A Very Russian Christmas

Author : Mikhail Zoshchenko,Anton Chekhov,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Lev Tolstoy,Vladimir Korolenko,Klaudia Lukashevich,Maxim Gorky,Teffi
Publisher : New Vessel Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939931443

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A Very Russian Christmas by Mikhail Zoshchenko,Anton Chekhov,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Lev Tolstoy,Vladimir Korolenko,Klaudia Lukashevich,Maxim Gorky,Teffi Pdf

A collection of short Christmas stories by some of Russia’s greatest nineteenth and twentieth century authors—several appearing in English for the first time. Running the gamut from sweet and reverent to twisted and uproarious, this collection offers a holiday feast of Russian fiction. Dostoevsky brings stories of poverty and tragedy; Tolstoy inspires with his fable-like tales; Chekhov’s unmatchable skills are on full display in his story of a female factory owner and her wretched workers; Klaudia Lukashevitch delights with a sweet and surprising tale of a childhood in White Russia; and Mikhail Zoshchenko recounts madcap anecdotes of Christmas trees and Christmas thieves in the Soviet Era—a time when it was illegal to celebrate the holiday in Russia. There is no shortage of imagination, wit, or vodka on display in this collection that proves, with its wonderful variety and remarkable human touch, that nobody does Christmas like the Russians.

Author : Roxie Rivera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Christmas stories
ISBN : 1630420093

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A Very Russian Christmas by Roxie Rivera Pdf

"This collection of holiday-themed short stories fits the Her Russian protector series timeline between Yuri (book 3) and the beginning of Nikolai (book 4). It features couples from the first five books in the series as well as glimpses of future couples to come"--P. v.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 0763616192

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Baboushka : a Christmas Folktale from Russia by Anonim Pdf

An old woman who was too busy to travel with the Wise Men to find the Child now searches endlessly for Him each Christmas season.

Author : Wolfgang von Goethe,Hermann Hesse,Heinrich Heine,The Brothers Grimm,Kurt Tucholsky,Erich Kästner,Ilse Frapan,Martin Suter,Peter Stamm,Rainer Maria Rilke,Arthur Schnitzler,Thomas Mann,Heinrich Böll,Helene Stökl,E. T. A. Hoffmann,Joseph Roth,Peter Rosegger,Wolfdietrich Schnurre,Ernst Anschütz
Publisher : New Vessel Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939931894

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A Very German Christmas by Wolfgang von Goethe,Hermann Hesse,Heinrich Heine,The Brothers Grimm,Kurt Tucholsky,Erich Kästner,Ilse Frapan,Martin Suter,Peter Stamm,Rainer Maria Rilke,Arthur Schnitzler,Thomas Mann,Heinrich Böll,Helene Stökl,E. T. A. Hoffmann,Joseph Roth,Peter Rosegger,Wolfdietrich Schnurre,Ernst Anschütz Pdf

This collection of new and classic Christmas literature includes stories by Herman Hesse, Joseph Roth, The Brothers Grimm, and many others. This collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. You'll find classic works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler, as well as more recent tales by writers like Heinrich Böll, Peter Stamm and Martin Suter. It also includes the first published English translation of Joseph Roth’s story “Christmas in Cochinchina.” Enjoy Eine fröhliche Weihnachten―A Merry Christmas―made all the more festive with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, Gugelhopf and stollen cakes, all accompanied by plenty of schnapps.

Author : Guy de Maupassant,Jean-Philippe Blondel,Paul Arène,François Coppée,Anatole Le Braz,Dominique Fabre,Alphonse Daudet,Antoine Gustave Droz,Anatole France,Irène Némirovsky
Publisher : New Vessel Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939931559

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A Very French Christmas by Guy de Maupassant,Jean-Philippe Blondel,Paul Arène,François Coppée,Anatole Le Braz,Dominique Fabre,Alphonse Daudet,Antoine Gustave Droz,Anatole France,Irène Némirovsky Pdf

Joyeux Noël: “[An]endearing collection of Christmas stories from ten of France’s most esteemed writers―past and present―skillfully translated.” ―Foreword Reviews This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Irène Némirovsky and Nobel Prize winner Anatole France and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, homesick soldiers, oysters, crayfish, ham, bonbons, flickering desire, and more than a little wine, this collection encapsulates Christmas à la française—delicious, intense and unexpected.

