The Tartar Steppe (Penguin Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Dino Buzzati

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds that years have passed, as, almost without his noticing, he has come to share the others' wait for a foreign invasion that never happens. Over time the fort is downgraded and Giovanni's ambitions fade until the day the enemy begins massing on the desolate steppe...

The Tartar Steppe

Paladin

Extraordinary events and mysterious circumstances fill this eerie collection of nineteen stories. Music takes a boy to a strange place, a scythe compels its users to slash on and on, a jacket is possessed and a beautiful woman turns into a vampire. Other strange and unsettling encounters grip the imagination and quicken the pulse in stories from authors such as Ursula Le Guin, Joan Aiken, Diana Wynne Jones and many others. Adrian Reynolds' illustrations add the finishing touch to these mystifying stories.

Mystery Stories

URSULA K. LE GUIN

Eleanor Farjeon

emily-bronte

C.G. JUNG

Paul Jennings

Joan, Aiken

Ambrose, Bierce

Ray. Bradbury

Agatha, Christie

arthur-conan-doyle

Vivien, Alcock

Paul Ernst

Kingfisher

Stories create a psychological fantasy world that involves a traveling prince, the end of the world, UFOs, a mysterious city, anonymous prisoners, and the supernatural

Restless Nights: Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati (English and Italian Edition)

North Point Pr

The Siren: A Selection from Dino Buzzati

NORTH POINT PRESS

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds that years have passed, as, almost without his noticing, he has come to share the others' wait for a foreign invasion that never happens. Over time the fort is downgraded and Giovanni's ambitions fade until the day the enemy begins massing on the desolate steppe... A Verba Mundi book.

Verba Mundi

Dino Buzzati's classic tale chronicles the terrible winter that sent the starving bears down into the valley in search of food, as well as their struggles with an army of wild boars, a wily professor who may or may not be a magician, snarling Marmoset the Cat, and, worse still, treachery within their own ranks. Over all this, the bears triumph with bravery, ingenuity, humility, and high spirits.

The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily (New York Review Children's Collection)

Children's Books

Animals

NYR Children's Collection

Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, he finds the castle manned by veteran soldiers who have grown old without seeing a trace of the enemy. As his length of service stretches from months into years, he continues to wait patiently for the enemy to advance across the desert, for one great and glorious battle . . . Written in 1938 as the world waited for war, and internationally acclaimed since its publication, The Tartar Steppe is a provocative and frightening tale of hope, longing and the terrible sorcery of dreams and desires.

Tartar Steppe

Canongate Canons

Catastrophe and Other Stories (Alma Classics)

Judith Landry

Literary

Alma Classics

102pages. 17,2x13x0,6cm. Poche. NEUF

Nouvelles à chute 1 - Classiques et Contemporains

Anna Gavalda

Julio Cortázar

Short Stories & Anthologies

MAGNARD

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