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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray...

'A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction' New York Times in Bulgakov's allegorical masterpiece of Stalin's regime the devil is making a personal appearance in Moscow. He is accompanied...

NEW LOOK FOR THE CLASSIC NOVEL WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEELI CHERKOVSKI Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to...

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. A book that captures...

Mikhail Bulgakov's devilish salute to artistic freedom, now in a beautiful clothbound edition Written in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, The Master and Margarita became an overnight...

A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and on Soviet society - first time in Penguin Classics This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of...

An epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature One of the most important Russian masterpieces of the 20th century, And...

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION...

A unique collection bringing together acknowledged masterpieces from classic authors such as Chekhov and Gogol and a rich selection from less familiar writers. From the reign of the Tsars in...

Author: Charles BukowskiFormat: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 231Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird...

Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 More semi-autobiographical short stories from cult writer Charles Bukowski Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme...

A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature.Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize...

In his own lifetime, Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was scarcely published. A quarter of a century after his death, his novel, "The Master and the Margarita", has become...

The autobiography of one of the world's most talented and intriguing writers, reissuing in Penguin Modern Classics 'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him...

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...

Author: Valentin BulgakovBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Clear cover over DJ. Discolouration to back of DJ. Denting to spine of...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: paperback. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact. Few writers of the twentieth century have led lives as dramatic and turbulent as...

Author: Roy A. MedvedevBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work presents a meticulous examination of the complex and often contentious literary biography...

Author: V. F. BulgakovBinding: HardbackPublished: The Dial Press, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis biographical account chronicles the final, tumultuous year in the life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew literary figures of the twentieth century provoke as much fascination and controversy as Mikhail Sholokhov, the Soviet Nobel laureate whose epic...

The book titled V. N.: Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov by the author Andrew Field. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Behind every great writer lies a life...

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: 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:...

Author: Wiktor WoroszylskiBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded DJ spine. Light chipping and minor rip to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew events in modern history have so profoundly reshaped the world as the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and in The Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution,...

Author: Victor Shklovsky; Olga Shartse (trans.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Progress Publishers, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsVictor Shklovsky's Lev Tolstoy presents a compelling and unconventional examination of the iconic Russian...

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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...

Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A cult writer at his best Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column "Notes of A Dirty Old Man" for the...

The bestselling classic novel repackaged with an introduction by Barry Miles, author of the definitive Bukowski biography YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE GUTTER, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE...

The book titled Selected Letters, 1940-77 by the author Vladimir Nabokov. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: V. MayakovskyBinding: HardbackPublished: Raduga Publishers., 1986Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Tanning and foxing to pages, yellowed DJ with tears. This collection presents two...

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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: 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...

Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 With introduction by Roddy Doyle 'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen Charles Bukowski is one of...

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Edition: First UK editionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark work of political and intellectual history, Lenin and the Bolsheviks chronicles the ideological...

A rich and poetic play set during the Russian Civil War, by the author of The Master and Margarita. Mikhail Bulgakov's satirical play creates a grotesque, tragicomic world in which...

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...