Alexander michael translator (18 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Light cover creases, some edge wear. ; First printing in this edition, 1995. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover detail of a shield decoration from the Sutton Hoo treasure. ; Penguin 60's; 84 pages; Selections from Michael Alexander's translation of the epic Old English poem issued to celebrate Penguin's sixtieth anniversary.…

Paperback. Zustand: Used; Good.

paperback. Zustand: New. Condition Notes: New from the publisher.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Small edge tears on jacket and marked.Previous ownership stamp.Creased.Well bound.Due to weight postal adjustments may be required.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good hardbackcopy. No dustjacket. Colour frontis, 215pp, b/w plates. Previous owner's name inside cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 112 pages. 5.00x0.44x8.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 170 pages. 5.00x0.46x8.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 200 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock. King, Alexander (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 170 pages. 5.00x0.63x8.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First American printing [stated]. [8], 267, [5] pages. DJ has some wear and soiling. A few pencil marks and erasures noted. A treasury of 22 novellas, short stories and prose poems by the Russian Nobel Prize winner includes the tales, "Matryona's House" and "An Incident at Krechetovka Station." Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 - 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag system. While serving as a captain in the Red Army during World War II, Solzhenitsyn was arrested by the SMERSH and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag and then internal exile for criticizing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in a private letter. As a result of the Khrushchev Thaw, Solzhenitsyn was released and exonerated. He pursued writing novels about repressions in the Soviet Union and his experiences. He published his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962, with approval from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, which was an account of Stalinist repressions. Solzhenitsyn's last work to be published in the Soviet Union was Matryona's Place in 1963. In 1974 Solzhenitsyn lost his Soviet citizenship and was flown to West Germany. In 1976, he moved with his family to the U. S. In 1990 his citizenship was restored. Later he returned to Russia, where he remained until his death. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Solzhenitsyn writes in the great Russian tradition of celebrating the calamity of being born a Russian. No literature seems to have more harrowing things to say about its country, yet none turns towards its earth, its history, its people with such compassion or pride. What has happened to him as a prisoner of the state, and as an individual Russian, he makes known, whether as graphic confession or as symbolic melodrama. In these tales and novellas and prose poems his heroes are everyday martyrs who speak of renewal. They ask what a man must do to be saved; they honor human endurance or mourn the loss. It is a subject peculiarly poignant to the Soviet scene where the private life is programmatically uncultivated and the sprawling public replacement seems so often bare, mean, and corrupt. "An Incident at Krechetovka Station" captures the terrors of the war years in the fleeting friendship of a persecuted actor and a young officer forced to give him away. "Matryona's House" depicts the humble life-enriching character of a peasant woman and her disaffiliated intellectual lodger; it has a wondrous melancholy suffused with a festive strain. Irony, of course, is everywhere, but Solzhenitsyn does not have the nervy gloom of his compatriot Amalrik who pictures a future of utter chaos and cultural despair. His new collection, with its stoical, plain, inward beauty, movingly reminds us that Solzhenitsyn seems never to have written a line that was not somehow tinged with hope. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 120 pages. German language. 6.46x0.43x10.12 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. new edition. 260 pages. 8.25x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Undated, circa late 1960's, good tight copy, most of the gilding on spine worn off with title rendered illegible. Jan Parker (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 148 pages. German language. 6.54x0.39x10.08 inches. In Stock.

Publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 8'' x 5''. Contains 237 pp with map. Small ink name inside and in Very Goo condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. MYTHOLOGY & LEGENDS.

Zustand: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 8'' x 5''. Contains 176 pp. Small ink name inside and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. MYTHOLOGY & LEGENDS.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 136 pages. German language. 10.47x0.51x6.85 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Special Edition. Limited Lettered Folio Edition signed by Alan Lee. This being "F" with "Returned Imperfect Stock" red stamp to signed limitation page. Despite the stamp the book was sent to a reviewer. Translated by Michael Alexander. Illustrated by Alan Lee. Foreword By Bernard O'Donoghue. Typeset in Arcadian Bamboo at the Folio Sociery and printed at Memminger Mediencentrum on Schleipen Wove with the plates on Arctic Volume and the endpapers on Freelife Merida. The binding case sides were printed at Napier Jones on curious metallics. Quarter bound in goatskin leather at Josef Spinner. Top edge of text block gilt-edged. Frontispiece has not been fully glued on the left side and is not fully attached. A beautiful volume in near fine condition w/ only the partially detached frontispiece indicated why it was marked damaged. Signed by Illustrator(s).…