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The Adolescentby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0375719008 (0-375-71900-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adolescent'Book summary:"Not till J. D. Salinger created Holden Caulfield has there ever been so convincing a portrait of an adolescent."Toronto Daily Star
The fourth of Dostoevsky's five major novels, this is the story of a nineteen-year-old searching for identity amid the disorder of Russian society in the 1870s. Arkady is the illegitimate child of a landowner and the wife of his estate's gardener. He has refused to go to university, instead traveling to St. Petersburg in pursuit of a secret goaland of a relationship with his father. [via]-
Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, George Gibian, Aylmer MaudeISBN 0393966429 (0-393-96642-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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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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Anton Chekhov's Playsby Eugene K. Bristow, Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0393091635 (0-393-09163-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Anton Chekhov's Selected Playsby Anton Chekhov, Laurence SenelickISBN 0393924653 (0-393-92465-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Balkans in Our Timeby Robert Lee WolffISBN 0393090108 (0-393-09010-8)
Hardcover, Norton
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Best English Short Stories 4by Giles Gordon, David HughesISBN 0393034410 (0-393-03441-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930by Timothy O. Benson, Timothy Benson, Los Angeles County Museum, Eva ForgacsISBN 0262025302 (0-262-02530-2)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Brothers Karamazovby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0374528373 (0-374-52837-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothers Karamazov'Book summary:Constance Garnetts translation, the basic version in English of this Russian masterpiece, has been revised by the editor for accuracy and readability.
Dostoevskys sources for the characters and situations of the novel are set forth in an extract from Lev Reynuss Dostoevsky and Staraya Russa and in selections from Dostoevskys letters and diary, all translated by Professor Matlaw. Konstantin Mochulskys essay provides a general discussion of the work. Important questions as to the craft of the novel, its characterization, Dostoevskys symbolism, the Grand Inquisitor, and the theme of religious salvation are surveyed in critical pieces by Dmitry Tschizewskij, Robert L. Belknap, Edward Wasiolek, Harry Slochower, D. H. Lawrence, Albert Camus, Nathan Rosen, Leonid Grossman, Ya. E. Golosovker, R. P. Blackmur, and Ralph E. Matlaw. Several of these selections are also recently translated from the Russian. A Selected Bibliography is included. [via] -
Cancer Wardby Aleksandr SolzhenitsynISBN 0374511993 (0-374-51199-3)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cancer Ward'Book summary:Like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the hero, Oldg Kostoglotov, spent many years in labour camps and was eventually transferred to a cancer ward. This study of how people confront terminal illness is also a dissection of the "cancerous" Soviet police state. [via]
Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930by Timothy O. BensonISBN 0262025221 (0-262-02522-1)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Childhood, Boyhood and Youthby Leo Tolstoy, Michael ScammellISBN 0375759441 (0-375-75944-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Children of the Arbatby Anatoli Naumovich RybakovISBN 0316763721 (0-316-76372-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Collected Storiesby Walter Arndt, Paul Debreczeny, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0375405496 (0-375-40549-6)
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Babelby Peter Constantine, Nathalie Babel, I. Babel, Cynthia OzickISBN 0393324028 (0-393-32402-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogolby Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0375706151 (0-375-70615-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Communist Manifestoby Frederic L. Bender, K. MarxISBN 0393956164 (0-393-95616-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition offers a complete historical and philosophical introduction to Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party.
It will assist students making their first approach to Marx's thought as well as those ready to study the Manifesto in more depth. For beginning students, this edition provides a carefully annotated text of the Manifesto and two introductory sections by Frederic Bender, a "Chronology of Events Leading to the Communist Manifesto" and "Historical and Theoretical Backgrounds of the Communist Manifesto." More experienced students will benefit from selections on the sources of Marx's thought, the significance of the Manifesto in the history of Marxism, and recent interpretations of the work. [via]More editions of The Communist Manifesto:
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. Marx, John E. ToewsISBN 0312157118 (0-312-15711-8)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:Does the closing of the cold war era open up the possibility of reading the Communist Manifesto in new ways? In the first teaching edition of the post-Cold War era, Toews proposes new guidelines for reassessing the work to help students reconstruct the meaning of the Manifesto in its time and at the close of the twentieth century. Together with the complete text of the work, this brief volume includes some key foundational documents by Hegel, Feverbach, Marx, Engels, and others that show the evolution of and influences on Marxist theory over time. The editor's introduction traces the trajectory of Marx's thought from the 1830s onward, while providing background on the political, social, and intellectual contexts of which the Manifesto was a historical product.[via]More editions of The Communist Manifesto:
The Complete Works of Isaac Babelby I. Babel, Peter ConstantineISBN 0393328244 (0-393-32824-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of Isaac Babel'Book summary:A literary event of extraordinary dimensionsthe first single-volume edition of all of Isaac Babel's work.
Considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth centuryand the most revered short-story writer since ChekhovIsaac Babel (1894-1940) left an extraordinary literary legacy that continues to grow, remarkably, more than sixty years after his death in Lubyanka Prison at the hands of Stalin's secret police. Despite Babel's celebrated staturewhich had already been achieved during his lifetimethe whole of his work, owing to his arrest and the state of affairs in the Soviet Union, was never assembled in one place.
This magnificent edition of Babel's collected work fulfills a lifelong ambition of Babel's daughter, Nathalie, who has authorized and edited the entire collection, and has collaborated with award-winning translator Peter Constantine in readying the work for publication. Every story or selection included in this volume (147 in total) has been newly edited and translated, beginning with Babel's first published story, "Old Shloyme," originally published in 1913, and concluding with two scenes from a screenplay that Babel did not live to see made into a film. Included in The Complete Works are stories that will be familiar to Babel enthusiasts, like the "Red Cavalry" cycle and his diaries, as well as untranslated stories and other works that appear in English for the first time.
To read Babel is to relive the wild and often terrifying swings of twentieth-century Russian history. No writer has conveyed with such emotion and convulsive energy the tragic story of a modern nation that remained a prisoner of its brutal and repressive past. Combining the compassion of Dostoevsky with the mordant wit of Chekhov, Babel injected a daring social criticism and a palpable sexual tension into the literary climate of post-tsarist Russia. In the process, he created a style so vivid, so lacerating, and so utterly hypnotic that his stories have come to define the sanguinary landscape of the Soviet Union in the years between the two world wars.
As these stories illustrate, and as Cynthia Ozick insightfully observes in her passionate introduction, Babel was a man of acute contradictions. Born in the cosmopolitan port city of Odessa during the long reign of Alexander II, Babel was quite competent in both Hebrew and Yiddish but, influenced by both Flaubert and Maupassant, wrote his first stories in fluent French. His often comic portrayal of characterssuch as the ruthless Jewish mobsters depicted in his Benya Krik storiesresulted from observing them firsthand as a boy in the Moldavanka neighborhood of Odessa. As Ozick notes, the "breadth and scope of his social compass enabled him to see through the eyes of peasants, soldiers, priests, rabbis, children, artists, actors, women of all classes. . . . He was at once a poet of the city ('the glass sun of Petersburg') and a lyricist of the countryside ('the walls of sunset collapsing into the sky')."
Arranged sequentially in fourteen sections, The Complete Works traces the entire arc of Babel's literary career, beginning with early stories, which are followed by The Odessa Stories and The Red Cavalry Stories. Also included are his Reports from St. Petersburg (1918), the remarkable 1920 Diary, and reports from Soviet Georgia and France, where his wife, Evgenia, and his daughter, Nathalie, lived. Many of his later stories (1925-38) reflect a compelling literary quality and abrupt change in style that have challenged translators for years. An accomplished playwright and screenwriter, Babel, at the height of his popularity, began writing for the Soviet cinema as early as the 1920s, and many of these works have never been translated before. This edition also includes a foreword and a biographical afterword by Nathalie Babel, a translator's preface and annotations throughout by Peter Constantine, and a chronology by Gregory Freidin, regarded as one of the foremost Babel scholars in the world.
Unprecedented for both its literary and its scholarly achievement, The Complete Works of Isaac Babel will stand as Babel's final, most enduring legacy. [via]More editions of The Complete Works of Isaac Babel:
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The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Yearsby Chingiz AitmatovISBN 0253204828 (0-253-20482-8)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years'Book summary:"... a rewarding book." -Times Literary SupplementSet in the vast windswept Central Asian steppes and the infinite reaches of galactic space, this powerful novel offers a vivid view of the culture and values of the Soviet Union's Central Asian peoples. [via]
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Demonsby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Joseph FrankISBN 0375411224 (0-375-41122-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as The Possessed.
