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Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (Everyman's Library)

ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1992

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'.

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Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007

The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote.

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Price: 3 750 Ft

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Vladimir Nabokov: The Annotated Lolita

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007

When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century.

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Price: 5 625 Ft

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Vladimir Nabokov: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007

Nabokov's first novel written in English, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a nuanced, enigmatic potrayal of the conflict between the real and the unreal, and the futile quest for human truth.

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Price: 3 750 Ft

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Vladimir Sorokin: Ice Trilogy

NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS, 2011

In 1908, deep in Siberia, it fell to earth. Their Ice. A young man on a scientific expedition found it. It spoke to his heart, and his heart named him Bro.

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Price: 5 125 Ft

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Voices In The Park

CORGI BOOKS, 1999

Anthony Browne's world-renowned artwork is full of expressive gorillas, vibrant colours and numerous nods to Magritte and other artists, while being uniquely Browne's own style.

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Price: 3 425 Ft

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W B Yeats: Collected Poems

VINTAGE BOOKS, 1992

W.B. Yeats' life spanned the end of the nineteeth and the beginning of the twentieth century, and his poetry reflects all the turmoil, fervour, traditions and revolutions of that period.

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Price: 4 250 Ft

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W. G. Sebald: Austerlitz

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past.

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Price: 4 850 Ft

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W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 1

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2002

This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute,...

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Price: 5 550 Ft

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W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 2

RANDOM HOUSE, 2002

The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; ...

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W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 3

RANDOM HOUSE, 2002

The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I.

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Price: 4 690 Ft

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W. Somerset Maugham: Don Fernando

RANDOM HOUSE, 2000

Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. It discusses the writings of St. Teresa and the paintings of El Greco, and comments with sagacity and...

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W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2000

Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure.

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Price: 4 695 Ft

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W. Somerset Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence

RANDOM HOUSE, 2000

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness,,....

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W. Somerset Maugham: The Painted Veil

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2001

Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend.

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Price: 4 290 Ft

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W. Somerset Maugham: Then and Now

RANDOM HOUSE, 2001

Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance.

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