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  • Houses

    Translated by Bernard Johnson ...
    Building can be seen as a master metaphor for modernity, which some great irresistible force, be it Fascism or Communism or capitalism, is always busy rebuilding, and Houses is a book about a man, Arsénie Negovan, who has devoted his life and his dreams to building.Bon vivant, Francophile, visionary, Negovan spent the first half of his life building houses he loved and even named—Juliana, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Pale Fire

    Series series Vintage International
    **A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita."Half-poem, half-prose...a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. One of the great works of art of this century." —Mary McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of The ... Read more

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  • Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia (LOA #281)

    Malafrena / Stories and Songs

    Series Book 1 - Library of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition
    Library of America gathers for the first time the entire body of work set in the imaginary central European nation of Orsinia—the enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction series written by Hugo, Nebula, and National Book Award winner Ursula K. Le Guin.In a career spanning half a century, Ursula K. Le Guin has produced a body of work that testifies to her abiding faith in the power and art of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Dreams of My Russian Summers

    A Novel

    Translated by Geoffrey Strachan ...
    Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales-watching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas II’s visit to Paris, French president Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from his mysterious ... Read more

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  • Speak, Memory

    An Autobiography Revisited

    Series series Vintage International
    From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. • "Scintillating … One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever." —The New York TimesSpeak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Case of Comrade Tulayev

    by Victor Serge ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence—at least of the crime of which they stand accused. But The Case of Comrade Tulayev, ... Read more

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  • The Avignon Quintet

    Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, and Quinx

    Series series The Avignon Quintet
    From the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet comes a landmark five-part series hailed as "one of the great novels of our time" ( Sunday Times ).One of the most celebrated English writers ever, Lawrence Durrell was a bestselling author whose vivid metafictions pushed the boundaries of modern literature. The cosmopolitan provocateur transcended borders, ide... ... Read more

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  • Bend Sinister

    Series series Vintage International
    The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state.Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost ... Read more

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  • Chess

    A Novel

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    '... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man ... Read more

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  • Autobiography of a Corpse

    Translated by Joanne Turnbull ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalWinner of the 2014 PEN Translation PrizeWinner of the 2014 Read Russia PrizeThe stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky’s most dazzling conceits: a provincial ... Read more

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  • Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

    A Novel

    by Paul Russell ...
    In his novel based on the extraordinary life of the brother of Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Russell re-creates the rich and changing world in which Sergey, his family and friends lived; from wealth and position in pre-revolutionary Russia to the halls of Cambridge University and the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. But it is the honesty and vulnerability of Sergey, our young gay ... Read more

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  • The Man who Walked Through Walls

    by Marcel Ayme ...
    Translated by Sophie Lewis ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of using his gift, given the general availability of doors. One day, however, his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate, creative measures — he develops a taste for intramural travel and becomes something of a super-villain. How will the unassuming clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime ... Read more

    $11.99 USD