Pushkin Press Classics

The Pushkin Press Classics list brings you timeless storytelling by icons of literature. These titles represent the best of fiction and non-fiction, hand-picked from around the globe – from Russia to Japan, France to the Americas – boasting fresh selections, new translations and stylishly designed covers. Featuring some of the most widely acclaimed authors from across the ages, as well as compelling contemporary writers, these are the world’s best stories, to be read and read again.

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The Year of the Hare

Arto Paasilinna

A delightfully witty and mordant modern classic from Finland: the story of a journalist who befriends an injured hare and embarks into the Finnish wilderness

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The Queen of Spades and Selected Works

Alexander Pushkin

A young man plots to unearth a secret from an elderly countess-a secret he believes will win him a fortune.

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Glimpses of the Moon

Edith Wharton

A charming story of romantic misadventures where a young couple's love is threatened by the power of money, by one of the greatest authors of her age.

Nick Lansing and…

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Hidden Faces

Salvador Dali

The only novel of the twentieth century's most acclaimed surrealistpainter, a richly visual depiction of a group of eccentric aristocrats in theyears preceding the Second World War.

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Change Your Life

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke developed one of the most singular poetic styles of the twentieth century. Visionary yet always anchored in the real world, his poems give profound expression to fundamental…

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Murder in the Age of Enlightenment

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

These are short stories from an unparalleled icon of modern Japanese literature. Sublimely crafted and shot through with a fantastical sensibility, they offer dazzling glimpses into moments of madness, murder…

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The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man

Franz Kafka

The best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers

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Demian

Hermann Hesse

Emil Sinclair is a troubled young outsider. But everything changes when he meets Max Demian, a mysterious and charismatic older student, who reveals the glittering possibilities that lie beyond conventional…

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The World of Yesterday

Stefan Zweig

Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death, brings the destruction of a war-torn Europe vividly to life. Written as both a…

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I Was Jack Mortimer

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And though Sponer has so…

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The Beauties

Anton Chekhov

The essential edition of the greatest stories by the Russian master of the form

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Coin Locker Babies

Ryu Murakami

A cult cyberpunk masterpiece, and Ryu Murakami's most famous novel.

Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever…

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Journey by Moonlight

Antal Szerb

An early-twentieth-century classic - the turbulent story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemia.

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Hunger

Lan Samantha Chang

A modern classic of American fiction: a haunting collection of stories that explore the lost loves and complex desires of Chinese-American immigrant families

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The Evenings

Gerard Reve

A modern masterpiece of one of the most important Dutch authors of all time, voted the best Dutch novel of the twentieth century

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Land of Smoke

Sara Gallardo

Dazzling, hallucinatory stories by Sara Gallardo, a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of Garcia Marquez

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The Book of Paradise

Itzik Manger

The raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains, in a new translation

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Clouds over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub

Felix Hartlaub

New paperback of the acclaimed, sharply immediate diary written from the heart of Occupied Paris by a classic German writer

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A Woman in the Polar Night

Christiane Ritter

In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She…

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The Crazy Hunter

Kay Boyle

At 17, Nan wants to leave the family farm and go to study. Caught between her powerful mother and yielding, drunken father, she absorbs the tensions of their divided household…

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Parisian Days

Banine

A brilliantly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle for freedom

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Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner

Henry James

Surrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector, was as revered and…

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A Different Sound

Various Authors

These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall…

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Binocular Vision

Edith Pearlman

The collected stories of an award-winning, modern classic American writer who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike - and even Anton Chekhov.

'The best short story writer in…

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A Bookshop in Berlin

Francoise Frenkel

'An astonishing memoir... as gripping as any thriller,' -Sunday Times

'Utterly compelling, at once painful and exquisite,' - Philippe Sands, author of East West Street

In 1921, Franoise Frenkel -…

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Forbidden Notebook

Alba de Cespedes

Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook.

She starts keeping a diary in secret, recording her concerns about…

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And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon

Nikolai Gogol

No writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by Oliver Ready, this collection contains his great classic stories…

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Comedy in a Minor Key

Hans Keilson

When Wim and Marie, a young Dutch couple, agree to hide a Jewish man in their home during the Nazi occupation, they think they are fulfilling their patriotic duty. Tension…

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The Pendragon Legend

Antal Szerb

"An absolute treat... Szerb is a master novelist, a comedian whose powers transcend time and language" Nicholas Lezard, GuardianAt an end-of-season London soiree a young Hungarian scholar, Dr Janos Batky…

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Out of Chaos Comes Bliss

Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas is one of most beloved British poets of all time. Richly melodious and vividly expressive, Thomas's poems strike to the heart of eternal themes of living and dying…

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And Time Was No More

Teffi

Teffi's literary genius made her a star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. An extremely funny writer with a scathing critical eye, she was…

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The Hunting Gun

Yasushi Inoue

Three letters from three women unfold the story of a love affair and its tragic consequencesA lover, her daughter and an abandoned wife: three women write letters revealing the tragic…

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The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

Gaito Gazdanov

'A tantalising mystery... a mesmerising work of literature' - Antony Beevor

'Truly troubling, a weird meditation on death, war and sex' -Paris Review

A superb early postmodern classic by one…

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Swann in Love

Marcel Proust

Stunning edition of the standalone novella from Proust's great masterpiece, in a new translation

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The Allure of Chanel

Paul Morand

The story of Coco Chanel in her own words, as told by her to Paul Morand

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