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The Quest for the Three Keys
During WWII, many German Generals traded and sold Stolen Works of Art to Private Art Collectors around the world and made small fortunes for themselves. One General simply knows as “Herr General” did the same, but he knew he would not survive the War, so he hid his stolen Art in two inconspicuous locations and secured his money and wealth in a Swiss Bank Account. Herr General then prepared a written manuscript in three languages and secured it in a leather-bound portfolio. The Portfolio was in fact a written treasure map leading one to the stolen art and wealth that he had accumulated. Years after the war, the portfolio surfaces, and then the scramble begin. This story is that Quest for Herr General’s Art and Treasures based on his portfolio.
On the Theory of Prose
As time has proven, Theory of Prose still remains one of the twentieth century’s most significant works of literary theory. It not only anticipates structuralism and poststructuralism, but poses questions about the nature of fiction that are as provocative today as they were in the 1920s. Founded on the concept of “making strange,” it lays bare the inner workings of fiction—especially the works of Cervantes, Tolstoy, Sterne, Dickens, Bely and Rozanov—and imparts a new way of seeing, of reading, and of interacting with the world.
A Herzen Reader
A Herzen Reader presents in English for the first time one hundred essays and editorials by the radical Russian thinker Alexander Herzen (1812–1870). Herzen wrote most of these pieces for The Bell, a revolutionary newspaper he launched with the poet Nikolai Ogaryov in London in 1857. Smugglers secretly carried copies of The Bell into Russia, where it influenced debates over the emancipation of the serfs and other reforms. With his characteristic irony, Herzen addressed such issues as freedom of speech, a nonviolent path to socialism, and corruption and paranoia at the highest levels of government. He discussed what he saw as the inability of even a liberator like Czar Alexander II to commit to change. A Herzen Reader stands on its own for its fascinating glimpse into Russian intellectual life of the 1850s and 1860s. It also provides invaluable context for understanding Herzen’s contemporaries, including Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ivan Turgenev.
The Mdivani Saga
What do Chanel, Sherlock Holmes, Salvador Dali, and the world’s richest heiress have in common? ...they were all part of the Mdivani entourage. The Mdivani Saga is an astonishing biographical account of one of the 20th century's most captivating families.
Commencement
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A History of Russian Philosophy 1830–1930
The great age of Russian philosophy spans the century between 1830 and 1930 - from the famous Slavophile-Westernizer controversy of the 1830s and 1840s, through the 'Silver Age' of Russian culture at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the formation of a Russian 'philosophical emigration' in the wake of the Russian Revolution. This volume is a major history and interpretation of Russian philosophy in this period. Eighteen chapters (plus a substantial introduction and afterword) discuss Russian philosophy's main figures, schools and controversies, while simultaneously pursuing a common central theme: the development of a distinctive Russian tradition of philosophical humanism focused on the defence of human dignity. As this volume shows, the century-long debate over the meaning and grounds of human dignity, freedom and the just society involved thinkers of all backgrounds and positions, transcending easy classification as 'religious' or 'secular'. The debate still resonates strongly today.
An Imperial Lover
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