The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
Die polnische Dichterin Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska: Hauptmotive in ihrer Lyrik
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 9.70Gegenstand dieses Buches ist die Darstellung der Hauptmotive im lyrischen Werk Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewskas, die in der polnischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts einen hohen Stellenwert einnimmt. In ihrem Schaffen spiegelt sich unter anderem die neue Stellung der Frau in der polnischen Gesellschaft nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg wider. Der Natur in allen... more...
The Possessed
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010; US$ 15.99One of The Economist ?s 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED?ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!?TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS No one who read Elif Batuman?s first article (in the journal n+1 ) will ever forget it. ?Babel in California? told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford... more...
The Bomber
Transworld 2011; US$ 10.67Seven days. Three killings. And one woman who knows too much... Crime reporter Annika Bengtzon is woken by a phonecall in the early hours of a wintry December morning. An explosion has ripped apart the Olympic Stadium. And a victim has been blown to pieces. As Annika delves into the details of the bombing and the background of the... more...
Marek Hlasko
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 40.98Hauptbeschreibung Eine oft und gern genutzte Ausdrucksform für die menschliche Selbstdarstellung ist die literarische Autobiographie. Sie bildet zwischen dem, was ein Mensch ist, und dem, was er sein möchte eine Art Brücke. In der Autobiographie beschäftigt sich der Schreibende retrospektiv mit seinem eigenem Leben, indem er versucht aus der Gegenwart... more...
The Poetic Imagination of Vyacheslav Ivanov
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 32.00Pamela Davidson explores Ivanov's poetic method, relating his art to his central beliefs. more...
Gender and Russian Literature
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 34.00A 1996 overview of key issues in Russian women's writing and of important representations of women by men, from 1600 onwards. more...
August Strindberg: Selected Essays
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 53.00This is a fully edited translation of a series of essays by the great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg. more...
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Random House 2010; US$ 10.67From behind the closed door, the man shouts, 'Be on your way - you have no business here!' 'Open up, I am the messenger of Death'. As spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers strike the National Bank. Old terrors are dredged up from the shipwreck of history. And ultra-explosive... more...
Broken April
Random House 2010; US$ 12.00From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn be hunted down. After shooting his brother's killer, young Gjorg is entitled to thirty days' grace - not enough to see out the month of April. Then a visiting honeymoon couple... more...
A Frequency Dictionary of Czech
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 47.95A Frequency Dictionary of Czech is an invaluable tool for all learners of Czech, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language. Based on data from a 100 million word corpus and evenly balanced between spoken, fiction, non-fiction and newspaper texts, the dictionary provides the user with a detailed frequency-based... more...









