Sketches of the criminal world

Sketches of the Criminal World

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World Criminal Justice Systems

The revised 10th edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the syste

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Criminal Psychology

A concise and accessible introduction to criminal psychology, written by one of the world's leading authorities, which familiarizes students with the

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Landscape Design Sketches - Landskap Design

Landskap Design was created just over 20 years ago in Bergen, Norway, by Professor of Architecture Arne Saelen, and is now a leading practitioner of landscape architecture and a unique inspiration for urban landscape artists world-wide. This is Loft’s second book, about the work of architect Arne Saelen, focusing on the sketches, plans and details of his most relevant wor...

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Criminal Volume 5: The Sinners

Tracy Lawless is still a man caught between a history of violence and his own conscience. And now the worst bad guy in the world is tasked with a new

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Introduction to Criminal Justice

Coverage of all the core aspects of Criminal Justice is accompanied by details of a wide range of insights and experiences of real world practitioners

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches - Basho Matsuo

Anotace: In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world and bring spiritual enlightenment. He wrote of the seasons ...

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Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

Presents travel writings which chronicle the author's perilous journeys through Japan and also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world a

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The Five Families of New York's Organized Criminal World from Lucky Luciano to John Gotti

Organized Crime or the Mafia went widely unknown until the 1960s when Joe Valachi became an informant for the F.B.I. This book gives the histories of the Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Colombo, and Bonanno Crime families and the men who ratted them out. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, rele...

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Art of The Secret World of Arrietty

A Ghibli masterpiece of the imagination, brought to life with sketches and stills from Arrietty.

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia. Volume I

Anotace: 'A rare and astonishing book, a glimpse of a deeply secretive world that has taken the author a lifetime to penetrate. It reveals more graphically than any Gulag history the unreformed horror of Russia: the lack of law, the rule of violence, the brutality, anti-Semitism and xenophobia. And yet it is filled with a poignance and a sense of personal tragedy th...

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia III - Fuel

<p>'This is not solely an addendum to the previous volumes, but stands well on its own. The book's physical and emotional core lies in the Baldaev drawings, which are ethnographic, artistic, and surprisingly moving. His unflinching documentation reveals a world of systematic brutality and violence, where prisoners flaunted their savagery on their skin and punished t...

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia I - Fuel

<p>The photographs, drawings and texts published in this book are part of a collection of more than 3,000 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldaev. Tattoos were his gateway into a secret world in which he acted as ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distastefu...

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia. Volume II

Anotace: 'A unique social document recording a now disappearing sub-culture. The criminals inhabit as desperate a nether world as you are likely to come across. A hipnotic aspect of art and words. ' - Index This second volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia is an essential companion to the critically acclaimed first volume. It features previously ...

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia II - Fuel

<p>'A unique social document recording a now disappearing sub-culture. The criminals inhabit as desperate a nether world as you are likely to come across. A hipnotic aspect of art and words. ' - Index This second volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia is an essential companion to the critically acclaimed first volume. It features previously unpublishe...

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World War Z: The Art of the Film

World War Z is a film starring Brad Pitt. This illustrated companion to the movie features a wealth of production art, design sketches and storyboards

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia. Volume III - Danzig Baldaev

A unique social document recording a now disappearing sub-culture. The criminals inhabit as desperate a nether world as you are likely to come across. A hipnotic aspect of art and words. ' - Index

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia. Volume III - Danzig Baldaev

Anotace: A unique social document recording a now disappearing sub-culture. The criminals inhabit as desperate a nether world as you are likely to come across. A hipnotic aspect of art and words. ' - Index This second volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia is an essential companion to the critically acclaimed first volume. It features previously unpubl...

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The Thief of Farrowfell

Anotace: Welcome to a fantasy world where edible magic is the hottest commodity, traded between those who can pay or - in the case of Jude Ripon, the youngest thief in Farrowfell - those who can steal it! An epic debut series from a FAB Prize winner.Twelve-year-old Jude Ripon has never been taken seriously by her family of magic-stealing masterminds. To them, she`s just ...

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Free World

"The Free World" is the rapturously reviewed comic-tragic first novel from David Bezmozgis, a "New Yorker" '20 under 40' writer and author of "Natasha and Other Stories", whose work has been shortlisted for the "Guardian" First Book Award and the Giller Prize. "Terrific...Combines comic brilliance with a poignant portrait of a family trapped between two worlds". ("Sunday ...

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War of the Maps

Across a massive structure hanging in space, the lucidor hunts a criminal. The maps of the world are under attack from an unknown genetic invader, but

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Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World´s Network of Corruption - Alley Patrick

Anotace: *****`Reads like a John le Carre novel but is, in fact, very real.` - The Big Issue`Very Bad People would be a hugely enjoyable thriller if it wasn`t all true.` - Isabella Tree, author of Wilding`Global Witness are fearless.` - Gordon Roddick, Campaigner and Co-Founder of the Body Shop`Part true crime tale, part investigative procedural, this is the account of t...

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia. Volume II - Danzig Baldaev, Alexei Plutser-Sarno

'A unique social document recording a now disappearing sub-culture. The criminals inhabit as desperate a nether world as you are likely to come across. A hipnotic aspect of art and words. ' - Index

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World's Top Twenty Worst Crimes

Looks into the minds of the top twenty worst killers in criminal history and reveals the awful truth of their abominable acts. This book presents the

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Lying for Money : How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World - Davies Dan

Anotace: Financial crime seems horribly complicated but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what`s theirs. In fact, there are four. A veteran regulatory economist and market analyst, Dan Davies has years of experience picking the bones out of some of the most famous frauds of the modern age. Now he reveals the big picture that emerges from their labyri...

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First World War Trials and Executions

This would be the first collection of true criminal cases that took place in Britain during World War I.

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The Night Manager - le Carré John

Anotace: To catch a criminal, he must become oneJonathan Pine, night manager of a luxury Swiss hotel, has a secret. He knows that the guest he awaits, billionaire trader Richard Roper, is `the worst man in the world.` And he knows why. Pine will do whatever it takes to help the Intelligence services bring Roper down - even if it means going deep undercover into a ruthles...

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The Art of the Hobbit - Tolkien John Ronald Reuel

Anotace: A sumptuous full colour art book containing the complete collection of more than 100 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps created by J.R.R. Tolkien for The Hobbit. When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was already an accomplished amateur artist, and drew illustrations for his book while it was still in manuscript. The Hobbit as first prin...

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The Art of the Hobbit - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

<p>A sumptuous full colour art book containing the complete collection of more than 100 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps created by J.R.R. Tolkien for The Hobbit. When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was already an accomplished amateur artist, and drew illustrations for his book while it was still in manuscript. The Hobbit as first pri...

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Sightwitch: A Tale of the Witchlands (1250193885)

Kniha - 208 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Set a year before Truthwitch, Sightwitch follows Ryber Fortiza, the last Sightwitch Sister as she treks deep underground to rescue her missing best friend. While there, she encounters a young Nubrevnan named Kullen Ikray, who has no memory of who he is or how he wound up inside the mountain. As the two journey e...

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Diaries by Franz Kafka - Kafka Franz

Anotace: An essential new translation of the author`s complete, uncensored diaries - a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century`s most influential writers`The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world` - The Wall Street JournalDating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka`s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, incl...

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The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien J. R. R.

Anotace: For the first time ever, a very special edition of the classic masterpiece, illustrated throughout in colour by the author himself and with the complete text printed in two colours.Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy and epic adve...

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The Lord of the Rings - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

<p>For the first time ever, a very special edition of the classic masterpiece, illustrated throughout in colour by the author himself and with the complete text printed in two colours.</p> <p>Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fa...

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The Thief of Farrowfell - Ravena Guron

<p>Welcome to a fantasy world where edible magic is the hottest commodity, traded between those who can pay or - in the case of Jude Ripon, the youngest thief in Farrowfell - those who can steal it! An epic debut series from a FAB Prize winner. Twelve-year-old Jude Ripon has never been taken seriously by her family of magic-stealing masterminds. To them, she's ju...

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The Story Of Lost Child - Elena Ferrante

<p>Soon to be an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times) Here is the dazzling saga of two w...

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The Story of the Lost Child - Ferrante Elena

Anotace: The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women- the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults, with husbands, lovers, aging parents, and children. Their friendship has been the gravitational center of their lives. Both women fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up-a pr...

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The Story of the Lost Child - Elena Ferrante

<p>The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women- the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults, with husbands, lovers, aging parents, and children. Their friendship has been the gravitational center of their lives. Both women fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up-a pri...

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Dark Horse - Hurwitz Gregg

Anotace: THE HEROEvan Smoak: former off-the-books assassin - code name Orphan X. His world is divided into those who deserve his help and those who`ve brought his singular brand of justice upon themselves.THE VICTIMA desperate father reaches out. His teenage daughter Anjelina has been kidnapped by a brutal criminal cartel and spirited over the border into Mexico. And whi...

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Peter Blume

Russian American artist Peter Blume was one of the earliest practitioners of surrealist painting in the United States, and his elaborately detailed and dreamlike compositions helped define American Modernist art. Blume worked out the themes of his ambitious large-scale paintings through dozens of drafts in different media, slowly developing layers of allegory and imagery ...

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Hortus Curious: Discover the World's Most Weird and Wonderful Plants and Fungi - Michael Perry

<p>Celebrate the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of plants with a book that revels in the diversity of the botanical world.Plants are truly awe-inspiring. They can be vast, minute, smelly, or spectacularly ugly. Some plants live on their own, or by growing off others; some live by air and water; others are carnivorous, eating the creatures around them; some plants...

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Natural History of Crime

Working at the interface of where the criminal and natural world interact, Patricia will show us how she finds the answers to some of the worst crimes

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Harry Potter – A Magical Year: The Illustrations of Jim Kay

Kniha - 240 stran, anglicky, pevná s přebalem matná A unique and beautiful gift book celebrating the astonishing art of Jim Kay – 366 magical moments from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels evoked in spellbinding brushstrokes, characterful ink work and intimate pencil sketches. A Magical Year takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the seasons at Hogwarts....

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Sketching from the Imagination

An exclusive selection of awe-inspiring traditional and digital concept designs and sketches from some of the world's most talented artists.

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Too Big to Jail: HSBC and the Banking Scandal of the Century - Blackhurst Chris

Anotace: `Packed with insights and details that will both amaze and appal you` - Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland and Butler to the WorldFrom journalist Chris Blackhurst, Too Big to Jail unveils how HSBC facilitated mass money laundering schemes for brutal drug kingpins and rogue nations - and thereby helped to grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has ev...

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Too Big to Jail: HSBC and the Banking Scandal of the Century - Chris Blackhurst

<p>'Packed with insights and details that will both amaze and appal you' - Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland and Butler to the WorldFrom journalist Chris Blackhurst, Too Big to Jail unveils how HSBC facilitated mass money laundering schemes for brutal drug kingpins and rogue nations - and thereby helped to grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has eve...

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Shoes A-Z. The Collection of The Museum at FIT - Valerie Steele

<p>Step inside one of the world’s most enviable closets to celebrate the empowering, sensual, playful, and practical shoe. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, ephemera, and sketches are featured in this volume, a follow-up to Fashion Designers A–Z, from the most coveted labels such as Louis Vuitton, Salvatore Ferragamo, Chanel, Gucci, Saint Laurent, Roger Vivier, Ch...

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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka

One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, ‘The Metamorphosis’ is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka.

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Soulslinger: Envoy of Death

Become an Envoy of Death, able to unleash the incredible powers that will make you the most dangerous soul in Limbo. Upgrade your character’s abilities to become the ultimate Soulslinger and take on thrilling challenges in a bloody war against the criminal cartel of the afterlife! Step into the rich and immersive world of Haven, filled with mysterious NPCs who hol...

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Lonely Planet Kids The Maps Book

Explore the amazing world of maps from the first sketches on cave walls to real time maps on phones. Discover their incredible history and marvel at a

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Harry Potter: A History of Magic: The spellbinding companion to a unique exhibition (1408890763)

Kniha - autor J. K. Rowlingová, 256 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá Harry Potter: A History of Magic is the official book of the exhibition, a once-in-a-lifetimecollaboration between Bloomsbury, J.K. Rowling and the brilliant curators of the BritishLibrary. It promises to take readers on a fascinating journey through the subjectsstudied at Hogwarts School of W...

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The Furies - John Connolly

Anotace: NO ONE EVER FORGETS MEETING THE SISTERS STRANGE ... The Furies: mythological snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, pursuers of those who have committed unavenged crimes. Now, private investigator Charlie Parker is drawn into a world of modern furies in two linked stories. In The Sisters Strange, the return of the criminal Raum Buker to Portland, Maine brings wi...

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The Naturals: All In: Book 3 in this unputdownable mystery series from the author of The Inheritance Games - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

<p>Cold cases get hot in this unputdownable mystery from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, no.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games series. Perfect for fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.Three casinos. Three bodies. Three days.After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. But even with the t...

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The Naturals: Bad Blood: Book 4 in this unputdownable mystery series from the author of The Inheritance Games - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

<p>Cold cases get hot in this unputdownable mystery from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, no.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games series. Perfect for fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.All of your burning questions are answered in this shocking conclusion to the Naturals series - now with a bonus Naturals novella, Twelve, in print for the first time!...

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Three Assassins: A propulsive new thriller from the bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN - Isaka Kotaro

Anotace: THEIR MISSION IS MURDER. HIS IS REVENGE.SUZUKI IS JUST AN ORDINARY MATHS TEACHER...UNTIL HIS WIFE IS MURDURED.Seeking justice, he leaves his old life behind to infiltrate the criminal gang responsible. What he doesn`t realise is that he`s about to get drawn into a web of the most unusual professional assassins, each with their own agenda:THE WHALE convinces his ...

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The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel - 40th Anniversary Edition - Julia Voss

<p>Discover Ernst Haeckel, the 19th-century artist-biologist who found beauty in even the most unlikely of creatures. This collection features 300 prints from his most important publications, including the majestic Kunstformen der Natur and his extensive catalogues of marine life. As biodiversity is ever-more threatened, these exquisite images are a scientific, arti...

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Soulslinger: Envoy of Death (PC)

Become an Envoy of Death, able to unleash the incredible powers that will make you the most dangerous soul in Limbo. Upgrade your character&rsquo;s abilities to become the ultimate Soulslinger and take on thrilling challenges in a bloody war against the criminal cartel of the afterlife!Step into the rich and immersive world of Haven, filled with mysterious NPCs who ho...

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The Hobbit Sketchbook - Alan Lee

<p>This richly illustrated book celebrates in words and pictures the beautiful work that award-winning artist Alan Lee produced for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, and includes dozens of brand-new paintings and pencil drawings exploring the world of Bilbo Baggins. Since The Hobbit was first published in 1937, generations of readers have fallen under its spell. That m...

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The Last Godfathers - John Follain

<p>THE LAST GODFATHERS charts the rise of the notorious Corleone clan. From its humble origins in the town of Corleone, the clan manipulated Cosa Nostra's code of honour, deceiving and bludgeoning its way to the top of the secret brotherhood, purging its rivals and launching a terrorist campaign which decimated anti-mafia judges, police and politicians. Journalist J...

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Six of Crows - Bardugo Leigh

Anotace: Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017, this fantasy epic from the No. 1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of the Grisha trilogy is gripping, sweeping and memorable - perfect for fans of George R. R. Martin, Laini Taylor and Kristin Cashore. Criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams...

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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Kafka Franz

One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, 'The Metamorphosis' is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka - such as 'The Judgement', 'In the Penal Colony' and 'A Country Doctor' - all presented in a lively and meticulous new translation by Christopher Moncrieff.

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