Russian Authors
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012 in Antiquities of France, Italian, Greece, Celtic, Indian, European
Tango "Scrivimi" - (2/3) in Russian, Izabella Yurieva
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Ayn Rand's A=A Magnet $2.00 This refrigerator magnet captures a happy moment as novelist Ayn Rand slaves away at her typewriter. Besides writing the most important book of the 20th century (Atlas Shrugged), she was also a true feminist icon, and generally severely cheesed off exactly all the right people. May the great warrior St Ayn find her rest in Valhalla, or of course Galt's Gulch.... |
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Depressing Magnet $2.00 Fyodor Dostoevsky was certainly one of the greatest novelists ever, and THE pre-eminent Russian novelist. The guy is pretty heavy reading. Besides his own personal issues, he was watching the preliminary stirring of the communist revolution. The Possessed in particular is heavy in it's prescience. Let's just say the man had a unique depth of understanding for some of the darkest corners of the hum... |
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Alexei Tolstoy, Photo Photo Mugs ALEXEI TOLSTOY Russian author, a distant relative of Leo T. After 1917, a White Russian emigre in Paris, returned to USSR and became an honoured writer..... |
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Armageddon: The Original Motion Picture Score $9.98 ... |
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Basso Profondo From Old Russia $19.98 ... |
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Masterpieces of Russian Romances $17.00 1. Recall Lovely Sounds of Walts. 2. Bright Night. 3. A Misty Morning. 4. My Bonfire. 5. Faded Chrysantemums. 6. Coachman, Spare Your Horses. 7. A Beggar-woman. 8. Dark Eyes. 9. I Met You. 10. White Acacia. 11. A Long Road. 12. A Pairs of Horses. 13. Farewell. 14. Shine Brightly, My Star. 15. Why I"m Sad. 16. I Dreamt about White Garden. 17. I Loved You. 18. Only Once. 19. Two Gu... |
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Great Russian Writers: Boris Pasternak [VHS] $3.00 Pasternak won the 1958 Nobel Prize in literature for writing Doctor Zhivago, but was denounced by Soviet groups as a traitor. He was forced to earn his living from his notable translations of Shakespeare and Goethe. Your class will learn about where he lived and worked. 2000, 30 minutes/Not Rated, grades 9-12.... |
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Great Russian Writers: Alexander Pushkin [VHS] $7.99 ... |
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King Arthur ... |
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Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life $2.99 ... |
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Atlas Shrugged - Part 1 (DVD) $13.36 Russian-born author Ayn Rand`s iconic 1957 novel comes to the screen after repeated attempts at a film adaptation in this Lionsgate production. |
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Atlas Shrugged - Part 1 (Blu-ray Disc) $19.79 Russian-born author Ayn Rand`s iconic 1957 novel comes to the screen after repeated attempts at a film adaptation in this Lionsgate production. |
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The Greatest Russian Stories of Crime and Suspense (Hardcover) $18.81 Many of the greatest Russian authors, including Dostoevsky,Tolstoy, Chekhov and Pushkin, produced crime and mystery fiction, a type of literature that was largely suppressed during theSoviet era because it did not glorify the state but, instead, gavein... |
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Plan Of Attack $7.91 In this 15th near-future military technothriller by bestselling author Dale Brown, maverick Major General Patrick McLanahan has been disgraced and demoted. As a result, he cannot get his superiors to notice that the Russian Federation is rearming ... |
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Silent Thunder (Paperback) $7.91 Bestselling thriller author Iris Johansen and her son, the Edgar-winning mystery writer Roy Johansen, team up to tell the nail-biting story of a decommissioned Russian submarine, Silent Thunder, that holds a deadly secret--a secret that people will do ... |
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An Engagement in Seattle (Paperback) $5.46 A best-selling author delivers a two-in-one reissue--which features Groom Wanted, in which a Russian biochemist and a Seattle company owner see a marriage of convenience blossom into something more, and Bride Wanted, in which a woman re... |
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History of the Russian Revolution $19.86 Leon Trotsky is considered by many, alongside Lenin of course, as the author of the Russian Revolution, and is also considered by his admirers to be one of the most astute Marxist analysts of history and politics. It is perhaps no surprise therefore th... |
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The Russian Debutante's Handbook $10.77 Vladimir Girshkin, the son in a Russian family in New York City in 1993, is forced to leave town when he gets into trouble with a drug dealer. He escapes to the Eastern European city of Prava (the creation of the author), where he is soon involved... |
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Anton Chekhov`s Short Stories $15.67 A collection of short stories by the famous 19th-century Russian author. A practicing physician for most of his life, Chekov`s w |
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The White Pearl (Paperback) $10.87 A lush novel set during the Japanese invasion of Malaya-from the national bestselling author of The Russian Concubine. Malaya, 1941. Connie Thornton plays her role as a dutiful wife and mother without complaint. She is among the... |
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Great Russian Writers: Maxim Gorky (DVD) $17.81 A look at the great Russian playwright and essayist, and founder of Socialist Realism. Filmed in Russia where Gorky lived and worked. |
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State of the Union (Paperback) $9.89 From the national bestselling author of The Lions of Lucerne and Path of the Assassin comes another electrifying international thriller featuring all-American hero Scot Harvath, as he plunges into the frigid heart of the Russian tundra to... |
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Steppenwolf $10.1 The classic study of a split personality by the renowned German author and Nobel Laureate. The narrator is a man who regards himself as half-human and half-wolf, a creature of the Russian steppes. |
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A Concise History of the Russian Revolution (Paperback) $10.97 The author of the classic two-volume study, The Russian Revolution and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime, now distills those works into an authoritative new chronicle of Russia between 1900 and the death of Lenin. "A deep and eloquent condemnation... |
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Babushka's Mother Goose $7.91 An anthology of original and adapted folktales, poetry, riddles, and rhymes with a Russian flavor. Some of the works found in this collection were passed down by the author's grandmother. Folk-art illustrations enhance the text. |
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The Jewel of St. Petersburg (Paperback) $10.84 The national best-selling author of The Russian Concubine tells the tale of a Russian aristocrat, Valentina Ivanova, forced into a loveless engagement with a count as the Bolsheviks prepare for battle over the opulence of Tsarist rule. Original... |
