Literature: history and criticism

A Greek writer and his bad English, Gogol Bordello and a city that does not remember everything.

The path to modernity was late in Russia, and as the country, absorbing western thought and art at a gallop, hurried to catch up in the nineteenth century, it produced cultural content about the modern individual unmatched in any other society.

The brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky have been Russia's most popular science fiction writers since their first publication appeared in 1959.

Some of the greatest works of Russian prose first saw the light in the Russian Herald, the journal founded and edited by Mikhail Katkov: Fathers and Sons, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov.

Anticipating some Soviet Union developments, Evgenii Zamyatsin's We (1920) is a futuristic dystopic novel in which D-503, builder of the first rocket ship, extols the glories of the Single State and discovers another way of life beyond his highly controlled society.

On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China.

Barbara Walker examines the Russian literary circle, a feature of Russian intellectual and cultural life from tsarist times into the early Soviet period, through the life story of one of its liveliest and most adored figures, the poet Maximilian Voloshin (1877–1932).

“Dew on the Grass”: The Poetics of Inbetweenness in Chekhov is the first comprehensive and systematic study to focus on the poetic dimensions of Anton Chekhov’s prose and drama.

Manon (1804) Der Instinct (1804) Meister Dietrich (1809) Magister Rößlein (1810) Haushahn und Paradiesvogel (1813) Der Todesengel (1814)Vergib uns unsere Schuld (1814) Der schwarze See (1815) Das Gastmahl (1815) Das Schwert und die Schlangen (1816) Das Bild der Mutter (1817) Die Schatzgräber (1819) Die weiße Rose (1820) Aus Herr Balthasars Leben (1821/23)

This book is the first biography of Nina Berberova.

Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self charts a unifying path through Dostoevsky's artistic journey to solve the “mystery” of the human being.

In den Lektüren Barbara Vinkens wird Literaturwissenschaft zu einer ebenso existenziellen wie verheißungsvollen Praxis: zu einer prekären Hingabe an Texte und Artefakte im Zeichen der Verbindung, vor allem aber der Differenz zwischen den Geschlechtern, Sprachen und Kulturen.

This book provides a thorough examination of how both Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak perceived Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetic persona and oeuvre in similar ways, and how, in their perception of Rilke’s role as that of the paradigmatic poet, they had drawn on the specifically Russian poetic paradigm, i.

Fruto de la investigación de un grupo de veinte profesores de nueve países europeos que estudian la formación de diferentes miradas hacia la literatura escrita en español en diferentes épocas.

Sarah Pratt traces interwoven questions in the work of Nikolai Zabolotsky, a figure ranking just behind Pasternak, Mandelstram and Akhmatova in modern Russian poetry and the first major poet to come to light in the Soviet period.

The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers.

In this book, Paul Contino offers a theological interpretation of Dostoevsky’s novel “The Brothers Karamazov.

Economies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century Russian prose tradition in motion.

The destructive power of obsessive love was a defining subject of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian literature.

In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bożena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects―pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils―tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here ascultural texts.

Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system.

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books - also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors - are a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, published between 1889 and 1910.

Contenu:Histoires extraordinaires (1856): Edgar Poe sa vie et ses œuvres, Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue, La Lettre volée, Le Scarabée d'or, Le Canard au ballon, Aventure sans pareille d'un certain Hans Pfaall, Manuscrit trouvé dans une bouteille, Une descente dans le maelstrom, La Vérité sur le cas de M.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE THREE MUSKETEERS - Complete Collection: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise da la Valliere & The Man in the Iron Mask" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

This ebook comprises the complete writings of Herman Melville.

A nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose.

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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887.

Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War.

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Oz!

Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works.

Plato (428/427-348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and mathematician of the Classic Age who founded the Academy of Athens.

At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects.

Obras Contenidas:Un viaje de noviosLa tribunaEl cisne de VilamortaLos pazos de UlloaLa madre naturalezaInsolaciónLa pruebaUna cristianaLa piedra angularDoña MilagrosMemorias de un solterón: Adán y EvaEl tesoro de GastónEl saludo de las brujasEl Niño de GuzmánMisterioLa sirena negraDulce sueñoLa última fadaCuentos de amor

Diese Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Jens Peter Jacobsen, zu dessen Kennenlernen ich gerne die kleine einfuhlsame Biographie von Hans Bethge empfehle, enthalt das vollstandige erzahlerische Werk des Dichters sowie die lyrischen Werke (einschlielich der spater von Arnold Schonberg vertonten "Gurre-Lieder") und Entwurfe.

The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger.

CONTENTS:1901 - From Poverty to Power1902 - As A Man Thinketh1903 - All These Things Added1903 - Through the Gates of Good or Christ and Conduct1904 - Byways to Blessedness1904 - Out From The Heart1907 - Poems of peace; including the lyrical dramatic poem Eolaus1908 - The Life Triumphant - Mastering the Heart And Mind1909 - Morning And Evening Thoughts1909 - The Mastery of Destiny1910 - Above Life's Turmoil1910 - From Passion to Peace1911 - Eight Pillars of Prosperity1911 - Man-King of Mind, Body and Circumstance1912 - Light on Life's Difficulties1913 - Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success1913 - James Allen's book of meditations for Every Day in the Year1914 - Men And Systems1915 - The Shining Gateway1919 - The Divine Companion

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Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a spy for Charles II, a playwright, poet, and novelist, and the first English woman to make a living from writing.

ChildhoodBoyhoodYouthThe CossacksWar and PeaceFather SergiusAnna KareninaIvan the FoolEvil allures, but good enduresWhere Love is, There God is AlsoThe Death of Ivan IlychThe Imp and the CrustAn Old AcquaintanceThe Young TsarMaster and ManEsarhaddon, King of AssyriaWork, Death, and SicknessThere are No Guilty PeopleLittle Girls Wiser Than Men

Commandant le Nan-shan, le capitaine Mac Whirr est un homme taciturne.

This book contains the Tom Sawyer complete collection.

Here you will find the complete novels of Thomas Hardy in the chronological order of their original publication.

Here you will find the complete novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the chronological order of their original publication.

Karl May (1842–1912) ist einer der meistgelesenen deutschsprachigen Autoren – die Gesamtauflage seiner Bücher wird auf über 200 Millionen Exemplare geschätzt.

Once upon a time, two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations.