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  • Chess Story (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Ulrich Baer ...
    Stefan Zweig's posthumously published Chess Story is the tale of a legendary chess match played on an ocean liner leaving Nazi-occupied Europe. The world champion and a man who attained mastery of chess during a harrowing ordeal are locked in a battle that becomes far more than merely a game. Gripping and visceral, this unforgettable novella powerfully renders a psychological condition nearly ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • New Approaches to Drug Discovery

    Edited by Ulrich Nielsch, Ulrike Fuhrmann, Stefan Jaroch ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume gives an overview of state of the art technologies and future developments in the field of preclinical pharmaceutical research. A balanced mix of experts from academia and industry give insight in selected new developments in the drug discovery pathway. The topics cover the different parts of the drug discovery process, starting with new developments in the target identification and ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

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  • Lost in Translation

    A Life in a New Language

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words)The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound."Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, a classic of exile and immigrant literature, as well as a girl’s coming-of-age ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD

  • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

    by Peter Handke ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    "My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide."So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • For Two Thousand Years

    by Mihail Sebastian ...
    Translated by Philip Ó Ceallaigh ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him.Mihail Sebastian's 1934 masterpiece, now ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Chess Story

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Alexander Starritt ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **In Zweig's classic novella, an epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of Nazi persecution, madness, and obsession.“Perhaps the best chess story ever written.” —Economist**A Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the final work completed by the bestselling author of his day. Sent off to his publisher just days before his suicide in 1942, A Chess Story is also the only ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Chess

    A Novel

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    '... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Crack-Up

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    Contains three classic essays originally from Esquire Magazine in 1936."The Crack-Up" "Pasting It Together" "Handle with Care"The main essay starts "Of course all life is a process of breaking down ...." which gives something of the tone of the piece.Expertly formatted with a linked table of contents. Look for more classic books from Green Light. Visit us at - GreenLighteBooks.tumblr.comTwitter - ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

    by Gaito Gazdanov ...
    Translated by Bryan Karetnyk ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    Of all my memories, of all my life's innumerable sensations, the most onerous was that of the single murder I had committed.'A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man. So begins the strange quest for the elusive writer 'Alexander ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Memoirs of an Anti-Semite

    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    by Gregor von Rezzori ...
    The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a period that coincides with the twentieth century’s ugliest years. Central to each episode is what ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Confusions of Young Törless

    by Robert Musil, Ritchie Robertson ...
    Translated by Mike Mitchell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate' Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Törless is an intense study of an adolescent's psychological development as he struggles to come to terms with his conflicting emotions. Through his relationship with two other ... Read more

    $7.99 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

    $4.99 CAD