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Alistair MacLean
Alistair MacLean (1922-1987)

teacher, biographer

  • University of Glasgow, Inverness Royal Academy

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The guns of Navarone
Where Eagles Dare
Force 10 from Navarone
South by Java Head
Where eagles dare / Alistair MacLean
Theg uns of Navarone
The Complete Navarone
The guns of Navarone
H.M.S. Ulysses
HMS Ulysses ; Force Ten from Navarone ; When eight bells toll
Partisans
The way to dusty death
Puppet on a Chain
Seawitch
Ice Station Zebra
When eight bells toll
San Andreas
Bear Island
The Golden Rendezvous
River of death
Night without end
H.M.S. Ulysses
Ice Station Zebra
Lawrence of Arabia
Partisans
Breakheart Pass
Heroic War Stories
Santorini
Goodbye California
The Secret Ways
Captain Cook
The Golden Gate
Fear Is the Key
The Guns of Navarone
Athabasca
Goodbye California
Alistair MacLean's Night watch
The Golden Gate
The Golden Gate
Night Without End
Night Without End
The golden rendezvous
Circus
San Andreas
Bear Island
The Golden Rendezvous
Satan Bug
The Lonely Sea
The Golden Rendezvous
Puppet on a Chain
Ice Station Zebra
Seawitch
The Last Frontier
Novels (Don't Get Me Wrong / Midnight Plus One / The Way to Dusty Death)
Breakheart Pass
Goodbye California
The golden rendezvous
Guns of Navarone
The Dark Crusader
Caravan to Vaccares
Night without end
Night without end
Goodbye California
Sista båt från Singapore
Breakheart Pass
HMS Ulysses
Floodgate
When Eight Bells Toll
H.M.S. Ulysses
Hostage Tower
Die Männer der "Ulysses"
H M S Ulysses
Sterling Point Books
Black Shrike
Ice Station Zebra
THE LAST FRONTIER
Santorini
Travels in the Western Hebrides.
H.M.S. Ulysses
San Andreas
River of death
Puppet on a Chain
When eight bells toll
The Black shrike
Dead Halt
Hebridean Altars
Breakheart Pass
The guns of Navarone
Night without end
Guns of Navarone ; Force 10 from Navarone
Partisans
Way to Dusty Death
The dark crusader [Book]
Karavani gio to vaccares
Santorini
Bear Island
When Eight Bells Toll
Puppet on a Chain
Seawitch
Polikos stathmos zempra
When Eight Bells Toll
Force 10 From Navarone
Guns of Navarone
Night Watch
Night Without Fear
Golden Rendezvous
The golden rendezuous
The Way to Dusty Death
Captain Cook
Alistair Maclean's Hostage Tower
High country
Fear is the key [Book]
Santorini
River of death
Rough Guide Russian phrasebook
Where Eagles Dare (Collins English Library ELT Readers - Level 5 - Upper Intermediate)
The Gaelic phono-grammar
Thew ay to dusty death
The Guns of Navarone
Ice Station Zebra
Alistair MacLean Collection 15 Books Set Pack
Night without end
Marionettes stin agchonis
CARAVAN TO MVACCARES
THE ALISTAIR MACLEAN OMNIBUS (HMS ULYSSES/THE GUNS OF NAVARONE/FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE)
Ice Station Zebra
When eight bells toll
ICE STATON ZEBRA
Alistair MacLean Arctic Chillers 4-Book Collection
The Golden Gate.
Rendezvous mit dem Tod
Caravan to Vaccares. Heron edition
Circus / Alistair MacLean
A Way to Death
HMS Ulysses
The way to dusty death
Night Without End
THE LONELY SEA
San Andreas
The Satan Bug
When Eight Bells Toll
Tödliche Fiesta
Alistair Maclean's Sea Thrillers
Partisans
BREAKHEART (Break Heart) PASS
Ice Station Zebra Lib/E
BREAKHEART PASS
Bear Island
Seawitch
Radiant certainty
Partisans
San Andreas
Night Without End
The secret ways
Ice station Zebra
Ice Station Zebra
H.M.S. Ulysses the Guns of Navarone Where Eagles Dare Force Ten and from Navarone
Night Without End
Night without end
Puppet on a chain
Fluss des Grauens
Raat ka kala kafan
48 heures de grâce
H.M.S.Ulysses
Where Eagles Dare Lib/E
Alistair Maclean's Arctic Chillers
Bjornon
HMS Ulysses
Partisans
Golden Gate
Partisans
The Guns of Navarone
Fear is the Key
Zolotoe randevu
River of Death
To teleutaio sunoro
Night Without End
THE DARK CRUSADER
Goodbye California
Six complete novels
ICE STATION ZEBRA
Rendezvous
Breakheart Pass
The way to dusty death
Die Meerhexe
Navaronen tykit
HMS Ulysses
Das Geheimnis der San Andreas
H. M. S. Ulysses
L' ouragan vient de Navarone
Les canons de Navarone
Die Männer von Navarone.
המבחנה הגורלית
Codebreaker.
הזהב הלבן
Partisans
Night Without End
Five great war stories
Kogda skl︠i︡anki bʹ︠i︡ut vosemʹ
Harpatḳah be-lev yam
Gesher shaʻar ha-zahav
Bereneiland
S. O. S. San Andreʼas
Alistair MacLeans Spur des Todes
Emah ba-maʻamaḳim
Goodbye Kalifornien
The Guns of Navarone
Goodbye Kalifornien
Alistair MacLean
Night without end
Alistair MacLean's Weißer Sand
Strakh otpiraet dveri
ha-Sekher
Geheimkommando Zenica
Zebra, station polaire
גבורי נברון
Nevada-Pass
Santorini
Partisanen
ha-Shayarah
הגבול האחרון
Lehavot be-lev yam
Nuit sans fin
H.M.S. Ulysses / The Guns of Navarone / Where Eagles Dare / Force Ten from Navarone
Ice Station Zebra
Ondergang om middernacht
סנטוריני
Ice Station Zebra
Force 10 From Navarone
תותחי נברון
Golden Gate
Breakheart Pass (large print)
Force 10-Navarone
Ostrov Medvezhiǐ ; i, Doroga pylńoǐ smerti
Caravana
ha-Lailah ha-nitsḥi
Narcotic bureau
When 8 Bells Toll
תחנת זברה אינה עונה
The Black Shrike
River of death
Karavan v Vakkares
Shalom lakh, Ḳalifornyah
Tobendes Meer
When Eight Bells Toll
Five great thrillers
Parṭizanim
When Eight Bells Toll
The Secret Ways
Die Kanonen von Navarone
Nehar ha-maṿet
דרומה ליאווה
Goodbye California
Partisans
Lehavot be-Alasḳah
Harrap's Russian Phrase Book
Alistair MacLeans Der Rembrandt-Deal
Shingapōru dasshutsu
When eight bells toll
Alistair MacLean's Zeit der Attentäter.
Marionett i kedjor
Valse start
Chernyi krestonoset︠s︡
Where eagles dare ; Ice Station Zebra
River of Death
Eḳspres la-gehenom
הסיירת יוליסס
Last Frontier
Poli͡arnyĭ konvoĭ ; Pushki ostrova Navaron
Björnön
הקירקס
Zr. Ms. Ulysses
Het satanskruid
Caravan to Vaccares
המשימה קוטב
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)

