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“yuri tkacz”

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  • Down and Out in Drohobych

    by Ivan Franko ...
    Translated by Yuri Tkacz ...
    Many of the stories in this volume deal with the life of a young boy growing up in Galicia, in the far east of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the mid-1800s. They depict the poverty and difficult conditions in the region at that time. Although autobiographical in nature, Ivan Franko wrote that the stories could not unreservedly be considered a part of his autobiography, because in all of them he ... Read more

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  • Boryslav in Flames

    by Ivan Franko ...
    Translated by Yuri Tkacz ...
    Boryslav in Flames by Ivan Franko is a pioneering novel that depicts the rise of the labour movement in Western Ukraine. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the industrial revolution in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the 1860s. As industry burgeons in Boryslav, a nascent working class emerges, inspired by socialist ideals – a unique phenomenon in mostly agrarian Galicia.Central to the ... Read more

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  • Precursor

    A Novel about Ukrainian Philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda

    by Vasyl Shevchuk ...
    Translated by Yuri Tkacz ...
    A philosopher obstinately searching for truth in the 1700s, badgered by the church for speaking out on human rights and the hypocrisy of the ruling elite, Skovoroda was forced to live an unsettled life.Hryhoriy Skovoroda (1722–1794), dubbed a “wandering” philosopher, was one of the most colourful figures in 18th century Ukraine. He spent most of his life travelling about the country and spoke out ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Down and Out in Drohobych

    by Ivan Franko ...
    Translated by Yuri Tkacz ...
    Many of the stories in this volume deal with the life of a young boy growing up in Galicia, in the far east of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the mid-1800s. They depict the poverty and difficult conditions in the region at that time. Although autobiographical in nature, Ivan Franko wrote that the stories could not unreservedly be considered a part of his autobiography, because in all of them he ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Precursor

    A Novel about Ukrainian Philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda

    by Vasyl Shevchuk ...
    Translated by Yuri Tkacz ...
    A philosopher obstinately searching for truth in the 1700s, badgered by the church for speaking out on human rights and the hypocrisy of the ruling elite, Skovoroda was forced to live an unsettled life.Hryhoriy Skovoroda (1722-1794), dubbed a "wandering" philosopher, was one of the most colourful figures in 18th century Ukraine. He spent most of his life travelling about the country and spoke out ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Duel

    by Borys Antonenko-Davydovych ...
    Translated by Yuri Tkacz ...
    The central character in the gripping, psychological novel Duel is the Ukrainian intellectual Kost Horobenko. Set in the first years of the new Soviet Ukrainian state, the period of militant Communism, Horobenko, is forever duelling with his alter ego, the Ukrainian nationalist.This novel is one of a number of early works from the 1920s by Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, in which the writer tries to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    Precursor

    A Novel about Ukrainian Philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda

    by Vasyl Shevchuk ...
    Narrated by Peter Ackerman, Mr Onyx ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 13 min

    Precursor by Vasyl Shevchuk tells the story of Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Ukraine’s “wandering philosopher” of the 18th century. A defender of justice and freedom, Skovoroda lived an unsettled life, challenging social and religious hypocrisy in his search for truth.In Precursor, Vasyl Shevchuk offers a compelling portrait of Hryhoriy Skovoroda, one of Ukraine’s most celebrated thinkers and a unique ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Hardly Ever Otherwise

    by Maria Matios ...
    Narrated by Suzanne K. Milton ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 52 min

    Hardly Ever Otherwise by Maria Matios is a powerful family saga set in Western Ukraine under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Through intertwined lives and destinies, Matios examines the inevitability of human passions and choices against the backdrop of time and tradition.In Hardly Ever Otherwise, Maria Matios crafts a richly layered narrative that explores the lives of several Western Ukrainian ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Doctor Zhivago

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  • My Childhood

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    Translated by Ronald Wilks ...
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    Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. After his father, a paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year-old Gorky was taken to live with his grandfather, a polecat-faced tyrant who would regularly beat him unconscious, and with his grandmother, a tender ... Read more

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  • Forty Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Robert Payne ...
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    If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories. The abashed happiness of a woman in the presence of the husband who abandoned her years before. ... Read more

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