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Vladimir Voinovich
Vladimir Voinovich (1932-2018)

poet, painter, playwright, lyricist, dissident

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Avtoportret
In plain Russian
Pretendent na prestol
The Ivankiad
Monumental propaganda
The anti-Soviet Soviet Union
The fur hat
The Ivankiad
Monumental propaganda
The anti-Soviet Soviet Union
Die denkwürdigen Abenteuer des Soldaten Iwan Tschonkin
Obrazy i slova
Putem vzaimnoi perepiski =
Moskorep
[Tribunal
Fur Hat
Zamysel
Personalʹnoe delo
Portret na fone mifa
Stepen' doveriya
Moskva 2042
Delo No. 34840
Monumentalʹnai︠a︡ propaganda
Antologiya satirȳ i yumora Rossii XX veka
Moscow 2042
Vladimir Voĭnovich
Maloe sobranie sochineniĭ
Ivan'kiada
Zapakh shokolada
Ivan'kiada
Shapka
The fur hat
Ivankiad
Delo N⁰ 34840
Zamysel
Maloe sobranie sochinenii v 5 tomakh
Monumental Propaganda
Putem vzaimnoĭ perepiski
Жизнь и необычайные приключения солдата Ивана Чонкина / Дюжина ножей в спину революции
Tribunal
A displaced person
Pretendent na prestol
[Shapka
Dva tovarischa
Derevi︠a︡nnoe i︠a︡bloko svobody
Stepen' doveriia
Khochu bytʹ chestnym
Skazka o glupom Galilee
Pretendent na prestol
Ivankiada
Anti Sovietskii Sovietski Soyuz
Faktor Murzika
Nulevoe Reshenie
Skazki dli͡a︡ vzroslykh
The Ivankiad, or, The tale of the writer Voinovich's installation in his new apartment
Czapka
The fur hat
Putet vzaimnoi perepiski
Chonkin i dr.
Monumentalʹnai͡a propaganda
Pute m vzaimno i perepiski
Ivanʹki︠a︡da, ili rasskaz o vselenii pisateli︠a︡ Voĭnovicha v novui︠u︡ kvartiru
Ivan'iada ili rasskaz o vselenii pisatelya Voinovicha v novuyu kvartiru
Povesti
Alʹbom
Tribunal
Monumentalʹnai͡a︡ propaganda
Mon pays bien-aimé
Monumentalnaia propaganda
Malinovyĭ pelikan
Putem vzaimnoĭ perepiski
Putem vzaimnoĭ perepiski
Zwei Freunde
Tribunal
Dvapli︠u︡sodin v odnom flakone
In Plain Russian
Ivan'kiada
Avtoportret
Zamysel
Moskva 2042
V stile Andre Sharli︠a︡ Buli︠a︡
Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)

painter, scenographer, drawer, sculptor, artist

  • Chelsea Grin, New Hall School

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Down below
The hearing trumpet
Reinas del Abismo
Leonora Carrington
The seventh horse, and other tales
The stone door
Leonora Carrington--the Mexican years, 1943-1985
The house of fear
The oval lady, other stories
Leonora Carrington
Artistas en México
The complete stories of Leonora Carrington
Skeleton's Holiday
Tarot of Leonora Carrington
La débutante
Leonora Carrington Leche Del Sueo
Down below
The talismanic lens
Le Cornet acoustique
Leonora Carrington, a retrospective exhibition
El mundo mágico de los mayas
Leonora Carrington
Korku Evi - Yedinci At
Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
Milk of Dreams
The seventh horse and other stories
Casa del Miedo, La. Memorias de Abajo
Down below
Sirdas Trompet
La porte de pierre
Pigeon vole
Memorias de Abajo
Cuerpo del cosmos
The Mexican Years
Reonōra Kyarinton Ten
En bas
El Septimo Caballo
La dama oval
La dame ovale
El mundo mágico de los mayas. Interpretación de Leonora Carrington; textos de Andrés Medina [y] Laurette Séjourné
Le cornet acoustique
Libertad en bronce
Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle (1853-1911)

