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A Place in the Country by W. G. Sebald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
A Place in the Country is a window into the brilliant mind of W. G. Sebald. When W. G. Sebald travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during the years when he was settled in England. In A Pla ...Show more
A Place in the Country by W. G. Sebald
$39.99 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
From the author of the critically-acclaimed "Austerlitz" and "Across the Land and Water comes". "A Place in the Country", the much anticipated translation of one of W.G. Sebald's most brilliant works. When W. G. Sebald, the prize-winning author of "Austerlitz", travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed ...Show more
Austerlitz by W G Sebald
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The main locations of the book are Wales, London, Prague, and various places in Belgium and Paris. The real life story of Jacques Austerlitz who, at the age of 5, came to London on one of the so-called kinder-transports in the summer of 1939. Austerlitz is placed with foster parents in wales, a child ...Show more
Austerlitz by W G Sebald
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A special tenth-anniversary edition of W.G. Sebald's modern classic, "Austerlitz", with a new introduction by James Wood. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of h ...Show more
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
At first "The Emigrants" appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss. Written with a bone-dry sen ...Show more
The Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The Rings of Saturn" begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silk ...Show more
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