Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories: New Translation, Paperback - Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

Stylistically brilliant and brimming with humour and literary allusion, Notes on a Cuff is presented here in a new translation, along with a collec...

One of Chekhov's most admired stories, 'The Kiss' is joined in this volume by five equally celebrated tales in a brand-new translation by Hugh Apli...

Reducere. Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fi...

The acclaimed, bestselling translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's masterwork, an undisputed classic of Russian and world literature An audacious revisio...

A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and Soviet society Best known for The Master and Margarita, Mikhail ...

As her brothers prepare to fight for the White Guard, friends charge in from the riotous streets amidst an atmosphere of heady chaos, quaffing vodk...

Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918-19, The White Guard, Bulgakov's first full-length novel, tells the story of ...

Unpublished in Bulgakov's own lifetime, Black Snow (also known as A Theatrical Novel) - here presented in a new translation - is peppered with dark...

Features a wealthy Moscow surgeon Filip Preobrazhensky who implants the pituitary gland and testicles of a drunken petty criminal into the body of ...

Reducere. Marietta Chudakova is an expert on Soviet literature and on the works of Mikhail Bulgakov in particular. Her biography of Bulgakov was first publis...

Mikhail Bulgakov's astonishing Russian masterpiece, which has been translated into more than twenty languages, with an introduction by Orlando Figes.

Reducere. As the turbulent years following the Russian revolution of 1917 settle down into a new Soviet reality, the brilliant and eccentric zoologist Persik...

Reducere. I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropic...

Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, The Master and Margarita is here presented in a new translation and a wealth of extra material.

Reducere. Marietta Chudakova is an expert on Soviet literature and on the works of Mikhail Bulgakov in particular. Her biography of Bulgakov was first publis...

Reducere. This edition (Classic Wisdom Reprint) is non-censored, based on a samizdat version and translated in Russia by an unknown translator. Widely held a...

From the author of People in the Room, a literary memoir from Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer, a friend of Borges, Neruda and Lorca.

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Reducere. Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Antigone is one of the seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now avai...

The classic tale of Odysseus's return home in a stunning new translation.

Reducere. Rachel Swearingen's debut, How to Walk on Water and Other Stories, presents stories that bristle with menace and charm with intimate revelations. A...

Reducere. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, Mikhail Bulgakov's THE MASTER AND MARGARITA was wri...

DescriptionA moving firsthand account of migrant landings on the island of Lampedusa that gives voice to refugees, locals, and volunteers while als...

Often quoted as Russian literature's greatest comedy, The Government Inspector is a trenchant satire of the corruption, greed and stupidity of pett...

Reducere. Ovid's epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration ...

DescriptionPoetry - Ancient Literature These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to ...

Publisher: Quality Chess Europe ABAuthor(s): Aron NimzowitschIllustration(s): b/w illus; b/w illusNumber of pages: 215Collection: Chess ClassicsPub...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Brian P. CopenhaverThe Hermetica are a body of mystical texts written in late antiquity, but believed during the Renaissanc...

DescriptionJalaloddin Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or 'Spiritual Couplets', composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi ...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Regina Kanyu WangNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 216 x 148 x 36Cover type: HardbackRed...

Reducere. A new translation, with an Introduction, by Gregory Hays Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121-180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome ...

Reducere. Award NameIndieFab awardsAward categoryTranslationJ. R. R. Tolkien, author of LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT, in his famous 1936 lecture, BEOWULF...

Both a Bildungsroman and a novel of ideas, dealing with themes such as the relationship between fathers and sons and the role of money in modern so...

A fresh English translation laid out facing the original Sanskrit for easy reference and accompanied by a wealth of essential ancillary materials t...

Reducere. A collection of Dostoevsky's short stories, including Notes From The Underground which is considered to be one of the first works of existential li...

Reducere. The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England.About the Author: Gerald J. Davis is the award-w...

Tolstoy knew as he was writing Hadji Murat, his last work of fiction, that it would not be published in his lifetime, and so gave an uncompromising...

Part of Alma Classics new series: 101 Pages, Three Years is, in the author's own words, " a novel of Moscow life" and an examination of its merchan...

Reducere. A great source of knowledge!The Virgin of the World of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistos is a classic work on the philosophical Hermetica and the figur...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This new translation of the Buddha's most important, most studied teaching offers a radical new interpretation. In September, 2014 Thich Nhat Hanh ...

Reducere. A reissue of Plato's work on political philosophy, this new translation aims to provide an accurate rendition of the work.

Reducere. A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife Brash and belligerent, lunatic and envigorating, ...

This new translation of Anton Chekhov's classic The Seagull restores what most English-language versions of the play omit - Humor. Considered a wor...

Reducere. The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the oldest story that has come down to us through the ages of history. It predates the BIBLE, the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY. T...