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Selected Essays

Pater Walter

ISBN: PB: 9781784106263, Carcanet, September 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

An annotated edition of selected essays by the major Victorian writer and aesthete Walter Pater. This volume brings together a generous selection of Pater's non-fiction writings on literature, art, history, philosophy and mythology, supported by a c...

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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals A Humorous – Insofar as That Is Possible – Novella from the Ghetto

Pick J. R.

ISBN: HB: 9788024636993, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2018
212 pp., 19x14 cm, 30 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Compassion, levity, and laughter can be found in the darkest of places – and even in the smallest of creatures. Set in 1943 Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, J. R. Pick's novella "Society for...

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Fortunate Man

Pontoppidan Henrik

ISBN: PB: 9788763544245, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, September 2018
820 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Per Sidenius seemingly has it all. As the twentieth century dawns, this son of a poor minister has put his sad childhood behind him: he's quickly becoming famous as a forward and freethinking man of the "New Age" and is about to marry a wealthy Jewis...

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Wishes

Perec Georges

ISBN: PB: 9781939663337, DAP, Wakefield Press, July 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! "In the beginning was the pun", Samuel Beckett once wrote. And so it was that Georges Perec brought the good word to his friends and acquaintances on a yearly basis, as an expression of his best wishes for the New Year. "Wi...

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Edgar Allen Poe: Classic Stories Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions

Poe Edgar Allan

ISBN: FLEXI: 9781435166189, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, April 2018
352 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.

Edgar Allan Poe was a master of the tale of psychological horror. This anthology gathers over 20 of Poes groundbreaking tales of the macabre, among them "The Tell-tale Heart", "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Fall of the House of Usher". It als...

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"Catarina the Wise" and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales

Pitre Giuseppe

ISBN: PB: 9780226462790, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Well, gentlemen, here's a tale that people have told time and again... So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fairy tales edited and translated by noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes. But while some of the stories may...

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We Were a Handful

Polacek Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024632858, ISBN: HB: 9788024614496, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
400 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A favorite work of Czech humor, "We Were a Handful" depicts the adventures of five boys from a small Czech town through the diary of Petr Bajza, the grocer's son. Written by Karel Polacek...

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Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

Poe Edgar Allan

ISBN: HB: 9781435154469, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, December 2016
1040 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, colour illus.

Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionised modern poetics.The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables...

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Norte A Novel

Paz Soldan Edmundo

ISBN: PB: 9780226207209, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
312 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in the world: the Mexico-US border. But in a melee of language and blood, their stories and the stories of those they mee...

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Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics

Pyle Howard

ISBN: HB: 9781435144743, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, August 2016
456 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.

This novel tells the classic tale of the mischievous "Master of Sherwood Forest", who lives the outlaw life with Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet and his band of Merry Men, bedevilling the implacable Sheriff of Nottingham during the reign of Ric...

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