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Pliny the Elder waxes enthusiastic about a dog licking its wound in the temple of Juno on the Capitol:. "This art attained a perfection incredible in a man, and with it a boldness to match. … Our generation saw on the Capitol, before it burned down so recently, … a dog
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"Innocent Speeches", "Peasant Women", "Dreams", "The Wife", "Three Sisters": these and other editions of Chekhov published in his lifetime have been made freely available by the National Electronic Library in honour of Anton Pavlovich's 160th birthday, as part
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The German accountant Matthäus Schwarz decided to gather in a single book every outfit he had ever worn, annotate them at length and explain the circumstances that had prompted him to choose those very costumes. The fascinating life of a humble bookkeeper, from his childhood, when at the age of
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At Melikhovo, which Chekhov bought in 1892, he, who had never had a house of his own, acquired for the first time a study of his own, of which he wrote: "I sit in my study with its three large Italian windows and live in blissful content." The
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Today we travelled with the intellectual Club 418 to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's favourite estate, Melikhovo, which became the true family nest of the Chekhovs and gave the world dozens of works of Chekhovian classic. This year the Chekhov Museum at Melikhovo celebrates its 80th anniversary, and Anton Pavlovich
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Incidentally, Delfin names the Swede Tomas Tranströmer as his favourite poet. Now there is a man of remarkable destiny: a psychologist by profession who became a professional pianist and poet, all the while engaged in literature from his youth, and who won worldwide poetic recognition only after an accident that
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Falanster is holding a sale of Seans publications. There are some interesting things; I am reserving Varda and Barskaya
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I have long wanted to draw attention to Claude Chabrol's film "La Cérémonie", which we watched with the lads at my film club; the article mentions it too. The point is that this social drama, which in its day won a great many awards, is now
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Inkwell "Pushkin at Work". 1936, Lomonosov Porcelain Factory
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AST Nonfiction is running a poll on which cover best suits the hardback edition of Mockingbird. My choice, I think, is obvious. And what do you think? Thank you all for your congratulations; very soon it will be in bookshops across the country 🥰
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When you hear of a ‘new’ format of portable smoking systems, remember this German smoking pipe of the mid-19th century, made of porcelain, wood, metal and textile. The piece is from the collection of the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve. Something of the kind may well have been puffed by the
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