Tiberian Press

At a mountain resort, a refined intellectual runs into his former pupil, now a beautiful woman half his age. As the nature of their rekindled relationship changes, he documents with perverse lucidity his attempt to resist falling in love with her. Adela is a fin de si cle novel written by Garabet Ibrăileanu, one of Romania's most important literary critics. The author spent a decade refining and circulating the work among his literary friends, finally publishing it a year before his death (1933). It received the National Novel Award that same year. A sharp analysis of male prudeness and idealism.--George Calinescu, critic One of the most beautiful and enduring specimens of the Romanian analytical novel.--Eugenia Tudor-Anton, writer A painful, full of doubts midlife crisis of an overcomplicated man. Courageous book for its time, deprecated (but nevertheless delightful) by today's standards. --George Cocu, reviewer A model of psychological literature imbued with genuine poetry.--Eugen Lovinescu, critic

The story of a boy who did not want to become a priest; the masterpiece of Romania's greatest storyteller. Recollections from Childhood (original title in Romanian, Amintiri din copilărie) is a highly entertaining recount of the author's idyllic childhood, disrupted by his parents' ambitions to have him enter priesthood. "One of the main literary contributions of Romanian author Ion Creangă. The largest of his two works in the memoir genre, it includes some of the most recognizable samples of first-person narratives in Romanian literature, and is considered by critics to be Creangă's masterpiece." --Wikipedia