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A Supreme Masterpiece of Obsession and Language Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is one of the most celebrated and controversial novels of the 20th centu...

'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third Reich A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europ...

"He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to h...

Venya is more interested in how much he and his colleagues can drink during the working day than in his job. Once he is fired, he spends the last o...

Product Description "Have you ever read Lolita?"So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lon...

A lavishly illustrated book to accompany the New York Public Library's exhibition of the priceless treasures in its archives Inside the walls of it...

An ingeniously nasty exercise reminiscent of Vladimir Nabokov and Patricia Highsmith - John Dugdale, Sunday Times This book is an experiment. We'...