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  • Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky: A Study

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
    This volume contains two concise works by the innovative twentieth-century literary critic Janko Lavrin, offering accessible and thoughtful introductions to the two greatest Russian novelists. It provides a perfect point of access into the often bewildering world of Russian literature, and the troubled geniuses which created it.Tolstoy: An Approach, first published in 1944, is an attempt to ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • An Introduction to the Russian Novel

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel by placing the great Russian novelists – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Gogol – in relation to their native literature and their social, political and cultural backgrounds. An Introduction to the Russian Novel will appeal particularly to students of Russian literature and culture ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ibsen

    An Approach

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book, first published in 1950, could best be described as a combination of literary, psychological and social criticism. Considerable space is allotted to the personal inner drama of Ibsen, which provides not only a clue to his art but shows how most of his themes inevitably grew out of the other. The author also explores some of those factors which make Ibsen of interest to the generation ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Gogol

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book, first published in 1926, aimed to introduce to English readers to a great and complex foreign writer in as simple terms as possible. As this was the first extensive study of Gogol in English, the author chiefly considered the general characteristics of the man and his work. This book will be of interest to students of literature. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Nietzsche

    An Approach

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Friedrich Nietzsche
    Janko Lavrin's influential biography of Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1948, analyses the bond between Nietzsche's personal fate on the one hand and the trend of his thought on the other, set against the background of contemporary crisis typical of mankind in general. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Idiot

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Russian: Идиот, tr. Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–69.The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and ... Read more

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  • Hard Times (Annotated)

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Series series Sastrugi Press Classics
    Read one of the greatest classics of all time.The definitive edition.Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of Charles DickensPerfectly printed text for easy readingNo one can bring Victorian England alive like Charles Dickens.Set in dreary Coketown, England, the novel follows Thomas Gradgrind, a school owner who is a ... ... Read more

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  • Best Russian Short Stories By Thomas Seltzer_ Masterpieces Of Russian Literature

    by Thomas Seltzer ...
    "Best Russian Short Stories by Thomas Seltzer_ Masterpieces of Russian Literature" by Thomas Seltzer is a classic work that represents the essence of its genre. This book offers readers an engaging experience, reflecting the author’s distinctive style, depth, and vision. ... Read more

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  • Beyond Good and Evil

    Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy
    After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of Beyond Good and Evil. Conventional morality is a sign of slavery, Nietzsche maintains, and the superman goes beyond good and evil in action, thought, and creation. Nietzsche especially targets what he calls a "slave morality" ... Read more

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  • The Cherry Orchard

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Tom Stoppard ...
    Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theater, and this was as true of Ivanov, his first full-length play, as of The Cherry Orchard, his last. Building on the success of his acclaimed adaptation of The Seagull, Tom Stoppard returns to Chekhov and the themes of bitter social satire, personal introspection, and the electrifying atmosphere of Russia on the brink of change. In ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • A Writer at War

    A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Witnessing some of the most savage fighting of the war, Grossman saw ... Read more

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  • Thus Spake Zarathustra

    A Book for All and None

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Series series Ideas for Life
    "Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None" is Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical masterpiece, a work that defies conventional categorization. Through the fictional prophet Zarathustra, Nietzsche expresses his most radical ideas on the nature of existence, the death of God, and the coming of the Übermensch—a superior human being embodying ultimate self-mastery and creativity. This ... Read more

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