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a novel-pamphlet in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russiaa novel that is rivaled only by The Brothers Karamazov as Dostoevskys greatest. [via]More editions of Demons:
Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchyby O. JasziISBN 0226395685 (0-226-39568-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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A Dreambook for Our Timeby Tadeusz Konwicki, David WelshISBN 0262110350 (0-262-11035-0)
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Dvorak in Loveby Josef SkvoreckyISBN 0393305481 (0-393-30548-1)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dvorak in Love'Book summary:In 1892, at the height of his prodigious powers, Anton Dvorak was persuaded to leave his native Bohemia to come to New York to be director of the National Conservatory for Music. This splendid novel tells the story of Dvorak's utterly requited love affair with America. [via]
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Embersby Sandor Marai, Carol Brown JanewayISBN 0375707425 (0-375-70742-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Embers'Book summary:In Sándor Márai's Embers, two old men, once the best of friends, meet after a 41-year break in their relationship. They dine together, taking the same places at the table that they had assumed on the last meal they shared, then sit beside each other in front of a dying fire, one of them nearly silent, the other one, his host, slowly and deliberately tracing the course of their dead friendship. This sensitive, long-considered elaboration of one man's lifelong grievance is as gripping as any adventure story and explains why Márai's forgotten 1942 masterpiece is being compared with the work of Thomas Mann. In some ways, Márai's work is more modern than Mann's. His brevity, simplicity, and succinct, unadorned lyricism may call to mind Latin American novelists like Gabriel García Márquez, or even Italo Calvino. It is the tone of magical realism, although Márai's work is only magical in the sense that he completely engages his reader, spinning a web of words as his wounded central character describes his betrayal and abandonment at the hands of his closest friend. Even the setting, an old castle, evokes dark fairy tales.
The story of the rediscovery of Embers is as fascinating as the novel itself. A celebrated Hungarian novelist of the 1930s, Márai survived the war but was persecuted by the Communists after they came to power. His books were suppressed, even destroyed, and he was forced to flee his country in 1948. He died in San Diego in 1989, one year before the neglected Embers was finally reprinted in his native land. This reprint was discovered by the Italian writer and publisher Roberto Calasso, and the subsequent editions have become international bestsellers. All of Márai's novels are now slated for American publication. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Talesby David Magarshack, Nikolai LeskovISBN 0374520577 (0-374-52057-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales'Book summary:Written over the course of Leskovs career, each story in The Enchanted Wanderer elucidates the very essence of the human condition; themes of love, despair, loneliness, and revenge are explored against the backdrop of nineteenth-century working-class Russia. Leskov deftly layers social satire and subtle criticism atop myth and fable, resulting in a richly entertaining collection. [via]
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Envy, and Other Worksby Yuri OleshaISBN 0393000427 (0-393-00042-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black Garnett, Elizabeth Cheresh AllenISBN 0375758399 (0-375-75839-9)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:This new translation by Richard Freeborn makes Turgenev's masterpiece about the conflict between generations seem as fresh, outspoken, and exciting as it was to those readers who first encountered its famous hero. The controversial portrayal of Bazarov, the 'nihilist' or 'new man', shocked Russian society when the novel was published in 1862. The image of humanity liberated by science from age-old conformities and prejudices is one that can threaten establishments of any political or religious persuasion, and is especially potent at the present time. Richard Freeborn is the first translator to have had access to Turgenev's working manuscript. An appendix contains the first English translation of some of Turgenev's preparatory sketches for the novel. [via]
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Ferdydurkeby Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta BorchardtISBN 0300082401 (0-300-08240-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ferdydurke'Book summary:In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Originally published in Poland in 1937, Ferdydurke became an instant literary sensation and catapulted the young author to fame. Deemed scandalous and subversive by Nazis, Stalinists, and the Polish Communist regime in turn, the novel (as well as all of Gombrowicz's other works) was officially banned in Poland for decades. It has nonetheless remained one of the most influential works of twentieth-century European literature.Ferdydurke is translated here directly from the Polish for the first time. Danuta Borchardt deftly captures Gombrowicz's playful and idiosyncratic style, and she allows English speakers to experience fully the masterpiece of a writer whom Milan Kundera describes as "one of the great novelists of our century." [via]
The Forged Couponby Leo TolstoyISBN 0393303004 (0-393-30300-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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From Desire to Desireby Yevgeny Aleksandrovich YevtushenkoISBN 0385088663 (0-385-08866-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Great Terror: A Reassessmentby Robert ConquestISBN 0195071328 (0-19-507132-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Terror: A Reassessment'Book summary:The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. Edmund Wilson hailed it as "the only scrupulous, non-partisan, and adequate book on the subject." George F. Kennan, writing in The New York Times Book Review, noted that "one comes away filled with a sense of the relevance and immediacy of old questions." And Harrison Salisbury called it "brilliant...not only an odyssey of madness, tragedy, and sadism, but a work of scholarship and literary craftsmanship." And in recent years it has received equally high praise in the Soviet Union, where it is now considered the authority on the period, and has been serialized in Neva, one of their leading periodicals.
