Phoenix Fiction
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$17.00 Add to cartThe narrator, a scientist working on antibodies and suffering from emotional and mental illness, meets a Persian woman, the companion of a Swiss engineer, at an office in rural Austria. For the scient… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: November 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0226043908
- Language: English
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 2: The Day of the Scorpion Volume 2
$26.00 Add to cartIn The Day of the Scorpion, Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World War II. With force and subtlety, he recreates both private ambition and perversity, and the politics of … [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction #2
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 493
- Publish Date: May 22 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743411
- Language: English
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Staying on
$21.00 Add to cartIn this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating he… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743497
- Language: English
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 4: A Division of Spoils Volume 4
$23.00 Add to cartAfter exploiting India’s divisions for years, the British depart in such haste that no one is prepared for the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1947. The twilight of the raj turns bloody. Against the backdrop of… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction #4
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 22 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743446
- Language: English
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 3: The Towers of Silence Volume 3
$23.00 Add to cartIndia, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel fa軋de of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction #3
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 399
- Publish Date: May 22 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743438
- Language: English
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Pictures from an Institution
$19.00 Add to cartBeneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell’
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Jarrell, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0226393755
- Language: English
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown Volume 1
$23.00 Add to cartNo set of novels so richly recreates the last days of India under British rule–“two nations locked in an imperial embrace”–as Paul Scott’s historical tour de force, The Raj Quartet. The Jewel in th… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 22 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743403
- Language: English
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Old Masters: A Comedy
$21.00 Add to cartIn this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher–who fears Reger’… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0226043916
- Language: English
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The Bridge on the Drina
$18.00 Add to cartThe Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the … [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Andric, Ivo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: August 15 1977
- ISBN10: 0226020452
- Language: English
