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The Captain's Daughter - Essential Stories by Alexander Pushkin; Anthony Briggs (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
A dazzling new collection of Pushkin's most fiction, in definitive translations by the acclaimed Anthony Briggs.
The Evenings by Gerard Reve; Sam Garrett (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection | Reading Level: General Adult
THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF A POSTWAR MASTERPIECE 'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.' Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. ...Show more
The Hideout by Egon Hostovský; Fern Long (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | 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 mo ...Show more
The Last and the First by Nina Berberova
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
The first English translation of celebrated Russian writer Nina Berberova's debut novel: an intense story of family conflict.
The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt (Illustrator); Laura Watkinson
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Category: Middle Readers | Series: Pushkin Children's Collection
A young messenger. A secret mission. A kingdom in peril. It is the dead of night. Sixteen-year-old Tiuri must spend hours locked in a chapel in silent contemplation if he is to be knighted the next day. But, as he waits by the light of a flickering candle, he hears a knock at the door and a voice despe ...Show more
The Man Who Walked Through Walls by Marcel Ayme
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Category: Fiction | 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 s ...Show more
The Marquise of O— by Heinrich von Kleist; Nicholas Jacobs (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
A vivid new translation of a timeless classic: Kleist's tense, ambiguous novella about an unexpected pregnancy In a Northern Italian town during the Napoleonic Wars, Julietta, a young widow and mother of impeccable reputation, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. This follows an attack on the town's ci ...Show more
The New Sorrows of Young W. by Ulrich Plenzdorf
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
'I was just a regular idiot, a nutcase, a show-off and all that. Nothing to cry about. Seriously' Edgar W., teenage dropout, unrequited lover, unrecognized genius - and dead - tells the story of his brief, spectacular life. It is the story of how he rebels against the petty rules of communist East Germa ...Show more
The Pointless Leopard: What Good are Kids Anyway? by Colas Gutman
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Category: Childrens | Series: Pushkin Children's Collection
A walk in the woods turns into a funny, philosophical and irresistibly charming mini-adventure.In this witty tale of insistent parents and talking animals, a child questions his purpose.In the country, there's nothing to do, except: admire. It's the same as being bored, but with your eyes wide open.The ...Show more
The Queen's Necklace by Antal Szerb
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
A witty and erudite love letter to a bygone age, from one of Europe's last great humanists. "A sparkling slice of eighteenth-century life" Paul Bailey, Independent In August 1785 Paris buzzed with scandal. It involved an eminent churchman, a notorious charlatan, a female fraudster, a part-time prostit ...Show more
The Story of Gilgamesh by Yiyun Li
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Category: No Category | Series: Pushkin Children's Collection
The oldest written story on Earth, retold for children "A real friend is a companion for your heart." Godlike Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, has built a beautiful city, but is also a terrible tyrant. In answer to the prayers of his oppressed citizens, the gods create Enkidu, a wild man whose destiny is to fir ...Show more
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man - Essential Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
New translations of the best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers Kafka, whose name has generated an adjective, is one of the best loved writers of the twentieth century. Known for his dark, enigmatic stories, for the absurd nightmares he depicts, his e ...Show more