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- Hermann Hesse: The Journey to the East
Hermann Hesse: The Journey to the East
- Hermann, Hesse
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- beletrie
- 116
- 2007
Describes the history of a journey undertaken by a secretive 'League'. This novel reveals the existence of a fantastical, alluring and deeply intimate world in which a journey...
- Gertrude - H. Hesse
Gertrude - H. Hesse
- Hesse, Hermann
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- 208
- 2002
Peter Owen Publishers, 2002, 208 pages, ISBN-13: 9780720611694, ISBN-10: 0720611695
- Fashions in Makeup - R. Corson From Ancient to Mod
Fashions in Makeup - R. Corson From Ancient to Mod
- Corson, Richard
- 644
- 2003
Aunique book in its field and a comprehensive history of cosmeticsIn this highly praised volume, Richard Corson chronicles the pursuit of beauty from Ancient Egypt to the...
- Seopyeonje - The Southerners' Songs - Y. Chung-Jun
Seopyeonje - The Southerners' Songs - Y. Chung-Jun
- Chung-jun, Yi
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- 256
- 2011
Yi Chung-jun's haunting and disturbing novel is set in the 1950s after the Korean War in the remote south of the country, home of the traditional art of pansori singing, a...
- Born Gay? Q. Rahman, G. Wilson
Born Gay? Q. Rahman, G. Wilson
- Rahman, Qazi
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- 200
- 2008
A key study in thepsychobiology of sexual orientation and its true causes.Since the ground-breaking work of Simon LeVay and Dean Hamer in the early 1990s, a tremendous amount...
- Exodus of the Storks
Exodus of the Storks
- Nabhan, Walid
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- 320
- 2022
The first English translation of the 2017 European Union Prize for Literature winner Nabil, a Palestinian exile who has made his life on the Mediterranean island of Malta, has...
- The Gospel According to Lazarus Zimler RichardPevná vazba
The Gospel According to Lazarus Zimler RichardPevná vazba
- Zimler, Richard
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- 368
- 2019
From the international best-selling author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon comes a dazzling new work of historical fiction, retelling the story of the Passion from the point of...
- The Boat in the Evening - T. Vesaas
The Boat in the Evening - T. Vesaas
- Vesaas, Tarjei
- 186
- 2003
Earning its author a third nomination for the Nobel Prize, this tale centers on a crane colony arriving at its breeding ground to play out a delicate drama, ending with the...
- Fashions In Eyeglasses
Fashions In Eyeglasses
The most comprehensive history of eyewear ever to be published in English, this bible among fashion aficionados and historians is reissued in an enlarged, updated edition...
- Michael Leonard
Michael Leonard
Patrick Bade's intimate yet comprehensive study of all the stages of Michael Leonard's career reveals his artistic development in all its variety. Lavishly illustrated with...
- The Gothic Tales of the Marqu - M. De Sade, J. Sade
The Gothic Tales of the Marqu - M. De Sade, J. Sade
- Sade, Marquis de
- 196
- 2005
Amongst the most accessible of Sade's fiction, the stories in this collection range from the dramatic novella 'Eugenie de Franval' to comic tales such as 'The Husband Who...
- The Parson - A. Kavan
The Parson - A. Kavan
- Kavan, Anna
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- 184
- 2001
The Parson was not published in Anna Kavan s lifetime, but found after her death in manuscript form. Thought to have been written between the mid 50s and early 60s, it presages,...
- The Prodigy - H. Hesse
The Prodigy - H. Hesse
- Hermann Hesse
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- 224
- 2011
The Prodigy," originally dating from 1905, is Hermann Hesses's bitter indictment of conventional education. It is the story of Hans Giebenrath, the brilliant young son of...
- Lassie
Lassie
- Haining, Peter
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- 115
- 2005
In 1938, Eric Knight wrote a magazine story about a collie dog, Lassie, which established her as 'the world's favourite dog'; and went on to inspire films, radio, and television...
- Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street
Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street
Tallinn, 1419. What links the Keeper of the Tower, a prostitute and a Flemish painter to a haunted house on Rataskaevu Street? All three claim to have seen a ghost near the...
- Hidden Faces
Hidden Faces
Salvador Dali's only novel captures his unique vision and reads as an epitaph to pre-war Europe. The extravagance and luxury of a set of aristocrats, at first oblivious to war...
- Sea and Poison
Sea and Poison
Shusaku Endo's most disquieting novel and a masterful study of individual and collective moral disintegration. Set in a Japanese hospital during the last days of the Second...
- Dom Casmurro
Dom Casmurro
Bentinho Santiago, cosseted only child of a rich widow, lives next door to Capitu, the daughter of a lowly government official. As childhood friendship turns to adolescent love,...
- Seven Churches
Seven Churches
- Miloš Urban
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- 256
- 2010
A remarkable new novel by one of the most exciting writers in Europe, Milos Urban, translated from the Czech by Robert Russell. The Seven Churches, is one of the most...
- Three Loves, One Death
Three Loves, One Death
- Flisar, Evald
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- 280
- 2016
Part of the Peter Owen World Series. A new novel from internationally renowned author of My Father's Dreams. When a family move out to the countryside to restore a dilapidated...
- I Love You Madly
I Love You Madly
- Evelyn Farr
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- 400
Delve deeper into the world of the BBC hit drama series Versailles, and discover the real Marie-Antoinette in this ground-breaking study of her secret love affair with the...
- To The end Of the World - Cendrars Blaise
To The end Of the World - Cendrars Blaise
- Blaise Cendrars
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- 253
Blaise Cendrars last novel is an original and often very funny portrayal of the Parisian criminal underworld of the late 1940s that crackles with the fires of an abundant...
- Brontes in Brussells
Brontes in Brussells
- Helen MacEwan
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An account of Charlotte and Emily Bronte's stay in Brussels between 1842 and 1843, 5yrs before they became bestselling authors. Reveals how the spell abroad inspired two of...
- Burning Cities
Burning Cities
Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics. Estonian author Kai Aareleid's novel, 'Burning Cities', is a poetic historical saga, in which the fortunes of a small family...