illustrator, painter

  • Art Students League of New York

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Howard Pyle
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire
Otto of the Silver Hand
Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers--Volume Two
The story of King Arthur and his knights
The wonder clock
The story of Sir Launcelot and his companions
The Garden Behind the Moon
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
Men of Iron
The story of the Grail and the passing of Arthur
Rejected of men
Pepper & salt
Twilight land
The ruby of Kishmoor
King Stork
Pepper & Salt or Seasoning for Young Folk
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
The Book of Pirates
Bearskin
The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes
The Rose of Paradise
A catalogue of drawings illustrating the life of Gen
Men of Iron
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (Story King Arthur His Knight Hre)
The Price of Blood: An extravaganza of New York life in 1807
The Garden Behind the Moon: A Real Story of the Moon Angel
Boy's Book of Pirates
The book of King Arthur
The Story of Sir Lancelot and his Companions
The price of blood
The Swan Maiden
The wonder clock, or, Four & twenty marvelous tales
The King Arthur CD Audio Collection
The Garden Behind the Moon ..
Wonder Clock (Starscape)
Men of Iron
Pirates, Patriots, and Princesses
Tales of pirates and buccaneers
Men of Iron
Pepper and Salt & The Wonder Clock
Ruby of Kishmoor, The
Otto of the Silver Hand
Pepper and Salt, or Seasoning for Young Folk
Historia del Rey Arturo y sus caballeros
King Arthur
Readers Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Wonder Clock
The Brandywine heritage
El libro de los piratas
History and romance
Story of the Champions of the Round Table, The
Howard Pyle's Robin Hood
Howard Pyle, the artist, the legacy
A modern Aladdin, or, The wonderful adventures of Oliver Munier, an extravaganza in four acts
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights 1912
Howard Pyle's book of the American spirit
The Book Of Pirates
The story of King Arthur and his knights
King Arthur
King Arthur and the magic sword
Book of the American spirit
Howard Pyle
A modern Aladdin
Stolen Treasure
Yankee Doodle
Within the capes
Men of Iron
Men of Iron
Pepper, seasoning for young folk
Three Famous Adventures
Peninsular canaan
Howard Pyle'e book of pirates
Wondrous & Strange
Classic Starts
The Story of Liberty
The story of the Grail and the passing of Arthur
The buccaneers and marooners of America
El Rey Arturo y Sus Caballeros
The King Arthur Audio Collection
King Arthur Soundbook
King Arthur and his knights
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
The wonder clock; or, Four & twenty marvellous tales, being one for each hour of the day
King Arthur and the Champions of the Round Table
Men of iron
Blueskin, the Pirate
Pepper, seasoning for young folk
The story of King Authur and his knights
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (Companion Library)
The Story of Sir Lancelot (Tales of King Arthur and His Knights Audio Cassette Cp 1609)
The Rose of Paradise
Men of iron
The wonder clock; or, Four & twenty marvellous tales, being one for each hour of the day
The price of blood
Strange stories of the revolution
The one-hoss shay, with its companion poems
Adventures of pirates and sea-rovers
The Story of the champions of the Round table
Centuria's greeting, for January 6th, 1906 ...
Chivalry
The man with the hoe
Pepper & salt, or, Seasoning for young folk
Howard Pyle's book of pirates
Men of Iron
The Buccaneers and Marooners of America: Being an Account of the Famous ...
Strange stories of the Revolution
The wonder clock
King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table
Pepper & salt, or Seasoning for young folk
Otto of the silver hand
The story of Sir Launcelot and his companions
Stolen treasure
The wonder clock
Twilight land
Mughāmarāt Robin Hood
The garden behind the moon
A Peculiar people
The wonder clock
Within the capes
Otto of the Silver Hand
Stolen treasure
Yankee Doodle
Woman's wit
The buccaneers and marooners of America
Within the capes
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

painter

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Frida Kahlo
Frida by Frida
El Diario de Frida Kahlo
The diary of Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Folding Screen (Series : Folding Screen Books)
Lola Alvarez Bravo
Frida Kahlo
Correspondence
Masterpieces
The letters of Frida Kahlo
Frida by Frida
Folding screen
Kahlo Art Tattoos
Frida
El Diario de Frida Kahlo
Kahlo
La casa azul
Six Frida Kahlo Cards
Frida Kahlo 1907-1954
You are Always With Me
Kahlo (Mega Squares)
El diario de Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo 2007 Calendar
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection & 20th century Mexican art from the Stanley and Pearl Goodman Collection
Frida Kahlo
Little People, Big Dreams Series 1 & 2
Frida Kahlo Diario
Ahi les dejo mi retrato/ I Left My Portrait There
Ich malte meine eigene Wirklichkeit. Sonderausgabe
Frida Kahlo Postcard Book (Collectible Postcards)
Images of Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo, sus fotos
Frida Kahlo
Le journal de Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo, 1910-1954
Querido Doctorcito
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
Frida
Frida Kahlo, the unknown Frida, the woman behind the work
Diario Frida Kahlo
El diario de Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo, sus fotos
Escrituras
John Lennon
John Lennon (1940-1980)

record producer, actor, guitarist, film producer, poet, composer, film actor, pianist, singer, painter, film director, public figure, peace activist, political activist, recording artist

