Isbn: 9798181586154 - tales of the uncanny (the parapet press russian library) (4 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Newly translated and gathered together for the first time in a single volume.Eight tales of love, fate, and the thin places between the living and the dead. A woman of mist carries a sleeping man across the night skies, asking only for his blood. A forbidden reading of Goethe wakes a passion in a married woman that cannot be put back to sleep. An officer follows a knocking no one else can hear toward the end he believes was always meant for him. A young man courts a dead actress - until she begins, gently, to court him in return.Across these eight stories, Ivan Turgenev turns from the drawing rooms of his great novels to the country of the uncanny: dreams that repeat until they come true, a song that wakes the half-dead, an invisible dog that pads through a locked room. Here desire and dread keep the same hours, and the boundary a reasonable man trusts proves to be no boundary at all.Quiet, exact, and steeped in dread, these tales show one of Russia's great realists at the edge of the rational - where the dead keep their appointments, and love proves stronger than the grave. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…