PUSHKIN PRESS

(H/B) THE STORY OF THE NOSE
"Sir, now the matter is perfectly clear. You... you are my nose!" The Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov wakes one morning to discover that his nose has disappeared. Unbeknownst to him, it has mysteriously found its way into a loaf of bread on the barber Yokovlevich's breakfast table. The barber attempts to dispose of it, but when Kovalyov steps out onto the St Petersburg streets, he finds his nose, now the size of a human, wearing a gold-embroidered uniform and travelling around in a carriage... (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) THE STORY OF CYRANO DE BERGERAC
Cyrano de Bergerac is in possession of a cadet-position in the French Army, a poet's soul and a very, very large nose. He is also in love with Roxane, but believes himself too ugly to be loved by her in turn. When the handsome but unpoetic new cadet Christian de Neuvillette himself falls for the beautiful Roxane, he asks Cyrano to help him win her heart... (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE SPECTRE OF ALEXANDER WOLF
"Of all my memories, of all my life's innumerable sensations, the most onerous was that of the single murder I had committed." A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man. So begins the strange quest for the elusive writer 'Alexander Wolf'. A singular classic, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf is a psychological thriller and existential inquiry into guilt and redemption, coincid...
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(P/B) THE BUDDHA'S RETURN
A millionaire is killed. A golden statuette of a Buddha goes missing. A penniless student, who is afflicted by dream-like fits, is arrested and accused of murder. Slipping between the menacing dream world of the student's fevered imagination, and the dark back alleys of the Paris underworld, The Buddha's Return is part detective novel, part philosophical thriller, and part love story. In typically crisp, unfussy prose, Gazdanov's delicately balanced novel is an irresistibly hypnotic masterpiece from one of Russia's most talented emigre wri...
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(H/B) THE COLLECTED STORIES OF STEFAN ZWEIG
Perfectly paced and brimming with passion-twenty-two tales from a master storyteller of the twentieth century. In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig's short stories the very best and worst of human nature are captured with sharp observation, understanding and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death to faith restored and hope regained, these stories present a master at work, at the top of his form. Translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) FRAULEIN ELSE
While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor's jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination - with horrific consequences. (From the publisher)...
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A LIFE

LETTERS TO ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER

COMPULSION & OTHER STORIES

(P/B) WONDRAK
Compulsion, In the Snow and Wondrak all concern Zweig's strong anti-war feelings following the First World War. The artist Ferdinand, central figure of Compulsion, partly reflects Zweig's own experience. In The Snow tells of the plight of a group of Jews who freeze to death while trying to escape a medieval pogrom. In Wondrak, a woman, disfigured since birth, attempts to save her only child from being drafted into the military. In this newly available English translation the reader discovers the essential humanist preoccupations of the aut...
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(P/B) JARMILA

BURNING SECRET

DYING

AMOK AND OTHER STORIES

(P/B) CONFUSION
A young student finds himself drawn ever closer to his passionate and enigmatic English teacher. In the autumn of his days, a privy councillor contemplates his past, looking back at the key moments in his life. He remembers sharing a lodging with a professor and his wife and a close friendship is formed. The professor, however harbours a dark secret which changes both men forever. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) TWENTY FOUR HOURS IN THE LIFE OF A WOMAN
Two of Stefan Zweig's most compelling novellas are presented together in one volume. As heard on BBC Radio 4's "Book at Bedtime", "Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman" is the story of a middle-aged English widow who travels through Europe to escape loneliness and boredom. One evening, during her stay at the French Riviera, while enjoying the elegant atmosphere of the Monte Carlo Casino, she becomes mesmerised by the obsessive gambling of young Polish aristocrat. This fateful encounter leads to passion, despair and death, changing thei...
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(P/B) THE OTHER SLEEP
Standing on the parapet of a bridge, in the heart of Paris, a little boy is terrified; his cousin Claude is holding him by the ankles above the murky waters of the Seine. This experience becomes a backdrop to Denis' memories as a young man of a childhood marked by sadness. Within him, a struggle is taking place between the sheer wild joy of being alive and the despondency of existence. It is in Paris, a Paris exquisitely etched, that his unspoken passion for Claude gradually unfolds. (From the publisher)...
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GLIMPSES OF THE MOON

A SORROW BEYOND DREAMS (1901285170)

(P/B) MADAME DE