Richard Winston

Here, National Book Award winner Richard Winston explores life in the Middle Ages - from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire and ending with the dawn of the Renaissance. In both countryside and cities, from the peasants to the bourgeoisie to the nobility, no aspect of life in this era is left unexplored.

Life in the Middle Ages

Margot Benary-Isbert

Clara Winston

The Ark

Heimito von Doderer

The Demons (Sun and Moon Classics)

Hermann Hesse

Klingsor's Last Summer

Henry Winterfeld

In an effort to save a boy wrongly accused, a group of six young friends living in ancient Rome search for the culprit who scrawled graffiti on the temple wall. Simultaneous.

Detectives in Togas

Carl Gustav Jung

Memories, Dreams and Reflections

Jürgen Thorwald

Soviet Soldiers in Hitler's Armies

The Illusion

Suddenly I saw a pale gray shape dart in front of my car. At first I thought it was just a large dog, thin and long-legged. Trapped between the high wall on the left and the unbroken row of parked cars to the right, the animal ran at a relaxed canter directly down the center of the road a few feet in front of me. I slowed even more. The beast was caught in the headlights and I saw it was no neighborhood pooch out for a midnight stroll. It was a coyote and it was hunting.

Death Is the Down Beat

Walter Mehring

The Lost Library. The Autobiography of a Culture ... Translated by Richard and Clara Winston

The Making of an Artist, 1875-1911

Thomas Mann

Notre-Dame de Paris, by Richard and Clara Winston and the Editors of the Newsweek Book Division

An illustrated history of the Gothic cathedral which has figured in important events for eight hundred years.

Notre-Dame de Paris

Hagia Sophia is more than 1,400 years old. It was a Christian Church, then a Muslim mosque, and is now a museum. Here, from National Book Award winner Richard Winston, is the extraordinary story of one of the world's great architectural treasures and its everchanging role in the history of Constantinople.

Hagia Sophia: A History

Richard Winston

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