Three Years by Anton Chekhov; Hugh Aplin (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: 101 Pages Ser.
On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father's Moscow haberdashery business, falls in love with Yulia, the daughter of her doctor, and proposes to her. Although she does not reciprocate his feelings, she agrees to marry him ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In The Canterbury TalesChaucer created one of the great to ...Show more
Lyrics Volume 4 - 1830-37 by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Classic Fiction
The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted--through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry--a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no mean less important asp ...Show more
Lyrics Volume 3 - (1824-30) by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Classic Fiction
The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted - through his novel in verseEugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry - a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no mean less important as ...Show more
Babel by Alan Burns
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Category: Classic Fiction
Babel, Alan Burns's fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define - shot through with seemingly random newspaper headlines, poems, snatches of conversation and anecdote, which both heighten and undermine meaning, and characterized by extreme con ...Show more
Politics and Literature by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Classic Fiction
First published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartre's most enduring concerns as a philosopher: politics and literature. With regard to the former, they develop the notion of the intellectual not only as an aloof theoretician, but also ...Show more
Selected Poems: Éluard by Paul Éluard
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Category: Classic Fiction
The poetry of Éluard is that of the real world and its natural sensations and feelings. The main themes that stand out are love, brotherhood and kindness. His imagery is characterized by its appeal to the senses and the importance of concrete objects and of everyday things.In these translations by Gilbe ...Show more
Dreamerika! by Alan Burns
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Category: Classic Fiction
Dreamerika!, Alan Burns' s fourth novel, first published in 1972, provides a satirical look at the Kennedy political dynasty, serving up an idiosyncratic hotch-potch of history that gives an old tragedy new meaning. For this book, Burns collected newspaper clippings, headlines, cartoons and photographs, ...Show more
Heliogabalus, or the Anarchist Crowned by Antonin Artaud; Victor Corti (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction
From his birth in a cradle of sperm to his death on a blood-soaked pillow, Heliogabalus, Emperor from the age of fourteen, embodies the depravity and decay of Rome in the third century. Although steeped in vice and tormented by madness, the deviant tyrant is elevated to a divine status, at the crossroad ...Show more
Six Plays - Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Caps and Bells, Right You Are (if You Think You Are), the Jar, the Patent by Luigi Pirandello; Felicity Firth (Translator); Robert Rietty (Translator); John Wardle (Translator); Bruce Penman (Translator); Carlo Ardito (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction
This selection of plays by Luigi Pirandello contains some of his best-known works, such as Six Characters in Search of an Author - an absurdist piece in which the characters, actors and Pirandello himself interact during the rehearsal of a fictional play within the play - and Henry IV - a tragicomic tal ...Show more
The Bérenger Plays by Eugène Ionesco; Donald Watson (Translator); Derek Prouse (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction
This collection brings together the four plays that feature Ionesco's everyman protagonist Jean Bérenger. In 'The Killer', he comes across a "radiant city", an ideal civilization which is unfortunately being terrorized by a killer, whom he decides to track down and dissuade from committing any further c ...Show more
Prosecco - The Wine and the People Who Made It a Success by Luigi Bolzon
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Category: Classic Fiction
Following in the footsteps of other illustrious Italian gastronomic successes - from pizza to pasta, from mozzarella to Parmesan and mortadella - Prosecco is the most recent "made in Italy" product to have colonized the world. But what is its history, and how did it come to be a global phenomenon? Luigi ...Show more