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Richard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky, and Henri Volohonsky, as well as two books of poetry. He has received fellowships or grants for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the French Ministry of Culture. Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad. She has translated works by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff into Russian.
Together, Pevear and Volokhonsky have translated Dead Souls and The Collected Tales by Nikolai Gogol, The Complete Short Novels of Chekhov, and... Read More
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Crime and Punishment
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: March 2, 1993
Price: $16.95
With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. "The best (translation) currently available"--Washington Post Book World. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: March 2, 1993
Price: $16.95
With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. "The best (translation) currently available"--Washington Post Book World. Read more >
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War and Peace
Format: Trade Paperback, 1296 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $19.95
From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.
War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 1296 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $19.95
From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.
War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
hardcover,
hardcover,
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Notes from Underground
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 30, 1994
Price: $12.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 30, 1994
Price: $12.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-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... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Idiot
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $14.95
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 >
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekov
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2000
Price: $13.00
Called the greatest of short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. Now, thirty of his best tales from the major periods of his creative life are available in this outstanding one volume edition. Included are Chekhov's characteristically... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2000
Price: $13.00
Called the greatest of short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. Now, thirty of his best tales from the major periods of his creative life are available in this outstanding one volume edition. Included are Chekhov's characteristically... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 29, 1999
Price: $15.95
Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 29, 1999
Price: $15.95
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Demons
Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $17.95
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $17.95
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Dead Souls
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: March 25, 1997
Price: $15.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: March 25, 1997
Price: $15.95
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 >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $5.99
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky’s genius. The... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $5.99
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky’s genius. The... Read more >
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War and Peace
Format: Hardcover, 1296 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $37.00
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy’s master epic.
War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in literature: Pierre... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 1296 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $37.00
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy’s master epic.
War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in literature: Pierre... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
hardcover,
paperback,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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The Complete Short Novels
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $15.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
The Steppe–the most... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $15.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
The Steppe–the most... Read more >
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The Double and The Gambler
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $15.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $15.00
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 >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Adolescent
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $16.95
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $16.95
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 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 >
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Notes from Underground
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2004
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2004
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Collected Tales
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $24.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $24.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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... Read more >
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Dead Souls
Format: Hardcover, 488 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literature–a satirical and splendidly exaggerated epic of life in the benighted provinces.
Gogol hoped to show the world “the untold riches of the Russian soul” in this 1842 novel, which he populated with a Dickensian swarm of characters... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 488 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literature–a satirical and splendidly exaggerated epic of life in the benighted provinces.
Gogol hoped to show the world “the untold riches of the Russian soul” in this 1842 novel, which he populated with a Dickensian swarm of characters... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Complete Short Novels
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $23.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
The Steppe–the most... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $23.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
The Steppe–the most... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, comes a new, beautifully crafted, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction.
Here are eleven incandescent stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all imaginative, transcendent, and evocatively... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, comes a new, beautifully crafted, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction.
Here are eleven incandescent stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all imaginative, transcendent, and evocatively... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Double and The Gambler
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The two strikingly original short novels brought together here–in new translations by award-winning translators–were both literary gambles of a sort for Dostoevsky.
The Double, written in Dostoevsky’s youth, was a sharp turn away from the realism of his first novel, Poor Folk. The first real expression of his... Read more >
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The two strikingly original short novels brought together here–in new translations by award-winning translators–were both literary gambles of a sort for Dostoevsky.
The Double, written in Dostoevsky’s youth, was a sharp turn away from the realism of his first novel, Poor Folk. The first real expression of his... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Adolescent
Format: Hardcover, 520 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $23.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
This superb new translation—never before published—of one of Dostoevsky’s major novels comes from the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Adolescent (originally published in English as A Raw Youth) is markedly different in tone from Dostoevsky’s other masterpieces. It is told from the point of view... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 520 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $23.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
This superb new translation—never before published—of one of Dostoevsky’s major novels comes from the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Adolescent (originally published in English as A Raw Youth) is markedly different in tone from Dostoevsky’s other masterpieces. It is told from the point of view... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, comes a new, beautifully crafted, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction.
Here are eleven incandescent stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all imaginative, transcendent, and evocatively... Read more >
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, comes a new, beautifully crafted, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction.
Here are eleven incandescent stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all imaginative, transcendent, and evocatively... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Adolescent
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 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 >
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 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 >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Complete Short Novels
Format: eBook, 600 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
The Steppe–the most... Read more >
Format: eBook, 600 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
The Steppe–the most... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekov
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $13.00
Called the greatest of short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. Now, thirty of his best tales from the major periods of his creative life are available in this outstanding one volume edition. Included are Chekhov's characteristically... Read more >
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $13.00
Called the greatest of short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. Now, thirty of his best tales from the major periods of his creative life are available in this outstanding one volume edition. Included are Chekhov's characteristically... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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