Secrets, In a Time of Peace
ISBN: 9781467908221 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A riveting account of the efforts of Russia, the United States, China and Israel to save the world from a nuclear nightmare. When the Soviet Union collapsed it was discovered that there were 68 plutonium bombs missing from its nuclear arsenal. It became imperative that the bombs be found and secured away from terrorist control without causing a worldwide panic. Follow the efforts of many patriotic persons from diverse nations joining in the effort.;
A riveting account of the efforts of Russia, the United States, China and Israel to save the world from a nuclear nightmare. When the Soviet Union col...
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The Theatre in Life
ISBN: 9781614274223 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2013 Reprint of 1927 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Evreinov argued that the role of theatre was to ape and mimic nature. In his estimation, theatre is everything around us. He pointed out that nature is full of theatrical conventions: desert flowers mimicking the stones; mouse feigning death in order to escape a cat's claws; complicated dances of birds, etc. He viewed theatre as a universal symbol of existence. Evreinov promoted an underlying aesthetic: "To make a theatre of life is the duty of every artist. ... the stage...
2013 Reprint of 1927 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Evreinov argued that the role...
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Reality in Lie
ISBN: 9781482306491 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brief Description of the content: Story 1: "Money to buy Heaven" Can a corrupt, sinful person earn his way into heaven through philanthropy? A corrupt government official (or just bureaucrat) earns his riches through bribery - he has everything he wants - except a ticket to heaven. He is convinced that philanthropy will wash away his sins...but is he sincere or is offering a bribe to God... Story 2: "Godfather Duty" This story is based on true facts that took place during the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In the midst of a violent, bloody ethnic conflict, an Armenian military officer...
Brief Description of the content: Story 1: "Money to buy Heaven" Can a corrupt, sinful person earn his way into heaven through philanthropy? A corrupt...
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Rich Brides
ISBN: 9781490415291 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Comedy in Four Acts by Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky, Introduced and Translated by Herbert R Smith Jr., Ph.D. Includes 1875 original and 1878 revision. To a summer vacation spot outside of Moscow come a beautiful young woman and her uncle-he wants a husband for her. But she doesn't know it. Nor does she know that the uncle's lackey wants her for his own wife. The trio find an eligible young man and his mother-she wants someone he can marry. And he doesn't know it. The son has caught the eye of a less-than-young merchant's widow. He does know that and isn't at all flattered. A traditional...
A Comedy in Four Acts by Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky, Introduced and Translated by Herbert R Smith Jr., Ph.D. Includes 1875 original and 1878 revi...
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Chekhov Shorts
ISBN: 9781848422919 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection features Chekhov's best-known short plays in brand new translations: three farces, two comic duologues and a monologue, all of them referred to by Chekhov as 'vaudevilles' and all written in the late 1880s before any of his great full-length plays. 'I don't much care for theatre, ' he wrote at the time, 'but I do enjoy vaudevilles.'
The Bear, The Proposal and The Wedding are all farces on the preposterous business of courtship and marriage. A Tragic Figure and Swansong are comic duologues: one about a civil servant sweltering in Moscow... This collection features Chekhov's best-known short plays in brand new translations: three farces, two comic duologues and a monologue, all of them re...
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Plays
ISBN: 9780140447330 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights. This collection includes The Cherry Orchard, now on Broadwayin a Roundabout Theater Company production at the American Airlines Theater. Directed by Simon Godwin and starring Diane Lane, John Glover and Susannah Flood. At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the everyday lives, loves and yearnings of ordinary people. Ivanov depicts a man stifled by inactivity and lost idealism, and The...
Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights. This collection includes The Cherry Orchard, now on Broadwayin...
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Cherry Orchard
ISBN: 9780413393401 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Chekhov's tragi-comedy, one of his most studied plays, the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the society in which they live. When their estate is hopelessly in debt they are urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, a proposition which prompts a family struggle to act decisively. In Chekhov's tragi-comedy, one of his most studied plays, the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the society in w... |
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58,54 zł |
Boris Godunov
ISBN: 9781849432559 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Boris Godunov recounts the tragic conflict between Tsar Boris and the pretender Dimitri. Following the death of Ivan the Terrible, Boris becomes regent and finds himself mixed up in terrible rumors and revolt.
Boris Godunov recounts the tragic conflict between Tsar Boris and the pretender Dimitri. Following the death of Ivan the Terrible, Boris become...
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51,82 zł |
Seagull
ISBN: 9781849434256 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A successful actress visits her brother's isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled ambitions into sharp relief. As her son attempts to impress with a self-penned play, putting much more than his pride at stake, others dream of fame, love and the ability to change their past.
Chekhov's darkly comic masterpiece is reignited for the 21st century by one of the most exciting new voices in British Theatre, Anya Reiss, Winner of the Most Promising Playwright at both the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards. A successful actress visits her brother's isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled ambitions into sharp relief...
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The Mandate
ISBN: 9781854598257 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Erdman writes in the tradition of Gogol (think Government Inspector), and it certainly shows in this madcap but sinister farce. Its premiere in 1925 was the most successful production by the most famous of Soviet directors, Meyerhold. Now it is given a rare revival at the National Theatre in London in a version written and directed by Declan Donnellan, who has staged many productions in Russia in the last 10 years. Erdman writes in the tradition of Gogol (think Government Inspector), and it certainly shows in this madcap but sinister farce. Its premiere... |
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Dahbka
ISBN: 9781493507443 / Angielski / Miękka / 722 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Family saga. The Drama... - Chernobyl, Perestroika, Russian mafia, immigration, adventure and of course the love story...
Family saga. The Drama... - Chernobyl, Perestroika, Russian mafia, immigration, adventure and of course the love story...
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117,30 zł |
Gondla, or the Salvation of the Wolves
ISBN: 9781851321261 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays
ISBN: 9780231181280 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother's Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, The Hurdy-Gurdy and Fourteen Little Red Huts constitute an impassioned and penetrating response to Stalin's assault on the Soviet peasantry. They reflect the political urgency of Bertolt Brecht and anticipate the tragic farce of Samuel Beckett...
In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (tr...
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191,10 zł |
Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays
ISBN: 9780231181297 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother's Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, The Hurdy-Gurdy and Fourteen Little Red Huts constitute an impassioned and penetrating response to Stalin's assault on the Soviet peasantry. They reflect the political urgency of Bertolt Brecht and anticipate the tragic farce of Samuel Beckett...
In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (tr...
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85,89 zł |
My Fog
ISBN: 9781936916177 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Government Inspector: Russian Version
ISBN: 9781532842924 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,64 zł |
The Seagull: Russian Version
ISBN: 9781532840647 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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36,12 zł |
The Cherry Orchard: Russian Edition
ISBN: 9781532831249 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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36,12 zł |
The Three Sisters: Russian Version
ISBN: 9781532800511 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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31,59 zł |
The Government Inspector
ISBN: 9781530891207 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,97 zł |