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    The Cat and the Masked Woman (Oxford World's Classics)

    by Colette, Diana Holmes ...
    Narrated by Machteld van der Gaag ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 42 min

    'My little puma! My darling cat! My mountain lion! How will you go on living if we leave each other?'Colette (1873-1954) is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. The Catfirst serialised then published in volume form in 1933) is one of her short novels. This story of a middle-class couple in 1920s Paris follows the familiar romantic structure ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Venice Tales

    by Helen Constantine, Katia Pizzi ...
    Translated by Katherine Gregor, Howard Curtis ...
    Series series City Tales
    Venice Tales is the first comprehensive collection of short-stories on Venice by Italian authors. The book encompasses a broad chronological span, beginning from the Middle Ages (Boccaccio), through to the early modern period (Sansovino), the Enlightenment (Casanova, Goldoni), to the modern and contemporary eras (Marinetti, Montale, Calvino, Scarpa and others). A dream-like city uniquely built on ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Saving the Children of the Holocaust

    True Stories of Remarkable Women who Risked their Lives to Save Thousands of Children during World War II

    by Helen Constantine ...
    Saving the Children of the Holocaust tells the astonishing, little-known stories of eight ordinary women who risked everything to save children during one of history's darkest periods.While much has been written about the horrors of the Holocaust, the courage of many who resisted and rescued remains largely unknown. Through extensive research, Helen Constantine shines a light on remarkable women ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Athens Tales

    Series series City Tales
    Athens Tales is a portrait of Greece's capital through the city's own writers. The book is made up of eighteen short stories, in English translation, by different Greek authors, some of whom have never appeared before in English. Taking a roughly chronological course from the 1890s to the present day, through these stories, the reader follows the history of Athens through its multiple ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Paris Street Tales

    by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Paris Street Tales is the third volume of a trilogy of translated stories set in Paris. The previous two are Paris Tales, in which each story is associated with one of the twenty arrondissements, and Paris Metro Tales, in which the twenty-two stories are related to a trip round the Paris Metro. This new volume contains eighteen newly translated stories related to particular streets in Paris, and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Warsaw Tales

    Edited by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Warsaw Tales is an anthology of short stories and non-fiction set in the Polish capital. Beginning in 1911 with Boleslaw Prus' Apparitions, the collected stories provide a chronological account of the city's tumultuous and dramatic history. Each story captures a phase of Warsaw's past, through the interwar period as a Polish republic, the Second World War and the city's Nazi occupation, the post ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Moscow Tales

    Edited by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Presenting stories which represent each layer of the city of Moscow, from the centre of power to the outer rings of desolate estates and tumbledown shacks, this fascinating collection offers a lively and varied portrait in fiction of Russia's mysterious capital city. The collection includes works by Russian authors ranging from Anton Chekhov and Yuri Koval to Larisa Miller and Marina Boroditskaia, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Cat and The Masked Woman

    by Diana Holmes, Colette, Helen Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'My little puma! My darling cat! My mountain lion! How will you go on living if we leave each other?' Colette (1873-1954) is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. The Cat (first serialised then published in volume form in 1933) is one of her short novels. This story of a middle-class couple in 1920s Paris follows the familiar romantic ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • French Tales

    Edited by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    French Tales is a collection of twenty-two translated stories associated with the twenty-two regions of France. The book, which includes both well-known and little-known writers, for example Prosper Mérimée in the nineteenth century and Anne-Marie Garat in the twenty-first, affords readers a panoramic view of French society and culture, reflecting, as it does, its variety and diversity from ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Paris Tales

    Series series City Tales
    Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by French and Francophone writers who have been inspired by specific locations in this most visited of capital cities. The twenty-two stories - by well-known writers including Nerval, Maupassant, Colette, and Echenoz - provide a captivating glimpse into Parisian life from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. The stories take us on ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Rome Tales

    Edited by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to Giacomo Casanova in the eighteenth century, to Pier-Paolo Pasolini in the twentieth and contemporary new writers such as Melania Mazzucco and Igiaba Scego, offer the delight of discovering and exploring one of the world's most unique cities thorough a wide variety of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Amsterdam Tales

    Edited by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    In this volume Paul Vincent presents a compelling collection of prose fiction, memoirs and anecdotes centring on Amsterdam from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. His selection offers a rare insight into the history and culture of the city. The subjects range from Rembrandt to the persecution of the Jews in World War 2, from barricades in a working-class district during the Depression to ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD