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  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

    by Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs, David McDuff ...
    Here are some of Tolstoy's extraordinary short stories, from "The Death of Ivan Ilyich." in a masterly new translation, to "The Raid," "The Wood-felling," "Three Deaths," "Polikushka," "After the Ball," and "The Forged Coupon," all gripping and eloquent lessons on two of Tolstoy's most persistent themes: life and death. More experimental than his novels, Tolstoy's stories are essential reading for ... Read more

    $13.27 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Ronald Wilks, Anthony Briggs, David McDuff ...
    This edition includes: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Happy Ever After, and The Cossacks. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume are connected by this preoccupation, along with the author's simultaneous attempt to help us improve our lives. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Hello! Python

    by Anthony Briggs ...
    SummaryHello! Python fully covers the building blocks of Python programming and gives you a gentle introduction to more advanced topics such as object-oriented programming, functional programming, network programming, and program design. New (or nearly new) programmers will learn most of what they need to know to start using Python immediately.About this BookProgrammers love Python because it's ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Anthony Briggs ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'It is only a bruise'A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Queen of Spades and Selected Works

    by Alexander Pushkin ...
    Translated by Anthony Briggs ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    "The Queen of Spades" is one of the most famous tales in Russian literature, and inspired the eponymous opera by Tchaikovsky; in "The Stationmaster", from The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, Pushkin reworks the parable of the Prodigal Son; "Tsar Nikita and his Forty Daughters" is one of Pushkin’s bawdier early poems; and the narrative poem "The Bronze Horseman", inspired by a St ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Yevgeny Onegin

    by Alexander Pushkin ...
    Translated by Anthony Briggs ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    The aristocratic Yevgeny Onegin has come into his inheritance, leaving the glamour of St Petersburg's social life behind to take up residence at his uncle's country estate. Master of the nonchalant bow, and proof of the fact that we shine despite our lack of education, the aristocratic Onegin is the very model of a social butterfly - a fickle dandy, liked by all for his wit and easy ways. When the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The New Futures of Exclusion

    Life in the Covid-19 Aftermath

    by Daniel Briggs, Luke Telford, Anthony Lloyd, Anthony Ellis ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Based upon global data and following on from Lockdown: Social Harm in the COVID-19 Era, this book discusses the rise of surveillance capitalism and new forms of control and exclusion throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. It particularly addresses the use of vaccine passports, mandates and the new forms of capital extraction and political control that emerged throughout the pandemic. The book also ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Researching the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Blueprint for the Social Sciences

    by Daniel Briggs, Anthony Ellis, Anthony Lloyd, Luke Telford ...
    In challenging social science’s established orthodoxies, this first in a series of books is a call for its disciplines to embrace new theoretical paradigms and research methods to better understand the reality of life in a post-COVID world.By offering a detailed insight into the harmful effects of neoliberalism before the pandemic, as well as the intervallic period the world is currently living ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Seven Hanged

    by Leonid Andreyev ...
    Translated by Anthony Briggs ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.'This astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony Briggs, probes the emotions and experiences of seven people condemned to death in Tsarist Russia. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Lockdown

    Social Harm in the Covid-19 Era

    by Daniel Briggs, Luke Telford, Anthony Lloyd, Anthony Ellis, Justin Kotzé ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book asks whether the decision to lock down the world was justified in proportion to the potential harms and risks generated by the Covid-19 virus. Drawing on global, empirical data, it explores and exposes the social harms induced by lockdowns, many of which are 'hidden', including joblessness, mental health problems and an intensification of societal inequalities and divisions. It offers ... Read more

    $44.89 CAD

  • The Captain's Daughter

    Essential Stories

    by Alexander Pushkin ...
    Translated by Anthony Briggs ...
    Series Book 8 - Essential Stories
    A dazzling new collection of Pushkin's fiction, in definitive translations by the acclaimed Anthony BriggsAs complex as they are gripping, Pushkin's stories are some of the greatest and most influential ever written. Foundational to the development of Russian prose, they retain stunning freshness and clarity, more than ever in Anthony Briggs's finely nuanced translations.These are stories that ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Resurrection

    by Leo Tolstoy, Keith Carabine ...
    Translated by Louise Maude ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    This powerful novel, Tolstoy’s third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based on a real-life event. Dmitri Nekhlyudov, called to jury service, is astonished to see in the dock, charged with murder, a young woman whom he once seduced, propelling her into prostitution. She is found ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook