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Novel Without Lies & Cynics
Two Short Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
The turbulent life of a great poet against the flamboyant background of Bohemian Moscow in the 1920s. This is the story of an extraordinary friendship and an extraordinary poet seen through the prism of an extraordinary time and place the upside-down world of Moscow just after the Revolution. By the...
Tolstoy On War
Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace"
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and portrays...
by Azim Baizoyev, John Hayward
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
This is a conversational approach to the teaching and learning of the Tajiki language. It uses authentic language material to help learners as they proceed through its topic-based lessons. Its emphasis on the spoken language promotes oral fluency alongside written skills. Both lessons and appendices...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
How postcolonial are the literatures of postcommunist countries such as Poland, Russia, and Ukraine? Are they postcolonial on the level of sociopolitical conditions, postcolonial modes of representation, or of a (post-)colonial mind? The contributors consider and respond to the heuristic questions...
by Charles-Baudouin
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
The author states here that Tolstoy was a great educator and his views on education were ingenious and profound. Despite being a great artist, Tolstoy also had pedagogic method and drew abundantly on the stores of science. The book looks at articles which Tolstoy wrote on education and childhood,...
Investigating Fascism
Crime, Mystery, and the Fascist Ventennio in the Historical Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Investigating Fascism offers an original approach to the historical novel and its connection to crime fiction. The study of contemporary novels set during Mussolini’s rule, with specific attention to the topics of violence, justice, mystery, and personal identity, leads to a discussion about, among...
The Remnants of Modernity
Two Essays on Sarmatism and Utopia in Polish Contemporary Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Polish culture after 1989 has been defined by conflicts surrounding the remnants of modernity, phenomena marginalised during communism. The book considers two such phenomena: the search for a common tradition and the disappearance of utopia. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, romanticism provided...
by Denis M. Calandra, James L. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 1966
The CliffsNotes study guide on Turgenev's Fathers and Sons supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as...
by Ernest Joseph Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Tolstoy’s fame as one of the world’s greatest novelists has never been in doubt, but the importance of his views on the social, moral and religious issues of his time is not so widely recognised. This study, first published in 1973, presents an introduction to the historical and cultural background...
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Humiliated and Insulted , also known in English as The Insulted and Humiliated, The Insulted and the Injured or Injury and Insult, is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1861 in the monthly magazine Vremya. [Plot introduction] Narrated by a young author, Vanya, who has just released...
Justice and Redemption
Anthropological Realities and Literary Visions by Ivan Cankar
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The book shows Ivan Cankar (1876–1918) as the first Slovenian writer to examine the human conscience, justice, guilt and punishment in a way comparable to Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and influenced also by the Bible. Given Cankar’s own bitter childhood experience of poverty and his awareness...
Birth of the Intelligentsia 17501831
A History of the Polish Intelligentsia Part 1, edited by Jerzy Jedlicki
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part one (1750–1831) traces the formation of the intelligentsia as a social class in the epoch of Enlightenment. It stresses the importance of the birth...
Nabokov's Women
The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads is the first book-length study to focus on Nabokov’s relationship with his heroines. Essays by distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered and nomadic nature of Nabokov’s women: their voice and voicelessness, their absentness,...
by Charles G. Leland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
English Gipsies And Their Language by Charles G. Leland
The Gipsies. Wisdom, Language, Song and History of English Gipsies. The Gipsies of England call their language, as the Gipsies of many other countries call theirs, Romany or Romanes, a word either derived from the Indian Ram or Rama,...