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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: FEP missingThe high seas have never been more treacherous than in the world conjured by Alexei Novikov-Priboi in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodThe open ocean has always called to those restless souls who refuse to be landlocked — and no writer answers that call more compellingly than Alexei...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary reputations have been as fiercely contested—and ultimately as triumphant—as that of Vladimir Nabokov, and Nabokov: The Critical Heritage assembles the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few names in twentieth-century literature carry the same electrifying weight as...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of literary biography, VN: The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov chronicles the extraordinary existence of one...

Edition: 5th impressionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some tears along spine now repaired with non-acidic tape.Few novels in the twentieth century have provoked...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodStep inside one of the world's greatest repositories of Russian art — the legendary Tretyakov Gallery in the heart of Moscow. The Tretyakov Gallery...

Condition remarks: Worn but not faded - jacket still in good condition. In this essential counter-narrative, Vladimir Lakshin offers an intimate and piercing defense of Alexander Tvardovsky, the celebrated editor...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFor any student, linguist, or language enthusiast serious about mastering the sounds of Russian, Russian Pronunciation stands as an authoritative and methodical guide to...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, particularly at corners and spine ends; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew lives in literary history burn as fiercely as that of Fyodor Dostoevsky — epileptic, compulsive gambler, political...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in world literature loom as large or as tormented as Fyodor Dostoevsky, and J. A. T....

Secondhand Contemporary Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2951 Twenty-two novels and story collections — Doris Lessing (four titles), Fay Weldon (three), Thomas Keneally, Anita Brookner, John Steinbeck, Anne Tyler, John...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: Overall good. [faded boards?]. DJs - Vol I - minor tears; vol II - Chipped and...

Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ: unclipped, in mylar; minor shelfwear. Binding: remains tight. Clean and bright copy. In the shadowy corridors of...

Nabokov's biography of this other Russian literary giant, now part of this new Penguin Modern Classics series Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature,...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: A clean, well-preserved copy with no major faults. Jacket: Original pictorial dust jacket present, price clipped. Vivid colours...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Light foxing on book block. What does it mean to live in the shadow of a hero...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ: price clipped; some shelf wear with light rubbing. Pages: very small stain on book block; otherwise clean...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in world literature have been as simultaneously condemned and mythologised as the prostitute, and Khalid Kishtainy's The Prostitute in Progressive Literature presents a...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Moderate marks and flecks on boards. Unclipped dj, worn with some loss. Beneath the...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: SignedWhat if the most powerful spiritual office in the world were thrust upon a man shaped not...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. Few figures in world literature cast as long a shadow...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the seismic rupture of the 1917 Revolution to the complex literary landscape of the late Soviet era, Dictionary of Russian Literature...

Edition: First Edition Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Good–Fair, honest copy of the true first edition (Edward Arnold & Co., London,...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: unclipped dj. Pages: light foxing on book block. Binding: remains tight; boards: square and clean. In the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, when the Iron Curtain cast a long shadow over...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodCondition remarks: Long tears along folds of jacket, currently being held together by tape, Good ready copy.Few literary traditions are as turbulent, as soul-stirring, or as...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Good, minimal wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and intact. A cornerstone of Dostoevsky scholarship, Dostoyevsky: The Novel of Discord presents a...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: unclipped dj. Long before Sybylla Penelope Melvyn became an iconic figure in Australian literature, Miles Franklin conceived her as a...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ: unclipped; faded spine, no tears. Pages: light foxing on book block. Binding remains tight. Set against...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of ideology and artistic expression, Soviet Literature To-Day presents a sweeping and incisive survey of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: Includes a full list of characters and their real names. DJ: unclipped, in mylar; slightly chipped...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew transgressions have proven as irresistible to the literary imagination as adultery, and Judith Armstrong's The Novel of Adultery presents a rigorous and captivating...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the sun-scorched and unforgiving landscape of colonial Queensland, Landtakers: The Story of an Epoch chronicles the brutal...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat separates the truly great science fiction novels from the merely imaginative? David Pringle answers that question with authoritative precision in Science Fiction: The...

It is the story of mankind's deadliest discovery, in the words of those who were there. Their voices include the scientists who unravelled and then unleashed the secrets of the...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionSome men are defined by their ambitions; Hector is defined by the spectacular wreckage of his. Hector's Folly...