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  • Atlas of Dogs

    Illustrated by Marcel Kralik ...
    Series series Atlases of Animal Companions
    A unique collection of over 200 breeds of dogs, with fun facts and witty illustrations, accompanied by heroic stories from the exclusive Dogs’ Post Daily newspaper! Paw on the heart that you can‘t guess how many dog species there are in the world. In our well-arranged atlas, you can find them all, from the smallest Chihuahua to the hairiest Komondor. Learn basic information about their natures and ... Read more

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  • Remembrance of Things Past (Complete)

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Complete edition, from 1 to 7.The Narrator begins by noting, "For a long time, I went to bed early." He comments on the way sleep seems to alter one's surroundings, and the way Habit makes one indifferent to them. He remembers being in his room in the family's country home in Combray, while downstairs his parents entertain their friend Charles Swann, an elegant man of Jewish origin with strong ... Read more

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  • The murder in Sparks Street

    by Marcel Viau ...
    Two weeks after the assassination of MP Thomas D'Arcy McGee on Sparks Street in Ottawa, the body of Andrew Lenny, a wealthy lumber entrepreneur, is discovered under suspicious circumstances. Dispatched from Montreal to investigate, the brilliant Detective Silas Robinson and his astute assistant Miss Dupuis undertake a discreet inquiry. As they navigate the corridors of the burgeoning lumber ... Read more

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  • In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

    by Marcel Proust ...
    "‘In Search of Lost Time’ is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century." —Harold Bloom "At once the last great classic of French epic prose tradition and the towering precursor of the 'nouveau roman’." —Bengt Holmqvist "Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentence. Oh if I could write like that!" —Virginia Woolf "The greatest fiction ... Read more

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  • Soldiers for Sale

    German "Mercenaries" with the British in Canada during the American Revolution (1776-83)

    The British Army that fought the American Revolutionaries was in fact an Anglo-German army. The British Crown had doubts about the willingness of English soldiers to fight against other English-speaking people in North America. It also doubted the loyalty of the Canadiens who had only just been taken over after the conquest of New France. It thus turned to the princes of German States, who were ... Read more

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  • Strange Bodies

    Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old girlfriend, deception seems the only possible motive, yet nothing can make him change his story.From the secure unit of a notorious psychiatric hospital, he begins to tell his tale: an account of attempted forgery that draws the reader towards an extraordinary truth—a metaphysical conspiracy ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • How Tyrants Fall

    And How Nations Survive

    by Marcel Dirsus ...
    AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024'Thought-provoking, vivid and often entertaining' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Compelling' FINANCIAL TIMES'Thought-provoking' THE ECONOMIST'Gripping . . . Essential and captivating' BRADLEY HOPEHOW DO WE END TYRANNY?Tyrants seem invincible, but they face constant threats from all sides. Whe... ... Read more

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  • Swann's Way

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Series Book 1 - In Search of Lost Time
    The celebrated first volume of the novel that "brilliantly explores the workings of time and memory against the backdrop of Belle Époque France" ( The New Criterion).One the greatest novels of the twentieth century, In Search of Lost Time begins with Swann's Way, a young man's evocative journey of perception and remembrance, "which meanders from the nameless narrator's recollections of his Combray ... Read more

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  • Luca & Marcel

    by Lucy Lennox ...
    Will his temporary personal assistant turn into something permanent when they land in Vegas?When billionaire hotelier Luca Bernardi discovers his trusty assistant can't come with him on an important business trip, he panics. Thankfully, his PA calls in a backup. Only... she was a little under the influence of heavy narcotics when she made the call... and when the temp shows up wearing sequins and ... Read more

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  • Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1

    Series series
    One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1

    The Way by Swann's

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Translated by Lydia Davis ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • In Search of Lost Time, Volume I

    Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    'The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria--this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work.--VLADIMIR NABOKOVIn the overture to Swann's Way, the themes of the whole of In Search of Lost Time are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, ... Read more

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