Modern Classics
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is a novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family
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Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. The freely, multiply discursive tale centers on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.
To the Lighthouse follows and ext
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Simone de Beauvoir
The Woman Destroyed. The Age of Discretion. The Monologue.
"The Woman Destroyed" (1968) was published in Bulgarian with the Colibri logo in 2007, and here it is, a generation later, reappearing, now as part of the publishing house's Pearl Series, in the very natural company of two other equally ruthlessly
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Bohumil Hrabal
I Served the King of England. Too Loud a Solitude. Closely Watched Trains
The edition includes three of Bohumil Hrabal's most significant works: "I Served the King of England", "Too Loud a Solitude" and "Closely Watched Trains" - unique artistic worlds, providing exquisite delight to connoisseurs of quality European prose
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Oscar Wilde
The Complete Fairy Tales (Illustrated by Iassen Ghiuselev)
The edition includes all the tales from Oscar Wilde's two classic collections, The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates (1892), the first intended entirely for children, and the second, which appears according to the author a
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Lawrence Durrell
The Avignon Quintet: Constance, Sebastian, Quinx
The Avignon Quintet gathers Lawrence Durrell's five kaleidoscopic, Booker Prize-nominated novels - orbiting around the South of France in World War II - into one epic modern classic, one of "the greatest novels of our time." Sunday Tim
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Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany's
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her po
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Eugene Ionesco
Rhinoceros. The Bald Soprano and Other Plays
The Bald Soprano, Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson and Exit the King, collected in this edition, are Eugène Ionesco's most famous and influential plays. The first edition of the collection in Bulgaria, translated by Boyana Petrova
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Thomas Mann
Death in Venice and Other Stories
This Bulgarian edition contains 5 of the most popular and remarkable novellas written by Thomas Mann.
Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's novellas reveals his artistic evoluti
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Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Boris Pasternak's complete rej
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Vladislav Vancura
Summer of Caprice
Vladislav Vančura's Summer of Caprice is commonly considered untranslatable. The playful style of the narrative, the level of language mastering and also the development of the metatextual context of the last 80 years together form this unmist
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John Fowles
The Collector
Hailed as the first modern psychological thriller, The Collector is the bestselling novel that catapulted John Fowles into the front rank of contemporary novelists.
When Frederick, a lonely clerk who collects butterflies, sets his gaze upon M
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both
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Vladimir Nabokov
King, Queen, Knave / Laughter in the Dark
King, Queen, Knave
"Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest", Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the ri
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Simone de Beauvoir
Inseparable
A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship
From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront t
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Lars Norén
Night Is Mother to the Day. And Give Us the Shadows. Andante
The present collection of three plays presents three significant themes in Lars Norén's work: Night is Mother to the Day (1982) is a family drama with conflicts borrowed from Norén's personal destiny. And Give Us the Shadows (1988)
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W. Somerset Maugham
Far Eastern Tales
"Far Eastern Tales" is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle, or a
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Lawrence Durrell
The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia
The Avignon Quintet gathers Lawrence Durrell's five kaleidoscopic, Booker Prize-nominated novels - orbiting around the South of France in World War II - into one epic modern classic, one of 'the greatest novels of our time' (Sunday Tim
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Bohumil Hrabal
Gaps
Gaps begins with Bohumil Hrabal receiving the long anticipated advance copy of his first short story collection, Perlicka na dne (Pearl of the Deep). Hrabal's career as a successful writer starts here, and the novel details his rise on
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Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other '
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Italo Calvino
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
"If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" (Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) is a novel published in 1979 by Italo Calvino.
This book is about a reader trying to read a book called "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler". The first chapter and every
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John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent published in 1961, is John Steinbeck's last novel. The title is a reference to the line "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son [or sun] of York," from William Shakespeare's Richa
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John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat
Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early John Steinbeck's novel set in Monterey, California.
The book portrays with great sympathy and humour a group of paisanos (fellows/countrymen), denouncing society by enjoying life and wine in the idyllic days just
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Boris Vian
Heartsnatcher
"Heartsnatcher" (L'Arrache-cœur) is a 1953 novel by the French writer Boris Vian. It tells the story of a psychoanalyst who is newly arrived in a very superstitious village where absurd events occur. The heartsnatch
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W. G. Sebald
Vertigo
"Vertigo", W. G. Sebald's first novel, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald — the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness — takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Journey to the End of the Night
First published in 1932, "Journey to the End of the Night" is regarded as Céline's masterpiece. It is told in the first person and is based on his own experiences during the First World War; in French colonial Africa; in the USA - wher
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John Steinbeck
Cannery Row
Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on their luck and those who choose f
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Mikhail Bulgakov
The Life of Monsieur de Molière
Mikhail Bulgakov's The Life of Monsieur de Molière is a fascinating portrait of the great French seventeenth-century satirist by one of the great Russian satirists of our own century. For Bulgakov, Molière was an alter ego
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Stefan Zweig
Stellar Moments of Humankind
"Art entitles every man, who has done a great work, to feel at home among all mankind," Stefan Zweig wrote in the preface to one of the editions of this book.
