Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers, 1967
ISBN 10: 0060830719 ISBN 13: 9780060830717
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
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Verlag: Idea & Design Works, LLC, 2011
ISBN 10: 1613771134 ISBN 13: 9781613771136
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
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Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2015
ISBN 10: 0141397748 ISBN 13: 9780141397740
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!' A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Tolstoy's works available in Penguin Classics are Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth,The Cossacks and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, What is art?, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, Master and Man and Other Stories, How Much Land Does A Man Need? & Other Stories, A Confession and Other Religious Writings and Last steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (edition Reprint), 2004
ISBN 10: 0060586974 ISBN 13: 9780060586973
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Verlag: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 0224097113 ISBN 13: 9780224097116
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Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation The Fun Stuff confirms Woods pre-eminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches that range over such crucial writers as Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, and Edmund Wilson Wood offers a panoramic look at the modern novel. He effortlessly connects his encyclopaedic, eloquent understanding of the literary canon with an equally in-depth analysis of the most important authors writing today, including Cormac McCarthy, Kazuo Ishiguro, and V.S. Naipaul. Included in The Fun Stuff are the title essay on Keith Moon and the lost joys of drumming which was a finalist for last years National Magazine Awards as well as Woods essay on George Orwell, which Christopher Hitchens selected for the Best American Essays 2010. The Fun Stuff is indispensable reading for anyone who cares about contemporary literature.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 1995
ISBN 10: 0224037137 ISBN 13: 9780224037136
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Described as a psychological literary anthology, this is a collection of writings by a number of authors on the subject of murder, and what prompts men and women to commit it. The collection has been chosen and introduced by the crime-writer Ruth Rendell, and endeavours to see into the mind of murderers, their thoughts and dreams, their murderous acts and their remorse, in fiction and in fact. The anthology draws on the works of celebrated writers, including Shakespeare, Sophocles, Tolstoy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edgar Allan Poe, John Banville, P.D. James, Patricia Highsmith, Sigmund Freud, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, Norman Mailer, Rachel de Quieroz and Melanie Klein. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Maple Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 9350334291 ISBN 13: 9789350334294
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2001
ISBN 10: 0415233666 ISBN 13: 9780415233668
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years. The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all the forms that have made it so famous: poetry, drama and, of course, the Russian novel. A particular emphasis is given to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Russian literature achieved world-wide recognition through the works of writers such as Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. Covering a range of subjects including women's writing, Russian literary theory, socialist realism and emigre writing, leading international scholars open up the wonderful diversity of Russian literature. With recommended lists of further reading and an excellent up-to-date general bibliography, The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is the perfect guide for students and general readers alike. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 1989
ISBN 10: 0140116311 ISBN 13: 9780140116311
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Leo Tolstoy(1828-1910) was born into one of the grand old families of Imperial Russia. The loss of both of his parents during childhood was the prelude to a series of incidents which made his life as highly coloured as any of his great works of fiction. Whether as a dissolute layabout in the gambling saloons and brothels of Moscow and St Petersburg, as an artillery officer in the Crimean War or as an enlightened landowner educating his peasants and working in the fields, he had abundant energy and was in all areas a giant. Yet he was full of paradoxes, most clearly seen in his tempestuous marriage to Sofya Behrs - one of the most closely documented and perhaps one of the most painful, human relationships in history. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2002
ISBN 10: 0140447873 ISBN 13: 9780140447873