historian, playwright, poet, public figure, opinion journalist, school teacher, military personnel, militant, full member of RAS, teacher

  • Rostov State University

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Один день Ивана Денисовича
Avgust chetyrnadt︠s︡atogo
November 1916
Armeiskie rasskazy
August 1914
The red wheel
November 1916
Prusskie nochi
Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Prentice Hall Literature--Florida--Language and Literacy
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
Раковый корпус
Бодался теленок с дубом
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ. T. 1-2
Lenin in Zurich
World Literature 1999
Prentice Hall Literature -- Grade Ten
Solzhenitsyn
Warning to the West
"We never make mistakes"
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ. T. 5-7
Stories and prose poems
Candle in the wind
Mortal Danger
Invisible allies
A world split apart
The First Circle
Voennoe
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ. T. 3-4
Russkiĭ vopros
Sobranie sochinenii
Detente
Kak zhal
Na vozvrate dykhanii︠a︡
Rebuilding Russia
Selected works
From Under the Rubble
Krasnoe koleso
The Solzhenitsyn reader
Letter to Soviet leaders
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Archipelag GULAG, 1918-1956
March 1917
Between Two Millstones, Book 2
Prisoners
Das Rote Rad
East and West
Victory celebrations
Apricot Jam and Other Stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Stories and prose poems
Prusskie nochi
Lecture
The Love-Girl and the Innocent
Apricot Jam, and Other Stories
A lenten letter to Pimen, Patriarch of All Russia
Mir i nasilie
The first circle
Ein Tag im leben des Iwan Denissowitsch
Alexander Solzhenitsyn speaks to the West
Les droits de l'écrivain
Skvoz chad
Gegen die Zensur
Rakovyĭ korpus
Von der Verantwortung des Schriftstellers v̀on Alexander Solschenizyn
The Russian question
Na krai͡a︡kh
"The Russian question" at the end of the twentieth century
The Solzhenitsyn reader
Zemskoe samoupravlenie
Politik und Moral am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts
Sobranie sochineniĭ v 9 t
L' archipel du goulag, 1918-1956
Sołżenicyn ostrzega--
Раковый корпус 1
Skvozʹ chad
August 1914: The Red Wheel 1
November 1916
Press conference on the future of Russia, Zurich, Novermber 16, 1974
Bodalsi͡a︡ telënok s dubom
Bodalsi͡a︡ telenok s dubom
Solzhenitsyn
Kak nam obustroitʹ Rossii͡u︡?
Rusia Bajo Los Escombros
Sobranie sochineniĭ v 30 tt., T. 8: Krasnoe koleso: povestvovanie v otmerennykh srokakh. Uzel 1: Avgust Chetyrnadt︠s︡atogo. Kn. 2
Canadian Writ Ref 5e&Writing about Lit 2e 09 MLA UPD&Bedford Gloss Crit&Lit 3e&Day in Life Ivan Den&Opened Ground&Taming of Shrew
Rossii͡a︡ v obvale
For the good of the cause
Soljénitsyne
Victory Celebrations/Prisoners/the Love Girl and the Innocent
Solzhenitsyn
We never make mistakes
Bodalsya telenok s dubom
Aprelʹ semnadt͡s︡atogo
Kontinent
Russia in Collapse
Les Droits de l'écrivain
Delo Solzhenit︠s︡yna
Krasnoe koleso
Solzjenitsyn
Olenʹ i shalashovka
Das Rote Rad Dritter Knoten, März siebzehn, Tl.2
Kolokol Uglicha
Pis'mo vozhdi͡a︡m Sovetskogo Soi͡u︡za
L' Archipel du Goulag, 1918-1956 ; essai d'investigation littéraire, 1er et 2e parties
Dli?a pol'zy dela
Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 Vol. 2
Prussian Nights
Zweihundert Jahre zusammen
Im Interesse der Sache
Les Droits de l'écrivain
Cancer Ward
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset [and] William Butler Yeats
La casa de Matriona
The making of one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich [by] Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russkiĭ slovarʹ i︠a︡zykovogo rasshirenii︠a︡
"Russkii vopros" k kontsu XX veka
The voice of freedom
Voices from the Gulag
Rasskazy
Rakovi Korpus
Kolokol Uglicha
Zemskoe samoupravlenie--kli︠u︡ch k spasenii︠u︡ Rossiĭ (vyderzhki iz publit︠s︡isticheskikh stateĭ i vystupleniĭ)
Zacharie l'Escarcelle
Memorias (coces al aguijon)
Solzhenitsyn, the voice of freedom
Evrei v SSSR i v budushcheĭ Rossii
Sobranie sochineniĭ v 30 tt., T. 1: Rasskazy i krokhotki
Von der Verantwortung des Schriftstellers
Das rote Rad. Zweiter Knoten. November sechzehn. Sonderausgabe
Putʹ Solzhenit︠s︡yna v kontekste Bolʹshogo Vremeni
Russian question
Six etudes
Publitsistika
Dvesti let vmeste (1795-1995)
Ein Tag im Leben des Iwan Denissowitsch
Izbrannoe
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Pravai︠a︡ kistʹ
Victory Celebrations Prisoners the Love
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Stories and prose poems [by] Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russkiĭ slovarʹ i͡a︡zykovogo rasshirenii͡a︡
Kak nam obustroit' Rossiyu
Between two millstones
The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, Section 1
Stories and prose poems
Russkii slovar' yazykovogo rasshireniya
