother would have been so delighted that modern technology can now make her glorious and timeless romances so readily available to new generations of readers all over the world.” weniger anzeigen expand_less