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The Stories of Heinrich Boll
This volume collects sixty-three short stories and novellas written by Heinrich BÖll between 1947 and 1985. In brings together selections from...
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The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an...
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The Book of Hrabal
Named a New York Times Notable Book of 1994
An elaborate, elegant homage to the great Czech storyteller Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Watched...
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Booker Winners and Others-II (Vol.10 of the GLAS Series)
True to our commitment to acquaint publishers and readers with the winners of the Booker Russian Novel Prize, we offer excerpts from the short-listed...
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Mayakovsky: Plays
One of Russia's greatest poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Futurist, early Bolshevik, and champion of the avant-garde. Despite his...
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A Scrap of Time and Other Stories
Named a New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Winner of the Anne Frank Prize
These...
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Farewell to Matyora
A fine example of Village Prose from the post-Stalin era, Farewell to Matyora decries the loss of the Russian peasant culture to the impersonal,...
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Self, Person, World
Self, Person, World presents a synoptic survey of human life in its personal, social, and mythic dimensions, drawing on sources such as Freud, Weber,...
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Children of the Holocaust
Children of the Holocaust is a landmark of Holocaust literature and among the finest works produced since World War II. These profoundly moving...
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Pierre, or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven
Initially dismissed as "a dead failure" and "a bad book," and declined by Melville's British publisher, Pierre has since...
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A Plot of Her Own
A Plot of Her Own presents compelling new readings of major texts in the Russian literary canon, all of which are readily available in translation....
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Civil Juries and the Politics of Reform
Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin have analyzed patterns in jury verdicts in a number of substantive legal areas, including medical malpractice,...
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Absent without Leave
In these two novellas, Nobel laureate Heinrich BÖll uses strikingly different narrative techniques to portray World War II's impact on the...
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Tolstoy: Plays V1 - Volume I: 1856-1886
Although Tolstoy's fame rests on his novels, he was also a prolific dramatist; yet this part of his oeuvre has been consistently neglected by...
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The Foundation Pit
Once known only to a small circle of admirers in Russia and the West, Andrey Platonov (1899-1951) has emerged to assume his rightful place as one of...
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The Train Was on Time
Published in 1949, The Train was on Time was Heinrich BÖll's first novel. Private Andreas, twenty-four, boards a troop train to return to his...
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The Translator in the Text
What does it mean to read one nation's literature in another language? The considerable popularity of Russian literature in the English-speaking...
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The Fragile We
Critics have charged that Heidegger's account of authenticity is morally nihilistic, that his fundamental ontology is either egocentric or...
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Reclaimed Powers
A unique feature of human development is that mothers and fathers are bound to a long period of childrearing, during which the continuity of our...
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The Tango Player
Set in 1968 Leipzig, Christoph Hein's novel is the story of Dallow, an apolitical academic who has just returned to civilian life after serving...
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Dita Saxova
Dita Saxova is an eighteen-year-old concentration camp survivor trying to start a new life in postwar Prague. Living in a special hostel for orphans...
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Rethinking Evidence - Exploratory Essays
Evidence, proof and probabilities, rationality, skepticism and narrative in legal discourse, and the reform of criminal evidence have all been the...
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