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories 1896-1904 is an enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton Chekhov at the height of his power as a writer. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Paul Debreczeny. In the final years of his life, Chekhov produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces, and some of the most highly-regarded works in Russian literature. The poignant 'The Lady with the Little Dog' and 'About Love' examine the nature of love outside of marriage - its romantic idealism and the fear of disillusionment. And in stories such as 'Peasants', 'The House with the Mezzanine' and 'My Life' Chekhov paints a vivid picture of the conditions of the poor and of their powerlessness in the face of exploitation and hardship. With the works collected here, Chekhov moved away from the realism of his earlier tales - developing a broader range of characters and subject matter, while forging the spare minimalist style that would inspire such modern short-story writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Ronald Wilks's translation is accompanied by an introduction in which Paul Debreczeny discusses the themes that Chekhov adopted in his mature work. This edition also includes a publishing history and notes for each story, a chronology and further reading. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was born in Taganrog, a port on the sea of Azov. In 1879 he travelled to Moscow, where he entered the medical faculty of the university, graduating in 1884. During his university years, he supported his family by contributing humorous stories and sketches to magazines. He published his first volume of stories, Motley Tales, in 1886, and a year later his second volume In the Twilight, for which he received the Pushkin Prize. Today his plays, including Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, and The Cherry Orchard are recognised as masterpieces the world over. If you enjoyed The Lady with the Little Dog you might like Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, also available in Penguin Classics. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 133047905X ISBN 13: 9781330479056
Anbieter: medimops, Berlin, Deutschland
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Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 2020
ISBN 10: 0008350620 ISBN 13: 9780008350628
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. An intimate portrait of Patrick OBrian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy. Patrick OBrian was one of the greatest British novelists of the twentieth century, securing his place in literary history with the bestselling AubreyMaturin series, books that have sold millions of copies worldwide and been hailed as the best historical fiction of all time. An exquisite novelist, translator and biographer, OBrian moved in 1949 to Collioure in the south of France, where he led a secluded life with his wife Mary and wrote all his major works. The twenty books that make up the beloved AubreyMaturin series earned OBrian the epithet Jane Austen at sea for their authentic depiction of Nelsons navy, and the relationship between Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and ships surgeon Stephen Maturin. Outside his triumphant popularity in fiction, OBrian also wrote erudite biographies of both Pablo Picasso and Joseph Banks, as well as publishing translations of Simone de Beauvoir and Henri Charriere. In A Very Private Life, Nikolai Tolstoy draws upon his close relationship with his stepfather, as well as his notebooks, letters and photographs, to capture a highly researched but intimate account of those fifty years in Collioure that were the richest of OBrians writing life. With warm and honest reflection, this biography gives insight into the genius of the little-known man behind the much-loved writing. Tolstoy also tells how, through a sad irony, unjust attacks on OBrians private life destroyed much of the happiness he had gained from his achievement just as his literary career attained greater acclaim. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, 1986
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Davydoff, Mariamna, 1871-1961. Memoirs of a Russian lady: drawings and tales of life before the Revolution. Selected and translated by Olga Davydoff Dax. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, 156pp., very good dust-jacket, very good oblong blue cloth. Lovely illustrations throughout. - Mariamna Davydoff, the Russian lady who wrote and illustrated this memoir of her life before the Revolution, was born in 1871 into a large, aristocratic family whose ancestors can he traced back to the eleventh century. After fleeing Russia in 1919, she eventually settled in Brittany with a sister and there reproduced, from memory, albums of detailed text and watcrcolors that had been abandoned in Russia and were later destroyed by the Bolsheviks. The result is a unique, first-hand account of a way of life that we have previously known almost exclusively through the works of Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, and a few other writers of the late nineteenth century. Davydoff tells of her childhood, youth, and married life on a large country estate, and her nostalgic prose and fluidly rendered paintings evoke warm summer evenings filled with the smells of fields and forests, gay sleigh rides on frosty winter mornings, large families celebrating Christmas and Easter and engaging in various sports and pastimes of long ago. And through it all runs a sense of longing for these better, more innocent times - a sense of paradise lost. -- While a girl Mariamna Davydoff had studied painting at the Académie Julian and the Grande Chaumiere in Paris, and she later made something of a reputation in Russia as a caricaturist. But when she left her homeland, she had to leave most of her possessions behind, including the watercolors and drawings she had done before the Revolution. This memoir was originally created as a legacy for her daughter, her granddaughters, and her great-grandchildren, and now the selections presented here bring her charming and intimate work to a wider public. Olga Davydoff Dax, who edited and translated the memoirs, is related to Mariamna's husband, and she came across the memoirs when she met Mariamna's daughter in the United States in 1983. - 82 illustrations in full color. 9780810908390 ISBN 0810908395.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Mär 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0241251761 ISBN 13: 9780241251768
