Two shining souls : Jane Addams, Leo Tolstoy, and the quest for global peace / by Cracraft, James

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Telling times : writing and living, 1954-2008 / by Gordimer, Nadine

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The portable twentieth-century Russian reader /

Table of Contents: “…Alyosha the pot / Leo Tolstoy. -- The bishop / Anton Chekhov. -- Recollections of Leo Tolstoy / Maxim Gorky. -- Light breathing / Ivan Bunin. -- Time / Nadezhda Teffi. -- A girl was singing ; The stranger / Alexander Blok. -- from Petersburg / Andrei Bely. -- The cave / Evgeni Zamyatin. -- Nikolai / Velimir Khlebenikov. -- Three things in this world he loved ; We're no good at saying good-bye ; Dante ; When a man dies ; Courage / Anna Akhamatova. -- The Potudan River / Andrei Platonov. -- Varykino (from Dr. …”

Great Russian short stories /

Table of Contents: “…Turgenev -- White nights / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- How much land does a man need? / Leo Tolstoy -- The clothesmender / Nicholay Leskov -- The signal / Vsevolod M. …”

Lectures on literature / by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977

Russian poetry and prose.

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Ireland and the new journalism /

Table of Contents: “…Stead, E. J. Dillon, and Leo Tolstoy / Kevnin Rafter -- New journalism and modernism. …”

The Anthem guide to short fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Man in the Crowd / Edgar Allan Poe -- How Much Land Does a Man Need? / Leo Tolstoy -- The Californian's Tale / Mark Twain -- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- A White Heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The Story of an Hour / Kate Chopin -- A Scandal in Bohemia / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Lady with the Dog / Anton Chekhov -- The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Choice / Edith Wharton -- The Ranson of Red Chief / O. …”
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Conversations with Jay Parini /

Destined for evil? : the twentieth-century responses /

Table of Contents: “…Lamentations and losses: from New York to Kabul / Daniel Berrigan -- Evil as mystery: primal speech and contemporary poetry / Michael True -- The trial of man and the trial of God: Job and Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor / Predrag Cicovacki -- The resurrection of hell / Leo Tolstoy -- The Gulag Archipelago (a fragment) / Aleksandr I. …”
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Prophets of violence, prophets of peace : understanding the roots of contemporary political violence / by Suhail, K̲h̲ālid

Table of Contents: “…Gandhi: His Dilemmas and Dreams -- The Story of Tagore: and Gandhi's Relationship -- Gandhi's Truth: and Militant Non-Violence -- Mohammad Iqbal: A Muslim Scholar and Reformer -- Mohammad Ali Jinnah: The Story of Gandhi and Jinnah's Relationship -- Kamal Ataturk: A Secular Nationalist -- Nelson Mandela: A Violent Peacemaker -- Ho Chi Minh: A Revolutionary Saint -- Che Guevara: A Symbol of Armed Struggle Against Imperialism -- Prophets of Violence and Peace: Conclusion -- Frantz Fanon: and the Psychology of Violent Revolution -- Leo Tolstoy: and the Path of Peace and Love -- In Search of Peace: An Interview -- Liberating Iraq: Poem -- Violence, Peace and Green Zone Philosophy -- Killing in the Name of God -- In Search of a New Prophet: Poem.…”
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Anti-portraits : poetics of the face in modern English, Polish and Russian literature, 1835-1965 / by Pawlikowska, Kamila

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Diagnosing literary genius : a cultural history of psychiatry in Russia, 1880-1930 / by Sirotkina, Irina

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Gibran, Rihani & Naimy : East-West interactions in early twentieth-century Arab literature / by İmanquliyeva, Aida Näsir qızı

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Dr Afag Asadova -- Introduction -- Historical background: new Arabic literature and the Syro-American School -- Studies by Russian and Soviet scholars -- Studies in the Arabic-speaking world -- Studies by Western and other scholars -- Chapter 1: Arab émigré literature in the USA: origins and influences -- Social and political life in Lebanon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the origins of Arab émigré literature -- The influence of foreign literature on the Syro-American School -- Chapter 2: Kahlil Gibran: the development of the Romantic method -- Introduction -- Sentimentalism in Gibran's early works -- The formation of Gibran's Romantic world-view and his assimilation of English and American methods -- Romanticism as the fundamental method in Gibran's work -- The Prophet: a new stage in Gibran's work -- Chapter 3: Ameen Rihani and his role in the formation of Arab Romanticism -- Introduction -- Rihani's Romantic apprehension of reality and his experience of the American Romantics -- Romanticism in Rihani's story Jahan and short prose genres -- Chapter 4: Mikhail Naimy and nineteenth- century Russian literature -- Introduction -- The aesthetics of Belinsky in Naimy's views as a critic -- The influence of Leo Tolstoy's world-view on Naimy's work -- Fathers and Sons: Naimy's play and Turgenev's novel -- Naimy's short stories and the Chekhovian tradition -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Destined for evil? : the twentieth-century responses /

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Global Wallace : David Foster Wallace and world literature / by Thompson, Lucas

Conversations with Jay Parini /

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Virginia Woolf, the war without, the war within : her final diaries & the diaries she read / by Lounsberry, Barbara

True songs of freedom : Uncle Tom's cabin in Russian culture and society / by MacKay, John

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Hagiography and modern Russian literature / by Ziolkowski, Margaret, 1952-

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