Showing results for "Vlad" in Literature & Fiction

Dracula. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality. Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his story not of a monster but of a man - and a contradiction. For the one they called 'The Devil's Son' was both tyrant and lawgiver, crusader and mass slaughterer, torturer and hero, lover and murderer. His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved, who he must sacrifice. His closest comrade and traitor.

When Drasko, a nine-year-old thief from the slums, is presented with a once-in-a-lifetime offer, life takes him to a far-away land on the hunt for diamonds. Twenty years later, Drasko Mawr, now the wealthiest diamond miner in the world, comes back to London. And he must play a dangerous game—a deal he has signed with blood.

On December 19th, 1851, a crime took place in the center of London. One of the few who knows what truly happened is Countess Alina Bronskaya. But she will never speak of it. The crime is her curse and her salvation.

Most of the vast audience attracted to the subject of Dracula know him only in his fictional, one-dimensional form: vampire. Yet the truth behind the historical character - voevode, warlord - of 15th C. Romania is at least as equally fascinating as any contrived account of his supernatural persona. Vlad Dracula faithfully follows his life story as hostage, fugitive, prince, and prisoner, as well as his legend.

Vlad Taltos is in love. With a former assassin who may just be better than he is at the Game. Women like this don’t come along every day and no way is he passing up a sure bet. So a wedding is being planned. Along with a shady deal gone wrong and a dead man who owes Vlad money. Setting up the first and trying to deal with the second is bad enough. And then bigger powers decide that Vlad is the perfect patsy to shake the power structure of the kingdom. More's the pity that his soul is sent walkabout to do it.

Vlad Taltos is on the run. Again. This time from one of the most powerful forces in his world, the Left Hand, who are intent on ending his very lucrative career. Permanently. He finds a hidey-hole in a theatre where the players are putting on a show that was banned centuries ago...and is trying to be shut down by the House that once literally killed to keep it from being played. Vlad will take on a number of roles to save his own skin. And the skins of those he loves. And along the way, he might find a part that was tailor-made for him. One that he might not want...but was always his destiny.

Lord Vlad Taltos returns in the prequel to Jhereg, Yendi and Teckla. In this fantastic adventure, listeners learn what really happened when Vlad found himself walking the Paths of the Dead.

Soon after the events of Jhereg, Vlad becomes embroiled in a struggle between the House of the Jhereg and a group of revolutionaries that his wife has joined.

When the Demon-Goddess saves him from a certain death, Vlad must pay her back with his professional services as an assassin.

"Voskresenie" - poslednij roman L'va Nikolaevicha Tolstogo, napisannyj im v 1889-1899 godah. Roman prakticheski srazu za publikaciej byl perevedyon na osnovnye evropejskie yazyki. Podobnyj uspekh vo mnogom ob'yasnyalsya ostrotoj vybrannoj temy (sud'ba soblaznyonnoj i broshennoj oficerom devushki, chuvstvo viny pered kotoroj vposledstvii stanovitsya povodom izmeneniya zhiznej ih oboih) i kolossal'nym interesom k tvorchestvu Tolstogo, kotoryj ne pechatal romanov posle "Vojny i mira" i "Anny Kareninoj".

Vlad Taltos is very good at killing people. That, combined with two faithful companions and a talent for witchcraft, makes him an assassin par excellence. But lately his heart just hasn't been in his work, so he decides to retire. Unfortunately, old enemies have scores to settle with Vlad. So much for retirement!

Audiobook colectiv în lectura autorilor: Gabriel Liiceanu, Ioana Pârvulescu, Radu Paraschivescu, Tatiana Niculescu, Vlad Zografi, Andrei Cornea, Andrei Pleșu "Ce-ar fi să descoperim că adevărata fericire e cea care ne pune viaţa la încercare și îi dă o împlinire tocmai pentru că a fost smulsă unei lumi ostile? S-ar putea ca trecerea noastră pe pământ să capete altă forţă când, în strădania naturală spre fericire, suntem puși în situaţia de a compune un destin nu cu bunăstarea, răsfăţul și trufia marilor popoare, ci cu suferinţa celor insignifiante."

