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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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark collection in the tradition of literary education, Short Fiction of the Masters gathers some of the...

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,...

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...

Strange Objects Covered With Fur is the twenty-ninth collection from the writing program at the University of Technology, Sydney. It showcases fiction, non-fiction, scriptwriting and poetry from some of Australia's...

Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection...

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Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's...

75th Anniversary EditionThe classic work on investing, filled with sound and safe principles that are as reliable as ever, now revised with an introduction and appendix by financial legend Warren...

Read Simone de Beauvoir's classic work of second wave feminism, in an abridged, digestible form. Vintage Feminism- classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNES When...

Face off for another drop into the fascinating world of hockey history with Hockey Hall of Fame True Stories 2. In this follow up to his bestseller, hockey historian and...

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We know that we must change ourselves and the world if we want to survive. So why do we cling to old habits and false certainties instead of embracing change...

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Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of...

Until the posthumous publication of the Millennium Trilogy, Stieg Larsson was probably best known for his commitment to left-wing causes, and his tireless work as an anti-fascist activist. Horrified by...

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Author: Stefan Sagmeister Format: Other book format Number of Pages: 264 Stefan Sagmeister's newest project encourages long-term thinking and reminds us that many things in the world are improving. Initially...

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...

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...

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'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...

Author: Stefan SagmeisterBinding: HardbackPublished: Phaidon Press Ltd, [2023]Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn 'Now is Better,' Stefan Sagmeister explores the importance of living in the moment and...

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Why are there morning people and night people? How come time flies when you're having fun and three minutes can sometimes seem an eternity? Would time exist if we didn't...

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Steve Biddulph introduces his selection of the best writing on the inner world of being a man. Powerful, funny and hard-hitting, these pieces from around the world are infused with...

Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A New York Times Critics' Pick for 2023 Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, George Weidenfeld fled to...

'Stefan Fatsis is the Hunter S. Thompson of competitive scrabble' - The Times For many, Scrabble is merely a board game. For others it is an intellectual pilgrimage. In this...

'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...

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After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but...