FACTS are stranger than HISTORICAL FICTION

Quotes that will get your imagination going.

Friday, 4 September 2015

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THE DICTAPHONE IN 1894. BETTER THAN EDISON’S MACHINE! A notice appeared in the Wiener Tagblatt of July 10, 1894: Albert Kötzlow has...
Friday, 28 August 2015

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KAFKA AND HIS FATHER'S JUDAISM. Small mementos of a bygone time. Kafka continues his letter to his father:              Later, ho...
Tuesday, 25 August 2015

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KAFKA’S JUDAISM. Dear father, Judaism could not save me from you. A passage from Franz Kafka's Letter to His Father : One would ...
Monday, 24 August 2015

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A CAIRO WEDDING, 1870. The bridegroom utters a cry of joy -- or not. Luise Mühlbach’s report continues: On the day of the wedding a...
Thursday, 20 August 2015

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A CAIRO BRIDE, 1870. An red packet adorned with a golden crown. The German novelist Luise Mühlbach observes a wedding procession thro...
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Erika Rummel
I was born in Vienna and obtained a doctorate from the University of Toronto. I am the author of more than a dozen non-fiction books (social history, biography, translation), ten novels (see them all on my website: www.erikarummel.com). I divide my time between Toronto and Los Angeles, and have lived in villages in Argentina, Romania, and Bulgaria. Want to know more about me? Follow me on Twitter @historycracks. Visit my website: http://www.erikarummel.com/
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