Product Description: NEEDS portrays Baltimore's drug world as only a recovering addict can show it--from the alleys to the precincts, the neighborhoods to the 'hoods, the dives to the churches--shown through the eyes of a pair of police detectives who also are a romantic couple (and one of the pair is a heroin addict), the dealers, the down and out, the down but rising...read more

Product Description: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press Modernist Archaist offers a comprehensive English-language selection of Osip Mandelstam’s poetry, edited by Russian scholar Kevin M. F. Platt, who also contributes an illuminating essay...read more

Gathers writings by Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Pasternak, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Sokolov

The narrator describes a state in which the individuals have given up their freedom for materialistic rewards, in this utopian satire

Product Description: Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan and Robert Lowell, Mandelstam was a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in St...read more

Product Description: Osip Mandelstam, who died in 1938 in one of Stalin's labour camps, is one of the greatest poets of this century. Brown's 1978 volume is a very full and important book which tells of Mandelstam's earlier life and gives an introduction to the poetry...read more