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Sometimes when you are looking for the dead, you find the living. When Irene joins the International Tracing Service, she becomes consumed by a singular obsession: returning the belongings confiscated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFirst published in 1867, Ivan Turgenev's Smoke is a masterwork of Russian realism that cuts to the heart...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the heart of Honoré de Balzac's Père Goriot lies one of literature's most devastating portraits of parental...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodSet against the rarefied air of a Swiss Alpine sanatorium in the years preceding the First World War,...

Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in the Western literary canon match the anarchic brilliance and philosophical depth of François Rabelais's The Histories...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in the Western literary canon match the audacity and brilliance of The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio's monumental...

Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels in the Western canon have so devastatingly laid bare the collision between romantic illusion and provincial reality...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels in the Western canon cut as deeply into the marrow of ambition and desire as The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most profoundly moving documents to emerge from the horrors of the Second World War, The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the heart of Siberia, an ancient island village called Matyora faces an inescapable fate — submersion beneath the rising...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the chaos of September 1939, as Nazi Germany launches its devastating Blitzkrieg against Poland, The Thousand Hour Day chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the shadowy underworld of Tsarist Russia, a young man named Yevsey Klimkov is recruited into the secret police, drawn into a web of surveillance, betrayal,...

'What a wonderful storyteller Maitland is' THE TIMES DANIEL PURSGLOVE BOOK THREE From the stark Yorkshire landscape to the dark underbelly of Jacobean London, Daniel Pursglove's new mission sees him...

Edition: 1st eng ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pen of one of France's most singular and subversive literary voices comes The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerA masterwork of restrained passion and psychological acuity, Dominique stands as one of the most celebrated French...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the turbulent decade between two world wars, French literature became a battleground of ideas — and Fiction in the Historical Present: French Writers...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedFew novels of the nineteenth century ignited as fierce a cultural firestorm as Eugène Sue's The Wandering...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket - otherwise fine. A single letter becomes the rallying cry of a nation in Vassilis...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the haunting and luminous No Place on Earth, Christa Wolf conjures an imagined meeting between two real historical figures — the tortured Romantic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew works of literature confront the machinery of genocide with such unflinching, merciless clarity as This Way for...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNestled in the cobblestoned heart of nineteenth-century Prague, Malá Strana Stories is a masterwork of Czech literature that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the autumn of 1943, a young British soldier escapes from an Italian prisoner-of-war camp and finds himself...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the iron walls of a Soviet prison cell, a once-celebrated revolutionary named Nicolas Salmanovitch Rubashov awaits his...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadowy, treacherous world of post-war Cold War espionage, White Eagles Over Serbia plunges readers into the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the frozen heart of nineteenth-century Russia, a young princess makes an extraordinary choice that will define her...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Few novelists have dared to compress seven centuries of a nation's soul into a single...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew dynasties in the history of Renaissance Italy burned as brilliantly — or as wickedly — as the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew artistic visions have captured the brutal grandeur of Russian history as powerfully as Sergei Eisenstein's monumental two-part...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of one of literature's greatest achievements lies an epic canvas of love, war, and fate...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the turbulent backdrop of seventeenth-century Lombardy under Spanish rule, The Betrothed chronicles the harrowing journey of two young peasants, Renzo and...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSet against the sun-scorched landscapes and turbulent soul of Spain, An Interlude in Spain transports the reader into a world of vivid...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the darkest hour of Stalinist repression, a group of exiled revolutionaries cling to their convictions in the frozen wastes of Siberia — Midnight...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the shadow of a nation's darkening soul, The Mortal Storm by Phyllis Bottome chronicles the tragic unravelling of a German-Jewish family...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind barbed wire and beneath a merciless Soviet sky, a single day becomes an act of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the chaos of the Russian Civil War in Kiev in 1918, The White Guard...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the razor-sharp pen of Honoré de Balzac, Domestic Peace and Other Stories draws readers into the intricate...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the rain-soaked coalfields of northern France, a desperate young man named Étienne Lantier arrives penniless and is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the shadow of the Second World War, An Interlude in Spain presents a gripping account of exile, captivity, and survival, set...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Ex-library book Going Under is a searing work of Soviet-era...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A richly detailed biography, Marie Antoinette chronicles the extraordinary...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A richly detailed biographical work, The Empress Eugénie chronicles...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A richly detailed biographical study, Lucrezia Borgia: A Study...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A richly detailed biography, The Empress Josephine chronicles the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition, some fading. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure. Volume VIII of...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears. Page Condition: Yellowed with foxing. Markings: unmkd. Usual shelf-wear. Rubbed edges. In the sweeping tradition of the great Russian novel,...

Edition: 1st eng ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Fair/Poor. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board worn - frayed spine; bumped corners. Page Condition:FEP missing; Tanning and foxing throughout. Markings: Name penned on...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, tears and chips along folds and corners of jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Good....

Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: N/A. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: unmkd. Few novels in the Soviet literary canon carry the raw, autobiographical weight of Hail, Life! — a testament to...