Against Nature (riverrun editions)

This riverrun edition includes the hitherto uncollected works by one of the twentieth century's most celebrated writers.

A stunning collection of Musil's vivid and enticing stories, looking at love, desire and the heart of humanity.Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(...

A playful account of one man's life in early twentieth century Trieste

This riverrun edition presents a master Russian storyteller whose fierce gift for intimate address summons the wholeness of life on every page. Tra...

Michael Wood's selection of Dostoevsky's shorter works is drawn from the timeless translations of Constance Garnett whose work, he says in his pref...

The second unique collection of Constance Garnett's translations of Chekhov's short fiction, selected for riverrun editions by Janet Malcolm

One of the great short novels of the early twentieth century. It is a novel of youth; a novel of growing up; and it casts an unflinching look at th...

In this collection the translator and the scientist come together in a rich, engrossing brew.

Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Leo TolstoyTranslator: Aylmer and Louise MaudeNumber of pages: 384Collection: riverrun editionsPublication ...

'In Kafka, no honour comes without suffering, and no suffering goes unhonoured' Joshua Cohen

This collection forms part of a three-volume edition of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected and with a preface by Sharon Cameron, and translated by...

This collection forms part of a three-volume edition of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected and with a preface by Sharon Cameron, and translated by...

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A brand new selection of Maupassant's finest stories, including an original preface by Joseph Conrad.

Julian Barnes' exclusive selection from the classic French work, newly translated by Theo Cuffe

DescriptionRace through the ghost-filled streets of New York City with this interactive board book featuring a wind-up miniature Ectomobile Experie...

Reducere. Resisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Na...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Jeff SparrowNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 22Cover type: Paperback / so...

Publisher: Insight EditionsAuthor(s): Insight EditionsIllustration(s): ColourCollection: Botanical CollectionPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 183 ...

Contributor(s): Author: J. -K HuysmansTranslator: Brendan KingDes Esseintes is a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity o...

A wildly original fin-de-siècle novel, Against Nature follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an i...

DescriptionUnlicensed P.I. Duck Darley has found a comfortable niche above the streets of Manhattan. But a desperate text from Cass Kimball, the pa...

DescriptionDuc Jean des Esseintes, the wealthy last survivor of a once-powerful family, has retreated from his bourgeois life in Paris. Overwhelmed...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies ...

Reducere. Learning the names of colors is a fundamental part of a child's development. Most of the time, a color is associated with a common object or living...

Publisher: Editions Skira ParisIllustration(s): 400 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 331 x 335 x 31C...

At war against Napoleon near bankrupt English mill-masters experiment with a new factory system acquiring machines to replace men. A young worker l...

Reducere. Can you guide a polar bear across a maze made from ice floes? Or join the dots to reveal the biggest animal that has ever lived? This beautifully i...

Reducere. Written over fifteen years ago, this prescient, suspenseful thriller is set against a backdrop of a capital city in quarantine, and explores human ...

'A masterly achievement, a work of imaginative grandeur and complete artistic control' Ian McEwan'Brilliant and unputdownable' Salman RushdieHe's a...

Reducere. THE STUNNING FOURTH BOOK IN THE DS ALEXANDRA CUPIDI INVESTIGATIONS FROM ONE OF CRIME FICTION'S FINEST WRITERSA DOUBLE MURDERThe naked corpses of Ay...

A beautifully illustrated portrait of one complete year in nature, with a double page spread dedicated to each month from January through to December.

Publisher: North Star EditionsAuthor(s): Connor StrattonNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 184 x 236 x 10Cover type: HardbackRede...

Identifies and explores innovative technology in the robotics industry that was inspired by nature.

Publisher: North Star EditionsAuthor(s): Connor StrattonNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 176 x 374 x 7Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. Seduced by a Sociopath explains how millions of people pursuing romantic relationships are charming, affectionate, passionate -- and fake. These de...

When she at last settles down to a bit of study at agricultural college, her life is turned upside down by the very handsome, but very drunken part...

* The phenomenal Indian bestseller * Winner of the Tata Lit Live Best First Book of the Year Award *'Intense, lyrical, and powerful. This is a rema...

In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, a...

Drawing on over 300 prosecutions of sex acts in colonial New Spain between 1530 and 1821, Zeb Tortorici shows how courts used the concept "against ...

Reducere. *A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'Rarely is a book this finely wrought, the lives and histories it holds so tenderly felt, and rendered unforgettably t...

Reducere. The pig family is distraught Christmas is coming, and they have no money to buy gifts Whatever shall they do? Luckily for them, Angel Pig pays them...

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DescriptionThis is a book about contemporary Swedish landscape architecture, reflected through the work of the country s leading landscape designer...