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Documents Concerning Rubashov the Gambler

Author : Carl-Johan Vallgren

Publisher : Random House

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 30,99 MB

Release : 2011-10-31

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1448113741

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St Petersburg, 1899. Obsessive gambler Rubashov has played every game in town. Now on New Year's Eve, he finds himself on the brink of ruin, and decides to make a bid for the ultimate rush, the biggest gamble ever, to challenge the Devil to a game of poker. Rubashov loses. His punishment is not to go straight to Hell (Hell is full and has been for years), instead he is condemned to immortality. And so begins a monumental trip through Europe, as Rubashov encounters some of the twentieth century's most notorious characters.



Life Without End

Author : Karl Siegfried Guthke

Publisher : Boydell & Brewer

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 34,77 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1571139745

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A groundbreaking study examining major literary treatments of the idea of earthly immortality, throwing into relief fascinating instances of human self-awareness over the past three hundred years.



International Who's Who in Popular Music 2009

Author : Europa

Publisher :

Page : 678 pages

File Size : 41,67 MB

Release : 2009-03

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781857435146

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A comprehensive guide to the people and organizations involved in the world of popular music.



Documents Concerning Rubashov the Gambler

Author : Carl-Johan Vallgren

Publisher : Arrow

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 30,28 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780099498247

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"St Petersburg, 1899. Obsessive gambler Rubashov has played every game in town. Now on New Year's Eve, he finds himself on the brink of ruin, and decides to make a bid for the ultimate rush, the biggest gamble ever, to challenge the Devil to a poker game. The Devil accepts the invitation and unsurprisingly Rubashov loses. However, the price is not straight to hell as he expected (hell is full and has been for years), the punishment is immortality. Rubashov has great difficulty coming to terms with his ever-lasting life; he now sees no end to what is already a miserable existence. Unsuccessful suicide attempts lead him to take up Russian roulette, but before long the money is piling up and he has amassed a small fortune, enabling him to embark on a very different way of life... In this bizarre trip through Europe, Rubashov encounters some of the twentieth century's most notorious characters. Vallgren s bizarre picaresque tale is destined to stand alongside The Master and Margarita as a genre classic, and for fans of The Horrific Suffering of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot..., Rubashov s adventures will be sheer delight."



The Book Review Digest

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Page : 1952 pages

File Size : 29,70 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Bibliography

ISBN :

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Translation Review

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Publisher :

Page : 84 pages

File Size : 21,77 MB

Release : 2009

Category : English imprints

ISBN :

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The Merman

Author : Carl-Johan Vallgren

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 175 pages

File Size : 36,93 MB

Release : 2015-12-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1605989134

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Nella and her brother Robert live a difficult life with their mother and father in a small town on the west coast of Sweden. Robert is bullied at school, and Nella has to resort to debt and petty crime to pay off his tormentors. When she turns to her friend Tommy for help, her suspicions are aroused by the mysterious comings and goings of his brothers at their dilapidated boat house. But when she uncovers the reason behind their enigmatic behavior, her life is opened to the realities of a mindboggling secret. The Merman is a dark and haunting novel about sibling love and betrayal—and about what happens when the mundane collides with the strange and beautiful.



Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot

Author : Carl-Johan Vallgren

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 28,40 MB

Release : 2007-03-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0060842148

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Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot is the picaresque fable of the love that grows between the mute, telepathic human monstrosity Hercules and the beautiful Henriette—a love that will entwine their fates forever. Author Carl-Johan Vallgren creates an unforgettable cast of grotesqueries in a magical and atmospheric tour of nineteenth-century Europe—from the bordello, where Hercules is born, to the squalor of the asylum, where he finds only pain, to the sinister grandeur of the Jesuit monasteries in which he finds both shelter and peril, to the phantasmagoria of the freak show with which he travels. A moving, uplifting, at times dark and macabre tale of social oppression, official corruption, religious persecution, and unwavering devotion, it is a story that enchants and surprises . . . and leaves one wide-eyed with wonder, like a small child at his first carnival.



The Sleepwalkers

Author : Arthur Koestler

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 592 pages

File Size : 20,20 MB

Release : 2017-02-23

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0141394544

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Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split between science and religion arose and how, in particular, the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. He also provides vivid and judicious pen-portraits of a string of great scientists and makes clear the role that political bias and unconscious prejudice played in their creativity.