Of course, when Conquest wrote the original volume two decades ago, he relied heavily on unofficial sources. Now, with the advent of glasnost, an avalanche of new material is available, and Conquest has mined this enormous cache to write a substantially new edition of his classic work. It is remarkable how many of Conquest's most disturbing conclusions have born up under the light of fresh evidence. But Conquest has added enormously to the detail, including hitherto secret information on the three great "Moscow Trials," on the fate of the executed generals, on the methods of obtaining confessions, on the purge of writers and other members of the intelligentsia, on life in the labor camps, and many other key matters.
Both a leading Sovietologist and a highly respected poet, Conquest here blends profound research with evocative prose, providing not only an authoritative account of Stalin's purges, but also a compelling and eloquent chronicle of one of this century's most tragic events. A timely revision of a book long out of print, this updated version of Conquest's classic work will interest both readers of the earlier volume and an entirely new generation of readers for whom it has not been readily available. [via]More editions of The Great Terror: A Reassessment:
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Guerra Y Pazby Leo N. Tolstoy, Gala Arias RubioISBN 0307273911 (0-307-27391-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guerra Y Paz'Book summary:The well-known works of literature in this series constitute the most valuable treasures of universal literature. The affordably priced imitation leather bound books enhance any library, putting the works of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy within everyone's reach.[via]More editions of Guerra Y Paz:
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialecticsby Gyorgy LukacsISBN 0262620200 (0-262-62020-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics'Book summary:This is the first time one of the most important of Lukács' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of Historic Marxism, class consciousness, and the substantiation and consciousness of the Proletariat.Writing in 1968, on the occasion of the appearance of his collected works, Lukács evaluated the influence of this book as follows:"For the historical effect of History and Class Consciousness and also for the actuality of the present time one problem is of decisive importance: alienation, which is here treated for the first time since Marx as the central question of a revolutionary critique of capitalism, and whose historical as well as methodological origins are deeply rooted in Hegelian dialectic. It goes without saying that the problem was omnipresent. A few years after History and Class Consciousness was published, it was moved into the focus of philosophical discussion by Heidegger in his Being and Time, a place which it maintains to this day largely as a result of the position occupied by Sartre and his followers. The philologic question raised by L. Goldmann, who considered Heidegger's work partly as a polemic reply to my (admittedly unnamed) work, need not be discussed here. It suffices today to say that the problem was in the air, particularly if we analyze its background in detail in order to clarify its effect, the mixture of Marxist and Existentialist thought processes, which prevailed especially in France immediately after the Second World War. In this connection priorities, influences, and so on are not particularly significant. What is important is that the alienation of man was recognized and appreciated as the central problem of the time in which we live, by bourgeois as well as proletarian, by politically rightist and leftist thinkers. Thus, History and Class Consciousness exerted a profound effect in the circles of the youthful intelligentsia."George Lichtheim, also in 1968, writes that "...The originality of the early Lukács lay in the assertion that the totality of history could be apprehended by adopting a particular 'class standpoint': that of the proletariat. Class consciousness ;not indeed the empirical consciousness of the actual proletariat, which was hopelessly entangled with the surface aspects of objective reality, but an ideal-typical consciousness proper to a class which radically negates the existing order of reality: that was the formula which had made it possible for the Lukács of 1923 to unify theory and practice."
