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A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig. Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertai ...Show more
American Midnight by Laird Hunt (Selected by)
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
A collection of chilling tales from the dark heart of American literature.
An Evening with Claire by Gaito Gazdanov
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
The lyrical first novel of youth and love by acclaimed modernist master Gaito Gazdanov, author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf.
And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon - Essential Stories by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
Fresh, stylish new translations of Gogol's greatest short stories collected in a beautiful edition Admired by writers from Nabokov to Bulgakov to George Saunders, Gogol is considered one of the more enigmatic of the Russian greats. He only wrote one novel, Dead Souls, and destroyed much of his later wo ...Show more
City of Lions by Jozef Wittlin and Philippe Sands
Category: History | Series: Pushkin Collection
Portrait of a City in Two Acts: Lviv, Then and Now The Ukrainian city Lviv's many names (Lviv, Lvov, Lwow, Lemberg, Leopolis) bear witness to its conflicted past - it has, at one time or another, belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Russia and Germany, and has brought forth numerous famous a ...Show more
Dear Reader by Paul Fournel
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
Old-school publisher meets e-reader: chaos ensues There's a lot of good to be said about publishing, mainly about the food. The books, though - Robert Dubois feels as if he's read the books, but still they keep coming back to him, the same old books just by new authors. Maybe he's ready to settle into t ...Show more
Fuzz McFlops by Eva Furnari
Category: Accessories | Series: Pushkin Children's Collection
Reclusive rabbit poet Fuzz McFlops has been a loner ever since his classmates teased him for his lopsided ears in his youth. Their unkindness hurt him deeply, but also served as inspiration for works such as The Withered Carrot and An Unlucky Rabbit Foot, which have propelled the troubled author to grea ...Show more
Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz by Maxim Biller
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
Do you see what kind of a madhouse this town of Drohobycz is now, Dr Mann? People here never think and act as they should! Locked away in a dimly lit cellar in a provincial Polish town, the writer Bruno Schulz is composing a letter to Thomas Mann, warning him of a sinister impostor who has deceived the ...Show more
Isolde by Irena Odoevtseva; Brian Karetnyk (Translator); Irina Steinberg (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
The first English translation of a pioneering Russian writer: a hypnotically dark classic of love, deceit and wayward youth in Paris Left to her own devices in Biarritz, fourteen-year-old Russian Liza meets an older English boy, Cromwell, on a beach. He thinks he has found a magical, romantic beauty ...Show more
Land of Smoke by Sara Gallardo
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
An old man lives alone. His garden is the envy of all his neighbours. But one morning he wakes up to find that his garden is floating away, with him on board, and his supplies won't last. As the water runs out and the delirium takes over, the desperation of solitude begins to overwhelm him.Fluent, narra ...Show more
Montaigne by Stefan Zweig
Category: Biography | Series: Pushkin Collection
'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an emigre-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne would become Zweig's last great occupation, helping him ...Show more
Poems to Night by Rilke, Rainer Maria; Will Stone (Translator)
Category: Gift | Series: Pushkin Collection
A collection of haunting mystical poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke - most of which have never before been translated into English.