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A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Confusion - The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R Von D by Stefan Zweig
$20.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pushkin Collection
A young student finds himself drawn ever closer to his passionate and enigmatic English teacher In the autumn of his days, a privy councillor contemplates his past, looking back at the key moments in his life. He remembers sharing a lodging with a professor and his wife and a close friendship is formed. ...Show more
Dear Reader by Paul Fournel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
Old-school publisher meets e-reader: chaos ensues There's a lot of good to be said about publishing, mainly about the food. The books, though - Robert Dubois feels as if he's read the books, but still they keep coming back to him, the same old books just by new authors. Maybe he's ready to settle into t ...Show more
Fuzz McFlops by Eva Furnari
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Pushkin Children's Collection
Reclusive rabbit poet Fuzz McFlops has been a loner ever since his classmates teased him for his lopsided ears in his youth. Their unkindness hurt him deeply, but also served as inspiration for works such as The Withered Carrot and An Unlucky Rabbit Foot, which have propelled the troubled author to grea ...Show more
Montaigne by Stefan Zweig
$20.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | 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 Rilke, Rainer Maria; Will Stone (Translator)
$27.00 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.
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
The Art of the City : Rome, Florence, Venice by Georg Simmel; Will Stone (Translator)
$22.00 AUD
Category: Travel Guides | 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 Evenings by Gerard Reve; Sam Garrett (Translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
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 Pointless Leopard: What Good are Kids Anyway? by Colas Gutman
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (5 to 8 years) | Series: Pushkin Children's Collection
A walk in the woods turns into a funny, philosophical and irresistibly charming mini-adventure.In this witty tale of insistent parents and talking animals, a child questions his purpose.In the country, there's nothing to do, except: admire. It's the same as being bored, but with your eyes wide open.The ...Show more
The Queen's Necklace by Antal Szerb
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
A witty and erudite love letter to a bygone age, from one of Europe's last great humanists. "A sparkling slice of eighteenth-century life" Paul Bailey, Independent In August 1785 Paris buzzed with scandal. It involved an eminent churchman, a notorious charlatan, a female fraudster, a part-time prostit ...Show more
Yevgeny Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
A brand new translation of this classic Russian work. Bored and aloof, tired of St Petersburg high society, Yevgeny Onegin goes to live on the country estate he has just inherited from his uncle. There he encounters Tatyana, who becomes hopelessly infatuated with him. From this story Pushkin creates hi ...Show more
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