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And Quiet Flows the Donby Mikhail Aleksandrovich SholokhovISBN 0394703308 (0-394-70330-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, David MagarshackISBN 0451528611 (0-451-52861-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Some people say Anna Karenina is the single greatest novel ever written, which makes about as much sense to me as trying to determine the world's greatest color. But there is no doubt that Anna Karenina, generally considered Tolstoy's best book, is definitely one ripping great read. Anna, miserable in her loveless marriage, does the barely thinkable and succumbs to her desires for the dashing Vronsky. I don't want to give away the ending, but I will say that 19th-century Russia doesn't take well to that sort of thing. [via]
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- Anna Karenina: ISBN 0486437965 (0-486-43796-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Anna Karenina: ISBN 0553213466 (0-553-21346-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Anna Karenina: ISBN 0451524497 (0-451-52449-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Anna Karenina: ISBN 0451528611 (0-451-52861-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
- Anna Karenina: ISBN 0486437965 (0-486-43796-5)
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Anna Kareninaby Outlet Book Company StaffISBN 0517457539 (0-517-45753-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" is the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Tolstoy's masterful novel is one of the greatest works of world literature...it is a novel of social realism that perfectly bares the Russian soul, set against the fascinating panorama of life in nineteenth-century Russia.
With a full-cast and stirring music, this compelling story of one woman's fate is brought to life in this powerful BBC production. [via]More editions of Anna Karenina:
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Anton Chekhov Selected Storiesby Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0451525116 (0-451-52511-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anton Chekhov Selected Stories'Book summary:Selected Stories, by Chekhov, Anton; tr. by Ann Dunnigan [via]
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Being Thereby Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0553279300 (0-553-27930-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being There'Book summary:Chauncey Gardiner is the great enigma: a hero of the American media. TV loves him; print pursues him. He is a household face. He is the one everybody is talking about, though nobody knows what HE is talking about. No one knows where he has come from, but everybody knows he has come to money, power and sex. Was he led to all this by the lovely, well-connected wife of a dying Wall Street tycoon? Or is Chauncey Gardiner riding the waves all by himself because, like a TV image, he floated into the world buoyed up by a force he did not see and could not name? Does he know something we don't? Will he fail? Will he ever be unhappy? The reader must decide. [via]
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Born to Succeedby Mark NevinISBN 055313843X (0-553-13843-X)
Softcover, Mark Nevin
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The Brothers Karamazovby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett, Manuel Komroff, John BayleyISBN 0451527348 (0-451-52734-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brothers Karamazov'Book summary:The Brothers Karamazov is considered a supreme achievement in literature. Published near the end of the 19th century, it is one of the great works of world-renowned author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Brothers Karamazov tackles some of the most existential and important themes known to humankind--the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith--just to name a few. Readers around the globe have found their lives transformed by this layered and complex book. A deeply spiritual work, The Brothers Karamazov is a work that every person should read. [via]
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- Brothers Karamazov: ISBN 0451530608 (0-451-53060-8)
Softcover, Signet Classic - The Brothers Karamazov: ISBN 0486437914 (0-486-43791-4)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated - The Brothers Karamazov: Library Edition: ISBN 0553212168 (0-553-21216-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The Brothers Karamazov: Library Edition: ISBN 0451523881 (0-451-52388-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Brothers Karamazov: ISBN 0394604156 (0-394-60415-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Brothers Karamazov: ISBN 0451527348 (0-451-52734-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Brothers Karamazov: ISBN 0451530608 (0-451-53060-8)
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Bulgakov: Six Playsby Mikhail BulgakovISBN 0413645304 (0-413-64530-4)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bulgakov: Six Plays'Book summary:Reissued to tie in with a new production of Flight adapted by Ron Hutchinson and performed at the Olivier, Royal National Theatre[via]
Mikhail Bulgakov was one of the Soviet Union's finest playwrights, whose work was often at odds with the Soviet State. This volume brings together his major dramatic achievements, including The White Guard, Madame Zoyka, Flight, Molière, Adam and Eve and The Last Days.Bulgakov is a much-studied author by schools, colleges and universities.
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Cancer Wardby Aleksandr SolzhenitsynISBN 0440310091 (0-440-31009-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Chain of Chanceby Stanislaw LemISBN 0436244187 (0-436-24418-7)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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The Chekhov Omnibusby Donald Rayfield, Constance GarnettISBN 0460874721 (0-460-87472-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Chelkash and Other Storiesby Maxim GorkyISBN 0486406520 (0-486-40652-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chelkash and Other Stories'Book summary:Three short stories from the great Russian writer, including the title story, in which a thieving vagrant takes on a young, unwilling apprentice; "Twenty-six Men and A Girl," widely regarded as Gorkys best short story, which describes how a wretched crew of bakery workers destroy their only source of joy; and the ill-fated romance, "Makar Chudra."[via]More editions of Chelkash and Other Stories:
Clay Machine-Gunby Viktor PelevinISBN 0571201261 (0-571-20126-1)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Collected Storiesby Isaac BabelISBN 0452007984 (0-452-00798-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. MarxISBN 0451527100 (0-451-52710-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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The Don Flows Home to the Seaby Mikhail Aleksandrovich SholokhovISBN 0394703316 (0-394-70331-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Dvorak in Loveby Josef SkvoreckyISBN 0394546814 (0-394-54681-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Eastern European Cookbookby Kay Shaw NelsonISBN 0486235629 (0-486-23562-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Elephantby Slawomir MrozekISBN 0394620534 (0-394-62053-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Engineer of Human Soulsby Josef Skvorecky, Paul WilsonISBN 039450500X (0-394-50500-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Fathers and Childrenby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0460007424 (0-460-00742-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Children'Book summary:First translated in 1867, Turgenev portays the new generation of nihilists, with their reliance on the material and on science, and their lack of respect for tradition. However, the novel's hero, Bazarov, pleased neither the revolutionaries, who thought the portrait libellous, nor the reactionaries, who thought it a glorification of iconoclasm. [via]
Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Michael R. KatzISBN 0393967522 (0-393-96752-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:Bazarova gifted, impatient, and caustic young manhas journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarovs outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touches off quarrels, misunderstandings, and romantic entanglements that will utterly transform the Kirsanov household and reflect the changes taking place all across nineteenth-century Russia.[via]
Fathers and Sons enraged the old and the young, reactionaries, romantics, and radicals alike when it was first published. At the same time, Turgenev won the acclaim of Flaubert, Maupassant, and Henry James for his craftsmanship as a writer and his psychological insight. Fathers and Sons is now considered one of the worlds greatest novels.
A timeless depiction of generational conflict during social upheaval, it vividly portrays the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution to comeand offers modern-day readers much to reflect upon as they look around at their own tumultuous, changing world.
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- Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0451529693 (0-451-52969-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0486400735 (0-486-40073-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0451515005 (0-451-51500-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0451523822 (0-451-52382-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0393967522 (0-393-96752-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0451529693 (0-451-52969-3)
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Turgenev, Barbara Makanowitzky, Alexandra TolstoyISBN 0553212591 (0-553-21259-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:When first published in 1862, this novel of a divided Russia, with peasants set against masters and fathers set against sons, caused great outrage. But its enduring legacy of social insight and conscience mixed with drama has given it universal appeal. Features an introduction by Anna Tolstoy in an exciting new Bantam Classics' package. [via]
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The First Circleby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0553246232 (0-553-24623-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Circle'Book summary:A major literary event 50 years in the making:In the First Circle is the first complete English translation of Nobel Prizewinner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns best novel (Washington Post). With an introduction by Edward Erickson, this work by the author of The Gulag Archipelago is the story of a brilliant mathematician who finds himself locked in a Moscow prison filled with the countrys brightest minds and must decide whether to aid Stalins repressive state. [via]
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First Love and the Diary of a Superfluous Manby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0486287750 (0-486-28775-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Foundation Pitby Andrey PlatonovISBN 0525107754 (0-525-10775-4)
Hardcover, Dutton
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From Affluence to Praxis: Philosophy and Social Criticismby Mihailo MarkovicISBN 0472061917 (0-472-06191-7)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Government Inspectorby Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Adrian MitchellISBN 0413584704 (0-413-58470-4)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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Widely held to have led the realist revolution in Russian drama, Gogol liberated comedy from a tradition of didacticism and sentimentality. The Government Inspector, Gogol's masterpiece, was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language.This is the poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell's version of Gogol's classic satire on human vanity with its story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt and self-seeking officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia.