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Great Russian Writers: Alexander Blok (DVD) $13.63 The life story of Russian poet Alexander Blok, who lived and worked before and during the Bolshevik Revolution. Filmed where Blok lived and worked. |
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The Cherry Orchard (Paperback) $11.78 The final play written by the famous Russian author, first published in 1904. It portrays the decline of the charming and doomed Ranevskaya family, and opens with Madame Ranevskaya returning debt-ridden to Russia after a five-year exile in Paris follo... |
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Follow My Lead (Paperback) $12.62 "Follow My Lead is the story of how two rambunctious dogs and a tough Russian dog trainer named Irina taught Carol Quinn everything she needed to know about life, love, and happiness. It all begins when the author decides-somewhat naively-to enroll her... |
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Uncle Vanya $10.95 One of the greatest plays of the famous Russian author, first performed in 1899. It portrays the disappointments of Ivan Voynitsky (Uncle Vanya), who comes to see that he has wasted his life managing the business affairs of his brother-in-law, Ser... |
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In Afghanistan (Hardcover) $19.92 An award-winning BBC foreign correspondent chronicles the military conflicts of Afghanistan throughout the past two centuries, evaluating the roles of misunderstanding and broken agreements as well as the author`s perspectives on how foreign occupiers ... |
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Travels in Siberia (Hardcover) $19.6 A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great PlainsIn Travels in Siberia, Ian Frazier trains his eye for unforgettable detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores m... |
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Three Sisters $10.3 A late play by the famous Russian author, first published in 1901. It portrays the hopeless provincial life of the Prozorov sist |
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The Portable Chekhov $13.33 An anthology of short stories and plays by the famous 19th-century Russian author. Carefully edited and annotated by noted Chekhov scholar Avrahm Yarmolinsky, it is designed to provide a good introduction to the essential works of Chekhov. |
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The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy (Paperback) $13.12 The translated diaries of the wife of Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace, describe her difficult life with the husband she idolized, but who tormented her, and her many children during an extremely turbulent period in Russian history. Origina... |
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Ressurection from the Underground (Paperback) $16.14 In a fascinating analysis of critical themes in Feodor Dostoevsky’s work, Ren Girard explores the implications of the Russian author’s “underground,” a site of isolation, alienation, and resentment. Brilliantly translat... |
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Field Gray (Hardcover) $16.98 In a historical suspense novel, chain-smoking, hard-drinking Bernie Gunther moves from riot-torn Berlin in 1931 to Adenauer`s Germany in 1954--with a stop at a Russian prisoner-of-war camp along the way. By the author of If the Dead Rise Not. 30... |
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Communism (Paperback) $8.32 A distinguished scholar and author of The Russian Revolution traces the history of communism from the antecedents of Karl Marx, through its spread to Russa and adoption by a group of radical intellectuals led by Lenin, to the fall of the Soviet... |
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The Life of an Unknown Man (Paperback) $14.81 A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers In The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine explores what truly m... |
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Uncle Vova`s Tree (Paperback) $6.92 Author/illustrator Patricia Polacco presents childhood memories of celebrating the Epiphany with her Russian Orthodox family. Color illustrations accompany the text. |
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The World of Late Antiquity Ad 150-750 (Paperback) $18.71 These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Russian empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near... |
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Odoevsky`s Four Pathways into Modern Fiction (Hardcover) $66.33 This book takes four stories by the Russian Romantic author Vladimir Odoevsky to illustrate pathways, developed further by subsequent writers, into modern fiction. Featured here are: the artistic (musical story), the rise of science fiction, ... |
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (Paperback) $10.9 A new short biography of the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, by a preeminent Russian scholar In this compelling new biography Anthony Briggs explores the effect of Dos... |
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Music from a Speeding Train (Hardcover) $62.49 Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language authors in the same literary universe—one... |
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Dostoevsky (Hardcover) $22.87 The author`s 2,500-page, five-volume account of the Russian writer`s life has been abridged and condensed into a single volume, which carefully preserves the original work`s acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history a... |
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What Language Do You Dream In? (Hardcover) $16.99 A multiple émigré, Elena Lappin could describe her life as “five languages in search of an author.” She was born into Russian; transposed into Czech, then German; introduced to Hebrew; and, finally, adopted by English... |
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Agent X (Hardcover) $16.16 The former FBI agent author of The Bricklayer presents a follow-up in which rogue ex-agent Steve Vail races against time to track down a Russian intelligence officer who may have been caught trying to identify treasonous Americans. 150,000 first... |
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The Author As Hero (Paperback) $24.7 Justin Weir develops a persuasive analysis of the complex relationship between authorial self-reflection and literary tradition in three of the most famous Russian novels of the first half of the twentieth century: Bulgakov`s The Master and Mar... |
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Redemption and the Merchant God (Paperback) $26.73 Dostoevsky’s Russian chauvinism and anti-Semitism have long posed problems for his readers and critics. How could the author of The Brothers Karamazov also be the source of the slurs against Jews i... |
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Anton Chekhov (Paperback) $18.24 A biography of the famed 19th-century Russian novelist and short-story writer. Originally trained as a physician, Chekhov became one of Russia`s best-known authors. This biography takes into account several of Chekhov`s letters that have been previousl... |
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