"Stellar Moments of Humankind" collects 14 essay-style novellas about great people and
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Bohumil Hrabal
Vita Nuova
"Vita Nuova" is the second in a trilogy of memoirs written from the perspective of Bohumil Hrabal’s wife, Elis.ka, about their life in Prague from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Communist repression of artists was at its peak. Hrabal’
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Günter Grass
Dog Years
In 1999, Günter Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Danzig Trilogy contains three of the author's most acclaimed works.
The Tin Drum
Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II, The Tin D
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Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Other Labyrinth. Selected Stories
"The stories in this collection break down the preconceptions, the familiar theories, the predestination that binds the characters to a certain place or a certain era. These are Adolfo Bioy's themes, always the same, always told differently.
Readi
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Hjalmar Bergman
Selected Plays
Hjalmar Bergman (1883-1931) is one of the classics of Swedish literature, the author of numerous novels and plays. Along with Selma Lagerlöf, he is also one of the first Swedish writers whose works were filmed.
The current collection includes
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Juan José Saer
The Witness
“The evocative imagery and ideas revealed in The Witness are not easily forgotten.” — Washington Times
“Haunting and beautifully written.” — Independent on Sunday
The novel The Witness (19
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Karen Blixen
Out of Africa
"Out of Africa" is Karen Blixen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed
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Stanisław Lem
The Star Diaries
“The Star Diaries” is a collection of short stories with one main character – the space explorer Ijon Tichy. Stanisław Lem wrote the diaries for over forty years. The first story came out in the beginning of the 50's and the
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José Saramago
Blindness
"Blindness" (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a novel by José Saramago. It is one of his most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda.
Blindness is the
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John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California,
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John Steinbeck
East of Eden
East of Eden is a novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952. Often described as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, East of Eden brings to life the intricate details of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons,
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Svetoslav Minkov
Short Stories
This edition presents the work of Svetoslav Minkov, created during all periods of his development as a fiction writer. Diabolic stories from his earlier collections Blue Chrysanthemum, Clock, Firebird, Game of Shadows and The House at the Last L
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Patrick Modiano
Invisible Ink
Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in his tenth book.
The latest work from Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, Invisible Ink is a spellbinding tale of memory and its illusions. Private detective Jean Eyben receives an assignment
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Bohumil Hrabal
In-House Weddings
Inspired by “Mrs. Tolstoy and Mrs. Dostoevsky, whose biographies about their husbands have now been published in Prague,” Bohumil Hrabal decided to produce his own autobiographical work, ostensibly fiction, from his wife’s poi
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Ivan B. Genov
Orpheus and Eurydice
The ancient legend of Orpheus and Eurydice concerns the fateful love of Orpheus of Thrace for the beautiful Eurydice.
When Orpheus' bride Eurydice is killed by a snakebite on their wedding day, Orpheus's world is shattered. He must journey to the
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Stefan Zweig
Magellan
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), the first to circumnavigate the globe, sailed on behalf of the Spanish monarch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and discovered the straights that now bear his name and the Philippines.
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Stefan Zweig
Sigmund Freud. Mental Healers
"Health is natural; sickness is unnatural: at least so it seems to man," is how Stefan Zweig begins his fascinating, often entertaining examinations of Franz Anton Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy, and Sigmund Freud. "Bodily suffering is not assuaged by tech
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Stanisław Lem
Solaris
The novel is about the ultimately futile attempt to communicate with an alien life-form on a distant planet. The planet, called Solaris, is covered with a so-called "ocean" that is really a single organism covering the entire surface. The ocea
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Vladimir Nabokov
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories is a collection of short stories originally written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian between 1927 and 1940 under the pseudonym Vladimir Sirin.
The two dozen stories collected in the current Bulgarian edition are r
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Sofiya Tolstaya
Who's to Blame?
This is the first Bulgarian translation of Sophia Tolstoy's short story, "Who's to Blame?", published in Russia in 1994. Sophia had written the story almost one hundred years earlier to rebut her husband Leo's cynical views about love and m
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