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Simon Mawer
Simon Mawer (born 1948)

teacher, zoologist, biologist

  • University of Oxford

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The glass room
Tightrope
The glass room
The girl who fell from the sky
The glass room
Prague spring
Prague Spring
Trapeze
The girl who fell from the sky
Trapeze
Prague Spring EPub
Mendel's dwarf
The gospel of Judas
The Fall
Swimming to Ithaca
Gospel of Judas, The
Gregor Mendel : planting the seeds of genetics
Fall
The gospel of Judas
A jealous God
Mendel's dwarf
The Glass Room
Mendels Zwerg
Gregor Mendel
Chimera
El evangelio de Judas (The Gospel of Judas)
Le palais de verre
Place in Italy
De val
Trapeze
Ancestry
SWIMMING TO ITHACA
The Bitter Cross
Swimming to Ithaca
The glass room
Karzeł Mendla
Fall
Gospel of Judas Hb Book Club
La chica que cayó del cielo
De glazen kamer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)

poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters

  • University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge

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Lolita
Speak, Memory
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Podvig
Pale fire
Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
Zashchita Luzhina
Look at the harlequins!
The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
Машенька (Mašenka)
Lolita. A Screenplay
The Original of Laura
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Камера Обскура (Kamera obskura)
Sogljadataj
Pnin
Korolʹ, dama, valet
Nabokov's Dozen
Bend sinister
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead
Slovo o polku Igoreve
The Vintage Book of Amnesia
Priglashenie na kaznʹ
Transparent things
Ada
Christmas Stories
Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita and Poems read by Vladimir Nabokov
Twice-Told Tales
Tragedii︠a︡ gospodina Morna
Nabokov's Congeries
Nabokov's butterflies
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Volshebnik
Bedtime stories
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
Ada / Lolita
The Nabokov-Wilson letters
Strong opinions
Lectures on Don Quixote
Nikolai Gogol
Izobretenie Val'sa
The variety of fiction
The Greatest Russian Stories Of Crime And Suspense
Lectures on Russian Literature
Dar
Машенька / Подвиг (Glory / Mary)
Dar / Drugie berega / Kamera obskura/ Priglashenie na kaznʹ / Zashchita Luzhina
Lectures on Literature
Verse and Versions
Otchayanie
Novels 1955-1962 (Lolita / Lolita. A Screenplay / Pale Fire / Pnin)
Nabokov o Nabokove i prochem
Sobranie sochineniĭ amerikanskogo perioda v pi͡a︡ti tomakh
Novels and memoirs, 1941-1951
The Modern Tradition - Second Edition
Mašenka / Волшебник
Details of a sunset and other stories
Korolʹ, dama, valet / Lolita / Mashenʹka / Priglashenie na kaznʹ / Sogli︠a︡dataĭ / Volshebnik / Zashchita Luzhina
A Russian beauty and other stories
Notes on prosody, and Abram Gannibal
Short Stories -- Classic, Modern, Contemporary
The Provisional Government
Alphabet in color
Notes on prosody
Erzählungen 1921 - 1934
Korol', dama, valet / Mashenʹka
Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo
Letters to Véra
Fine lines
Vintage Nabokov
Cuentos completos
Selected poems
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov
Penguin Modern Classic STOCK PACK 5 x 50
Erzählungen 1935 - 1951
Five Novels (Dar / Korol', dama, valet / Lolita / Podvig / Priglashenie na kazn')
Poems
The Man from the USSR and Other Plays
Kak ya lyublyu tebya
Korolʹ, dama, valet / Lolita / Podvigʹ
Mashenka / Kamera obskura / Lolita
Lolita
Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Short Stories
Podvigʹ / Sogliadatai / Zashchita Luzhina
Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo i bolʹshevistskiĭ perevorot
Invitation to a Beheading
