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Pushkin Collection eBook Series

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  • The Third Tower

    Journeys in Italy

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the coming war and charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites and scenes had once exercised a strange and terrifying power over his imagination, he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries, reappraisals and inevitable self ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Pendragon Legend

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    While visiting a Welsh castle, a young scholar finds himself at the center of occult rituals and a murder mystery in this “absolute treat” of a gothic detective story (The Guardian)At an end-of-the London season soiree, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumors. Invited to the family seat, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Queen's Necklace

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything—an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. Its centrepiece was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled, and the tangle of fraud, folly, blindness and self-delusion it provoked. The humiliation the affair brought on the royal family contributed to their appalling deaths in ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Love in a Bottle and Other Stories

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Hungarian Antal Szerb is best known in the West as the author of three extraordinary novels, most notably Journey by Moonlight (1937), and a highly entertaining study of the Ancient Regime in France, The Queen's Necklace (1942). This selection of his stories and novellas, set variously in mythical times and in the London and Paris of the twenties and thirties, reflects his love of life and the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Oliver VII

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    The restless King Oliver VII of Alturia, an obscure Central European state whose only notable exports are wine and sardines, wants nothing more than an easy life: so, plotting a coup against himself, King Oliver VII escapes to Venice in search of ‘real’ experience. There he falls in with a team of con-men and ends up, to his own surprise, impersonating himself. His journey through successive ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Journey by Moonlight

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **An early-twentieth-century classic — the turbulent, dreamlike story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemia“No one who has read it has failed to love it.” — Nicholas Lezard**Mihály and Erzsi are on honeymoon in Italy. Mihály has recently joined the respectable family firm in Budapest, but as his gaze passes over the mysterious back-alleys of Venice, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • All the Light We Cannot See

    A Novel

    by Anthony Doerr ...
    *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Malafrena

    A Library of America eBook Classic

    Discover the richly imagined world of Orsinia in this early historical fiction novel by the author of the Earthsea series—now featuring a chronology of Le Guin’s life and careerIn a career spanning half a century, Ursula K. Le Guin has produced a body of work that testifies to her abiding faith in the power and art of words. She is perhaps best known for imagining future intergalactic worlds in ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Leopard

    Revised and with new material

    INCLUDES RECENTLY DISCOVERED NEW MATERIALIn the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and squalor. Then comes Garibaldi's landing in Sicily and the Prince must decide whether to resist the forces of change or come to terms with them. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Pale Fire

    Series series Vintage International
    **A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita."Half-poem, half-prose...a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. One of the great works of art of this century." —Mary McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of The ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Secrets We Keep

    by Theresa Howes ...
    ‘Truly gripping… I loved it.’ Jill Mansell, Sunday Times bestsellerA heartbreakingly beautiful novel which captures the endurance and strength of ordinary people in the darkest of times, and the courage of one woman who put her life on the line to join the resistance. Perfect for fans of The Nightingale and The Secret Messenger.1944, the Cote d’Azur.Artist Marguerite Segal is recruited by British ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Club Dumas

    A rare book investigator gets caught in a deadly plot among Europe's elite literati in this acclaimed thriller—"a cross between Umberto Eco and Anne Rice" ( New York Daily News).Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus