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  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Anthony Briggs ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'It is only a bruise'A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, ... Read more

    $2.72 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

    by Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs, David McDuff ...
    Here are some of Tolstoy's extraordinary short stories, from "The Death of Ivan Ilyich." in a masterly new translation, to "The Raid," "The Wood-felling," "Three Deaths," "Polikushka," "After the Ball," and "The Forged Coupon," all gripping and eloquent lessons on two of Tolstoy's most persistent themes: life and death. More experimental than his novels, Tolstoy's stories are essential reading for ... Read more

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  • Resurrection

    by Leo Tolstoy, Keith Carabine ...
    Translated by Louise Maude ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    This powerful novel, Tolstoy’s third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based on a real-life event. Dmitri Nekhlyudov, called to jury service, is astonished to see in the dock, charged with murder, a young woman whom he once seduced, propelling her into prostitution. She is found ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Ronald Wilks, Anthony Briggs, David McDuff ...
    This edition includes: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Happy Ever After, and The Cossacks. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume are connected by this preoccupation, along with the author's simultaneous attempt to help us improve our lives. ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Yevgeny Onegin

    by Alexander Pushkin ...
    Translated by Anthony Briggs ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    The aristocratic Yevgeny Onegin has come into his inheritance, leaving the glamour of St Petersburg's social life behind to take up residence at his uncle's country estate. Master of the nonchalant bow, and proof of the fact that we shine despite our lack of education, the aristocratic Onegin is the very model of a social butterfly - a fickle dandy, liked by all for his wit and easy ways. When the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Seven Hanged

    by Leonid Andreyev ...
    Translated by Anthony Briggs ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.'This astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony Briggs, probes the emotions and experiences of seven people condemned to death in Tsarist Russia. ... Read more

    $2.72 USD

  • The Queen of Spades and Selected Works

    by Alexander Pushkin ...
    Translated by Anthony Briggs ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    "The Queen of Spades" is one of the most famous tales in Russian literature, and inspired the eponymous opera by Tchaikovsky; in "The Stationmaster", from The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, Pushkin reworks the parable of the Prodigal Son; "Tsar Nikita and his Forty Daughters" is one of Pushkin’s bawdier early poems; and the narrative poem "The Bronze Horseman", inspired by a St ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hello! Python

    by Anthony Briggs ...
    SummaryHello! Python fully covers the building blocks of Python programming and gives you a gentle introduction to more advanced topics such as object-oriented programming, functional programming, network programming, and program design. New (or nearly new) programmers will learn most of what they need to know to start using Python immediately.About this BookProgrammers love Python because it's ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Captain's Daughter

    Essential Stories

    by Alexander Pushkin ...
    Translated by Anthony Briggs ...
    Series Book 8 - Essential Stories
    A dazzling new collection of Pushkin's fiction, in definitive translations by the acclaimed Anthony BriggsAs complex as they are gripping, Pushkin's stories are some of the greatest and most influential ever written. Foundational to the development of Russian prose, they retain stunning freshness and clarity, more than ever in Anthony Briggs's finely nuanced translations.These are stories that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and ... Read more

    $1.35 USD

  • Letters to a Young Poet

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Charlie Louth ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.'A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives ... Read more

    $1.35 USD

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  • The Gambler and Other Stories

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Translated by Ronald Meyer ...
    The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes 'Bobok', the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and ... Read more

    $12.79 USD