Mir i nasilie
Im Interesse der Sache
Krebsstation, 2. Roman in zwei Büchern
Den Oka-Fluss entlang
Press conference on the future of Russia, Zürich, November 16, 1974
Tverskoĭ solzhenit︠s︡ynskiĭ sbornik
Publit︠s︡istika
Iz-pod glyb
Sobranie sochineniĭ v shesti tomakh
The red wheel
Matryona's house and other stories
Po minute v denʹ
Publit︠s︡istika v trekh tomakh
Suorennixin di sheng yin yu hui xiang
Comment réaménager notre Russie?
Politik und Moral am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts
Tra autoritarismo e sfruttamento
Sobranie sochineniĭ v 30 tt., T. 7: Krasnoe koleso: povestvovanie v otmerennykh srokakh. Uzel 1: Avgust Chetyrnadt︠s︡atogo. Kn. 1
Oddział chorych na raka
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Stories and Prose Poems
Na vozvrate dykhanii︠a︡
Avgust chetyrnadt Łsatogo
Sobranie sochinenij v 9 tomakh. Tom 9
Apricot Jam and Other Stories
Publitsistika
Suorennixin di jing shi zhong yan
Paskhal'nyi Krestnyi Khod
Stories and prose poems
Vivere senza menzogna
Nunca Cometemos Errores
Solzhenitsyn Reads in Russian
Sobranie sochineniĭ
L' Erreur de l'occident
Amerikanskie rechi
Krokhotnye rasskazy
Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 Vol. 2
"We never make mistakes"
Stories and Prose Poems
Stories and prose poems. Translated by Michael Glenny
Mart semnadt͡s︡atogo
"Russkiĭ vopros" k kont͡s︡u XX veka
Dli︠i︡a pol'zy dela
We Never Make Mistakes
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
Publit︠s︡istika
Une journee d'ivan denissovitch
Na izlomakh
Oak and the Calf
Ein Tag im Leben des Iwan Denissowitsch und andere Erza hlungen
The first circle
REBUILDING RUSSIA, REFLECTIONS AND TENTATIVE PROPOSALS
[First Circle] [Author
Russkiĭ vopros na rubezhe vekov
Izbrannoe
October 1916
Nežít se lží
Apricot Jam
Cancer ward
Socheneniia
El Primer Circulo
Krasnoe koleso
August 1914
La maison de Matriona, suivie de l'inconnu de Kretchetovka et pour le bien de la cause
Zdarzenie na stacji Kreczetowka
Rasskazy i krokhotki
Victory celebrations
V knige pervom
Warning to the Western World
Como Reorganizar Rusia
Sochinenii͡a︡
August neunzehnhundertvierzehn
Littérature russe clandestine
Les droits de l'ecrivain
Candle in the Wind
Yifan Jienisuoweiqi de yi tian
Syöpaosasto
Rakovyi korpus
Dva rasskaza
Rebuilding Russia
Kontinent
Between Two Millstones, Book 1
Sobranie sochinenii v shesti tomakh
The making of One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
Dl︠i︡ia pol'zy dela
Stories and Prose Poems
Pʹesy i kinost͡s︡enarii
Sobranie sochineniĭ v tridt︠s︡ati tomakh
Sobranie sochineniĭ v shesti tomakh
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn. Publitsistika: V 3-kh tomakh: Obshchestvennye Zaiavleniia, Pis'ma, Interv'iu
Gulag Archipelago
Sochinenii Ła
Day in Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Rusia Bajo los Escombros
Warning to the West
Archipelag GUŁag, 1918-1956
Proterevshi glaza
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
El Problema Ruso Al Final Del Siglo Xx
Two Hundred Years Together
Olen' i shalashovka
El Colapso de Rusia / The Colapse of Russia
Rußland im Absturz
"Zweihundert Jahre Zusammen" - DIE JUDEN IN DER SOWJETUNION
Arkhipelag GULag, 1918-1956
Ogusṭ 1914
Solzhenitsyn
Sobranie sochineniĭ v tridt︠s︡ati tomakh
August 1914 : a Novel
Matrenin dvor. Rasskazy
The first circle
Red wheel
V kruge pervom
Högra handen och andra noveller
August 1914 / Alexander Solzhenitsyn ; translated by Michael Glenny. [ Avgust chetyrnadtsatogo. English ]
Dli͠a pol'zy dela
V kruge pervom
Avgust chetyrnadt͡satogo
Svecha na vetru
August 1914 [The Red Wheel/Knot I]
Rasskazy
Press conference on the future of Russia, Zürich, November 16, 1974
Avgust chetyrnadt͡satogo
Abrikosovoe varenʹe
Pis'mo vozhdyam Sovetskogo Soyuza
Odin denʹ Ivana Denisovicha
Rasskazy
In the First Circle
Août quatorze
Red Wheel
August Nineteen Fourteen
Matrenin dvor
For the Good of the Cause
Dorozhenʹka
March 1917
Okti͡a︡brʹ shestnadt͡s︡atogo
Kirche und Politik
Agaf ha-sarṭan
Odin dyen' Ivana Denisovicha
Odin denʹ Ivana Denisovicha
Août quatorze
Sochineniya
Arkhipelag GULag, 1918-1956
Suorennixin di sheng yin yu hui xiang
In the First Circle
Solzhenitsyn speaks, "To free China" ; and, "Choices for modern Japan."
Rasskazy. Erzählungen
August neunzehnhundertvierzehn
In de eerste cirkel
The Solzhenitsyn Reader
One Day in the Life (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Nos pluralistes
Carta a los dirigentes de la Unión Soviética y otros textos
Rasskazy
Zwischenfall auf dem Bahnhof Kretschetowka
For sagens skyld og andre noveller
Polemika wokół "Listu do przywódców Związku Radzieckiego" Sołżenicyna, 1973-1974
Flamme au vent
Ein Fastenbrief an den Allrussischen Patriarchen Pimen
Le pavillon des cancéreux
Rasskazy
Rasskazy
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977)

