A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new…

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In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower…

\nThe story of Rome\'s richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory\n…

\nPresents the tale of a star-crossed courtship between the young nobleman Calisto and the beautiful maiden Melibea in…

A single-volume edition of Diary, Gombrowicz's acclaimed masterpiece, now with previously unpublished pages restored…

Produkt John Keats - Roe, Nicholas zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Yale University Press.…

From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the…

The first intellectual biography of Primo Levi to describe the intersection of his roles as both chemist and writer…

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• Rok vydání 2019

Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Glück as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize,…

\nA timely and provocative essay about the parallel lives of Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt and their mission for a more…

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Originally published as Libret de famille. A Editions GALLIMARD, Paris, 1977.--Title page verso.…

From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque…

A medical mystery/fantasy/love story that delves deeply into the nature of consciousness while raising many of the ethical…

\nA portrait of one of the ancient world\'s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again\n…

Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate…

\nAn exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the…

\nThe wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words\n…

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\nA revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux\n…

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From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention…

\nAn intimate, philosophic quest for eternity, amidst the disenchantments and disappointments of our time\n…

\nA riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial \"Father of the Nuclear Navy\"\n…

\nAn intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist\n…

\nA revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage\n…

\nA fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch\n…

\nAward-winning author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and a…

\nThe story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip\n…

\nThe rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and…

The rise and fall of one of America's first Black sports celebrities…

\nThe tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman\n…

\nAn intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize\n…

\nA renowned scientist and environmental advocate looks back on a life that has straddled the worlds of science and…

\nA captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her…

An authoritative account of the life and work of Francis Poulenc, one of the most prolific and striking figures in…

\nA powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler\n…

\nThe fourth and final volume of Michel Leiris’s renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time,…

\nAn extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth…

An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect…

\nA portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a philosopher\n…