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Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (riverrun Editions) - A New Selection of the Sharp, Sensitive and Much-Revered Stories by Guy de Maupassant; Elsie Martindale Hueffer (Translator); Ada Galsworthy (Translator); Robert Hampson (Contribution by); Helen Chambers (Contribution by); Joseph Conrad (Contribution by)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: riverrun editions
A priest receives an unexpected visitor from his past. A triumphant celebration ends in murder. A doctor tells of an unrequited love that only ended with death. Maupassant's direct treatment of sex and sexuality, and his insistence that the artist's primary duty was faithfulness to his own perception ...Show more
Sigmund Freud: Essays and Papers by Sigmund Freud; Joan Riviere (Translator); Lisa Appignanesi (Contribution by)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Self-help | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'Freud the writer is what Joan Riviere so elegantly presents to the English-Language reader'Lisa Appignanesi from her preface to Sigmund Freud: Essays and PapersThis collection focuses in on the set of Riviere's translations that made up the first library of Freud in English. Including his papers on met ...Show more
The Crocodile and Other Stories (riverrun Editions) - Dostoevsky's Finest Short Stories in the Timeless Translations of Constance Garnett by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Michael Wood (Introduction by)
$39.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: riverrun editions | Reading Level: very good
'I have always been ridiculous, and I have known it, perhaps from the hour I was born' A man goes mad because he is happy. A civil servant behaves like a monster at a wedding-party. A man is swallowed by a crocodile, but not eaten nor seriously damaged. Dostoevsky's stories inhabit similarly volcanic ...Show more
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (riverrun Editions) by Anton Chekhov; Constance Garnett (Translator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: riverrun editions
A man and woman fall in love in a seaside town. The only trouble is, they're both married to other people. A schoolmaster is scandalized by his sweetheart riding a bicycle. A woman falls in love with a series of men, each of whom leave her in different ways. Chekhov's stories capture Russian provincia ...Show more
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