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It is said that if you haven't read the great Russian playwrights and authors then you haven't read anything at all. This edition represents a collection of some of the greatest Russian plays and short stories.
Author : Nicholas Evrèinov
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1426 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8026838041
It is said that if you haven't read the great Russian playwrights and authors then you haven't read anything at all. This edition represents a collection of some of the greatest Russian plays and short stories.
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8026838068
It is said that if you haven't read the great Russian playwrights and authors then you haven't read anything at all. This edition represents a collection of some of the greatest Russian plays and short stories,
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8027236053
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Plays: The Inspector General: A Comedy in Five Acts Savva The Life of Man Short Stories: Introduction The Queen of Spades The Cloak The District Doctor The Christmas Tree And The Wedding God Sees The Truth, But Waits How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials The Shades, A Phantasy The Signal The Darling The Bet Vanka Hide And Seek Dethroned The Servant One Autumn Night Her Lover Lazarus The Revolutionist The Outrage An Honest Thief A Novel in Nine Letters An Unpleasant Predicament Another Man's Wife The Heavenly Christmas Tree The Peasant Marey The Crocodile Bobok The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu The Shot St. John'S Eve An Old Acquaintance The Mantle The Nose Memoirs Of A Madman A May Night The Viy Essays: On Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps Russian National Character as Shown in Russian Fiction
Author : Maria Edgeworth
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775415929
On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives: his mother cannot buy her way into society no matter how hard he tries, and his father is being ruined by her continued attempts. The young Lord then travels to his home in Ireland, encountering adventure on the way, and discovers that the native residents are being exploited in his father's absence.
Author : Mikhail Zoshchenko
Publisher : New Vessel Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1939931444
A collection of short Christmas stories by some of Russia’s greatest nineteenth and twentieth century authors—several appearing in English for the first time. Running the gamut from sweet and reverent to twisted and uproarious, this collection offers a holiday feast of Russian fiction. Dostoevsky brings stories of poverty and tragedy; Tolstoy inspires with his fable-like tales; Chekhov’s unmatchable skills are on full display in his story of a female factory owner and her wretched workers; Klaudia Lukashevitch delights with a sweet and surprising tale of a childhood in White Russia; and Mikhail Zoshchenko recounts madcap anecdotes of Christmas trees and Christmas thieves in the Soviet Era—a time when it was illegal to celebrate the holiday in Russia. There is no shortage of imagination, wit, or vodka on display in this collection that proves, with its wonderful variety and remarkable human touch, that nobody does Christmas like the Russians.
Author : Toni Jensen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1984821202
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters with gun violence. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize • Goop Book Club Pick • “Essential . . . We need more voices like Toni Jensen’s, more books like Carry.”—Tommy Orange, New York Times bestselling author of There There Toni Jensen grew up around guns: As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she’s had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. And she has always known that in this she is not alone. As a Métis woman, she is no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies of Indigenous women, on Indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten. In Carry, Jensen maps her personal experience onto the historical, exploring how history is lived in the body and redefining the language we use to speak about violence in America. In the title chapter, Jensen connects the trauma of school shootings with her own experiences of racism and sexual assault on college campuses. “The Worry Line” explores the gun and gang violence in her neighborhood the year her daughter was born. “At the Workshop” focuses on her graduate school years, during which a workshop classmate repeatedly killed off thinly veiled versions of her in his stories. In “Women in the Fracklands,” Jensen takes the reader inside Standing Rock during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and bears witness to the peril faced by women in regions overcome by the fracking boom. In prose at once forensic and deeply emotional, Toni Jensen shows herself to be a brave new voice and a fearless witness to her own difficult history—as well as to the violent cultural landscape in which she finds her coordinates. With each chapter, Carry reminds us that surviving in one’s country is not the same as surviving one’s country.
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 1965
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Author : Brian James Baer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 131530533X
This volume represents the first large-scale effort to address topics of translation in Russian contexts across the disciplinary boundaries of Slavic Studies and Translation Studies, thus opening up new perspectives for both fields. Leading scholars from Eastern and Western Europe offer a comprehensive overview of Russian translation history examining a variety of domains, including literature, philosophy and religion. Divided into three parts, this book highlights Russian contributions to translation theory and demonstrates how theoretical perspectives developed within the field help conceptualize relevant problems in cultural context in pre-Soviet, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia. This transdisciplinary volume is a valuable addition to an under-researched area of translation studies and will appeal to a broad audience of scholars and students across the fields of Translation Studies, Slavic Studies, and Russian and Soviet history. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315305356.
Author : Ricky Jay
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780446387569
A tongue-in-cheek look at the newest method of self-defense details the history of card-throwing, exercises to improve your throwing ability, and fantastic stunts
Author : Maksim Gorky
Publisher : Pinnacle Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781374909274
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