Ivan: 1319 books

Hélas ! j'étais amoureux de celle qui écrivait à Assanof, et jusque-là rien ne m'avait fait soupçonner qu'elle eût de l'attachement pour lui. Sa lettre, écrite en français, était pleine d'expressions de tendresse et de dévouement. Elle commençait par ces mots : " Mon cher ami Constantin...

ONE day, in autumn, on my way home from the distant fields, I caught cold, and was taken ill. Fortunately, the fever overtook me in the county-town, in the hotel. I sent for the doctor. Half an hour later, the district physician made his appearance, a man of short stature, thin and black-haired. He prescribed...

Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and...

Cox rings are significant global invariants of algebraic varieties, naturally generalizing homogeneous coordinate rings of projective spaces. This book provides a largely self-contained introduction to Cox rings, with a particular focus on concrete aspects of the theory. Besides the rigorous presentation...

Ein furioser Space-Western vom deutschen Starzeichner Nic Klein (Captain America, Thor) Beim verzweifelten Versuch zu überleben hat sich die Menschheit im gesamten Universum ausgebreitet und Kolonien auf zahllosen Welten gegründet. Auf dem Rückflug einer Mission legt Pilot Abram Pollux eine schwere...

For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city's most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself...

This practical book provides a detailed guide to drawing your own cartoons, illustrated in over 1000 amazing drawings and 65 step-by-step sequences. Divided into four main sections, the first, Materials and Methods, introduces traditional techniques, such as testing the effects of different pencils on...

Can one quirky grandmother play cupid to true love? Cindy Montgomery loves her job touring as the backstage assistant to a country music megastar, but it's his manager who makes her heart sing.  Too bad he's not the marrying kind.   When her grandmother suddenly lands in the...

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...

A novel of one desperate woman’s hopes and desires set in contemporary Prague from “a literary gem who is too little appreciated in the West” (The Boston Globe).   Divorced, approaching fifty, and mother to a rebellious fifteen-year-old, Kristyna is beginning to feel the strain of her bleak...

All my fealings I needed to express in my poem I want the world to say she can know what I think and want to share with him. I hope that in my collection of poems you will find interesting poems and I which you pleasant reading. 

Da Turgenev a Pirandello, da Maupassant a Jack London, da Edith Warton a Kipling, molti grandi scrittori hanno celebrato l’animale domestico che da più tempo vive insieme all’uomo. Intelligenti, curiosi, coraggiosi, fedeli, romantici, ma anche permalosi e pasticcioni, i cani sono protagonisti...

In the spring of 1878 there was living in Moscow, in a small wooden house in Shabolovka, a young man of five-and-twenty, called Yakov Aratov. With him lived his father’s sister, an elderly maiden lady, over fifty, Platonida Ivanovna. She took charge of his house, and looked after his household expenditure,...

I AM old and ill now, and my thoughts brood oftenest upon death, every day coming nearer; rarely I think of the past, rarely I turn the eyes of my soul behind me. Only from time to time—in winter, as I sit motionless before the glowing fire, in summer, as I pace with slow tread along the shady avenue—I...