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  • Gogol

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book, first published in 1926, aimed to introduce to English readers to a great and complex foreign writer in as simple terms as possible. As this was the first extensive study of Gogol in English, the author chiefly considered the general characteristics of the man and his work. This book will be of interest to students of literature. ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky: A Study

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
    This volume contains two concise works by the innovative twentieth-century literary critic Janko Lavrin, offering accessible and thoughtful introductions to the two greatest Russian novelists. It provides a perfect point of access into the often bewildering world of Russian literature, and the troubled geniuses which created it.Tolstoy: An Approach, first published in 1944, is an attempt to ... Read more

    $53.58 CAD

  • Ibsen

    An Approach

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book, first published in 1950, could best be described as a combination of literary, psychological and social criticism. Considerable space is allotted to the personal inner drama of Ibsen, which provides not only a clue to his art but shows how most of his themes inevitably grew out of the other. The author also explores some of those factors which make Ibsen of interest to the generation ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Nietzsche

    An Approach

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Friedrich Nietzsche
    Janko Lavrin's influential biography of Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1948, analyses the bond between Nietzsche's personal fate on the one hand and the trend of his thought on the other, set against the background of contemporary crisis typical of mankind in general. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • An Introduction to the Russian Novel

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel by placing the great Russian novelists – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Gogol – in relation to their native literature and their social, political and cultural backgrounds. An Introduction to the Russian Novel will appeal particularly to students of Russian literature and culture ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

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    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
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  • Best Russian Short Stories, in English translation

    by Thomas Seltzer ...
    12 illustrations. This collection includes: THE QUEEN OF SPADES by Pushkin, THE CLOAK (AKA The Overcoat) by Gogol, THE DISTRICT DOCTOR by Turgenev, THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING by Dostoyevsky, GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS by Tolstoy, HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS by Saltykov, THE SHADES, A PHANTASY by Korolenko, THE SIGNAL by V.N. Garshin, THE DARLING by Chekhov, THE BET by Chekhov, VANKA ... Read more

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  • Hard Times, By Charles Dickens

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Hard Times is Charles Dickenss tenth novel that has been considered much seriously by literary critics and historians. It concentrates on the portrayal of the English society of the nineteenth century as well as on its different cultural and economic aspects. The story, which is set in a fictional Victorian town, is divided into three parts which are respectively entitled “Sowing,” “Reaping,” and ... Read more

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  • Beyond Good and Evil

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    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    In "Beyond Good and Evil", Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression ... Read more

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  • Thus Spake Zarathustra

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy
    A tremendously influential philosophical work of the late nineteenth century, Thus Spake Zarathustra is also a literary masterpiece by one of the most important thinkers of modern times. In it, the ancient Persian religious leader Zarathustra (or Zoroaster) serves as the voice for Friedrich Nietzsche's views, which include the introduction of the controversial doctrine of the Übermensch, or ... Read more

    $7.49 CAD

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  • Twelfth Night, with line numbers

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Classic Shakespearean comedy, with line numbers. According to Wikipedia: "Twelfth Night, Or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, based on the short story "Of Apollonius and Silla" by Barnabe Rich, which in turn was based on a story by Matteo Bandello. It is named after the Twelfth Night holiday of the Christmas season. It was written around 1601 and first published in the First Folio ... Read more

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