Despair

Vladimir Nabokov

Contemporary Fiction

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965–thirty years after its original publication– Despair is the wickedly i

literature, russia

The Long Weekend

The Living Story of the Twenties and Thirties

Robert Graves

History

First published in 1940, this survey of the inter-war period not only includes surface aspects of the era – fro

archaeology, culture, literature

The English Face Of Machiavelli

A Changing Interpretation 1500-1700

Felix Raab

Philosophy

In inventing modern political science, Machiavelli challenged the time-honoured preconceptions of Christendom,

history, literature, machiavelli, politics, renaissance

Maupassant

Michael G Lerner

Biography

Despite the popularity of his novels and short stories it is some years since a major study of Maupassant has a

french, literature

Gogol

The Biography of a Divided Soul

Henri Troyat

Biography

Gogol was a man of unpredictable temperament and acute perplexity. His physical repulsiveness, illnesses and hy

literature, russia

Dostoevsky: A self Portrait

Jessie Coulson

Biography

Interspersed with biographical commentary by the translator, the letters give a more accurate picture of Dostoe

diary, literature, russia

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Non-fiction

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce an

anxiety, literature, realism

Mikhail Bulgakov

Critical Lives

J A Curtis

Biography

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) was one of the most popular Russian writers of the twentieth century, but m

dissident, literature, russia, soviet, theatre

Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

Jack D Zipes

Philosophy

The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on childrens lives. But until Fa

culture, folklore, literature, psychology

Balzac

V S Pritchett

Biography

With all his accustomed brilliance of perception and style, the novelist-critic V. S. Pritchett here gives us a

france, literature

The Western Theory of Tradition

Terms and Paradigms of the Cultural Sublime

Sanford Budick

Non-fiction

A study of cultural tradition. Sanford Budick reveals an operative concept of Western cultures: according to th

culture, literature

On Platos Statesman

Cornelius Castoriadis

Philosophy

This posthumous book represents the first publication of one of the seminars of Cornelius Castoriadis, a renown

literature, plato

Literary Russia: a Guide

Rosamund Bartlett

Non-fiction

From the streets of Bulgakovs Moscow to the country estates of Tolstoy, Literary Russia is a breathtaking guide

biography, literature, maps, moscow, russia, stpetersburg