A Russian author who died in 1932, Grin's work was ignored for most of his life in his native country. Today, he has become one of the most popular writers in the Soviet Union. Grin's writing is filled with nervous energy, his enigmatic characters a...
Alexander Grin was writing after the revolution, living in Crimea. Content of the novel is based upon background of sea travel, heroes have portraits for the characters. Action is running in the "invented" places, whose names resemble names of the re...
Crimson Sails is a classic adventure tale of love and hope in the beauty of one’s dreams. Written by Russia’s Alexander Grin in 1923, this short fantasy novel introduces readers to Soll, a hopeful young girl who has been ostracized in her village...
Sandy Pruel - a sixteen-year old ship boy serving on a third-grade cargo vessel - receives an unexpected visit from two strangers that approach him with an unusual offer. What begins as a daring prank, develops into a dazzling kaleidoscope of adventu...
Scarlet Sails. Alexander Grin. English EditionAlexander Grin's(1880-1932) novel Scarlet Sails is a romantic fantasy, and powerful love story. Perhaps the most famous of Grin's works.The setting is a small fishing village. The former seaman Longren r...
There are people comfortably settled into their lives. There are people confident in what they know. There are people who are safe within their well-defined world.Just when they think they have the universe figured out, along comes Drood and changes ...
Two writers, two styles, two approaches to one subject. What if a human being could fly?Join the two lions of Russian/Soviet science fiction and fantasy - Alexander Belyaev and Alexander Grin, as they explore the possibility of a flying man from thei...
Explore the nook and crannies of the mysterious land created by Alexander Grin and overlayed seamlessly with our own - Grinlandia. Enjoy the journey down the paths of the sacred and the profane, the strange and the frightening, the hideous and the da...
It is difficult to combine mysticism with humor, but Alexander Grin takes on the challenge and comes out with flying colors. For all its mystical and mythical references, An incident at the apartment of Madam Cerize, is quite a heartwarming story, gi...
Alexander Grin is known for his strange and chilling tales, and this one is certainly one of the oddest of them all. The author would like us to consider, what would happen if a creation not only outsmarted its creator but became truly dangerous....
Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. Proizvedenija Aleksandra Grina proniknuty tonkim psihologizmom, gumanny i pojetichny. "Alye parusa" - ochen' romanticheskaja i krasivaja skazka. Ona sovsem nebol'shaja, no ochen'...
The stories in this volume together represent the greater portion of Grin's literary career and convey a sense of how his concerns and technique evolved over the years. The first two, Quarantine and 'She,' are from the pre-Grinlandia period. The form...
The quiet, settled life of a tropical colony is disrupted when a mysterious stranger makes his home nearby. Himself an exile from the wider world and bittersweet memories, the newcomer pursues his own goals, but not before he alters the paths of thos...
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Der Roman erzählt von Drood, einem Mann, der mit der wundersamen Gabe des Fliegens ausgestattet ist, ähnlich der Flucht in einem Traum, und von seiner Verfolgung durch die seelenlosen Reichen, die die Welt beherrschen. In einer bestimmten S...
Wie eine fremdartige Blume wächst das Mädchen Assol an einer rauen Meeresküste unter Fischern auf. Eines Tages verkündet ihr ein wandernder Märchenerzähler: »Ein weißes Schiff unter riesigen, leuchtenden Purp...