Pushkin Press Classics

?An epic story, elegantly told and full of mystery.? ? Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in...

A unique testament to the persistence of ordinary life through the disaster of modern war, perfect for fans of books like Suite Fran?ise Sharply immediate, evocative diaries from the heart of...

A young couple's love is threatened by the destructive power of money, by one of the greatest authors of her age In this beautiful novel, Edith Wharton perceptively describes the seductions and...

8 chilling short stories that straddle the line between horror and erotica, full of passion and intrigue, from legendary 18th century Parisian aristocrat, the Marquis de Sade ?Ghouls and fiends,...

The only novel by the twentieth century's most acclaimed surrealist painter, a richly visual depiction of a group of eccentric aristocrats in the years preceding World War II ?The book is so full of...

?A terrific fast-moving book. . . a truly clever, rather wonderful book that both plays with and defies genre? ? Irish Times A taxi-driver in 1930s Vienna impersonates a murder victim, and is caught...

An early-twentieth-century classic ? the turbulent, dreamlike story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemia ?No one who has read it has failed to love it.? ?...

Land of Smoke is one of my favourite books by one of my favourite Argentinian authors. - Samanta Schweblin, author of Seven Empty Houses Dazzling, hallucinatory short stories by a rediscovered...

Madness, murder and obsession: a stylishly original and fantastical collection of stories from an iconic Japanese writer A collection of the 7 essential Akutagawa short stories, in a vivid and...

?very so often a voice emerges from the archive so vivid that it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgotten.??Evening Standard A brilliantly witty memoir telling the story of a young...

Stunning new edition of the standalone novella from Proust?s great masterpiece ? an intoxicatingly witty story of infatuation and jealousy This landmark new translation commemorates a century since...

THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF A POSTWAR MASTERPIECE 'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.' Twenty-three-year-old Frits...

?Delicate and powerful... a haunting, sensitive meditation on memory as well as a wonderful introduction to a master sorely underappreciated in the West. . . timeless, elegiac, and masterful? ? Shelf...

Selected works from one of Russia?s greatest writers, including ?The Queen of Spades?, ?The Stationmaster? and a selection of Pushkin?s best poetic work In a fabulous translation by Anthony Briggs,...