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  • The Hideout

    by Egon Hostovský ...
    Translated by Fern Long ...
    Series 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 months in a dark, damp cellar. Alone, he dwells on his memories - of his troubled marriage, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    **22 classic short stories and novellas of love and death, betrayal and hope—now collected for the first time in this beautiful 720-page volume!“One of the masters of the short story.” —Guardian**In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig’s short stories, the very best and worst of human nature is captured with sharp observation, understanding, and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Grand Hotel

    by Vicki Baum, Margot Bettauer Dembo ...
    Translated by Basil Creighton ...
    A luxury hotel in 1920s Berlin is a microcosm of modern society in this classic that inspired a hit Broadway musical and the classic film starring Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and John Barrymore.“Prefigures Downtown Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs by examining multiple characters from different classes.” —Shelf AwarenessThe luxury Grand Hotel is a revolving door for the stray souls of 1920s Berlin. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Speak, Memory

    An Autobiography Revisited

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    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 Winter Queen

    by Boris Akunin ...
    Translated by Andrew Bromfield ...
    Series Book 4 - Erast Fandorin
    Moscow, May 1876: What would cause a talented young student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public in the Alexander Gardens? Decadence and boredom, most likely, is what the commander of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police thinks, but still he finds it curious enough to send the newest member of the division, Erast Fandorin, a young man of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Red Collar

    A Novel

    by Jean-Christophe Rufin ...
    "A beautifully memorable and unusual story about war and what it does to us" from the bestselling author and founder of Doctors Without Borders ( The Independent).In 1919, in a small town in the province of Berry, France, under the crushing heat of summer, a war hero is being held prisoner in an abandoned barracks. In front of the door to his prison, a mangy dog barks night and day. Miles from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

    by Simone de Beauvoir ...
    Series series Perennial Classics
    From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex "a book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way" ( New York Times ).A superb memoir by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an ... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Despair

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    Series series Vintage International
    The wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder. • “A beautiful mystery plot, not to be revealed.” – Newsweek“Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.” – John Updike“One of Mr. Nabokov’s finest, most challenging and provocative novels.” – The New York TimesDespair’s protagonist, Hermann, is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Subtly Worded and Other Stories

    by Teffi ...
    Translated by Anne Marie Jackson, Robert Chandler ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A selection of the finest short stories from “one of the most popular writers in Russia,” praised by many as the female Chekhov (The New York Times)Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely funny—a wry, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

    by Peter Handke ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    "My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide."So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • The Life of an Unknown Man

    A Novel

    by Andreï Makine ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Strachan ...
    A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian SummersIn The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia's past and present.Shutov, a disenchanted writer, revisits St. Petersburg after twenty years of exile in Paris, hoping to recapture his youth. Instead, he meets Volsky, an old man who ... Read more

    $9.99 USD