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Prague is a place where murders happen, and it takes an English-speaking Russian expat with a strong antipathy for the city and its inhabitants to solve the mystery . . . or maybe not. As the plots thicken, the two narrators of Kirill Kobrin's ten short stories gradually merge into a single hazy, undefined personality, characterized by a passion for logical reasoning, which leads to the identification of the culprit; except that the laboriously constructed...
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A selection of the finest stories by this female Chekhov Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely funny - a wry, scathing observer of society - she is also capable, as capable even as Chekhov, of miraculous subtlety and depth of character. There are stories...
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Vladimir Nabokov, widely considered to be one of the world's great writers, was also a remarkable professor at Cornell University. Provides an insight to "The metamorphosis, " Kafka's perplexing story about a man who wakes one morning to discover that he has turned into a beetle. One of the most widely read and studied short stories of all time, Kafka's greatest work is humorously and intensely brought to life.
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"Fiodor Dostojewski - mistrz zaglądania do duszy - w czterech nowelach, które prezentujemy Państwu w tym tomie opowiada cztery cudownie różne historie. Ich spoiwem jest sam Dostojewski, jego bohaterowie zawieszeni w świecie iluzji, zazwyczaj w hierarchii społecznej gdzieś pośrodku, z marzeniami by być bogatsi, by żyć pełnią życia a nie w duszącej atmosferze ich otaczającej, którą przecież sami tworzą. Pełni przebiegłości i...
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"His books are framed by the rural environments of Russia. The only exception is these three stories, which portray urban life, examples of what farce and tragedy achieve when they frame the portrait of madness"--
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