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74 relations: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Andrei Bely, Archil Gomiashvili, BBC, BBC Radio 4, Ben Jonson, Census, Chatto & Windus, Clifford Odets, Constance Garnett, D. S. Mirsky, David Magarshack, Dead Souls (1984 film), Divine Comedy, Donald Rayfield, Emancipation reform of 1861, Epic poetry, Frank O'Connor, French invasion of Russia, George Reavey, Get-rich-quick scheme, Governorate (Russia), Hardcover, Isabel Florence Hapgood, Kessinger Publishing, Konstantin Aksakov, Konstantin Stanislavski, Land tenure, Laurence Sterne, Leitmotif, Literary modernism, Loan, Lost work, Mark Heap, Measure word, Michael Palin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mikhail Schweitzer, Mortgage law, Moscow Art Theatre, New American Library, New York Review Books, Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Gogol bibliography, Novel, Odyssey, Opera, Oxford World's Classics, Paperback, Penguin Classics, ..., Personal property, Philistinism, Picaresque novel, Politics, Poshlost, Property, Prose, Radio, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Robert Maguire, Rodion Shchedrin, Russian Empire, Russian language, Russian literature, Satire, Serfdom, Sergei Yursky, Soul, Tax, Theatre practitioner, Verse (poetry), Vladimir Nabokov, W. W. Norton & Company. Expand index (24 more) »
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death.
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Andrei Bely
Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (a), better known by the pen name Andrei Bely (a; – 8 January 1934), was a Russian novelist, poet, theorist, and literary critic.
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Archil Gomiashvili
Archil Mikhaylovich Gomiashvili (Арчи́л Миха́йлович Гомиашви́ли, არჩილ მიხეილის ძე გომიაშვილი, March 23, 1926 in Chiatura, Georgia, USSR – May 31, 2005 in Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Soviet Georgian theatre and film actor (People's Artist of Georgia, 1966) best known for his part of Ostap Bender in Leonid Gaidai's 1971 adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's The Twelve Chairs.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.
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Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy.
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Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.
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Chatto & Windus
Chatto & Windus was an important publisher of books in London, founded in the Victorian era.
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Clifford Odets
Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director.
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Constance Garnett
Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature.
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D. S. Mirsky
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David Magarshack
David Magarshack (23 December 1899 – 26 October 1977) was a British translator and biographer of Russian authors, best known for his translations of Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol.
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Dead Souls (1984 film)
Dead Souls (Myortvye dushi) is a 1984 Soviet television miniseries directed by Mikhail Shveytser, based on Nikolai Gogol's novel of the same name.
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Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321.
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Donald Rayfield
(Patrick) Donald Rayfield (born February 1942, Oxford) is professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London.
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Emancipation reform of 1861
The Emancipation Reform of 1861 in Russia (translit, literally: "the peasants Reform of 1861") was the first and most important of liberal reforms passed during the reign (1855-1881) of Emperor Alexander II of Russia.
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Epic poetry
An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.
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Frank O'Connor
Frank O'Connor (born Michael Francis O'Donovan; 17 September 1903 – 10 March 1966) was an Irish writer of over 150 works, best known for his short stories and memoirs.
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French invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Отечественная война 1812 года Otechestvennaya Voyna 1812 Goda) and in France as the Russian Campaign (Campagne de Russie), began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army.
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George Reavey
George Reavey (1 May 1907 – 11 August 1976) was a Russian-born Irish surrealist poet, publisher, translator and art collector.
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Get-rich-quick scheme
A get-rich-quick scheme is a plan to obtain high rates of return for a small investment.
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Governorate (Russia)
A governorate, or a guberniya (p; also romanized gubernia, guberniia, gubernya), was a major and principal administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire and the early Russian SFSR and Ukrainian SSR.
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Hardcover
A hardcover or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of Binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).
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Isabel Florence Hapgood
Isabel Florence Hapgood (November 21, 1851 – June 26, 1928) was an American ecumenist, writer and translator, especially of Russian and French texts.
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Kessinger Publishing
Kessinger Publishing LLC is an American print on demand publishing company located in Whitefish, Montana that specializes in rare, out of print books.
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Konstantin Aksakov
Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov (Константи́н Серге́евич Акса́ков) (10 April 1817, Novo-Aksakov, Orenburg Governorate – 19 December 1860, Zakynthos, US of the Ionian Islands) was a Russian critic and writer, one of the earliest and most notable Slavophiles.
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Konstantin Stanislavski
Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski (né Alexeiev; p; 7 August 1938) was a seminal Russian theatre practitioner.
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Land tenure
In common law systems, land tenure is the legal regime in which land is owned by an individual, who is said to "hold" the land.
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Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman.
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Leitmotif
A leitmotif or leitmotiv is a "short, constantly recurring musical phrase"Kennedy (1987), Leitmotiv associated with a particular person, place, or idea.
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Literary modernism
Literary modernism, or modernist literature, has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a very self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction.
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Loan
In finance, a loan is the lending of money by one or more individuals, organizations, and/or other entities to other individuals, organizations etc.
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Lost work
A lost work is a document, literary work, or piece of multimedia produced some time in the past of which no surviving copies are known to exist.
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Mark Heap
Mark Heap (born 13 May 1957) is an English actor, best known for his roles in television comedies such as Spaced, Brass Eye, Big Train, Jam, Green Wing, Upstart Crow and Friday Night Dinner.
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Measure word
In linguistics, measure words are words (or morphemes) that are used in combination with a numeral to indicate an amount of something represented by some noun.
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Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin (pronounced; born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter.
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Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (p; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century.
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Mikhail Schweitzer
Mikhail (or Moisei/Moses) Abramovich Schweitzer (Михаил (Моисей) Абрамович Швейцер, 16 February 1920, Perm, RSFSR - 2 June 2000, Russia) was an outstanding Soviet film director, People's Artist of the RSFSR and People's Artist of the USSR.
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Mortgage law
A mortgage is a security interest in real property held by a lender as a security for a debt, usually a loan of money.
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Moscow Art Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; Московский Художественный академический театр (МХАТ), Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr (МHАТ)) is a theatre company in Moscow.
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New American Library
The New American Library (NAL) is an American publisher based in New York, founded in 1948.
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New York Review Books
New York Review Books (NYRB) is the publishing house of The New York Review of Books.
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Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852) was a Russian speaking dramatist of Ukrainian origin.
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Nikolai Gogol bibliography
This is a list of the works by Nikolai Gogol (1809–52), followed by a list of adaptations of his works.
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Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.
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Odyssey
The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια Odýsseia, in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.
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Opera
Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.
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Oxford World's Classics
Oxford World's Classics is an imprint of Oxford University Press.
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Paperback
A paperback is a type of book characterized by a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.
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Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics is an imprint published by Penguin Books, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House.
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Personal property
Personal property is generally considered property that is movable, as opposed to real property or real estate.
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Philistinism
In the fields of philosophy and æsthetics, the derogatory term philistinism describes “the manners, habits, and character, or mode of thinking of a philistine”, manifested as an anti-intellectual social attitude that undervalues and despises art and beauty, intellect and spirituality.
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Picaresque novel
The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for "rogue" or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by their wits in a corrupt society.
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Politics
Politics (from Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.
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Poshlost
Poshlost or Poshlost' (p) is a Russian word for a particular negative human character trait or man-made thing or idea.
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Property
Property, in the abstract, is what belongs to or with something, whether as an attribute or as a component of said thing.
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Prose
Prose is a form of language that exhibits a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure rather than a rhythmic structure as in traditional poetry, where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme.
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Radio
Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a broadcasting organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East where it says that "the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed".
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Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Лариса Волохонская, RU) are a couple who are best known for their collaborative translations.
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Robert Maguire
Robert A. Maguire (August 3, 1921 – February 26, 2005), or R. A. Maguire, was a twentieth-century American illustrator and fine artist.
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Rodion Shchedrin
Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin (Родион Константинович Щедрин, Rodion Konstantinovič Ščedrin,; born 16 December 1932) is a Russian composer and pianist, winner of the Lenin Prize (1984), USSR State Prize (1972), and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1992), and is a former member of the Interregional Deputy Group (1989–1991).
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.
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Russian language
Russian (rússkiy yazýk) is an East Slavic language, which is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely spoken throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
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Russian literature
Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus', the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
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Serfdom
Serfdom is the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism.
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Sergei Yursky
Sergei Yurievich Yursky (Серге́й Ю́рьевич Ю́рский, born 16 March 1935, Leningrad, USSR) is a Soviet/Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and screenwriter.
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Soul
In many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, there is a belief in the incorporeal essence of a living being called the soul. Soul or psyche (Greek: "psychē", of "psychein", "to breathe") are the mental abilities of a living being: reason, character, feeling, consciousness, memory, perception, thinking, etc.
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Tax
A tax (from the Latin taxo) is a mandatory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed upon a taxpayer (an individual or other legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund various public expenditures.
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Theatre practitioner
Theatre practitioner is a modern term to describe someone who both creates theatrical performances and who produces a theoretical discourse that informs his or her practical work.
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Verse (poetry)
In the countable sense, a verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition.
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Souls
