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Swan Song

Ivanoff

THE evening service was being celebrated on the eve of Palm Sunday in the Old Petrovsky Convent. When they began distributing the palm it was close upon ten o'clock, the candles were burning dimly, the wicks wanted snuffing; it was all in a sort of mist. In the twilight of the church the crowd seemed...

SCENE: A well-furnished reception-room in MRS. POPOV’S home. MRS. POPOV is discovered in deep mourning, sitting upon a sofa, gazing steadfastly at a photograph. LUKA is also present. LUKA: It isn’t right, ma’am. You’re wearing yourself out! The maid and the cook have gone looking for berries;...

The highroad was dry, a lovely April sun was shining warmly, but the snow was still lying in the ditches and in the woods. Winter, dark, long, and spiteful, was hardly over; spring had come all of a sudden. But neither the warmth nor the languid transparent woods, warmed by the breath of spring, nor...

GRACEFULLY swaying in the saddle, a young man wearing the snow-white tunic of an officer rode into the great yard of the vodka distillery belonging to the heirs of M. E. Rothstein. The sun smiled carelessly on the lieutenant’s little stars, on the white trunks of the birch-trees, on the heaps of broken...

The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin...

ONE day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was sitting in the outer room in her summer villa. It was intolerably hot and stifling. Kolpakov, who had just dined and drunk a whole bottle of inferior port, felt ill-humoured...

IVAN LAPKIN, a youth of pleasing exterior, and Anna Zamblitskaya, a girl with a tip-tilted nose, descended the steep river bank and took their seats on a bench at its foot. The bench stood at the water’s edge in a thicket of young willows. It was a lovely spot. Sitting there, one was hidden from all...

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So many books on Tantra are obscure, obtuse and of little real use--especially for the Western Practioner. Finally here is a book, Secrets of Western Tantra, which provides a direct, honest, pragmatic, no-holds-barred approach to the most powerful methods for personal growth and spiritual attainment....

The lies you've been told---and the lies you tell yourself---keep you neatly and blindly confined in a prison that society doesn't want you even to see. In his inimitable style, Dr. Hyatt takes you on a walking tour of your cell, and then gives you the tools to tunnel out! One of Dr. Hyatt's favorites.

Auf den ersten Blick scheint Markus es gar nicht so schlecht getroffen zu haben: Er ist Anfang 30, gesund und hat eine attraktive, erfolgreiche Freundin. Dem angehenden Lehrer steht bei seinen Planungen für eine wohlige Zukunft als Oberhaupt einer Vorzeige-Familie eigentlich nichts im Wege. Doch...

Sie sind die TALIN-Jäger ­ und suchen eine Superintelligenz Im Mai 1513 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung bricht Perry Rhodan zu einer diplomatischen Mission auf: Mithilfe der exotischen Technik des Polyport-Systems reist er in die ferne Galaxis Anthuresta. Dort will er die Nachkommen jener Menschen...