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  • Franziska

    by Ernst Weiss ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Following the death of her mother, Franziska turns away from love and follows a grimly determined path to achieve a career as a concert pianist. Her determination takes her from her humble home in a small Czech town to an unconventional life in Prague, and eventually draws to a destructive climax in pre-war Berlin. Franziska is a fascinating exploration of character, an alluring treatment of the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Georg Letham

    Physician and Murderer

    by Ernst Weiss ...
    Translated by Joel Rotenberg ...
    First published in 1931 and now appearing for the first time in English, Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer is a disquieting anatomy of a deviant mind in the tradition of Crime and Punishment. Letham, the treacherously unreliable narrator, is a depraved bacteriologist whose murder of his wife is, characteristically, both instinctual and premeditated. Convicted and exiled, he attempts to atone ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Jarmila

    by Ernst Weiss ...
    Translated by Petra Howard-Wuerz, Rebecca Morrison ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Set in the idyllic landscape of rural Bohemia in the 1930s, this is the tragic love story of Jarmila, the village beauty, and a toy maker who falls under her siren spell. The wife of the far older local feather-merchant, Jarmila enjoys all the pleasures her husband's wealth can buy, yet still longs for true love which she hopes to find in her affair with the penniless toy-maker. When she conceives ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    **22 classic short stories and novellas of love and death, betrayal and hope—now collected for the first time in this beautiful 720-page volume!“One of the masters of the short story.” —Guardian**In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig’s short stories, the very best and worst of human nature is captured with sharp observation, understanding, and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death to ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Grand Hotel

    by Vicki Baum, Margot Bettauer Dembo ...
    Translated by Basil Creighton ...
    A luxury hotel in 1920s Berlin is a microcosm of modern society in this classic that inspired a hit Broadway musical and the classic film starring Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and John Barrymore.“Prefigures Downtown Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs by examining multiple characters from different classes.” —Shelf AwarenessThe luxury Grand Hotel is a revolving door for the stray souls of 1920s Berlin. ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Fantastic Night

    Tales of Longing and Liberation

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    'I alone know that I am only just beginning to live.'He is distinguished, rich, a member of fashionable society-utterlybored. But, over the course of one fantastic night, a young Baron becomes a thief, unashamed, and awakes to life for the first time.This collection is full of tales of infinite passions, of intense encounters that transform lives, a knock on a door that forces a whole community to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Boys & Murderers

    Collected Short Fiction

    by Hermann Ungar, Translated by Isabel F. Cole ...
    Boys & Murderers is the first complete collection in English translation of Hermann Ungar’s novellas and stories. A writer whose unique talent and dark analyses of the human psyche were admired by Thomas Mann, who provides the preface, Ungar’s prose is often grotesque and comical, if not occasionally horrific. Much like his highly acclaimed novel The Maimed, he delves here into the depravities of ... Read more

    $15.21 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Salzburg Connection

    by Helen Macinnes ...
    The ‘queen of spy writers’ returns with another “wonderfully readable” espionage thriller about a sunken Nazi chest whose secrets reverberate throughout the decades . . . (New York Times)He demanded the immediate dispatch of two suitably trained operatives to Salzburg. Extreme measures might be necessary.In 1945, with their thousand-year empire falling around them and the Allies on their heels, ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD

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  • Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia (LOA #281)

    Malafrena / Stories and Songs

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Series Book 1 - Library of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition
    Library of America gathers for the first time the entire body of work set in the imaginary central European nation of Orsinia—the enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction series written by Hugo, Nebula, and National Book Award winner Ursula K. Le Guin.In a career spanning half a century, Ursula K. Le Guin has produced a body of work that testifies to her abiding faith in the power and art of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Tin Ring

    Love and Survival in the Holocaust

    by Zdenka Fantlova ...
    Review Zdenka Fantlová and her story made a lasting impression. She survived six concentration camps, endured horrors the like of which most of us can't begin to comprehend, yet never lost the will to live or her optimism for a better future. During her time in the camps she kept a little tin ring, made for her by her boyfriend. She risked her life to keep this humble object that meant so much to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories.Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Death in Venice and Other Stories

    by Thomas Mann ...
    The celebrated author, Gustave Aschenbach, burdened by his successes, comes to Venice for a holiday and encounters a vision of eros -- a vision for which he pays with his life. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann's intensely moving elegy for a man trapped between myth and modernity, was written at the peak of his powers. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD