Vladimir Vladimir: 813 books

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his...

The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom.

For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.

Nabokov's fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Nabokov's protagonist, Smurov, is a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian émigré living in prewar Berlin, who commits suicide...

A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child":...

Tom Sawyer falls in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get "engaged" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been "engaged" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night,...

Alamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful of elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers." By creating a virtual paradise at Alamut,...

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

            Iza intrigantnog naslova koji ovaj roman nosi, krije se priča koja nikoga neće ostaviti ravnodušnim. Ovo je definitivno roman koji se čita u jednome dahu. Jakopanec je odabrao staviti svoju iseljeničku priču u kontekst obiteljske i ljubavne drame,...

Trash Cuisine: Banned from performing in their own country, Belarus Free Theatre serve up food, music, dance and Shakespeare as they share true stories from inmates, executioners, human rights lawyers and families of the executed. This provocative and urgent play pierces the imagination with...

There are eyes the dark…they burn. The Wraith has come to keep his promise, all who help the Knight Hunters will die. Simple words in the abstract. But what will he do when confronted by a mother fighting to get back to her family. Will the monster in the dark kill again? Or will he find another...

Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 -1900) was Russian world-renowned painter living and working in Crimea, most famous for his seascapes, which constitute more than half of his paintings. Aivazovsky is widely considered as one of the greatest seascape painters of all times. Throughout his lifetime, Aivazovsky...

Dealing with Gangsters is nothing new for Vlad, but this isn’t his crowd of lovable hoods. These are bad men with bad intentions and he’s there to get his hands dirty. Its mobster, guns, counterfeit money and hellfire when the Russians decided to teach Vlad a lesson. You are no longer what you...

Este libro reúne cuatro entrevistas poco conocidas en las que Jankélévitch aborda el misterio del instante mortal. En la primera, el filósofo reflexiona sobre la experiencia de la muerte de alguien cercano, de la del otro en general y sobre la incertidumbre metafísica que cada uno siente frente...