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    Big Ben Strikes Eleven

    by David Magarshack ...
    Narrated by John Telfer ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    10 hours 54 min

    The discovery of Sir Robert Boniface's body on the floor of his limousine was made quite accidentally on a sultry Friday evening towards the end of June. The industrial and financial tycoon, and former stalwart of the British Cabinet, was shot in the head and left in the quiet Vale of Health. Nearby, a rejected portrait of Sir Robert is found riddled with bullets in the studio of the now missing ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 Real Chekhov

    An Introduction to Chekhov's Last Plays

    by David Magarshack ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Russian and Soviet Literature
    What is Chekhov’s method of ensuring audience participation? What does his stage direction ‘through tears’ mean? What happens between the first and second acts of The Seagull? Is there any reason for the despondency in Chekhov’s drama? This book, first published in 1972, discusses these questions and many other issues around Chekhov’s last four plays. David Magarshack, the leading translator and ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Oblomov

    by Ivan Goncharov ...
    Translated by David Magarshack ...
    Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy - a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the bustle and activity necessary to participate ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Notes from Underground and the Double

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Translated by Ronald Wilks ...
    'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work' Malcolm BradburyAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Trial

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Idris Parry ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror, with a new introduction and notes by Carolin DuttlingerA terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Demons

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Joanna Moorhead ...
    Translated by Robert Maguire ...
    Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils, is a dark masterpiece that evokes a world where the lines between and good and evil long ago became blurred. This Penguin Classics edition of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Demons is translated by Robert A. Maguire and edited by Ronald Meyer, with an introduction by Robert L. Belknap.Pyotr Verkhovensky and Nikolai Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Gambler and Other Stories

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Translated by Ronald Meyer ...
    The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes 'Bobok', the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Idiot

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ron Arad ...
    Translated by David McDuff ...
    Dostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness, innocence and greedReturning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin - the titular 'idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The House of the Dead

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Translated by David McDuff ...
    **A searing account of the time Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy‘Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth’**In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead, were the most ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Crime and Punishment

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fuel ...
    Translated by David McDuff ...
    'Dostoyevsky's finest masterpiece' John BayleyDostoyevsky's great novel of damnation and redemption evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur. It tells the story of Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, who wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be beyond ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Selected Writings

    by Thomas Aquinas ...
    In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology.Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotle's rational world view and by the powerful belief that wisdom and truth can ultimately only be reached through divine revelation. Thomas's writings, which contain highly ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD