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Cyberiad
by Stanislaw Lem

ISBN 0156027593 (0-15-602759-3)
Softcover, Harcourt

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Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. The most completely successful of his books... here Lem comes closest to inventing a real universe (Boston Globe). Illustrations by Daniel Mrz. Translated by Michael Kandel.
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The Cyberiad; Fables for the Cybernetic Age
by Stanislaw Lem

ISBN 081649164X (0-8164-9164-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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Trurl and Klapaucius are the archrival constructor robots, who, ransacking myth, technology and the secrets of cybernetic generation, race to create an invention even more improbable than the last. [via]
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El Corazon De Las Tinieblas
by Joseph Conrad

ISBN 8420634298 (84-206-3429-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Esta es la novela en la que Francis Ford Coppola se basÃ³ para escribir Apocalypse Now. Marlow, agente comercial britÃ¡nico, se ve obligado a remontar el rÃo Congo en busca de su compaÃ±ero Kurtz. A medida que el barco avance por territorios cada vez mÃ¡s inhÃ³spitos, Marlow se irÃ¡ construyendo una imagen mitificada de Kurtz. En realidad, encontrarÃ¡ un mundo apocalÃptico y tenebroso, gobernado por un cÃnico que simboliza la degradaciÃ³n moral y las contradicciones de un hombre ante la fuerza indÃ³mita de la naturaleza. / Woven around a minimal plot Marlows trip on the Congo river to replace Kurtz, a commercial agent who is gravelly ill Heart of Darkness is a tense moral reflection about solitude and mans struggle against the uncontainable forces of nature. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) introduces the reader to a hallucinating world where the darkness of the African jungle and the eeriness of forgotten instincts merge, creating a trap of annihilating power to which the characters will ultimately submit. [via]
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Ferdydurke
by Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt

ISBN 0300082401 (0-300-08240-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr

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In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Originally published in Poland in 1937, Ferdydurke became an instant literary sensation and catapulted the young author to fame. Deemed scandalous and subversive by Nazis, Stalinists, and the Polish Communist regime in turn, the novel (as well as all of Gombrowicz's other works) was officially banned in Poland for decades. It has nonetheless remained one of the most influential works of twentieth-century European literature.Ferdydurke is translated here directly from the Polish for the first time. Danuta Borchardt deftly captures Gombrowicz's playful and idiosyncratic style, and she allows English speakers to experience fully the masterpiece of a writer whom Milan Kundera describes as "one of the great novelists of our century." [via]
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The Futurological Congress
by Stanislaw Lem

ISBN 0156340402 (0-15-634040-2)
Softcover, Harcourt

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The Futurological Congress (from the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy)
by Stanisaw Lem

ISBN 0816492220 (0-8164-9222-0)
Hardcover, Seabury Press

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The Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad

ISBN 1551113074 (1-55111-307-4)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

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Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour this induced in some individuals. [via]
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Heart of Darkness
by Ross C. Murfin, Joseph Conrad

ISBN 0312007612 (0-312-00761-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan

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If asked to describe the way in which the study of literature is changing, most of us willing to venture an answer would say that it is becoming more theortical. Without some kind of theoretical underpinning, literary criticism runs the riskof being impressionistic, even illogical [via]
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Heart of Darkness & Selections from the Congo Diary
by Joseph Conrad, Caryl Phillips

ISBN 037575377X (0-375-75377-X)
Softcover, Modern Library

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Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip GourevitchOriginally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad's Congo Diary of 1890-the first notes, in effect, for the novel, which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad: "His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life." [via]
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Heart of Darkness and Other Tales
by Joseph Conrad, Cedric Watts

ISBN 0192801724 (0-19-280172-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Set in an atmosphere of mystery, this novel tells of Marlow's journey up the Congo River to meet the remarkable Mr Kurtz. The other three tales also appraise the glamour and rapacity of imperial adventure and display insights into human nature and the bases of civilization. [via]
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Heart Of Darkness And Selected Short Fiction
by Joseph Conrad, George Stade, A. Michael Matin, Michael Matin

ISBN 1593080212 (1-59308-021-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction, by Joseph Conrad, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

One of the most haunting stories ever written, Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness follows Marlow, a riverboat captain, on a voyage into the African Congo at the height of European colonialism. Astounded by the brutal depravity he witnesses, Marlow becomes obsessed with meeting Kurtz, a famously idealistic and able man stationed farther along the river. What he finally discovers, however, is a horror beyond imagining. Heart of Darkness is widely regarded as a masterpiece for its vivid study of human nature and the greed and ruthlessness of imperialism.

This collection also includes three of Conrads finest short stories: Youth, the authors largely autobiographical tale of a young mans ill-fated sea voyage, in which Marlow makes his first appearance, The Secret Sharer, and Amy Forster.

Features a map of the Congo Free State.
A. Michael Matin is a professor in the English Department of Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. He has published articles on various twentieth-century British and postcolonial writers.

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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer
by Joseph Conrad

ISBN 0451526570 (0-451-52657-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer. [via]
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by Ian MacLean, Jan Potocki

ISBN 0670834289 (0-670-83428-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA

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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by Jan Potocki, Ian MacLean

ISBN 0140445803 (0-14-044580-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters transformed through disguise, magic and illusion, of honour and cowardice, of hauntings and seductions, leap forth to create a vibrant polyphony of human voices. Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like the "Decameron" and "Tales from the Thousand and One Nights", provides entertainment on an epic scale. [via]
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Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
by Stanisaw Lem

ISBN 0816491283 (0-8164-9128-3)
Hardcover, Seabury Press

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The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community. Translated by Michael Kandel and Christine Rose.
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Mortal Engines
by Stanislaw Lem

ISBN 0156621614 (0-15-662161-4)
Softcover, Harcourt

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These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lems fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. Astonishing is not too strong a word for these tales (Wall Street Journal). Translated and with an Introduction by Michael Kandel.
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New and Collected Poems 1931-2001
by Czeslaw Milosz

ISBN 0060514485 (0-06-051448-5)
Softcover, Ecco Pr

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New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 celebrates the exceptional career of Czeslaw Milosz, from his first work, written when he was twenty, to his newest poems, published for the first time in English in this volume.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Czeslaw Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and graceful expression. From his early poems, in which he declares, "I, a faithful son of the black earth, shall return to the black earth" ("Hymn"), to his newest work, in which he sees himself as a lofty, gray-headed spirit "Saved by his amazement, eternal and divine" ("For My Eighty-eighth Birthday"), Milosz's poetry is infused with a tireless spirit and penetrating insight into fundamental human dilemmas. In "Report," he arrives at the staggering yet simple truth that "to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name." in "Craftsman," he looks back over a life that was difficult to lead, but in the end he is nonetheless "Praising, renewing, healing. Grateful because the sun rose for you and will rise for others."
"With its clarity, historical awareness and moral vision," writes Don Began in The Nation, Milosz's work proves that "poetry can define and address the concerns of an age." Milosz himself describes poetry as "the passionate pursuit of the Real," "a witness and participant in one of mankind's major transformations." A defector to France in 1951 after having lived under Communism and National Socialism in Eastern Europe, he brings to bear the political awareness of an exile -- most notably in A Treatise on Poetry, a sixty-page exploration of the world wars that rocked the first half of the twentieth century. His newer poems, such as "Sarajevo," "Zdziechowski," and "On the Inequality of Men," also reflect the sharp political focus through which he continues to bear witness to the events that stir the world.
Unflinching, outspoken, and unsentimental, Milosz digs among the rubble of the past, choosing from the bad as well as the good, forging a vision that encompasses pain as well as joy. His work is "one of the monumental splendors of poetry in our age" (Edward Hirsch, The New York Times Book Review). New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 is an essential collection from one of the most important voices in contemporary poetry.
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Poems New and Collected 1957-1997
by Wislawa Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh, Stanislaw Baranczak

ISBN 0156011468 (0-15-601146-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books

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All poets, according to Wislawa Szymborska, are in a perpetual dialogue with the phrase I don't know. "Each poem," she writes in her 1996 Nobel Lecture, "marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift, absolutely inadequate." As a self-portrait, at least, this is fairly accurate. From the beginning, Szymborska has indeed wrestled with the demon of epistemology. Yet even in her earliest poems, such as "Atlantis," she delivered her speculations with a human--which is to say, a gently ironic--face:
They were or they weren't.
On an island or not.
An ocean or not an ocean
Swallowed them up or it didn't.

Fifteen years later, when her 1972 collection, Could Have, appeared, Szymborska seemed to have made some major inroads into her notorious ignorance. Now she confessed to at least a shred of comprehension, stressing, however, that such knowledge has come at a terrible price: "We read the letters of the dead like helpless gods, / but gods, nonetheless, since we know the dates that follow. / We know which debts will never be repaid. / Which widows will remarry with the corpse still warm." And even in her most recent work, the poet continues to gravitate toward the admirable emptiness of, say, the clouds: "Unburdened by memory of any kind, / they float easily over the facts." Ultimately, though, the joke is on Szymborska, whose poems have grown more witty, more humane, and more tender--in other words, more knowing--with each passing year. View with a Grain of Sand remains an excellent point of entry to Szymborska's oeuvre, but Poems New and Collected is the place to go for a wide-angle view of this superlative and sardonic writer. [via]
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Quo Vadis
by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jeremiah Curtin

ISBN 160312036X (1-60312-036-X)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books

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Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature. A brilliant Polish writer and patriot, he is possibly best known abroad for his monumental historical epic Quo Vadis that portrays the vibrant and dissonant combination of cruel excesses and decadence of Rome during the reign of the corrupt Emperor Nero and the high faith of the emerging era of early Christianity.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, is a love story of Marcus Vinicius, a passionate young Roman tribune, and Lygia Callina, a beautiful and gentle Christian maiden of royal Lygian descent and a hostage of Rome, raised in a patrician home. At first Marcus, a typical aristocratic Roman libertine of his time, has no notion of love and merely desires Lygia with erotic animalistic intensity. Through political machinations of the elegant Petronius he contrives to have her taken by force from her foster home and into the decadent and terrible splendor of the court of Ceasar, setting in motion a course of events that culminate in his own spiritual redemption.
Intricately researched, populated with vibrant historical figures, and gorgeous period detail, bloody spectacle and intimate beauty, this is an epic tapestry of the triumph of love, faith and sacrifice. [via]
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Quo Vadis
by W.S. Kuniczak, Henryk Sienkiewicz

ISBN 0781807638 (0-7818-0763-8)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books

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Translated by Stanley F Conrad. Set around the dawn of Christianity with amazing historical accuracy Quo Vadis? won Sienkiewicz the Nobel Prize. Written nearly a century ago and translated into over 40 languages, Quo Vadis, has been the greatest best-selling novel in the history of literature. Now in a sparkling new translation which restores the original glory and splendour of this masterpiece, W S Kuniczak, the most acclaimed translator of Sienkiewicz in this century, combines his special knowledge of Sienkiewicz's fiction with his own considerable talents as a novelist. An epic saga of love, courage and devotion in Nero's time, Quo Vadis portrays the degenerate days leading to the fall of the Roman Empire and the glory and the agony of early Christianity. [via]
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Quo Vadis a Narrative of the Time of Nero
by Henryk Sienkiewicz

ISBN 1404326901 (1-4043-2690-1)
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Solaris: Roman
by Stanisaw Lem

ISBN 0156837501 (0-15-683750-1)
Softcover, Harcourt

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Scientists arrive on the planet Solaris to study an ocean, but begin to suspect they may instead be the subjects of a vast experiment. [via]
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Solaris: Roman
by Steve Cox, Stanisaw Lem, Joanna Kilmartin

ISBN 0156027607 (0-15-602760-7)
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The first of Lems novels to be published in americanca and still the best known. A scientist examining the ocean that covers the surface of the planet Solaris is forced to confront the incarnation of a painful, hitherto unconscious memory, inexplicably created by the ocean. An undisputed SF classic. Translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox.
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Star Diaries
by Stanislaw Lem

ISBN 0156849054 (0-15-684905-4)
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These diaries come from the pen of Cosmonaut Ijon Tichy and recount his spinning in time-warps, spying on robots and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae. [via]
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Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript: Or, Ten Days in the Life of Alphonse Van Worder
by Jan Potocki

ISBN 0870529366 (0-87052-936-6)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books

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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
by Tadeusz Borowski, Barbara Vedder

ISBN 0140186247 (0-14-018624-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literature. [via]
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View With a Grain of Sand
by Wislawa Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh, Stanisaw Baranczak

ISBN 0156002167 (0-15-600216-7)
Softcover, Harcourt

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True, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy have made more than their share of bloopers. But when they bestowed the Nobel Prize upon Wislawa Szymborska in 1996, they got it right, rescuing a major poet from minor obscurity. Two previous collections of her work had appeared in English, of course. Yet View with a Grain of Sand is by far the best introduction to the Polish writer, conveying not only the fantastic lightness of her touch but the entire worlds she manages to pack into, as it were, a grain of sand. Miniscule wonders are her specialty, such as the tableau she records in "Miracle Fair": "The usual miracle: / invisible dogs barking / in the dead of night. / One of many miracles: / a small and airy cloud / is able to upstage the massive moon." Yet Szymborska is also a love poet of peculiar tartness:
True love. Is it really necessary?
Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence,
like a scandal in Life's highest circles.
Perfectly good children are born without its help.
It couldn't populate the planet in a million years,
it comes along so rarely.

What comes along so rarely, in fact, is a writer of this quality--and a translation that does her justice. Szymborska's brilliance would probably overpower even a second-rate rendering into English. But thanks to the efforts of Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, she is not only brilliant but supremely readable--an intellectual comedian for whom "there's nothing more debauched than thinking." [via]
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Ciberiada
by Stanislaw Lem

ISBN 8420658901 (84-206-5890-1)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Congreso de futurologia/ Congression of Futurology
by Stanislaw Lem

ISBN 8420603775 (84-206-0377-5)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Congreso De Futurologia/ the Futurological Congress
by Stanislaw Lem

ISBN 8420659754 (84-206-5975-4)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Diarios De Las Estrellas / Star Diaries
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 8420659746 (84-206-5974-6)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Manuscrito Encontrado En Zaragoza/ Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by Jan Potocki, Julio Caro Baroja, Jose Luis Cano

ISBN 8420655198 (84-206-5519-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Relatos Del Piloto Pirx
by Stanislaw Lem

ISBN 8420658928 (84-206-5892-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Retorno de las estrellas/ Return of the Stars
by Stanislaw Lem

ISBN 842065891X (84-206-5891-X)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Die Abenteuer in Der Sierra Morena, Oder, Die Handschriften Von Saragossa: Roman
by Jan Potocki, Leszek Kukulski

ISBN 3251200119 (3-251-20011-9)
Hardcover, Haffmans Verlag

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Solaris
by Lem Stanislaw

ISBN 3423101776 (3-423-10177-6)
Softcover, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co KG

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Die Stimme Des Herrn: Roman
by Stanisaw Lem

ISBN 3458048871 (3-458-04887-1)
Hardcover, Insel Verlag

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Le Congres De Futurologie
by Stanisaw Lem

ISBN 270210097X (2-7021-0097-X)
Hardcover, Calmann-Levy

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Manuscrit Trouve a Saragosse De Jean Potocki
by Jan Potocki, Rene Radrizzani

ISBN 2714303145 (2-7143-0314-5)
Hardcover, J. Corti

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Dzienniki Gwiazdowe
by Stanisaw Lem

ISBN 830800847X (83-08-00847-X)
Hardcover, Wydawn. Literackie

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