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Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov
Written by Stella Adler
Edited by Barry Paris
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74698-0 (0-679-74698-6)
In her long-awaited book, the legendary acting teacher Stella Adler gives us her extraordinary insights into the work of Henrik Ibsen ("The creation of the modern theater took a genius like Ibsen. . .Miller and Odets, Inge and O'Neill, Williams and Shaw, swallowed the whole of him"), August Strindberg ("He understood... Read more >
Written by Stella Adler
Edited by Barry Paris
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74698-0 (0-679-74698-6)
In her long-awaited book, the legendary acting teacher Stella Adler gives us her extraordinary insights into the work of Henrik Ibsen ("The creation of the modern theater took a genius like Ibsen. . .Miller and Odets, Inge and O'Neill, Williams and Shaw, swallowed the whole of him"), August Strindberg ("He understood... Read more >
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Anna Akhmatova
Written by Anna Akhmatova
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: May 16, 2006
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-26424-4 (0-307-26424-6)
A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova—denounced by the Soviet regime for her “eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference”—is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century.
Before the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet who lived... Read more >
Written by Anna Akhmatova
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: May 16, 2006
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-26424-4 (0-307-26424-6)
A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova—denounced by the Soviet regime for her “eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference”—is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century.
Before the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet who lived... Read more >
Generations of Winter
Written by Vassily Aksyonov
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 21, 1995
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76182-2 (0-679-76182-9)
With Tolstoyan narrative power and the emotional grandeur of Doctor Zhivago, Generations of Winter is the story of a Russian family struggling to survive amid the convulsions of the Stalin era. These men and women, woven together with such actual figures as Joseph Stalin and Laventry Beria, populate this triumphantly moving... Read more >
Written by Vassily Aksyonov
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 21, 1995
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76182-2 (0-679-76182-9)
With Tolstoyan narrative power and the emotional grandeur of Doctor Zhivago, Generations of Winter is the story of a Russian family struggling to survive amid the convulsions of the Stalin era. These men and women, woven together with such actual figures as Joseph Stalin and Laventry Beria, populate this triumphantly moving... Read more >
All Whom I Have Loved
A Novel
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4177-8 (0-8052-4177-9)
The haunting story of a Jewish family in Eastern Europe in the 1930s that prefigures the fate of the Jews during World War II.
At the center is nine-year-old Paul Rosenfeld, the beloved only child of divorced parents, through whose eyes we view a dissolving, increasingly chaotic world. Initially, Paul lives with... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4177-8 (0-8052-4177-9)
The haunting story of a Jewish family in Eastern Europe in the 1930s that prefigures the fate of the Jews during World War II.
At the center is nine-year-old Paul Rosenfeld, the beloved only child of divorced parents, through whose eyes we view a dissolving, increasingly chaotic world. Initially, Paul lives with... Read more >
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Blooms of Darkness
A Novel
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Translated by Jeffrey M. Green
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4280-5 (0-8052-4280-5)
A new novel from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli writer (“One of the greatest writers of the age”—The Guardian), a haunting, heartbreaking story of love and loss.
The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Translated by Jeffrey M. Green
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4280-5 (0-8052-4280-5)
A new novel from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli writer (“One of the greatest writers of the age”—The Guardian), a haunting, heartbreaking story of love and loss.
The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the... Read more >
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Katerina
A Novel
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: February 7, 2006
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1198-6 (0-8052-1198-5)
Fleeing an abusive home and trying to purge herself of self-destructive behaviors, Katerina, a teenage Ukranian peasant, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. Adopting their customs and rituals, feeling the warmth of family life for the first time, she is traumatized when the parents are murdered... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: February 7, 2006
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1198-6 (0-8052-1198-5)
Fleeing an abusive home and trying to purge herself of self-destructive behaviors, Katerina, a teenage Ukranian peasant, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. Adopting their customs and rituals, feeling the warmth of family life for the first time, she is traumatized when the parents are murdered... Read more >
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Laish
A novel
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4159-4 (0-8052-4159-0)
A caravan of Jews wanders through Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century on a heartbreaking quest. Spiritual seekers and the elderly, widows and orphans, the sick and the dying, con artists and adventurers, victims of pogroms who have no place else to go–they are all on a pilgrimage... Read more >
A novel
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4159-4 (0-8052-4159-0)
A caravan of Jews wanders through Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century on a heartbreaking quest. Spiritual seekers and the elderly, widows and orphans, the sick and the dying, con artists and adventurers, victims of pogroms who have no place else to go–they are all on a pilgrimage... Read more >
The Story of a Life
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1126-9 (0-8052-1126-8)
