Author: Aleksander Sergeevich PushkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
History of the Village of Goryukhino (Penguin Classics)
Author: Aleksander Sergeevich PushkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The History of the Village of Goryukhino [in, Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings: Translated by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by John Bayley] (Penguin Classics).
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Author: In Another World
Author: Tom PowPublisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857901982
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In one of the great defining moments in human history, more people now live in cities than in rural areas, and the effects of this depopulation and the plummeting birthrate are being felt keenly throughout Europe, which has the fastest-declining population in the world. Tom Pow sets out to explore what this means in some of the most rapidly vanishing areas of Europe. From Spain to Russia, he uses the tools of his trade - travelogue, essay, story and poem - to make connections, not only with what he encounters in numerous dying villages, but to reflect on his own experiences of memory, identity and loss. In Another World is an open book: not an argument, but an invitation to remember, to reflect and to engage with one of the most significant social issues affecting Europe today.
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings
Author: Alexander PushkinPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141908246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed. The Tales of Belkin, his first prose masterpiece, presents a series of interlinked stories narrated by a good-hearted Russian squire - among them 'The Shot', in which a duel is revisited after many years, and the grotesque 'The Undertaker'. Elsewhere, works such as the novel-fragment Roslavlev and the Egyptian Nights, the tale of an Italian balladeer seeking an audience in St. Petersberg, demonstrate the wide range of Pushkin's fiction. A Journey to Arzrum, the final piece in this collection, offers an autobiographical account of Pushkin's own experiences in the 1829 war between Russia and Turkey, and remains one of the greatest of all pieces of journalistic adventure writing.
Whitaker's Books in Print
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Waterstone's Guide to Books
Author: Waterstone & CoPublisher:
ISBN: 9780951258989
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
Waterstone's Guide to Books
Author: The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1706
Book Description
Romantic Russia
Author: Novels, Tales, Journeys
Author: Alexander PushkinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307959635
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
From the award-winning translators: the complete prose narratives of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's greatest storytellers. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic tales of love, obsession, and betrayal to dark fables and sparkling comic masterpieces, from satirical epistolary tales and romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott to imaginative historical fiction and the haunting dreamworld of "The Queen of Spades." The five short stories of The Late Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin are lightly humorous and yet reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, The Captain's Daughter, has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature.