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  • Childhood, Youth, Dependency

    The Copenhagen Trilogy

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Translated by Tiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, ambition and the terrible lure of addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A new selection of poetry from the generation-defining author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, translated for the first time into EnglishWhile Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as an extraordinary prose writer, in Denmark she has also long been celebrated as a poet. She published her first collection in her early twenties, and continued writing and publishing poetry until the end of her life ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Faces

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Translated by Tiina Nunnally ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'One of Denmark's most celebrated writers' New StatesmanFrom the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience.Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Childhood

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    **'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianThe first volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love, friendship, ambition and addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers**Tove knows she is a misfit, whose childhood is made for a completely different girl. In her working-class neighbourhood in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Trouble with Happiness

    and Other Stories

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Translated by Michael Favala Goldman ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    **'So clear is Ditlevsen's eye that it is impossible to tear yourself away' John Self, GuardianAn unforgettable collection of stories from the author of** The Copenhagen Trilogy'The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can't have. That's where all the happiness is'In these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from one of Denmark's most celebrated ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Vilhelm's Room

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    The unforgettable final novel from the great Danish writer and author of The Copenhagen Trilogy‘Recently escaped a long, unhappy marriage – aged 51, but youthful in spirit – wonderful son, aged 15 – household literary name – summerhouse – large flat in the city centre – temporarily incapacitated by a nervous breakdown – prefers ... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Youth

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Translated by Tiina Nunnally ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    **'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianThe second volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love, friendship, ambition and addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers**Forced to leave school early, Tove embarks on a chequered career in a string of low-paid, menial jobs. But she is hungry: ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Dependency

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    **'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianThe final volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love, friendship, ambition and addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers**Tove is only twenty, but she's already famous, a published poet and wife of a much older literary editor. Her path in life ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Childhood, Youth, Dependency

    The Copenhagen Trilogy

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Narrated by Mx Stine Wintlev ...
    Series series

    Unabridged

    11 hours 51 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Following one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, ambition and the terrible lure of addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers.'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive .. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Vilhelm's Room

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Narrated by Helen Bang ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 15 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.I want to write a book about Vilhelm’s room and the events which took place in it, or arose from it; those that led to Lise’s death, which I have survived only so that I might write down the story of her and Vilhelm...The ripples from a breakup radiate outwards from the room where a married couple once loved each other, and a bizarre Lonely Hearts advert sets off a train ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Trouble with Happiness

    and Other Stories

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Narrated by Mx Stine Wintlev ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 25 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of love, marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence and despair, as women and men dream of escaping their ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Duel Duet

    Selected Stories

    by Graham Greene ...
    Narrated by Emma Gregory, Nigel Pilkington ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 15 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.Graham Greene, known for his iconic novels, also wrote exceptional short stories. Here some of the best have been arranged into pairs - to be read as a duel or duet - by novelist and Greene aficionado, Yiyun Li.**Twenty-two of Greene’s very best stories are collected here, each of them bearing the hallmark themes that characterise his great novels: innocence and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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