Nadezhda Akinfova was enthusiastically loved by the Russian minister of foreign affairs, Prince A. M. Gorchakov. Moreover, Fedor Tiutchev devoted his verses to her; and then there's the story of her love for N. M. Leikhtenbersky, which was reflected in Tolstoy's novels 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina.' Now, unpublished confidential archival material has allowed the author to reconstruct the...

Tests for learners of Russian designed for the III level (C1). Contains 28 tests on different aspects of Russian grammar and lexicon.

B2 level textbook for the study of Polish as a foreign language.

This textbook is designed for students who begin to learn Russian. It starts with alphabet and gradually introduces students to the common phrases, widely used lexicon, and contemporary Russian culture. Textbook contains plenty of colored photographs on every page, and offers grammar explanations as well as exercises. In addition to the book there is a booklet with a glossary which contains all...

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 graphic description of life in a Stalin-era labor camp in Siberia. Simple but relentless. One of the best books of the 20th century that stunned the literary world when it was published in 1962. A picture of dehumanization.

This is Love. This is hatred. This is love-hate. This - the most, perhaps, cruel product of John Updike, comparable in the degree of ruthless psychological nudity only with his early 'Rabbit, run.' This is not even a book, but a truly subtle study of the

The Sound and the Fury is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The novel 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...

Collection of lectures on Don Quixote Nabokov gave at Harvard University in 1951-1952.

From Amazon: Only serious cineastes will seek out this collection of conversations with Luis Bunuel (1900-1983), but their efforts will be amply repaid with a wealth of information about the Spanish filmmaker's techniques. Mexican film scholars de la Colina and Perez Turrent spent some 50 hours interviewing Bunuel; here they supply transcripts in which his quicksilver wit fairly gleams....

The novel's first-person protagonist, an unnamed vagrant with intellectual leanings, probably in his late twenties, wanders the streets of Norway's capital in pursuit of nourishment. In four episodes he meets a number of more or less mysterious persons, the most notable being Ylajali, a young woman with whom he has a semi-sexual encounter. This woman haunts him and he attempts to refind her to...