When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by...

Lady Susan. Lesley Castle. The History of England. A Collection of Letters.

el centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. The novel is separated into four distinct sections. The first, April 7, 1928, is written from the perspective of Benjamin Benjy Compson, a 33-year-old man with severe mental handicaps. The second section, June 2, 1910, focuses on Quentin Compson,...

Russian Grammar in Pictures for Beginners. The systematized illustrated guide on Russian grammar for students who begin to learn Russian. Can be used both in groups and for self-study. Contains 270 pictures with words. Each of the tables is accompanied with methodical recommendations (in Russian) on how to better use them. Level: B1.

A detailed history on the late interwar period on the development of Soviet aviation (1938-1941). Highly researched and based on many previously closed archival sources, the author also includes multiple tables on production statistics - planned and actual numbers by type , victims of the purge and other repression and other data.

The book pops up before the controversy of Libro de Manuel which synthetizes politics and social narration into a new prodigious genre. Themes: threshold between conventional and fantastic, love, dream, sickness, death, infancy, the perfect geometry behind Corta'zar's work: the octahedron.

Includes the plays Mukhi [The Flies], Pochtitel'naia potaskushka [The Respectable Prostitute] and Za zakrytymi dveriami [No Exit].

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of ‘the disease of modern man' in the manner of a composer—themes and characters are...

Six most known short stories by Leonid Andreev.

Discuss Global Issues and Repeat Russian Grammar. Manual with texts on contemporary issues, exercises, and grammar comments. The topics include: problems of big cities; migration of population; intellectual emigration; issues of demography; globalization and anti-globalists; social inequality - rich and poor; middle class; unemployment; issues of higher education; science and morals; crisis...