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Bend Sinisterby Vladimir NabokovISBN 007045728X (0-07-045728-X)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bend Sinister'Book summary:The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and com- pelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the countrys foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the gov- ernment attempts to co-opt Krugs support in order to validate the new regime. One of the twentieth centurys master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically. John Updike [via]
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Black Snowby Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, Michael GlenayISBN 1860462243 (1-86046-224-3)
Softcover, General Publishing Company, Limited
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Black Snow: A Theatrical Novelby Mikhail BulgakovISBN 1860466397 (1-86046-639-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Snow: A Theatrical Novel'Book summary:To those living in the West, the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov is known as a fiction writer, his reputation resting largely on his greatly-loved novel The Master and Margarita. During his life in the Soviet Union (1891-1940), however, Bulgakov's biggest career successes came as a playwright in the immensely influential Moscow theater. The novel Black Snow, is Bulgakov's lampoon of that entire pre-war Russian drama scene, complete with a fictional version of his nemesis, the great Stanislavsky (of method acting fame). The book is a writer's story about hapless Maxuduv, an unlucky author (not unlike Bulgakov himself) who is torn apart under the insane forces, overcooked egos, and political machinations that rumbled through the world of the theater at that time. [via]
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The Cherry Orchardby Anton Chekhov, Robert BrusteinISBN 1566630851 (1-56663-085-1)
Softcover, Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
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The Cherry Orchardby Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 1419156519 (1-4191-5651-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The Cherry Orchardby Jean-Claude Van Itallie, Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0822214504 (0-8222-1450-4)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cherry Orchard'Book summary:Classic of world drama concerns the passing of the old semifeudal order in turn-of-the-century Russia, symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevskaya. The work also showcases the great Russian writer's rich sensitivities as an observer of human nature. An inexpensive, high-quality edition, reprinted from a standard edition of the play.[via]More editions of The Cherry Orchard:
The Cherry Orchardby Trevor Griffiths, Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0904383733 (0-904383-73-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Childhoodby Maxim GorkyISBN 0846402424 (0-8464-0242-4)
Hardcover, Beekman Books Inc
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Complete Short Novelsby Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 1400040493 (1-4000-4049-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Complete Short Novelsby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 140003292X (1-4000-3292-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatovaby Anna Andreevena Akhmatova, Judith Hemschemeyer, Roberta ReederISBN 0939010275 (0-939010-27-5)
Softcover, Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru
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The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkinby Alexandr Pushkin, Gillon Reid AitkenISBN 085955063X (0-85955-063-X)
Hardcover, Russell Publishing, Limited, Michael
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The Don Flows Home to the Seaby Mikhail Aleksandrovich SholokhovISBN 1589633504 (1-58963-350-4)
Softcover, Fredonia Books
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The Double and the Gamblerby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0375719016 (0-375-71901-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Double and the Gambler'Book summary:The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevskys strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler.The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmareforeshadowing Kafka and Sartrein which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his friends and colleagues. The Gambler is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man's exhilarating and destructive addiction to gambling, a compulsion that Dostoevskywho once gambled away his young wife's wedding ringknew intimately from his own experience. In chronicling the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character. [via]
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Envy and Other Worksby IUrii Karlovich Olesha, Andrew R. MacAndrewISBN 0393000427 (0-393-00042-7)
Hardcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
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The Eyeby Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri NabokovISBN 067972723X (0-679-72723-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Five Great Short Storiesby Anton ChekhovISBN 0486264637 (0-486-26463-7)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Great Short Stories'Book summary:Incisive, masterfully written tales set in Tsarist Russian milieux reveal noted author's skills in character, nuance, and setting development. Includes "The Black Monk" (1894), "The House with the Mezzanine" (1896), "The Peasants" (1897), "Gooseberries" (1898), and "The Lady with the Toy Dog" (1899).[via]More editions of Five Great Short Stories:
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The Giftby Vladimir Nabokov, Michael ScammellISBN 0679727256 (0-679-72725-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gift'Book summary:For most of his life, Vladimir Nabokov was quite literally a man without a country. It's a small irony, then, that his career falls so neatly into national phases: Russian, German, French, and American, plus the protracted coda he spend in a Swiss luxury hotel during his final decade. The Gift, which he wrote between 1935 and 1937 in Berlin, is the grand summation of his second phase. It describes, for starters, the sentimental education of a young Russian writer, Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev. This hyphenated creation has more than a few things in common with the author, despite Nabokov's vehement denial in the novel's foreword. Still, only a nitwit would read The Gift for its autobiographical revelations. What this early masterpiece does offer is a wealth of lyrical, witty, heartbreaking prose, beautifully translated from the Russian by Michael Scammell (with an assist from Nabokov himself). Who else would note the way a street rises "at a barely perceptible angle, beginning with a post office and ending with a church, like an epistolary novel"? Who else has ever administered the satirical shiv to his characters with such deadly, almost affectionate aplomb?
Shirin himself was a thickset man with a reddish crew cut, always badly shaved and wearing large spectacles behind which, as in two aquariums, swam two tiny, transparent eyes--which were completely impervious to visual impressions. He was blind like Milton, deaf like Beethoven, and a blockhead to boot.
Of course, only a fraction of The Gift is taken up with this sort of demolition derby. Fyodor's romance with Zina, for example, occasions the most ardent prose of Nabokov's career: "And not only was Zina cleverly and elegantly made to measure for him by a very painstaking fate, but both of them, forming a single shadow, were made to the measure of something not quite comprehensible, but wonderful and benevolent and continuously surrounding them." (Shades of Volodya and Véra? Only the deceased husband and wife, and perhaps Stacy Schiff, know for sure.)At the same time, The Gift is a brilliant, mesmerizing riff on the history of Russian literature, with elaborate bouquets tossed to Pushkin and Gogol. There's also a hilarious yet somehow tender evisceration of the do-gooding polemicist Nikolai Chernyshevski--which was suppressed, in fact, when the novel was originally serialized by a Russian émigré magazine. As should be clear by now, The Gift defies any attempt at quick-and-dirty summary. But the book plays the most pleasurable kind of havoc with our stuffy notions of narrative structure and linguistic protocol. And as Nabokov repeatedly wraps the reader's consciousness around his little finger, he never holds back on that ultimate literary gift: pleasure. --James Marcus [via]
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The Grand Inquisitorby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 1599869535 (1-59986-953-5)
Softcover, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grand Inquisitor'Book summary:Dostoevsky's portrayal of the Catholic Church during the Inquisition is a plea for the power of pure faith, and a critique of the tyrannies of institutionalized religion.[via]
This is an except from the Brothers Karamazov which stands alone as a statement of philiosophy and a warning about the surrender of freedom for the sake of comfort.More editions of The Grand Inquisitor:
Grand Inquisitor on the Nature of Manby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0023406003 (0-02-340600-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Grand Inquisitor: With Related Chapters from the Brothers Karamazovby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles B. Guignon, Constance GarnettISBN 0872201937 (0-87220-193-7)
Softcover, Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grand Inquisitor: With Related Chapters from the Brothers Karamazov'Book summary:This new edition presents 'The Grand Inquisitor' together with the preceding chapter, 'Rebellion', and the extended reply offered by Dostoevsky in the following sections, entitles 'The Russian Monk'. By showing how Dostoevsky frames the Grand Inquisitor story in the wider context of the novel, this edition captures the sublety and power of Dostoevsky's critique of modernity as well as his alternative vision of human fulfilment. [via]
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Great Short Works Of Leo Tolstoyby Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer MaudeISBN 0060586974 (0-06-058697-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Short Works Of Leo Tolstoy'Book summary:A collection of short fiction by the distinguished Russian writer includes the story Alyosha the Pot, as well as such novellas as The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilych, Family Happiness, Master and Man, The Devil, The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Serguis, and Hadgi Maurat. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. [via]
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Gulag Archipelagoby Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Edward E. EricsonISBN 0002712652 (0-00-271265-2)
Hardcover, Harvill, HarperCollins Publishers, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulag Archipelago'Book summary:The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation. [via]
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Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 an Experiment in Literby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0060139110 (0-06-013911-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigationby Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynISBN 0060007761 (0-06-000776-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**
In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.
This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.
Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]More editions of The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation:
- The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0060921021 (0-06-092102-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 000262253X (0-00-262253-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956; An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-IV: ISBN 0060139129 (0-06-013912-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0060139145 (0-06-013914-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0060154748 (0-06-015474-8)
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- The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0060921021 (0-06-092102-1)
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Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, Parts I-VIIby Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynISBN 0060912804 (0-06-091280-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**
In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.
This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.
Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]More editions of Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, Parts I-VII:
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Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956ISBN 186046632X (1-86046-632-X)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
Find This BookBook summary:The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyns attempt to compile a literary-historical record of the vast system of prisons and labor camps that came into being shortly after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 and that underwent an enormous expansion during the rule of Stalin from 1924 to 1953. Various sections of the three volumes describe the arrest, interrogation, conviction, transportation, and imprisonment of the Gulags victims by Soviet authorities over four decades. The work mingles historical exposition and Solzhenitsyns own autobiographical accounts with the voluminous personal testimony of other inmates that he collected and committed to memory during his imprisonment.Upon publication of the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn was immediately attacked in the Soviet press. Despite the intense interest in his fate that was shown in the West, he was arrested and charged with treason on February 12, 1974, and was exiled from the Soviet Union the following day.[via]More editions of Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956:
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- Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: ISBN 0813332893 (0-8133-3289-3)
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The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1 & 2, Book 1by Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0060803320 (0-06-080332-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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House of Gentlefolkby Ivan TurgenevISBN 1426419759 (1-4264-1975-9)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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Insulted and Humiliatedby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0898751047 (0-89875-104-7)
Softcover, University Press of the Pacific
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The Insulted and Injuredby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance GarnettISBN 1417905506 (1-4179-0550-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Lady With Lapdog and Other Storiesby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, David MagarshackISBN 0140441433 (0-14-044143-3)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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The Lady With Little Dog and Other Storiesby Anton Chekhov, Ronald WilksISBN 0140447873 (0-14-044787-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady With Little Dog and Other Stories'Book summary:During the last ten years of his life, Anton Chekhov penned his great plays, spent time treating the sick, and wrote a small number of stories that are considered his masterpieces. The eleven stories collected here-"The Lady with the Little Dog," "The House with the Mezzanine," "My Life," "Peasants," "A Visit to Friends," "Ionych," "About Love," "In the Ravine," "The Bishop," "The Bride," and "Disturbing the Balance"-hail from this fertile period. They reveal a writer who, in response to the techniques of Symbolism and Impressionism, moved beyond nineteenth-century realism to become an innovator of the modern short story, influencing such key twentieth-century literary figures as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.[via]More editions of The Lady With Little Dog and Other Stories:
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The Little Demonby Ronald Wilks, Fyodor SologubISBN 0140186387 (0-14-018638-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Liza: Or a Nest of Noblesby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 1410103358 (1-4101-0335-8)
Softcover, Fredonia Books
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Marina Tsvetaeva: Selected Poemsby Elaine Feinstein, Marina TsvetaevaISBN 1903039371 (1-903039-37-1)
Softcover, Carcanet Press, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marina Tsvetaeva: Selected Poems'Book summary:"There are four of us," wrote Anna Akhmatova, naming Marina Tsvetaeva, with herself, Pasternak and Mandelstam as the poets who during what Blok called `the terrible years' in Russia continued to express in their work the deepest values of their country. Tsvetaeva led a life that was a history of loss: she watched the devastation of her country by a revolution she did not support; during the Moscow famine one of her children died in a State orphanage; her marriage and her many love-affairs were ill-fated; she lived abroad most of her adult life, and soon after her return to Russia, she killed herself. Elaine Feinstein's translations of Tsvetaeva have been greatly admired. In this edition she includes ten further translations and a new introduction. [via]
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Mary: A Novelby Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0070456984 (0-07-045698-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Talesby Serge A. ZenkovskyISBN 0452010861 (0-452-01086-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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- Medieval Russian Epics, Chronicles and Tales: ISBN 0525483667 (0-525-48366-7)
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Melkii Besby F. Sologub, M. M. PavlovaISBN 5020271292 (5-02-027129-2)
Hardcover, Nauka
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Morning Rendezvous: Collection of Belov's Best Stories over 20 Yearsby Vasily Belov, V. Lukashov, Eve ManningISBN 5050016681 (5-05-001668-1)
Softcover, Raduga
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Nabokov's Dozen; A Collection of Thirteen Storiesby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0836930789 (0-8369-3078-9)
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Netochka Nezvanovaby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jane KentishISBN 0140444556 (0-14-044455-6)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Notes From Underground, The Double, And Other Storiesby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 1593080379 (1-59308-037-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Overcoatby Nikolai GogolISBN 1419176528 (1-4191-7652-8)
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The Overcoatby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0904526275 (0-904526-27-5)
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The Petty Demonby Fedor Sologub, Samuel D. CioranISBN 0882338080 (0-88233-808-0)
Hardcover, Ardis Publishers
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Pninby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0385191162 (0-385-19116-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Readerby Clarence BrownISBN 0140151001 (0-14-015100-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Twentieth Century Russian Reader'Book summary:This anthology encapsulates the best of 20th-century Russian literature, and is designed as a companion to Professor George Gibian's "The Portable 19th-century Russian Reader". Clarence Brown selects and introduces extracts from the best prose, poetry and drama - from the voices of revolution and war to the anguished voices of dissidence and persecution. [via]
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Portable Twentieth Century Russian Reader: ISBN 0140151001 (0-14-015100-1)
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Selected Poemsby Marina I. Tsvetaeva, David McDuffISBN 1852240253 (1-85224-025-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Elaine Feinstein is a poet of lyrical directness. That clear, passionate voice which she brought to her celebrated translations of Marina Tsvetayeva's poetry is her own. She writes about love, loss, jealousy, the fear of abandonment. Her powerful rhythms flow down the page, seeking to draw a coherent shape out of the inner uncertainties. She also writes with tenderness about an ageing father, a child on a swing, old films, a flowering cactus. Hers is a poetry which can contain and welcome. The rare landscape poems are always peopled, and the considerable narrative and dramatic skills of a major novelist give urgency to her evocation of the classical figures of Dido and Eurydice. She has also found a poignant lyricism in writing of the inhabitants of her local streets and the ordinary pleasures of daily life. The poems in this selection are drawn from eleven volumes published over thirty years. [via]
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The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstamby Osip Mandelstam, Clarence Brown, W. S. MerwinISBN 1590170911 (1-59017-091-1)
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Sobranie Sochinenii: Darby Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0882335340 (0-88233-534-0)
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Solaris: Romanby Stanisaw LemISBN 0899683517 (0-89968-351-7)
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Jusqu'au jour où le docteur Kelvin débarque sur la planète et rencontre la femme qu'il avait aimée et qui s'était depuis suicidée. Étonnement, effroi puis incompréhension vont alors se succéder et pousser Kelvin à chercher d'où vient ce si réaliste et désirable mirage.
D'origine polonaise, Lem est l'un des auteurs des pays de l'Est les plus connus. Souvent pamphlétaire, mais toujours optimiste et humoristique, il nous livre une très belle fable sur la communication et les incompréhensions qu'elle engendre, avec cette rencontre d'une forme extraterrestre et d'un être humain, et leur impossibilité naturelle à se comprendre. --Laurent Schneitter [via]
Taras Bul'Baby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0460017403 (0-460-01740-3)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Uncle Vanya: In a New Translation and Adaptation by Curt Columbusby Anton Chekhov, Michael FraynISBN 0413159507 (0-413-15950-7)
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Uncle Vanyaby Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0486401596 (0-486-40159-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Uncle Vanya Mseby Anton ChekhovISBN 0413774716 (0-413-77471-6)
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The Village of Stepanchikovoby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0946162069 (0-946162-06-9)
Hardcover, Angel Books
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Virgin Soilby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 1592243924 (1-59224-392-4)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Virgin Soilby Ivan Turgenev StaffISBN 1406500283 (1-4065-0028-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virgin Soil'Book summary:Turgenev was the most liberal-spirited and unqualifiedly humane of all the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, and in Virgin Soil, his biggest and most ambitious work, he sought to balance his deep affection for his country and his people with his growing apprehensions about what their future held in store. At the heart of the book is the story of a young man and a young woman, torn between love and politics, who struggle to make headway against the complacency of the powerful, the inarticulate misery of the powerless, and the stifling conventions of provincial life. This rich and complex book, at once a love story, a devastating, and bitterly funny social satire, and, perhaps most movingly of all, a heartfelt celebration of the immense beauty of the Russian countryside, is a tragic masterpiece in which one of the world's finest novelists confronts the enduring question of the place of happiness in a political world. [via]
What Is to Be Done?by Nikolai ChernyshevskyISBN 0875010172 (0-87501-017-2)
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Solarisby Lem StanislawISBN 3423101776 (3-423-10177-6)
Softcover, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co KG
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Solarisby Stanislaw LemISBN 3548606113 (3-548-60611-3)
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Chekhov: The Cherry Orchardby Anton Chekhov, Donald R. HitchcockISBN 1853992569 (1-85399-256-9)
Softcover, Bristol Classical Press
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Gogol: The Overcoatby J. ForsythISBN 1853992496 (1-85399-249-6)
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Archipiélago Gulag : 1918-1956: Ensayo de Investigación Literariaby Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Enrique Fernández Vernet, Josep Ma GüellISBN 8483100460 (84-8310-046-0)
Hardcover, Tusquets Editores
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