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  • Anna Karenina

    by Leo Tolstoy, John Bayley ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    'One of the greatest love stories in world literature' Vladimir NabokovThe heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, but feels that her life is empty until she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike, and brings jealousy and bitterness in its wake. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings

    by Alexander Pushkin ...
    Translated by Ronald Wilks ...
    Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed. The Tales of Belkin, his first prose masterpiece, presents a series of interlinked stories narrated by a good-hearted Russian squire - among ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Elegy for Iris

    by John Bayley ...
    "I was living in a fairy story--the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending--in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing."So John Bayley describes his life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest contemporary writers in the English-speaking world ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume II

    Introduction by John Bayley

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Alymer Maude, Louise Maude, Nigel Cooper ...
    Ranging in scope from lengthy novellas to fables and folktales only a few pages long, Leo Tolstoy’s short fiction provides a marvelous opportunity to become closely acquainted with Russia’s great novelist.Volume 2 of the Collected Shorter Fiction reveals howTolstoy’s growing spiritual preoccupations flowered into a series of extraordinary late masterpieces that equal anything in the earlier novels ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Iris and Her Friends

    A Memoir of Memory and Desire

    by John Bayley ...
    A timeless work that will bring healing to anyone dealing with the loss of a loved one.John Bayley began writing Iris and Her Friends, a companion to the New York Times bestseller Elegy for Iris, late at night while his wife, the beloved novelist Iris Murdoch, succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease. As Iris was losing her memory, Bayley was flooded with vivid recollections of his own. In lyrical reverie ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Widower's House

    by John Bayley ...
    A hilarious comedy of errors and a delightful love story by England's most improbable sex symbol.Little did retired professor John Bayley realize when he lost Iris Murdoch, his beloved wife of forty-four years, that life would never be the same again. First came thousands of sympathy notes from lovers of Murdoch's novels and fans of Bayley's own poignant memoir, Elegy for Iris. But more alarming ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Wings of the Dove

    by Henry James ...
    Beautiful Kate Croy may have been left penniless by her relatives, but her bold, ambitious nature ensures she will not succumb meekly to a life of poverty. If the financial circumstances of Merton Densher, the man she is passionately in love with, are not sufficient to secure her future, perhaps her cunning will. So when Milly Theale arrives in Europe from America, laden with wealth but also ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Collected Stories of Henry James

    Volume 2; Introduction by John Bayley

    by Henry James ...
    Encompassing a period of almost fifty years, the stories of Henry James represent the most remarkable feat of sustained literary creation in modern times. For sheer richness, variety and intensity, they have no equal in fiction, enabling us to trace the evolution of a great writer in the finest detail. This collection reprints all the major stories together with many unfamiliar but equally ... Read more

    Was $32.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume I

    Introduction by John Bayley

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Alymer Maude, Louise Maude, Nigel Cooper ...
    Written over a period of more than half a century, Leo Tolstoy’s stories reflect every aspect of his art and personality. They cover his experiences as a soldier in the Caucasus, his married life, his passionate interest in the peasantry, his cult of truth and simplicity, and his growing preoccupation with religion.The stories in Volume 1 of the Collected Shorter Fiction date from the period in ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare and Tragedy

    by John Bayley ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Study of Shakespeare
    Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy and the studies in interpretation by G. Wilson Knight. A comprehensive new book on the subject by an author of the same calibre was long overdue.In his book, originally published in 1981, John Bayley discusses the Roman plays, Troilus and Cressida ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Shakespearean Tragedy

    by A. Bradley, John Bayley ...
    A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become "real" at all' writes John Bayley in his foreword to this edition of Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.Approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as he might have wondered about people in novels or in ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Collected Stories of Henry James

    Volume 1; Introduction by John Bayley

    by Henry James ...
    Encompassing a period of almost fifty years, the stories of Henry James represent the most remarkable feat of sustained literary creation in modern times. For sheer richness, variety and intensity, they have no equal in fiction, enabling us to trace the evolution of a great writer in the finest detail. This collection reprints all the major stories together with many unfamiliar but equally ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD