Victoria

Look beyond the abstract dates and figures, kings and queens, and battles and wars that make up so many historical accounts. Over the course of 48 richly detailed lectures, Professor Garland covers the breadth and depth of human history from the perspective of the so-called ordinary people, from its earliest beginnings through the Middle Ages.

A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time. Having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce, Chekhov’s stories are often noted for their stream-of-consciousness style and their vast number.

V etoy audioknige sobrany proizvedeniya klassikov russkoy literatury o velikom chuvstve – o lyubvi. Nezhnyye, pechal'nyye, gor'kiye, ironichnyye - s techeniyem vremeni oni ne ustarevayut, i kazhdoye pokoleniye chitateley naslazhdayetsya etimi volshebnymi strokami. V sbornik voshli sentimental'naya povest' Nikolaya Karamzina «Bednaya Liza», otryvok iz romana «Zemlya» izvestnoy ukrainskoy pisatel'nitsy Ol'gi Kobylyanskoy....

Etot znamenityy roman napisan vo vremya polnogo rascveta tvorcheskih sil Dikkensa i soedinyaet v sebe cherty svoystvennye kak rannemu periodu tvorchestva, proniknutogo neistoshchimym yumorom, dohodyashchim do bezuderzhnogo groteska, tak i pozdney pore ego raboty, v kotoroy usilivaetsya patetika i ozabochennost' obshchestvennymi problemami. V centre povestvovaniya glava znamenitoy torgovoy firmy mister Dombi, chelovek isklyuchitel'no nadmennyy, s cherstvym serdcem i holodnoy dushoy. Ispolnennyy soznaniem svoego prevoskhodstva, on so vsem ne zamechaet svoey docheri Florens, ibo ona ne predstavlyaet interesa dlya ego dela.

Chto takoe schast'e, v chem ono zaklyuchaetsya i est' li chto-to vyshe ego? Chto takoe krasota i odinakova li ona dlya vsekh i kazhdogo? Chto est' lyubov' - naslazhdenie ili, vse-taki, zhertva? I voobshche, v chem zhe zaklyuchaetsya nastoyashchij smysl zhizni cheloveka? Vashemu vnimaniyu predlagaetsya roman "Nakanune" klassika russkoj literatury Ivana Sergeevicha Turgeneva.

Poor Folk, Dostoyevsky's first great literary triumph, inspired by the works of Gogol, Pushkin, and Karamzin as well as English and French authors, is written in the form of letters between the two main characters, Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova, who are poor second cousins. The novel showcases the life of poor people, their relationship with rich people, and poverty in general, all common themes of literary naturalism.

Portretyi predstaviteley roda Romanovyih, napisannyie izvestnyim feletonistom, publitsistom i kritikom nachala XX veka IlYoy Vasilevskim (Ne-Bukvoy). Pozhaluy, eto samoe zahvatyivayuschee zhizneopisanie russkih samoderzhtsev. Izdannaya v 1923 godu, v te vremena, kogda tsenzura otdyihala, kniga donesla do chitatelya to, o chem govorili shYopotom ranshe, a potom i vovse molchali. Yarkiy, mestami yazvitelnyiy portret russkih monarhov na fone istorii stranyi.

Ostap Bender is still alive after barely surviving the assassination attempt in the previous book, which he once briefly mentions as "stupid business". This time he hears a story about a clandestine millionaire named Alexandr Koreiko. Koreiko has made millions through various illegal enterprises while pretending to live on an office clerk's salary of 46 rubles a month. Read in Russian by Aleksey Kortnev and Aleksey Bagdasarov.

The Twelve Chairs is one of the most popular and prolific satirical novels written by Odessa-based Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. Set in Soviet Russia, the story starts with a deathbed confession about substantial family treasures hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve chairs. A team of treasure hunters is quickly formed. Smooth operator Ostap Bender and Kisa, the Pussycat, set off to track down the chairs. They are not alone in their quest.

Collins French with Paul Noble combines an exciting, new, non-traditional approach to language learning with the easy, relaxed appeal of an audio-only product. No books. No rote memorisation. No chance of failure.