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Isolde by Irena Odoevtseva; Brian Karetnyk (Translator); Irina Steinberg (Translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
The first English translation of a pioneering Russian writer: a hypnotically dark classic of love, deceit and wayward youth in Paris Left to her own devices in Biarritz, fourteen-year-old Russian Liza meets an older English boy, Cromwell, on a beach. He thinks he has found a magical, romantic beauty ...Show more
Land of Smoke by Sara Gallardo
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
An old man lives alone. His garden is the envy of all his neighbours. But one morning he wakes up to find that his garden is floating away, with him on board, and his supplies won't last. As the water runs out and the delirium takes over, the desperation of solitude begins to overwhelm him.Fluent, narra ...Show more
Montaigne by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Pushkin Collection
'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an emigre-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 him ...Show more
Poems to Night by Rainer Maria Rilke; Will Stone (Translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pushkin Collection
A collection of haunting mystical poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke - most of which have never before been translated into English.
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
The brutalities and dualities of war and religion unflinchingly depicted by this major Russian-Jewish writer War's mess and muddle, the brutality and the inanity of fighting-few have better captured this than Isaac Babel, who was a journalist with the Soviet First Cavalry Army. His unflinching portrayal ...Show more
Rendezvous in Venice by Philippe Beaussant
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
Pierre thought he knew his Uncle Charles well. He had worked with him on a daily basis for fifteen years, assisting the austere art historian in his studies. Yet after Charles' death, Pierre finds a diary in which his uncle confessed to a secret, heartbreaking love affair. Pierre's search for the truth ...Show more
Shola and the Lions by Bernardo Atxaga
16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Pushkin Children's Collection
"So..." Shola wagged her tail doubtfully, "if I'm a lion, why does Grogoinsist on calling me a mere mutt?" Shola is sure that her noble nature and ambitions of grandeur mean only one thing - that she is, in fact, not a dog but a lioness. To the bemusement of her long-suffering owner, Senor Grogo, she s ...Show more
Surrender To Night (Pushkin Collection): Collected Poems of Georg Trakl by Georg Trakl
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pushkin Collection
A new translation by acclaimed poet Will Stone of the visionary Austrian poet Georg Trakl In Georg Trakl's brief, tragic life he produced a body of work of intense visual power. Dense, imagistic and full of unnerving symbolism, his poems occupy a critical place in German Expressionism. Until his death ...Show more
The Art of the City : Rome, Florence, Venice by Georg Simmel; Will Stone (Translator)
21.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Pushkin Collection
A quartet of essays on great European cities from the groundbreaking thinker Georg Simmel These brilliant essays, from one of Germany's greatest and most influential thinkers, are beautifully written and highly readable portraits of three Italian cities: Rome, Venice and Florence. Simmel saw the cit ...Show more
The Beauties : Essential Stories by Nicholas Slater (TRN) Anton Pavlovich; Pasternak Chekhov
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
Without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its messy complexity, Chekhov's short stories are exquisite masterpieces in miniature. His work ranged from the light-hearted comic tales of his early years to some of the most achingly profound stories ever composed, and this variety of ...Show more
The Beggar and Other Stories by Gaito Gazdanov (Author)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
In a Metro underpass, bald and dressed in rags, stands a silent beggar. In the evening, he walks the deserted streets of Paris; at night, he sleeps in a small, foetid crate vacated by the death of another beggar. He is poor and he is ill, but, on reflection, he is free.Never published before in English, ...Show more
The Cake Tree in the Ruins by Akiyuki Nosaka; Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex. In 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 m ...Show more