Búsqueda de Editorial : PUSHKIN PRESS

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  • THE STORY OF CYRANO DE BERGERAC
    BENNI, STEFANO / ROSTAND, EDMOND
    France's best tale of love and panache, retold for childrenCyrano 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 ask...
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    $ 93,000.00

  • THE STORY OF THE BETROTHED
    ECO, UMBERTO
    "This marriage is not supposed to happen."Lombardy, 1628, a time of oppressive Spanish occupation of Northern Italy, and of the Thirty Years' War. The young lovers Lorenzo and Lucia, both from peasant families, are planning their wedding. However, the villainous Don Rodrigo has designs on Lucia, and the lovers are forced to flee their village. Their dangerous journey in exile t...
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    $ 93,000.00

  • THE STORY OF KING LEAR
    MAZZUCCO, MELANIA G / SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
    You used to have everything and now you have nothing. Who's madder than you?Old King Lear has decided to retire from his royal duties. He calls his three daughters to him, and asks each to tell him how much they love him. The eldest two, Goneril and Regan, flatter him with their words. Cordelia - the youngest and, until now, his favourite - only says that she loves him as a dau...
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    $ 93,000.00

  • THE STORY OF DON JUAN
    BARICCO, ALESSANDRO
    "The crazy life and courageous death of a man who loved women too much to want only one."Don Juan is a passionate lover of life and nearly 1,000 women. One night, the Commendatore of Calatrava catches him kissing his daughter, and challenges him to a duel. Don Juan wins the duel, which of course means that the Commendatore is slain-and so begins the end for the incorrigible sed...
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    $ 93,000.00

  • THE SPECTRE OF ALEXANDER WOLF
    GAZDANOV, GAITO
    '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 elusi...
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    $ 65,000.00

  • BULLFIGHT
    INOUE, YASUSHI
    Tsugami, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper in war-scarred Osaka, agrees to sponsor a bullfight. For months this great gamble consumes him, makes him as wary and combative as if he was in a ring himself. And, as he becomes ever more distant, his lover Sakiko is unsure if she would like to see him succeed or be destroyed. Yasushi Inoue's novella won him the prestigious Akutagawa...
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    $ 75,000.00

  • THE COLLECTED NOVELLAS OF STEFAN ZWEIG
    ZWEIG, STEFAN
    A casual introduction, a challenge to a simple game of chess, a lovers' reunion, a meaningless infidelity: from such small seeds Zweig brings forth five startlingly tense tales--meditations on the fragility of love, the limits of obsession, the combustibility of secrets and betrayal. To read anything by Zweig is to risk addiction; in this collection the power of his writing--wh...
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    $ 85,000.00

  • STRANGE BLISS
    MANSFIELD, KATHERINE
    A beguiling new selection of Katherine Mansfield's finest stories, focused on her mysterious, complex portrayals of relationships between women Katherine Mansfield was one of the true pioneers of the short story. Her style shifts subtly between the comic and the tragic, as calm surfaces are punctured by moments of disruption, insight and strange beauty.This new collection gath...
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    $ 75,000.00

  • MURDER IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
    RYUNOSUKE, AKUTAGAWA
    A stylishly original collection of seven newly translated stories from the iconic Japanese writerThe stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of the darkness of our desires. From an isolated bamboo grove, to a lantern festival in Tokyo, to the Emperor's court, they offer glimpses into moments of madness, murder, and obsession. Vividly...
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    $ 75,000.00

  • VICTOR
    JACQUES & LISE
    The stunningly illustrated story of a hunter who decides to change his ways after he dreams of being a cheetahOne night, a hunter dreams he is a cheetah on the savannah... When he wakes up, he doesn't want to be a hunter anymore, but how can he make amends for all the hunting he has done?A gorgeously illustrated picturebook that will appeal to children and parents alike. ...
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    $ 85,000.00

  • MS ICE SANDWICH
    KAWAKAMI, MIEKO
    A quixotic and funny tale about first love - from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author. A boy is obsessed with a woman who sells sandwiches. He goes to the supermarket almost every day, just so he can look at her face. She is beautiful to him, and he calls her "Ms Ice Sandwich", and endlessly draws her portrait. But the boy's friend hears about this hesitant adoration, and sudden...
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    $ 52,000.00

  • THE WANDERER
    VAN DEN ENDE, PETER
    "Without a word, and with Escher-like precision, Van den Ende presents one little paper boat's journey across the ocean, past reefs and between icebergs, through schools of fish, swaying water plants, and terrifying sea monsters. The little boat is all alone, and while its aloneness gives it the chance to wonder at the fairy-tale world above and below the waves uninterrupted, t...
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    $ 106,000.00

  • ISOLDE
    IRENA ODOEVTSEVA
    A family of Russian émigrés seeks refuge in Paris in this hypnotically dark classic of love, deceit, and wayward youth by a pioneering Russian writer Left to her own devices in Biarritz, fourteen-year-old Russian Liza meets an older English boy, Cromwell, on a beach. He thinks he has found a magical, romantic beauty and insists upon calling her Isolde; she is taken with his Bui...
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    $ 75,000.00

  • THE CAKE TREE IN THE RUINS
    NOSAKA AKIYUKI
    Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex.In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly memorable stories of The Cake Tree in the Ruins are based on his own experience...
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    $ 75,000.00

  • RECORD OF A NIGHT TOO BRIEF
    KAWAKAMI, HIROMI
    The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary Japanese writing.In these three haunting and lyrical stories, three young women experience unsettling loss and romance.In a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparently unend...
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    $ 40,000.00

  • DOMINIC
    STEIG, WILLIAM
    "Dear friends, I am leaving in rather a hurry to see more of the world, so I have no time to say goodbye to you individually. I embrace you all and sniff you with love. I don't know when I'll be back. But back I will be. Dominic" --Back cover. ...
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    $ 58,000.00

  • ABEL'S ISLAND
    STEIG, WILLIAM
    Abel's place in his familiar mouse world has always been secure; he has an allowance from his mother, a comfortable home and a lovely wife, Amanda. But one stormy August day, furious flood waters carry him off and leave him on an uninhabited island. In spite of his determination and stubborn resourcefulness - he tries crossing the river with boats and ropes and even on stepping...
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    $ 58,000.00

  • THE REAL THIEF
    STEIG, WILLIAM
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    $ 52,000.00

  • THE INVISIBLE COLLECTION
    ZWEIG, STEFAN
    This is the story of about the strangest thing that I've ever encountered, old art dealer that I am.'It is perhaps the finest art collection of its kind, acquired through a lifetime of sacrifice - but when a dealer comes to see it, he finds something quite unexpected, and is drawn into a peculiar deception of the collector himself...Stefan Zweig was a wildly popular writer of c...
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    $ 85,000.00

  • A CHESS STORY
    ZWEIG, STEFAN
    Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money. But there is another passenger with a passion for chess: Dr B, previously driven to insanity during Nazi imprisonment by the chess g...
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    $ 65,000.00

  • AT NIGHT ALL BLOOD IS BLACK
    DAVID DIOP
    Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called "Chocolat" soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man's Land. Unable to commit this mer...
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    $ 58,000.00

  • OTHER WORLDS
    EFFI
    Masterful stories of faith and superstition from a much lovedRussian author, in English for the first time. ...
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    $ 69,000.00