Pushkin Collection – serie
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19 produkter
Montaigne
Av Stefan Zweig
Häftad, 2015
159 kr
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'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.'Stefan Zweig was already an émigré-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne would become Zweig's last great occupation, helping …
Marquise of O–
Häftad, 2019
163 kr
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In a Northern Italian town during the Napoleonic Wars, Julietta, a young widow and mother of impeccable reputation, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. This follows an attack on the town's citadel, in which several Russian soldiers tried to assault her before she was rescued by Count F-, at which …
Burning Secret
Av Stefan Zweig
Häftad, 2017
74 kr
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The Baron, bored on holiday, begins a flirtation with a beautiful woman via her twelve-year-old son. He befriends the child and charms him, all the while attempting to seduce the mother - but he cannot begin to imagine the effect he is having on the boy's life... Burning Secret is a witty, potent …
Captain's Daughter
Essential Stories
Häftad, 2021
149 kr
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As complex as they are gripping, Pushkin's stories are some of the greatest and most influential ever written. Foundational to the development of Russian prose, they retain stunning freshness and clarity, more than ever in Anthony Briggs's finely nuanced translations.These are stories that upend …
Cake Tree in the Ruins
Häftad, 2018
187 kr
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'I am still unable to leave the burnt-out ruins' Akiyuki Nosaka, 2014In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly memorable stories of The Cake Tree in the Ruins are based on …
Nail, A Rose
Häftad, 2019
149 kr
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'Madeleine Bourdouxhe is one of the more remarkable literary discoveries of the last few years' Jonathan Coe These are stories of longing and dissatisfaction, of daily life ruptured by strange currents of feeling. A woman, wandering alone and heartbroken, is first attacked and then romantically …
Coral Merchant
Essential Stories
Av Joseph Roth
Häftad, 2020
149 kr
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Joseph Roth's sensibility-both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly realistic and tenderly humane-produced some of the most distinctive fiction of the twentieth century. This collection of his most essential stories, in exquisite new translations by Ruth Martin, showcases the astonishing range and …
Love and Youth
Essential Stories
Häftad, 2020
160 kr
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An icon of Russian literature, Turgenev was able to contain the narrative sweep of a novel in a single short story. His protagonists experience the joy and painful turbulence of first love, the thrilling adventures of youth, and the layered reflections of maturity. His great skill is to make his …
Inside the Whale
On Writers and Writing
Häftad, 2021
154 kr
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Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations. Delving into the literary canon, George Orwell encounters dusty classics and …
England Your England
Notes on a Nation
Häftad, 2021
154 kr
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This new collection brings together four of Orwell's short sketches of English life with his masterful analysis of a crumbling English society. They range from an expedition down a coal mine to a chastening experience of colonial rule in Burma, and from a witty study of murder reportage in the …
I Would Prefer Not To
Essential Stories
Häftad, 2021
154 kr
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In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.A lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with stubborn, confounding resistance. A cynical …
Looking-Glass
Essential Stories
Häftad, 2022
149 kr
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Machado de Assis is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating story writers who ever lived. What seem at first to be stately social satires reveal unanticipated depths through hints of darkness and winking surrealism. This new selection of his finest work, translated by the prize-winning Daniel …
Every Day is To-Day
Essential Writings
Häftad, 2023
163 kr
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In this collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the bearer of a joyfully radical literary vision. A bold experimenter, her writing sparks with vitality, relishing in rhythm, repetition, sound and colour in its central vision: to prise apart language and association and find thrilling …
Where All Good Flappers Go
Essential Stories of the Jazz Age
Av Various Authors, David M. Earle m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
154 kr
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Featuring short stories from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anita Loos, Dorothy Parker, Zora Neale Hurston and more Edited and Introduced by David M. Earle Vivacious, charming, irreverent: a flapper is a girl who knows how to have a roaring good time. In this collection of short stories she's a partygoer, a …
Evening with Claire
Häftad, 2021
163 kr
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Two old friends meet nightly in Paris, after a separation of ten years. Trading conversational barbs and manoeuvring around submerged feelings, Claire and Kolya resume what fate interrupted. When their long-imagined romance at last becomes reality, Kolya is engulfed by memories of Russia, from a …
Last and the First
Häftad, 2021
163 kr
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On a crisp September morning, trouble comes to the Gorbatovs' farm. Having fled revolution and civil war in Russia, the family has worked tirelessly to establish themselves as crop farmers in Provence, their hopes of returning home a distant dream. While young Ilya Stepanovich is committed to this …
Siren's Lament
Essential Stories
Häftad, 2023
269 kr
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'One of the greatest Japanese writers... his work explores the destructive power of erotic obsessions' Guardian'Outstanding... rich and mysterious' New York Times Book ReviewA new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and …
Rock Crystal
Häftad, 2012
136 kr
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Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal is a Christmas story and a story about the heart of the ice, the crystal. The charm of this quasi-fairy tale is made even more poignant by the knowledge of the author's eventual suicide. This seemingly simple fable of two children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent …
