The Inspector General
ISBN: 9780881453249 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nikolai Gogol's classic and hilarious satire of bureaucratic ineptness and corruption in a first-class translation by Laurence Senelick. "The emperor deigned to attend the premiere with the heir apparent: he was extremely pleased and laughed heartily. The play is very entertaining but an intolerable insult to the nobility, the civil service, and the merchantry." -Khrapovitsky's diary, 1836 "Everybody got his and me first of all " -Tsar Nicholas I (allegedly), 1836 "The audience, struck by the novelty, laughed enormously, but I expected a better reception ... One of my friends explained the...
Nikolai Gogol's classic and hilarious satire of bureaucratic ineptness and corruption in a first-class translation by Laurence Senelick. "The emperor ...
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The Cherry Orchard
ISBN: 9780802130020 / Angielski / Miękka / 91 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mamet discusses the real theme of Chekhov's play and presents his own version of the story in which a Russian aristocratic family is forced to sell its estate to the son of a peasant.
Mamet discusses the real theme of Chekhov's play and presents his own version of the story in which a Russian aristocratic family is forced to sell it...
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67,70 zł |
Three Sisters (Tcg Edition)
ISBN: 9781559360555 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Wonderfully fresh and affecting.- - Ben Brantley, New York Times
-This lucid interpretation rewards with its deep understanding of a complex play.- -David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter The works of Russia's greatest playwright, Anton Chekhov, masterfully blend comedy and pathos, creating a richness of texture and characterization rarely seen since Shakespeare. With Three Sisters (1901), his portrait of the Prozorov family's elusive dream of returning from the provinces to an idealized Moscow, he captured a restlessness and yearning which remain enduringly modern. In... -Wonderfully fresh and affecting.- - Ben Brantley, New York Times
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67,49 zł |
Ivanov
ISBN: 9781566634090 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragic melodrama.
Treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragic melodrama.
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100,79 zł |
Ladybird
ISBN: 9781854597885 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Russian playwright Vassily Sigarev shot to prominence in 2002 with his debut play, Plasticine, which won him the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright--the first time the award had gone to a non-English-speaking writer. Set in a block of low-income apartments near the city cemetery, Ladybird returns to the urban setting Sigarev knows so well and the people at the bottom of society for whom he has an obstinate affection. Russian playwright Vassily Sigarev shot to prominence in 2002 with his debut play, Plasticine, which won him the Evening Standard Award for ... |
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54,97 zł |
Burnt by the Sun
ISBN: 9781848420441 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rich evocation of a world poised on the brink of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the 1994 Oscar-winning film written by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibragimbekov. General Kotov, decorated hero of the Russian Revolution, is spending an idyllic summer in the country with his beloved young wife and family. But on one glorious sunny morning in 1936, his wife's former lover returns from a long and unexplained absence. Amidst a tangle of sexual jealousy, retribution and remorseless political backstabbing, Kotov feels the full, horrifying reach of Stalin's rule. A rich evocation of a world poised on the brink of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the 1994 Oscar-winning film written by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rust... |
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49,47 zł |
The Light Shines in Darkness
ISBN: 9781438527451 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leo Tolstoy had a profound influence on people through out the Western world. Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher. Tolstoy was a member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. He was known as an educational reformer, pacifist and Christian anarchist. His masterpiece War and Peace made him one of the world's greatest novelists. His ability to depict life in 19th century Russia made him a leader in realist fiction. Tolstoy's stand on nonviolent resistance influenced twentieth century people such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Ghandi. The Light Shines in Darkness...
Leo Tolstoy had a profound influence on people through out the Western world. Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher....
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80,34 zł |
Anna Karenina
ISBN: 9781848421974 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anna is beautiful and admired but empty - until a chance meeting throws her into emotional turmoil and a scandalous affair. Contrasting with this tale of destructive love is the story of Levin, an idealistic man striving to find meaning in life - and a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.
Anna is beautiful and admired but empty - until a chance meeting throws her into emotional turmoil and a scandalous affair. Contrasting with this tale...
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76,98 zł |
The Three Sisters
ISBN: 9780573693199 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drama / Characters: 9 male, 6 female
Scenery 2 Interiors / 1 Exterior This poignant story of three provincial sisters who long with all their hearts to go to Moscow is classic theatre which has featured many of the world's great actresses and actors in the roles of Olga, Masha, Irina and Vershinin.
Drama / Characters: 9 male, 6 female
Scenery 2 Interiors / 1 Exterior This poignant story of three provincial sisters who long with all their hear... |
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80,19 zł |
Russian Plays
ISBN: 9781849430920 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prize-winning adaptations of four seminal Russian plays collected together for the first time. Includes Satan's Ball, an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita; Vanity, a response to Alexander Pushkin's verse novel Eugene Onegin; Brothers Karamazov, a dramatization of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's epic final novel; and Gogol, a one-man play. Prize-winning adaptations of four seminal Russian plays collected together for the first time. Includes Satan's Ball, an adaptation of Mikha... |
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99,26 zł |
The Seagull
ISBN: 9781945644948 / Angielski / Twarda / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unabridged English value reproduction of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. This wonderfully complex drama of hopes, dreams, and love, has characters that resonate with readers in different ways reading after reading. One of the first plays to pioneer impressionistic realism, this beautifully blended tragic drama is provided to the reader in a slim volume with the full text at an affordable price. Unabridged English value reproduction of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. This wonderfully co... |
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74,74 zł |
The Cherry Orchard
ISBN: 9780573690167 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,49 zł |
Three Sisters
ISBN: 9781840026436 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in colonial Trinidad in 1939, this is a story about three sisters who endure a mundane, but privileged life in the capital, Port of Spain. Their hopes of emigrating to Britain are shattered as the European war escalates into a global conflict, Port of Spain is bombed, and the Trinidadian soldiers are called to serve the King and Empire.
Set in colonial Trinidad in 1939, this is a story about three sisters who endure a mundane, but privileged life in the capital, Port of Spain. Their h...
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62,67 zł |
Science and Fear (Slaves Do Not Repent)
ISBN: 9781470169688 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Science and Fear (Slaves Do Not Repent)" is a mixture of memoirs, journalism, and storytelling in the form of a novel. It is an artistic representation of the life of scientists during last years of the Soviet regime. Deep professional depiction of the psychological, intellectual, and social status of the researchers has not anything equal in the world of modern literature. The final chapters portray the exodus of Russian scientists and the features of their adaptation to the U.S. academic world. The reader is immersed in the workaday activity of geophysicists studying climate change, in...
"Science and Fear (Slaves Do Not Repent)" is a mixture of memoirs, journalism, and storytelling in the form of a novel. It is an artistic representati...
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71,04 zł |
Science and Fear (Slaves Do Not Repent) in Russian
ISBN: 9781470176822 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Science and Fear (Slaves Do Not Repent)" is a mixture of memoirs, journalism, and storytelling in the form of a novel. It is an artistic representation of the life of scientists during last years of the Soviet regime. Deep professional depiction of the psychological, intellectual, and social status of the researchers has not anything equal in the world of modern literature. The final chapters portray the exodus of Russian scientists and the features of their adaptation to the U.S. academic world. The reader is immersed in the workaday activity of geophysicists studying climate change, in...
"Science and Fear (Slaves Do Not Repent)" is a mixture of memoirs, journalism, and storytelling in the form of a novel. It is an artistic representati...
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71,04 zł |
Bluebeard and Anna Karenina
ISBN: 9781478273837 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Love has always been a beautiful feeling in the time of Lev Tolstoy and today. Love with treasure, particularly the gold of the communist party of the USSR, is a dangerous cocktail which provokes crimes. Anna Karenina and Bluebeard, a high ranking official in the environment of the President is a fatal weapon. Sensational truth about about VIP persons in the countries of the former USSR.
Love has always been a beautiful feeling in the time of Lev Tolstoy and today. Love with treasure, particularly the gold of the communist party of the...
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57,72 zł |
Power and Glory - A Drama in Three Acts
ISBN: 9781447459880 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,78 zł |
The Mother - A Play in Three Acts
ISBN: 9781447459927 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Mother" is a 1938 anti-war drama written by the famous Czech novelist, Karel apek. Heavily influenced by the Spanish civil war, the play portrays the relationships between men going off to war, and their families and mothers who want them to stay. It explores fascism and freedom, and conveys the suffering that war brings with it. This volume will appeal to anyone who enjoys war literature, and constitutes a must-read for fans of apek's seminal work. Karel apek (1890 - 1938) was an early twentieth century Czech writer who is most remembered for his significant influence on the genre of...
"The Mother" is a 1938 anti-war drama written by the famous Czech novelist, Karel apek. Heavily influenced by the Spanish civil war, the play portrays...
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104,21 zł |
'And So ad Infinitum' (The Life of the Insects) - An Entomological Review, in Three Acts a Prologue and an Epilogue
ISBN: 9781447459941 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This antiquarian volume contains Karel apek's "And So Ad Infinitum: An Entomological Review in Three Acts." This delightfully witty and thoroughly thought-provoking play is testament to apek's mastery of the written word in all its forms, and constitutes a worthy addition to any personal library. The acts of this play are: "Act I: The Butterflies," "Act II: Creepers and Crawlers," "Act III: The Ants," "Epilogue: Death and Life." Karel apek (1890 - 1938) was a famous Czech writer of the early-twentieth century. He worked as a playwright, publisher, literary reviewer, and art critic, but is...
This antiquarian volume contains Karel apek's "And So Ad Infinitum: An Entomological Review in Three Acts." This delightfully witty and thoroughly tho...
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104,21 zł |
Crime Without Punishment
ISBN: 9781478261117 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ordinary investigation led the detectives to the international mafia whose interest are special goods slaves. Poor women from former USSR have to sell themselves to survive in the new society. The slaves were used on the island of entertainment where everybody could visit the zoo with the ladies in the cages and even hunted for sport. The leader of the mafia tried to justify the crime by the ideas of Dostoevskiy.
The ordinary investigation led the detectives to the international mafia whose interest are special goods slaves. Poor women from former USSR have to ...
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66,60 zł |