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The Time of Miracles
Borislav Pekic spent six years in jail as a political prisoner, his only reading material the Bible. In 1965, ten years after his pardon, his first...
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And Never Said a Word
First published in 1953, And Never Said a Word is one of Heinrich BÖll's richest works, a novel that explores marriage with depth and compassion....
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The Urgency of Identity
This anthology of poems presents, for the first time in the U.S., the most important English-language Welsh poets of the 1980s and 1990s, and works...
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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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And Where Were You, Adam
Hitler's Wehrmacht is broken and demoralized, the end of the war is imminent--but still soldiers are rounded up and sent to the front, Jews are...
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Essays on Gogol
These fourteen essays reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary character of Russian literature research in general and of the study of Gogol in...
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The Houses of Belgrade
The Houses of Belgrade, first published in 1970, draws a parallel between the unrest culminating in the Belgrade student riots of 1968 and that at...
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The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader
Merleau-Ponty's essays on aesthetics are some of the major accomplishments of his philosophical career, and rank even today among the most...
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Writer’s Diary Volume 2, A 1877-1881
This is the second volume of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form; it is a...
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The Ship of Widows
"My husband was killed at the front right at the beginning of the war." Thus opens The Ship of Widows, the story of five women brought...
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The Eighth Day of the Week
In the period following Stalin's death in 1953, Marek Hlasko was the most acclaimed and popular contemporary writer in Poland. The Eighth Day of...
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Sofia Petrovna
Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a...
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The Soul of a Patriot
One of the liveliest novels to come out of Russia in recent years, The Soul of a Patriot is a rambunctious portrait of the lives of ordinary Russians...
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Essential Turgenev
The Essential Turgenev will provide American readers with the first comprehensive, portable edition of this great Russian author's works. It...
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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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Stark Impressions
This presentation of 143 works, organized into six thematic groupings, provides a view of the diversity, complexity, and cultural milieu in which...
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The Life of Arseniev - Youth
Ivan Bunin was the first Russian writer of the twentieth century to be award the Nobel Prize in literature. Like many other Russian writers, he...
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The Sword of Truth
At the turn of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century a revolutionary movement arose in Hausaland (now part of northern Nigeria) that was to have a...
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Fritz Reiner - A Biography
Thirty years after his death, Fritz Reiner's contribution--as a conductor, as a teacher (of Leonard Bernstein, among others), and as a...
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An Islamic Alliance
An Islamic Alliance uses non-European sources to portray the defense, by devoutly Islamic leaders, of some of the last parts of the African continent...
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The Bread of Those Early Years
Torn by insecurity and cynicism, washing-machine repairman Walter Fendrich is obsessed with hunger, "the wolf living inside my stomach."...
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