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Redemption and two other Plays
ISBN: 9781542627436 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. INTRODUCTION After making a production of Redemption, the chief feeling of the producer is one of deep regret that Tolstoi did not make more use of the theatre as a medium. His was the rare gift of vitalization: the ability to breathe life into word-people which survives in them so long as there is any one left to turn up the pages they have made their abode. In the world of writing, many terms that should be illuminative have become meaningless. So often has the barren been called "pregnant," the chill of death "the breath of life," the atrophied "pulsating," that when we really come upon a...
INTRODUCTION After making a production of Redemption, the chief feeling of the producer is one of deep regret that Tolstoi did not make more use of th...
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The Awakening
ISBN: 9781542634786 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Extract: CHAPTER I. All the efforts of several hundred thousand people, crowded in a small space, to disfigure the land on which they lived; all the stone they covered it with to keep it barren; how so diligently every sprouting blade of grass was removed; all the smoke of coal and naphtha; all the cutting down of trees and driving off of cattle could not shut out the spring, even from the city. The sun was shedding its light; the grass, revivified, was blooming forth, where it was left uncut, not only on the greenswards of the boulevard, but between the flag-stones, and the birches, poplars...
Extract: CHAPTER I. All the efforts of several hundred thousand people, crowded in a small space, to disfigure the land on which they lived; all the s...
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111,41 |
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The Live Corpse: A Play in six acts
ISBN: 9781542653213 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Extract: Scene 1 A dirty room in a low-class restaurant. A table, at which people sit drinking tea and vodka. In the foreground a small table, at which sits Fedya, tattered, and much come down in the world. With him is Petushkov, a gentle, mild man with long hair, of clerical appearance. Both are slightly drunk. PETUSHKOV. I understand, I understand. That is true love Yes? Go on. FEDYA. Well, you know, if a woman of our class showed such feeling and sacrificed everything for the man she loved.... But she was a gipsy, brought up to money-hunting, and yet she had this self-sacrificing love ...
Extract: Scene 1 A dirty room in a low-class restaurant. A table, at which people sit drinking tea and vodka. In the foreground a small table, at whic...
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42,90 |
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Fruits of Culture: A comedy in four acts
ISBN: 9781542740906 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Extract: FRUITS OF CULTURE ACT I The entrance hall of a wealthy house in Moscow. There are three doors: the front door, the door of Leonid Fyodoritch's study, and the door of Vasily Leoniditch's room. A staircase leads up to the other rooms; behind it is another door leading to the servants' quarters. Scene 1. GREGORY looks at himself in the glass and arranges his hair, &c.] I am sorry about those moustaches of mine "Moustaches are not becoming to a footman," she says And why? Why, so that any one might see you're a footman, -else my looks might put her darling son to shame. He's a likely...
Extract: FRUITS OF CULTURE ACT I The entrance hall of a wealthy house in Moscow. There are three doors: the front door, the door of Leonid Fyodoritch'...
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50,51 |
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Crime and Punishment: Westernized Edition
ISBN: 9781542765732 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,13 |
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Hell on Earth
ISBN: 9780814344361 / Angielski / Twarda / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hell on Earth is the second book written by Avigdor Hameiri (born Feuerstein; 1890-1970) about his experiences as a Russian prisoner of war during the second half of World War I. Translator Peter C. Appelbaum first became interested in Hameiri's story after learning that one quarter of the Austro-Hungarian army was captured and imprisoned, and that the horrific events that took place at this time throughout Russia and central Asia are rarely discussed in scholarly texts. Available for the first time to an English-speaking audience, this reality-driven novel is comparable to classics... Hell on Earth is the second book written by Avigdor Hameiri (born Feuerstein; 1890-1970) about his experiences as a Russian prisoner of war ... |
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343,49 |
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El adolescente
ISBN: 9781544232614 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. El adolescente es una novela del autor ruso Fiodor Dostoievski, publicada por primera vez en 1875. En El adolescente, Dostoievski retoma la figura del narrador autodiegetico escribiendo en primera persona que ya habia utilizado en Noches blancas. El texto consiste en las Memorias del protagonista, Arkadiy Dolgoruki, escritas un ano despues de los hechos. En ellas relata la formacion de su caracter, juzga a su padre e incluye digresiones sobre su infancia.
El adolescente es una novela del autor ruso Fiodor Dostoievski, publicada por primera vez en 1875. En El adolescente, Dostoievski retoma la figura del...
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86,96 |
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Silhouettes. Collection of Essays. /Siluety. Sbornik Statey
ISBN: 9781543252125 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of literary essays includes articles on life and work of such Russian poets as Youri Mandelstamm, Ivan Savin, Pavel Bulygin, Boris Poplavsky, Vadim Kreyd, Tatiana Stilman and others (in Russian). In addition, the book includes three essays on life and work of Youri Mandelstamm, Dmitii Klenovsky, and a review article on sacred world of poetry (in English).
This collection of literary essays includes articles on life and work of such Russian poets as Youri Mandelstamm, Ivan Savin, Pavel Bulygin, Boris Pop...
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46,17 |
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War and Peace
ISBN: 9780198800545 / Angielski / Twarda / 1392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. Balls and soirees alternate with councils of war and the machinations of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles with everyday human passions in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. The prodigious cast of characters,...
Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of R...
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93,33 |
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Crime and Punishment: (OWC Hardback)
ISBN: 9780198709701 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crime will be justified by its elimination of "vermin" for the sake of the greater good. But Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear, guilt, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile the police detective Porfiry is on his trial. It is a powerfully psychological...
A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself...
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93,33 |
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Dios y Estado
ISBN: 9781544826066 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dios y Estado, del anarquista ruso Mikhail Bakunin (Imperio ruso, 30 de mayo de 1815 - Berna, Suiza, 1 de julio de 1876), nos resulta una obra apasionante, donde la corrupcion generalizada que caracteriza a los Estados burgueses y la presencia de poderosas mafias incrustadas en los Estados post-comunistas, son descritas en un contexto donde a cada lector se le permite ejercer las dos facultades preciosas del ser humano que Bakunin define: La facultad de pensar y la facultad, la necesidad, de rebelarse. Este texto no es solo una extraordinaria aportacion al materialismo de una vigencia...
Dios y Estado, del anarquista ruso Mikhail Bakunin (Imperio ruso, 30 de mayo de 1815 - Berna, Suiza, 1 de julio de 1876), nos resulta una obra apasion...
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Sisters of the Cross
ISBN: 9780231185424 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirty-year-old Piotr Alekseevich Marakulin lives a contented, if humdrum life as a financial clerk in a Petersburg trading company. He is jolted out of his daily routine when, quite unexpectedly, he is accused of embezzlement and loses his job. This change of status brings him into contact with a number of women--the titular "sisters of the cross"--whose sufferings will lead him to question the ultimate meaning of the universe. The first English translation of this remarkable 1910 novel by Alexei Remizov, one of the most influential members of the Russian Symbolist movement, Sisters...
Thirty-year-old Piotr Alekseevich Marakulin lives a contented, if humdrum life as a financial clerk in a Petersburg trading company. He is jolted out ...
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142,59 |
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The Awakening
ISBN: 9781543235098 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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43,74 |
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Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry
ISBN: 9780231185417 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Konstantin Batyushkov was one of the great poets of the Golden Age of Russian literature in the early nineteenth century. His verses, famous for their musicality, earned him the admiration of Aleksandr Pushkin and generations of Russian poets to come. In Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry, Peter France interweaves Batyushkov's life and writings, presenting masterful new translations of his work with the compelling story of Batyushkov's career as a soldier, diplomat, and poet and his tragic decline into mental illness at the age of thirty-four. Little known among...
Konstantin Batyushkov was one of the great poets of the Golden Age of Russian literature in the early nineteenth century. His verses, famous for their...
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75,62 |
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Russian Stories
ISBN: 9781534763289 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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291,26 |
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Lyugol
ISBN: 9781544765006 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,33 |
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Sisters of the Cross
ISBN: 9780231185431 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirty-year-old Piotr Alekseevich Marakulin lives a contented, if humdrum life as a financial clerk in a Petersburg trading company. He is jolted out of his daily routine when, quite unexpectedly, he is accused of embezzlement and loses his job. This change of status brings him into contact with a number of women--the titular "sisters of the cross"--whose sufferings will lead him to question the ultimate meaning of the universe. The first English translation of this remarkable 1910 novel by Alexei Remizov, one of the most influential members of the Russian Symbolist movement, Sisters...
Thirty-year-old Piotr Alekseevich Marakulin lives a contented, if humdrum life as a financial clerk in a Petersburg trading company. He is jolted out ...
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56,67 |
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Selected Short Stories
ISBN: 9780486817552 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is universally acknowledged that Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was as much a master of the short story as of the full-length novel. This original collection, which features some of his most hard-to-find tales, will enchant longtime enthusiasts of Tolstoy's work as well as new readers.
"The Forged Coupon" traces how an act of deception leads to both murder and redemption. "After the Dance" depicts an army deserter's punishment and explores the subjective nature of opinions on good and evil. "Alyosha the Pot" profiles a simple man content to live... It is universally acknowledged that Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was as much a master of the short story as ...
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42,71 |
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Aguas primaverales
ISBN: 9781547204069 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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27,86 |
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Luchshie Povesti I Rasskazy O Ljubvi V Odnom Tome
ISBN: 9781548550271 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. V knige sobrany povesti i rasskazy o ljubvi velikih masterov russkoj prozy: A. Pushkina, I. Turgeneva, A. Chehova, A. Kuprina, I. Bunina. Chto takoe ljubov'? Odna iz samyh vysokih cennostej, sila, sozdajushhaja lichnost', sobirajushhaja luchshie kachestva cheloveka v edinoe celoe, nagrada, dazhe esli stradanija soprovozhdajut jeto chuvstvo? Ili rokovaja sila, nedostizhimaja vershina, k kotoroj stremitsja ljuboj chelovek, starajas' obresti edinstvo s drugoj lichnost'ju, neizmenno oborachivajushheesja utratoj, tragediej, razrushajushhej garmoniju mira? Raznye istorii i raznye vzgljady pomogut...
V knige sobrany povesti i rasskazy o ljubvi velikih masterov russkoj prozy: A. Pushkina, I. Turgeneva, A. Chehova, A. Kuprina, I. Bunina. Chto takoe l...
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