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A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
$22.99 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
Poems to Night by Rilke, Rainer Maria; Will Stone (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Plays | 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.
The Art of the City : Rome, Florence, Venice by Georg Simmel; Will Stone (Translator)
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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
The Captain's Daughter - Essential Stories by Alexander Pushkin; Anthony Briggs (Translator)
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
A dazzling new collection of Pushkin's most fiction, in definitive translations by the acclaimed Anthony Briggs.
The Evenings by Gerard Reve; Sam Garrett (Translator)
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$29.99 (16% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection | Reading Level: General Adult
THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF A POSTWAR MASTERPIECE 'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.' Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. ...Show more
The Hideout by Egon Hostovský; Fern Long (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
A kind, blundering Czech engineer is pressured by the Nazi government to hand over his invention, which could be key to their military operations. He flees to Paris, hoping to sell his invention to the French government instead; yet when the Germans invade France, he is forced into hiding, and spends mo ...Show more
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