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This triptych of stories represents some of the finest work by the great German master, Thomas Mann. From a classic early account of artistic formation, suffused with deep melancholy, to...

This literary biography looks at the life of Thomas Mann. Vignettes enable us to enter Mann's life and work from different angles. We meet the difficult, even unsavoury private man:...

Mann's semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The book that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything...

The book titled Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature by the author Anthony Heilbut. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Thomas Mann and His Family by the author Marcel Reich-Ranicki. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Letters by the author Thomas Mann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'A story of the voluptuousness of doom' Thomas Mann With astonishment Aschenbach noticed that the boy was entirely beautiful. Ageing writer Gustav von Aschenbach is on holiday in Venice when...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodSet against the rarefied air of a Swiss Alpine sanatorium in the years preceding the First World War,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.At the intersection of medicine and modernist literature lies one of the most compelling and...

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The first great German novel - an extraordinary recreation of the horrors of the Thirty Years War, written by a veteran of the conflict First published in 1668, Simplicissimus tells...

Edition: 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: slipcase: minor bruiseFew names in the culinary world carry the same reverence as Thomas Keller, and The Complete Thomas Keller brings...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in English history have provoked such fierce and enduring debate as Sir Thomas More — scholar, statesman, martyr, and saint — and...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerA definitive critical biography that illuminates the profound synergy between Thomas Hardy’s life and the geography of his fictional Wessex....

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work of biographical scholarship, Thomas More presents the life of...

A brilliant bitter-sweet novel about friendship, romance, love, death and turning thirty. What do you do when a close friend unexpectedly dies? Get everyone together for the party of their...

The book titled The Man from the Dreamtime by the author Thomas Roy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: List, Herbert; Stephen Spender; Max Schelerbinding: HardbackPublished: Thames & Hudson,, 1989Condition: book: Good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Yellowed, markings: No markingsJunge Männer explores various themes related to youth...

One man's fight for revenge against a corrupt justice system. Kleist's influential German novella has been newly translated by the renowned Michael Hofmann. 'I finished it in one sitting. Probably...

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Author: Thomas HardyBinding: HardbackPublished: Octopus Books Limited, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: No markings-

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book explores the life and works of Thomas Love Peacock, an influential figure in English literature known for his...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century European history command the reverence and complexity of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk — philosopher, statesman, and founding father of...

'Heatherwick is a Leonardo da Vinci of our times' Sir Terence Conran. Still just two decades into his career, British designer Thomas Heatherwick has been heralded as one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: good/fair for age. Worn and sunned boards. Some bumping on spines and corners....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every age of empire lurks a figure too wild, too reckless, and too combustible to be contained by its...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to be human? In Treatise On Man, the thirteenth-century Dominican friar and...

Praised for his verbal inventiveness, image-making power and almost pagan metaphysics, Dylan Thomas's poems are visions of creation and morality.

A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys...

Author: P.E. Caquet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain spoke...

Author: William H Gass Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the...

'A Scarlet Letter for our times' MARGARET ATWOOD 'An extraordinary and disquieting work of imagination, and as original as any novel I've read in recent memory' ROB DOYLE Duncan Peck...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of cultural history, The Muses Flee Hitler: Cultural Transfer and Adaptation...

Author: George Mac Donald, Ll.D.Binding: HardbackPublished: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd, 1893Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Sunned...

Author: Florian Illies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third ReichA Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'1930s Europe...

Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo...

According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from...

Prof. Barlow's fine biography, based on the original sources and informed by the most recent scholarship, provides a compeling interpretation of the life of Becket- worldly courtier, zealous prelate and...

New edition Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become...

Bestselling author Niall Ferguson reveals for the first time the true extent of Siegmund Warburg's influence-and the lessons we can learn in a time of crisis from the last of...