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Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition.

The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write - a book very much like The Gift itself.

One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899.

These masterly poems span the whole of Nabokov's career from "Music", written in 1914, to the short, playful "To Vera", composed in 1974. The works are newly translated by Dmitiri Nabokov, and include "The University Poem", an extraordinary autobiographical poem in which Nabokov recalls his life in Cambridge, with its crooked alleys and age-old gates, teas at the vicar's and British girls. Included to are such poems as "To Russia" ("Will you leave me alone! I implore you!), the enchanting "Eve", and verse about America, sport, love, and poetry itself.

New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the 75-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of 44 of its best stories from (so to speak) home.

Romanul Manaraga oferă o perspectivă terifiantă asupra viitorului iminent. Un război mondial, un nou Ev Mediu și o a doua revoluție islamică schimbă totul, Europa este fragmentată și înstrăinată de rădăcinile sale culturale. Cărțile nu mai sunt tipărite și supraviețuiesc doar în muzee, iar educația este înlocuită de implanturi inteligente. O nouă tendință se răspândește printre snobii bogați – book'n'grillul, unde la prepararea cărnii se folosesc pe post de cărbune cărți tipărite.

Pnin está considerada como "la más deliciosa de las novelas de Nabokov" (G. M. Hyde), "la más inmediatamente atractiva" (Laurie Clancy) y, posiblemente, la más divertida de toda su obra, tan rebosante de humor. Su protagonista es el profesor Pnin, un ruso de la emigración que se gana la vida dando clases a media docena escasa de alumnos desganados que acuden a su aula como quien va a ver una película de Buster Keaton.

A startling and revelatory examination of Nabokov’s life and works—notably Pale Fire and Lolita—bringing new insight into one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic authors. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov witnessed the horrors of his century, escaping Revolutionary Russia then Germany under Hitler, and fleeing France with his Jewish wife and son just weeks before Paris fell to the Nazis. He repeatedly faced accusations of turning a blind eye to human suffering to write artful tales of depravity. But does one of the greatest writers in the English language really deserve the label of amoral aesthete bestowed on him by so many critics?

The Five is an captivating novel of the decadent fin-de-siècle written by Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880–1940), a controversial leader in the Zionist movement whose literary talents, until now, have largely gone unrecognized by Western readers/listeners. The author deftly paints a picture of Russia's decay and decline—a world permeated with sexuality, mystery, and intrigue. Michael R. Katz has crafted the first English-language translation of this important novel, which was written in Russian in 1935 and published a year later in Paris under the title Pyatero.

Guinea ve truncada su carrera como profesora en una universidad de Estados Unidos tras salir a la luz su relación con un alumno mucho más joven que ella. Huyendo del escándalo y en busca de una nueva vida llega al aeropuerto de Buenos Aires, donde descubre que se ha producido un apagón general. Con el teléfono sin red, es incapaz de localizar su destino. Un hombre inquietantemente amable la conduce por la ciudad y le propone alojarse con él y con su hijo adolescente, Vladimir, mientras continúe la situación.

Пребывание в маленьком гарнизоне, стоящем на границе Сибири и Китая, это ссылка. Но не для того, кто отправился туда прямиком с фронта Четвертой Магической Мировой Войны. Для молодого боевого мага второго ранга подобная перемена места службы стала настоящим подарком судьбы.

Владимир Алексеевич Гиляровский (1855 - 1935) сменил за свою долгую жизнь множество профессий - был бурлаком, крючником, актером, работал в цирке, принимал участие в боевых действиях русско-турецкой войны. Но известен он, прежде всего, как писатель, журналист, "король репортажа", большой знаток России и Москвы.

"Руководитель охранного агентства направляет телохранителя Китайгородцева на Рублёвку, в семью очень небедного человека. И предстоит не самого олигарха охранять, а его ослепительную жену с годовалым ребёнком. Шеф так говорит об охраняемой: "Молодая, красивая, ноги от ушей.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Platon Ilici Garin, medic de provincie, își propune să ajungă cu orice preţ la datorie, în Dolgoe, unde o boală misterioasă transformă oamenii în zombi. Pentru că nu găsește cai de schimb la poșta din Dolbeșino, doctorului i se recomandă tovărășia cărăușului Kozma, care, pentru cinci ruble, îl poate duce cu mașina la destinaţie.

Roman o tragedii "polozhitelno prekrasnogo cheloveka". Vynuzhdennaia emigratsiya avtora i geroya. Knyaz’-Hristos kak ob’ekt kritiki. Chelovek iz drugogo mira. Prototipy knyazya Myshkina.

Kak raskryvayutsya klyuchevye idei romana v ego syuzhete i personazhah. Krov' po sovesti. Golos realnosti i golos sovesti. Kak prigovorennyi k kazni. V zerkale "razumnogo egoizma". Otverzhenie milosti. Sledovatel novogo tipa. Vechnost' Svidrigailova. Beskonechnye istochniki zhizni.

Society gossip and life in the slum, life's tragedies and comedies, the sacred, the profane, the admirable, the ridiculous, and much more - mixed thoroughly and presented for your listening pleasure by one of the most delightful old gossips of Russian literature, Vladimir Odoyevsky.

Dostoevsky pishet svoyu versiyu romana "Ottsy i deti". Roman-haosmos. Kompozitsiya i svyasuyushiy geroi. Deti i otsy. Dvoynichestvo porozhdaet tragediyu. Pushkinskiy sled. Shekspirovsky sled. Spasitelny moment very.

Dokumentalnye istoki, personazhi, temy i vazhneyshiy itog romana o russkih nigilistah. Nechaevskoe delo. Satira s polozhitelnoy podoplekoy. "Novye" lyudi i Stavrogin. "Samaya glavnaya sila". Systema Shigaleva. Metafizika samodostatochnoy vlasti.

Proekt avtorskoy zhurnalistiki F.M. Dostoevskogo. Vsevremennye razmyshleniya. Poyavlenie avtorskoy zhurnalistiki. Proektirovanie deystvitelnosti. Neretsepturnaya publitsistika. Motiv zhalosti. Temy otvetstvennosti i stradaniya. Melodiya vysshei istiny.

Zahvatyvayushchaya istoriya o Maugli, mal'chike, vospitannom volkami i prochimi obitatelyami dzhungley, ego blizost' k miru zhivotnyh, a takzhe dramaticheskie otnosheniya s lyud'mi, k kotorym on vse-taki vynuzhden vernut'sya; udivit'sya hrabrosti malen'kogo otvazhnogo mangusta Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, vstupivshego v edinoborstvo s kobrami; ocenit' muzhestvo i uporstvo belogo kotika, reshivshego obespechit' svoim sobrat'yam bezopasnuyu zhizn'.