wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Understanding Chekhov: A Critical Study of Chekhov's Prose and Drama
ISBN: 9781853994265 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This work is designed to enhance the understanding of those who read Chekhov's stories or watch his plays. It reveals the levels of meaning and intention, the interpretations that author, reader, theatre director or critic can make, and brings out Chekhov's many connections to European prose and drama.
This work is designed to enhance the understanding of those who read Chekhov's stories or watch his plays. It reveals the levels of meaning and intent...
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141,91 zł |
Understanding Chekhov: A Critical Study of Chekhov's Prose and Drama
ISBN: 9780299163143 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Of all Russian writers, Chekhov is one of the best liked and most easily appreciated. Yet he is also one of the most elusive. Here Donald Rayfield reveals the layers of meaning on which the great dramatist's stories and plays are built. He examines his brief twenty-year creative life, from medical student supplementing his income by writing comic stories to his rapid rise as the father of twentieth-century drama and narrative prose. Understanding Chekhov is enriched by revelations from previously unexplored archival material, which deepen our understanding of Chekhov's sources,...
Of all Russian writers, Chekhov is one of the best liked and most easily appreciated. Yet he is also one of the most elusive. Here Donald Rayfield rev...
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111,47 zł |
The Literature of Georgia: A History
ISBN: 9780700711635 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive and objective history of the literature of Georgia, revealed to be unique among those of the former Byzantine and Russian empires, both in its quality and its 1500 years' history. It is examined in the context of the extraordinarily diverse influences which affected it - from Greek and Persian to Russian and modern European literature, and the folklore of the Caucasus.
The first comprehensive and objective history of the literature of Georgia, revealed to be unique among those of the former Byzantine and Russian empi...
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700,25 zł |
Stalin and His Hangmen : An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him
ISBN: 9780141003757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin's inner circle than ever before. Stalin wa
Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald ...
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98,23 zł |
Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and the Wood Demon
ISBN: 9781853994050 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Uncle Vania is Chekhov's best loved and perhaps his best composed play, yet this is the first book to be solely devoted to it in any language. Donald Rayfield brings his twenty years of research and writing and a century of others' critical studies to focus on Chekhov's art. He offers a close reading and interpretation of the play, paying special attention to the way in which it evolved from its prototype, the rarely performed comedy The Wood Demon. Uncle Vania is Chekhov's best loved and perhaps his best composed play, yet this is the first book to be solely devoted to it in any languag... |
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119,25 zł |
‘A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate
ISBN: 9781789149098 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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152,03 zł |
Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia
ISBN: 9781789140590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Now available in paperback, this is the first comprehensive history of Georgia for decades, focusing not only on the post-Soviet era but on the full sweep of its turbulent past.
Now available in paperback, this is the first comprehensive history of Georgia for decades, focusing not only on the post-Soviet era but on the full s...
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91,17 zł |
Secret Lolita: The Confessions of Victor X
ISBN: 9781452886466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. These anonymous but highly literate Confessions describe in prurient detail the sexual activities and perversions in Russia and Italy before WW1. We know for certain that Nabokov read Victor X's Confessions before writing Lolita, his best and most famous book written in English. Victor X is Nabokov's hero Humbert Humbert in action, but without any sexual inhibitions. Much of the ambience of Lolita and some actual incidents come almost directly from Victor X. This book also describes aspects of Russian social and cultural life almost unreported anywhere else. For this book, Professor Donald...
These anonymous but highly literate Confessions describe in prurient detail the sexual activities and perversions in Russia and Italy before WW1. We k...
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68,07 zł |
Moscow: A Cultural History
ISBN: 9780195309522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Caroline Brooke explores the way in which Moscow has reinvented itself over the years and the fascination it has exerted over the many writers, artists, and composers who made the city their home.
Caroline Brooke explores the way in which Moscow has reinvented itself over the years and the fascination it has exerted over the many writers, artist...
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230,64 zł |
Testimony: from the literary memoirs of Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin
ISBN: 9781739778514 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,35 zł |