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  • Toward the Radical Center

    A Karel Čapek Reader

    by Karel Čapek, Peter Kussi, Arthur Miller ...
    Karel Čapek (1890-1938) is generally considered the greatest Czech author of the first half of the 20th century. This volume includes a selection of Čapek's best plays, stories, columns, essays, and travel writing, all newly translated or modernized and corrected.In his writings, Čapek searched for the root, or the radical center, of our contradictions and mysteries. From a paean to clumsy people ... Read more

    $9.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Ownership's All About

    by Karel Poláček, Peter Kussi ...
    "What Ownership's All About" is a darkly humorous novel about what power, even a tiny amount of it, does to a person, and to the people under his thumb. Jan Faktor, a policeman, builds a three-family house on the outskirts of Prague. He begins to landlord it over his tenants, and they respond by fearfully conceding to his increasingly absurd demands, and by huffing and puffing for all they're ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Baby Professor ...
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    Visit key places in Europe, and learn about their cultures and traditions too in less then 30 minutes! This book is heavy on knowledge but light on the budget. You can even use this book to teach geography to children too. This is definitely one for your collection. Buy a copy now! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Even Now

    Poems by Hugo Claus

    by Hugo Claus ...
    Translated by David Colmer ...
    Beautifully translated from the Dutch by David Colmer, the IMPAC Award-winning translator of Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin, Hugo Claus’s poems are remarkable for their dexterity, intensity of feeling, and acute intelligence. From the richly associative and referential “Oostakker Poems” to the emotional and erotic outpouring of the “mad dog stanzas” in “Morning, You,” from his interpretations of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Best European Fiction 2017

    by Eileen Battersby ...
    This anthology is the essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. In this, the eighth installment of the series, the anthology continues its commitment to uncovering the best prose writing happening across the continent from Ireland to Eastern Europe. Also featuring an erudite prefatory essay written by Eileen Battersby of the Irish Times ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chronicle of a Downfall

    Germany 1929-1939

    by Leopold Schwarzschild ...
    Few figures of interwar Germany were as influential as Leopold Schwarzschild, the brilliant editor of the liberal magazine 'Das Tage-Buch'. In the uncertain years of the Weimar Republic, Schwarzschild became famous for his perceptive political analyses and critique of the economic policies of successive governments in the twilight of Germany's first experiment with democracy. When he was forced to ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • "The Abencerraje" and "Ozmín and Daraja"

    Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain

    by Barbara Fuchs, Larissa Brewer-Garcia, Aaron J. Ilika ...
    Since its publication in 1561, an anonymous tale of love, friendship, and chivalry has captivated readers in Spain and across Europe. "The Abencerraje" tells of the Moorish knight Abindarráez, whose plans to wed are interrupted when he is taken prisoner by Christian knights. His captor, a Spanish governor, befriends and admires the Moorish knight, ultimately releasing him to marry his beloved. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count Dracula to Vampirella

    by Christopher Frayling ...
    An expanded, fully illustrated, and up-to-date edition of the classic cultural history of vampiresVampyres is a comprehensive and generously illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of eastern Europe to the Romantics and beyond. It incorporates extracts from a huge range of sources—from Bram Stoker’s detailed research notes for Dracula to penny dreadfuls, to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • George MacDonald: The Best Works

    by George MacDonald ...
    This ebook compiles George MacDonald's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and sermons such as "Phantastes", "The Princess and the Goblin", "Unspoken Sermons", "The Light Princess" and "The Golden Key". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD