Download or read book Great Russian Short Stories written by Paul Negri and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve powerful works of fiction, including Pushkin's "The Overcoat," "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" by Gorky, and "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Tolstoy, plus works by Gogol, Turgenev, more.
Download or read book Twelve Stories of Russia written by A. J. Perry and published by . This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eager American moves to Moscow to teach Russians the difference between the and a. Part surrealistic travelogue, part historical serendipity, Twelve Stories is at its most enduring as a fanciful rumination on the elusiveness of words.
Download or read book Russian Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twelve Russian Short Stories written by Shorty Dawkins and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is something special about Russian writers. I have always loved Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Tolstoy. Not only did they write novels and plays, but they also wrote short stories; wonderful, thought provoking short stories. I have chosen a wide selection of stories from nine different authors. As different as they are, I think you will agree, they are distinctly Russian.I invite you to relax in front of the fire, in your favorite easy chair, and take a trip of a different nature. Not through Western eyes, will you travel, but through the simple eyes of the observers of human nature that these Russian writers are unparalleled at. They speak of the dignity of the human soul, and of the despair of the common folk. They speak of the wasted lives of the rich, and the humble lives and aspirations of the peasants. In their distinctly Russian style, they reach deep into your soul; troubling you, disquieting your staid existence. Perhaps your view of life needs to be disquieted, for you to spend some time reflecting on the nature of man, life, justice and of human value.
Download or read book A Very Russian Christmas written by Mikhail Zoshchenko and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short Christmas stories by some of Russia’s greatest nineteenth and twentieth century authors—several appearing in English for the first time. Running the gamut from sweet and reverent to twisted and uproarious, this collection offers a holiday feast of Russian fiction. Dostoevsky brings stories of poverty and tragedy; Tolstoy inspires with his fable-like tales; Chekhov’s unmatchable skills are on full display in his story of a female factory owner and her wretched workers; Klaudia Lukashevitch delights with a sweet and surprising tale of a childhood in White Russia; and Mikhail Zoshchenko recounts madcap anecdotes of Christmas trees and Christmas thieves in the Soviet Era—a time when it was illegal to celebrate the holiday in Russia. There is no shortage of imagination, wit, or vodka on display in this collection that proves, with its wonderful variety and remarkable human touch, that nobody does Christmas like the Russians.
Download or read book THE RUSSIAN STORY BOOK 12 Illustrated Children s Stories from Mother Russia written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 12 illustrated children’s stories have been taken from the heart of “Holy Russia.” From an area that covers the Ukrainian Steppe from Kiev to Novgorod, in the West, to the borders of the Caspian Sea in the East. Herein are the stories of: Ilya And Cloudfall, Ilya Meets Svyatogor And Parts With Him, Ilya And Nightingale The Robber, Ilya And Falcon The Hunter, The Adventure Of The Burning White Stone, How Quiet Dunai Had Brought The Princess Apraxia To Kiev, The Story Of Nikitich And Marina, How The Court Of Vladimir Received A Visitor From India the Glorious, The Story Of Kasyan And The Dream Maiden, How Stavr The Noble Was Saved By A Woman’s Wiles the Golden Horde, Whirlwind The Whistler, Or The Kingdoms Of Copper, Silver, And Gold, Vasily The Turbulent, Nikita The Footless and The Terrible Tsar, Peerless Beauty The Cake-Baker The stories are further enhanced by the sixteen gloriously coloured plates and line illustrations by Frank C. Papé. We invite you to curl up with this unique sliver of Russian culture not seen in print for over a century; and immerse yourself in the tales and fables of yesteryear. ---------------------------- TAGS: fairy tales, folklore, myths, legends, children’s stories, children’s stories, bygone era, fairydom, fairy land, classic stories, children’s bedtime stories, fables, Ilya, Cloudfall, Svyatogor, Nightingale, Robber, Falcon The Hunter, Adventure Of The Burning White Stone, Quiet Dunai, Princess Apraxia, Kiev, Novgorod, Caspian Sea, Nikitich, Marina, Court Of Vladimir, Visitor From India, Glorious, Kasyan, Dream Maiden, Stavr The Noble, Woman’s Wiles, the Golden Horde, Whirlwind The Whistler, Kingdoms Of Copper, Silver, Gold, Vasily The Turbulent, Nikita The Footless, Terrible Tsar, Peerless Beauty, Cake-Baker
Download or read book Russian Stories written by Gleb Struve and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve superb tales by Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Bunin, other masters. Excellent word-for-word English translations on facing pages. Also teaching and practice aids, Russian-English vocabulary, biographical/critical introductions to each selection, study questions, more. Especially helpful are the stress accents in the Russian text, usually found only in primers.
Download or read book The Stray Dog Cabaret written by and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Review Books Original A master anthology of Russia’s most important poetry, newly collected and never before published in English In the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate, and stage performances of all kinds. It has since become a symbol of the extraordinary literary ferment of that time. It was then that Alexander Blok composed his apocalyptic sequence “Twelve”; that the futurists Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky exploded language into bold new forms; that the lapidary lyrics of Osip Mandelstam and plangent love poems of Anna Akhmatova saw the light; that the electrifying Marina Tsvetaeva stunned and dazzled everyone. Boris Pasternak was also of this company, putting together his great youthful hymn to nature, My Sister, Life. It was a transforming moment—not just for Russian but for world poetry—and a short-lived one. Within little more than a decade, revolution and terror were to disperse, silence, and destroy almost all the poets of the Stray Dog cabaret.
