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  • Zoo, or Letters Not about Love

    by Viktor Shklovsky ...
    Translated by Richard Sheldon ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    While living in exile in Berlin, the formidable literary critic Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet. He fell into the habit of sending Elsa several letters a day, a situation she accepted under one condition: he was forbidden to write about love. Zoo, or Letters Not about Love is an epistolary novel born of this constraint, and although the brilliant and playful letters contained here ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Viktor Shklovsky

    A Reader

    by Viktor Shklovsky ...
    Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature 2016Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) was both patriarch and enfant terrible of Formalism, a literary and film scholar, a fiction writer and the protagonist of other people's novels, instructor of an armored division and professor at the Art History Institute, revolutionary and counterrevolutionary. His ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

  • On the Theory of Prose

    by Viktor Shklovsky, Lyn Hejinian ...
    Translated by Shushan Avagyan ...
    Series series Russian Literature
    As time has proven, Theory of Prose still remains one of the twentieth century’s most significant works of literary theory.It not only anticipates structuralism and poststructuralism, but poses questions about the nature of fiction that are as provocative today as they were in the 1920s. Founded on the concept of “making strange,” it lays bare the inner workings of fiction—especially the works of ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handbook of Solid-State Lasers

    Materials, Systems and Applications

    Edited by B Denker, E Shklovsky ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials
    Solid-state lasers which offer multiple desirable qualities, including enhanced reliability, robustness, efficiency and wavelength diversity, are absolutely indispensable for many applications. The Handbook of solid-state lasers reviews the key materials, processes and applications of solid-state lasers across a wide range of fields.Part one begins by reviewing solid-state laser materials. ... Read more

    $278.39 CAD

  • Little Loon Finds His Voice

    by Yvonne Pearson ...
    Illustrated by Regina Shklovsky ...
    Bank Street Books - 2022 Best Children’s Books of the Year (STEM Selection)Silver Winner in the PubWest Book Design Awards (Children’s/YA - Illustrated category)“This illuminating tale simultaneously serves as a primer on the loon and a satisfying, well-paced chronicle of progress.” —Publishers Weekly, starred reviewOoo aaa woo woo! Papa Loon’s voice calls out long and strong across the water. He ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Life of a Bishop's Assistant

    by Viktor Shklovsky ...
    Translated by Valeriya Yermishova ...
    Series series Russian Literature
    Life of a Bishop's Assistant is a "rewritten" biography of the 18th century historical figure, Gavriil Dobrinin. The son of a priest, he became an assistant to a bishop before being fortunate to rise all the way to gubernia procurator. Despite the obscurity of Dobrinin, it is Shklovsky's narration of his story that takes center stage. Like Zoo, or Letters Not About Love, Life of a Bishop's ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bowstring

    On the Dissimilarity of the Similar

    by Viktor Shklovsky ...
    Translated by Shushan Avagyan ...
    Series series Russian Literature
    “Myths do not flow through the pipes of history,” writes Viktor Shklovsky, “they change and splinter, they contrast and refute one another. The similar turns out to be dissimilar.” Published in Moscow in 1970 and appearing in English translation for the first time, Bowstring is a seminal work, in which Shklovsky redefines estrangement (ostranenie) as a device of the literary comparatist—the ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kings of the New Millennium

    World Chess Champions of the 21st Century

    by VLADISLAV SHKLOVSKY ...
    Embark on a literary odyssey into the heart of chess, where strategic geniuses battle across the checkered arena. This collection showcases the silent artistry and intellectual clashes of grandmasters, each move a testament to their tactical prowess. A prodigious maestro's pursuit of perfection unfolds, revealing a symphony of foresight in every game. Witness the silent poetry of chess, where ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Hunt for Optimism

    by Viktor Shklovsky ...
    Translated by Shushan Avagyan ...
    Begun in 1929 under the title "New Prose" and drastically revised after Vladimir Mayakovsky's sudden death, A Hunt for Optimism (1931) circles obsessively around a single scene of interrogation in which a writer is subjected to a show trial for his unorthodoxy. Using multiple perspectives, fragments, and aphorisms, and bearing the vulnerability of both the Russian Jewry and the anti-Bolshevik ... Read more

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    A Novel in Verse

    by Alexander Pushkin ...
    Translated by James E. Falen ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
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    by Edward Rutherfurd ...
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  • How to Read Literature

    by Terry Eagleton, Terry ...
    A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasureWhat makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing ... Read more

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