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Viktor Shklovsky
Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984)

film critic, poet, literary critic, literary historian, film scholar, linguist, literary scholar, critic, essayist

  • Saint Petersburg State University

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Sentimentalʹnoe puteshestvie
Tretʹi︠a︡ fabrika
Lev Tolstoĭ
O Mai︠a︡kovskom
O teorii prozy
Zoo, or, Letters not about love
Zoo
Knight's move
Zhili-byli
"Eshche nichego ne konchilosʹ--"
Lev Tolstoy
Gamburgskiĭ schet
Izbrannoe v dvukh tomakh
Sprache und Stil Lenins
O poezie
Sobranie sochinenii
The Hamburg score
Minin i Pozharskiĭ
Razvertyvanie si︠u︡zheta =
Gamburgskiĭ schet
Tetiva
Khudozhestvennai͡a︡ proza
Ėĭzenshteĭn
Energy of Delusion
Cʼera una volta
Viktor Shklovsky
Literatura i kinematograf
Literature and Cinematography (Dalkey Archive Scholarly) (Dalkey Archive Scholarly)
A sentimental journey; memoirs, 1917-1922
Istoricheskie povesti i rasskazy
Bowstring
Lev Tolstoy
Gamburgskii schet
Lev Tolstoi
Poėtika
O masterakh starinnykh, 1714-1812
Kapitan Fedotov
La disimilitud de lo similar
Third factory
Sentimental'noe puteshestvie
Rasvertyvanie si͡uzheta
Povesti o proze
Ejzens̆tejn
Energy of delusion
Khod koni︠a︡
Rozanov
A hunt for optimism
O masterakh starinnykh
Ėnergii͡a︡ zabluzhdenii͡a︡
Sobre la prosa literaria
Za sorok let; [statʹi o kino]
Mater'yal i stil' v romane L'va Tolstogo "Voina i mir"
Zhili-bȳli
Theorie der Prosa
Capitaine Fédotov
Mayakovsky and his circle
La Marche du cheval
Schriften zum Film
Sur la théorie de la prose
Za 60 let
Room
Za i protiv
Za i protiv
Pushkin i Gogol
Staroe i novoe
Lettura del Decameron
Khudozhestvennaya proza
Zametki o proze russkikh klassikov
"Tristram Shendi" Sterna i teorii͡a︡ romana
Povestʹ o khudozhnike Fedotove
Voyage sentimental
Chulkov i Levshin
Za i protiv
Shklovsky
Zemli razvedchik--Marko Polo
Materʹi͡a︡l i stilʹ v romane Lʹva Tolstogo "Voĭna i mir."
Zhiznʹ khudozhnika Fedotova
Razvertyvanie si Łuzheta
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Khod konya
Zametki o proze russkikh klassikov
Résurrection du mot ; Littérature et cinématographe
O teorii prozy
Rozanov
Technique du métier d'écrivain
Udachi i porozheniia Maksima Gor'kogo
Kratkaya, no doctovernaya povest' o dvoryanine bolotove
Zametki o proze Pushkina
Vstrechi
Santimental'noe [t.e.sentimental'noe] puteshestvie
Revoli͡ut͡sii͡a i front
Samoe Shklovskoe
Kratkai Ła, no dostovernai Ła povest £ o dvori Łanine Bolotove
Lev Tolstoi
Povestʹ o khudozhnike Fedotove
Razvertyvanie si︠u︡zheta =
V pustote ... =
Ėĭzenshteĭn
O Mayakovskom
Zoo, or Letters Not About Love
Razvertyvanie siuzheta = The unfolding of the ploit
Le Voyage de Marco Polo
Theory of Prose
Zhitie arkhierei skogo sluzhki
Knight's Move
Zhitie arkhiereĭskogo sluzhki
Zametki o proze Pushkina
Matvei Komarov
Zhili-bȳli
Zoo, ili, Pis'ma ne o lyubvi
Eizenshtein
"Tristram shendi"; Sterna i teorii Ła romana
Rozanov
Tekhnika pisatel £skogo remesla
Zametki o proze Pushkina
Lev Tolstoǐ
Povesti o proze
Zametki o proze russkikh klassikov
Sobre la prosa literaria
Staroe i novoe
Khudozhestvennaia proza
O teorii prozy
Le voyage de Marco Polo [par] Victor Chklovski
Khod koni Ła
Revoliutsiia i front
Tekhnika pisatel'skogo remesla
Literatura i kinematograf
Theorie der Prosa [von] Viktor Šklovskij
Tret'ya fabrika
Tetiva
Zoo
Tetiva
Za i protiv
Teorie prózy
Von der Ungleichheit des Ähnlichen in der Kunst
Ocherki Po Poetike Pushkina
Erinnerungen an Majakovskij
Mater'iai i stil' v romane L'va Tolstogo "Voǐna i mir."
O teorii prozy
Zhili-byli
Razvertyvanie si︠u︡zheta
Lettura del Decameron
Zhili-byli
Schriften zum Film [von Viktor Schklowskij
Tret £i Ła fabrika
Za sorok let
Sur la théorie de la prose
Russian formalist criticism
Provesti o proze
Zoo
David Mitchell
David Mitchell (born 1969)

linguist, translator, actor, composer, teacher

  • University of Kent

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Cloud Atlas
Utopia Avenue
The Bone Clocks
Debugging Java
Choosing a government
Black Swan Green
Ghostwritten
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The fighting Pankhursts
Number9Dream
The history of Montrose
A 'peculiar' place
All Aboard!
Reason I Jump
The elegant shed
Travellers In Spain
What Really Works in Special and Inclusive Education
New Year's sermon
British Railways Past and Present
[ Handbook and] a synopsis of the history of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
A valedictory sermon preached to the congregation of the New Church, Pultneytown Wick
JOHN LOWRIE MORRISON: RETROSPECTIVE
CSC 364H Readings, Summer 1998
CSC 364 Fall 1998 Course Readings
Fuller employment
Contextualising Inclusive Education
Slade House
A select number of spiritual hymns
An introduction to logic
British Railways Past and Present (British Railways Past & Present)
25 years
Recent Advances in Respiratory Medicine Five
"Alone with God," "Children dying in infancy" and other sermons
North and West Devon (British Railways Past and Present)
Assessing and responding to land tenure issues in disaster risk management
Devon (British Railways Past & Present)
Tea Love And War Searching For English Roots In Assam
1919: Red mirage
Dorset (British Railways Past & Present)
Your Child Is Different
Cartographie des nuages
To Chase the Wind
First Edition
Slade House
Old Tales for Tender Years
A key to the spiritual palace
David Mitchell
The Art of Administration
Làng thiên nga đen
Ling hun dai bi
Ramsey Campbell's Goatswood and Less Pleasant Places
Lattice Labyrinth Tessellations
Mil otoños
Feeding the Dinosaur Gene
Razón Por la Que Salto/ the Reason I Jump
The Bluffer's Guide to Law
This Is Your Life
A Boy from Nowhere
Cornwall (British Railways Past & Present)
Untitled Novel (Tpb)
Taming the Dinosaur Gene
Labour, Likud and the Oslo Peace Process, 1992-2000
Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education
Women on the warpath
EL BOSQUE DEL CISNE NEGRO
Lust auf asiatischen Kampfsport
... But not forgotten
Relojes de hueso
Crime, policing & geographic information systems
Bluffer's Guide. to Divorce
Bonsai (Pb)-Bok Edition
Distribution of liquid in knitted packing materials
The Talyllyn Railway (British Railways Past & Present)
The Mark Degree
East Cornwall
Gone for a soldier
Poor Man\'s Justice
Dimsum
Making Foreign Policy
New mission for a new people
Jesuits
Queen of the Methodists
The Diesel-hydraulic Era
Synod of Toronto and Kingston!
Making acquisitions work
Angela Carter
Angela Carter (1940-1992)

linguist, translator, journalist, playwright, poet

  • University of Bristol

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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Gollancz/Sunday Times SF competition stories
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
The Sadeian woman
Wise Children
The Greatest Cat Stories Ever Told
Burning Your Boats
The Passion of New Eve
Nights at the circus
I Shudder at Your Touch
The magic toyshop
Fireworks
The bloody chamber and other stories
American Ghosts and Old World Wonders
Heroes & villains
Medicine
Sea-Cat and Dragon King
The Bloody Chamber
Saints and strangers
Shadow dance
Wayward girls & wicked women
Nothing Sacred
Angela Carters Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women An Anthology Of Stories
Several perceptions
The War of Dreams
The donkey prince
Crossing the Border
Wise Children
Comic and Curious Cats
Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
Wayward girls & wicked women
Shaking a leg
Miss Z, the dark young lady
Virago Book of Fairy Tales
The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Wayward Girls & Wicked Women
Expletives deleted
Love
The curious room
The Bloody Chamber By Angela Carter
Love
Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales
Wise Children
The second Virago book of fairy tales
Expletives Deleted
The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks
Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book, The
Love
Venus Negra
La Pasion de La Nueva Eva
The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories (Vintage Magic)
Shaking A Leg
Comic and Curious Cats
Come unto these yellow sands
Fireworks (Virago Modern Classics)
Unicorn
Bloody Chamber Wise Children Fireworks
Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
American Ghost/old World
Magic Toyshop
Fairy Tales Of Charles Perrault
The second Virago book of fairy tales
Modern Classics Heroes and Villains
Angela Carter - an interview
Bluebeard
Le Théâtre des perceptions
Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
The Bloody Chamber and other adult tales
The Virago book of fairy tales
As infernais maquinas de desejo do doutor Hoffman
Fireworks B Special
Passion of New Eve
Virago Bk Fairy Tales Bc Only
Law of Attraction for Manifestation- How to Attract Health, Money, Love and Success in Life Using Law of Attraction... !!
Several Perceptns
Wise Children
Magic Toyshop B
Shadow Dance C C/Px12
Le magasin de jouets magique
Varias Percepciones
Angela Carter Mixed B C/Px14
Magic Toyshop B Pbp
Collected Angela Carter
Shadow dance
Several Perceptions B
X24 d?'Bin Virago Fairy Tales
Miss Z
La Jugueteria Magica
Wise Children
The magic toyshop
Heroes and Villians
Noches en el circo
Virago Book of Fairy Tales
Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen
Noches En El Circo
X36 Fairy Tales Vol Ii
Second Virago Book of Fairy
Black Venus's tale
Heroes and Villains
Passion of New Eve B Bc Only
Fireworks
Virago Book of Fairy Tales - Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales
Les machines à désir infernales du docteur Hoffman
Miss Z,The Dark Young Lady
Büyülü Oyuncak Dükkâni
Burning Your Boats
Black Venus
Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen
Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Several Perceptions
103 Contos de Fadas
Complete Fairy Tales
La Camara Sangrienta
Bloody Chamber
Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
Magic Toyshop Mug
Nights at the Circus
Nothing Sacred
Adella
Burning Your Boats
Fantasmas de America y Maravillas del
Fireworks
Shadow Dance B D/Bx18
Shaking a Leg
Passion of New Eve B Special
Heroes and Villains
Wise Children Dumpbin X 40
Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
La bottega dei giocattoli
Love
Lizzie Borden
Shadow Dance
Heroes y Villanos
Passion of New Eve, The
La danse des ombres
Curious Room
Strange things sometimes still happen
Sea-Cat and Dragon King
Virago Fairy Tales Ii d?'Bin X 18
Black Venus
Artificial Fire
Menina do Capuz Vermelho e Outras Historias de Dar
Black Venus
Rewriting The Body
Virago Modern Classics Box Set
Het nichtje van de poppenspeler (Internationale klassieker) (Dutch Edition)
La compagnie des loups et autres nouvelles
American Ghosts and Old Wo
The Bloody Chamber
American Ghosts and Old World Wonders
Nächte im Zirkus. Roman
Blaubarts Zimmer. Märchen Aus Der Zwischenwelt
Angela Carter B Mixed S/Wx10
Virago Fairy Tales X36 Dumpbin
La passion de l'Eve nouvelle
Honeybuzzard
Magic Toyshop, The
Magic Toyshop Notebook
Bluebeard
La juguetería mágica
Ming zhi de hai zi
Fireworks
Carter Reissues Dumpbin X 36
Vision
Cuentos de hadas de Ángela Carter
Ninos Sabios
The Old Wife's Fairy Tale Book
The war of dreams
Wies uns gefällt
Feux d'artifice
Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
The Old wives' fairy tale book
La Compagnie des loups
Black Venus's tale
Ninas Malas, Mujeres Perversas
Saints and Stragers
Mądre dzieci (Biblioteczka interesującej prozy)
Honeybuzzard
Le fiabe delle donne
Tom Shippey
Tom Shippey (born 1943)

linguist, literary critic

  • University of Cambridge, King Edward's School

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Fictional space
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Oxford book of fantasy stories
The road to Middle-Earth
Roots and Branches
Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
Old English verse
The Shadow-walkers
Poems of Wisdom & Learning in Old English
Beowulf
Medievalism in the Modern World
Leaves from the Tree
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
J. R. R. Tolkien. Autor des Jahrhunderts
El Camino a la Tierra Media
Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
Monteiro Lobato
Monteiro Lobato (1882-1948)

linguist, journalist, publisher, translator

  • Law School, University of São Paulo, University of São Paulo

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Peter Pan
Negrinha (contos)
Cidades mortas
Urupês
A barca de Gleyre
A onda verde
O Poço do Visconde
Literatura do minarete
Brazilian short stories
Orden Zheltogo Di︠a︡tla
Monteiro Lobato e o Espiritismo
O escandalo do petroleo
O Sacy-Perêrê
Os doze trabalhos de Hercules
Jéca Tatuzinho
Mister Slang e o Brasil
Os Negros
Las travesuras de Naricita
Fabulas
Quando o carteiro chegou--
El Minotauro
Prefacios e entrevistas
Os doze trabalhos de Hércules - II / Histórias diversas
História do mundo para as crianças
Idéas de Jéca Tatú
O Choque das Raças ou o Presidente Negro
O Sacy
Arimética da Emília
Historias de tia Nastacia
Ḥavurat ha-ḳen ha-kaḥol
El Pozo del Vizconde
A Reforma Da Natureza - Edição Luxo
Geografia de Dona Benta
Recreations by Retroussy Book One
Reinações de Narizinho
Las Invenciones
Ордена желтого di︠a︡tla
Serões de Dona Benta
Nasino
La vengeance de l'arbre et autres contes
Urupês
La Llave del Tamaño
Viagem ao céu
Brazilian short stories
Aventuras de Hans Staden
A menina do narizinho arrebitado
Idéas de Géca Tatu
Urupês
Memorias de Emilia
Viagem ao céu
Críticas e outras notas
Caçadas de Pedrinho
Aritmética da Emília
Contos Completos
Mr. Slang e o Brasil e problema vital
A chave do tamanho
Las Doce Hazañas De Hércules
Urupês
Idéias de Jéca Tatú
O Picapau Amarelo
La Aritmetica de Emilia
Memória de Emília Edição Luxo
Caçadas de Pedrinho
Histórias de Tia Nastácia
Negrinha
As aventuras de Hans Staden
Negrinha – Centenary Bilingual Edition
Na antevéspera
Cidades mortas
O Poço do Visconde
Die Abenteuer von Lúcia
Fábulas
Histórias Diversas
História das Invenções
Obras completas de Monteiro Lobato
Caixa Monteiro Lobato Conta Outra Vez (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Cartas de amor
O choque das raças, ou, O presidente negro
Recreations by Retroussy Book Two
D. Quixote das crianças
O Minotauro
Emília no País da Gramática
Monteiro Lobato
O macaco que se fez homem
Os doze trabalhos de Hércules - I
Obra infantil completa
Obras completas
Na antevespera
Monteiro Lobato vivo
Ideias de Jéca Tatú
Urupês
Cartas de amor
Contes leves
Textos escolhidos
A correspondência entre Monteiro Lobato e Lima Barreto
A onda verde : O Presidente Negro
História das invenções / Dom Quixote das Crianças
Mundo da lua
Steve Sem-Sandberg
Steve Sem-Sandberg (born 1958)

linguist, translator, journalist, literary critic

  • International Writing Program

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The emperor of lies
The chosen ones
De fattiga i Lóđź
Ravensbruck
Allt förgängligt är bara en bild / Steve Sem-Sandberg
De utvalda
Ravensbrück
Theres
Glasets färger
En lektion i pardans
Sökare i dödsskuggan
Härifrån till Allmänningen
Melekh ha-Yehudim Rumḳovsḳi
Otdaĭte mne vashikh deteĭ!
Die Elenden von Łódź
De onzaligen van Łódź
Les dépossédés
De ansiktslösa
Biedni ludzie z miasta Łodzi
R. H. Barlow
R. H. Barlow (1918-1951)

anthropologist, linguist, poet, historian

  • University of California, Kansas City Art Institute

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Tlatelolco
Los mexicas y la Triple Alianza
Nombre de Dios, Durango
Fuentes y estudios sobre el México indígena
The extent of the empire of the Culhua Mexico
The extent of the empire of the Culhua Mexica
Codex Azcatitlan
Poems for a competition
Diccionario de elementos fonéticos en escritura jeroglífica
Anales de Tlatelolco
Nombre de Dios, Durango
Txillardegi
Txillardegi (1929-2012)

linguist, politician, sociolinguist, professor

  • University of the Basque Country, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Bilbao

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