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How It All Beganby George Shriver, Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Stephen F CohenISBN 0231107315 (0-231-10731-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How It All Began'Book summary:The story behind How It All Began is almost as compelling as that contained within its pages. Of all those in Lenin's inner circle, Nikolai Bukharin stood out as a kinder, gentler sort of revolutionary: a painter, writer, and student of the social and natural sciences who later defended Lenin's liberal New Economic Policy during the '20s. If he hadn't fallen prey to Stalin's maniacal purges, the history of Russian Communism might have turned out quite differently. Instead, Bukharin spent a year in prison writing feverishly and awaiting trial. He finished four books during that hellish year--two books of political theory, a volume of poems, and then this unfinished novel--before being shot in his cell. The resulting manuscript could easily have vanished from the face of the earth. Improbably, it survived in Stalin's personal archives, from whence it was rescued, translated by George Shriver, and offered up as both historical document and genuinely interesting work of fiction--a sort of portrait of the revolutionary as a young man. How It All Began follows the coming of age of one Kolya Petrov, the son of vaguely liberal provincial Russians. Although Bukharin plants all the seeds of the political consciousness to come, this is done with a mercifully light touch, interspersed with character studies, lyrical descriptions of nature, and accounts of young Kolya's education. The book breaks off abruptly when Kolya is only 15, as the country was about to plunge into 1905's failed revolution--and as Bukharin himself was about to be silenced forever. [via]
Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991by Dubravka Djuric, Misko SuvakovicISBN 0262042169 (0-262-04216-9)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Ivankiadby Vladimir VoinovichISBN 0374513988 (0-374-51398-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Ivankiad: Or, The Tale of the Writer Voinovich's Installation in His New Apartmentby Vladimir VoinovichISBN 0374178453 (0-374-17845-3)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Jungleby Christopher Phelps, Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0312400373 (0-312-40037-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Upton Sinclairs novel The Jungle, which inspired passage in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, stands as a classic of twentieth-century American literature and social protest. In this accessible and thorough edition by Christopher Phelps, a critical introduction addresses the wide range of issues raised by the text, including early twentieth-century working conditions, immigrant community, race and gender, political reform, and the continuing relevance of Sinclairs investigation. This edition uses the most widely recognized text of The Jungle the Doubleday, Page edition published in 1906 and provides an illuminating supporting document: President Theodore Roosevelts delivery to Congress of the official report that confirmed The Jungles shocking allegations about the Chicago meatpacking industry. Questions for consideration, a chronology, and a selected bibliography help contextualize Sinclairs novel and provide students with resources for further study.[via]More editions of The Jungle:
The Jungleby James R. Barrett, Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0252014944 (0-252-01494-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0252014804 (0-252-01480-4)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Jungleby Upton Sinclair, Jane JacobsISBN 0375759506 (0-375-75950-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Practically alone among the American writers of his generation, wrote Edmund Wilson, [Sinclair] put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them. When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle exposed the inhumane conditions of Chicagos stockyards and the laborers struggle against industry and wage slavery. It was an immediate bestseller and led to new regulations that forever changed workers rights and the meatpacking industry. A direct descendant of Dickenss Hard Times, it remains the most influential workingmans novel in American literature. [via]
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Khrushchev Remembersby Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Edward Crankshaw, Strobe TalbottISBN 0233963383 (0-233-96338-3)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Kolyma Talesby Varlam ShalamovISBN 039300077X (0-393-00077-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kolyma Tales'Book summary:Nearly three million people died in the forced-labour camps of Kolyma in the North-Eastern region of Siberia. Varlam Shalamov spent 17 years there and this is a collection of short stories concerning individual men and their lives in the camps. The author has also written "Graphite". [via]
Lenin in Zurichby Aleksandr Isaevich SolzhenitsynISBN 0370106075 (0-370-10607-5)
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The Life & Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkinby Vladimir VoinovichISBN 0374186219 (0-374-18621-9)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Life Sentenceby Nina CassianISBN 0393307212 (0-393-30721-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Life Sentenceby William Jay Smith, Nina CassianISBN 0393027864 (0-393-02786-4)
Hardcover, W.W. Norton
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Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad, Thomas C. MoserISBN 0393963357 (0-393-96335-7)
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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]
Petersburgby Andrey BelyISBN 0253202191 (0-253-20219-1)