  • Liverpool College of Art, Calderstones School

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Lennon remembers
John Lennon in his own words
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
Imagine
Real love
In His Own Write
Yellow submarine
The John Lennon Letters
Skywriting by word of mouth, and other writings, including The ballad of John and Yoko
All We Are Saying
John Lennon
The John Lennon Letters
John Lennon - Imagine
John Lennon - Imagine
The Lennon companion
Lennon - The Solo Years
John Lennon - Guitar Collection
The Lennon play
Tourism Statistics
Peace at Last
In his own write; & A spaniard in the works
Hospitality management
Great Songs of Lennon and Mccartney
158. The John Lennon Collection
Search for liberation
The John Lennon conversations
Skywriting by Word of Mouth
The Lennon play: In his own write
A Spaniard in the works
John Lennon - Greatest Hits
50 by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Ai
The Beatles anthology
The writings of John Lennon
The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
The John Lennon Collection
The Lennon tapes
Lennon - The Solo Years
John Lennon in his own write
EKM #248 - John Lennon - Imagine
Real love
In His Own Write
Amor verdadero
Power To The People The Hits
The Penguin John Lennon
The lyrics of John Lennon
Society and health in Guyana
Imagine
In his own write ; and A Spaniard in the works
Last interview
The Great Songs of John Lennon
Cal 96 Artwork
Bag one
Lennon on Lennon
Strawberry Fields Forever
Ai: Japan Through John Lennon's Eyes
John Ono Lennon
Lennon and Mccartney, Together Alone
Imagine John Yoko
Songs of John Lennon
A Hard Day's Night
The lyrics of Lennon & McCartney
En flagrant délire
Sometime in New York City
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles Lyrics
Por Su Propio Cuento Un Espaolito En Obras
John Lennon Piano Solos
Una Mala Faena
Last Lennon Tapes
Double fantasy
John Lennon
Golden Beatles
Lennon & McCartney
Best of the Beatles Greatest Hits
Beatles Anthology
Shaved Fish
The Beatles, 1962-1966
Hey Jude
Imagine
Muntliga röksignaler och andra stycken, däribland Balladen om John och Yoko
Les Beatles, Yoko Ono et moi
Beatlemania
Lennon and Mccartney
Le yoga des Beatles
Jon renon 120 no kotoba
Penny Lane
Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Oh! Darling
Imagine =
"Gimme some truth"
Lennon and McCartney
Zwei Jungfrauen oder wahnsinnig in Da nemark
Real love
Homenaje a John Lennon
Yellow Submarine
Beatles Piano Solos
Imagine
Plastic Ono Band
Otto Rühle
Otto Rühle (1874-1943)

politician, revolutionary, opinion journalist, pedagogue, painter

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Karl Marx
Non-Leninist Marxism
Das Proletarische Kind, Eine Monographic
Idee und Gestalt der deutschen Universität
Idee und Gestalt der deutschen Universitat
Die Revolutionen Europas
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Vom Untertan zum Staatsbürger
Schriften
Karl Marx, his life and work
Karl Marx
Baupläne für eine neue Gesellschaft
Vom Untertan zum Staatsbürger
Illustrierte Kultur- und Sittengeschichte des Proletariats
Council Communist Reader
Erziehung zum Sozialismus
La révolution n'est pas une affaire de parti
Illustrierte Kultur- und Sittengeschichte des Proletariats
Zur Psychologie des proletarischen Kindes
Das kommunistische Schulprogramm
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
La escuela del trabajo
Karl Marx
Zur Psychologie des proletarischen Kindes
Karl Marx, his life and work
Karl Marx - Leben und Werk
Illustrierte Kultur- und Sittengeschichte des Proletariats
Capital
Zur Psychologie des proletarischen Kindes
From the bourgeois to the proletarian revolution
Brot für sechs Milliarden
Zur Psychologie des proletarischen Kindes
Erziehung zum Sozialismus
The struggle against fascism begins with the struggle against Bolshevism
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Susanna Moodie
Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)

poet, painter

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Roughing it in the bush
Letters of love and duty
Roughing it in the bush, or, Life in Canada
Susanna Moodie
Enthusiasm; and other poems
Life in the Backwoods
Life in the clearings versus the bush
Geoffrey Moncton
Mark Hurdlestone
Roughing It in the Bush
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
Roughing it in the bush
Roughing it in the bush; or, Life in Canada
Voyages
Roughing it in the bush, or, Forest life in Canada
The World Before Them V2
Life in the clearings
Susanna Moodie
Letters of love and duty
Life in the Backwoods (A Sequel To Roughing It In The Bush)
The Monctons Volume I
Roughing it in the Bush
Mark Hurdlestone
Letters of a lifetime
Roughing It In The Bush Penguin Black Classics Edition
Hugh Latimer, or, The school-boys' friendship
Roughing It In The Bush
The keepsake guineas
Enthusiasm
Flora Lyndsay, or, Passages in an eventful life
Life in the clearings versus the bush
Adventures of little Downy, the field mouse. And The little prisoner; or, Passion and patience
[The adventures of Little Downy
Mark Hurdlestone Or The Two Brothers
Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush
Roughing it in the bush, or, Life in Canada
Little Downy, or, The history of a field-mouse
Matrimonial speculations
Roughing it in the bush, or, Life in Canada
The little prisoner, or, Passion and patience
Susanna Moodie
Mark Hurdlestone, the gold worshipper
The Little Quaker, or, The Triumph of Virtue
Geoffrey Moncton, or, The faithless guardian
Life in the clearings
Flora Lyndsay
George Leatrim
The world before them
Life in the clearings, to which is added this author's 'Introduction to Marl Hurdlestone'
Enthusiasm and Other Poems
Life in the Backwoods - A Sequel to Roughing it in the Bush
Roughing It in the Bush
World Before Them
Profession and principle; or the Vicar's tales
Roughing It in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada; Volume 1
Life in the Backwoods
Life in the Backwoods [microform]
Flora Lyndsay, or, Passages in an Eventful Life
Life in the clearing versus the bush
Voyages
Cong lin zhong de jian ku sui yue
Roughing it in the bush, or, Life in Canada
Matrimonial speculations
A BOOK OF CANADIAN STORIES
Roughing it in the Bush 2 Volume Paperback Set
Roughing it in the bush, or, Life in Canada
Roughing It in the Bush Vol. 1
Monctons
A Book of Canadian Stories
Roughing It in the Bush Vol. 2
Rowland Massingham, or, I Will Be My Own Master [microform]
Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada, Part 1
Roughing it in the bush, or, Forest life in Canada
Rowland Massingham, or, I will be my own master
Life in the Backwoods
Roughing It in the Bush
Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush
Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life; Volume I
George Leatrim; or, the Mother's Test
Mark Hurdlestone
George Leatrim, or, The mother's test
Roughing It in the Bush : Volume 1
The Monctons
Mark Hurdlestone
Letters of a Lifetime
Enthusiasm
Life in the clearings versus the bush
Hugh Latimer, or, The school-boys' friendship
Susanne Moodie
Roughing It in the Bush : Volume 2
Forest life in Canada West
Roughing it in the bush, or, Forest life in Canada (Coles Canadian Collection)
Roughing it in the Bush; or, Life in Canada
Life in the Backwoods
Flora Lyndsay, or, Passage in an eventful life
Works of Susanna Moodie (9 Works)
Geoffrey Moncton, or, The faithless guardian
Life in the clearings (Pioneer books)
Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life
Voyages
Roughing It in the Bush, or Forest Life in Canada
Roughing It in the Bush; Or, Life in Canada - Primary Source Edition
ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH, Or, Forest Life in Canada
Roughing it in the bush, or, Forest life in Canada
Flora Lyndsay, or, Passages in an eventful life
Roughing it in the bush
Roughing it in the bush
Flora Lyndsay
The cutting out of the Caroline by Capt. Andrew Drew, 29th Dec., 1837
Roughing it in the bush
Roughing it in the bush, or, Forest life in Canada
Life in the backwoods
The book of tales for youth
Life in the clearings versus the bush
Life in the clearings versus the bush
Roughing it in the bush
Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765)

astronomer, geologist, physicist, chemist, linguist, poet, historian, philosopher, inventor, mosaicist, geographer, mathematician, politician, painter, scientist, translator

  • Slavic Greek Latin Academy, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