Pnin ; Rasskazy ; Blednoe plami︠a︡
Oeuvres Romanesques Completes Vol. 1
Briefwechsel mit Edmund Wilson 1940-1971
Priglashenie na kazn' / Zashchita Luzhina
Letters to Véra
Habla, memoria
Lolita / Priglashenie na kaznʹ / Zashchita Luzhina
Novels (Look at the Harlequins! / Transparent Things)
Lolita / Mashen'ka / Zashchita Luzhina
Think, Write, Speak
Novels (Korolʹ, dama, valet / Mashenʹka)
Cloud Castle Lake
Golos skripki v pustote
Priglashenie na kaznʹ / Lolita
Korol', dama, valet / Mashen'ka / Vozvraschenie Chorba
Die Venezianerin
Novels (Ada / Look at the Harlequins! / Transparent Things)
Now Remember
Zaschita Luzhina; Podvig; Soglyadataj
Vozvrashchenie Chorba
Lolita
Pnin
Letters to Véra
Song of Igor's Campaign
Krug
Die Gabe
Sobranie sochineniĭ v chetyrekh tomakh
Curso de Literatura Europea
Works (Drama / Ėsse / Korolʹ, dama, valet / Mashenʹka / Rasskazy / Ret︠s︡enzii / Stikhotvorenii︠a︡ / Zashchita Luzhina)
Gelächter im Dunkel
Lance
Der schwere Rauch. Gesammelte Erzählungen
The song of Igor's campaign
Gelächter im Dunkel; Verzweiflung; Kamera Obscura
Nobokov's quartet
Eugene Onegin : A Novel in Verse
Novelas 1941-1957 (Bend Sinister / Lolita / Real Life of Sebastian Knight)
Nabokov Russian Translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
Lolita
Edebiyat dersleri
Strong Opinions
Une beauté russe
Look at the Harlequins!
Lushins Verteidigung
Sbornik stateĭ po ugolovnomu pravu
Die Schwestern Vane. Erzählungen 1943 - 1951
Transparent Things
ADA o el ardor
Nabokov's Quartet
Der neue Nachbar. Erzählungen 1925-1934
Dramen
Izbrannye proizvedeniya
Ada, ou, L'ardeur
Rasskazy ; Vospominanii͡a︡
Zvouki
Mademoiselle O. Erzählungen 1935-1939
Lolita
寻欢作乐
Со дна коробки
Istreblenie tiranov
Perepiska s sestroĭ
Short Stories (Signs and Symbols / That in Aleppo Once / Time and Ebb / Vane Sisters)
Lectures on Ulysses
Vzglyani na arlekinov!
Stikhi
Enchanter
Plays : Lolita
Strong Opinions
Tenʹ russkoĭ vetki
Vesna v Fialʹte
Bend sinister
La Venitienne Et Autres Nouvelles
Collected Poems
Soglyadatai
Veneziana
Lolita
Poems and Problems (McGraw-Hill paperbacks)
I︠A︡/snovidenii︠a︡ Nabokova
Lolita
Zaschita Luzhina
Pnin
Polnoe sobranie rasskazov
Tragedy of Mister Morn
Nabokov's Dozen
Man from the U. S. S. R.
Mary
Ada or Ardor
Sebastian Knight'in Gercek Yasami
The Waltz Invention
Sueños de un insomne
Deutliche Worte
Goz
Yeʼush
Invitation to a Beheading
Masenka
The Gift, 1963 [Japanese Edition]
Donusum
Nabokov's Congeries
Pʹesy
Enchanter, The
Karanlikta Kahkaha
Grozdʹ
Splendor
La Defensa
Sie Kommet-Kommt Sie?
Prawdziwe życie Sebastian Knighta
Lujin Savunmasi
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov papers
Glory
Luzhin Defense
Bir Gunbatiminin Ayrintilari
Pnin
Rus Edebiyati Dersleri
Song of Igor's Campaign
Sueños de un insomne
Der Bezauberer
Pisʹma k Vere
Collected Stories
King Queen Knave 1ST Edition
The nearctic members of the genus Lycaeides Hübner (Lycaenidae, Lepidoptera)
Oryginal Laury
Udivitelʹnoe pokolenie
Edebiyat Dersleri
Una belleza rusa
CUENTOS COMPLETOS - VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Three Russian poets
Korol, dama, valet
Gesammelte Werke 21. Eigensinnige Ansichten.
Saydam Seyler
Nabokov's Dozen
Look at the Harlequins!
König Dame Bube
Nabokov's Quartet
King, queen, knave
Nabokov
Lolita
Izbrannoe
Kak i͡a︡ li͡u︡bli͡u︡ tebi͡a︡
Nikolai Gogol
Pnin
Pnin
Pnin
Lolita (1962)
Mashenʹka
Gift
Lolita
La Vénitienne et autres nouvelles
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
Notes on Prosody and Abram Gannibal
Transparent Things
Vladimir Nabokov LOOK AT THE HARLEQUINS Hardcover/DJ 1st 1974
Héroe de Nuestro Tiempo
Pnin
Invitation au supplice
Lectures on Russian Literature
Pnin
Lolita (Franklin Library: 100 Greatest Masterpieces American Literature)
Despair
