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Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky is known as the author of some of the most important Russian novels of the 19th Century. His greatness is his command of a multitude of human factors, from the most saintly to the most pathological, delineating the deepest emotional states from the perversely criminal and the profoundest sense of evil to a sublime belief in a Christian God. Throughout, as this biography shows, he never became detached from the realities of the Russian world. Book jacket.
Making a New Start
Mistakes compound until one final misjudgment shatters the world Nidintu knows. Blaming the gods, he flees to a new city. As Nidintu rebuilds his life danger and new temptations walk side-by-side, always threatening to trip him up.Nidintu learned hard and painful lessons in Babylon. The lessons reinforce his decision to trust and rely on no-one. In these six stories, Nidintu treads a narrow, twisting, and perilous path toward redemption.
Unexpected Companions
Domesticated for thousands of years. Cats and dogs arrive in subtle and dramatic ways. They touch the inhabitants and exiles of ancient Babylon with blessings and curses. Four dogs. One cat. Five original stories of the ancient world Unexpected Companions A Worthless Herder Named by the Gods Racing the Wind Making a Safe Journey And each tale asks the question. Who are the domesticated animals?
Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters - peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers - each providing a glimpse of love, tragedy, courage and loss, and anticipating Turgenev's great later works such as First Love and Fathers and Sons. His depiction of the cruelty and arrogance of the ruling classes was considered subversive and led to his arrest and confinement to his estate, but these sketches opened the minds of contemporary readers to the plight of the peasantry and were even said to have led Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom.
Thieves in the Temple
Jacob fought desperately to save Jerusalem from the Babylonian invaders. Injured and exiled, Jacob builds a new life among his former enemies in the city of Babylon. As the Babylonians celebrate their New Year, Jacob uncovers a conspiracy threatening the freedom and lives of every one of the Exiles. Uncertain who to trust Jacob unravels the threads of deceit into a compelling climax that saves not just the Exiles, but Jacob himself. If you love historical mysteries with a dash of romance, grab Thieves in the Temple now.
From Pushkin to Palisandriia
Study of the Russian novel has been the greatest scholarly contribution of Richard Freeborn, and in this volume some of his former colleagues and pupils offer in homage new essays ranging from re-examination of classical texts to analysis of still-neglected twentieth-century works.
Fathers and Sons
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, the novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state.
First love and other stories
The novel “First Love” was Turgénieff’s favourite work, as he more than once confessed. What the author prized in this purely intimate but beautifully finished story was its fidelity to actuality; that is to say, he prized the personal recollections of early youth. In that respect this story has a prominent interest for readers, since it narrates—according to the testimony of the author—an actual fact in his life, and that without the slightest artificial colouring.[1] To what degree Turgénieff’s testimony is credible, remarks one critic, is a question which can be rightly decided only by biographical documents. Famous writers are particularly inclined by nature to romantic coq...
Beginnings in Babylon
Jacob fought desperately to save Jerusalem from the Babylonian invaders. Now, injured and in exile, Jacob builds a new life among his former enemies in the city of Babylon. A life including Miriam, a raven-haired widow who quickly becomes assistant and partner as Jacob rights injustice in the dark undersides of Babylonian society. Follow Jacob and Miriam's adventures in these stories: Sacred Secrets Temple Justice Next Year in Jerusalem The Judah Code Saving Saul Family Harmony If you love historical mysteries with a dash of romance, Beginnings in Babylon is for you.
