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A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig. Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertai ...Show more
American Midnight by Laird Hunt (Selected by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
A collection of chilling tales from the dark heart of American literature.
An Evening with Claire by Gaito Gazdanov
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
The lyrical first novel of youth and love by acclaimed modernist master Gaito Gazdanov, author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf.
And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon - Essential Stories by Nikolai Gogol
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
Fresh, stylish new translations of Gogol's greatest short stories collected in a beautiful edition Admired by writers from Nabokov to Bulgakov to George Saunders, Gogol is considered one of the more enigmatic of the Russian greats. He only wrote one novel, Dead Souls, and destroyed much of his later wo ...Show more
City of Lions by Jozef Wittlin and Philippe Sands
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pushkin Collection
Portrait of a City in Two Acts: Lviv, Then and Now The Ukrainian city Lviv's many names (Lviv, Lvov, Lwow, Lemberg, Leopolis) bear witness to its conflicted past - it has, at one time or another, belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Russia and Germany, and has brought forth numerous famous a ...Show more
Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz by Maxim Biller
$6.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
Do you see what kind of a madhouse this town of Drohobycz is now, Dr Mann? People here never think and act as they should! Locked away in a dimly lit cellar in a provincial Polish town, the writer Bruno Schulz is composing a letter to Thomas Mann, warning him of a sinister impostor who has deceived the ...Show more
Isolde by Irena Odoevtseva; Brian Karetnyk (Translator); Irina Steinberg (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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 | 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
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
$6.00 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
Surrender To Night (Pushkin Collection): Collected Poems of Georg Trakl by Georg Trakl
$27.99 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: History | 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