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  • The White Guard

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    A Kyiv family is caught up in the Ukrainian War of Independence in this novel by the author of The Master and Margarita, drawing from his own life.Reds, Whites, German troops, and Ukrainian nationalists battle for control of the city of Kyiv as the war becomes more tumultuous in Mikhail Bulgakov's debut novel, The White Guard.Drawing heavily from the author's own experiences in Ukraine during the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Government Inspector: New Translation

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    The mayor and local officials of a small provincial town in Russia have got it made: corruption is rife and they have all the power. Yet, when they learn that an undercover government inspector is about to make a visit, they face a mad dash to cover their tracks. Soon, the news that a suspicious person has recently arrived from St Petersburg and is staying in a local inn produces a series of ... Read more

    $4.59 USD

  • Black Snow

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    A comic novel about the theater world in early Soviet Russia and a "biting attack on censorship" ( The Guardian, UK).From the author of The Master and Margarita, this semi-autobiographical satirical novel paints a vibrant portrait of life behind the curtains of the Russian literary and theater arenas in the early decades of the twentieth century.Maxudov is a failed novelist who, after ... Read more

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  • The Fatal Eggs

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    The chickens come home to roost in this "brilliantly strange" blend of science fiction and political satire by the author of The Master and Margarita ( The Guardian, UK).As the new reality of post-Revolution Soviet life begins to settle in, a gifted but eccentric zoologist named Persikov invents a machine that revolutionizes the growth of living organisms by drastically increasing their size and ... Read more

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  • Notes on a Cuff

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    Darkly humorous short fiction set in the early years of the Soviet Union, by the author of The Master and Margarita.A collection of comic, self-aware, and stylistically dazzling short stories touching on such familiar territory for many Russian authors as disease, famine, civil war, and political turmoil, Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories showcases the style that Mikhail Bulgakov would be known ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Devils

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including murder and incitement to suicide. But when they are forced to test the limits of their doctrine and kill ... Read more

    $7.59 USD

  • The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants

    Newly Translated and Annotated

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    Presented in a new translation by Roger Cockrell, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants was originally conceived as a play and first published in 1859, shortly after the author’s release from forced military service. Gogolian in style and tone, and waspish in its description of the villainous Opiskin, it is a sustained exercise in caricatural cruelty and a comedic tour de force. The ... Read more

    $4.79 USD

  • Three Years

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    Series series Alma Classics 101 Pages
    On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father’s Moscow haberdashery business, falls in love with Yulia, the daughter of her doctor, and proposes to her. Although she does not reciprocate his feelings, she agrees to marry him and live with him in the capital, where the couple’s relationship is marred by tensions: Yulia ... Read more

    $3.88 USD

  • Uncle’s Dream: New Translation

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K—, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several years. Maria Alexandrovna Moskalyova, a local gossip and fearsome schemer, decides that he would be an advantageous match for her daughter Zina. But in her endeavours to make such a union come about, she must contend with rival matchmakers and Zina’s wilfulness.Written soon ... Read more

    $3.88 USD

  • The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a mad act of desperation while she practised Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata with her violin teacher.An uncompromising examination of lust, suspicion and infidelity which was once forbidden by censors in ... Read more

    $3.88 USD

  • Pictures from Italy (Annotated Edition)

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    In the summer of 1844, taking a break from novel-writing, the thirty-two-year-old Charles Dickens embarked on a journey to Italy with his wife, his five children and his young sister-in-law. Struck by the scenery and the rapid diorama of monuments and novelties around him, the celebrated author of Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol captured his experiences and impressions in vivid detail. The ... Read more

    $4.07 USD

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  • Italian Folktales

    by Italo Calvino ...
    One of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are "a treasure" ( Los Angeles Times).Filled with kings and peasants, saints and ogres—as well as some quite extraordinary plants and animals—these two hundred tales bring to life Italy's folklore, sometimes with earthy humor, sometimes with noble mystery, and sometimes with the ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook