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  • Saving the Children of the Holocaust

    True Stories of Remarkable Women who Risked their Lives to Save Thousands of Children during World War II

    by Helen Constantine ...
    Saving the Children of the Holocaust tells the astonishing, little-known stories of eight ordinary women who risked everything to save children during one of history's darkest periods.While much has been written about the horrors of the Holocaust, the courage of many who resisted and rescued remains largely unknown. Through extensive research, Helen Constantine shines a light on remarkable women ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Paris Street Tales

    by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Paris Street Tales is the third volume of a trilogy of translated stories set in Paris. The previous two are Paris Tales, in which each story is associated with one of the twenty arrondissements, and Paris Metro Tales, in which the twenty-two stories are related to a trip round the Paris Metro. This new volume contains eighteen newly translated stories related to particular streets in Paris, and ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Cat and The Masked Woman

    by Diana Holmes, Colette, Helen Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'My little puma! My darling cat! My mountain lion! How will you go on living if we leave each other?' Colette (1873-1954) is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. The Cat (first serialised then published in volume form in 1933) is one of her short novels. This story of a middle-class couple in 1920s Paris follows the familiar romantic ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Venice Tales

    by Helen Constantine, Katia Pizzi ...
    Translated by Katherine Gregor, Howard Curtis ...
    Series series City Tales
    Venice Tales is the first comprehensive collection of short-stories on Venice by Italian authors. The book encompasses a broad chronological span, beginning from the Middle Ages (Boccaccio), through to the early modern period (Sansovino), the Enlightenment (Casanova, Goldoni), to the modern and contemporary eras (Marinetti, Montale, Calvino, Scarpa and others). A dream-like city uniquely built on ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Centres of Cataclysm

    Celebrating Fifty Years of Modern Poetry in Translation

    by Sasha Dugdale, David Constantine, Helen Constantine ...
    Centres of Cataclysm celebrates the fifty-year history of Modern Poetry in Translation, one of the world’s most innovative and exciting poetry magazines. Founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort, MPT has constantly introduced courageous and revolutionary poets of the 20th and 21st century to English-speaking readers. Ted Hughes thought of MPT as an ‘airport for incoming translations’ - ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Paris Metro Tales

    Edited by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at twenty underground stations along the way, and ends at Lamarck-Caulaincourt. Some of these stories actually take place in the metro itself, but most are to be ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Athens Tales

    Series series City Tales
    Athens Tales is a portrait of Greece's capital through the city's own writers. The book is made up of eighteen short stories, in English translation, by different Greek authors, some of whom have never appeared before in English. Taking a roughly chronological course from the 1890s to the present day, through these stories, the reader follows the history of Athens through its multiple ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Sentimental Education

    by Gustave Flaubert ...
    Translated by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.' With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frédéric Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he pursues her to Paris the young student is unable to translate his passion into decisive action. He also finds himself distracted by the equally romantic appeal of political action in the turbulent years ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Sodom and Gomorrah

    by Marcel Proust, Adam Watt ...
    Translated by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident' The fourth volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time extends the protagonist's journey of discovery into the social world of fin-de-siècle France. As the biblically inflected title, Sodom and Gomorrah, suggests, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • My Colonial Caste

    by Helen T.E. Constantine ...
    My journey was in no way planned, I woke up one morning asking myself, what on earth are you doing here, and what does the future hold for someone like me on these small islands; yes, I had sand, sea, and sun as well as my brother, sister and all my cousins but this comfort was leading, absolutely nowhere. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Moscow Tales

    Edited by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Presenting stories which represent each layer of the city of Moscow, from the centre of power to the outer rings of desolate estates and tumbledown shacks, this fascinating collection offers a lively and varied portrait in fiction of Russia's mysterious capital city. The collection includes works by Russian authors ranging from Anton Chekhov and Yuri Koval to Larisa Miller and Marina Boroditskaia, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • A Love Story

    Translated by Helen Constantine ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Everything revolved around their love. They were constantly bathed in a passion that they carried with them, around them, as though it were the only air they could breathe.' Hélène Grandjean, an attractive young widow, lives a secluded life in Paris with her only child, Jeanne. Jeanne is a delicate and nervous girl who jealously guards her mother's affections. When Jeanne falls ill, she is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD