art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Sort and filter the results:
Selected Poetry, Prose, and Translations, with Contextual Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781649590008, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, April 2021
302 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 6 halftones
Born to merchant-class parents who served in the court of Henry VIII and his queens, Anne Vaughan Lock lived in London and Exeter, spent time in Geneva as a religious exile, belonged to the Cooke sisters' political-religious circle, maintained friend...
PB:
£44,00
QTY:
Speaking Stone Stories Cemeteries Tell
ISBN: PB: 9781947602304, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, March 2021
325 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 86 halftones
The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards and the discoveries such wanderings can yield. Here, Michael Griffith roams Spring Grove (founded 1844), the nation's third-largest cemetery, fo...
PB:
£24,00
QTY:
Secret Germany Myth in Twentieth-Century German Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780857424815, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefan George to describe a collective political and poetic project: the introduction of the highest values of art into eve...
HB:
£22,00
QTY:
Samuel Johnson Selected Works
ISBN: HB: 9780300113037, Yale University Press, January 2021
856 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
Samuel Johnson was eighteenth?century Britain's pre?eminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson's works fully...
HB:
£30,00
QTY:
Snow's Wife
ISBN: PB: 9781933880815, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, November 2020
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Snow's Wife presents a dispassionate examination of the final months of a marriage, ending with a spouse's death. It examines the daily minutiae of caregiving, both the tender and the distasteful, that lend startling poignancy to unbearable hards...
PB:
£15,00
QTY:
Storage Unit for the Spirit House
ISBN: PB: 9781632430861, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
With sharp focus and startling language, the poems in Maw Shein Win's second book, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral, the material, and the immaterial. Vinyl records, felt wolverines, a belt use...
PB:
£15,00
QTY:
Strange Likeness Description and the Modernist Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226722528, ISBN: HB: 9780226722498, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description – what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool". As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during...
PB:
£22,00
QTY:
HB:
£76,00
QTY:
Swale
ISBN: PB: 9781936970681, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This collection is named for a "swale", a shallow channel used to direct the flow of rainwater. Similarly, Swale looks outward to the natural world and directs its focus inward to the land...
PB:
£13,00
QTY:
Stories for the Years
ISBN: HB: 9780300150964, Yale University Press, September 2020
352 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Regarded as one of Europe's great modernists, Pirandello was also a master storyteller, a fine observer of the drama of daily life with a remarkable sense of the crushing burdens of class, gender, and social conventions. Set in the author's birthplac...
HB:
£20,00
QTY:
Skull Cathedral A Vestigial Anatomy
ISBN: PB: 9781938769566, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Skull Cathedral, Melissa Wiley pulls stories from the vestigial remnants of the creatures we were or could have become. The appendix, pinky toes, tonsils, male nipples, wisdom teeth, and coccyx are starting points through which Wiley explores exal...
PB:
£15,00
QTY: