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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, Leonard J. Kent , Nina Nikolaevna BerberovaISBN 0075536323 (0-07-553632-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life." [via]
The Collected Tales and Plays of Nikolai Gogolby Leonard J. Kent , Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0374931674 (0-374-93167-4)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogolby Leonard J. Kent , Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0226300692 (0-226-30069-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol'Book summary:Volume 2 of The Complete Tales includes Gogol's Mirgorod stories⬠among them that masterpiece of grotesque comedy, "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich," the wonderfully satiric "Old World Landowners," and the Cossak epic "Taras Bulba." Here also is "The Nose," Gogol's final effort in the realm of the fantastic, as well as "The Coach," "The Portrait" (in its final version), and the most influential of his Petersburg stories, "The Overcoat."[via]More editions of The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol:
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The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogolby Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Leonard J. KentISBN 0226300684 (0-226-30068-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol'Book summary:Nikolai Gogol was an artist who, like Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne, "knew how to walk upside down in our valley of sorrows so as to make it to a merry place." This two-volume edition at last brings all of Gogol's fiction (except his novel Dead Souls) together in paperback. Volume 1 includes Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, the early Ukrainian folktales that first brought Gogol fame, as well as "Nevsky Prospekt" and "Diary of a Madman."[via]
"It is good to have a complete collection of Gogol's tales in paperback. . . . Professor Kent has thoroughly revised Mrs. Garnett's conscientious and skillful translation, eliminating the Victorianisms of her style, correcting mistakes and pruderies of diction, and making the whole translation sound much more contemporary and alive. But he has avoided the whimsicality and 'curliness' in which some recent translators indulged, and he has not changed or suppressed anything material. He has also supplied helpful notes which are often the first annotation in English, and he has written an introduction which steers the correct middle course between making Gogol an irresponsible artist of the grotesque and proving him a documentary historian of backward Russia."René Wellek, Yale UniversityMore editions of The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol:
Graduate Education Today and Tomorrowby Gustave Otto Arlt, Leonard J. Kent , George P. SpringerISBN 0826302386 (0-8263-0238-6)
Hardcover, University of New Mexico Press
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Selected Letters of E. T. A. Hoffmannby Gustave Otto Arlt, Leonard J. Kent , George P. SpringerISBN 0226347907 (0-226-34790-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Selected Writings of E. T. A. Hoffmannby Leonard J. Kent , E. T. A. Hoffmann, Elizabeth C. Knight, Rene WellekISBN 0226347885 (0-226-34788-5)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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A Survivor of a Labor Camp Remembers: Expendable Children of Mother Russiaby Leonard J. KentISBN 0773485341 (0-7734-8534-1)
Hardcover, Edwin Mellen Pr
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Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmannby Leonard J. KentISBN 0226347893 (0-226-34789-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Vanity Fairby Leonard J. KentISBN 0375757260 (0-375-75726-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:A marvelous, incisive social satire that gleefully exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars through its tracing of the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women. It is a comic masterpiece that still resonates today.
"Re-reading Vanity Fair, one realises what a brilliant innovation this was in the English novel," remarked V. S. Pritchett. "Thackeray is like the modern novelists who derive from James and Proust, in his power of dissecting (and of desiccating!) character."
Generally considered to be his masterpiece, Vanity Fair is Thackeray's resplendent social satire that exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars. Subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero," it traces the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women: the scheming opportunist Becky Sharpone of literature's most resourceful, engaging, and amoral heroinesand her foil, the faithful, naive Amelia Sedley. Thackeray's subversive, comic attack on the hypocrisy and "dismal roguery" of an avaricious world resonates 150 years later with implications for our own times.
"Thackeray is an urbane nineteenth-century guide and commentator in a portrait gallery that is for all time," observed Louis Auchincloss. "He is the restless inhabitant of a prudish age, nostalgic, discursive, anecdotal, sentimental, worldly-wise, now warning us, now making fun of us, now reproving us .... Thackeray's harshest criticism of humanity is simply the point where ours commences. His perception of self-interest in every act is the ABC of modem psychology."
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