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  • The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

    by Sofia Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Cathy Porter ...
    When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of "War and Peace", husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the years from 1862 to 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him; even her many children were not an unmitigated blessing. In the background of her life was one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history: the ... Read more

    $8.09 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

    $11.99 USD

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  • 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

    $5.99 USD

  • Lectures on Russian Literature

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Gogol, Gorki, and Chekhov.In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov's teaching, ... Read more

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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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  • Dostoevsky in Love

    An Intimate Life

    by Alex Christofi ...
    Literary Non-fiction Book of the Year (2021) by The Times and Sunday Times'Beautifully crafted and realised' -- GuardianDostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the Tsar's inner circle. He had three great love ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

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  • Fathers and Sons

    by Ivan Turgenev ...
    Series series Best Russian Classics
    The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov, a nihilist who rejects the old order.Turgenev wrote Fathers and Sons as a response to the growing cultural schism that he saw between liberals of the 1830s/1840s and the growing nihilist movement. Both the nihilists (the "sons") and the 1830s liberals ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • About Love and Other Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Rosamund Bartlett ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived' Raymond Carver's unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achievements in prose, the importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Twenty Letters to a Friend

    A Memoir

    by Svetlana Alliluyeva ...
    "Fascinating from the first page to the last . . . A rich and absorbing memoir . . . To be Stalin's daughter and to remain human is itself admirable." — The New York Times Book ReviewIn this riveting, New York Times–bestselling memoir—first published by Harper in 1967—Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, subject of Rosemary Sullivan's critically acclaimed biography, Stalin's Daughter, describes the ... Read more

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  • The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

    by Cathy Porter ...
    “[A] testament to a great spirit, a woman who lived in terrifying proximity to one of the greatest writers of all time, and who understood exactly the high price she would have to pay for this privilege.”—Jay Parini, author of The Last StationTranslated by Cathy Porter and with an introduction by Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy chronicles in extraordinary detail the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Three Sisters

    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

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