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The Green Flag: Polish Populist Politics 1867-1970
$40.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Some tanning. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm. No stickers or labels observed. The Green Flag: Polish...
The Novels Of Vladimir Nabokov
$50.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: Minor tear to edge of DJ.Few writers of the twentieth century have provoked such fierce...
Nabokov: The Critical Heritage
$30.00 AUD
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...
A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis memoir by Olga Ivinskaya provides an intimate look into her years with the famous Russian poet Boris Pasternak. It...
Letters to Vera
Vladimir Nabokov's letters to his beloved wife, translated and edited by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Vera Slonim...
Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel
In this wry, judiciously balanced, and thoroughly engaging book, Galya Diment explores the complicated and fascinating relationship between Vladimir Nabokov and his Cornell colleague Marc Szeftel who, in the estimate...
Dear Writer, Dear Actress
$15.00 AUD
He was Russia's greatest playwright. She was the leading actress in Stanislavski's legendary Moscow Art Theatre. Together they created some of the most memorable women ever to grace the stage:...
A Captive Of Time: My Years With Pasternak
$15.00 AUD
Author: Olga IvinskayaBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins and Harvill Press, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsOlga Ivinskaya's "A Captive Of Time: My Years With Pasternak" chronicles her profound...
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London
Author: Andrew Nagorski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' -SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND 'A...
A Hero of Our Time
A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. A brilliant new translation of a perennial favorite of Russian...
Voices In The Snow (SIGNED)
$80.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping along edges and top of spine. Page Condition: Likely yellowed with age. Markings: signed by the author with an...
Vn: The Life And Art Of Vladimir Nabokov
$25.00 AUD
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...
Vn: The Life And Art Of Vladimir Nabokov
$20.00 AUD
Author: Andrew FieldBinding: HardbackPublished: Crown Publishers, New York, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Mild staining on book block.This compelling biography, Vn: The Life And Art Of...
Vn: The Life And Art Of Vladimir Nabokov
$25.00 AUD
Edition: 3rd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew literary figures of the twentieth century provoke as much fascination, reverence, and controversy as Vladimir Nabokov — and Andrew Field's VN:...
Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense
Admirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through his self-reflexive artifice and the many codes...
Solzhenitsyn And The Secret Circle
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the Iron Curtain, where literature was both weapon and contraband, one woman found herself at the centre of one...
Daughter Of A Revolutionary: Natalie Herzen And The Bakunin-Nechayev Circle
$35.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: slight fading. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Firm and intact. No stickers or labels visible. A landmark work in the...
Amy's Children
$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Natasha
$8.00 AUD
Amidst the ferment of prerevolution Russia, a beautiful woman changes history by bringing the corrupt court to its knees. Beginning with her setting loose Countess Asinia's passion, to leather-costume masquerade...
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
Olga Arbyelina, a White Russian princess living quietly with her adolescent son in a small French town, is a relative newcomer to the Russian community there. Intriguingly little is known...
Moses Nappelbaum: Our Age
$100.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA lens focused on the soul of an era, Moses Nappelbaum: Our Age presents a sweeping visual chronicle of one of the Soviet Union's most...
Oceans of Love: Narrelle - An Australian Nurse in World War I
Based on 70 unusually vivid letters home, Melanie Oppenheimer traces the life of an intrepid and extraordinary young Australian woman who took herself off in 1915 to nurse on the...
Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in modern literary and political history have endured as dramatic a collision between art and state...
A History of What Comes Next: The captivating speculative fiction
Captivating high-concept fiction as rich as The Man in the High Castle and as packed with thrills as Ready Player One 1945. Mia, a nineteen-year-old girl, is sent to Germany...
They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague
Slavenka Drakulic attended the Serbian war crimes trial in the Hague. This important book is about how ordinary people commit terrible crimes in wartime. With extraordinary story-telling skill Drakulic draws...
The Nigger Of The 'Narcissus'; Typhoon; The Shadow Line
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThree of Joseph Conrad's most celebrated novellas are gathered in this essential volume, each a masterclass...
Solitaire
With special bonus content - a Q&A between Alice Oseman and bestselling author David Levithan The debut novel from Alice Oseman, author of the 2021 YA Book Prize winning Loveless...
Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend,...
Ship of Dreams
' A dream of a read! ' New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn 'Emotional, raw, and beautifully written' From the author of the internationally bestselling novel, WHEN THE WORLD...
Gloria Steinem: Volume 76
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Gloria Steinem, the world's most famous feminist. Gloria realised from a...
A Court of Splintered Harmony: The Valkyrie Cycle, Movement I
Romance, danger and intrigue await you in the breathtaking sixth book in the #1 bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series. What was broken will be remade. Deep in...
A Thousand Ships
This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them... They have waited to have their story told, and I will make...
A Garden of Lilies: Improving Tales for Young Minds (From the World of
In Wormwood Mire , award-winning author Judith Rossell introduced us to the lessons of fictitious Victorian writer Prudence A Goodchild ... Now the book comes to life as the perfect...
Becoming A Heroine: Reading About Women In Novels
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it mean to dream of becoming a heroine — not just in life, but through the pages of a novel? Rachel M....
Pushkin: A Biography
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: glue residue on endpapers;Few literary lives burn as brilliantly—and end as tragically—as that of Alexander Pushkin, the towering genius of...
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass , launches a new trilogy of magic and mayhem with this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artefacts and ancient...
To Bleed a Crystal Bloom
A darkly romantic Rapunzel reimagining from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of WHEN THE MOON HATCHED. With stunning finishes exclusive to the first print run. This Collector's Edition...
A Single Man
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a single, grief-saturated day in 1962 Los Angeles, a middle-aged British professor named George Falconer moves through...
The War of Art: A History of Artists' Protest In America
Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact "do more." The War of Art tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political...
Full Tilt: Ireland To India With A Bicycle
$80.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the winter of 1963, a young Irish woman named Dervla Murphy mounted a bicycle she called Rozinante...
A Laodicean
The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the...
A Good Winter
Winner of the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize, A Good Winter is a simmering literary thriller by a highly accomplished NZ writer. I looked after Lara. We both looked after Sophie...