Russian and Eastern European Literature and Drama
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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 >
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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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 >
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 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 >
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 Double and The Gambler
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71901-1 (0-375-71901-6)
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler.
The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare–foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre–in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71901-1 (0-375-71901-6)
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler.
The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare–foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre–in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who... Read more >
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The Idiot
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70224-2 (0-375-70224-5)
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.
After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70224-2 (0-375-70224-5)
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.
After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray... Read more >
The Idiot
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: April 30, 2002
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-41392-6 (0-375-41392-8)
From the award-winning translators of The Brothers Karamazov, a superb new translation of the novel in which Dostoevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul."
In The Idiot, Prince Myshkin, a saintly man, is thrust into the heart of a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon finds... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: April 30, 2002
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-41392-6 (0-375-41392-8)
From the award-winning translators of The Brothers Karamazov, a superb new translation of the novel in which Dostoevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul."
In The Idiot, Prince Myshkin, a saintly man, is thrust into the heart of a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon finds... Read more >
Notes from Underground
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: March 23, 2004
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4191-6 (1-4000-4191-0)
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: March 23, 2004
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4191-6 (1-4000-4191-0)
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat... Read more >
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Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Cafe
A Novel
Written by M. Henderson Ellis
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: New Europe Books
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825781-8-6 (0-9825781-8-0)
Not long ago, John Shirting--quiet young Chicagoan, wizard of self-medication--held down a beloved job as a barista at Capo Coffee Family, a coffee chain and global business powerhouse. When he is deemed “too passionate” about his job, he is let go. Shirting makes it his mission to return to the frothy... Read more >
A Novel
Written by M. Henderson Ellis
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: New Europe Books
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825781-8-6 (0-9825781-8-0)
Not long ago, John Shirting--quiet young Chicagoan, wizard of self-medication--held down a beloved job as a barista at Capo Coffee Family, a coffee chain and global business powerhouse. When he is deemed “too passionate” about his job, he is let go. Shirting makes it his mission to return to the frothy... Read more >
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Anna of All the Russias
A Life of Anna Akhmatova
Written by Elaine Feinstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3378-2 (1-4000-3378-0)
In this definitive biography of the legendary Russian poet, Elaine Feinstein draws on a wealth of newly available material–including memoirs, letters, journals, and interviews with surviving friends and family–to produce a revelatory portrait of both the artist and the woman.
Anna Akhmatova rose to fame in the years before World War I... Read more >
A Life of Anna Akhmatova
Written by Elaine Feinstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3378-2 (1-4000-3378-0)
In this definitive biography of the legendary Russian poet, Elaine Feinstein draws on a wealth of newly available material–including memoirs, letters, journals, and interviews with surviving friends and family–to produce a revelatory portrait of both the artist and the woman.
Anna Akhmatova rose to fame in the years before World War I... Read more >
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Siren of the Waters
Written by Michael Genelin
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Soho Crime
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $9.99
ISBN: 978-1-56947-585-0 (1-56947-585-7)
Jana entered the Czechoslovak police force as young woman, married an actor, and became a mother. The Communist regime destroyed her husband, their love for one another, and her daughter’s respect for her. But she has never stopped being a seeker of justice.
Now, she has risen to the rank of... Read more >
Written by Michael Genelin
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Soho Crime
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $9.99
ISBN: 978-1-56947-585-0 (1-56947-585-7)
Jana entered the Czechoslovak police force as young woman, married an actor, and became a mother. The Communist regime destroyed her husband, their love for one another, and her daughter’s respect for her. But she has never stopped being a seeker of justice.
Now, she has risen to the rank of... Read more >
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 29, 1999
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70615-8 (0-375-70615-1)
Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of the narrative is a surprise unfettered by obligation to an overarching theme.
Selected... Read more >
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 29, 1999
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70615-8 (0-375-70615-1)
Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of the narrative is a surprise unfettered by obligation to an overarching theme.
Selected... Read more >
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The Collected Tales
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Hardcover, 472 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26969-0 (0-307-26969-8)
From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov, a brilliant translation of Nikolai Gogol’s short fiction.
Collected here are Gogol’s finest tales—stories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller—allowing readers to experience anew the... Read more >
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Hardcover, 472 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26969-0 (0-307-26969-8)
From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov, a brilliant translation of Nikolai Gogol’s short fiction.
Collected here are Gogol’s finest tales—stories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller—allowing readers to experience anew the... Read more >
Dead Souls
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Hardcover, 488 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4319-4 (1-4000-4319-0)
Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the... Read more >
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Hardcover, 488 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4319-4 (1-4000-4319-0)
Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the... Read more >
Taras Bulba
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7119-4 (0-8129-7119-1)
This is the first new translation in forty years. Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Taras Bulba is 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.
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Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7119-4 (0-8129-7119-1)
This is the first new translation in forty years. Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Taras Bulba is 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... Read more >
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