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  • An Amateur Performance

    (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s)

    by Lev Levanda, William Craft Brumfield ...
    Translated by Hugh McLean ...
    Series series Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
    Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda's brilliant coming-of-age story of Russian Jewish students on the cusp of modernity in their struggle against religious chauvinism and an oppressive government.Despite being Russia's best Jewish writer of the nineteenth century, Lev Levanda (1835–1888) is barely known in the English-speaking world, with some of his most famous works, like the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Night Owls

    by Nikolai Leskov ...
    Translated by Hugh McLean ...
    Series series Penguin Archive
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was mistaken.'Condemned to sleeplessness by the chatter permeating his guesthouse room, a forlorn traveller turns his ear to the riotous tale spun by the garrulous, meddlesome, inane and utterly unprincipled Márya Martýnovna next ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • Master and Man and Other Stories

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Ronald Wilks, Paul Foote ...
    The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, 'The Two Hussars' contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoy's belief that art must serve a moral purpose, 'What ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • In Quest of Tolstoy

    by Hugh McLean ...
    Lev Tolstoy has held the attention of mankind for well over a century. A supremely talented artist, whose novels and short stories continue to entrance readers all over the world, he was at the same time a fearless moral philosopher who explored and challenged the fundamental bases of human societypolitical, economic, legal, and cultural. Hugh McLean, Professor Emeritus of Russian literature at ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Cultural Gradient

    The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789D1991

    by Lawrence Dickey, Andrzej Walicki Catherine Evtuhov, Natalia Pirumova, Terence Emmons, Bernice Rosenthal, Charles Ruud, Elzbieta Kaczynska, Glennys Young, Norman Pereira, Jack Matlock, Alain Touraine, Adam Michnik, Jacques Le Goff, Hugh McLean, Nicholas Riasanovsky ...
    Is there a sharp dividing line that separates Europe into "East" and "West"?This volume brings together prominent scholars from the United States, Canada, France, Poland, and Russia to examine the evolution of the concept of Europe in the two centuries between the French Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Inspired by the ideas of Martin Malia, the contributors take a flexible view of ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk And Other Stories

    by Nikolai Leskov ...
    Translated by David McDuff ...
    Five great stories from one of the most quintessentially Russian of writers, Nikolai Leskov.In the best of Leskov's stories, as in almost no others apart from those of Gogol, we can hear the voice of nineteenth-century Russia. An outsider by birth and instinct, Leskov is one of the most undeservedly neglected figures in Russian literature. He combined a profoundly religious spirit with a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • A Very Russian Christmas

    The Greatest Russian Holiday Stories of All Time

    by Mikhail Zoshchenko, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Lev Tolstoy, Vladimir Korolenko, Klaudia Lukashevich, Maxim Gorky, Teffi ...
    Series series Very Christmas
    A collection of short Christmas stories by some of Russia's greatest nineteenth and twentieth century authors—several appearing in English for the first time.Running the gamut from sweet and reverent to twisted and uproarious, this collection offers a holiday feast of Russian fiction. Dostoevsky brings stories of poverty and tragedy; Tolstoy inspires with his fable-like tales; Chekhov's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nose

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Translated by Ian Dreiblatt ...
    Series series The Art of the Novella
    A masterpiece of satire and a key work of the Russian "fantastic" movement. One of the most celebrated tales in Russian literature.Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov awakens to discover that his nose is missing, leaving a smooth, flat patch of skin in its place. He finds and confronts his nose in the Kazan Cathedral, but from its clothing it is apparent that the nose has acquired a higher rank in the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Beauties

    Essential Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Nicholas Slater Pasternak ...
    Series Book 1 - Pushkin Press Classics
    This beautiful collection of 13 classic Chekhov short stories is the perfect introduction to an icon of Russian literature.“The greatest short story writer who has ever lived.” —Raymond ChandlerWithout doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its messy complexity, Chekhov’s short stories are exquisite masterpieces in miniature. His work ranged from the light-hearted comic tales ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Complete Works of Nikolai Gogol (Delphi Classics)

    by Nikolai Gogol, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 22 - Delphi Series Two
    This unique eBook presents the complete FICTIONAL works of Nikolai Gogol, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Gogol's life and works* Concise introductions to the novels and other works* The complete novels, stories and plays, with contents tables* Features many of Constance ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The State Counsellor

    by Boris Akunin ...
    Series series The Fandorin Mysteries
    Moscow's 19th century diplomat-detective Fandorin is on the run for murder in this ingenious historical mystery by "the Russian Ian Fleming" (Ruth Rendell).Since the publication of The Winter Queen, a New York Times Notable Book, millions of readers have been enthralled by Erast Fandorin, "a devastatingly attractive combination of Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey and James Bond" ( The Guardian). ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dead Souls

    A Novel

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still ... Read more

    $8.99 USD