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  • Oxford Poets 2013: An Anthology

    Edited by Iain Galbraith, Robyn Marsack ...
    Series series Oxford Poets series
    The latest anthology in a renowned series that has featured writers such as Charles Tomlinson, Rebecca Elson, and the Nobel Prize–winning Joseph Brodsky, Oxford Poets 2013 includes 19 poets whose work is marked by wit, imagination, and thematic range. The collection celebrates the vibrancy and vitality of new writing today and includes poets Gregor Addison, Emily Ballou, Paul Batchelor, Riina ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • River

    by Esther Kinsky ...
    Translated by Iain Galbraith ...
    "A magnificent novel."—The New Yorker"This is a book to relish."—The GuardianA woman moves to a London suburb near the River Lea, without knowing quite why or for how long. Over a series of long, solitary walks she reminisces about the rivers she has encountered during her life, from the Rhine, her childhood river, to the Saint Lawrence, and a stream in Tel Aviv. Filled with poignancy and poetic ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mario and the Magician and Other Late Stories

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Iain Galbraith ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    "A horrific end, a thoroughly dire end. And yet a liberating end nonetheless — I could not help but feel that, and still do!" Thomas Mann's later short stories published between 1925 and 1953 explore his abiding interest in human nature and his surroundings. Disorder and Early Sorrow and Mario and the Magician originate from Mann's own experiences: domestic life at the height of inflation under ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Self Portrait With A Swarm of Bees

    by Jan Wagner ...
    Translated by Iain Galbraith ...
    Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees combines the poet's unerring instinct for the surprising perspective on commonplace objects or events with a mischievous delight in the detail of the absurd. Wagner is a vigilant, yet playful, chronicler of the quotidian, his meticulous handling of image and sound forging a worldly, almost luminous palpability. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sometimes a Single Leaf

    by Esther Dischereit ...
    Translated by Iain Galbraith ...
    Whether in poetry, fiction, radio drama or sound installations, Esther Dischereit's work represents a unique departure in recent European writing: a distinctive, off-beat syntax of German-Jewish intimacy with the fractured consciousness and deeply rutted cultural landscape of today's Germany. Sometimes a Single Leaf, mirroring the development of Esther Dischereit's poetry across three decades, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Mario and the Magician and Other Late Stories

    by Thomas Mann, Ritchie Robertson ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 12 min

    "A horrific end, a thoroughly dire end. And yet a liberating end nonetheless—I could not help but feel that, and still do!"Thomas Mann's later short stories published between 1925 and 1953 explore his abiding interest in human nature and his surroundings. Disorder and Early Sorrow and Mario and the Magician originate from Mann's own experiences: domestic life at the height of inflation under the ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD

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    'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.'A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives ... Read more

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