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"An absolute treat... Szerb is a master novelist, a comedian whose powers transcend time and language" Nicholas Lezard, GuardianAt an end-of-season London soiree a young Hungarian scholar, Dr Janos Batky,...

A major modern classic: the turbulent story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemoia 'Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers' - Ali Smith 'A...

This book examines the opinions and influences, idiosyncrasies and personalities of writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Kingsley Amis, Cervantes and Milan Kundera. Professor Miller discusses and defends the profession...

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Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of one of the twentieth century's most powerful and enigmatic political systems, Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR...

Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most...

Author, Ed Brubaker Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 168 The Authority has saved Earth from annihilation over and over again. Now they want to rule the world. From...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: worn with small tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good. Few poets of the twentieth century have channelled the raw anguish of poverty,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it mean to submit to authority — and why do we so often resent the very power we...

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'Great is the Soviet Union, vast its territories, warm its entrails...' 1959. Whispers of dissidence are spreading in the U.S.S.R. Texts published in the West are circulating in samizdat, tormenting...

Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism, a surprise bestseller in 2017 Arendt's classic work explores totalitarianism through an extended analysis of the Nazi and Soviet regimes. In a series of dazzling...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few national literatures are as haunted by the weight of their own...

The book titled Is S Talinism Really Dead? by the author Aleksandr Sergeevich eTiSipko. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew stories from the Cold War era are as chilling and consequential as that of Georgi Markov — a celebrated...

'Great is the Soviet Union, vast its territories, warm its entrails...' 1959. Whispers of dissidence are spreading in the U.S.S.R. Texts published in the West are circulating in samizdat, tormenting...

The book titled Tantalus by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: VG. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Appears intact with no loose pages. A landmark collection in the tradition of Central European radical...

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...

The book titled The Secrets of the Service: British Intelligence and Communist by the author Anthony Glees. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Author: Konstantin Kolenda (editor)Binding: HardbackPublished: Principia Press of Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, 1966Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a collection of philosophical essays. These...

Author: Anna ZádorBinding: HardbackPublished: Kultura, Budapest, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly volume chronicles the fascinating evolution of architectural styles in Hungary, focusing on the influential periods...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears — the dust jacket shows age-related toning and light wear consistent with a mid-20th century publication, but remains intact. Page Condition: Yellowed...

In this highly amusing collection of anecdotes, Chris Wallace-Crabbe brings together 270 tales of Australian literary life from penal times to the present day.

Unexpected and volatile, The Thought Gang is the hilarious and thought-provoking story of their travails. In his eagerly awaited follow-up to Under the Frog , Tibor Fischer offers another hilarious...

Author: Beatriz Bracher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Benjamim, a young man on the cusp of fatherhood, discovers a disturbing family secret: before his father was born,...

'History follows a trail of sputtering desire, often calling upon the delusions of lovers to generate the sparks. If it weren't for us, the world would suffer from a dismal...

An illuminating account of the war in Ukraine - its historical roots, its course, its possible outcomes - from the bestselling, award-winning author of Chernobyl On 24 February 2022, Russia...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA rich literary anthology, On the Fence: An Anthology of Ukrainian Prose in Australia...

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' I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration ' PHILIP PULLMAN 'Entrancing ... a creative manifesto' TELEGRAPH 'Mesmerising ... vibrating with life and curiosity' OBSERVER In this...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of literary memoir, The Italics Are Mine chronicles the extraordinary life of Nina Berberova, a Russian émigré...

2022 CBCA Book of the Year Notables - Early Childhood The ants are heading out on a very important expedition. What will they need to take with them? It's a...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA solemn and intellectually rigorous work of political and historical reflection, Ten Years After: A Commemoration of the...

Claire Lidman died fourteen years ago. So why does she appear in the background of a recent holiday snap taken in Venice? Her husband brings the anomaly to Hans Rekke...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: faded; some minor scuffing and light marks. Pages: Good, with slight tanning consistent with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Firm and intact....

In David Lodge's last novel, THINKS... the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In AUTHOR, AUTHOR he is centre stage, sometimes literally. The story begins in...

Author: Barbara WinterBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson Melbourne, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsBarbara Winter chronicles the astonishing events surrounding Atlantis Is Missing: ...A True Account....

Expertise, Authority and Control charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War in the first major study of the Australian Army Medical Corps in over seventy...

FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A pure thriller . . . wry, clever, thoughtful, with a terrific sense of timing and eye for character' Observer 'No one delivers thrilling...