From Amazon: John Fowles gained international recognition in 1963 with his first published novel, The Collector, but his labor on what may be his greatest literary undertaking, his journals, commenced over a decade earlier. Fowles, whose works include The Maggot, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and The Ebony Tower, is among the most inventive and influential English novelists of the twentieth...

Книга посвящена исследованию творчества художника и поэта Михаила Гробмана. Один из важнейших представителей московского художественного и литературного авангарда 1960-х годов, он в 1971 году эмигрировал в Израиль, где прославился как автор перформансов в Иудейской пустыне, осуществленных основанной им группой ‘Левиафан’. Искусство Гробмана...

Memoirs of the famous Soviet/Russian actor, Mikhail Ulianov.

A collection of letters written by Alla Demidova to Tom Bulter. They started writing in 1990, and their correspondence lasted 15 years. Tom Butler is a Harvard University professor and Alla Demidova is a famous Russian actress.

Sidonie C. was born in 1900 and became particularly well-known for being sent to Dr. Freud as a young woman in order to treat her homosexuality.

Full title: 'Boris Rabbot: An Unheeded Voice of the 1960s'. The volume includes most significant works written between 1960 and 2011 by a Russian emigre political scientist, sociologist, journalist and writer who was part of the liberal movement reform that preceded Gorbachev's perestroika, a group frequently ignored by historians. The volume includes excerpts from Rabbot's published and...

The book includes the memoirs of Mikhail Dmitriev (1796-1866), Russian poet and writer.

Петр Алексеевич Кропоткин (1842-1921) - удивительная, но в чем-то очень типичная фигура русской истории: князь из старинного рода, ставший революционером, ученый-энциклопедист, погруженный в политику, анархист, резко критиковавший насилие и ‘красный террор’. Он прославился как географ и исследователь Севера, историк и философ, литературный критик и автор блистательных ‘Записок...

Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that 'can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist' (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets?and much more of an eyebrow-raising nature....

В пантеоне выдающихся полководцев нашего Отечества князь Петр Иванович Багратион занимает одно из почетных мест. Потомок древних грузинских царей, любимый ученик Суворова, он был участником всех крупных войн своего времени, прославился во многих кампаниях и погиб от раны, полученной в Бородинском сражении, так и не пережив оставление Москвы. Его биография - это, прежде всего, история войн,...

able story. The author, who was only discovered in her eighties, became one of the most successful and translated Czech writers almost overnight. He won the State Prize for Literature for his short story collection Želary, and a highly successful film was made based on Joz Hanula's novella, which was nominated for an Oscar. But who is Kveta Legátová (real name Vera Hofmanová)? What were her...