Download or read book Twelve Contemporary Russian Stories written by Vytas Dukas and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chekhov Selected Short Stories written by Anton Chekhov and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1998-03-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton Chekhov has long been regarded as the master of the Russian short story and one of the leading exponents of the genre in world literature. This volume comprises the classic selection edited by Birkett and Struve, in Russian, here furnished with a new bibliography, and complements the stories and plays by Chekhov already available in the BCP Russian Texts series. The twelve stories, which date from 1883 to 1896, range from miniatures of comic levity such as Tolsttyi i tonkii to stories of sophisticated maturity such as Dom s mezoninom. The stories included are as follows (titles given in English translation): Fat Man and Thin Man; The Boys; A Test for Rank; A Failure; A Little Joke; The Blank Catch; The Beauties; The Student; At Yuletide; An Incident in Practice; Anna Round the Neck; The House with the Mezzanine.
Download or read book Twelve Months of a Soviet Childhood written by Julia Gousseva and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books about the Soviet Union focus on politics, food shortages, or lack of democratic freedoms. This collection portrays everyday experiences of a young girl growing up in the Soviet Union of the 1970's and 1980's. Childhood can be a magical and innocent time oblivious to political regimes and problems.That's what these twelve stories strive to convey.
Download or read book The Seventh Day Ox and Other Miracle Stories from Russia written by Bradley Booth and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twelve stories of Russia written by A. J. Perry and published by Glas Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is the book about? Twelve Stories of Russia: A Novel, I guess is about an American who moves to Moscow in 1991 - just before the fall of the Iron Curtain - to help Russians understand the difference between the and a. In his quest he is witness to an unsuccessful coup, an even-less-successful rebellion, rampant inflation, unprecedented social, economic and political change, Mafia infighting, and a host of other phenomena that characterize this period. But, alas, the book pays almost no attention to any of this. In Russia such cataclysms are a given, and the narrator, in his discussions with Russian friends, is forced to address much more pressing issues of cross-cultural relations: "Why is it," a friend asks, "that you Americans smile so much?"" "What is the structure of the novel? The book is four hundred forty-eight pages with a total word count of one hundred thirty-seven thousand words. It is divided into twelve chapters called "books," which represent semi-independent stories, each with its own style. The chapters are connected both chronologically and by unifying themes: the main character's quest for the "eleven Russian words that are not just words"; his futile attempt to love vodka; his long-distance relationship with the aunt he has abandoned in his search for "danger."" "Who is the audience? Any foreigner who has been to Russia and can compare the book with his own experiences. Russians who know English and are interested in seeing a fresh, thoughtful perspective on their culture. Intelligent readers who understand that America is not the only country in the world. People who enjoy reading for its own sake." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Best Russian Short Stories written by Thomas Seltzer and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a literary journey through the heart of Russia with Best Russian Short Stories curated by Thomas Seltzer. From the depths of Dostoevsky to the whimsy of Chekhov, this collection captures the essence of Russian literature, offering a captivating glimpse into the soul of a nation through its storytelling prowess. This collection contains: THE QUEEN OF SPADES Aleksandr Pushkin THE CLOAK Nikolai Gogol THE DISTRICT DOCTOR Ivan Turgenev THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING Fyodor Dostoyevsky GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS Leo Tolstoy HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS M.Y. Saltykov THE SHADES, A PHANTASY Vladimir Korolenko THE SIGNAL Vsevolod Garshin THE DARLING Anton Chekhov THE BET Anton Chekhov VANKA Anton Chekhov HIDE AND SEEK Fyodor Sologub DETHRONED L.N. Potapenko THE SERVANT S.T. Semyonov ONE AUTUMN NIGHT M. Gorky HER LOVER Maxim Gorky LAZARUS Leonid Andreyev THE REVOLUTIONIST Mikhail Artzybashev THE OUTRAGE Aleksandr Kuprin
Download or read book Best Russian Short Stories written by Leonid Andreyev et al. and published by . This book was released on 1925-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (21 August [O.S. 9 August] 1871 - 12 September 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He is regarded as one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period. Andreyev's style combines elements of realist, naturalist, and symbolist schools in literature. Of his 25 plays, his 1915 play He Who Gets Slapped is regarded as his finest achievement. Often referred to as 'a Russian Edgar Allan Poe', Andreyev had an influence through translations on two of the great horror writers, H.P. Lovecraft and R.E. Howard. Copies of his The Seven Who Were Hanged and The Red Laugh were found in the library of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft at his death, as listed in the "Lovecraft's Library" catalogue by S.T. Joshi. Andreyev was also one of the seven "most powerful" writers of all time, in the opinion of Robert E. Howard. (wikipedia.org)
Download or read book Ilf and Petrov s American Road Trip written by Илья Ильф and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera. When they returned home, they published their work in Ogonek, the Soviet equivalent of Time magazine, and later in the book Odnoetazhnaia Amerika (Single-Storied America). This wonderful lost workfilled with wry observations, biting opinions, and telling photographsis now collected in Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip, the first English translation. From Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: "The word 'America' has well-developed grandiose associations for a Soviet person, for whom it refers to a country of skyscrapers, where day and night one hears the unceasing thunder of surface and underground trains, the hellish roar of automobile horns, and the continuous despairing screams of stockbrokers rushing through the skyscrapers waving their ever-falling shares. We want to change that image." A Cabinet Book published by Princeton Architectural Press
Download or read book The Tsar of Love and Techno written by Anthony Marra and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art. This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor painstakingly corrects offending photographs, deep underneath Leningrad, bewitched by the image of a disgraced prima ballerina. A chorus of women recount their stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town. Two pairs of brothers share a fierce, protective love. Young men across the former USSR face violence at home and in the military. And great sacrifices are made in the name of an oil landscape unremarkable except for the almost incomprehensibly peaceful past it depicts. In stunning prose, with rich character portraits and a sense of history reverberating into the present, The Tsar of Love and Techno is a captivating work from one of our greatest new talents.
