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'One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work' - Ali Smith 'The Updike of his day... Zweig is a lucid writer, and Bell renders his prose flawlessly' -...

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Stefan Zweig's classic novella of obsession, madness and chess In 1941 a cruise ship is heading to Buenos Aires, and on board a group of eager passengers challenge the reigning...

The only novel written by one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century. 'Zweig's fictional masterpiece' - The Guardian 'An intoxicating, morally shaking read... A real reminder of...

Stefan Zweig's most famous novel, reissued with a new jacket and title 'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!' Who would have thought that the great military...

This collection from one of the great writers of Europe's Jewish diaspora shows the heat of individual passions blazing out against the levelling forces of history. In stories that move...

Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great...

'I had never heard of Zweig until six or seven years ago, as all the books began to come back into print, and I more or less by chance bought...

Author: Stefan Zweig (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he...

Among the 70,000 refugees from Nazi Germany who had entered Britain by 1939 were many intellectuals of the Weimar era. This book tells the story of five emigre writers, three...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of art and politics in twentieth-century Europe stands Romain Rolland — Nobel Prize-winning novelist, pacifist, and one of France's most...

Secondhand Contemporary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2731 Twenty-one novels and story collections in near-new condition, nearly all from the last fifteen years: Sarah Moss’s Summerwater, Tan Twan Eng’s Booker-listed Gift...

Author: Eddy De Wind Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Last Stop Auschwitz, with its many details, written at speed and with all the immediacy that comes with describing events still...

Author: Jennifer Hofmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Darkly comic and hauntingly surreal The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures examines obsession, paranoia and the dwindling career of a...

'The Redl Affair had everything: sex, espionage, betrayal, a fall from greatness and a sensational climax in which Redl went to his death like a figure of high tragedy.' The...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in modern intellectual history have reshaped our understanding of the human mind as...

Across six generations and two hundred years, this book tells the story of a German- Jewish family who emigrated from Rawicz, Poland, first to Prussian Berlin, and finally to America....

Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author Harald J hner (Aftermath- Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich) presents a staggering new assessment of the short life of the Weimar Republic between the...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Remainder mark; minor nick/tear on front pastedown. Usual shelf-wear. Set against the turbulent backdrop of mid-twentieth-century Europe,...

A brilliant fusion of travel writing and Soviet history which reads like Bruce Chatwin. Engineers of the Soul draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as...

Edition: First English EditionCondition remarks: Condition: Good for age. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition; lightly stained; yellowed boards. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition:...

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The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of symbolism and mysticism, Stefan George stands as one of the most commanding and controversial figures in German literary...

A new translation of this counterculture classic by David Horrocks A new translation by David Horrocks. At first sight Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality he...

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Exploring the gray zone of infiltration and subversion in which the Nazi and Communist parties sought to influence and undermine each other, this book offers a fresh perspective on the...

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Author: Thomas, MargaretBinding: SoftbackPublished: Margaret Thomas, 2001Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsReproduction of Frank Thomas Manuscript catalogue of his collection of German Stoneware.

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Stefan Sagmeister's newest project encourages long-term thinking and reminds us that many things in the world are improving. Initially conceived in 2020 as the world entered pandemic lockdown, Stefan Sagmeister...

'A total joy to read.' SARAH BAKEWELL 'Thrillingly intelligent and original . . . A breakthrough in biographical form.' EDMUND GORDON 'A discerning literary biography and a page-turning whodunit.' LISA...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine...

The book titled Art in Vienna, 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and Their by the author Peter Vergo. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

'Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. A profound, alluring masterwork of singular genius' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century music history provoke as much fascination and moral unease as Wilhelm Furtwängler, the brilliant German...

To read this extraordinary book is to gain a unique insight into the compelling nature of organized, industrialized violence. Michael Hofmann's superlative translation retains all the coruscating vitality of the...