MYSTERIOUS PORTRAIT(Paperback)

MYSTERIOUS PORTRAIT(Paperback)

The Portrait is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, originally published in the short story collection Arabesques in 1835 and is one of Gogols' most demonic of tales, hinting at some of his earlier works such as 'St. John's

Antarctica - An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent (Walker Gabrielle)(Paperback / softback)

The Mysterious Benedict Society Paperback Boxed Set (Stewart Trenton Lee)(Paperback)

A stunning paperback gift set of the New York Times bestselling Mysterious Benedict Society books, including The Riddle of Ages Catch up on the adventures of the Mysterious Benedict Society with this paperback boxed set, which includes the three original books in the New York Times bestselling

Portuguese - A Portrait of a People (Hatton Barry)(Paperback / softback)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Christie Agatha)(Paperback)

Portrait (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

Portraits, this book suggests, unlock the paradoxes of subjectivity. Nancy shows how the portrait, far from conveying a sitter's self-sameness, is suspended between proximity and distance, likeness and strangeness, representation and presentation, the faithful and the forceful. A portrait can

The Mysterious Stranger (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

The Mysterious Stranger, published posthumously in 1916 and belonging to Twain's 'dark' period, belies the popular image of the affable American humorist. At the time this work was written, Twain had suffered a series of painful physical, economic, and emotional losses.In this antireligious tale,

Mysterious Mr Quin (Christie Agatha)(Paperback / softback)

A mysterious stranger appears at a New Year's Eve party, becoming the enigmatic sleuthing sidekick to the snobbish Mr Satterthwaite... So far, it had been a typical New Year's Eve house party. But Mr Satterthwaite - a keen observer of human nature - sensed that the real drama of the evening was yet

Blue Self-Portrait (Lefebvre Noemi)(Paperback / softback)

A contemporary novel of angst and high farce, 'Blue Self-Portrait' unfolds among Berlin's cultural institutions but is more truly located in the mid-air flux between contrary impulses to remember and to ignore. Noemi Lefebvre shows how music continues to work on and through us, addressing past

The Mysterious Librarian (DeMers Dominique)(Paperback)

When the mysterious and eccentric Miss Charlotte arrives in the village of Saint-Anatole to take over the tiny library, the locals are surprised to find out that she does things differently. Wearing a long blue dress and a giant hat, she takes her books out for a walk in a wheelbarrow and shows the

Privy Portrait (Benoziglio Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

The narrator in Jean-Luc Benoziglio's Privy Portrait has fallen on hard times. His wife and young daughter have abandoned him, he has no work or prospects, he's blind in one eye, and he must move into a horribly tiny apartment with his only possession: a twenty-five-volume encyclopedia. His

Without A Trace: Unsolved Disappearances and Mysterious Vanishings (Taylor Troy)(Paperback)

WITHOUT A TRACE UNSOLVED DISAPPEARANCES AND MYSTERIOUS VANISHINGSWe all love a mystery - but what about a mystery that has no solution? Delve into the shadowy world of unsolved disappearances and people who have vanished without a trace, never to be seen again. Such strange and chilling tales run

Our Eric: A Portrait of Eric Portman (Owens Andy)(Paperback / softback)

Portrait of the Artist Kathe Kollwitz (Egremont Max)(Paperback / softback)

Portrait Drawing: A Step-By-Step Art Instruction Book (Blake Wendon)(Paperback)

A classic of simplicity Portrait Drawing has guided and inspired a generation of artists to create beautiful, realistic portraits. In just eighty pages, author Wendon Blake covers all the basics, from papers and pencils to drawing eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and head from every angle. Drawings by

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Christie Agatha)(Paperback)

First published in 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Agatha Christie's first novel. It introduced the world to Hercule Poirot, Christie's Belgian detective, who would go on to be featured in 39 of her novels. The mystery begins with the death of Emily Inglethorp at Styles, a manor in the

The Cosmic Web: Mysterious Architecture of the Universe (Gott J. Richard)(Paperback)

A gripping first-person account of how scientists came to understand our universe's mysterious structure J. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies intricately connected by filaments of galaxies--a

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback / softback)

Unfinished Portrait (Christie Agatha)(Paperback / softback)

A stunning novel of death and

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback / softback)

Unfinished Portrait (Christie Agatha)(Paperback / softback)

A stunning novel of death and

Independence Memories - A People's Portrait of the Early Days of the Irish Nation (Cox Valerie)(Paperback / softback)

A people's portrait of a period of momentous change in Irish

Frans Hals: The Male Portrait (Packer Lelia)(Paperback)

Frans Hals is one of the greatest portrait painters of all time and, together with Rembrandt and Vermeer, is one of the most eminent Dutch seventeenth-century artists. Publishing to coincide with the The Wallace Collection exhibition of the same name, Frans Hals: The Male Portrait explores the

Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate (Hale Shannon)(Paperback / softback)