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Pushkin Collection eBook Series

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  • A Dark Stranger

    by Julien Gracq ...
    Translated by Christopher Moncrieff ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    From the moment he arrives at an elegant seaside hotel with his lover, Allan unsettles and obsesses the other guests. Elusive, equivocal, beautiful, he lives, gambles, swims and dances with a strange fierceness that they find intoxicating. Soon he even haunts their dreams.One by one, each guest is fatally drawn to Allan. And, as the hazy August heat fades and summer comes to an end, they gravitate ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Crossings

    A Novel

    by Alex Landragin ...
    "A sparkling debut. Landragin’s seductive literary romp shines as a celebration of the act of storytelling." **—****Publishers Weekly"Romance, mystery, history, and magical invention dance across centuries in an impressive debut novel."** **—****Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)"Deft writing seduces the reader in a complex tale of pursuit, denial, and retribution moving from past to future. Highly ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

  • Vertigo

    by Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury ...
    Series Book 5 - Pushkin Vertigo
    The original breath-taking psychological thriller behind Hitchcock’s legendary film—the story of a man tormented by his search for the truth, and ultimately destroyed by a terrible secretIt could have happened to any of us, but it happened to a man named Flavieres. His days as a detective were over, and everyone knew he had his reasons. But when an old friend appeared out of nowhere with concerns ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell, B.W. Huebsch ...
    This classic Austrian novella paints a deeply moving portrait of a woman whose quest for passion and purpose comes at a steep priceThe less I felt in myself, the more strongly I was drawn to those places where the whirligig of life spins most rapidly.So begins an extraordinary day in the life of Mrs C—recently bereaved and searching for excitement and meaning. Drawn to the bright lights of a ... Read more

    $8.29 CAD

  • Maigret's Memoirs (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 35 - Inspector Maigret
    In his own words, Maigret reflects on his legacy—and storytelling itself—in this metatextual meditation on narrative, policing, and truth.Is the real Inspector Maigret the mentally agile, physically ponderous detective of Georges Simenon’s famous novels? Or is this character a distorted facsimile of an actual person? In a startling turn of events, the original Jules Maigret of the Paris Police ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Amok and other Stories

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death and a prisoner-of-war longing to be home again in Russia. In these four stories, Stefan Zweig shows his ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Lock No. 1 (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by David Coward ...
    Series Book 18 - Inspector Maigret
    When a drowned man comes back to life, Georges Simenon’s detective must figure out who might have wanted him dead—before they try again.Emile Ducrau, the kingpin of a small town on the outskirts of Paris, is stabbed and left for dead in the harbor one night. When he’s pulled from the water and miraculously revived, he enlists the help of Maigret to figure out who was behind the attempted murder. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

  • Bruges-la-Morte

    by Georges Rodenbach ...
    Dedalus should be treasured: a small independent publisher that regularly produces works of European genius at which the behemoths wouldn't sniff. If the corporations did care to look at this new work, they would find, on the surface, a precursor to W G Sebald, a Symbolist vision of the city that lays the way for Aragon and Joyce, and a macabre story of obsessive love and transfiguring horror that ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD

  • The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell, Alexander Starritt ...
    A casual introduction, a challenge to a simple game of chess, a lovers' reunion, a meaningless infidelity: from such small seeds Zweig brings forth five startlingly tense tales--meditations on the fragility of love, the limits of obsession, the combustibility of secrets and betrayal.To read anything by Zweig is to risk addiction; in this collection the power of his writing--which, with its ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • A Game of Chess and Other Stories

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger challenges him to a game. Czentovic easily defeats him, but during the rematch a mysterious Austrian, Dr B., intervenes and, to the surprise of everyone, helps the underdog obtain a draw. When, the next day, Dr B. confides in a compatriot travelling on ... Read more

    $4.79 CAD