teacher, poet, journalist

  • Yale University, Johns Hopkins University

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Half of a Yellow Sun
Americanah
The Thing Around Your Neck
Purple Hibiscus
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
We Should All Be Feminists
That Glimpse of Truth
What Happened Next
Notes on Grief
40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
McSweeney's 50
50 Essays -- Fifth Edition
Africa39
The Best American Short Stories 2016
Going Back
The Danger of a Single Story
Windows on the world
Eat Joy
For love of Biafra
Literature, The Human Experience -- Thirteenth Edition
Africa under the Prism
Fiction
Literature, A Portable Anthology -- Fifth edition
McSweeney's Issue 56 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010
Freedom
Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, Purple Hibiscus
Africa's Best Stories
The Norton Anthology of English Literature -- The Major Authors -- Tenth Edition -- Volume 2
Selected Shorts
Literature. The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Eleventh Edition
Literature, A Portable Anthology--Third edition
Literature. The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Twelfth Edition
The Best Short Stories 2021
40 Short Stories--Fifth Edition
Zikora
The Norton anthology of English literature -- Tenth Edition -- Volume F
Mama's Sleeping Scarf
Decisions
Soyons tous des féministes
Dovremmo essere tutti femministi
Medio Sol Amarillo / Half of a Yellow Sun
Sobre el Duelo / about Mourning
Amerykaana - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [KSIÄĹťKA]
The Norton Reader -- Fifteenth High School Edition
Feminist Manifesto
Still Becoming
Todos teriamos que ser feministas
Pañuelo de Mamá / Mama's Sleeping Scarf
Imitation
The curio in phenomenality competence in narrative
Liebe Ijeawele
Autour de ton cou
flor púrpura
Polówka zóltego slonca
Algo Alrededor de Tu Cuello (Cuentos) / the Thing Around Your Neck
Todos teriamos que ser feministas
半轮黄日
חצי שמש צהובה
You in America