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Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp An Interview-Novel with Questions Asked and Answers Recorded by Laszlo Szigeti
ISBN: HB: 9788024614472, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2008
192 pp., 19x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point,...
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£15,00
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Around the World in 80 Days
ISBN: HB: 9781402754272, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2008
224 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
Jules Verne – and his one-of-a-kind hero, Phileas Fogg – take children on an action-packed, whirlwind race around the world. For as long as anyone can remember, Foggs daily ritual has never varied by even a minute. Then, on a whim and a bet, he sets...
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£8,99
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Oliver Twist
ISBN: HB: 9781402754258, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2008
464 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
Thanks to its colourful cast of characters and gritty portrayal of street life in Victorian London, Dickens Oliver Twist has captured readers hearts for over 150 years. Todays children will love it too. Oliver, a poor orphan, escapes the miserable wo...
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£8,99
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Original Frankenstein
ISBN: HB: 9781851243969, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2008
448 pp., 12.8x12.6 cm
In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, wrote the first draft of "Frankenstein" after she and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley took part in a ghost writing competition at Lord Byron's villa by Lake Geneva. Returning to England in the autumn...
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£14,99
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Everyday Spooks
ISBN: HB: 9788024614946, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2008
226 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 8 colour plates, 30 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Prague-born Karel Michal (1932-1984) lived a significant part of his adult life under Czechoslovakia's oppressive communist regime. Prevented from studying at the university as a young man...
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£19,00
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Time Treks The Uncertain Future of Old and New Despotisms
ISBN: PB: 9781905422814, ISBN: HB: 9781905422791, Seagull Books, September 2008
228 pp., 21x14 cm
In this collection of essays, Ashis Nandy uses the metaphor of the future – imagined utopias, conceptions of cultural possibilities, social critiques of things to come – to redefine the present. Nandy's effort is to demonstrate that, in a world incre...
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£26,50
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£75,00
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Russian Jerusalem
ISBN: PB: 9781857549102, Carcanet, May 2008
164 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Beginning in present-day St Petersburg, "The Russian Jerusalem" explores the landscape of twentieth century Russian literature. In this evocative autobiographical novel, distinguished poet, translator, novelist and biographer Elaine Feinstein moves a...
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£9,95
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Richard III
ISBN: PB: 9780300122022, Yale University Press, May 2008
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Treacherous, power-hungry, untempered by moral restraint, and embittered by physical deformity, Richard, the younger brother of King Edward IV, is ablaze with ambition to take England's throne. Richard III, Shakespeare's long chronicle of Richard's m...
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£4,50
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Classic Starts: Arabian Nights Retold from the Classic Tales
ISBN: HB: 9781402745737, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2008
160 pp., 19x13.6 cm, black&white illus.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor: these are just some of the strange and amazing stories that clever Scheherazade tells to captivate her husband, King Shahryar... and to save her own life. Each one is more fantastic than the...
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£5,99
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Classic Starts: Hunchback of Notre-Dame Retold from the Victor Hugo original
ISBN: HB: 9781402745751, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2008
160 pp., 19x13.6 cm, black&white illus.
Set in a richly rendered 15th century Paris, Victor Hugos powerful drama focuses on a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda, the two men (including an obsessed and manipulative priest) who love her, and the pitiful hunchback Quasimodo who tries to sav...
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£5,99
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