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As Duckling sets off to explore the world, Chick is close behind, mimicking each of his actions with a perky "Me too." But when Duckling decides to go for a swim, his friend is in for a surprise. This charming tale, with brightly colored illustrations by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey, will delight small children who are also discovering the world around them.
An ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and evil, and on human frailty and the strength of love. The Devil appears in Moscow accompanied by a retinue of characters including a large vodka-drinking, pistol toting, black cat named Behemoth, the beautiful Margarita, and a writer known only as "The Master." These characters are joined by Pontius Pilate and Jesus Christ to combine in a wildly entertaining and unforgettable tale. Bulgakov tirelessly reworked the text of this book, going through eight separate versions in twelve years, the final corrections being dictated by Bulgakov to his wife after he had gone blind. Banned for decades in the Soviet Union, it was first published there in a censored version in 1966.
Completed in 1933, but not published until 1962, over twenty years
after its author's death, "The Life of Monsieur de Moliere" charts
the life of the French playwright, from humble beginnings to later
theatrical triumphs and political controversies. The work was met
with disapproval by the Soviet authorities, who detected parallels
between the lives of Moliere and Bulgakov, and viewed the work as a
veiled critique of their own times. With a dazzling blend of
biography and novelistic imagination, Bulgakov's eccentric and
satirical take on the life of a fellow writer energetically
captures the genius of Moliere, while revealing another aspect of
his own self.
"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. Notes From Underground, published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky's writing: it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale in Crime And Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov
Once known only to a small circle of admirers in Russia and the
West, Andrey Platonov (1899-1951) has emerged to assume his
rightful place as one of the major Russian writers of the twentieth
century. Set during a small Russian town during the forcible
collectivization of agriculture, "The Foundation Pit" portrays a
group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the
foundation pit for a grand building where all the town's will live
happily and "in silence."
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