The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1
10 best books like The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1 (Nikolai Gogol): An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, A Hero of Our Time, Buddha's Little Finger, Odd and the Frost Giants, Skellig, Poor Liza, Tales of Belkin, Двенадцать, Чапаев и Пустота
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
| Author | Ambrose Bierce |
| ISBN | 0874068134 |
The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his neck. In a moment he will meet his fate: DEATH BY HANGING. There is no escape. Or is there? Find out in . . . An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital...
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
| Author | Michael Chabon |
| ISBN | 0007149824 |
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews...
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin, the archetypal Russian antihero, Lermontov's...
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 0141002328 |
Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddha's Little Finger,...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 0747595380 |
The winter isn't ending. Nobody knows why.
And Odd has run away from home, even though he can barely walk and has to use a crutch.
Out in the forest he encounters a bear, a fox, and an eagle - three creatures with a strange story to tell.
Now Odd is faced with a stranger journey than he had ever imagined.
A...
| Author | David Almond |
| ISBN | 0440229081 |
Well, that was excellent.
This book is a brief mouthful of myth and hope and atmosphere. Reasons to read it?
1. There's a magical, irritable man in the narrator's garage. He likes Chinese take out and dead mice.
2. There is a wise and judgmental girl-neighbor who becomes the...
| 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 | 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...
"Трагическим тенором эпохи" назвала Блока Анна Ахматова. "Тенор" - кумир публики, культовый герой... Именно таковым и был А.Блок в глазах современников....
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 5699841830 |
Роман «Чапаев и Пустота» сам автор характеризует так: «Это первое произведение в мировой литературе, действие которого происходит в абсолютной пустоте».
На...
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 5699486917 |
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Чапаев и Пустота. Жёлтая стрела (Сочинения в 3-х т., Т. 1)
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 5264007020 |
Действие романа охватывает два периода — Россия 1918—1919 годов и середины 1990-х. Центральный план повествования — взаимоотношения Василия Чапаева и...
| Author | Selma Lagerlöf |
| ISBN | 9174481827 |
En närmast gotisk roman baserad på verkliga händelser i Bohuslän på 1570-talet. Prästen Herr Arne blir mördad med hela sin familj, utom en ung flicka som överlever. Hennes öde vävs sedan samman med mördarnas. Berättelsen har både kosmiska dimensioner och psykologiskt djup. Den isländska...
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
| Author | David Bellos |
| ISBN | 1846144647 |
Funny and surprising on every page, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? offers readers new insight into the mystery of how we come to know what someone else means—whether we wish to understand Astérix cartoons or a foreign head of state. Using translation as his lens, David Bellos shows how much we can learn...
Gelsomino en el país de los mentirosos
Nolēmu uz brīdi atkāpties no klasikas un pievērsos vienai no bērnības mīļākajām grāmatām. Man vienmēr ir šķitis, ka pārāk maz cilvēku lasījuši šo grāmatu, jo tā noteikti ir pelnījusi vietu labāko bērnu (arī pieaugušo ) grāmatu plauktos. Bez tā ka stāsts...
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Andrei Platonov, August 28, 1899 – January 5, 1951, was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, a Soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov was a Communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other...
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Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский, IPA: [ɪˈosʲɪf ˈbrot͡skʲɪj] was a Russian poet and essayist.
Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in...
| Author | Yuri Slezkine |
| ISBN | 0691127603 |
This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: The Modern Age is the Jewish Age--and we are all, to varying degrees, Jews.
The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it underscores Yuri Slezkine's provocative thesis. Not only have Jews adapted better than...
