Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible & worthy goal, Ivan Goncharov's " Oblomov" follows the travails of an unlikely hero, a young aristocrat incapable of making a decision. This title presents the translation the novel. ...

Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends & found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. ...

Goncharov's gentle satire on the failings of 19th-century Russian gentry & bureaucracy turns into something deeper & richer than satire, as he probes the character of a protagonist whose constitutional lethargy becomes a symbol for the malaise of the human spirit in an alienating world. ...

Vincent Price plays the lord of a manor who keeps his mutilated brother (Alistair Williamson) hidden away from public view. However, he can not be held captive forever & when he escapes he attempts to extract his revenge. Also starring Christopher Lee. ...

Documentary biography of Barney Rosset, owner of influential alternative publishing company Grove Press & editor of the literary magazine Evergreen Review. Often publishing highly controversial books that had been banned under obscenity laws including ' Lady Chatterley's Lover', ' Tropic of Cancer' & ' Naked Lunch' as well as works by Samuel Beckett, Kenzaburo Oe, Tom Stoppard, Che Guevara, & Malcolm X, Rosset was a passionate defender of free expression & endured lawsuits, death-threats, grenade attacks, government surveillance & the occupation of his premises by enraged feminists in his struggle against censorship & state control. ...

Obscure Locks offers a detailed annotation of Samuel Beckett's most enigmatic novel, Watt. It provides a page by page account of the demented details (literary, philosophical, theological, biographical & other) that went into the making of this encyclopaedic novel. ...

Geopolitics is changing. The conduct of war & peace is being transformed by our increasing dependence on visual images & practices. Visual culture has become part of the apparatus of persuasion. This title explores the relationship between geopolitics & visual culture. ...