Povest' byla sozdana pisatelem v sentyabre-noyabre 1848 goda. Povest' nosit podzagolovok "Sentimental'nyy roman. Iz vospominaniy mechtatelya". Proizvedenie sostoit iz shesti glav: "Noch' pervaya", "Noch' vtoraya", "Istoriya Nasten'ki", "Noch' tret'ya", "Noch' chetvyortaya", "Utro". Geroy povesti - mechtatel', odinokiy i robkiy chelovek. Beloy noch'yu mechtatel' sluchayno znakomitsya s devushkoy Nasten'koy. On vlyublyaetsya v neyo, a ona vidit v nyom rodnuyu dushu, brata. Nasten'ka rasskazyvaet emu pro svoyu zhizn'. Vse svoi rannie gody ona prozhila vmeste so svoey slepoy babushkoy, popav k ney posle smerti roditeley. ZHizn' Nasten'ki byla odnoobraznoy i nevesyoloy.

Roman-ehpopeya "Vojna i mir" - proizvedenie, porazhayushchee ehpicheskimi masshtabami povestvovaniya, istoricheskoj dostovernost'yu, iskrennost'yu izobrazheniya podlinnyh chelovecheskih chuvstv i ehmocij. Napoleonovskie vojny, Rossiya na perelomnom ehtape istorii pokazany vo vzaimosvyazi s sud'bami i lichnoj zhizn'yu udalennyh ot nas po vremeni, no po-chelovecheski blizkih i ponyatnyh nam lyudej. "Vojna i mir" - ehto i istoricheskij roman, i semejnaya hronika, i psihologicheskaya drama.

When you see a Rainbow, you know the Master is at work. Every human being makes mistakes and it seems that life is punishing us for our mistakes. God sometimes takes our mistakes and causes them to have a boomerang effect and bring us back to where we really need to be. Such is the case with the two young people in this story. Life throws them a curve at a very early age and they were off track for many years, but since God is not bound by time or space, he allowed them in time to come full circle and made their mistakes the cornerstone and center of their world.

"Brat'ya Karamazovy" - posledniy roman Dostoevskogo, kotoryy avtor pisal dva goda. Roman zadumyvalsya kak pervaya chast' ehpicheskogo proizvedeniya "Istoriya Velikogo greshnika". Proizvedenie bylo okoncheno v noyabre 1880 goda. Roman "Brat'ya Karamazovy" vklyuchaet v sebya slozhnuyu, otlichno vystroennuyu i psihologicheski vyverennuyu detektivnuyu istoriyu, pri ehtom v kanve detektivnogo syuzheta obyknovennoe (na pervyy vzglyad) ugolovnoe proisshestvie ne tol'ko spletaetsya s istoriey lyubovnogo sopernichestva, no i vstraivaetsya v obshchuyu kartinu sovremennogo Dostoevskomu obshchestva.

Renown for his plays depicting the socio-cultural context of modern society after the fall of Communism, popular playwright Vlad Zografi invites listeners to consider contemporary theater from multiple and mutually enriching and dramatic perspectives. The brilliance of his plays reflect a liberated and live theater in which audiences are drawn into the sentiments and obsessions of characters as diverse as a nameless and bare-footed leper, Russian Czar Peter the Great, on a visit to the court of France....

"Mertvye dushi" - proizvedenie Nikolaya Vasil'evicha Gogolya, zhanr kotorogo sam avtor oboznachil kak poemu. Iznachal'no zadumano kak trekhtomnoe proizvedenie. Pervyy tom byl izdan v 1842 godu. Ispolnyaet Mihail Ul'yanov.

"Eroi" ai fostului regim politic, "oamenii muncii" ce locuiesc intr-o mahala a unui oras de provincie sint acum "balastul" noii ordini, pensionari sau someri. Azvirliti de istorie la periferia lumii, isi petrec timpul in aburi de alcool si zumzet de palavre. Pe masura ce personajele se adincesc in discutii, realitatea lasa locul unei lumi formate din amintiri distorsionate, nostalgii, fantasme, frustrari, stereotipuri, proiecte si fantezii excentrice.

"Revizor" - radiospektakl' 1971 po odnoimennomu proizvedeniyu Nikolaya Gogolya. Komediya v pyati deystviyah. Ispolniteli: V. Monyukov, V. Belokurov, O. Androvskaya, A. Kedrova, B. Petker, L. Zolotuhin, A. Gribov, YU. Leonidov, A. Pokrovskiy, V. Nevinnyy, V. Troshin i dr.