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Скачать книгу (размер 3 308 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 650) Аннотация: When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of «War and Peace», husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the years from 1862 to 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him; even her many children were not an unmitigated blessing. In the background of her life was one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history: the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A tale of intrigue, deception, murder and retribution, Boris Godunov charts the rise and fall of an ambitious prince who cannot avoid facing the consequences of his dark past. Based on the historical figure of the nobleman Boris Godunov, who seized power from Ivan the Terrible's successor in sixteenth-century Russia, and partly inspired by Shakespeare's Macbeth, Alexander Pushkin's 1825 play…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: In Bulgakov's Diaboliad, the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the First Central Depot for the Materials for Matches, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior Kalsoner, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare. This…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Using the credit card and identity of a handcuffs salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful.

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: One of Tolstoy's last works of fiction, «The Devil» revolves around the young landowner's Yevgeny irrepressible lust for Stepanida, a sensual peasant woman. Even when he gets married to a respectable upper-class lady, he finds himself unable to put an end to his encounters with Stepanida, and becomes increasingly consumed by guilt and helplessness in the face of his undeniable urges. In some ways…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In 1864, Lewis Carroll sent Alice's Adventures under Ground, a handwritten and illustrated manuscript, as a gift to Alice Liddell, the daughter of his Oxford dean. This formed the basis for Carroll's Alice in Wonderland — introducing timeless characters such as Alice, the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts and the Gryphon — although it differs considerably from the later work, with the author…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: Set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of Communism, this title follows a cast of dissolute Bohemians, political refugees, football referees, deaf police agents, assassins and stranded astronauts as they chase a stolen icon painting from Sofia to Prague and beyond.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: As a mysterious gentleman and self-proclaimed magician arrives in Moscow, followed by a most bizarre retinue of servants — which includes a strangely dressed ex-choirmaster, a fanged hitman and a mischievous tomcat with the gift of the gab — the Russian literary world is shaken to its foundations. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil, and that he has come to wreak havoc among the cultural…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 350) Аннотация: Considered one of the most influential authors of twentieth century Russian Literature, Ivan Bunin's «Dark Avenues» is the culmination of a life's work which unrelentingly questioned of the political doxa whilst taking his poetic mastery of language to dark new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of a disintegrating Russian culture, this collection of short fiction…

Скачать книгу (размер 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 150) Аннотация: Beat Generation is a play about tension, about friendship, and about karma — what it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of wine. It ends with a kind of satori-like reaffirmation of the power of friendship, of doing good through not doing, and the intrinsic worth of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 922 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 182) Аннотация: Anna Akhmatova is identified, along with Osip Mandelmstam, Boris Pasternak, and Marina Tsvetaeva, as one of the four leading poets of twentieth-century Russian literature. Her poetry, classically rhymed and metered but also laconic and highly elliptical, is deeply engaged with predecessors such as Horace, Dante, Shakespeare, Byron, Dostoevsky, Annensky, and above all Pushkin, and also with…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This is the widely acclaimed translation of one of the outstanding and seminal works of Russian literature. Pushkin's novel in verse has influenced Russian prose as well as poetry since its completion nearly 175 years ago. By turns brilliant, entertaining, romantic, and serious, it traces the development of a young Petersburg dandy as he deals with life and love. Influenced by Byron, Pushkin…