Vladimir: 813 books

A dazzling, utterly distinctive saga from Russia's most celebrated and most controversial novelist Garin, a district doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is turning people into zombies. He carries with him a vaccine that will prevent the...

Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir Jankélévitch's Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism renewed interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider Bergson's experiential and religious perspectives....

"Yuri Nikolayevich Bakharev appears to be a perfect gentleman. He arrived in the city ten years ago, married well, and proceeded to devote all his time to aiding the poor and needy of the city. However, Yuri Nikolayevich is a haunted man. All it takes is a young violinist, an oddly timed newspaper article, the anniversary of a terrible date, and a flash of silver to dredge up all his sins."

Un hombre que está escribiendo en su despacho es interrumpido por un duende del bosque, un concertista de piano se dispone a poner fin a su carrera, un barbero afeita al hombre que lo torturó, un soñador tímido hace un pacto con el Diablo... Los sesenta y ocho relatos de Vladimir Nabokov que se...

Ganin, un joven exiliado ruso, sobrevive en el Berlín de entreguerras gracias a los más diversos trabajos —camarero, vendedor a domicilio, extra de cine…— mientras sueña con abandonar la ciudad y rememora su infancia y adolescencia en la añorada Rusia y su temprano romance con Mashenka,...

One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books 2011 Moscow, 2028. A cold, snowy morning. Andrei Danilovich Komiaga is fast asleep. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull him out of his drunken stupor—but wait, that's just his ring tone. And so begins another day in the life of...

A New York Review Books Original   In 1908, deep in Siberia, it fell to earth. THEIR ICE. A young man on a scientific expedition found it. It spoke to his heart, and his heart named him Bro. Bro felt the Ice. Bro knew its purpose. To bring together the 23,000 blond, blue-eyed Brothers and Sisters...

The meaning and worth of love as a feeling is that it really forces us, with all our being, to acknowledge for another the same absolute significance that, because of the power of egoism, we are conscious of only in our own selves. Love is important, not only as one of our feelings but as the transfer...

Struggling for Perfection is the story of the famous pianist, an enigmatic figure who made some of the most acclaimed classical recordings of the last century. A former child prodigy and an unpredictable, passionate man, Glenn Gould was known as much for his eccentricities as his vast musical genius....

Housed in the Hermitage Museum along with other institutes, libraries, and museums in Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union are some of the most magnificent treasures of Persian Art. For the most part, many of these works have been lost, but have been catalogued and published here for...

It’s easy to make lots of programming mistakes in C++—in fact, any program over a few hundred lines is likely to contain bugs. With this book, you’ll learn about many common coding errors that C++ programmers produce, along with rules and strategies you can use to avoid them.Author Vladimir...

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In modern chess, faster time controls have become more important than ever. Every day, countless numbers of rated blitz and rapid games are being played in online and over-the-board competitions and championships. In blitz chess it is important to make the right decisions quickly and almost...

From a young age, Alexei has loved the art of gambling. It gave his life meaning through all the hardships he endured. When his father mysteriously disappears and his mother is taken ill, Alexei turns to his craft in order to survive. Over the course of his life, he becomes infamous, sitting at card...