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  • René Magritte

    Selected Writings

    by René Magritte ...
    Translated by Jo Levy ...
    Available for the first time in an English translation, this selection of René Magritte’s writings gives non-Francophone readers the chance to encounter the many incarnations of the renowned Belgian painter—the artist, the man, the aspiring noirist, the fire-breathing theorist—in his own words. Through whimsical personal letters, biting apologia, appreciations of fellow artists, pugnacious ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Children and the Changing Family

    Between Transformation and Negotiation

    Edited by An-Magritt Jensen, Lorna McKee ...
    This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around three major changes: parental employment, family composition and ideology. The authors demonstrate how children's families are transformed in accordance with societal changes in demographic and economic terms, and as a result of the choices parents make ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • The Social Meaning of Children and Fertility Change in Europe

    Edited by Anne Lise Ellingsaeter, An-Magritt Jensen, Merete Lie ...
    Series series Studies in European Sociology
    Low fertility in Europe has given rise to the notion of a ‘fertility crisis’. This book shifts the attention from fertility decline to why people do have children, asking what children mean to them. It investigates what role children play in how young adults plan their lives, and why and how young adults make the choices they do.The book aims to expand our comprehension of the complex structures ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Classic Collection of Franz Kafka. Novellas and Stories

    The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, Jackals and Arabs, Hunger Artist, A Country Doctor and others

    by Franz Kafka ...
    "The Classic Collection of Franz Kafka: Novellas and Stories" brings together a selection of extraordinary works by Franz Kafka, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. This collection showcases Kafka's unique literary style and his exploration of existential themes, alienation, and the human condition. "The Metamorphosis" is a haunting novella that follows the bizarre ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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    by Natsume Soseki, Aiko Ito ...
    "A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action…" —The New YorkerWritten over the course of 1904-1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit ... Read more

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  • The Setting Sun

    by Osamu Dazai ...
    Translated by Donald Keene ...
    This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956.Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his ... Read more

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  • The Metamorphosis and Other Stories of Franz Kafka

    by Franz Kafka ...
    “Its a peculiar apparatus,” said the Officer to the Traveller, gazing with a certain admiration at the device, with which he was, of course, thoroughly familiar. It appeared that the Traveller had responded to the invitation of the Commandant only out of politeness, when he had been asked to attend the execution of a soldier condemned for disobeying and insulting his superior. Of course, interest ... Read more

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  • Metamorphosis and Other Stories

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Metamorphosis

    And Other Stories

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Series series The Schocken Kafka Library
    From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed into an insect.To Max Brod, his literary executor, Kafka wrote: “Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these.”“Kafka’s ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Lily Hand

    And Other Stories

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Sixteen unforgettable stories from a "beguiling writer" and the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael ( The Daily Telegraph ).CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorExpanding her horizons far beyond the boundaries of crime fiction, Ellis Peters offers a broad range of short stories in this collection. Two friends, cruelly torn apart when their country is violently ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Crackling Mountain and Other Stories

    by Osamu Dazai ...
    Translated by James O'Brien ...
    Series series Tuttle Classics
    Crackling Mountain and Other Stories features eleven outstanding works by Osama Dazai, widely regarded as one of the 20th century Japan's most gifted writers.Dazai experimented with a wide variety of short story styles and brought to each a sophisticated sense of humor, a broad empathy for the human condition, and a tremendous literary talent.The eleven stories in this collection of Japanese ... Read more

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  • The Great Short Works

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    “In Neugroschel’s version we see more of Kafka’s meaning, his unexpected comedy**…we have for the first time the sense of understanding Kafka’s complexity and where it might lead us.” —Chicago Tribune**A classic translation of Kafka’s best-known, and most obscure, short fiction—with a new foreword from celebrated writer Ling Ma.Widely recognized as one of the preeminent English-language ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD