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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]-
Babylonby Andrew Bromfield, Viktor PelevinISBN 0571202470 (0-571-20247-0)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babylon'Book summary:Translated from the Russian, this razor-sharp satire on consumer culture, Russian style, follows the irresistible rise of a Moscow advertising copywriter, who specialises in adjusting Western adverts to the Eastern mentality and selling Pepsi, Seven-up, Gucci, Mercedes and Reebok to the rising middle class. [via]
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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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Introduction by A. N. Wilson; Translation by C. J. Hogarth [via]More editions of Childhood, Boyhood and Youth:
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 Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkinby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Gillon R. AitkenISBN 0393004651 (0-393-00465-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Cossacks and Other Storiesby Leo Tolstoy, David McDuff, Paul FooteISBN 0140449590 (0-14-044959-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Christopher EnglishISBN 0192818376 (0-19-281837-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:Few literary works have been so variously interpreted as Nikolai Gogols enduring comic masterpiece, Dead Souls.
This Norton Critical Edition reprints the text of the acclaimed George Reavey translation, which has been fully annotated for undergraduate readers.
"Backgrounds" contains not only Gogols correspondence relevant to the novel but also the four formal letters that set forth his views on the work.
The editor has also included a useful chronology of Gogols life and an invaluable table of ranks in czarist Russia.
A wide range of criticism includes Robert Maguires general overview of Gogols criticism; two nineteenth-century Russian appraisals; Donald Fangers brilliant essay; and a broad spectrum of twentieth-century Russian critical opinion.
It features, as well, essays by Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson.
The Russian essays have been translated specially for this Norton Critical Edition.
A Selected Bibliography directs readers to resources for further study. [via]More editions of Dead Souls:
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Dead Soulsby Bernard G. Guerney, Susanne Fusso, Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0300060998 (0-300-06099-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:A socially adept newcomer fluidly inserts himself into an unnamed Russian town, conquering first the drinkers, then the dignitaries. All find him amiable, estimable, agreeable. But what exactly is Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov up to?--something that will soon throw the town "into utter perplexity."
After more than a week of entertainment and "passing the time, as they say, very pleasantly," he gets down to business--heading off to call on some landowners. More pleasantries ensue before Chichikov reveals his bizarre plan. He'd like to buy the souls of peasants who have died since the last census. The first landowner looks carefully to see if he's mad, but spots no outward signs. In fact, the scheme is innovative but by no means bonkers. Even though Chichikov will be taxed on the supposed serfs, he will be able to count them as his property and gain the reputation of a gentleman owner. His first victim is happy to give up his souls for free--less tax burden for him. The second, however, knows Chichikov must be up to something, and the third has his servants rough him up. Nonetheless, he prospers.
Dead Souls is a feverish anatomy of Russian society (the book was first published in 1842) and human wiles. Its author tosses off thousands of sublime epigrams--including, "However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man," and is equally adept at yearning satire: "Where is he," Gogol interrupts the action, "who, in the native tongue of our Russian soul, could speak to us this all-powerful word: forward? who, knowing all the forces and qualities, and all the depths of our nature, could, by one magic gesture, point the Russian man towards a lofty life?" Flannery O'Connor, another writer of dark genius, declared Gogol "necessary along with the light." Though he was hardly the first to envision property as theft, his blend of comic, fantastic moralism is sui generis.--Kerry Fried [via]
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Gogol, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0679430229 (0-679-43022-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:A socially adept newcomer fluidly inserts himself into an unnamed Russian town, conquering first the drinkers, then the dignitaries. All find him amiable, estimable, agreeable. But what exactly is Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov up to?--something that will soon throw the town "into utter perplexity."
After more than a week of entertainment and "passing the time, as they say, very pleasantly," he gets down to business--heading off to call on some landowners. More pleasantries ensue before Chichikov reveals his bizarre plan. He'd like to buy the souls of peasants who have died since the last census. The first landowner looks carefully to see if he's mad, but spots no outward signs. In fact, the scheme is innovative but by no means bonkers. Even though Chichikov will be taxed on the supposed serfs, he will be able to count them as his property and gain the reputation of a gentleman owner. His first victim is happy to give up his souls for free--less tax burden for him. The second, however, knows Chichikov must be up to something, and the third has his servants rough him up. Nonetheless, he prospers.
Dead Souls is a feverish anatomy of Russian society (the book was first published in 1842) and human wiles. Its author tosses off thousands of sublime epigrams--including, "However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man," and is equally adept at yearning satire: "Where is he," Gogol interrupts the action, "who, in the native tongue of our Russian soul, could speak to us this all-powerful word: forward? who, knowing all the forces and qualities, and all the depths of our nature, could, by one magic gesture, point the Russian man towards a lofty life?" Flannery O'Connor, another writer of dark genius, declared Gogol "necessary along with the light." Though he was hardly the first to envision property as theft, his blend of comic, fantastic moralism is sui generis.--Kerry Fried [via]
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Dead Soulsby Robert A Maguire, Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0140448071 (0-14-044807-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:[via]Dead Souls is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these souls as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov.
- In his introduction, translator and Gogol scholar Robert Maguire discusses the protracted and troubled story of the novel's composition, Gogol's narrative technique, and his place in the Russian and European literary traditions
- Includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, appendices, glossary, map, and notes
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Death Of Ivan Ilych And Other Storiesby Leo Tolstoy, J. D. Duff, Aylmer MaudeISBN 0451528808 (0-451-52880-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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- The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories: ISBN 0451516761 (0-451-51676-1)
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories: ISBN 0606122478 (0-606-12247-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Death Of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories: ISBN 0613185692 (0-613-18569-2)
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- The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories: ISBN 0451516761 (0-451-51676-1)
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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] -
Devilsby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0192838296 (0-19-283829-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Devils'Book summary:The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed, is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray that follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. This new translation includes the chapter "Stavrogin's confession," initially censored by Dostoevsky's publisher. [via]
Disappearing Energy: Can We End the Crisisby Dorothy Edwards Shuttlesworth, Lee Ann WilliamsISBN 0385048637 (0-385-04863-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Eugene Oneginby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, James E. FalenISBN 0192838997 (0-19-283899-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:Containing some of the best Russian poetry ever written,this novel tells the story of Tatyna Larina who is rejected by Eugine Onegin,only to spurn his later advances when she is a society princess. [via]
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Eugene Oneginby Douglas R. Hofstadter, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0465020941 (0-465-02094-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:The supreme poet of the Russian language, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin has had a checkered existence in English. His prose, to be sure, has presented his translators with a less formidable set of hurdles. But Pushkin composed his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, in a 14-line stanza of his own invention, with a slippery rhyme scheme and treacherously foursquare meter (i.e., iambic tetrameter, which tends to sound slightly singsong to English speakers). This has forced most of his translators--from Walter Arndt to James Falen to Charles Johnston--to shortchange form in favor of content. Vladimir Nabokov probably pushed this tendency as far as it could go, transforming Pushkin's poetry into perversely lumpy paragraphs (and enveloping the slim pickings of his translation in a jumbo-sized commentary). But nobody has managed to produce even a halfway-definitive version of Eugene Onegin.
Now Douglas Hofstadter, who's best known for Gödel, Escher, Bach, has taken a shot at it. Certainly he's no stranger to translation theory--his 1997 book, Le Ton Beau de Marot, was a brilliant and unbuttoned meditation on the translator's art, with numerous detours into the hinterlands of cognitive science. Theory and practice are two different matters, however, as Hofstadter is quick to admit: "The thought seemed quite ridiculous: me, with such sparse knowledge of Russian, hoping to clamber up this formidable Everest of translation, a book often said to be next to untranslatable, and square at the center of the inner circle of Russian literature!" Clamber he did, however--and the result is a charming if uneven version of the poem, more beholden to Cole Porter and Ogden Nash than the poet's 19th-century peers. Several of Hofstadter's slangier couplets might have Nabokov spinning in his grave: "Did thus our party boy exhaust / Himself at games, at zero cost?" Still, he manages some of Pushkin's loop-the-loops very nicely:
The air grew warm as days went flying,
Clearly Hofstadter's take on the poem goes heavy on the sizzle and fails to capture much of Pushkin's elegant gravity. Still, it's a welcome addition to the ranks, a handsome present to the poet on the occasion of his 200th birthday--and, rather winningly, a linguistic labor of love. --William Davies [via]
And winter knew to call it quits.
Eugene gave up his versifying,
But not the ghost, and not his wits.
He's lent new life by buds aborning,
And first thing on some clear spring morning
He leaves his cloistered, small château
Where, marmot-like, he'd braved the snow.
Eugene Oneginby James E. Falen, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0192824910 (0-19-282491-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Eugene Oneginby Walter W. Arndt, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0525475915 (0-525-47591-5)
Softcover, E.P. Dutton
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Forward the Foundationby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553565079 (0-553-56507-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forward the Foundation'Book summary:A stunning testament to his creative genius. Forward The Foundation is a the saga's dramatic climax -- the story Asimov fans have been waiting for. An exciting tale of danger, intrigue, and suspense, Forward The Foundation brings to vivid life Asimov's best loved characters: hero Hari Seldon, who struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory to ensure the survival of humanity; Cleon II, the vain and crafty emperor of the Galactic Empire,
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- Forward the Foundation: ISBN 051715482X (0-517-15482-X)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub - Forward the Foundation: ISBN 0385247931 (0-385-24793-1)
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Foundationby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293354 (0-553-29335-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation'Book summary:One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon.
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the futurea dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empireboth scientists and scholarsand brings them to
a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.
But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankinds last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slavesor take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction. [via] -
Foundation and Earthby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553587579 (0-553-58757-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation and Earth'Book summary:The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man's fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia. [via]
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- Foundation and Earth: ISBN 0345339967 (0-345-33996-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Foundation and Earth: ISBN 0246130474 (0-246-13047-4)
Hardcover, Grafton Books - Foundation and Earth: ISBN 0385233124 (0-385-23312-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Foundation and Earth: ISBN 038523709X (0-385-23709-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday - Foundation and Earth: ISBN 0553587579 (0-553-58757-9)
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- Foundation and Earth: ISBN 0345339967 (0-345-33996-7)
Foundation and Empireby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293370 (0-553-29337-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation and Empire'Book summary:Although small and seemingly helpless, the Foundation had managed to survive against the greed of its neighboring warlords. But could it stand against the mighty power of the Empire, who had created a mutant man with the strength of a dozen battlefleets...?
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- Foundation and Empire: ISBN 0553803727 (0-553-80372-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Foundation and Empire: ISBN 0345336283 (0-345-33628-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Foundation and Empire: ISBN 0380007746 (0-380-00774-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Foundation and Empire: ISBN 0553293370 (0-553-29337-0)
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The Foundation Trilogyby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385188307 (0-385-18830-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Foundation Trilogy'Book summary:The Foundation Series is a science fiction series by Isaac Asimov. The series is best known for the Foundation Trilogy, which comprises the books Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation. In 1965, the Foundation Trilogy beat several other science fiction and fantasy series (including The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien) to receive a special Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series." It is still the only series so honored. Asimov himself wrote that he assumed the one-time award had been created to honor The Lord of the Rings, and he was amazed when his work won.
A saga of enormous scope and boundless imagination, Isaac Asimov's Hugo-winning Foundation Trilogy is one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Set 50,000 years in the future, it tells of the decline and fall of the Galactic Empire and the history of a universal ruling organization created to reduce the duration of the coming Dark Age.
Foundation introduces mathematician Hari Seldon, whose science of psychohistory can predict the future on a colossal scale. But what Hari foresees is an empire's collapse and an age of barbarism lasting 30,000 years. Gathering the finest minds in the galaxy, he devises a Plan to preserve the collective knowledge of the human race...only to find that the Foundation itself is under seige.
In Foundation and Empire, the Foundation has attained power, but can it prevail against an ambitious young general determined to restore the Empire to its former glory, or a mutant intelligence whose mysterious power to bend minds to his will not even Hari Seldon could have predicted?In Second Foundation, the mutant sets out to find the last threat to his power: a secretly evolved Second Foundation, whose colony of telepaths the First Foundation also wants destroyed. [via]More editions of The Foundation Trilogy:
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Foundation's Edgeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293389 (0-553-29338-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation's Edge'Book summary:Now, 498 years after its founding, the foundation seemed to be following the seldon plan perfectly. Too perfectly. Now an impossible planet -- with impossible powers -- threatens to upset the seldon plan for good unless two men, sworn enemies, can work together to save it [via]
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- Foundation's Edge: ISBN 0345308980 (0-345-30898-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Foundation's Edge: ISBN 0385177259 (0-385-17725-9)
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- Foundation's Edge: ISBN 0345308980 (0-345-30898-0)
Goldby Isaac AsimovISBN 0614155452 (0-614-15545-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0451526570 (0-451-52657-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer. [via]
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- Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer: ISBN 0553212141 (0-553-21214-1)
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- Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer: ISBN 0553212141 (0-553-21214-1)
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Homo Zapiensby Victor PelevinISBN 0142001813 (0-14-200181-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homo Zapiens'Book summary:[via]The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a talent for putting distinctively Russian twists on Western-style ads. But his success leads him into a surreal world of spin doctors, gangsters, drug trips, and the spirit of Che Guevera, who, by way of a Ouija board, communicates theories of consumer theology. A bestseller in Russia, Homo Zapiens displays the biting absurdist satire that has gained Victor Pelevin superstar status among today's Russian youth, disapproval from the conservative Moscow literary world, and critical acclaim worldwide.
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House of the Deadby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0486434095 (0-486-43409-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of the Dead'Book summary:Accused of political subversion as a young man, Dostoyevsky was sentenced to 4 years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp. Years later, he developed this semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to penal servitude for murdering his wife. This haunting and remarkable work ranks amoung Dostoyevsky's greatest masterpieces.[via] 
The Idiotby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alan MyersISBN 0192834118 (0-19-283411-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idiot'Book summary:Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonskys masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.
After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and be among people. Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchants son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this positively beautiful man on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature. [via]More editions of The Idiot:
- The Idiot: Library Edition: ISBN 0375702245 (0-375-70224-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Idiot: ISBN 0451528387 (0-451-52838-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic - The Idiot: ISBN 0486432130 (0-486-43213-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Idiot: Library Edition: ISBN 0553213520 (0-553-21352-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The Idiot: ISBN 0192826042 (0-19-282604-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Idiot: Library Edition: ISBN 0440339456 (0-440-33945-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Idiot: ISBN 0451524926 (0-451-52492-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Idiot: Library Edition: ISBN 0394604342 (0-394-60434-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Idiot: ISBN 0192834118 (0-19-283411-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- The Idiot: Library Edition: ISBN 0375702245 (0-375-70224-5)
The Idiotby Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0375413928 (0-375-41392-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. Lawrence, Archibald Macleish, Mark SchorerISBN 039460430X (0-394-60430-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Memoirs from the House of the Deadby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ronald Hingley, Jessie Senior CoulsonISBN 0192838687 (0-19-283868-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolutionby Petr Alekseevich KropotkinISBN 0486449130 (0-486-44913-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution'Book summary:[via]In a work of stunning and well-reasoned scholarship, a famous anarchist posits that the most effective human and animal communities are essentially cooperative, rather than competitive. Essential to the understanding of human evolution as well as social organization, this book offers a powerful counterpoint to the tenets of Social Darwinism.More editions of Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution:
Nikolai Gogol's Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0451525205 (0-451-52520-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Pale Fireby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679410775 (0-679-41077-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pale Fire'Book summary:Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a fairy tale. Here's the plot--listen carefully! John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poet's crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.
According to this deranged annotator, he had urged Shade to write about his own homeland--the northern kingdom of Zembla. It soon becomes clear that this fabulous locale may well be a figment of Kinbote's colorfully cracked, prismatic imagination. Meanwhile, he manages to twist the poem into an account of Zembla's King Charles--whom he believes himself to be--and the monarch's eventual assassination by the revolutionary Jakob Gradus.
In the course of this dizzying narrative, shots are indeed fired. But it's Shade who takes the hit, enabling Kinbote to steal the dead poet's manuscript and set about annotating it. Is that perfectly clear? By now it should be obvious that Pale Fire is not only a whodunit but a who-wrote-it. There isn't, of course, a single solution. But Nabokov's best biographer, Brian Boyd, has come up with an ingenious suggestion: he argues that Shade is actually guiding Kinbote's mad hand from beyond the grave, nudging him into completing what he'd intended to be a 1,000-line poem. Read this magical, melancholic mystery and see if you agree. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Portable Tolstoyby Leo Tolstoy, John BayleyISBN 0670718696 (0-670-71869-6)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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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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Russian Fairy Talesby Aleksandr Nikolaevicher AfanasyevISBN 0394730909 (0-394-73090-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Russian Fairy Tales'Book summary:Translated by Norbert Guterman
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Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings by Alexander Alexeieff
Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
In this most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English we meet both universal fairy-tale figuresthieves and heroes, kings and peasants, beautiful damsels and terrifying witches, enchanted children and crafty animalsand such uniquely Russian characters as Koshchey the Deathless, Baba Yaga, the Swan Maiden, and the glorious Firebird. The more than 175 tales culled from a centuries-old Russian storytelling tradition by the outstanding Russian ethnographer Aleksandr Afanasev reveal a rich, robust world of the imagination that will fascinate readers both young and old.More editions of Russian Fairy Tales:
Russian Fairy Talesby Roman Jakobson, Norbert Guterman, A. N. Afanasev, Alexandre AlexeieffISBN 039449914X (0-394-49914-X)
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Sebastopolby Leo TolstoyISBN 0472060589 (0-472-06058-9)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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A Sportsman's Notebookby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0679410457 (0-679-41045-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A Sportsman's Sketchesby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0404019080 (0-404-01908-0)
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Uncle Vanyaby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Michael FraynISBN 0413774716 (0-413-77471-6)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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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]More editions of Uncle Vanya:
Uncle Vanya : In a New Translation and Adaptation by Curt Columbusby Anton Chekhov, Michael FraynISBN 0413159507 (0-413-15950-7)
Softcover, Reed Books Canada
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Uncle Vanyaby David MametISBN 0573662126 (0-573-66212-6)
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