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945by Wladyslaw SzpilmanISBN 0312263767 (0-312-26376-7)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945'Book summary:Written immediately after the end of World War II, this morally complex Holocaust memoir is notable for its exact depiction of the grim details of life in Warsaw under the Nazi occupation. "Things you hardly noticed before took on enormous significance: a comfortable, solid armchair, the soothing look of a white-tiled stove," writes Wladyslaw Szpilman, a pianist for Polish radio when the Germans invaded. His mother's insistence on laying the table with clean linen for their midday meal, even as conditions for Jews worsened daily, makes palpable the Holocaust's abstract horror. Arbitrarily removed from the transport that took his family to certain death, Szpilman does not deny the "animal fear" that led him to seize this chance for escape, nor does he cheapen his emotions by belaboring them. Yet his cool prose contains plenty of biting rage, mostly buried in scathing asides (a Jewish doctor spared consignment to "the most wonderful of all gas chambers," for example). Szpilman found compassion in unlikely people, including a German officer who brought food and warm clothing to his hiding place during the war's last days. Extracts from the officer's wartime diary (added to this new edition), with their expressions of outrage at his fellow soldiers' behavior, remind us to be wary of general condemnation of any group. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Pragueby Arthur PhillipsISBN 0375759778 (0-375-75977-8)
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Primary Documents: A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art Since the 1950sby Laura Hoptman, Tomas Pospiszyl, Ilya KabakovISBN 0262083132 (0-262-08313-2)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Rabelais and His Worldby Mikhail BakhtinISBN 0253203414 (0-253-20341-4)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rabelais and His World'Book summary:This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (18951975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.
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The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jewsby Steven BirminghamISBN 0316096474 (0-316-09647-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Return from the Starsby Stanislaw LemISBN 0380585782 (0-380-58578-2)
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Selected Poemsby Osip Mandelshtam, David McDuffISBN 0374258740 (0-374-25874-0)
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The Soviet Novel: History As Ritualby Katerina ClarkISBN 0253213673 (0-253-21367-3)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Soviet Novel: History As Ritual'Book summary:"In its sure grasp of a huge subject and in its speculative boldness, Professor Clark's study represents a major breakthrough. It sends one back to the original texts with a whole host of new questions.... And it also helps us to understand the place of the 'official' writer in that peculiar mixture of ideology, collective pressure, and inspiration which is the Soviet literary process." Times Literary Supplement
"The Soviet Novel has had an enormous impact on the way Stalinist culture is studied in a range of disciplines (literature scholarship, history, cultural studies, even anthropology and political science)." Slavic Review
"Those readers who have come to realize that history is a branch of mythology will find Clark's book a stimulating and rewarding account of Soviet mythopoesis." American Historical Review
A dynamic account of the socialist realist novel's evolution as seen in the context of Soviet culture. A new Afterword brings the history of Socialist Realism to its end at the close of the 20th century.
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Stories and Prose Poemsby Aleksandr Isaevich SolzhenitsynISBN 0370014510 (0-370-01451-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stories and Prose Poems'Book summary:, 242 pages, translated by Michael Glenny, collection of six short stories Matryona's House, For A Good Cause, The Easter Procession, Zakhar - The - Pouch, The Right Hand and An Incident at Krechetovka Station and sixteen poems [via]
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Theory of the Novelby Georg LukacsISBN 0262620278 (0-262-62027-8)
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The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literatureby Gyorgy LukacsISBN 0262120488 (0-262-12048-8)
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Time, Forward!by Valentine KataevISBN 0253360188 (0-253-36018-8)
Hardcover, Indiana University Press
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The Torrents of Springby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, David MagarshackISBN 0374526621 (0-374-52662-1)
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Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Lightby Ivan Klima, Paul WilsonISBN 0312140924 (0-312-14092-4)
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War and Peaceby Leo TolstoyISBN 0345472403 (0-345-47240-3)
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Weby Yvegeny Zamyatin, Mirra GinsburgISBN 0380633132 (0-380-63313-2)
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Before 1984...There was...WE
In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason.
One number, D-503, chief architect of the Integral, decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery -- or rediscovery -- of inner space...and that disease the ancients called the soul.
A page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the beginning.
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When Eve Was Nakedby Josef SkvoreckyISBN 0312421737 (0-312-42173-7)
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The Widow Killerby Pavel KohoutISBN 0312252897 (0-312-25289-7)
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