Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting fiction
that fear becomes terrifyingly real
Each story offers a glimpse into a world where the mundane becomes magical and where small moments crack open with unexpected meaning
This revised edition includes as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 and 1831 together with 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'
who adored him completely
The Empusium Taylor Jenkins Reid Table for Two is anotherIn September 1913, Mieczysaw, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitzs Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status. Meanwhile, disturbing things are beginning to happen in the guesthouse and its surroundings. As stories of shocking events in the surrounding highlands reach