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Über Würde und Standhaftigkeit in Zeiten des Aufruhrs

Mary Perrault, Anfang fünfzig, führt mit ihrem Mann und den vier Kindern ein beschauliches Leben im ländlichen Kalifornien. Aber dann bricht 1929 die New Yorker Börse zusammen: Der Kampf ums nackte Überleben bringt das Fundament der Gesellschaft ins Wanken und bedroht auch das innere Gleichgewicht der Familie Perrault. Immer wieder gerät Mary in Situationen, in denen sie entscheiden muss, ob sie zum eigenen Vorteil oder zum Wohle anderer handeln soll. In leuchtend klarer Sprache und mit unwiderstehlich...

Ein Indizienprozess erschüttert Jütland. Der für sein Mitgefühl bekannte Pastor Sören Qvist lässt sich für ein Verbrechen verurteilen, das er nicht begangen hat. Freunde bemühen sich um entlastendes Material, seine Kinder eröffnen ihm eine Fluchtmöglichkeit aus dem Gefängnis. Doch Sören Qvist bleibt standhaft. Was bewegt einen Menschen dazu, seine moralische Integrität über sein Leben zu stellen? Dieser Roman, der auf einer wahren Begebenheit aus dem Jahr 1625 basiert, leuchtet mit seinen Fragen hell in unsere Gegenwart hinein.

In this new edition of Janet Lewis's classic short novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre, Swallow Press executive editor Kevin Haworth writes that Lewis's story is "a short novel of astonishing depth and resonance, a sharply drawn historical tale that asks contemporary questions about identity and belonging, about men and women, and about an individual's capacity to act within an inflexible system." Originally published in 1941, The Wife of Martin Guerre has earned the respect and admiration of critics and readers for over sixty years.

Based on a notorious trial in...

Ein Pamphlet diffamiert Ludwig XIV. und seine Mätressenwirtschaft. Wer trägt die Verantwortung für das Flugblatt? Und wer soll fälschlicherweise beschuldigt werden?

Originally published in 1947, The Trial of Soren Qvist has been praised by a number of critics for its intriguing plot and Janet Lewis's powerful writing. And in the introduction to this new edition, Swallow Press executive editor and author Kevin Haworth calls attention to the contemporary feeling of the story-despite its having been written more than fifty years ago and set several hundred years in the past. As in Lewis's best-known novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre, the plot derives from Samuel March Phillips's nineteenth-century study, "Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence, " in...

A detailed and compelling look at distressed securities investing in today's market

In the corporate world, "vulture" investors in distressed securities serve the same cleanup function as vultures do in the natural world: they deal with failing companies, digest bad debt, and mop up after bankruptcies. Since this market's structural and legal complexities create greater inefficiencies than in other investment fields, it's a style of investing that can make money during both booms and busts. While recent economic carnage has made opportunities for vulture investors, more...

This historical novel is the third and final book in American poet and fiction writer Janet Lewis's Cases of Circumstantial Evidence series, based on legal case studies compiled in the nineteenth century. In The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron, Lewis returns to her beloved France, the setting of The Wife of Martin Guerre, her best-known novel and the first in the series. As Swallow Press executive editor Kevin Haworth relates in a new introduction, Monsieur Scarron shifts the reader into the center of Paris in 1694, during the turbulent reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV....