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The Twelve Chairs - A Novel

by Evgeny Petrov e Ilya Ilf

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 Long recognised as a timeless comic masterpieceâ€"it inspired a Mel Brooks film a half century after its publicationâ€"The Twelve Chairs appears now in a lively new translation by Anne O. Fisher. Fisher, the most gifted interpreter of Ilf and Petrov in the English language, balances fidelity to the text and the authorsâ€™ characteristic, deeply resonant humour.
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Twelve Chairs - A Novel

by Evgeny Petrov e Ilya Ilf

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 <div> Winner, 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation More faithful to the original text and its deeply resonant humor, this new translation of The Twelve Chairs brings Ilf and Petrov’s Russian classic fully to life. The novel’s iconic hero, Ostap Bender, an unemployed con artist living by his wits, joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to look for a cache of missing jewels hidden in chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities. The search for the chairs takes them from the provinces of Moscow to the wilds of the Transcaucasus mountains. On their quest they encounter a variety of characters, from opportunistic Soviet bureaucrats to aging survivors of the old propertied classes, each one more selfish, venal, and bungling than the last. A brilliant satire of the early years of the Soviet Union, as well as the inspiration for a Mel Brooks film, The Twelve Chairs retains its universal appeal. </div>
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Letters On God And Letters To A Young Woman

by Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke

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 For Rainer Maria Rilke, letter writing was a discipline and art unto itself. Some seven thousand of his letters have survived, among them works of profound beauty and insight to rival his poems and fiction. For the first time, this volume makes available to an English-speaking audience two of the earliest collections of Rilke letters published after his death, each with a nuanced introduction and notes by Annemarie S. Kidder.The thematic collection Letters on God contains two letters by Rilke, the first an actual letter written during World War I, in 1915 in Munich, the second a fictional one composed after the war, in 1922 at Muzot in Switzerland. In these letters, Rilke builds on the mystical view of God conceived in The Book of Hours, but he moves beyond it, demonstrating a unique vision of God and Christ, the church and religious experience, friendship and death.Like his famous Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke's Letters to a Young Woman presents an intimate series of letters written to a young admirer. The nine letters collected here were written to Lisa Heise over the course of five years, from 1919 to 1924. Though Rilke and Heise never met, the poet emerges in these letters as a compassionate listener and patient teacher who with levelheaded sensitivity affirms and guides the movements of another person's soul.
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Regrowth - Seven Tales Of Jewish Life Before, During, And After Nazi Occupation

by Der Der Nister

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 The seven stories that compose Regrowth (Vidervuks) might shock readers familiar with accounts of the Holocaust marked by mournful and sentimental overtones. Although the outcome is often terrible, Der Nister's characters refuse to accept the role of victim. Likewise, the monstrosity of the perpetrators is not at issue: the Nazis may be abominable, but they do not warrant attention for longer than a savage animal would. Der Nister is drawn to parties capable of moral decision-and their dilemmas often feature an opponent that is inside one's own people, inside oneself. "Flora," for example, follows a father and daughter through the Nazi invasion and later Soviet occupation of a Polish-Jewish city. Der Nister paints a sympathetic portrait of the father, a member of the Jewish Council, even though he collaborates with the Nazis in a misguided attempt to help his people. To repair the father's mistake, his daughter joins the resistance, seduces a traitor, and delivers him to his death. Accounts are settled within the Jewish community. The Nazi enemy is largely passed over in the silence his infamy deserves. Der Nister's characters are crafty, and they do not hesitate to use force when necessary. After the defeat of the Nazis and Soviet takeover, Der Nister suggests, the maneuvering will continue. The morally complex characters and richly layered stories of Regrowth ultimately reclaim a more nuanced view of crimes still not fully reckoned.
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Belmour - A Modern Edition

by Damer Anne Damer

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 A Modern Edition. Tangled romances of a group of eighteenth-century aristocrats, with Lord Belmours pursuits of the lovely and mysterious Emily.
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Notes On Fishing

by Sergei Aksakov

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 Notes on Fishing was Sergei Aksakov's first book and Russia's first angling treatise. It presents a Russian gentleman's observations on the fishing tackle, angling techniques, and fish species he came to know during five decades of adventure-filled fishing in the vast Russian steppe and the environs of Moscow. But it is goes beyond a mere discourse on angling, offering philosophical, literary, linguistic, ethnographic, biological, and conservationist observations. Aksakov has imbued his notes with a deep fondness for the land and an expertly conveyed atmosphere of personal and national nostalgia.
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Letters On God And Letters To A Young Woman

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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 "Letters on God originally published in German by Insel-Verlag under the title eUber Gott, (c)1933 by Insel-Verlag, Leipzig. Letters to a Young Woman originally published in German by Insel-Verlag under the title Briefe an eine junge Frau, (c)1930 by Insel-Verlag, Leipzig."--T.p. verso.
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Deliver Us

by Luigi Meneghello

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 Originally published in 1963, and today considered a landmark in twentieth century Italian literature, Luigi Meneghelloâ€™s Deliver Us is the memoir, not of an extraordinary childhood, but of the very ordinary one the author shared with most of his generation, when Italy was a rural country under the twin authorities of Church and Fascism.
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The Wanderer - A Novel

by Alexander Fomich Veltman

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My Sister Life And The Zhivago Poems

by Boris Pasternak

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The Wanderer - A Novel

by Alexander Fomich Veltman

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Flames From The Earth - A Novel From The Lodz Ghetto

by Isaiah Spiegel

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 An emotionally powerful, poetic Yiddish novel, available in English for the first time, that expands our understanding of Holocaust literature and testimony. Flames from the Earth is an autobiographical novel written by Isaiah Spiegel, one of the most revered Yiddish authors to survive the Holocaust.
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Creolizing The Nation

by Kris Sealey

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 Drawing on Caribbean, decolonial, and Latina feminist resources, Kris Sealey argues that creolization provides a rich theoretical ground for rethinking the nation and deploying its political and cultural apparatus to imagine more just, humane communities.
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Geographies Of Flight - Phillis Wheatley To Octavia Butler

by William Merrill Decker

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 Provides the first comprehensive treatment of the ways in which African American authors across three centuries have confronted the predicament of inhabiting space under conditions of bondage and structural oppression. The book examines how fourteen black authors have sought to transform a cartography that reflects white supremacist assumptions.
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Underground, Monroe, And The Mamalogues - Three Plays

by Lisa Thompson

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 Features new plays by Lisa B. Thompson, author of Single Black Female. In these three plays, the black feminist playwright and scholar thoughtfully explores themes such as the black family, motherhood, migration, racial violence, and trauma and its effect on black people from the early twentieth century to the present.
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Rakes Of The Old Court - A Novel

by Mateiu I. Caragiale

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 Widely regarded as the greatest Romanian novel of the twentieth century, Mateiu Caragiale's Rakes of the Old Court follows four characters through the bars and brothels of Bucharest. The novel's shimmering, spectacular prose describes gripping vignettes of love, ambition, and decay.
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A Hero Of Our Time

by Mikhail Lermontov

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 Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time was the first modern Russian novel. Published in 1840, it set a model of penetrating observation and psychological depth that would come to typify Russian literature. Its "hero," Grigorii Pechorin, also established a character type that became known in Russian fiction as "the superfluous man".
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Hemisphere - Poems

by Ellen Hagan

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 The poems in Hemisphere explore what it means to be a daughter and what it means to bear new life. Ellen Hagan investigates the world historical hemispheres of a family legacy from around the globe and moves down to the most intimate hemisphere of im pending motherhood. Her poems reclaim the female body from the violence, both literal and literary, done to it over the years.
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Lost In The Shadow Of The Word - Space, Time, And Freedom In Interwar Eastern Europe

by Benjamin Paloff

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 Scholars of modernism have long addressed how literature, painting, and music reflected the radical reconceptualization of space and time in the early twentieth century. In this wide-ranging study, Benjamin Paloff contends that writers in Central and Eastern Europe felt this impact quite distinctly from their counterparts in Western Europe.
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Ghosts Of Chicago - Stories

by John Mcnally

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 Originally published: Lookout Mountain, TN: Jefferson Press, 2008.
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Ivan And Misha - Stories

by Michael Alenyikov

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 The linked stories in this powerful debut by Michael Alenyikov swirl around the titular fraternal twins and their father, Louie, as they make their way from the oppressive world of Soviet-era Kiev to the frenetic world of New York City in the late nineties and early 2000s.
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The Death Of Mr. Baltisberger

by Bohumil Hrabal

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 English translation originally published under the title The death of Mr. Baltisberger. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
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Russian Absurd - Selected Writings

by Daniil Kharms

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 A writer who defies categorization, Daniil Kharms has come to be regarded as an essential artist of the modernist avant-garde. This selection of prose and poetry provides the most comprehensive portrait of the writer in English translation to date, revealing the arc of his career and including a particularly generous selection of his later work.
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After Tomorrow The Days Disappear - Ghazals And Other Poems

by Hasan Sijzi

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 Hasan Sijzi is considered the originator of the Indo-Persian ghazal, a poetic form that endures to this day. This collection reveals the geographical range of the literature while introducing an Indian voice that will find a place on readers' bookshelves alongside well-known Iranian names.
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