Lenin Ossendowskiego to książka-legenda. Została przetłumaczona na wiele języków. W latach trzydziestych zrobiła karierę na obu półkulach i odegrała znaczącą rolę w ukazaniu, kto...
After Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) is the man most associated with communism and its influence and reach around the world. Lenin was the leader of the communist Bolshevik party during the October 1917 revolution in Russia, and he...
When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry, and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer's momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt...
« Notre mémoire est pleine de mots. Il suffit de puiser dedans. On trouvera dans ce dictionnaire très personnel des mots qui m’ont accompagné dans ma vie professionnelle comme, précisément, dictionnaire et mot. Plus apostrophe, orthographe,...
Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou’s ode to his literary hero and an effort to place Baldwin’s life in context within the greater African diaspora.
Beginning...
LETTERS OF ANTON CHEKHOV TO HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE GARNETT
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
Of the eighteen hundred and ninety letters published by Chekhov's family I have chosen for...
Originally published in 1960, this compact book tells the true story of a German soldier: from his early childhood during the First World War, through to his harrowing experiences on the frontline during the Word War II, culminating in his capture...