Soviet Fiction

Замешанная на борьбе добра и зла повесть предстала на суд широкой публики с заранее сформулированным в русской литературе вопросом: "Каковы отношения денег и вдохновения, и без чего человеку живется хуже - без материальных благ или утраченного таланта?"

Former special-ops soldier and now an analyst for the think tank Vektor, Max Anger would kill to move on from the scars of his past - if only for the sake of Pashie, his girlfriend and fellow operative, who wants out of the battle zone. For them, a normal life is just one more dangerous uncertainty. Especially now that evil is hitting closer to home. Sofia Karlsson of the Swedish police wants Max’s help in a high-profile and high-stakes murder investigation: the hunt for a serial killer stalking the streets of Stockholm, who’s eliminating his victims in gruesome ways.

"Die Russische Seele ist ein Rätsel." Fjodor Dostojewski. Über 11 Stunden Russland zum Hören. Russland hat eine Vielzahl herausragender Autoren hervorgebracht. Höchste Zeit, mal wieder die weiten Ebenen der russischen Klassiker zu durchstreifen, auf ein Glas Tee bei namhaften Schriftstellern einzukehren und der Wehmut und Wildheit der russischen Seele zu lauschen. Gert Westphal und Dieter Hildebrand lesen Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur von Fjodor Dostojewski, Nikolai Leskow und Alexander Puschkin.

Anton Chekhov belongs to the cohort of the most prominent Russian classics, together with Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin. The rankings of the most read authors, comprising the 'golden fund' of the world's literature, persistently include Chekhov alongside Charles Dickens, the Bronte Sisters, Mark Twain... Chekhov's plays, such as Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and the short stories of this collection, are featured in the curriculum of faculties of philology of top global universities, such as University of Oxford, Harvard University and many more.

Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father's will, aware that the contents can only be meagre. The Colonel, after all, had nothing to leave - except a letter he had never opened himself, a letter that can only bring further disgrace to the family name. Against his mother's advice, Adam opens the letter, and immediately realizes his life can never be the same again. The contents leave him with no choice but to follow a course his father would have described as a matter of honour.

«Смерть Ивана Ильича» — произведение одного из величайших писателей мира, русского прозаика и мыслителя Л. Н. Толстого (1828–1910). Над этой повестью автор тщательно работал четыре года и даже вносил поправки и штрихи уже во время корректуры. В ней рассказывается о мучительном расставании с жизнью судейского чиновника. Повесть признана одной из вершин мировой литературы и величайшим свершением Толстого в области малой литературной формы.

Various aspects of love, life, and death, set against the circus background.

A sede de poder de Boris Karamev não tem limites. Ele quer ser o chefe da Bratva e, para isso, faz estourar uma guerra dentro da máfia e rouba de Dmitri o seu maior tesouro. Ao ter sua autoridade desafiada, Dmitri Milanovic, o Pakhan por direito, vê a necessidade de exterminar todos aqueles que se uniram ao seu maior inimigo. Para assegurar o seu governo e recuperar seu Querubim, ele irá às últimas consequências numa luta fria de matar ou morrer.

In 2014, Sonya Bilocerkowycz is a tourist at a deadly revolution. At first she is enamored with the Ukrainians' idealism, which reminds her of her own patriotic family. But when the romantic revolution melts into a war with Russia, she becomes disillusioned, prompting a return home to the US and the diaspora community that raised her. As the daughter of a man who studies Ukrainian dissidents for a living, the granddaughter of war refugees, and the great-granddaughter of a gulag victim, Bilocerkowycz has inherited a legacy of political oppression.

Издание содержит полное собрание сказов Павла Петровича Бажова.

Dmitrey Merezhkovsky, a formidable historian and philosopher, known best for his epic narratives from Russian history, takes a romantic foray into the realm of life, death, love, and all things in between. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Spirit of Romance, and experience the compelling world of historical romance.

"Alexis Ivanovitch joue d'abord pour gagner, puis, pour étonner, enfin pour espérer. Il n'a pas misé seulement de l'argent, mais sa vie elle-même." Ce récit suit comme une ombre la vie de Dostoïevski, durant quinze ans, à Moscou et Baden-Baden, où il se ruina au jeu.

As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina) to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn't love you back (Turgenev's A Month in the Country). In this sort of literary self-help memoir, Groskop mines these and other works, as well as the lives of their celebrated creators and her own experiences as a student of Russian, to answer the question, "How should you live your life?"

Many of the greatest Russian authors, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Pushkin, produced crime and mystery fiction, a type of literature that was largely suppressed during the Soviet era because it did not glorify the state, but rather, gave significance to individual characters. With the fall of the Soviet Union, mystery writers have become some of the most successful novelists in Russia, and there is a renewed interest in, and appreciation of, the great crime classics of an earlier era. This volume is the first collection ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction.

Руслан и Людмила — чудесная, волшебная сказка гениального российского поэта, «солнца русской поэзии», драматурга и прозаика А. С. Пушкина (1799–1837). Людмилу, дочь киевского князя, прямо со свадьбы с витязем Русланом крадет злой Черномор. На ее поиски отправляется жених и еще двое молодцев. Любовь, верность, добро и зло — все переплелось в этой поэтической выдумке. Произведение является обязательной частью школьной программы. Глинка написал оперу Руслан и Людмила. Создано несколько одноименных фильмов.

Putting the old Soviet world behind him in retirement should have set Mike Lacondeguy at ease, but an addled old hippy and an Uzbek firebrand determined to do things her way make that impossible. In the second book of The New Americans trilogy, CHICKEN TODAY, FEATHERS TOMORROW, an aged Flower Child living on the streets and a young Uzbek agitator draw Mike Lacondeguy into a world where urban legend and common sense collide and where he can no longer run from his past. While tangled in the war in Ukraine, Mike comes across a book of poems with a mystifying couplet: All the world went silent/...

Part 1: Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky ("Stiva"), a Moscow aristocrat and civil servant, has been unfaithful to his wife, Princess Darya Alexandrovna ("Dolly"). Dolly has discovered his affair with the family's governess, and the household and family are in turmoil. Stiva informs the household that his married sister, Anna Arkadyevna Karenina, is coming to visit from Saint Petersburg in a bid to calm the situation.

Keith Gessen is a brave and trenchant new literary voice. Known as an award-winning translator of Russian and a book reviewer for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times, Gessen makes his debut with this critically acclaimed novel, a charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century. The novel charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle to find a semblance of maturity, responsibility, and even literary fame.

Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man), who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy

Contiene: La muerte de Iván Ilich, El diablo, Felicidad conyugal, El cafe de surat, De lo que vive el hombre.