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Perepiska
Lomonossov, 1711-1765, sa vie, son oeuvre
Sochineniia
Lomonossov, 1711-1765, sa vie, son oeuvre
Physikalisch-chemische abhandlungen M. W. Lomonossows, 1741-1752
Drevni͡ai͡a rossiĭskai͡a istorii͡a ot nachala rossiĭskogo naroda do konchiny velikogo kni͡azi͡a I͡Aroslava Pervogo, ili do 1054 goda
Mikhail Vasilʹevich Lomonosov. Iz nasledii︠a︡ Lomonosova. Slovo sovremennikov o Lomonosove. Pami︠a︡tʹ vechna
Alte russische Geschichte von dem Ursprunge der russischen Nation
Sochinenie Lomonosova
Sochineniia
Polnoe sobranie sochinenii Mikhaila Vasilevicha Lomonosova
Izbrannye filosofskie sochinenii͡a︡
Mikhail Vasilʹevich Lomonosov on the corpuscular theory
Pisḿa ; Perevody ; Stikhotvorenii͡a︡ ; Ukazateli
Poltavskai͡a︡ batalii͡a︡
Pervye osnovanii︠a︡ gornoĭ nauki
Izbrannye proizvedenii͡a︡
Izbrannye trudy po khimii i fizike
Ausgewählte Schriften
Izbrannye filosofskie proizvedenii͡a︡
Rossiǐskaia grammatika
O vospitanii i obrazovanii
Zapiski po russkoĭ istorii
Izbrannye sochinenii͡a
Sochinenīi︠a︡
Meditationes de solido et fluido solemnibus sacris Augustissimi nominis serenissimae potentissimae magnae dominae imperatricis Elisabetae Petri Magni filiae autocratoris omnium Rossiarum praelectae in Academiae Scientiarum Petropolitanae conventu publico, die VI. sept. a. MDCCLX
On the strata of the Earth
Polnoe sobranīe sochinenīĭ Mikhaĭla Vasilʹevicha Lomonosova
Estestvennye nauki i filosofii͡a︡
A chronological abridgement of the Russian history
Izbrannyi︠a︡ sochinenīi︠a︡
Izbrannai︠a︡ proza
Sochinenīi︠a︡ M.V. Lomonosova v stikhakh
Polnoe sobranie sochineniĭ
Elemens de la langue russe, ou, Methode courte et facile pour apprendre cette langue conformement a l'usage
Izbrannye proizvedenii︠a︡
Slovo o proiskhozhdenīi svi︠e︡ta
Russische Grammatick
Sochinenii͡a︡
Poems
Oratio de origine lucis
Rossīĭskai︠a︡ grammatika
Sochinenii︠a︡ v stikhakh
Obozrenie rukopiseĭ lomonosova i materialov o nem, khrani︠a︡shchikhsi︠a︡ v moskovskikh i leningradskikh arkhivakh, muzeĭakh i bibliotekakh
Sochinenii͡a v stikhakh
Sochinenīi︠a︡ Lomonosova
Polnoe sobranie sochineniĭ
Sobranīe sochinenīĭ Mikhaila Vasilʹevicha Lomonosova
Pokoĭnago statskago sovetnika i professora Mikhaily Vasilʹevicha Lomonosova sobranīe raznykh sochinenīĭ v stikakh i v prozi︠e︡
Sochinenīi︠a︡
Izbrannyi͡a sochinenīi͡a
Pervyĭ russkiĭ akademik
Sobranīe raznykh sochinenīĭ v stikhakh i v prozi︠e︡ Mikhaĭly Vasilévicha Lomonosova
Rossiĭskai︠a︡ grammatika
Dukhovno-nravstvennyi︠a︡ pi︠e︡snopi︠e︡ni︠a︡ Lomonosova, Derzhavina i Karamzina
Drevni︠a︡i︠a︡ rossiĭskai︠a︡ istorii︠a︡ ot nachala rossiĭskago naroda do konchiny velikago kni︠a︡zi︠a︡ I︠A︡roslava Pervago ili do 1054 goda
A chronological abridgment of the Russian history
Na doroge v Petergof
Sochinenīi︠a︡ Lomonosova
Istorii͡a︡, filologii͡a︡, poėzii͡a︡
L'apothéose de Pierre le Grand, etc
Sochinenii︠a︡
Sistema "Planeta Zemli︠a︡"
Rassuzhdenīe o bolʹsheĭ tochnosti morskago puti
Kratkoĭ rossīĭskoĭ li︠e︡topiset︠s︡ s rodoslovīem