Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 (Frank Joseph)(Paperback)

Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 (Frank Joseph)(Paperback)

This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote A Raw Youth, Diary of a Writer, and his crowning triumph: The Brothers

Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 (Frank Joseph)(Paperback)

This volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, covers the six most remarkably productive years in the novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels--Crime and Punishment, The

Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (Frank Joseph)(Paperback)

The book description for the previously published 'Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865' is not yet

Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 (Frank Joseph)(Paperback)

The term 'biography' seems insufficiently capacious to describe the singular achievement of Joseph Frank's five-volume study of the life of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. One critic, writing upon the publication of the final volume, casually tagged the series as the ultimate work on

Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 (Frank Joseph)(Paperback)

The description for this book, Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859, will be forthcoming.-- 'Kirkus

Lectures on Dostoevsky (Frank Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major works Joseph Frank (1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer, scholar, and critic of his time. His

Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time (Frank Joseph)(Paperback)

A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now

The Mantle of the Prophet (Mottahedeh Roy)(Paperback)

Informed by eyewitness testimony, the foremost account of Iran's 1979 Revolution and its impact today Drawn from the first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, Roy Mottahedeh's absorbing tale of Islam and Politics in revolutionary Iran is widely regarded as one of the best records of that turbulent time

Devils (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed, is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray that follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. This new translation includes

Children of the Siege (Costeloe Diney)(Paperback)

After the Franco-Prussian War and the siege of 1870-1871, the St. Clair family return to Paris, only to be swept up into the terrible cruelties and violence of the Commune. Here their young daughter, Helene, falls ill, becomes separated from the family, and is captured, before escaping to fend for

The Book of Enoch the Prophet (Laurence Richard)(Paperback)

This is a reprint of the Apocryphal Book of Enoch the Prophet which was first discovered in Abyssinia in the year 1773 by a Scottish explorer named James Bruce. In 1821 The Book of Enoch was translated by Richard Laurence and published in a number of successive editions, culminating in the 1883

The Life of the Prophet Muhammad (Azzam Leila)(Paperback)

This children's book on the life of the Prophet Muhammad is taken from traditional Muslim biographical literature. Although written for children of 10 to 15 years of age, it can be usefully read by anyone as an introduction because of its completeness and

The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881 (Bartal Israel)(Paperback)

The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881 Israel Bartal. Translated by Chaya Naor 'The book represents a remarkable achievement. Bartal presents the broad contours of nineteenth-century East European Jewish history even as he reworks them into a nontraditional narrative. He offers readers basic

Treasure at the Top of the World (Mantle Clive)(Paperback / softback)

Medicine of the Prophet (Al-Jawziyya Ibn Qayyim)(Paperback)

Medicine of the Prophet is a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as enshrined in the Qur'an and the hadith, or sayings of the

Prophet Muhammad: The First Sufi of Islam (Moon Farzana)(Paperback)

Islam, the religion of peace and reconciliation, as taught and practiced by the Prophet, comes alive in this book, preserving the pearl of truth from the heart of Qur'an and Prophet. Adeptly researched facts, free from the rust of lies and distortions are a fresh challenge to the reader; to

Anne Frank (Poole Josephine)(Paperback / softback)

This picture book biography tells the incredible story of Anne Frank for a younger audience. Anne Frank's diary telling the story of her years in hiding from the Nazis has affected millions of people. In the first half of the book we meet Anne as a small child growing up with her family in

Memoirs from the House of the Dead (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their

Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Tressell Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Frank Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just

Massacre - The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871 (Merriman John M.)(Paperback / softback)

Before Atlantis: 20 Million Years of Human and Pre-Human Cultures (Joseph Frank)(Paperback)

A comprehensive exploration of Earth's ancient past, the evolution of humanity, the rise of civilization, and the effects of global catastrophes - Explores biological evidence for the aquatic ape theory and 20-million-year-old evidence of pre-human cultures from which we are not descended - Traces

The Queen's Prophet (Patitucci Dawn)(Paperback)

Inspired by Velazquez's baroque masterpiece, Las Meninas, The Queen's Prophet is an imagined account of the dwarfess Maribarbola of Spain (featured prominently in Velazquez's painting) and her struggle for survival and self-determination at a time when dwarfs were kept by aristocracy as pets,

The House of the Dead (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is sent to a prison colony in Siberia for killing his wife. Largely ignored at first by his fellow inmates due to his noble blood, he gradually settles in and becomes an avid observer of the new world around him -

Jewel in the Sands of Time (Mantle Clive)(Paperback / softback)