Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars

Author	Graham Greene
ISBN	0140184937

Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction

First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates to this day. Conceived as one of Graham Greene's 'entertainments,'...

Author	Primo Levi
ISBN	0684826801

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a “true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth.

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Author	George Orwell
ISBN	0156421178

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell is one of my favourite writers. 1984 and Animal Farm were game-changers for me when I first picked them up at 12 years old, and they fostered an interest in politics...

Author	Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN	0940322161

This is a book about witches. But when I finally put this book down last night, I mostly just thought about my father.

I don’t think it is controversial to say that duty is a bit of an old fashioned word these days. Like honor. It’s one of those words you hear someone say and squirm uncomfortably,...

Author	Elias Canetti
ISBN	3596291402

Mit dem dritten Teil seiner Autobiographie schließt Elias Canetti seine groß angelegte Entwicklungsgeschichte eines Schriftstellers ab. "Das Augenspiel" besteht in vielen Passagen aus Beobachtungen und Berichten vom Leben in den Ateliers, Cafes und intellektuellen Zirkeln. Canettis Erinnerungsbuch...