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Im Frühjahr 1346 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung steht die Menschheit vor der größten Bedrohung ihrer Geschichte: Mit einer gigantischen Übermacht hat die Terminale Kolonne TRAITOR die Milchstraße besetzt und alle bewohnten Planeten unter ihre Kontrolle gebracht. Die gigantische Raumflotte steht im Dienst der sogenannten Chaotarchen. Ihr Ziel ist, die Ressourcen der Milchstraße auszubeuten, um die Existenz der Negasphäre abzusichern.

Izdanie soderzhit rasskazy velikogo russkogo pisatelja Antona Pavlovicha Chehova, napisannye 1886g. Chehov sozdal novye hody v literature, sil'no povlijav na razvitie sovremennogo rasskaza. Original'nost' ego tvorcheskogo metoda zakljuchaetsja v ispol'zovanii prijoma pod nazvaniem «potok soznanija». Chehov ne stremilsja dat' otvety chitajushhej publike, a schital, chto rol' avtora zakljuchaetsja v tom, chtoby zadavat' voprosy, a ne otvechat' na nih.

Ja s vami govorju! Esli ne umeete pet', to za kakim chjortom vy lezete na scenu so svoim voron'im karkan'em? Nachinajte snachala! — Tak krichal on i treshhal po partiture svoej dirizherskoj palochkoj. Jetim kosmatym gospodam dirizheram mnogoe proshhaetsja.

Emu chrezvychajno ne nravilos', kogda kto-nibud' zavodil rech' ob ego molodosti, osobenno v prisutstvii zhenshhin ili gimnazistov. S teh por kak on priehal v jetot gorod i postupil na sluzhbu, on stal nenavidet' svoju molozhavost'. Gimnazisty ego ne bojalis', stariki velichali molodym chelovekom, zhenshhiny ohotnee tancevali s nim, chem slushali ego dlinnye rassuzhdenija. I on dorogo dal by za to, chtoby postaret' teper' let na desjat'.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. Human beings are, in the main, social animals, they like to gather, to herd together, to share experiences. But some do not. Either through choice or exclusion their way forward is difficult. In this volume our authors and their characters share their stories.

In "A Nervous Breakdown", Vasilyev feeling distressed after his visit to few brothels for the first time. Guilt, disgust and shame and of that little voices debating inside his mind that lead him to a symptom of a nervous breakdown. A quirky storytelling, quite distressing but entertaining.

Yesterday’s Tomorrow, the first volume in The Secret Memoirs of Anton Krait, introduces readers to a college professor whose favorite pastime is a complex intellectual game. Drawn into the search for a missing woman, Anton Krait travels to Egypt and finds himself pursued by members of a dangerous religious cult. As Krait and several companions conduct their investigation, they learn the cult is on the verge of an act of terrorism that could result in the loss of millions of lives. Using only his wits, Krait must defeat a formidable enemy in order to save himself and protect the future of ...

Два брата, один самый обычный человек, другой обладатель странной, противоречащей всем постулатам современной науки способности "временной смерти". Как сложится их судьба, когда после событий, положивших конец привычному укладу вещей, они окажутся по разные стороны баррикад?

This is a story from the In the Ravine and Other Stories collection.

In the final years of his life, Chekhov produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces and some of the most highly regarded works in Russian literature. With the works collected here, Chekhov moved away from the realism of his earlier tales - developing a broader range of characters and subject matter, while forging the spare minimalist style that would inspire such modern short-story writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Un joven tímido vive, gracias a un beso robado durante una fiesta, un torbellino de emociones. Se convierte de pronto en protagonista de un inesperado e inusual romance. A través de la pluma de Chéjov, quizás el mejor cuentista ruso de todos los tiempos, nos transportamos a la Rusia de finales del siglo XIX, en el que la pasión, la moral y los sentimientos están en constante conflicto. Un cuento inolvidable sobre los vínculos y las ilusiones de la vida.

The short story "Vanka", originally published in 1887 as a Christmas tale in the Peterburgskaya Gazeta, is quintessential Chekhov. Anton Chekhov, Russian short story writer and playwright, was a master of humorous but almost dark tales of mundane and often anti-climactic Russian life in the 19th century. "Vanka" is the story of a young shoemaker’s apprentice, who writes a letter in secret to his only living relative, his grandfather with a desperate plea to save him from the miserable life he lives with the shoemaker.

Ivan Chervyakov, a petty government official, while in the theatre, sneezes right upon the head of a man sitting in front of him, who happens to be a high-ranking government official. He spends the evening and the next day fawning before his sneeze victim trying to extract forgiveness, but what he succeeds instead is only bringing out a fit of rage in him. Shocked, Chervyakov returns home to lie there and die, due to the sheer stress of having endured such horror. Read in English, unabridged.

Prayer of Gratitude includes a reading of the eponymous prayer followed by beautiful piano music based on original compositions of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Piano music includes The Seasons, Les Saisons Op. 37a, July: Song of the Reaper. Prayer read in English, unabridged, by Josh Verbae. Music recording by Anton Kingsbury.

The Irish Blessing includes a reading of the eponymous prayer followed by beautiful piano music based on original compositions of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Piano music includes The Seasons, Les Saisons Op. 37a, November: Troika. Prayer read in English, unabridged, by Josh Verbae. Music recording by Anton Kingsbury.

The collection of the great Russian writer Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) includes his stories.

Misery by Anton Chekhov is a short story that explores the working-class, human despair, and suffering in Tsarist Russia. Chekhov's brief portrait of working-class life follows a sledge driver named Iona as he attempts to process his grief about his son's untimely death.

Anton Chekhov belongs to the cohort of the most prominent Russian classics, together with Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin. The rankings of the most read authors, comprising the 'golden fund' of the world's literature, persistently include Chekhov alongside Charles Dickens, the Bronte Sisters, Mark Twain... Chekhov's plays, such as Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and the short stories of this collection, are featured in the curriculum of faculties of philology of top global universities, such as University of Oxford, Harvard University and many more.

Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897. The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle. Two friends—Vanya, brother of the professor's late first wife, who has long managed the estate, and Astrov, the local doctor—both fall under Yelena's spell while bemoaning the ennui of their provincial existence. Sonya, the professor's daughter by his first wife, who has worked with Vanya to keep the estate going, suffers from her unrequited feelings for Astrov.

Paris, 1926. A young dancer Ray Cohen arrives from London to compete at the Exhibition Paris. He is led astray by Hugo, a charismatic dancer born of the streets, who introduces him to the city's nightlife and a beautiful stranger called Hannah Lindt. His life is forever changed. London, 1941. With the heroic Raymond de Guise away fighting in North Africa, his beloved wife Nancy must balance her new position - as Head of Housekeeping at the Buckingham Hotel - with her duties as a new mother to their child.