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'It is only a bruise'A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 0140439447 ISBN 13: 9780140439441
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw 'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists' Leo Tolstoy In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew on his own experiences to create one of his most moving and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. It is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant but unworthy school-friend Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jeremy Tambling. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Yale University Press, United States, 2011
ISBN 10: 0300169779 ISBN 13: 9780300169775
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. During the first half of the 19th century, the open window emerged as a consistent motif in German, Danish, French, and Russian art. "Rooms with a View" is the first book to explore this intriguing theme in European art, with its Romantic intimations of unfulfilled longing and its associated qualities of poetry, luminosity, and interiority. Artists depicted this intangible mood with images of contemplative figures in hushed, sparely furnished rooms; painters diligently at work in their studios; simple, serene displays of light entering a chamber; and, windows as the focal point of views in their own right. "Rooms with a View" features forty oils and thirty works on paper by both well-known and largely undiscovered artists, including Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Adolph Menzel, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Martinus Rorbye, Jean Alaux, Leon Cogniet, and Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 1509822542 ISBN 13: 9781509822546
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. With an introduction by Simon Callow Judgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity of the opinion that Shakespeare was a genius. Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? And what makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? Exploring Shakespeare's life, including questions of authorship and autobiography, and charting how his legacy has grown over the centuries, this extraordinary book asks how Shakespeare has come to be such a powerful symbol of genius. Written with lively passion and wit, The Genius of Shakespeare is a fascinating biography of the life - and afterlife - of our greatest poet. Jonathan Bate, one of the world's leading Shakespearean scholars, has shown how the legend of Shakespeare's genius was created and sustained, and how the man himself became a truly global phenomenon. 'The best modern book on Shakespeare' Sir Peter Hall. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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Verlag: Collins nd c 1920, 1920
Anbieter: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Very Good. reprint. Cloth, G+. 876pp, b/w frontis, illustrated title ( by Hary Furniss ), 14b/w plates, cloth a little grubby. Dickens' own personal favourite of his works, telling the story of Copperfield and his life which many see as a mirror of Dickens own. Tolstoy considered chapter 55 [ the Shipwreck & Ham's death ] as the benchmark from which all other works of fiction should be measured. 400 grams.
Verlag: BiblioLife, 2009
ISBN 10: 1117220923 ISBN 13: 9781117220925
Anbieter: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Verlag: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, 2000
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
PAPERBACK, very good, attractive copy. COHN, DORRIT. The distinction of fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, but may be a more recent digital reprint, 1st printing number line of the paperback edition, ix, 197pp., . Cohn argues that fiction presents specific clues to its fictionality and its own justifications. Indeed, except in cases of deliberate deception, fiction achieves its purposes best by exercising generic conventions that inform the reader that it is fiction. Cohn tests her conclusions against major narrative works, including Proust's A la Recherche du temps perdu, Mann's Death in Venice, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Freud's case studies. She contests widespread poststructuralist views that all narratives are fictional. On the contrary, she separates fiction and nonfiction as necessarily distinct, even when bound together. An expansion of Cohn's Christian Gauss lectures at Princeton, this book builds on narratological and phenomenological theories to show that boundaries between fiction and history can be firmly and systematically explored. - CONTENTS: Focus on Fiction -- Fictional versus Historical Lives: Borderlines and Borderline Cases -- Freud's Case Histories and the Question of Fictionality -- Proust's Generic Ambiguity -- Breaking the Code of Fictional Biography: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Marbot -- "I Doze and Wake": The Deviance of Simultaneous Narration -- Signposts of Fictionality: A Narratological Perspective -- The "Second Author" of Death in Venice -- Pierre and Napoleon at Borodino: Reflections on the Historical Novel -- Optics and Power in the Novel. 9780801865220 ISBN 0801865220.
Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0451418565 ISBN 13: 9780451418562
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some call him a Russian Mark Twain. And with his special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, Nikolai Gogol paved the way for his countrymen Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. This sampling of Gogol's works includes the increasingly fantastic entries of 'The Diary of a Madman,' followed by the wonderfully surrealistic 'The Nose,' in which the title character embarks on some unlikely activities when separated from its owner's face. In 'The Carriage,' a pompous landowner gets his comeuppance when he attempts to impress a general. Rounding out the collection are the woefully comic tale of a clerk's acquisition of 'The Overcoat' and the celebrated novella 'Taras Bulba' about the Ukrainian mythic hero said to have led a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles.
Verlag: Harmondsworth: Penguin Books ohne Jahresangabe, ca. 1993., 1993
ISBN 10: 0140186638 ISBN 13: 9780140186635
Anbieter: BOUQUINIST, München, BY, Deutschland
Illustrierte Originalbroschur. Zustand: Wie neu. 7. Auflage. 407 (7) Seiten. 19,7 cm. Sehr guter Zustand. Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. This novel portrays the difficulties encountered by traditionalist Jews coming to terms with the social changes that rocked Poland in the late 19th century. The central figure of the novel is Calman Jacoby, who stands between the old and the new, unable to embrace either whole-heartedly. - Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 21, 1902 (see notes below) July 24, 1991) was a Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1978. . Literary influences: Singer had many literary influences; besides the religious texts he studied there were the folktales he grew up with and worldly Yiddish detective-stories about "Max Spitzkopf" and his assistant "Fuchs"; there was Dostoyevsky, whose Crime and Punishment he read when he was fourteen; and he writes about the importance of the Yiddish translations donated in book-crates from America, which he studied as a teenager in Bilgoraj: "I read everything: Stories, novels, plays, essays I read Rejsen, Strindberg, Don Kaplanowitsch, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Maupassant and Chekhov." He studied many philosophers, among them Spinoza., Arthur Schopenhauer, and Otto Weininger. Among his Yiddish contemporaries Singer himself considered his older brother to be his greatest artistic example; he was a life-long friend and admirer of the author and poet Aaron Zeitlin. Of his non-Yiddish-contemporaries he was strongly influenced by the writings of Knut Hamsun, many of whose works he later translated, while he had more critical attitude towards Thomas Mann, whose approach to writing he considered opposed to his own. Contrary to Hamsun's approach, Singer shaped his world not only with the egos of his characters, but also using the moral commitments of the Jewish tradition that he grew up with and that his father embodies in the stories about his youth. This led to the dichotomy between the life his heroes lead and the life they feel they should lead - which gives his art a modernity his predecessors do not evince. His themes of witchcraft, mystery and legend draw on traditional sources, but they are contrasted with a modern and ironic consciousness. They are also concerned with the bizarre and the grotesque. Another important strand of his art is intra-familial strife - which he experienced firsthand when taking refuge with his mother and younger brother at his uncles home in Bilgoraj. This is the central theme in Singer's big family chronicles - like The Family Moskat (1950), The Manor (1967), and The Estate (1969). Some are reminded by them of Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks; Singer had translated Mann's Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) into Yiddish as a young writer. Language: Singer always wrote and published in Yiddish almost all of it in newspapers and then edited his novels and stories for their American versions, which became the basis for all other translations; he referred to the English version as his "second original". This has led to an ongoing controversy whereby the "real Singer" can be found in the Yiddish original, with its finely tuned language and sometimes rambling construction, or in the more tightly edited American version, where the language is usually simpler and more direct. Many of Singer's stories and novels have not yet been translated. In the short story form, in which many critics feel he made his most lasting contributions, his greatest influences were Chekhov and Maupassant. From Maupassant, Singer developed a finely grained sense of drama. Like the French master, Singer's stories can pack enormous visceral excitement in the space of a few pages. From Chekhov, Singer developed his ability to draw characters of enormous complexity and dignity in the briefest of spaces. In the foreword to his personally selected volume of his finest short stories he describes the two aforementioned writers as the greatest masters of the short story form. . . Aus: wikipedia-Isaac_Bashevis_Singer Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 305.
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2012
ISBN 10: 0451232852 ISBN 13: 9780451232854
Anbieter: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, USA
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Mass Market Pa. Zustand: Used: Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES 20th Century Historical Fiction - General & MiscellaneousKen Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins, as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits.An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy.And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution.From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families--and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again.Editorial Reviews.Follett is Âmasterly in conveying so much drama and historical information so vividly. He puts to good use the professional skills he has honed over the years-giving his characters a conversational style neither pseudo-quaint nor jarringly contemporary. That works well. And for all his belief in the redemptive quality of liberal humanism, he makes sure not to endow his characters with excessively modern sensibilities. As for the occasional cliché-well, unless you're Tolstoy, you're not going to have the time or the ability to be original throughout your.
Verlag: Langen-Müller, 1978
ISBN 10: 3784417191 ISBN 13: 9783784417196
Anbieter: art4us - Antiquariat, Bonn, Deutschland
Zustand: Gut. 680 S. Schutzumschlag gering berieben und begriffen, priv. Eintrag im Vorsatz, vereinzelte Anstreichungen u. Markierungen im Text, insgesamt sehr gutes Arbeitsexemplar! 04-07-92 9783784417196 Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung kann zur Zeit in folgende Länder KEIN Versand mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Österreich, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei. Bitte beachten Sie: Auf Grund der vorgegebenen Versandkosten von AbeBooks / ZVAB kann es bei Büchern über 1 kg oder bei mehrbändigen Werken zu höheren Versandkosten kommen. Please note: Due to the shipping costs specified by AbeBooks / ZVAB, there may be higher shipping costs for books over 1 kg or for multi-volume works. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 950 Gr.-8°, Original-Leinwand mit Original-Schutzumschlag.
Verlag: Inst. of Psycho-Analysis London, 2002
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
Broschiert. Zustand: Gut. S. 326-568. Gutes Exemplar. - ISSN 0020-7578. - Theoretical and Clinical Papers - The psychodynamics of orgasm Georges Abraham -- The external observer and the lens of the patent Judy L. Kantrowitz -- analyst match -- Homosexuality or homoeroticism?: 'narcissistic Jean Bergeret -- eroticism' -- Primitive mental states and the body: a personal Riccardo Lombardi -- view of Armando B. Ferrari's concrete orginal -- object -- The language of schizophrenia and the world of Michael Robbins -- delusion -- Interdisciplinary Studies -- ' The thread of depression through the life and works Annie Anargyros Klinger -- of Leo Tolstoy -- 'It seemed to have to do with something else .': Sacha Brookes -- Henry James's What Maisie Knew and Bion's theory of thinking -- Who killed Laius?: On Sophocles's engimatic Beatriz Priel -- message -- History of Psychoanalysis -- Edmund Engleman: photograher of Sigmund Arnold Werner -- Freud's home and offices -- Panel Reports -- 'Controversial discussions': the issue of differences Dominique Scarfone -- in method -- Ethics of psychoanalysis: confidentiality Ruth F. Lax -- The clinical value of the ideas of Wilfred Bion Rita V. Frankiel -- Plenary panel on postmodern psychoanalysis Brian M. Robertson -- Child psychoanalysis: cathecting and verbalising Karen Gilmore -- affects in a new relationship -- Contrasting aims in transference interpretation Helen K. Gediman -- History of psychoanalysis: Freud and dream John S. Kafka -- Chaos theory as a new paradigm in psychoanalysis Warren R. Procci (u.a.) Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
Verlag: TREDITION CLASSICS, 2011
ISBN 10: 3842439199 ISBN 13: 9783842439191
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
Verlag: TREDITION CLASSICS, 2011
ISBN 10: 3842438737 ISBN 13: 9783842438736
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Verlag: TREDITION CLASSICS, 2011
ISBN 10: 3842442785 ISBN 13: 9783842442788
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
Verlag: The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd., 1902
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. 1902. No edition remarks. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing throughout, heavy tanning to endpapers. Notable cracking to rear hinge, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to half title page. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Mild water droplets to spine. Book has forward lean.