Methuen Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires. As well as the complete text, the volume contains a chronology of the playwright's life and works, an introduction with background, a discussion of various interpretations, and notes on words and phrases.More editions of The Government Inspector:
Harvest on the Donby Mikhail Aleksandrovich SholokhovISBN 0394427890 (0-394-42789-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Heart of a Dogby Mirra Ginsburg, Mikhail BulgakovISBN 0394623800 (0-394-62380-0)
Softcover, Grove Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of a Dog'Book summary:This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of The Master and Margarita tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous , vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably finds his niche in the bureaucracy as the government official in charge of purging the city of cats.[via]More editions of Heart of a Dog:
A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Changeby Ian Jeffries, Robert BideleuxISBN 0415161126 (0-415-16112-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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History of Russian Literature : From Its Beginnings to 1900by Dimitry S. Mirsky, Francis J. WhitfieldISBN 0394707206 (0-394-70720-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Inspector-Generalby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0486285006 (0-486-28500-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inspector-General'Book summary:When rumors of a visit from a high-ranking bureaucrat reach a small town, the chief of police scrambles to conceal the evidence of bribery and other misdeeds. Considered the high point of Gogol's stagecraft and a masterpiece of dramatic satire, this play lampoons the stupidity and greed of provincial Russian officials.[via]More editions of The Inspector-General:
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The Jungleby Upton Beall Sinclair, Clare Virginia EbyISBN 039397779X (0-393-97779-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the "muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of "wage-slavery," the bewildering chaos of urban life. The Jungle , a story so shocking that it launched a government investigation, recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinching detail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one of the most important -- and moving -- works in the literature of social change. [via]
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- The Jungle: ISBN 0451528042 (0-451-52804-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Jungle: ISBN 0486419231 (0-486-41923-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Jungle: ISBN 0534521797 (0-534-52179-7)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co - The Jungle: ISBN 0553212451 (0-553-21245-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The Jungle: ISBN 0451524209 (0-451-52420-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Jungle: ISBN 039397779X (0-393-97779-X)
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- The Jungle: ISBN 0451528042 (0-451-52804-2)
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Storiesby Leo TolstoyISBN 0486278050 (0-486-27805-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories'Book summary:"The Kreutzer Sonata" portrays an intense conflict between sexual desire and moral constraint. "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" is a simple, moving tale of peasant life with a moral lesson; the hero of "The Death of Ivan Ilych," after a lifetime of struggle, finds faith and love only as he faces death. Explanatory footnotes.[via]More editions of The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories:
Laughable Lovesby Milan KunderaISBN 0394474120 (0-394-47412-0)
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Letters to Olga: June 1979 to September 1982by Václav Havel, Paul WilsonISBN 0394547950 (0-394-54795-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Lord Jimby Joseph ConradISBN 0395051215 (0-395-05121-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim'Book summary:This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero. A classic novel. [via]
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- Lord Jim: ISBN 0451527674 (0-451-52767-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lord Jim: ISBN 0460019252 (0-460-01925-2)
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - Lord Jim: ISBN 0553210270 (0-553-21027-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Lord Jim: ISBN 055321361X (0-553-21361-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Lord Jim: ISBN 0451522346 (0-451-52234-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lord Jim: ISBN 0395051215 (0-395-05121-5)
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- Lord Jim: ISBN 0451527674 (0-451-52767-4)
Lower Depthsby Maksim Gorky, Jenny CovanISBN 048641115X (0-486-41115-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Painted Birdby Jerzy KosinskiISBN 0553265202 (0-553-26520-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Painted Bird'Book summary:Many writers have portrayed the cruelty people inflict upon each other in the name of war or ideology or garden-variety hate, but few books will surpass Kosinski's first novel, The Painted Bird, for the sheer creepiness in its savagery. The story follows an abandoned young boy who wanders alone through the frozen bogs and broken towns of Eastern Europe during and after World War II, trying to survive. His experiences and actions occur at and beyond the limits of what might be called humanity, but Kosinski never averts his eyes, nor allows us to. [via]
Paul Kovi's Transylvanian Cuisine: A Chronicle of the Most Remarkable Middle-European Cuisineby Paul KoviISBN 0517556987 (0-517-55698-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Playsby Michael Frayn, Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 041318160X (0-413-18160-X)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays'Book summary:[via]This volume includes The Seagull, a about the battle for power between a mother and her son which ends in tragedy; Uncle Vanya tells of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and a flirtation that brings disaster; Three Sisters in which three siblings wrestle with their futures and The Cherry Orchard where the old must inevitably give way to the new. Haunting and elusive, these four great late masterpieces have found in Michael Frayn a translator who perfectly captures their delicate balance of the tragic and the absurd. The volume also contains four of Chekhov's early short 'vaudevilles' as well as a substantial introduction by Michael Frayn.
"The critical clamour for a Complete Chekhov in Michael Frayn's translation has borne fruit"Sunday Times
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The Possessedby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Andrew R. MacAndrew, Marc SlonimISBN 0451524861 (0-451-52486-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Possessed'Book summary:The Possessed (In Russian: 5AK, tr. Besy), also translated as The Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Possessed is an extremely political book, and is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoevsky casts a critical eye on both the left-wing idealists, exposing their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social consequences. This form of intellectual conservativism tied to the Slavophil movement of Dostoevsky's day, is seen to have continued on into its modern manifestation in individuals like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Dostoevsky's novels focusing on the idea that utopias and positivist ideas, in being utilitarian, were unrealistic and unobtainable. The book has five primary ideological characters: Verkhovensky, Shatov, Stavrogin, Stepan Trofimovich, and Kirilov. Through their philosophies, Dostoevsky describes the political chaos seen in 19th-Century Russia. [via]
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The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jewsby Steven BirminghamISBN 0425080749 (0-425-08074-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews'Book summary:THE REST OF US is the third panel of Stephen Birmingham's Jewish triptych (OUR CROWD and THE GRANDEES)--the story of Eastern European Jews who, between 1882 and 1915, thronged into New York to escape the pogroms of czarist Russia.
From Ellis Island, these immigrants poured into the Lower East Side. To established German Jews, this horde was an embarassment and a burden. But the Russians had a passion to succeed and soon they stood on their own.
They made it in an astonishingly short time--from the pushcarts of Hester Street to the Grand Concourse and on to the manicured lawns of Scarsdale and Beverly Hills, "from Poland to polo in one generation." [via]
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Rudinby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0404019013 (0-404-01901-3)
Hardcover, AMS Press
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Russian Short Storiesby R.S. TownsendISBN 0460017586 (0-460-01758-6)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglassby Bruno Schulz, Celina WieniewskaISBN 0395860237 (0-395-86023-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass'Book summary:This is the second and final work of Bruno Schulz, the acclaimed Polish writer killed by the Nazis during World War II. In the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer, "What he did in his short life was enough to make him one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived." Weaving myth, fantasy, and reality, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, is, to quote Schulz, "an attempt at eliciting the history of a certain family . . . by a search for the mythical sense, the essential core of that history." [via]
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Scenes from the Bathhouse: And Other Stories of Communist Russiaby Mikhail ZoshchenkoISBN 0472060708 (0-472-06070-8)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Selected Storiesby Anton Chekhov, Ann DunniganISBN 0451528794 (0-451-52879-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Sword and the Shieldby Christopher Andrew, Vasill MitrohhinISBN 0465003125 (0-465-00312-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sword and the Shield'Book summary:In early 1992, a Russian man walked into the British embassy in a newly independent Baltic republic and asked to "speak to someone in authority." As he sipped his first cup of proper English tea, he handed over a small file of notes. Eight months later, the man, his family, and his enormous archive had been safely exfiltrated to Britain. When news that a KGB officer had defected with the names of hundreds of undercover agents leaked out in 1996, a spokesperson for the SVR (Russia's foreign intelligence service, heir of the KGB) said, "Hundreds of people! That just doesn't happen! Any defector could get the name of one, two, perhaps three agents--but not hundreds!"
Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin worked as chief archivist for the FCD, the foreign-intelligence arm of the KGB. Mitrokhin was responsible for checking and sealing approximately 300,000 files, allowing him unrestricted access to one of the world's most closely guarded archives. He had lost faith in the Soviet system over the years, and was especially disturbed by the KGB's systematic silencing of dissidents at home and abroad. Faced with tough choices--stay silent, resign, or undermine the system from within--Mitrokhin decided to compile a record of the foreign operations of the KGB. Every day for 12 years, he smuggled notes out of the archive. He started by hiding scraps of paper covered with miniscule handwriting in his shoes, but later wrote notes on ordinary office paper, which he took home in his pockets. He hid the notes under his mattress, and on weekends took them to his dacha, where he typed them and hid them in containers buried under the floor. When he escaped to Britain, his archive contained tens of thousands of pages of notes.
In 1995, Mitrokhin, by then a British citizen, contacted Christopher Andrew (For the President's Eyes Only), head of the faculty of history at Cambridge University and one of the world's foremost historians of international intelligence. Andrew was allowed to examine the archive Mitrokhin created "to ensure that the truth was not forgotten, that posterity might some day come to know of it." The Sword and the Shield is the earthshaking result. The book details the KGB's foreign-intelligence operations, most notably those aimed at Great Britain and the "Main Adversary"--the United States. In the 700-page book, Andrew reveals operations aimed at discrediting high-profile Americans, from Martin Luther King to Ronald Reagan; secret arms caches still hidden--and boobytrapped--throughout the West; disinformation efforts, including forging a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald in an attempt to implicate the CIA in the assassination of JFK; attempts to stir up racial tensions in the U.S. by sending hate mail and even bombs; and the existence of deep-cover agents in North America and Europe--some of whom were effectively "outed" when the book was published.
Mitrokhin's detailed notes are well served by Andrew, who writes forcefully and clearly. The Sword and the Shield represents a remarkable intelligence coup--one that will have serious repercussions for years to come. As Andrew notes, "No one who spied for the Soviet Union at any period between the October Revolution and the eve of the Gorbachev era can now be confident that his or her secrets are still secure." --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGBby Christopher M. Andrew, Vasili MitrokhinISBN 0465003109 (0-465-00310-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB'Book summary:In early 1992, a Russian man walked into the British embassy in a newly independent Baltic republic and asked to "speak to someone in authority." As he sipped his first cup of proper English tea, he handed over a small file of notes. Eight months later, the man, his family, and his enormous archive had been safely exfiltrated to Britain. When news that a KGB officer had defected with the names of hundreds of undercover agents leaked out in 1996, a spokesperson for the SVR (Russia's foreign intelligence service, heir of the KGB) said, "Hundreds of people! That just doesn't happen! Any defector could get the name of one, two, perhaps three agents--but not hundreds!"
Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin worked as chief archivist for the FCD, the foreign-intelligence arm of the KGB. Mitrokhin was responsible for checking and sealing approximately 300,000 files, allowing him unrestricted access to one of the world's most closely guarded archives. He had lost faith in the Soviet system over the years, and was especially disturbed by the KGB's systematic silencing of dissidents at home and abroad. Faced with tough choices--stay silent, resign, or undermine the system from within--Mitrokhin decided to compile a record of the foreign operations of the KGB. Every day for 12 years, he smuggled notes out of the archive. He started by hiding scraps of paper covered with miniscule handwriting in his shoes, but later wrote notes on ordinary office paper, which he took home in his pockets. He hid the notes under his mattress, and on weekends took them to his dacha, where he typed them and hid them in containers buried under the floor. When he escaped to Britain, his archive contained tens of thousands of pages of notes.
In 1995, Mitrokhin, by then a British citizen, contacted Christopher Andrew (For the President's Eyes Only), head of the faculty of history at Cambridge University and one of the world's foremost historians of international intelligence. Andrew was allowed to examine the archive Mitrokhin created "to ensure that the truth was not forgotten, that posterity might some day come to know of it." The Sword and the Shield is the earthshaking result. The book details the KGB's foreign-intelligence operations, most notably those aimed at Great Britain and the "Main Adversary"--the United States. In the 700-page book, Andrew reveals operations aimed at discrediting high-profile Americans, from Martin Luther King to Ronald Reagan; secret arms caches still hidden--and boobytrapped--throughout the West; disinformation efforts, including forging a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald in an attempt to implicate the CIA in the assassination of JFK; attempts to stir up racial tensions in the U.S. by sending hate mail and even bombs; and the existence of deep-cover agents in North America and Europe--some of whom were effectively "outed" when the book was published.
Mitrokhin's detailed notes are well served by Andrew, who writes forcefully and clearly. The Sword and the Shield represents a remarkable intelligence coup--one that will have serious repercussions for years to come. As Andrew notes, "No one who spied for the Soviet Union at any period between the October Revolution and the eve of the Gorbachev era can now be confident that his or her secrets are still secure." --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Ten Years after Ivan Denisovichby Medvedev, Zhores, A.ISBN 0394711122 (0-394-71112-2)
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Uncle Vanyaby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Michael FraynISBN 0413774716 (0-413-77471-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Vanya'Book summary:This structurally and psychologically compact drama takes place on an estate in 19th-century Russia, exploring the complex interrelationships between a retired professor, his second wife, and the daughter and brother-in-law from his first marriage. Interwoven themes of weakness, delusion, and despair are balanced by an underlying message of courage and hope.[via]
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War and Peaceby Leo Tolstoy, Ann DunniganISBN 0451521161 (0-451-52116-1)
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Weby Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin, Gregory ZiboorgISBN 0525470395 (0-525-47039-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We'Book summary:First published in the West in 1924, We is an adventurous story of the future nameless "numbers," the two-tenths of the world's population that survived the Great Two Hundred Years War. Their food is derived from petroleum, and they believe that their totally restricted existence under the watchful eye of the Benefactor is the ideal. They do not mourn the passing of the creative human spirit; indeed, they are hardly aware it ever existed. More than half a century later, We remains a strange and telling tragicomedy of love and death. The author, an acknowledged satirist in his own right, set the stage for Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984.
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The White Guardby Mikhail BulgakovISBN 041346220X (0-413-46220-X)
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