Anton: 1572 books

It has been nearly 150 years since Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and his theory of natural selection still ignites a forest of heated debate between scientific fundamentalists on the one hand and religious fundamentalists on the other. But both sides actually agree more than they disagree,...

Powerful strategies, tools, and techniques for educators teaching students critical reading skills in the humanities. Every educator understands the importance of teaching students how to read critically. Even the best teachers, however, find it challenging to translate their own learned critical...

Between her father’s poor health and the lack of business at their family inn, Grace believes that the best way to ensure her parents’ well-being is to sell the inn. But the appearance of a wandering bard, Alaine, turns out to be a miracle in disguise. Though he has no money to pay for his stay,...

(Antón Pávlovich Chéjov; Taganrog, 1860 - Badenweiler, 1904) Narrador y dramaturgo ruso. Considerado el representante más destacado de la escuela realista en Rusia, su obra es una de las más importantes de la dramaturgia y la narrativa de la literatura universal....

«È arrivato Volódâ!» gridò qualcuno fuori. «È arrivato il padroncino Volódâ!» strillò Natàl’â, correndo in sala da pranzo. «Ah, Dio mio!». Tutta la famiglia Korolëv, che aspettava l’arrivo del suo Volódâ da un momento all’altro, si precipitò alle finestre. All’ingresso...

NO STONE UNTURNED… Alexandra Belarus was an artist stuck working in her New York family’s business…until she discovered her true legacy—a deep and ancient magic. Lexi became the last practicing Spellmason, with the power to breathe life into stone. And as her powers awoke, so did her...

Postfazione Ho pensato di tradurre Il giardino dei ciliegi quando mi sono accorto che gli alberi in questione non sono ciliegi, ma amareni. Il dramma ruota intorno all'impoverimento della famiglia dovuto proprio al fatto che le amarene non sono trasportabili (e quindi commerciabili) a meno di sottoporle...

I André Vassiliévitch Kovrine, agrégé de philosophie, était fatigué, il se sentait les nerfs un peu malades. Un médecin de ses amis lui conseilla, comme ils causaient devant un verre de madère, un séjour de quelques mois à la campagne....

Le Moine noir - Un philosophe obsédé par une légende refuse la médiocrité des gens raisonnables et sombre dans la folie. L'Effroi - D'autres intellectuels brisent comme lui leur vie familiale, trouvant la vie incompréhensible. La Vieille Maison - On se noie dans l'alcool, dans l'attente d'un...

Jour de fête et Sorcière, les deux nouvelles inédites en français, réunies dans ce Carnet relatent les drames du quotidien. Tchekhov montre mais ne dénonce jamais. Il ne cesse de souligner dans son œuvre l’esprit petit-bourgeois sur fond de Russie éternelle, la trivialité, la corruption,...

ONE day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was sitting in the outer room in her summer villa. It was intolerably hot and stifling. Kolpakov, who had just dined and drunk a whole bottle of inferior port, felt ill-humoured...

AT half-past eight they drove out of the town.

Marya Vassilyevna had been schoolmistress for thirteen years, but she felt as though she had been living in that part of the country for ages and ages, for a hundred years, and it seemed to her that she knew every stone, every tree on the road from the town to her school. Her past was here, her present...