Colin bearne (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:0233961437.…

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st English Edition. Large octavo; hardcover; 140 pp. Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering to front and spine; pictorial endpapers; tight binding; previous owner name in small print to ffep, else interior clean throughout; Near Fine. .

Zustand: New. In English. Goldsmith, Amanda (illustrator).

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Wax Personaby Yury Tynyanov. Translated by Colin BearneThis book is not an easy read, in whatever language, for those unaquainted with Russian history from the time of Peter the Great, and this book is aimed precisely at Russian intellectuals who do know at least a version of this history.The literary grouping of the 1920s and 1930s, to which Tynyanov loosely adhered, Russian Formalism, did produce some unfamiliar kinds of text of which The Wax Persona is representative. It is a somewhat disconnected narrative consisting more of a set of tableaux with echoes of grotesquerie and ornamentalism.Objects have immense importance in the tale and in particular tactile and sensory reactions to them. The use of archaisms reflects the fact that words themselves for this writer carry an associative and iconic loading.In some ways this is almost the screenplay for a film that was never made and this explains many of the visual techniques used.This translation is offered as an attempt to introduce a non-Russian readership to one of Tynyanov's undeservedly lesser known works. Goldsmith, Amanda (illustrator).…

Zustand: New. Goldsmith, Amanda (illustrator).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book brings together a selection of writings by Vladimir Korolenko. It also offers a range of narrative styles.Korolenko is one of a number of writers creating during the last decades of the 19th Century.An activist for socialist reform, he spent a considerable amount of time in Siberia as a result.Although overshadowed by Chekhov, Tolstoi and Dostoevsky amongst others, Korolenko deserves greater attention than he is given, revealing, as he does, the battle between dark ignorance and the light of truth and justice.…

Zustand: New.