Author : Lev Tolstoy
Publisher : Very Christmas
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1939931436

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A Very Russian Christmas by Lev Tolstoy Pdf

Nobody does Christmas like the Russians.

Author : Jennie Lucas,Natsue Ogoshi
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596648440

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The Christmas Love-Child by Jennie Lucas,Natsue Ogoshi Pdf

What a day! First Grace’s boss makes her buy sexy lingerie for his girlfriend, then a passing car soaks her in mud and now the pricy lingerie she was carrying is completely ruined. There’s no way she can replace it on her salary. Thankfully, a beautiful man gets out of the offending car and promises to pay for any damages, so she has nothing to worry about. But Grace gasps when she realizes who he is?just what is her boss's rival, Maksim Rostov, doing here?

Author : Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521812276

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The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1, From Early Rus' to 1689 by Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf

An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Children
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127157019

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Babouscka by Anonim Pdf

Author : Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0674004736

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Russia and the Russians by Geoffrey A. Hosking Pdf

Chronicles the history of the Russian Empire from the Mongol Invasion, through the Bolshevik Revolution, to the aftereffects of the Cold War.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726500707

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At Christmas Time by Anton Chekhov Pdf

‘At Christmas Time’ is a masterful short story written late in Chekhov’s career that is divided into two parts. The first half follows an illiterate peasant family hiring an ex-soldier to write a letter to their estranged daughter as they ponder the mystery of her life. Chekhov’s wit is on full display here as the former soldier writes about the army instead of informing the daughter about her parents and hometown. The second part is more sombre as the letter is delivered to the daughter by her abusive husband and we learn what has transpired in her life. Chekhov’s fiery social critique is present in this short as he contrasts the warmth and love of hard village life with the coldness of upper-class luxury. ‘At Christmas Time’ displays Chekhov’s ability to combine irony and melancholy into an incredible work of art that distils a family saga across time and place into a few pages. This short story is Chekhov at his best and should be read by fans of Russian literature and beyond. A prolific writer of seven plays, a novel and hundreds of short stories, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is considered one of the best practitioners of the short story genre in literature. True to life and painfully morbid with his miserable and realistic depictions of Russian everyday life, Chekhov’s characters drift between humour, melancholy, artistic ambition, and death. Some of his best-known works include the plays 'Uncle Vanya', 'The Seagull', and 'The Cherry Orchard', where Chekhov dramatizes and portrays social and existential problems. His short stories unearth the mysterious beneath the ordinary situations, the failure and horror present in everyday life.

Author : Ian Fleming
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547194439

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From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "From Russia With Love" by Ian Fleming. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : British Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 0712352767

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A Literary Christmas by British Library Pdf

This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new--from John Donne's Elizabethan hymn over the baby Jesus to Benjamin Zephaniah's "Talking Turkeys," from Thomas Tusser counting the cost of a Tudor feast to P. G. Wodehouse's wry story about Christmas on a diet. Enjoy a Christmas Day as described by Samuel Pepys, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, or Nancy Mitford. Venture out into the snow in the company of Jane Austen, Henry James, and Dickens's Mr. Pickwick. Entertain the children with the seasonal tales of Dylan Thomas, Kenneth Grahame, and Oscar Wilde.

Author : Mig Holder
Publisher : Lion Children's
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0745979831

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Papa Panov's Special Day by Mig Holder Pdf

Originally written by French author Reuben Saillens and later retold by Leo Tolstoy, this endearing story has now acquired the status of a folk-tale. The heart-warming story of lonely shoemaker Papa Panov's generosity reflects the true spirit of Christmas. Mig Holder's much loved text is complemented by charming illustrations by Julie Downing which capture the changing mood of the story.

Author : Arthur Scholey
Publisher : Lion Publishing Corporation
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0745922597

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Baboushka by Arthur Scholey Pdf

Baboushka is too busy cleaning and polishing her already cleaned and polished house to join the three strangers who stop in the village on their way to seek a new baby king. When she later changes her mind, she searches for them to no avail--and it is said she still searches today. Full-color stylized art captures the flavor of this classic Russian fable.