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  • Subtly Worded and Other Stories

    de Teffi ...
    Traducido por Anne Marie Jackson, Robert Chandler ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A selection of the finest short stories from “one of the most popular writers in Russia,” praised by many as the female Chekhov (The New York Times)Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely funny—a wry, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Memories

    From Moscow to the Black Sea

    A beloved 20th century writer’s painful and humorous memoir of leaving her home in post-revolutionary Russia forever, written with a poet’s sensitivity to tone and rhythm“Despite the backdrop of terror, war, death and loss, Teffi’s world becomes somewhere we do not want to leave”—Claire Kohda Hazelton, The GuardianConsidered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Rock, Paper, Scissors

    And Other Stories

    The first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story.Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Osipov’s fiction ... Leer más

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  • Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me

    The Best of Teffi

    de Teffi ...
    Traducido por Rose France, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 30s, she wrote some of her finest stories in exile in Paris, recalling her unforgettable encounters with Rasputin, and her hopeful ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Ngā Kete Mātauranga

    Māori scholars at the research interface

    Completo

    12 hora 32 minutos

    In this beautiful and transformative book, 24 Māori academics share their personal journeys, revealing what being Māori has meant for them in their work. Their perspectives provide insight for all New Zealanders into how mātauranga is positively influencing the Western-dominated disciplines of knowledge in the research sector. It is a shameful fact, says co-editor Jacinta Ruru in her introduction ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Other Stories

    Completo

    11 hora 11 minutos

    The first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story, who has been profiled in the New YorkerMaxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety ... Leer más

    $19.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    Memories – From Moscow to the Black Sea

    de Teffi ...
    Narrado por Rebecca Crankshaw ...

    Completo

    7 hora 50 minutos

    The writer and satirist Teffi was a literary sensation in Russia until war and revolution forced her to leave her country forever. Memories is her blackly funny and heartbreaking account of her final, frantic journey into exile across Russia - travelling by cart, freight train and rickety steamer – and the 'ordinary and unheroic' people she encounters. From refugees setting up camp on a dockside ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The Three Christs of Ypsilanti

    This landmark study of 3 schizophrenic patients—each believing they are Jesus Christ—offers a “rare and eccentric journey” into madness, shining a light on the ethical dilemmas of institutionalized care in the mid-20th century (Slate).On July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics: Clyde Benson, an ... Leer más

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  • Life and Other Shortcomings

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  • The Rib King

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