Search Results: Titles starting with D from Globus Books

Санкт-Петербург: Азбука, 2018. New Book. Переплет: Твердый Страниц: 176 Амазонка, вооруженная Арканом Истины, впитавшим силу олимпийских богов. Неудержимая воительница, известная миру как Чудо-Женщина. Принцесса Диана с Фемискиры. Это все она - одна из величайших супергероев в истории! Но кто она... на самом деле? Этого даже сама Чудо-Женщина точно не знает. Нити, связывавшие Диану с островом амазонок и с богами Олимпа - разорваны. Ее воспоминания противоречивы и спутаны, и тут даже верный Аркан не в силах ей помочь. Чтобы выяснить тайну своего происхождения,… Read More

Москва: Махаон, 2009. Букинистика Переплет: Твердый Страниц: 104, с иллюстрациями Я сделал абсолютно новую редакцию текста спектакля "Одновременно". Он будет полностью отличаться и от первоначального текста образца 1999 года, и от того, как я играю этот спектакль сейчас. Текст будет написан не как пьеса, а как просто монолог-рассуждение. В тексте не будет упоминания о сценических образах. Занялся я этой работой по той причине, что Петр Ловыгин задумал сделать фотоиллюстрации к этому тексту. В результате его и моей работы должна получиться красивая книжка,… Read More

Москва: Музыка, 2010. Переплёт: Твердый Страниц: 168 Состояние: очень хорошее, незначительные дефекты обложки. В основе книги - опыт многолетней творческой работы заслуженного учителя РСФСР Евгения Михайловича Тимакина (1916-2004) - педагога по классу специального фортепиано Центральной средней специальной музыкальной школы при Московской консерватории. Автор рассматривает важные вопросы профессионального воспитания музыканта-пианиста начального и среднего звеньев обучения. Настоящее издание по сравнению с первым ("Советский композитор", 1984)… Read More

Fuel, 2023. New Book. Hardcover. 240 pp. An astonishing photographic record of a form of wooden architecture rapidly vanishing from the post-Soviet landscape A dacha is a country house, made of wood, used by Soviet citizens to escape the rigors of the city for a rural idyll. Widespread in the countries of the former USSR, this important cultural and architectural form has been largely ignored academically. In Dacha, Fyodor Savintsev documents this particularly Russian phenomenon. His photographs constitute a unique record of a rapidly vanishing fairy-tale wooden world. The word "dacha" has been used to describe constructions ranging from grand imperial villas to small sheds. Originally bestowed by the Tsar to reward courtiers, this custom continued following the revolution, with Soviet cooperatives building dachas for their members. Supposedly for the benefit of laborers, in reality they were destined for those favored by the State, including famous writers, architects and artists from Pasternak… Read More

Alma Books, 2016. New Book. Paperback. 352 pages. One of the great achievements of twentieth-century Russian émigré literature, Dark Avenues--translated here for the first time into English in its entirety--took Bunin's poetic mastery of language to new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of the Russian cultural and historical crises of the preceding decades, this collection of short fiction centres around dark, erotic liaisons. Love--in its many varied forms--is the unifying motif in a rich range of narratives, characterized by the evocative, elegiac, elegant prose for which Bunin is renowned.

Harper Paperbacks, 2014. New Book. Paperback. 480 pp. The second book in the internationally bestselling Night Watch series. Set in contemporary Moscow, the Night Watch series tells the story of the Others, an ancient race of magicians, shape-shifters, vampires, and other supernatural beings that live among us, and swear allegiance to either the powers of Darkness, or the forces of Light. For the past 1000 years, the two sides have been locked in an uneasy truce, keeping their powers in balance as each side secretly plots to take the advantage for themselves. The forces of Darkness tasked with keeping the Light Others in check are the Day Watch. In Day Watch, we follow the Dark Others, including a young witch with the tragic misfortune of falling in love with a Light Other, a powerful warlock who struggles to understand his purpose in the war, and a top lieutenant who worries that Zabulon, the leader of the Day Watch, is planning to betray him. Meanwhile, a powerful artifact with the ability to… Read More

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. New Book. Paperback. 208 pp. Moscow, 2028. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull Andrei Danilovich Komiaga out of his drunken stupor. But wait--that's just his ring tone. So begins another day in the life of an oprichnik, one of the czar's most trusted courtiers--and one of the country's most feared men. In this new New Russia, where futuristic technology and the draconian codes of Ivan the Terrible are in perfect synergy, Komiaga will attend extravagant parties, partake in brutal executions, and consume an arsenal of drugs. He will rape and pillage, and he will be moved to tears by the sweetly sung songs of his homeland. Vladimir Sorokin has imagined a near future both too disturbing to contemplate and too realistic to dismiss. But like all of his best work, Sorokin's new novel explodes with invention and dark humor. A startling, relentless portrait of a troubled and troubling empire, Day of the Oprichnik is at once a richly imagined vision of the… Read More

Warbler Classics, 2022. New Book. Paperback. 284 pp. Dead Souls charts the nefarious dealings of Chichikov, a member of the middle aristocracy in a time when serfs were considered the property of landowners, who could buy, sell, or mortgage them. Chichikov concocts a scheme to purchase ownership of deceased male serfs in order to create an illusion of increased wealth against which he intends to borrow. A master of the absurd with a gift for hilarious satire, in Dead Souls Gogol offers a wildly entertaining tale that simultaneously excoriates the ailing social system of his day. Originally intended as a three-volume work styled after Dante's Divine Comedy, Gogol burned much of volume two. The novel, nonetheless, is considered by many to be a finished work and Gogol's masterpiece. This unique Warbler Press edition includes an extensive biographical timeline.

Yale University Press, 1996. New Book. Paperback. 304 pp. Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "an extraordinarily fine piece of work" and is still considered the best translation of Dead Souls ever published. Long out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of Dead Souls. The text is accompanied by Susanne Fusso's introduction and by appendixes that present excerpts from Guerney's translations of other drafts of Gogol's work and letters Gogol wrote around the time of the writing and publication of Dead Souls.

New York Review of Books, 2012. New Book. Paperback. 432 pp. The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he shows up out of nowhere proposing to buy title to serfs who, though dead as doornails, are still property on paper. What can he have up his sleeve, the local landowners wonder, even as some rush to unload what isn't of any use to them anyway, while others seek to negotiate the best deal possible, and others yet hold on to their dead for dear life, since if somebody wants what you have then no matter what don't give it away. Chichikov's scheme soon encounters obstacles, but he is never without resource, and as he stumbles forward as best he can, Gogol paints a wonderfully comic picture of Russian life that also serves as a biting satire of a society as corrupt as it is cynical and silly. At once a wild phantasmagoria and a… Read More

Vintage, 1997. New Book. Paperback. 432 pp. Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humor, and delight in human oddity and error.

Graywolf Press, 2019. New Book. Paperback. 80 pp. Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear--they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, these poems confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.

Melville House Publishing, 2011. New Book. Paperback. 240 pp. No summary can do justice to the strange appeal of this unusual, short book, which is at once a crime novel, a comic novel and a serious political satire on contemporary Ukraine. --Anne Applebaum, The Wall Street Journal With the collapse of the Soviet Union, newly-free Ukraine is a shell-shocked land . . . In poverty-and-violence-wracked Kyiv, unemployed writer Viktor Zolotaryov leads a down-and-out life with his only friend, Misha, a penguin that he rescued when the local zoo started getting rid of animals it couldn't feed. Even more nerve-wracking for Victor: a local mobster has taken a shine to Misha and wants to borrow him for events. But Viktor thinks he's finally caught a break when he lands a well-paying job at the Kyiv newspaper writing "living obituaries" of local dignitaries--articles to be filed for use when the time comes. The only thing is, the time always seems to come as soon as Viktor finishes writing the article.… Read More

Москва: Эксмо, 2021. New Book. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 720 На роскошном пароходе "Карнак", плывущем по Нилу, убита молодая миллионерша, недавно вышедшая замуж и, как выяснилось, имевшая множество врагов среди пассажиров. Любой мог убить самоуверенную и нагловатую девушку, укравшую жениха у лучшей подруги. Но ни один из вероятных подозреваемых не совершал этого преступления... К счастью, на пароходе находится великий сыщик Эркюль Пуаро, который знает все общество, представленное в круизе, еще по Лондону, и в курсе возможных мотивов каждого из присутствующих.… Read More

Москва: Каро, 2020. New Book. Paperback, 192 pp. This edition includes The Demon, Mtsyri, Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov and selected poetry written from 1831 to 1841. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 192 Предлагаем вниманию читателей сборник произведений великого русского писателя и поэта М. Ю. Лермонтова. В книгу вошли поэмы «Демон», «Мцыри», «Песня про купца Калашникова» и избранные стихотворения, написанные автором в период с 1831 по 1841 гг.

London: Forgotten Books, 2020. New book. Binding: Paperback 46 pp. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. Any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008. New Book. Paperback. 800 pp. he third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed, is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray that follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. This new translation includes the chapter "Stavrogin's confession," initially censored by Dostoevsky's publisher. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Bloomington/London: Indiana University Press, 1972. New Book. Paperback 236 pp. Edited by Ellendea Proffer and Carl R.Proffer. Stories included: - Diaboliad - Fatal Eggs - N13 - A Chinese tale - Adventures of Chichikov - A treatise on Housing - Psalm - Four Portraits - Moonshine Lake - The Raid - The Crimson Island Very good condition.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Binding: Hardcover, dust jacket Pages: 323, illustrations Nikolay Punin (1888-1953) was the most articulate Russian/Soviet art critic of the 1920s. He strongly advocated Constructivism, an avant-garde impulse that favored mechanomorphic abstraction and proclaimed a movement to bring art into the center of popular life. In the United States, he is perhaps best remembered for his love affair with Anna Akhmatova, one of the great poets of the twentieth century. This volume presents the first English translation of ten diary notebooks that Punin wrote between 1915 and 1936, as well as selections from his earlier (1904-1910) and later (1941-1946) diaries and some thirty notes and letters relating to his affair with Anna Akhmatova. These materials offer a rare glimpse into the life of art and artists in Russia. They also present vivid scenes from the 1905 Revolution, World War I, the 1917 Revolutions, World War II, and Stalinist oppression through the reflections… Read More

Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023. New Book. Hardcover. 304 pp. One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv. This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a 21st-century war. Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine. His most recent work, Grey Bees, is a dark foreshadowing of the devastation in the eastern part of Ukraine in which only two villagers remain in a village bombed to smithereens. The author has lived in Kyiv and in the remote countryside of Ukraine throughout the Russian invasion. He has also been able to fly to European capitals where he has been working to raise money for charities and to address crowded halls. Kurkov has been asked to write for every English newspaper, as also to be… Read More