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  • Seagull

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Charlotte Pyke, John Kerr, Joseph Blatchley ...
    Series series NHB Classic Plays
    A striking version of Chekhov's classic play, by Charlotte Pyke, John Kerr and Joseph Blatchley, restoring to the play the cuts demanded by the Russian censor in 1896.In nineteenth-century rural Russia, an anxious young writer prepares the first performance of his new play for the two women in his life. The consequences are devastating, with everybody in love with the wrong person, and death ... Read more

    $16.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life.Considered the greatest short story writer, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Death and the Penguin

    by Andrey Kurkov ...
    A masterful tale set in post-Soviet Kiev that's both darkly-funny and ominous... In the widely hailed prequel to Penguin Lost , aspiring writer Viktor Zolotaryov leads a down-and-out life in poverty-and-violence-wracked Kiev-he"s out of work and his only friend is a penguin, Misha, that he rescued when the local zoo started getting rid of animals. Even more nerve-wracking: a local mobster has ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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 Suitcase

    A Novel

    by Sergei Dovlatov ...
    Sergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark–edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R. These seemingly undistinguished possessions, stuffed into a worn–out suitcase, take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Leo Tolstoy’s harrowing tale about a man battling a mysterious illness who must confront his impending death, the pitfalls of redemption, and the meaning of life itself.Hailed as one of the world’s supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Plays

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Peter Carson ...
    At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the everyday lives, loves and yearnings of ordinary people. Ivanov depicts a man stifled by inactivity and lost idealism, and The Seagull contrasts a young man's selfish romanticism with the stoicism of a woman cruelly abandoned by her lover. With 'the scenes from ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters And Uncle Vanya (Mobi Classics)

    by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,Marian Fell (translator),Julius West (translator) ...
    The Cherry Orchard (or Vishniovy sad in Russian) is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on directing the play as a tragedy. Since this initial production, directors ... Read more

    $1.20 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Butterfly Skin

    by Sergey Kuznetsov ...
    Translated by Andrew Bromfield ...
    When a brutal and sadistic serial killer begins stalking the streets of Moscow, Xenia, an ambitious young newspaper editor, takes it upon herself to attempt to solve the mystery of the killer's identity. As her obsession with the killer grows, Xenia devises an elaborate website with the intention of ensnaring the murderer, only to discover something disturbing about herself: her own unhealthy ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Seagull (Stage Edition Series)

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Laurence Senelick ...
    Series series Stage Edition Series
    “Senelick’s accomplishment is astounding.”—Library JournalAnton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In this stunning new translation of one of Chekhov’s most popular and beloved plays, Laurence Senelick presents a fresh perspective on the master playwright and his groundbreaking dramas. He brings this timeless ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • Sentimental Tales

    by Mikhail Zoshchenko ...
    Translated by Boris Dralyuk ...
    Series series Russian Library
    "Dralyuk's new translation of Sentimental Tales, a collection of Zoshchenko's stories from the 1920s, is a delight that brings the author's wit to life."— The EconomistMikhail Zoshchenko's Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, a writer not very good at his ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Major Plays

    by Anton Chekhov, Rosamund Bartlett ...
    Anton ChekhovThe Major PlaysIvanov * The Sea Gull * Uncle Vanya * The Three Sisters * The Cherry Orchard“Let the things that happen onstage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life,” Chekhov once declared. “For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time, their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.” So it is that his ... Read more

    $3.99 USD