Verlag: Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981
ISBN 10: 0140053891 ISBN 13: 9780140053890
Anbieter: BOUQUINIST, München, BY, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Kartoniert. Zustand: Gut. 4. Auflage. 158 (2) Seiten. 17,9 cm. Guter Zustand. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. Set in 17th century Poland, this is a novel of religious hysteria and violence. It relates the story of Goray, a small town laid waste by one of the worst pogroms in history. - Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 21, 1902 July 24, 1991) was a Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1978. . Literary influences: Singer had many literary influences; besides the religious texts he studied there were the folktales he grew up with and worldly Yiddish detective-stories about "Max Spitzkopf" and his assistant "Fuchs"; there was Dostoyevsky, whose Crime and Punishment he read when he was fourteen; and he writes about the importance of the Yiddish translations donated in book-crates from America, which he studied as a teenager in Bilgoraj: "I read everything: Stories, novels, plays, essays I read Rejsen, Strindberg, Don Kaplanowitsch, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Maupassant and Chekhov." He studied many philosophers, among them Spinoza., Arthur Schopenhauer, and Otto Weininger. Among his Yiddish contemporaries Singer himself considered his older brother to be his greatest artistic example; he was a life-long friend and admirer of the author and poet Aaron Zeitlin. Of his non-Yiddish-contemporaries he was strongly influenced by the writings of Knut Hamsun, many of whose works he later translated, while he had more critical attitude towards Thomas Mann, whose approach to writing he considered opposed to his own. Contrary to Hamsun's approach, Singer shaped his world not only with the egos of his characters, but also using the moral commitments of the Jewish tradition that he grew up with and that his father embodies in the stories about his youth. This led to the dichotomy between the life his heroes lead and the life they feel they should lead - which gives his art a modernity his predecessors do not evince. His themes of witchcraft, mystery and legend draw on traditional sources, but they are contrasted with a modern and ironic consciousness. They are also concerned with the bizarre and the grotesque. Another important strand of his art is intra-familial strife - which he experienced firsthand when taking refuge with his mother and younger brother at his uncles home in Bilgoraj. This is the central theme in Singer's big family chronicles - like The Family Moskat (1950), The Manor (1967), and The Estate (1969). Some are reminded by them of Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks; Singer had translated Mann's Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) into Yiddish as a young writer. Language: Singer always wrote and published in Yiddish almost all of it in newspapers and then edited his novels and stories for their American versions, which became the basis for all other translations; he referred to the English version as his "second original". This has led to an ongoing controversy whereby the "real Singer" can be found in the Yiddish original, with its finely tuned language and sometimes rambling construction, or in the more tightly edited American version, where the language is usually simpler and more direct. Many of Singer's stories and novels have not yet been translated. In the short story form, in which many critics feel he made his most lasting contributions, his greatest influences were Chekhov and Maupassant. From Maupassant, Singer developed a finely grained sense of drama. Like the French master, Singer's stories can pack enormous visceral excitement in the space of a few pages. From Chekhov, Singer developed his ability to draw characters of enormous complexity and dignity in the briefest of spaces. In the foreword to his personally selected volume of his finest short stories he describes the two aforementioned writers as the greatest masters of the short story form. . . wikipedia-Isaac_Bashevis_Singer Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 110.