Nabokov: Oeuvres romanesques completes t.2 (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade) (French Edition)
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
P'Eys
Pálido fuego
Un héroe de nuestro tiempo
Wen xue jiang gao
Selected Poems
Ihtisam
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡
Laughter in the Dark
Luzhin Defense, The
Selected Letters, 1940-1977
Annotated Lolita
Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir; G. P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1955 First Edition
Russian Beauty and Other Stories
Nikolai Gogol
Nabokovs Butterflies
Original of Laura :
Despair
MADEMOISELLE O
Laughter in the Dark
Look at the Harlequins!
Solgun Ates
The gift;
Tragedy of Mister Morn
Ada (A Fawcett Crest Book)
Hero of Our Time
The gift
Man from the USSR and Other Plays
Verdadeira Vida de Sebastian Knight - Real Life Of
Lolita
King, Queen, Knave
Соглядатай / Ка́мера обску́ра
The gift
Fuoco pallido
Ada; or, Ardor
Cosas transparentes
Terra incognita
Despair
Priglashenie na kazn'
La Veneziana
Curso de literatura rusa
Glory
Laʼurah, ha-maḳor (kef la-mut)
Despair
Pale Fire; a Novel
Laughter in the Dark
Sueños de un insomne
Blady ogien
Gift
Ada or Ardor
L'original de Laura
Korol', dama, valet / Mashenʹka
Kommentarii k "Evgenii︠u︡ Oneginu" Aleksandra Pushkina
Bend sinister
Transparent Things
Sogli︠a︡dataĭ
Lolita (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Infaza Cagri
Despair
Sueños de un insomne
Carpik Dünya
Glory
Real Life of Sebastian Knight
L extermination des tyrans
Cosas transparentes
Obrona Lużyna
Rua, Dam, Vale
Perepiska s Mikhailom Karpovichem 1933-1959
Pale Fire
Histoires de Mickey Mouse Au Coucher
Un mondo sinistro
Pnin
Pale Fire
Terra Incognita
Pale Fire
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡ 1929-1951
Konus, Hafiza
King, Queen, Knave
Mashen'ka, Zashchita Luzhina, Priglashenie na kazn', Drugie berega (fragmenty)
Invitation to a Beheading
Lolita
Kapli︠a︡ solnt︠s︡a v venchike stikha
La veritable vida d'en Sebastian Knight
Doorbell
Notes on Prosody
Invitation to a Beheading
Rasskazy
Vesna v Fial'te i drogie rasskazy
Das wahre Leben des Sebastian Knight
Собрание сочинений русского периода в пяти томах (Смех в темноте / Lolita)
Collected Stories
Lectures on Don Quixote
Glory
ADA or Ardor
Senyals i símbols
LOLITA (Complete & Unabridged, Crest Giant 1959 (d338))
Novellas
La veritable vida d'en Sebastian Knight
Stadtführer Berlin
Don Quijote Dersleri
Yetenek
Short Stories (Oudar kryla / Venetsianka)
Luzhin Defense
Terra Incognita
Despair
Laura'nin Asli
Ada ou ardor - Cronica de uma familia
Pale Fire
Rasskazy ; Priglashenie na kaznʹ
Zashchita Luzhina
Novelas 1962-1974
Romany
The Annotated Lolita
Look at the Harlequins!
Mary
We Came to Know. . . .
Nikolai Gogol
Bend Sinister
Cinnet
Strong Opinions
Laughter in the Dark
Mary the First Novel By the Author of Lolita and Ada
Collected Poems
Mary
Ada Ya da Arzu
Look at the Harlequins!
Sogliadatai
We Came to Know...
Ti︠a︡zhelyĭ dym
Z niepoprawnej strony
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Nabokovs Quartet 1ST Edition Us
Transparent Things
20th Century Invitation to a Beheading
Spring in Fialta
Stikhotvorenii͡a︡, rasskazy
Senyals i símbols
Grozdʹ
Gesammelte Werke. Band 17
El original de Laura
Lolita, a Novel
Mary
King, Queen, Knave
Zaschita Luzhina
Nikolay Gogol
Rare Vladimir Nabokov / LOLITA 1ˢᵗ Edition; 5ᵗʰ Printing
Sogliadatai / Volshebnik
Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡ i poėmy
Izbrannoe
Gorniĭ putʹ
El hechicero
Ultima Thule
Nine stories
洛丽塔
Unicestwienie tyranów
Perepiska's Sestrol
Lolita
Who will drive me home?
Nouvelles (édition complète)
Подлинная жизнь Себастьяна Найта
Works (Lolita / Волшебник)
Lolita
Anniversary notes
Romany, rasskazy, ėsse
Rasskazy. Vospominaniya
Mia Couto
Mia Couto (born 1955)

