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Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (riverrun editions)
a unique selection of Chekhov's novellas
Häftad, 2019
169 kr
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A young woman struggles to assert herself within a regrettable marriage.A boy learns about life on an epic summer's journey to a new school.A doctor attempts to befriend his most interesting patient.A young man tries to figure out the best way to live.This riverrun edition presents a selection of …
Five Women (riverrun editions)
Av Robert Musil
Häftad, 2021
144 kr
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The stories here collected under the title Five Women combine two different volumes. All together, these stories, each of which (as the reader will guess) has a woman at the apparent centre of its gaze, has the feel of a series study, or of a natural history, though one performed in a strange and …
Confusions of Young Törless (riverrun editions)
Av Robert Musil
Häftad, 2021
169 kr
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The Confusions of Young Torless is a taut, powerful depiction of teenage masculinity in this short novel set in an Austrian military academy. An unpopular boy is gradually bullied and humiliated by a coterie of better-off classmates until the almost unbearable conclusion. This was the work which …
Ulysses
(riverrun editions)
Av James Joyce
Häftad, 2021
194 kr
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'It is not that Ulysses excludes us; it is, rather, that it includes us in ways that no other work prepares us for. The question is not 'what is a novel?', but what can a novel be? Ulysses is the answer'Patrick McGuinness from his preface to Ulysses: The Restored TextInitially rejected by several …
Adolphe (riverrun editions)
Häftad, 2021
132 kr
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'One of the undisputed masterpieces of early nineteenth-century French prose fiction.'From Richard Sieburth's preface to AdolphePublished simultaneously in London and Paris in 1816, Adolphe is the story of a tragic love affair between its narrator and his lover Ellenore, two characters locked into …
Wildeana (riverrun editions)
Av Oscar Wilde
Häftad, 2022
144 kr
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Oscar Wilde's early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated - or mocked - as the master of the ingenious epigram, the provocative paradox, the witty aside or the extravagant conceit. In researching his monumental biography of Wilde …
Kreutzer Sonata and other stories (riverrun editions)
Av Leo Tolstoy
Häftad, 2022
144 kr
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'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Kreutzer Sonata and Other StoriesThis second volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected by the critic …
Hadji Murad and other stories (riverrun editions)
Av Leo Tolstoy
Häftad, 2022
169 kr
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'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to Hadji Murad and Other StoriesThis, the third volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction concentrates on his later …
Death of Ivan Ilych and other stories (riverrun editions)
Av Leo Tolstoy
Häftad, 2022
144 kr
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'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other StoriesTolstoy wrote in many genres for different audiences. In this, the …
Man Who Loved Islands: Sixteen Stories (riverrun editions) by D H Lawrence
Av D H Lawrence
Häftad, 2021
144 kr
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'Everyone who met him commented on the arresting power of Lawrence's bright and sharp blue eyes, and the beard he later grew would be as red as a fox's brush, but it was not his appearance that Ford was describing. It was his menace' Frances Wilson, from her Introduction to The Man Who Loves …
Dubliners
(riverrun editions)
Av James Joyce
Häftad, 2023
144 kr
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'Like an artist working an empty sky into a busy cityscape, or an empty chair into a crowded family portrait, Joyce creates spaces where the reader is left to themselves' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface to Dubliners.Set in the late 19th and early 20th-century, Dubliners is made up of fifteen …
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(riverrun editions)
Av James Joyce
Häftad, 2024
144 kr
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'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with one of the most arresting opening sentences in literature' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface.A Portrait first appeared in instalments in the modernist magazine The Egoist in 1914, before it came out as a book in 1916, the year of the Easter …
Real Charlotte
Häftad, 2024
194 kr
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'The novel's dark energies - concerned with histories of gender, property, desire, and institutionalization - carry it forth into our present moment. It remains indispensable reading' Claire Connolly from her preface to The Real CharlotteIn 1894, the London evening newspaper the St James's Gazette …
Experiences of an Irish R. M.
