The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
Title | The Spectre of Alexander Wolf PDF eBook |
Author | Gaito Gazdanov |
Publisher | Pushkin Press Classics |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 2013-06-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1782270361 |
Of all my memories, of all my life's innumerable sensations, the most onerous was that of the single murder I had committed.' A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man. So begins the strange quest for the elusive writer 'Alexander Wolf'. A singular classic, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf is a psychological thriller and existential inquiry into guilt and redemption, coincidence and fate, love and death.
The Specter of Alexander Wolf
Title | The Specter of Alexander Wolf PDF eBook |
Author | Гайто Газданов |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1950 |
Genre | Russian literature |
ISBN |
The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
Title | The Spectre of Alexander Wolf PDF eBook |
Author | Gaito Gazdanov |
Publisher | Pushkin Press Classics |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2023-11-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1805330233 |
A superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov’s fellow émigré writers, rediscovered after more than half a century "This psychological novel takes stock of death, war, violence and the guilt that undergirds it all." — The New York Times Book Review A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man. So begins the strange quest for its elusive writer: "Alexander Wolf." A singular classic, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf is a psychological thriller and existential inquiry into guilt and redemption, coincidence and fate, love and death
Winnie and Wolf
Title | Winnie and Wolf PDF eBook |
Author | A. N. Wilson |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2009-10-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0312428626 |
Winnie and Wolf is the story of the extraordinary friendship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler in the Years between the First and Second World Wars. The girl who would become Winifred Wagner was raised in an orphanage and married, at the age of eighteen, to the gay son of composer Richard Wagner. As heiress to the country's most august cultural legacy, she grows up in the Wagner family compound, surrounded by the philosophers and composers who would define western European culture in the mid-twentieth century. In 1923, the Wagners met the man who would be their hero and hope for the future: a wild-eyed Viennese opera fanatic named Adolf Hitler. Almost immediately Winnie and Wolf struck up an intimate friendship. In A. N. Wilson's most bold and ambitious novel yet, the world of the Weimar Republic comes to vivid life as the backdrop to this strange and powerful kinship.
An Evening with Claire
Title | An Evening with Claire PDF eBook |
Author | Gaito Gazdanov |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2014-08-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780715649176 |
Night Roads
Title | Night Roads PDF eBook |
Author | Гаито Газданов |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2009-04-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0810125587 |
Drawing together episodes of rich atmosphere, this novel is as deep and brooding as the Paris nights that serve as its backdrop. Russian writer Gaito Gazdanov arrived in Paris, as so many did, between the wars and would go on, with this fourth novel, to give readers a crisp rendering of a living city changing beneath its people’s feet. Night Roads is loosely based on the author’s experiences as a cab driver in those disorienting, often brutal years, and the narrator moves from episode to episode, holding court with many but sharing his mind with only a few. His companions are drawn straight out of the Parisian past: the legendary courtesan Jeanne Raldi, now in her later days, and an alcoholic philosopher who goes by the name of Plato. Along the way, the driver picks up other characters, such as the dull thinker who takes on the question of the meaning of life only to be driven insane. The dark humor of that young man’s failure against the narrator’s authentic, personal explorations of the same subject is captured in this first English translation. With his trademark émigré eye, Gazdanov pairs humor with cruelty, sharpening the bite of both.
The Rosewater Insurrection
Title | The Rosewater Insurrection PDF eBook |
Author | Tade Thompson |
Publisher | Orbit |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2019-03-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316449067 |
The Rosewater Insurrection continues the award-winning science fiction trilogy by one of science fiction's most engaging voices. All is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood. Those who know the truth of the invasion keep the secret. The government agent Aminat, the lover of the retired sensitive Kaaro, is at the forefront of the cold, silent conflict. She must capture a woman who is the key to the survival of the human race. But Aminat is stymied by the machinations of the Mayor of Rosewater and the emergence of an old enemy of Wormwood. Innovative and genre-bending, Tade Thompson's ambitious Afrofuturist series is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. K. Jemisin, and Ann Leckie. Praise for The Wormwood Trilogy: "Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!" —Ann Leckie, award winning-author of Ancillary Justice "Mesmerising. There are echoes of Neuromancer and Arrival in here, but this astonishing debut is beholden to no one." —M. R. Carey, bestselling author of The Girl with All the Gifts "A magnificent tour de force, skillfully written and full of original and disturbing ideas." —Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time The Wormwood Trilogy Rosewater The Rosewater Insurrection The Rosewater Redemption