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  • The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by David Magarshack ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Big Ben Strikes Eleven

    A London Mystery

    by David Magarshack ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    Sir Robert Boniface, the industrial and financial tycoon—and stalwart of the British Cabinet—has been found shot dead in his blue limousine on a warm Friday evening in the Vale of Health, Hampstead Heath. Nearby, a rejected portrait of Sir Robert is found riddled with bullets in the studio of the now-missing artist Matt Caldwell. Called to the scene, Inspector Beckett of Scotland Yard suspects ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Oblomov

    by Ivan Goncharov ...
    Translated by David Magarshack ...
    Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy - a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the bustle and activity necessary to participate ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • Big Ben Strikes Eleven. Illustrated

    by David Magarshack ...
    Big Ben Strikes Eleven is a gripping and elegantly constructed mystery novel by David Magarshack, more widely known for his acclaimed translations of Russian literature. In this rare work of crime fiction, Magarshack demonstrates his command of suspense, dialogue, and psychological depth, crafting a tale that is as atmospheric as it is intellectually engaging. Set in post-war London, the novel ... Read more

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  • The Real Chekhov

    An Introduction to Chekhov's Last Plays

    by David Magarshack ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Russian and Soviet Literature
    What is Chekhov’s method of ensuring audience participation? What does his stage direction ‘through tears’ mean? What happens between the first and second acts of The Seagull? Is there any reason for the despondency in Chekhov’s drama? This book, first published in 1972, discusses these questions and many other issues around Chekhov’s last four plays. David Magarshack, the leading translator and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    Big Ben Strikes Eleven

    by David Magarshack ...
    Narrated by John Telfer ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    10 hours 54 min

    The discovery of Sir Robert Boniface's body on the floor of his limousine was made quite accidentally on a sultry Friday evening towards the end of June. The industrial and financial tycoon, and former stalwart of the British Cabinet, was shot in the head and left in the quiet Vale of Health. Nearby, a rejected portrait of Sir Robert is found riddled with bullets in the studio of the now missing ... Read more

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    by Richard Adams, James Sturm ...
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  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    Translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
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  • The Mysterious Island

    by Jules Verne ...
    Translated by Jordan Stump ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here is the enthralling tale of five men and a dog who land ... Read more

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  • The Gate

    Translated by William F. Sibley ...
    by Natsume Soseki ...
    An NYRB Calssics OriginalA humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families’ consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sōsuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational ... Read more

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  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    A vibrant translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction by the award-winning translators of War and Peace.Here are eleven masterful stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all told with the evocative power that was Tolstoy’s alone. They include “The Prisoner of the Caucasus,” inspired by Tolstoy's own experiences as a soldier in the Chechen War, ... Read more

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  • Drome

    by Jesse Lonergan ...
    Eisner Award Winner“Drome is a miracle of a book.” –The Washington Post**“**One of the best books of the year.” —Booklist, starred review“Jesse Lonergan’s Drome is the front-runner for 2025 book of the year. A true must read.” **—**The Beat“Brilliant; thoughtful; inspiring but impossi... ... Read more

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