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  • Crime and Punishment

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Robin Feuer Miller ...
    Translated by Sidney Monas ...
    Dostoyevsky’s epic masterpiece, unabridged, with an afterword by Robin Feuer MillerOne of the world’s greatest novels, Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder and its consequences—an unparalleled tale of suspense set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia’s troubled transition to the modern age.In the slums of czarist St. Petersburg lives young Raskolnikov, a sensitive, intellectual ... Read more

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  • The Diaries of Nikolay Punin

    1904-1953

    by Nikolay Punin, Jennifer Greene Krupala ...
    Series series Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series
    Nikolay Punin (1888-1953) was the most articulate Russian/Soviet art critic of the 1920s. He strongly advocated Constructivism, an avant-garde impulse that favored mechanomorphic abstraction and proclaimed a movement to bring art into the center of popular life. In the United States, he is perhaps best remembered for his love affair with Anna Akhmatova, one of the great poets of the twentieth ... Read more

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  • Osip Mandelstam

    Selected Essays

    Osip Mandelstam, who died anonymously in a Siberian transit-camp in 1938, is now generally considered to be among the four or five greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, presented in an exceptionally scrupulous and true translation, were selected because they represent Mandelstam's major poetic themes and his thought on literature, language and culture, and the ... Read more

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  • Journey to Armenia

    by Osip Mandelstam ...
    Translated by Sidney Monas, Clarence Brown, Robert Hughes ...
    The last published work of a great poet who wrote a few lines attacking Stalin and was shortly thereafter exiled to Siberia where he died near Vladivostok six years later. An inimitable volume, Journey to Armenia is a travel book in name only.Osip Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the eight months of his stay, he rediscovered his poetic voice and was inspired to write an experimental ... Read more

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  • Jasmine and Fire

    A Bittersweet Year in Beirut

    by Salma Abdelnour ...
    As Beirut exploded with the bombs and violence of a ruthless civil war in the ’80s, a nine-year-old Salma Abdelnour and her family fled Lebanon to start a new life in the States. Ever since then—even as she built a thriving career as a food and travel writer in New York City—Salma has had a hunch that Beirut was still her home. She kept dreaming of moving back—and finally decided to do it.But ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Husband

    (or, The Permanent Husband)

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Series series Fyodor Dostoevsky - Starbooks Classics Collection
    The Eternal Husband (The Permanent Husband) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in 1870 in Zarya magazine. The novella's plot revolves around the complicated relationship between Velchaninov and Trusotsky, the husband of his deceased former lover.[Analysis]The story starts in medias res. Details about Velchaninov's adulterous past are revealed gradually.The ... Read more

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  • The Prince of the Marshes

    And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

    by Rory Stewart ...
    An adventurous diplomat's "engrossing and often darkly humorous" memoir of working with Iraqis after the fall of Saddam Hussein ( Publishers Weekly).In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then ... Read more

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  • Eastward to Tartary

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    Eastward to Tartary*,* Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future.Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Through ... Read more

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  • Poets and Pahlevans

    A Journey into the Heart of Iran

    by Marcello Di Cintio ...
    Marcello Di Cintio prepares for his “journey into the heart of Iran” with the utmost diligence. He takes lessons in Farsi, researches Persian poetry and sharpens his wrestling skills by returning to the mat after a gap of some years. Knowing that there is a special relationship between heroic poetry and the various styles of traditional Persian wrestling, he sets out to discover how Iranians ... Read more

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  • Crime and Punishment

    Translated by Oliver Ready ...
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    'A truly great translation . . . This English version really is better' - A. N. Wilson, The SpectatorTIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. Raskolnikov, a ... Read more

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