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Reading Chekhov
Биографии и мемуары

Reading Chekhov

Автор: Malcolm Janet
Язык: английский
Год: 2007
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To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov's writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from Chekhov's life and...
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Биографии и мемуары, Филология

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Серия: The Last Interview
Язык: английский
Год: 2019
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“Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.” —Ursula K. Le Guin When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a...
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

Автор: Rhodes Richard
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary inven­tion based on the rapid switching of communications sig­nals among a spread of different...
What to Look for in Winter
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What to Look for in Winter

Автор: McWilliam Candia
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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"The most startling, discomforting, complicated, ungovernable, hilarious, and heartrending of memoirs" (The Telegraph, london) — the story of a celebrated writer's sudden descent into blindness, and the redemptive journey into the past that her...
Survivor of the Long March: Five Years as a PoW 1940-1945
Биографии и мемуары, Военная история

Survivor of the Long March: Five Years as a PoW 1940-1945

Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the Queen’s Royal Regiment, was ill-prepared when his convoy took a wrong turning near Abbeville and met 400 German soldiers and half a dozen tanks. “The day I was captured, I had a...