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  • The Purchased Bride

    by Peter Constantine ...
    Based on a true story set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, The Purchased Bride tells the tale of Maria, a Greek girl who was bought at age fifteen by a much older, wealthy Ottoman man.As the Ottoman Empire falls and insurgents torch their Greek village in the Caucasus, Maria and her parents flee and find shelter in a refugee camp across the border in Ottoman territory. Cholera and plague ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Writings of Machiavelli

    by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    FINALIST--2008 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZEIn The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Peter Constantine has assembled a comprehensive collection that shows the true depth and breadth of a great Renaissance thinker. Refreshingly accessible, these superb new translations are faithful to Machiavelli’s original, beautifully crafted writings.The volume features essays that appear in English for the first time, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Time Stitches

    Poems

    by Eleni Kefala ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    Winner of the State Prize for Poetry in Cyprus, these experimental linked poem-threads move across time, linking a young Cypriot to ancestors, contemporaries, and descendants through striking, disparate polyphony.In this bilingual collection of linked poems, Kefala creates a tapestry of motifs that transcend time and identity across early 20th Century Cyprus, 16th Century Scotland, a sailor on ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Radical Shadows

    Previously Untranslated and Unpublished Works by Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Masters

    by Bradford Morrow, Peter Constantine ...
    Series Book 31 - Conjunctions
    Little-known literary works by Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and more: "[An] extraordinary collection of inexplicably forgotten treasures." — New York magazineRadical Shadows collects lost, forgotten, suppressed, rare, or unknown works by major literary writers from the late nineteenth century forward. From previously unpublished work by Djuna Barnes and Truman Capote (his earliest known story ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cossacks

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A brilliant short novel inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s experience as a soldier in the Caucasus, The Cossacks has all the energy and poetry of youth while also foreshadowing the great themes of Tolstoy’s later years. His naïve hero, Olenin, is a young nobleman who is disenchanted with his privileged and superficial existence in Moscow and hopes to find a simpler life in a Cossack village. As Olenin ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Little Apples

    And Other Early Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    In the follow-up to his National Translation Award-winning collection The Undiscovered Chekhov, translator and scholar Peter Constantine brings us more little-known work from the legendary author's early days as a magazine writer, pseudonymously turning out pieces for Russia's small middle class. These stories are fresh, yet mature, snapshots of the style with which Chekhov would come to be ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Undiscovered Chekhov

    Forty-Three New Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    The Undiscovered Chekhov gives us, in rich abundance, a new Chekhov. Peter Constantine's historic collection presents 38 new stories and with them a fresh interpretation of the Russian master. In contrast to the brooding representative of a dying century we have seen over and over, here is Chekhov's work from the 1880s, when Chekhov was in his twenties and his writing was sharp, witty and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Taras Bulba

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    The First New Translation in Forty YearsSet sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol’s epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba’s two sons.As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, “[Taras Bulba] has a Kiplingesque gusto . . . that makes it a pleasure ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Red Cavalry

    by Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    "Amazing not only as literature but as biography." —Richard Bernstein, The New York TimesOne of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland, Babel ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Essential Writings of Rousseau

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Newly translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with an Introduction by Leo DamroschThe Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and persuasive critics. His extraordinarily original observations on ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Between Two Millstones, Book 1

    Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978

    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    Series Book 1 - The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series
    Russian Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures—and perhaps the most important writer—of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his memoir of the West, Between Two Millstones, Book 1, is being published. Fast-paced, absorbing, and as compelling as the earlier installments ... Read more

    Was $26.99 USD Now $19.99 USD

  • Confessions

    A New Translation

    by Augustine ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    This long-awaited translation of Confessions, which Stephen Greenblatt describes as central to the legacy of Adam and Eve, enlivens the beguiling world of late antiquity.No modern, well-versed literature lover can call her education complete without having read Augustine’s Confessions. One of the most original works of world literature, it is the first autobiography ever written, influencing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD