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  • The Day of Atonement

    Traduit par Marian Fell ...
    Collections series World Classics
    Korolenko's answer to the growing antisemitism of the 1880s, 'The Day of Atonement is an integral part of Ukrainian folklore. It is centred on the Jewish holiday 'Yom Kippur' and tells the tale of Yankel, an entrepreneur who makes a deal with the devil in order to save his soul. Korolenko uses a strong, almost caricaturistic tone in order to remind us that Jew's were not inherently sinful, but ... En savoir plus

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  • The Blind Musician

    Traduit par Aline Delano ...
    Collections series World Classics
    The Blind Musician follows the lives of a young girl, a boy, and a professional musician. All of whom are blind. Korolenko paints a moving, sympathetic and careful psychological portrait of these three characters as he explores the different ways in which they experience blindness. As he attempts to explain the various actions and decisions of these characters, as inherently linked to their ... En savoir plus

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  • The Shades

    Traduit par Thomas Seltzer ...
    Collections series World Classics
    What would you give for a conversation with Socrates? Vladimir Korolenko's short story 'The Shades' is as close as it gets. It follows a conversation between Socrates and Eldipias as they discuss themes such as the truth, the nature of the one, true God, as well as the eternal topics of life and death. A masterful exploration of how the fear of changing one's beliefs can lead to the loss of truth, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Russian Short Story Megapack

    25 Classic Tales

    The Russian Short Story Megapack: 25 Classic Tales collects some of the finest and most famous of all Russian literature, by such authors as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo N. Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Anton P. Chekhov, and many more.Complete table of contents:THE QUEEN OF SPADES, by Alexsandr S. PushkinTHE GENERAL'S WILL, by Vera JelihovskyTHE CLOAK, by Nikolay V. GogolTHE DISTRICT DOCTOR, by Ivan S. ... En savoir plus

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  • The Art of Living

    par Epictetus ...
    No writings of Epictetus himself are really known. His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian (author of the Anabasis Alexandri). The main work is The Discourses, four books of which have been preserved (out of an original eight). Arrian also compiled a popular digest, entitled the Enchiridion, or Handbook. In a preface to the Discourses, addressed to Lucius Gellius, Arrian ... En savoir plus

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  • Journey into the Whirlwind

    The Critically Acclaimed Memoir of Stalin's Reign of Terror

    A woman's true account of eighteen years as a Soviet prisoner: "Not even Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich matches it."— The New York Times Book ReviewIn the late 1930s, Eugenia Ginzburg was a wife and mother, a schoolteacher and writer, and a longtime loyal Communist Party member. But like millions of others during Stalin's reign of terror, she was arrested—on ... En savoir plus

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  • Notes from Underground

    Collections series Vintage Classics
    Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, ... En savoir plus

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  • Greek Tragedy

    Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father.Medea is the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Beauties

    Essential Stories

    par Anton Chekhov ...
    Traduit par Nicholas Slater Pasternak ...
    Collections Livre 1 - Pushkin Press Classics
    This beautiful collection of 13 classic Chekhov short stories is the perfect introduction to an icon of Russian literature.“The greatest short story writer who has ever lived.” —Raymond ChandlerWithout doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its messy complexity, Chekhov’s short stories are exquisite masterpieces in miniature. His work ranged from the light-hearted comic tales ... En savoir plus

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  • The Art of Living

    par Epictetus ...
    No writings of Epictetus himself are really known. His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian (author of the Anabasis Alexandri). The main work is The Discourses, four books of which have been preserved (out of an original eight). Arrian also compiled a popular digest, entitled the Enchiridion, or Handbook. In a preface to the Discourses, addressed to Lucius Gellius, Arrian ... En savoir plus

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Fixer

    A Novel

    par Bernard Malamud ...
    Collections series FSG Classics
    The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed ... En savoir plus

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  • The Enchiridion of Epictetus

    par Epictetus ...
    No writings of Epictetus himself are really known. His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian (author of the Anabasis Alexandri). The main work is The Discourses, four books of which have been preserved (out of an original eight). Arrian also compiled a popular digest, entitled the Enchiridion, or Handbook. In a preface to the Discourses, addressed to Lucius Gellius, Arrian ... En savoir plus

    $1.99 CAD