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  • Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts

    by Marcus Levitt ...
    Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern Russian literature, from authorship and philosophy to gender and religion in Russian Enlightenment culture. The first part of the collection explores ... Read more

    $42.49 USD

  • Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia

    by Victor Zhivov, Marcus Levitt ...
    Victor Zhivov's Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia is one of the most important studies ever published on eighteenth-century Russia. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a Russian literary language was key to the formation of a modern secular culture, and this title traces the growth of a vernacular language from the "hybrid Slavonic" of the late ... Read more

    $56.19 USD

  • A Family Chronicle

    by Sergei Aksakov ...
    Translated by Michael R. Katz ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    A Family Chronicle (1856) is Sergei Aksakov's blend of memoir and fiction that tells the story of one Russian family relocating from the city to Russia's eastern frontier in the steppes of Bashkiria. It is an attempt to record oral tradition in writing and occupies a unique place in the history of the nineteenth-century Russian narrative.Aksakov has been called a "genius of reminiscences." This ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • The Idiot (Vintage Classics)

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic tale of one man’s pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulationThe twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the ... Read more

    $12.99 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

    $2.67 USD

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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

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Idiot

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ron Arad ...
    Translated by David McDuff ...
    Dostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness, innocence and greedReturning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin - the titular 'idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    “A superb new translation” (The New Yorker) of stories that allow readers to experience the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka.When Nikolai Gogol left his Ukrainian village in 1828 to seek his fortune in St. Petersburg, he began composing these marvelous stories—tales that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social ... Read more

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  • 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

    $4.99 USD

  • Fifty-Two Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov: a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.Anton Chekhov left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their renderings of fifty ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Idiot

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alan Myers ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him. Myshkin's mission ends in idiocy and darkness, but ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • 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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