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  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied' As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the limit, reveal glorious and unexpected reserves of courage or baseness of a near inhuman kind. Two vivid ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Persian Letters

    Translated by Margaret Mauldon ...
    by Montesquieu ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Oh! Monsieur is Persian? That's most extraordinary! How can someone be Persian?' Two Persian travellers, Usbek and Rica, arrive in Paris just before the death of Louis XIV and in time to witness the hedonism and financial crash of the Regency. In their letters home they report on visits to the theatre and scientific societies, and observe the manners and flirtations of polite society, the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • All the World on a Page

    A Critical Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry

    by Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky ...
    The rich and ongoing development of Russian lyric poetry, explored through close readings of thirty-four poems by poets ranging from Alexander Blok to Maria StepanovaThe Russian cultural tradition treats poetry as the supreme artistic form, with Alexander Pushkin as its national hero. Modern Russian lyric poets, often on the right side of history but the wrong side of their country’s politics, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Short Story

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Kahn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and seen more as entertainment than art. However it has become far more than that, and this Very Short Introduction considers afresh the form's ongoing innovations in plot construction, capacity for ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

    by Alexander Pushkin ...
    Translated by Alan Myers ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. Hints of the occult and gothic alternate with scenes of St Petersburg high-society in the story of the passionate Hermann's quest to master chance and make his fortune at the card-table. Underlying the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Catherine the Great: Selected Letters

    by Catherine The Great ...
    Translated by Andrew Kahn, Kelsey Rubin-Detlev ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Your Majesty may find it extraordinary that I should answer with a shipment of fruit your letter of 6 August, in which you inform me that you are sending the plan for a treaty, and that of the 8 September, in which you are so good as to share with me equally important intelligence. Things big and small often come from the same source: my watermelons derive from the same principles as our planned ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow

    Translated by Irina Reyfman, Andrew Kahn ...
    by Alexander Radishchev ...
    Series series
    Alexander Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. An account of a fictional journey along a postal route, it blends literature, philosophy, and political economy to expose social and economic injustices and their causes at all levels of Russian society. Not long after the book’s ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • A Hero of Our Time

    by Mikhail Lermontov, Andrew Kahn ...
    Translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?' Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Caucasus, where his adventures - amorous and reckless - do nothing to alleviate his boredom and cynicism. World-weary and self-destructive, Pechorin is alienated from those around him yet he is full of passion and romantic ardour, sensitive as well as ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Mandelstam's Worlds

    Poetry, Politics, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age

    by Andrew Kahn ...
    Rightly appreciated as a 'poet's poet', Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is 'as firmly rooted in both an historical and cultural context as real as Joyce's Ulysses or Eliot's Waste Land.' Great lyric poets offer a cross-section of their times, and Mandelstam's poems represent the worlds of politics, history, art, and ... Read more

    $122.39 USD

  • A History of Russian Literature

    by Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, Stephanie Sandler ...
    Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. The volume proceeds chronologically in five parts, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence

    by Andrew Kahn ...
    Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia's greatest poet, a 'founding father' of modern Russian literature, and a major figure in world literature. His poetry and prose changed the course of Russian culture, and his works inspired operas by Musorgsky and Tchaikovsky (as well as Peter Shaffer's Amadeus). Ceaselessly experimental, he is the author of the greatest body of lyric poetry in the language; ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin

    Edited by Andrew Kahn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and intellectual contexts. In the first part of the book individual chapters analyse his poetry, his theatrical works, his narrative poetry and historical writings. The second section explains and samples Pushkin's ... Read more

    $35.29 USD