Serhii sakal (74 risultati)

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the summer of 1911, Lesya Ukrainka was living in Georgia, four hundred miles from anywhere she had ever called home, ill with the tuberculosis that would kill her two years later. In ten or twelve days she wrote a play set in a forest in Volhynia that she had not seen in years and would not see again. It became the best-loved work in Ukrainian literature.The Forest Song opens on a lake in early spring, among beings who have lived there far longer than any village: Lisovyk, the old lord of the wood; Vodyanyk in his lake; Rusalka, who kills by laughter. Mavka wakes from her winter sleep to a sound she has never heard - a young man playing a pipe. She goes to find him.What follows is not the fairy tale that setup promises. Lukash is an ordinary young man with a mother, a debt, and a field that needs cutting. Mavka comes to live in his house and is put to work. A widow from the next village arrives, capable and impatient and entirely reasonable, and the forest gives ground to the farm. The play's argument is not nature against civilisation. It is about what a person owes to the thing they have woken in someone else - and about what survives being betrayed.Ukrainka called it a drama-feieriia, a drama-fairy play: flying spirits, transformations, a house on fire, and inside all that machinery a marriage, a mother-in-law, and a death.This annotated edition is designed for readers coming to Ukrainian literature for the first time as well as for those who already know it. The Ukrainian names of the forest beings are kept rather than flattened into nymphs and goblins, and explained where they appear.It includes: - a new verse translation, in blank verse for the dialogue and rhyme where Ukrainka sings - a translator's introduction on the play, its author, and the choices behind this English text - footnotes throughout, kept light enough to read past - a substantial back commentary, scene by scene, on symbolism, folklore, and the passages where the Ukrainian will not go quietly into English - a glossary of the forest beings, with the Ukrainian terms - a pronunciation guideTranslated from the Ukrainian by Serhii Sakal, whose previous translation is Taras Shevchenko's The Artist.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In a world that rewards the loud, these stories celebrate the quiet.The Quiet Strength of Slavic Legends gathers thirty-six timeless tales from Russia, Ukraine, and the steppe borderlands - retold with grace for readers of every age. Here are heroes who listen before they act, cities saved by patience, and rulers who choose fairness over force.Meet Alexander Nevsky, who reads the ice instead of rushing into battle. Follow Princess Olga, whose quiet wisdom changes a nation. Walk beside Ilya Muromets, Sadko, and the bogatyri as they discover that true power protects rather than takes.Each story is paired with its own illustration and a gentle moral, making this a treasured collection for family reading, bedtime, or quiet reflection. More than a book of legends, it is a guide to living with humility, courage, and care.These are not stories that shout. They are stories that stay.A beautiful gift for lovers of folklore, mythology, and Eastern European heritage - and for anyone who believes that the gentlest strength lasts longest. Heroes who listen.Cities saved by patience.Thirty-six illustrated Slavic legends where the gentlest strength outlasts the loud - retold for family reading, reflection, and every age. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Some stories never grow old. The Slavic Story Treasury brings 47 of them to life-clever animals, brave children, foolish heroes, and quiet forest spirits, all retold for a new generation of young readers.Meet the fearsome Baba Yaga, the boastful runaway bun Kolobok, kind Father Frost, and the glowing Firebird. Journey with Vasilisa the Beautiful, laugh at the greedy dog who loses his bone, and discover why the fox and the crane can never share a meal. Each tale ends with a gentle lesson-about kindness, patience, courage, and knowing when to listen.Perfect for ages 4-9, every story is short enough for a restless bedtime, warm enough to read aloud again and again, and rich enough to spark real conversations between you and your child.No screens. Just you, your little one, and stories shared at kitchen tables and by firelight for hundreds of years.Inside you'll find: 47 classic Slavic folk tales, retold in simple, modern languageA gentle moral at the end of every storyPerfect read-aloud length for bedtime and story timeA keepsake collection to treasure and pass downA must-have addition to any child's bookshelf-ideal for fans of bedtime stories, fairy tales, and classic read-aloud folktales. 47 classic Slavic folk tales retold for young readers-meet Baba Yaga, the runaway Kolobok, and Father Frost. Each story ends with a gentle lesson, in perfect read-aloud length for bedtime and story time. A keepsake to treasure and pass down. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In the summer of 1911, Lesya Ukrainka was living in Georgia, four hundred miles from anywhere she had ever called home, ill with the tuberculosis that would kill her two years later. In ten or twelve days she wrote a play set in a forest in Volhynia that she had not seen in years and would not see again. It became the best-loved work in Ukrainian literature.The Forest Song opens on a lake in early spring, among beings who have lived there far longer than any village: Lisovyk, the old lord of the wood; Vodyanyk in his lake; Rusalka, who kills by laughter. Mavka wakes from her winter sleep to a sound she has never heard - a young man playing a pipe. She goes to find him.What follows is not the fairy tale that setup promises. Lukash is an ordinary young man with a mother, a debt, and a field that needs cutting. Mavka comes to live in his house and is put to work. A widow from the next village arrives, capable and impatient and entirely reasonable, and the forest gives ground to the farm. The play's argument is not nature against civilisation. It is about what a person owes to the thing they have woken in someone else - and about what survives being betrayed.Ukrainka called it a drama-feieriia, a drama-fairy play: flying spirits, transformations, a house on fire, and inside all that machinery a marriage, a mother-in-law, and a death.This annotated edition is designed for readers coming to Ukrainian literature for the first time as well as for those who already know it. The Ukrainian names of the forest beings are kept rather than flattened into nymphs and goblins, and explained where they appear.It includes: - a new verse translation, in blank verse for the dialogue and rhyme where Ukrainka sings - a translator's introduction on the play, its author, and the choices behind this English text - footnotes throughout, kept light enough to read past - a substantial back commentary, scene by scene, on symbolism, folklore, and the passages where the Ukrainian will not go quietly into English - a glossary of the forest beings, with the Ukrainian terms - a pronunciation guideTranslated from the Ukrainian by Serhii Sakal, whose previous translation is Taras Shevchenko's The Artist. A forest spirit falls in love with a young man who plays the pipe, and gives him a soul.Lesya Ukrainka's 1911 masterpiece, the best-loved play in Ukrainian literature, in a new annotated verse translation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Born a serf, he was freed by his talent-only to discover what freedom costs.The Artist is one of the finest prose works of Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861), the founder of modern Ukrainian literature. Written in 1856 during the author's years of exile, this semi-autobiographical novella follows a gifted young serf whose gift for painting lifts him out of bondage and into the world of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. Narrated with warmth, irony, and deep feeling, it traces his education, friendships, and artistic awakening against the backdrop of imperial Russian society-and the fragile hope that art might redeem a life shaped by servitude.Drawing on Shevchenko's own passage from serfdom to freedom, The Artist is at once a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century artistic life and a meditation on talent, dignity, and the cost of creative ambition. This new English translation preserves the author's distinctive voice and rich period detail, making a classic of Ukrainian literature accessible to contemporary readers. Born a serf and freed by his talent, a young painter rises into the world of the Imperial Academy of Arts. Taras Shevchenko's semi-autobiographical novella-a moving portrait of art, servitude, and freedom-in a new English translation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Winter, 1915. Seven men step out of a column of sixty thousand and sit down in the snow.They have no food, no fire, and no road back. Ahead of them the file of prisoners crawls on into the fog like a great trampled worm.A Ukrainian doctor. A Hungarian. A Pole. A young Serb. An Austrian lieutenant who is blind and carries a violin. A man who has forgotten his own name.What happens on that mountain over one day and one night - the ball they invent to keep from freezing, the blind man who feeds his violin to the fire, the lot drawn to decide which of them must die so that the rest may eat, and what is said when the moment comes - Osyp Turiansky did not invent. He was one of the men.Driven across the Albanian mountains with the retreating Serbian army in the winter of 1915, he was one of roughly fifteen thousand prisoners who came out alive. Forty-five thousand did not. He wrote the book, he said, so that he would not lose his mind.Published in Vienna in 1921 and little read in English since, this is unlike anything else the First World War produced. Turiansky called it a picture from the abyss: not a novel but a novella-poem, in which narration breaks into verse, sentences shorten to the length of a breath, and rows of dots stand where language gives out. It is testimony written as art - and at the very edge of what human beings can do to one another, it refuses to become either a horror story or a sermon.At the centre of it a blind man who has lost everything says four words that the rest of the book is built to earn: There is a sun in life.This annotated edition restores the 1921 first edition entire - the subtitle later printings dropped, the dedication, the author's portrait, the four plates, and Robert Plen's contemporary essay - with an introduction, a glossary, and notes throughout on the history, the songs and rituals, and the choices behind every difficult line.Translated and annotated by Serhii Sakal. Winter, 1915. Seven prisoners of war sit down in the Albanian snow with no food, no fire and no road back. Osyp Turiansky was one of them, and one of the few who came back. An annotated edition of the 1921 novella-poem. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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