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1794: The City Between the Bridges
- £10.00
- #1 bestseller in Sweden with over 1.5 million copies sold 'Niklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startlingly gruesome historical twist' Guardian The year is 1794. A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses, languishes in hospital. Some think he would be just at home…
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88 More Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
- £16.00
- Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony. He depicts the deceptions, hypocrisies…
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A Memento for Istanbul
- £30.00
- A thrilling tale which moves back and forth through time, from the early days of Byzantium to the thriving metropolis of Istanbul... A corpse is discovered at the base of the statue of Atatiirk in old Istanbul, an antique coin left in its hand. But it's not to be the…
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Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
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Ballades (French and English)
- £20.00
- François Villon (c. 1431 – c. 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems. A limited edition (5000 on ordinary paper) of…
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Becket or The Honour of God
- £25.00
- First published in France in 1959, this was quickly translated into English. When the Archbishop of Canterbury died, Henry II forced his companion and political lieutenant, Thomas Becket to take his place. Becket told his King: 'If I become archbishop, I shall cease to be your friend.' Becekt, who with…
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Beowulf – A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
- £80.00
- A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his…
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David Hockney, a Life
- £10.00
- "Catherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me. I recognised myself" DAVID HOCKNEY "A perfect short expos of Hockney's life as seen through the eyes of an admiring novelist" Kirkus Reviews With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English…
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Diaries and Selected Letters
- £12.00
- The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal diary was…
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Doctor Zhivago (Folio)
- £30.00
- Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled…
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Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine
- £15.00
- Full title: Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light by Honor de Balzac. Short stories collected under the first, second and third decade. Dedicated by the translator to 'all who understand the spirit of humane laughter'.
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Existentialism and Humanism
- £50.00
- Over the past 70 years the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre have probably been more influential in the West than those of any other philosopher and literary figure. In his theoretical writings, Sartre laid the foundation for an original doctrine of Existentialism. His concern, however, was to relate his theory to…
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Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems
- £75.00
- Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems is a collection of Japanese poetry by master poet, Hagiwara Sakutaro. Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) is generally recognized in Japan as the best poet to have emerged since contact was re-established with the outside world. His work represents the astonishing achievement…
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Forty-Two Fables of La Fontaine
- £15.00
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French…
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From the Morning of the World: Poems from the Manyoshu
- £25.00
- This is the first English language edition of 76 poems from the "Manyoshu", the earliest surviving collection of Japanese poetry, which was compiled in the mid-eighth century by the poet Otomo no Yakamochi. There are biographical notes on each of the poets included. The Manyoshu contained over 4,000 poems from…
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1794: The City Between the Bridges
- £10.00
- #1 bestseller in Sweden with over 1.5 million copies sold 'Niklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startlingly gruesome historical twist' Guardian The year is 1794. A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses, languishes in hospital. Some think he would be just at home…
- Add to basket
-
88 More Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
- £16.00
- Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony. He depicts the deceptions, hypocrisies…
- Add to basket
-
A Memento for Istanbul
- £30.00
- A thrilling tale which moves back and forth through time, from the early days of Byzantium to the thriving metropolis of Istanbul... A corpse is discovered at the base of the statue of Atatiirk in old Istanbul, an antique coin left in its hand. But it's not to be the…
- Add to basket
-
Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
- Add to basket
-
Ballades (French and English)
- £20.00
- François Villon (c. 1431 – c. 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems. A limited edition (5000 on ordinary paper) of…
- Add to basket
-
Becket or The Honour of God
- £25.00
- First published in France in 1959, this was quickly translated into English. When the Archbishop of Canterbury died, Henry II forced his companion and political lieutenant, Thomas Becket to take his place. Becket told his King: 'If I become archbishop, I shall cease to be your friend.' Becekt, who with…
- Add to basket
-
Beowulf – A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
- £80.00
- A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his…
- Add to basket
-
David Hockney, a Life
- £10.00
- "Catherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me. I recognised myself" DAVID HOCKNEY "A perfect short expos of Hockney's life as seen through the eyes of an admiring novelist" Kirkus Reviews With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English…
- Add to basket
-
Diaries and Selected Letters
- £12.00
- The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal diary was…
- Add to basket
-
Doctor Zhivago (Folio)
- £30.00
- Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled…
- Add to basket
-
Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine
- £15.00
- Full title: Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light by Honor de Balzac. Short stories collected under the first, second and third decade. Dedicated by the translator to 'all who understand the spirit of humane laughter'.
- Add to basket
-
Existentialism and Humanism
- £50.00
- Over the past 70 years the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre have probably been more influential in the West than those of any other philosopher and literary figure. In his theoretical writings, Sartre laid the foundation for an original doctrine of Existentialism. His concern, however, was to relate his theory to…
- Add to basket
-
Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems
- £75.00
- Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems is a collection of Japanese poetry by master poet, Hagiwara Sakutaro. Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) is generally recognized in Japan as the best poet to have emerged since contact was re-established with the outside world. His work represents the astonishing achievement…
- Add to basket
-
Forty-Two Fables of La Fontaine
- £15.00
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French…
- Add to basket
-
From the Morning of the World: Poems from the Manyoshu
- £25.00
- This is the first English language edition of 76 poems from the "Manyoshu", the earliest surviving collection of Japanese poetry, which was compiled in the mid-eighth century by the poet Otomo no Yakamochi. There are biographical notes on each of the poets included. The Manyoshu contained over 4,000 poems from…
- Add to basket
