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  • Baking With Kafka

    by Tom Gauld ...
    In his inimitable style, British cartoonist Tom Gauld has opened comics to a crossover audience and challenged perceptions of what the medium can be. Noted as a “book-lover’s cartoonist,” Gauld’s weekly strips in The Guardian, Britain’s most well-regarded newspaper, stitch together the worlds of literary criticism and pop culture to create brilliantly executed, concise comics. Simultaneously silly ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Physics for Cats

    by Tom Gauld ...
    What happens to a cat who goes through a wormhole?Tom Gauld returns with Physics for Cats, his second collection of science-based cartoons for the New Scientist. Find out why every scientist worth their sodium chloride has a Tom Gauld cartoon taped to their electron microscope. This new batch of hilarious gags will be as important to every self-respecting scientist as a lab coat and goggles and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Three Musketeers

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    "We read The Three Musketeers to experience a sense of romance and for the sheer excitement of the story," reflected Clifton Fadiman. "In these violent pages all is action, intrigue, suspense, surprise--an almost endless chain of duels, murders, love affairs, unmaskings, ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, wild rides. It is all impossible and it is all magnificent."First published in 1844, Alexandre ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Mooncop

    by Tom Gauld ...
    The Guardian cartoonist relates the daily deadpan adventures of the last policeman living on the moon "Living on the moon…Whatever were we thinking? ...It seems so silly now.” The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs away, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Revenge of the Librarians

    by Tom Gauld ...
    Tom Gauld returns with his wittiest and most trenchant collection of literary cartoons to date. Perfectly composed drawings are punctuated with the artist’s signature brand of humour, hitting high and low. After all, Gauld is just as comfortable taking jabs at Jane Eyre and Game of Thrones. Some particularly favoured targets include the pretentious procrastinating novelist, the commercial ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Department of Mind-Blowing Theories

    by Tom Gauld ...
    A side-splitting skewering of the sober world of STEM No one is safe when humorist and cartoonist Tom Gauld directs his hilarious gaze to your profession. Just as he did with writers, poets, and literary classics for the Guardian books page, Gauld now does with hapless scientists, nanobots, and puzzling theorems for his weekly New Scientist strip, the international magazine that covers all aspects ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • I Think I Can See Where You're Going Wrong

    And Other Wise and Witty Comments from Guardian Readers

    by Marc Burrows ...
    The Guardian publishes over forty thousand reader comments a day below the line. This is a miscellany of the best and most baffling thoughts from their witty, well-meaning readers. In the book, Guardian readers ponder the big questions ('Am I the only one who thinks that ham and cheese is a ghastly mix?') reflect with nostalgia on better days ('Airline employees were so much more agreeable back ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess

    by Tom Gauld ...
    Illustrated by Tom Gauld ...
    A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Book of the YearIn this fresh new fairy tale, a wooden robot embarks on a quest to find his missing sister-- making for a memorable contemporary bedtime story in acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Gauld's first picture book for children.For years, the king and queen have tried desperately to have a baby. Their wish was granted twice, when an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess

    by Tom Gauld ...
    Narrated by Jessica Hayles ...

    Unabridged

    10 min

    For years, the king and queen have longed for a child. Their wish is miraculously twice granted in the form of a little wooden robot and an enchanted princess, both of whom they raise lovingly. There’s just one catch: every night when theprincess falls asleep, she transforms into a log. She can only be woken with the magic words “Awake, little log, awake.”The two siblings are inseparable, until ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov: a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.Anton Chekhov left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their renderings of fifty ... Read more

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  • Don Quixote

    by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra ...
    Translated by Tom Lathrop ...
    Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature.In a new translation that “comes closest, among the modern translations, to the simple, intimate, direct style that characterizes Cervantes’ ... Read more

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  • The Adolescent

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naïve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely ... Read more

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