Books by "Michael Scammell"

Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth- Century Skeptic
[ Hardbound 2009 ]

Rs. 1,722 1,378

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By Michael Scammell
Coming Soon! From award-winning author Scammell comes a monumental achievement: the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler, one of the most influential... more
Luzhin Defense
[ Paperback 1994 ]

Rs. 479 383

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By Vladimir Nabokov , Michael Scammell
Out Of Stock Vladimir Nabokovs early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin. Discovering his... more
Also in: Paperback 2009
Nothing Is Lost: Selected Poems
[ Paperback 2004 ]

Rs. 1,080 918

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By Edvard Kocbek , Michael Scammell , Veno Taufer
Out Of Stock "Had Edvard Kocbek not belonged to a small nation and a language of extremely limited diffusion, he would now be... more
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Michael Scammell

Edvard Kocbek was born in 1904, the son of a church organist, in a part of present-day Slovenia that was then in Austria-Hungary. Following the publication in 1934 of his first book of poetry, he published essays that presaged the wartime alliance of this Christian Socialist with the Tito-led partisan resistance. Despite a lengthy postwar publication ban, Kocbek went on to win the Preseren Prize, Slovenia's highest literary award, in 1964. More books of both poetry and prose followed, including his "Collected Poems" in 1977, which sealed his reputation as Slovenia's greatest modern-day poet. M...

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