Лирика

Author	Marina Tsvetaeva
ISBN	0140187596

Under normal circumstances with poetry I always like an in-depth read up on the writer prior to reading if it's somebody that I know nothing about, in the case of Marina Tsvetaeva my knowledge of her was non-existent, but hastily threw myself into the deep end instead of getting my feet wet first, so I had...

Author	Alexander Pushkin
ISBN	0803720017

Bitterly, the weaver sighed,
And the cook in passion cried,
Full of jealousy and hate
Of their sister's happy fate.
- Alexander Pushkin
Human beings are complex creatures. We can love and hate with the same energy. When we meet a cruel person, we call him “inhuman”. Because...

Author	Nikolai Gogol
ISBN	0192828800

Hailed universally as Russia's finest comic writer, and by many as its greatest writer of prose, Nikolai creates a unique Ukranian world, from the darkest Gothic to folkloric levity. Here, this extraordinary countryside is revealed in all its variety in his first two collections of short stories....

Author	Aleksandr Griboyedov
ISBN	5080039159

"Горе от ума" - одна из первых русских комедий, разодранных на пословицы и поговорки, которыми до сих пор украшена речь всякого мало-мальски начитанного...

Author	Sergei Yesenin
ISBN	0970580304

"Preserving in English the immortal spirit and rhyme of the great Russian genius."

Biographical notes on Esenin and Isadora Duncan precede each vol. and some chapters.

Includes several color reproductions of landscape paintings by Isaac Levitan mounted on pages with captions,...

Author	Ivan Turgenev
ISBN	5768402306

First Love is a vivid, sensitive tale of adolescent love follows a 16-year-old boy who falls in love with a beautiful, older woman and experiences a whirlwind of changing emotions, from exaltation and jealousy to despair and devotion. First Love is introduced by David Cecil. A Fire at Sea is lesser known...

Author	Ivan Krylov
ISBN	0883554895

Крылов считал, что басня, как и всякое произведение искусства, должна быть проста и понятна: "А ларчик просто открывался!". Вот такими "ларчиками" с сокровищами...

Author	Vladimir Mayakovsky
ISBN	0872862550

One who listens must hear. Poetry is in the ear of the behearer…
Now, listen!
Surely, if the stars are lit
there’s somebody who longs for them,
somebody who wants them to shine a bit,
somebody who calls it, that wee speck of spittle, a gem?
And overridden
by blizzards...

Author	Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin
ISBN	1853992925

Nikolaj Karamzin (1766-1826) is vooral bekend als vernieuwer van de Russische literaire taal. Met die vernieuwing legde hij de basis voor de grote Russische klassieke literatuur van de negentiende eeuw. Zijn novelle Arme Liza (1792) is een van de eerste werken die in dit nieuwe proza is geschreven.
Arme...

Author	Eduard Uspensky
ISBN	5170045522

Эта история случилась в большом городе. Можно сказать, что такие маленькие трагедии происходят в большом городе каждый день. Один мальчик позвал к себе...

Author	Sergei Aksakov
ISBN	5050016940

সাত সমুদ্দুর তেরো নদী পাড়ি দিয়ে সওদাগর যাবেন বাণিজ্যে; তিন কন্যার জন্য কী আনতে হবে, তা জানতে ওদের ডেকে...

Author	Alexander Pushkin
ISBN	1933633735

Ivan Petrovich Belkin left behind a great number of manuscripts.... Most of them, as Ivan Petrovich told me, were true stories heard from various people.

First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin contains his first prose works. It is comprised of an introductory...

Author	Alexander Pushkin
ISBN	5170185022

My last challenge for the Modern Mrs. Darcy Challenge. Three days to read 16 pages (I have four days, but one for emergencies). Doesn't sound much, but the tale is Russian. I can read it, but slowly. I have to look up a lot of words.
The tale is famous, of course: the husband of a poor, poor couple finds...

Author

Pyotr Yershov

Osobne som nikdy o tejto rozprávke predtým nepočula, ale čo sa nájde vrámci KK je poklad, takže som si uchmatla :)
Pozdával sa mi veršovaný štýl i príbeh samotný, nebol len úsmevný ale mal aj svoje posolstvo a koník sa dobre staral o svojho Ivana. A ten i keď možno nebol z najmúdrejších...

Author	Alexander Pushkin
ISBN	0871919230

Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a happy ending? No matter what their taste, our Creative Short Stories series has the answer.We've taken some of the world's best stories from dark, musty anthologies and brought them into the light, giving them...