When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been shot or starved to death on a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp. As men, women, and children fall away around... Read more >
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1126-9 (0-8052-1126-8)
When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been shot or starved to death on a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp. As men, women, and children fall away around... Read more >
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The Way of a Pilgrim
Translated by Helen Bacovcin
Foreword by Walter J. Ciszek
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Image
On Sale: June 17, 1985
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-46814-5 (0-385-46814-8)
This classic work of Russian spirituality has captivated countless readers with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant seeking the truth with simple humility, finding joy and plenty everywhere in life. Read more >
Translated by Helen Bacovcin
Foreword by Walter J. Ciszek
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Image
On Sale: June 17, 1985
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-46814-5 (0-385-46814-8)
This classic work of Russian spirituality has captivated countless readers with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant seeking the truth with simple humility, finding joy and plenty everywhere in life. Read more >
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The Year Is '42
A Novel
Written by Nella Bielski
Translated by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7664-2 (1-4000-7664-1)
Wehrmacht officer Karl Bazinger is living the high life in Occupied Paris. But with his glamorous dinner companions and his open disdain for the Nazis, he begins to attract the attention of the SS. He is drawn into further trouble when he receives a suspicious visit from a friend who may... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Nella Bielski
Translated by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7664-2 (1-4000-7664-1)
Wehrmacht officer Karl Bazinger is living the high life in Occupied Paris. But with his glamorous dinner companions and his open disdain for the Nazis, he begins to attract the attention of the SS. He is drawn into further trouble when he receives a suspicious visit from a friend who may... Read more >
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Pushkin
A Biography
Written by T.J. Binyon
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7652-9 (1-4000-7652-8)
In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry—including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin—but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure–fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate seducer of women. Having forged a dazzling, controversial career... Read more >
A Biography
Written by T.J. Binyon
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7652-9 (1-4000-7652-8)
In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry—including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin—but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure–fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate seducer of women. Having forged a dazzling, controversial career... Read more >
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A Country Doctor's Notebook
Written by Mikhail Bulgakov
Translated by Michael Glenny
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-61219-190-4 (1-61219-190-8)
Part autobiography, part fiction, this early work by the author of The Master and Margarita shows a literary master at the dawn of his craft, and a nation divided by centuries of unequal progress.
In 1916 a 25-year-old, newly qualified doctor named Mikhail Bulgakov was posted to the remote Russian countryside. He brought to... Read more >
Written by Mikhail Bulgakov
Translated by Michael Glenny
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-61219-190-4 (1-61219-190-8)
Part autobiography, part fiction, this early work by the author of The Master and Margarita shows a literary master at the dawn of his craft, and a nation divided by centuries of unequal progress.
In 1916 a 25-year-old, newly qualified doctor named Mikhail Bulgakov was posted to the remote Russian countryside. He brought to... Read more >
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The Complete Short Novels
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3292-1 (1-4000-3292-X)
Although he is best known for his short stories, Anton Chekhov also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. Now for the first time all five have been brought together in a single volume, and rendered into brilliantly idiomatic English by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa... Read more >
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3292-1 (1-4000-3292-X)
Although he is best known for his short stories, Anton Chekhov also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. Now for the first time all five have been brought together in a single volume, and rendered into brilliantly idiomatic English by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa... Read more >
The Complete Short Novels
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4049-0 (1-4000-4049-3)
Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, never wrote a full-length novel, but he wrote five works long enough to be called short novels.
“The Steppe” is the most lyrical of the five, an account of a young boy's frightening journey to enroll in a distant school... Read more >
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4049-0 (1-4000-4049-3)
Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, never wrote a full-length novel, but he wrote five works long enough to be called short novels.
“The Steppe” is the most lyrical of the five, an account of a young boy's frightening journey to enroll in a distant school... Read more >
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The Duel
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Margarita Shalina
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 978-1-935554-50-9 (1-935554-50-6)
This new translation of the literary masterpiece– which combines a beautiful romance with high suspense– is here presented for the first time as a stand-alone volume.
One of Chekhov’s most important lengthy works, this remarkable story gives a startling twist to his classic, ongoing study of bourgeois romance when he sets it... Read more >
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Margarita Shalina
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 978-1-935554-50-9 (1-935554-50-6)
This new translation of the literary masterpiece– which combines a beautiful romance with high suspense– is here presented for the first time as a stand-alone volume.
One of Chekhov’s most important lengthy works, this remarkable story gives a startling twist to his classic, ongoing study of bourgeois romance when he sets it... Read more >
The Duel
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Constance Garnett
Introduction by Aleksandar Hemon
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7008-1 (0-8129-7008-X)
First published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into a violent contest: the duel. When Laevsky, a lazy youth who works for the government, tires of... Read more >
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Constance Garnett
Introduction by Aleksandar Hemon
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7008-1 (0-8129-7008-X)
First published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into a violent contest: the duel. When Laevsky, a lazy youth who works for the government, tires of... Read more >
Forty Stories
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Robert Payne
Introduction by Robert Payne
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 6, 1991
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73375-1 (0-679-73375-2)
Translated and with an Introduction by Robert Payne. Marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in Chekhov's Forty Stories. Spanning the entirety of his career, this collection includes:
A Fragment
Surgery
The Huntsman
Anyuta
Sleepyhead
The Lady With the Pet Dog
The Little Apples
St. Peter's Day
Joy
The Ninny
Death of a Government Clerk
At... Read more >
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Robert Payne
Introduction by Robert Payne
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 6, 1991
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73375-1 (0-679-73375-2)
Translated and with an Introduction by Robert Payne. Marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in Chekhov's Forty Stories. Spanning the entirety of his career, this collection includes:
A Fragment
Surgery
The Huntsman
Anyuta
Sleepyhead
The Lady With the Pet Dog
The Little Apples
St. Peter's Day
Joy
The Ninny
Death of a Government Clerk
At... Read more >
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Introduction by Richard Pevear
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 31, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38100-9 (0-553-38100-8)
With an Introduction by Richard Pevear.
Stories contains the classic works of Anton Chekhov, as well as rarely anthologized pieces-all of which have been expertly translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The stories selected span the entire length of the famed Russian writer's career and exposes contradictions and rhythms in... Read more >
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Introduction by Richard Pevear
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 31, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38100-9 (0-553-38100-8)
With an Introduction by Richard Pevear.
Stories contains the classic works of Anton Chekhov, as well as rarely anthologized pieces-all of which have been expertly translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The stories selected span the entire length of the famed Russian writer's career and exposes contradictions and rhythms in... Read more >
Niki
The Story of a Dog
Written by Tibor Dery
Translated by Edward Hyams
Introduction by George Szirtes
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-318-3 (1-59017-318-X)
“The Dog adopted the Ancsas in the spring of ‘48”: so the story begins. The Ancsas are a middle-aged couple living on the outskirts of Budapest in a ruinous Hungary that is just beginning to wake up from the nightmare of World War II. The new Communist government promises to set... Read more >
The Story of a Dog
Written by Tibor Dery
Translated by Edward Hyams
Introduction by George Szirtes
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-318-3 (1-59017-318-X)
“The Dog adopted the Ancsas in the spring of ‘48”: so the story begins. The Ancsas are a middle-aged couple living on the outskirts of Budapest in a ruinous Hungary that is just beginning to wake up from the nightmare of World War II. The new Communist government promises to set... Read more >
The Adolescent
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71900-4 (0-375-71900-8)
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naïve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71900-4 (0-375-71900-8)
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naïve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to... Read more >
The Adolescent
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Hardcover, 520 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4118-3 (1-4000-4118-X)
Originally published in English as A Raw Youth, The Adolescent is markedly different in tone from Dostoevsky’s other masterpieces. It is told from the point of view of the 19-year-old protagonist, whose immaturity, freshness, and naievete are unforgettably reflected in his narrative voice. The illegitimate son of a landowner, Arkady Dolgoruky... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Hardcover, 520 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4118-3 (1-4000-4118-X)
Originally published in English as A Raw Youth, The Adolescent is markedly different in tone from Dostoevsky’s other masterpieces. It is told from the point of view of the 19-year-old protagonist, whose immaturity, freshness, and naievete are unforgettably reflected in his narrative voice. The illegitimate son of a landowner, Arkady Dolgoruky... Read more >
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by David Magarshack
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75688-7 (0-375-75688-4)
This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by David Magarshack
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75688-7 (0-375-75688-4)
This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an... Read more >
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The Brothers Karamazov
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format: Paperback, 1072 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-21216-7 (0-553-21216-8)
Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880), is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha - are all at some level involved... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format: Paperback, 1072 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-21216-7 (0-553-21216-8)
Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880), is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha - are all at some level involved... Read more >
Crime and Punishment
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Constance Garnett
Format: Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: October 15, 1996
Price: $6.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-21175-7 (0-553-21175-7)
A young university student sets out to prove that he is a superior human being capable of committing the perfect murder. Crime and Punishment (1866) is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Constance Garnett
Format: Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: October 15, 1996
Price: $6.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-21175-7 (0-553-21175-7)
A young university student sets out to prove that he is a superior human being capable of committing the perfect murder. Crime and Punishment (1866) is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel... Read more >
Crime and Punishment
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 2, 1993
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73450-5 (0-679-73450-3)
Ever since it's publication in 1866, Crime and Punishment has intrigued readers and sorely tested translators, the best of whom seem to capture one fact of Dostoevsky's masterpiece while missing the rest. Now, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 2, 1993
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73450-5 (0-679-73450-3)
Ever since it's publication in 1866, Crime and Punishment has intrigued readers and sorely tested translators, the best of whom seem to capture one fact of Dostoevsky's masterpiece while missing the rest. Now, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range... Read more >
