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A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
19.99 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
American Midnight by Laird Hunt (Selected by)
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
A collection of chilling tales from the dark heart of American literature.
An Evening with Claire by Gaito Gazdanov
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
The lyrical first novel of youth and love by acclaimed modernist master Gaito Gazdanov, author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf.
And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon - Essential Stories by Nikolai Gogol
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
Fresh, stylish new translations of Gogol's greatest short stories collected in a beautiful edition Admired by writers from Nabokov to Bulgakov to George Saunders, Gogol is considered one of the more enigmatic of the Russian greats. He only wrote one novel, Dead Souls, and destroyed much of his later wo ...Show more
Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
Burning Secret (Brennendes Geheimnis) is a darkly compelling coming-of-age story-a tale of seduction, jealousy and betrayal from the master of the novella, Stefan Zweig A suave baron takes a fancy to twelve-year-old Edgar's mother, while the three are holidaying in an Austrian mountain resort. His initi ...Show more
Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig (Author)
12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
The Baron, bored on holiday, begins a flirtation with a beautiful woman via her twelve-year-old son. He befriends the child and charms him, all the while attempting to seduce the mother - but he cannot begin to imagine the effect he is having on the boy's life...Burning Secret is a witty, potent look at ...Show more
City of Lions by Jozef Wittlin and Philippe Sands
27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pushkin Collection
Portrait of a City in Two Acts: Lviv, Then and Now The Ukrainian city Lviv's many names (Lviv, Lvov, Lwow, Lemberg, Leopolis) bear witness to its conflicted past - it has, at one time or another, belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Russia and Germany, and has brought forth numerous famous a ...Show more
Confusion - The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R Von D by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection | Reading Level: near fine
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
Fear by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection | Reading Level: near fine
A bourgeois housewife's affair is discovered, and a blackmailer turns her comfortable life into a nightmare of apprehension Finding her comfortable bourgeois existence as wife and mother tedious after eight years of marriage, Irene Wagner brings a little excitement into it by starting an affair with a r ...Show more
Fuzz McFlops by Eva Furnari
14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | 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
Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz by Maxim Biller
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
Do you see what kind of a madhouse this town of Drohobycz is now, Dr Mann? People here never think and act as they should! Locked away in a dimly lit cellar in a provincial Polish town, the writer Bruno Schulz is composing a letter to Thomas Mann, warning him of a sinister impostor who has deceived the ...Show more
Isolde by Irena Odoevtseva; Brian Karetnyk (Translator); Irina Steinberg (Translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
The first English translation of a pioneering Russian writer: a hypnotically dark classic of love, deceit and wayward youth in Paris Left to her own devices in Biarritz, fourteen-year-old Russian Liza meets an older English boy, Cromwell, on a beach. He thinks he has found a magical, romantic beauty ...Show more