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33 Days: A Memoir by Léon Werth; Austin D. Johnston (Translator)
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Neversink Ser.
The first ever English publication of important French author Leon Werth. Restored here with the original introduction, long thought to be lost, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince. Story Locale-The road from Paris to the line just beyond Occupied France Series Overview-The Nevers ...Show more
FAITHFUL RUSLAN THE STORY OF A GUARD DOG by VLADIMOV GEORGI
Category: Fiction | Series: Neversink Ser.
Unavailable for twenty years, this harrowing allegory of obedience to authority is esteemed as "one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period." (The Guardian) Set in a remote Siberian depot immediately following the demolition of one of the gulag's notorious camps and the emancipation of ...Show more
I Await the Devil's Coming by Mary MacLane; Jessa Crispin (Introduction by)
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Neversink Ser.
Mary MacLane's I Await the Devil's Coming is a shocking, brave and intellectually challenging diary of a 19-year-old girl living in Butte, Montana in 1902. Written in potent, raw prose that propelled the author to celebrity upon publication, the book has become almost completely forgotten. In the ea ...Show more
La Femme de Gilles by Madeleine Bourdouxhe
Category: Fiction | Series: Neversink
"A haunting, slim novel which has the mesmeric inevitability of a classical tragedy." --Independent on Sunday La Femme de Gilles tells the story of a fatal love triangle written on the eve of World War II. Set among the dusty lanes and rolling valleys of rural 1930s Belgium, La Femme de Gilles is the ta ...Show more
Leavetaking by Peter Weiss
Category: Fiction | Series: Neversink
Leavetaking is the story of an upper-middle-class childhood and adolescence in Berlin between the wars. In the course of the novel, Weiss plumbs the depths of family life: there is the early death of his beloved sister Margot, the difficult relationship with his parents and the fantasies of adolescence ...Show more
My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin; David Robinson (Introduction by)
Category: Biography | Series: Neversink Ser.
"The best autobiography ever written by an actor. An astonishing work." --Chicago Tribune Chaplin's heartfelt and hilarious autobiography tells the story of his childhood, the challenge of identifying and perfecting his talent, his subsequent film career and worldwide celebrity. In this, one of the very ...Show more
THE TRAVELS AND SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF Baron Munchausen by ERICH RASPE RUDOLF
Category: Fiction | Series: Neversink Ser.
The restored, unbowdlerized text of Raspe's slapstick travel epic featuring the classic illustrations from Strang & Clark (1895) No one has journeyed to as many foreign lands as Baron von Munchausen. Nor, when it comes time to fire a cannon, will you find anyone more accurate. The comfort of courtl ...Show more
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn: One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre by Josh Billings
Category: Fiction | Series: Neversink
Policeman Peter Glebsky, heads on holiday to the Dead Mountaineer's Inn, a ski resort hotel in a small resort in a secluded valley in the Alps. On his arrival he meets the other guests: Mr. Moses, a rich old man with highly eccentric manners and his stunningly beautiful wife; Mr. du Barnstocre, an illus ...Show more
The Difficulty of Being by Elizabeth Sprigge
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Neversink Ser.
By the time he had published The Difficulty of Being in 1947, Jean Cocteau had produced some of the most respected films and literature of the 20th century. This memoir tells the inside account of those achievements and of his glittering social circle. Cocteau writes about his childhood, about his devel ...Show more
The Graveyard by Marek Hlasko
Category: Fiction | Series: Neversink
This is a gritty tale about Communist Poland from one of the original 'Angry Young Men' Marek Hlasko. When Party member Franciszek Kowalski drunkenly insults a police man, his outburst is taken as criticism of the government, and he is both arrested and expelled from the Party. Kowalski, a true believer ...Show more
The Oasis by Vivian Gornick (Introduction by); Mary McCarthy
Category: Fiction | Series: Neversink Ser.
Mary McCarthy's long-out-of-print second book satirises the everyday struggles of a utopian commune seeking refuge after the destruction of the Second World War. She hardly troubles to disguise her characters - causing an outrage among the literary elite of the day, who did not fail to recognise themsel ...Show more
The President by SIMENON GEORGES
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Neversink Ser.
Restored to print for the first time in more than forty years, The President was hailed by the New York Times as a "tour de force" At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement--self exile--on the Normandy coast, writing his anxiously anticipated memoirs and receiving visits from st ...Show more
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