biologist, journalist, poet

  • Eduardo Mondlane University

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Woman of the ashes
Woman of the Ashes
Contemporary African Short Stories
Last Flight Of The Flamingo
Under the frangipani
The Tuner Of Silences
Every man is a race
Terra sonâmbula
A river called time
The Blind Fisherman
Sleepwalking land
Voices made night
E se Obama fosse africano?
Vinte e zinco
Pensageiro frequente
Jerusalém
Pensatempos
A confissao da leoa
Trilogía de Mozambique
Cronicando
Terre somnanbule
O país do queixa-andar
Confession of the lioness
Sebastiao Salgado
O outro pé da sereia
Vozes anoitecidas
Cada homem é uma raça
El último vuelo del flamenco
Estórias abensonhadas
O último voo do flamingo
Cronicando
Vozes anoitecidas
Confessions of the lioness
Contos do nascer da terra
La Véranda au frangipanier
Terra Sonambula (Uma Terra sem amos)
Mar me quer
A varanda do frangipani
Venenos de Deus, remédios do Diabo
Sleepwalking Land
O Ultimo Voo Do Flamingo
LAST FLIGHT OF THE FLAMINGO; TRANS. BY DAVID BROOKSHAW
O gato e o escuro
Idades cidades divindades
Venenos de Deus, remédios do diabo
O fio das missangas
Chronique des jours de cendre
Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra
Terra sonâmbula
As areias do imperador
Raíz de orvalho e outros poemas
Raiz de Orvalho e outros poemas
L'accordeur de silences
Na berma de nenhuma estrada e outros contos
Idades cidades divindades
Mar me quer
Tradutor de chuvas
O menino no sapatinho
Terra Sonambula
O desanoitecer da palavra
A confissão da leoa
O país do queixa andar
Na berma de nenhuma estrada
Pensatempos
Cada homem é uma raça
Poisons de Dieu, remèdes du diable
A Varanda De Frangipani
Vagas e lumes
Antes de nascer o mundo
A chuva pasmada
Essas mulheres
El cartògraf d'absències
Poemas escolhidos
A chuva pasmada
Estórias abensonhadas
O beijo da palavrinha
Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra
Essa história está diferente
Paul J. McAuley
Paul J. McAuley (born 1955)

botanist

  • University of Bristol

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The invisible country
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - Eleventh Annual Collection
Child of the River
WHOLE WIDE WORLD
Pasquale's angel
Ancients of days
Red dust
The Quiet War
Cowboy Angels
Mind's Eye
White devils
Players
Eternal light
SECRET OF LIFE, The
Fairyland
Doctor Who
Repairing Pottery and Porcelain
Shrine of Stars
The secret of life
400 Billion Stars
The king of the hill and other stories
Cowboy Angels (Gollancz)
Four Hundred Billion Stars
Gardens of the sun
Futures
The quiet war
Of the Fall
White devils
Expressiv!
Eternal Light
Evening's empires
Making History
Gardens of the sun
In dreams
Fairyland (S.F. Masterworks)
Second Skin
Burning Brightly
Cowboy Angels (Gollancz)
Secret harmonies
Four hundred billion stars
Fairyland
White devils
Pasquale's Angel
The secret of life
Les conjurés de Florence
Cowboy Angels
Beeldtaal
Austral
Pasquale's angel
Shrine of Stars (Confluence S.)
Confluence (SFBC, Science fiction)
Whole wide world
Red dust
Féerie
Feenland
Into everywhere
Opgejaagd wild
Fairyland
Secret harmonies
The Invisible Country
Copilul fluviului
Little Machines
The King of the Hill
COWBOY ANGELS
Repairing Pottery and Porcelain (Ceramics)
Players
Four Hundred Billion Stars
Little Machines
LE CHOIX
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847-1885)

botanist, poet, translator

  • University of Copenhagen

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Marie Grubbe
Niels Lyhne
Mogens and Other Stories
Fru Marie Grubbe
Mogens
Darwin
Frau Marie Grubbe
Et venskab
Entre la vie et le rêve--Niels Lyhne
Novellen, Briefe, Gedichte
Essai sur les origines de la comédie en France au moyen-age
Eros og døden
Samlede vaerker
Das Schönste
Udvalgte digte
Marie Grubbe A Lady Of The Seventeenth Century
J. P. Jacobsen-manuskripter
Samlede Skrifter
Sech s Novellen
Poems
Niels Lyhne
The plague in Bergamo
Novellen
Erzählungen
To Fortællinger: Elisabeth. Professorens Huus
Mogens og andre noveller
Lyrik og prosa
Samlede skriften
Niels Lyhne Dodo Press
Digte og udkast
Samlede værker
Novellen und Gedichte
Samlede skrifter
Gesammelte Werke
Poems and Sketches
Omkring Niels Lyhne
Sämtliche Werke
J.P. Jacobsens spor i ord, billeder og toner
Mogens, and Other Stories: And Other Stories, Short Story Index Reprint Ser
Breve fra J.P. Jacobsen
Die Pest in Bergamo
Frau Marie Grubbe
Niels Lyhne. Roman
Afhandlinger og artikler
Marie Grubbe
Marie Grubbe
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1878-1945)

