Bøger af Vladimir Orel

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. In the compilation of this volume I have been guided by the desire to give the largest possible representation to the prominent authors of the Russian short story, and to present specimens cha-racteristic of each. At the same time the element of interest has been kept in mind; and in a few instances, as in the case of Korolenko, the selection of the story was made with a view to its intrinsic merit and striking qualities rather than as typifying the writer's art. It was, of course, impossible in the space of one book to exhaust all that is best. But to my knowledge, the present volume is the most comprehensive anthology of the Russian short story in the English language, and gives a fair notion of the achievement in that field. All who enjoy good reading, I have no reason to doubt, will get pleasure from it, and if, in addition, it will prove of assistance to American students of Russian literature, I shall feel that the task has been doubly worth the while.

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. This collection of French short stories is a logical continuation of our earlier publication, Best Russian Short Stories. The present volume reflects, to some extent, the enigmatic universe of French story telling with its tradition of crisp, clear and stylistically refined language giving an unusual depth and laconism to psychological characteristics of human beings. We hope that English translations render some of the beauty and internal narrative consistency of French originals.

The son and one of the creators of the Spanish "Golden Age", Calderón (16000 1681) was an inexhaustible playwright - he wrote more than 200 original comedies and autos sacramentales, dramatic works in which he gave artistic expression to seemingly abstract concepts of theology. A persistent labourer, Calderón continued reshaping and rewriting his own work, seeking esthetic perfection. Tightly knit, his plays are full of intricately organized action and nexpected, yet natural, motivations.

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. This volume introduces the reader to the life of Buddha and to two important religious writings in the domain of Buddhism. The first of them is Dhammapada ("The Path of Dharma"), a collection of mostly ethical sayings traditionally ascribed to Buddha and written in Pali. It constitutes a part of the Buddhist canon in the Theravada tradition. The second text, also belonging to the same tradition, is Sutta-Nipata, probably the oldest or one of the oldest Buddhist scriptures reflecting - we can believe - the most conservative form of Buddhism.

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Jacques Anatole François Thibault (1844-1924) wrote under the pen name Anatole France. France's whole life was connected with books, his father was a bookseller, and bookshelves were the future writer's natural ambience. France, with his admiration of culture and written word, of reason and sensibility, revived the French tradition rooted in the XVIIIth century Enlightenment. His high rationalism was only matched by his irony and skeptical attitude to the mankind. Theophania Publishing

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is probably the most famous Dane. We all meet with him in our childhood as a wonderful and touching story-teller. In our volume Andersen appears in two different roles - as a familiar teller of fairy tales and as an intriguing author of his own story, his life.

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The present volume introduces our readers to the great and noble tradition of French dramatic art as represented by three colossus of French drama - Jean Racine (1639-1699), Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) and the great comediograph of all times Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name, Molière (1622-1673). The world of the XVIIth century French drama with all its artistic energy and moral fervour is now yours to explore.