Machines in the Head: The Selected Short Writing of Anna Kavan
By: Anna Kavan
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This collection of Anna Kavan’s short fiction and journalism marks fifty years since her death in 1…
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3.63
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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"Lecz kobiecie z trudem przychodzi nie oddac sie mezczyznie"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure
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2. The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
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4.16
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3. Gli imperdonabili
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4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
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4. A Breath of Life
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3.83
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5. Concrete
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3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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6. Don't Look Now and Other Stories
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely school… read more
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7. Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Short Stories
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4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original Silvina Ocampo is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great master… read more
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8. Solenoid
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3.59
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4.09
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5.00
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11. Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
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4.04
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12. The Hearing Trumpet
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4.14
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13. The Face of Another
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4.19
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3.68
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3.19
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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3.67
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4.18
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18. Machines in the Head: The Selected Short Writing of Anna Kavan
By: Anna Kavan
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This collection of Anna Kavan’s short fiction and journalism marks fifty years since her death in 1… read more
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3.66
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4.02
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"The problem with making art to wake people up: your ideal reader/viewer is therefore by definition probably asleep, and not the least bit interested in your kind of wake-up-you-sleepwalkers art."-Ian Penman, Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