physicist, chemist, biologist, explorer, anthropologist, linguist, cartographer, journalist, geologist, biochemist, mineralogist

  • Imperial St. Petersburg University

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Beasts, Men and Gods
Lenin
Beasts, Men and Gods
The Breath of the Desert the Account of a Journey Through Algeria and Tunisia
Oasis and Simoon
Puszcze polskie
The Fire of Desert Folk
Slaves of the sun
Beasts, men and gods
Lisowczycy
Lenin
In den Dschungeln der Wälder und Menschen
Lenin, god of the godless
De la présidence à la prison
The shadow of the gloomy East
Zwierzęta, ludzie, bogowie
The fire of desert folk
Unter dem Gluthauch der Wüste
Flammendes Afrika
Cień ponurego Wschodu
Sous le fouet du simoun [par] Ferdinand Antoni Ossendowski
From president to prison
Li︠u︡di, bogi, zveri
Beasts, men and gods
Karpaty i Podkarpacie
Sous le fouet du Simoun
Khu̇n, araatan, burkhad
Slaves of the sun
Man and mystery in Asia
Sklaven der Sonne
Tiere, Menschen und Go tter =
Lenin, god of the godless
Man and mystery in Asia, in collaboration with Lewis Stanton Palen
The breath of the desert
The shadow of the gloomy East
Im Sibirischen Zuchthaus
The life story of a little monkey
Bestias, hombres, dioses
The shadow of the gloomy East
Beasts, men and gods
Polesie
V ríši medveďov
Huculszczyzna
Mocni ludzie
Tiere, Menschen und Götter
Život a príhody šimpanzky
The lioness
Slaves of the sun
From president to prison
Man and mystery in Asia
Oasis and simoon
Maarten 't Hart
Maarten 't Hart (born 1944)

biologist, literary critic, ethnologist

  • Leiden University

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Het uur tussen hond en wolf
Verlovingstijd
The Sundial
De bril van God
De kroongetuige
Onder de korenmaat
Das Pferd, das den Bussard jagte
De scheltopusik
Het roer kan nog zesmaal om
Die Sonnenuhr. Oder
Stenen voor een ransuil
Ein Schwarm Regenbrachvögel
Das Wüten der ganzen Welt
De groene overmacht
De som van misverstanden
Die Netzflickerin
Concerto Russe. CD. Musik und Texte
Feest
Ein Schwarm Regenbrachvögel. Roman
La colère du monde entier
Gott fährt Fahrrad. Oder Die wunderliche Welt meines Vaters
Bach und ich. Inkl. CD
De stiefdochters van Stoof
Concerto russe. Mit CD. Erzählungen
Mozart und ich: mit CD
De vlieger
Nick Perumov
Nick Perumov (born 1963)

microbiologist

  • Peter the Great Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University

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Kolʹt︠s︡o tʹmy
Odinochestvo maga
Ėl'fiĭskiĭ klinok
Voĭna maga
Adamant Khenny
Almaznyĭ mech, derevi︠a︡nnyĭ mech
Cherep v nebesakh
Chërnai͡a︡ krovʹ
Khranitelʹ mecheĭ
Ėlʹfiĭskiĭ klinok / Nik Perumov
Pokhititeli dush
Godsdoom
Voĭna maga
Chernoe kopʹe
Rozhdenie maga
Zemli͡a︡ bez radosti
Vrag nevedom
Gibelʹ bogov
Nekromantikerns födelse
Razreshënnoe volshebstvo
Chërnoe kopʹë
Dochʹ nekromanta
Voin Velikoĭ Tʹmy
Godsdoom
Nekromantikerns ensamhet. 2
Odinochestvo maga
Odin na odin
Armageddon
Stranstvii͡a︡ maga
Niskhozhdenie tʹmy, ili, Sredizemʹe 300 let spusti͡a︡
Nekromantikerns irrfärder
Nekromantikerns ensamhet. 1
Diamantsvärdet och träsvärdet. D. 1
Diamantsvärdet och träsvärdet. D. 2
Nekromantikerns flykt