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  • TALES from the DUAL MONARCHY

    by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Joseph Roth, Margit Kaffka, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan Zweig, Annabel Barber (translator) ...
    The Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was formed in 1867. Its titular sovereign was His Imperial and Royal Highness Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. Though sceptical voices had warned that this arrangement would be detrimental to the autonomy and prestige of both sides, the Dual Monarchy nevertheless fl ourished for the next four decades, until it collapsed in ruins at the end ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Translated by Jamie Bulloch ...
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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

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  • Beware of Pity

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **Stefan Zweig’s tragic novel of guilt, yearning, and the danger of pity, which inspired Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel.“Original and powerful.” —The New York Times**The only novel Zweig—one of the most popular authors of the 20th century—completed and published during his lifetime, Beware of Pity is a heartrending tale of unequal affection, unintended consequences, and a world falling to ... Read more

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  • The Defense

    Previously published as The Luzhin Defense

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Nabokov's third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness.As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' s ... Read more

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  • The Tin Ring

    Love and Survival in the Holocaust

    by Zdenka Fantlova ...
    Review Zdenka Fantlová and her story made a lasting impression. She survived six concentration camps, endured horrors the like of which most of us can't begin to comprehend, yet never lost the will to live or her optimism for a better future. During her time in the camps she kept a little tin ring, made for her by her boyfriend. She risked her life to keep this humble object that meant so much to ... Read more

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  • The Inventory

    A Novel

    by Gila Lustiger ...
    Translated by Rebecca Morrison ...
    Combining the authenticity of reportage with the emotional intensity of an extraordinary imagination, The Inventory is a profoundly unsettling account of the effects of Nazi paranoia upon every segment of German society. Writing with piercing clarity and searing irony, Gila Lustiger weaves together the tales of ordinary people swept up in a society where brutal oppression and extermination are ... Read more

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  • The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols

    Adapted from the Journals of John H. Watson, M.D.

    by Nicholas Meyer ...
    With the international bestseller The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Nicholas Meyer brought to light a previously unpublished case of Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by Dr. John H. Watson. Now Meyer returns with a shocking discovery—an unknown case drawn from a recently unearthed Watson journal.January 1905: Holmes and Watson are summoned by Holmes' brother Mycroft to undertake a clandestine investigation. ... Read more

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  • The Lily Hand

    And Other Stories

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Sixteen unforgettable stories from a "beguiling writer" and the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael ( The Daily Telegraph ).CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorExpanding her horizons far beyond the boundaries of crime fiction, Ellis Peters offers a broad range of short stories in this collection. Two friends, cruelly torn apart when their country is violently ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories

    Edited by Joost Zwagerman ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    **'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS'There is a lot of northern European melancholy in the collection, though often tinged with wry humour...an excellent book' Jonathan Gibbs, Minor Literatures***'*We were kids - but good kids. If <e... ... Read more

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  • The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

    by Gaito Gazdanov ...
    Translated by Bryan Karetnyk ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    Of all my memories, of all my life's innumerable sensations, the most onerous was that of the single murder I had committed.'A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man. So begins the strange quest for the elusive writer 'Alexander ... Read more

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  • Skylark

    Translated by Richard Aczel ...
    by Dezso Kosztolanyi ...
    It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays—call them Mother and Father—live in Sárszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research and quaint questions of heraldry. Mother keeps house. Both are utterly enthralled with their daughter, Skylark. Unintelligent, unimaginative, unattractive, and ... Read more

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