Häftad, 2024
194 kr
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'The stories are rich in dialogue - indeed on many pages there is only dialogue - while the quick exchange of words beats out the rhythm of history on the move' CLAIRE CONNOLLY from her preface to The Experiences of an Irish R. M.The stories in Experiences of an Irish R. M. are almost entirely …
Madame de Mauves & Other Tales
Av Henry James
Häftad, 2025
194 kr
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'This selection forms a biography of sorts. Submerged beneath the surface of his melodramas are the unspoken fears that Henry hoped, by living in Europe, to leave behind' Frances Wilson, from her preface to Madame de Mauves & Other TalesThe stories in this selection are James's earliest tales, …
Middle Years & Other Tales
Av Henry James
Häftad, 2025
194 kr
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'Both the fictional and autobiographical versions of 'The Middle Years' are concerned with authors, acolytes, and endings rather than the middle of things. Or rather they are about, as are all the tales of James's middle years, the recognition of one's own extreme brevity' Frances Wilson, from her …
Beast in the Jungle & Other Tales
Av Henry James
Häftad, 2025
194 kr
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'James's tales can be traps and ruses; they can also be complex self-descriptions in which his own fears and desires have full reign'Frances Wilson, from her Preface to The Beast in the Jungle & Other TalesThis collection is made up of the later works in Henry James's repertoire, into which he …
Hero of Our Time
Häftad, 2024
144 kr
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'I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which proved to be the first prose masterpiece in Russian' Julian Barnes from his preface.Published in Russian in April 1840, A Hero of Our Time reached …
Secret Sharer and Other Stories (riverrun editions)
Selected and with an Introduction by Neil Rennie
Häftad, 2025
169 kr
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'Sailing away, he survived at sea, then on foreign land, and then by writing - re-living his life, many times, many ways, in English fiction' Neil Rennie, from his preface to The Secret Sharer and Other StoriesThe stories in this selection show the intense influence of Conrad's many voyages and his …
Tale of Genji
Av Murasaki
Inbunden, 2026
373 kr
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'One of the most extraordinary works of literature I have ever read' Tom Holland (via The Rest is History)'There are no heroes in the Genji. They are complicated, contradictory, generous, cruel, sad, perverse, and entirely recognizable' Ian Buruma, from his Introduction to The Tale of GenjiThe Tale …
Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (riverrun editions)
a beautiful new edition of Chekhov's short fiction, translated by Constance Garnett
Häftad, 2018
144 kr
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A man and woman fall in love in a seaside town. The only trouble is, they're both married to other people. A schoolmaster is scandalized by his sweetheart riding a bicycle.A woman falls in love with a series of men, each of whom leave her in different ways. Chekhov's stories capture Russian …
Princesse de Clèves (riverrun editions)
Nancy Mitford's sparkling translation of the famous French classic in a beautiful new edition
Häftad, 2018
169 kr
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'Always be civil to the girls. You never know whom they might marry.' Nancy Mitford, from her introduction to The Princess de Clèves When the young, beautiful Mademoiselle de Chartres comes to court, her primary objective is to find herself a husband. Upon her mother's recommendation, she accepts …
Confessions of Zeno (riverrun editions)
a beautiful new edition of the Italian classic
Av Italo Svevo
Häftad, 2018
194 kr
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'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last'A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S as a form of therapy. With a cigarette clutched permanently between his fingers, he explores the …
A Place Bewitched and Other Stories (riverrun editions)
a beautiful new edition of Gogol's short fiction, translated by Constance Garnett
Häftad, 2018
169 kr
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A wounded solider vanishes into notoriety.A nose is found in a loaf of bread.Places - like the Nevesky Prospect - are not what they seem. Nikolai Gogol was one of the nineteenth century's greatest and most influential Russian writers, a realist whose witty and acerbic observations and his taste for …
Against Nature (riverrun editions)
a new translation of the compulsively readable cult classic
Häftad, 2019
144 kr
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The cult novel of fin de siècle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde'It will be biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't give a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before.' The title page of the first complete English translation of Against Nature (published in the French as À Rebours) …
Journal 1887-1910 (riverrun editions)
an exclusive new selection of the astounding French classic
Av Jules Renard
Häftad, 2022
156 kr
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'As a mayor, I am responsible for the upkeep of rural roads; as poet, I prefer to see them neglected.'Jules Renard was a French literary figure of the late nineteenth century. Not a Parisian but a committed countryman, he was elected mayor in 1904 of the tiny village of Citry-le-Mines in a remote …
Duel and Other Stories (riverrun editions)
an exquisite collection from one of Russia's greateat writers
Häftad, 2020
169 kr
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A married woman restlessly seeks a deeper love.An insomniac ponders the meagreness of his life.A man loses the respect of his family because of a counterfeit coin.A duel of wits escalates into a clash of cultures - and more.The Duel and Other Stories is the second in an exclusive three-volume …
He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka (riverrun editions)
Av Franz Kafka
Häftad, 2020
144 kr
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'Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who's standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.' Joshua Cohen, from his preface to He: Shorter Writings of Franz KafkaThis is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the …
Crocodile and Other Stories (riverrun Editions)
Dostoevsky's finest short stories in the timeless translations of Constance Garnett
Häftad, 2019
169 kr
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'I have always been ridiculous, and I have known it, perhaps from the hour I was born'A man goes mad because he is happy.A civil servant behaves like a monster at a wedding-party.A man is swallowed by a crocodile, but not eaten nor seriously damaged.Dostoevsky's stories inhabit similarly volcanic …
Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (riverrun editions)
a new selection of the sharp, sensitive and much-revered stories
Häftad, 2020
144 kr
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A priest receives an unexpected visitor from his past.A triumphant celebration ends in murder.A doctor tells of an unrequited love that only ended with death.Maupassant's direct treatment of sex and sexuality, and his insistence that the artist's primary duty was faithfulness to his own …
