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  • Lord Jim

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Joseph Conrad

    by Allan Simmons ...
    Series series Critical Issues
    Joseph Conrad is one of the great figures in the tradition of the novel. This clear and well-written study provides a critically-informed introduction to Conrad and his work, placing him in his political, social and literary context, and examining his relationship to Modernism, England and Empire. Organised thematically - broaching the leading themes of race, the sea and nationalism - Allan H. ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Under Western Eyes

    by Joseph Conrad, Allan Simmons ...
    'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by Peter the Great. But in pre-revolutionary Russia Peter's legacy is autocracy tempered by ... Read more

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  • Heart of Darkness

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    A haunting Modernist masterpiece and the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning film Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness explores the limits of human experience and the nightmarish realities of imperialism.Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz: dying, insane, and guilty of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Robinson Crusoe

    by Daniel Defoe ...
    'Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence' Simon ArmitageDaniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe**, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling to survive on a remote desert island.**The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily ... Read more

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  • The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by David Magarshack ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Turn of the Screw

    by Henry James ...
    An unnamed narrator listens to a male friend reading a manuscript written by a former governess whom the friend claims to have known and who is now dead. The manuscript tells the story of how the young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after the death of their parents. He lives mainly in London and is not interested in raising the children ... Read more

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  • Winter Notes on Summer Impressions

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Kyril Zinovieff ...
    In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see first-hand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan and Vienna.His record ... Read more

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  • Doctor Glas

    A Novel

    by Hjalmar Soderberg ...
    A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity. With an introduction by Margaret Atwood.Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • A Gentle Creature and Other Stories

    White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Alan Myers ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from 'living life'. Despite his sentimental friendship with Nastenka, his final ... Read more

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  • Notes from Underground

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    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Series series Fyodor Dostoevsky - Starbooks Classics Collection
    Notes from Underground , also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant ... Read more

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  • Confession of a Murderer

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Series series Works of Joseph Roth
    An exiled Russian spy shares his dramatic life story from a Paris restaurant in this novel by the author of The Radetzky March.In a Russian restaurant on Paris's Left Bank, Russian exile Golubchik alternately fascinates and horrifies a rapt audience with a wild story of collaboration, deception, and murder in the days leading up to the Russian Revolution.Praise for Confession of a Murderer"Worthy ... Read more

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