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Essays in love
Культурология

Essays in love

Автор: Де Боттон Ален
Язык: английский
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Essays in Love is a novel about two young people, who meet on an airplane between London and Paris and rapidly fall in love. The structure of the story isn’t unusual, but what lends the book its interest is the extraordinary depth with which the...
Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair
История, Культурология

Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair

Автор: Себаг-Монтефиоре Саймон Джонатан
Язык: английский
Год: 2021
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From the author of *The Romanovs* : a vivid account of history's most successful political partnership--as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince...
The Oxford Book of Latin Verse: From the Earliest Fragments to the End of the Vth Century A.D.
История, Культурология

The Oxford Book of Latin Verse: From the Earliest Fragments to the End of the Vth Century A.D.

Автор: Garrod H. W.
Язык: английский
Год: 1912
Статус: Закончена
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Latin poetry begins where almost all poetry begins—in the rude ceremonial of a primitive people placating an unknown and dreaded spiritual world. The earliest fragments are priestly incantations. In one of these fragments the Salii placate...
The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
История, Культурология

The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering

Автор: Ранкур-Лаферьер Даниэль
Язык: английский
Год: 1995
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Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th...