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Leo Tolstoy
[Hardcover 1993]
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"War and Peace" is a novel whose story takes place in early 19th century Russia in the midst of Russia's War of 1812. The elaborate plot is the tale of three affluent families over a term of fifteen years throughout Russia's hostilities with Napoleonic Europe. Her early defeats are recounted... more
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Nikolai Vasil Evich Gogol ,
Robert A Maguire
[Paperback 2003]
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Dead Souls is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still... more
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy ,
Andrew Bromfield ,
Nikolai Tolstoy
[Paperback 1999]
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The original version of Russias most famous novel, which never made it to publication in Tolstoys lifetime. Undiscovered for more than a century, this edition features subtle differences in the characters, dialogue, and ending. A sweeping, romantic saga of two noble families and their intertwined destiny, and a panoramic portrait... more
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy ,
Nina Berberova ,
Constance Garnett
[Paperback 1999]
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"The Constance Garnett translation has been revised throughout by the editors." The greatest love story ever told. Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman,... more
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Fyodor M Dostoevsky ,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky ,
Dostoyevsky Fyodor
[Paperback 1976]
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Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Marc Slonim The award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel. In 1880 Dostoevsky completed "The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four... more
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Fyodor M Dostoevsky ,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky ,
Dostoyevsky Fyodor
[Paperback 2001]
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A troubled young man commits the perfect crime: the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but he convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins a tragic novel that illuminates the eternal struggle between human... more
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Boris Pasternak
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First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled... more
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[Paperback 2010]
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Prince Myshkin, the idiot, is an almost comically innocent Christ figure in aland of sinners, one whose faith in beauty contrasts sharply with that of hissociety's. Revised reissue. A towering figure of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky depicted with remarkable insight the depth and complexity of the human soul. In this... more
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Fyodor M Dostoevsky ,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky ,
Jessie Coulson
[Paperback 1992]
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'It is best to do nothing The best thing is conscious inertia So long live the underground ' Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking "Notes from Underground" tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter sarcasm, he... more
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Vladimir Nabokov
[Paperback 2001]
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Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd... more
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky ,
David Mc Duff
[Paperback 1968]
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"A detective novel, an indictment of urban oscial conditions in nineteenth-century Russia, a religious epic, a study in criminal psychopathology, and a proto-Nietzschean analysis of the 'will to power' . . . Crime and Punishment is all these things--but it is more," writes McDuff in the Introduction to this major... more
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
[Paperback 1997]
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When first published in 1862, this novel of a divided Russia, with peasants set against masters and fathers set against sons, caused great outrage. But its enduring legacy of social insight and conscience mixed with drama has given it universal appeal. Features an introduction by Anna Tolstoy in an exciting... more
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Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
[Paperback 1979]
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One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with One Day in the Life of Ivan... more
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[Paperback 2009]
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For the true bibliophile and design-savvy book lover, here is the next set of Penguin's celebrated Great Ideas series by some of history's most innovative thinkers. Acclaimed for their striking and elegant package, each volume features a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature and great... more
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A N Wilson
[Paperback 2001]
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In this landmark biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marriage. Wilson sweeps away the long-held... more
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Maxim Gorky
[Hardcover 2006, 1st Edition]
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Aleksey Peshkov overcame indigence, violence, and suicidal despair to become Maksim Gorky, one of the most widely read and influential writers of the twentieth century. Childhood, the first book in Gorky's acclaimed autobiographical trilogy, depicts his early years, when after his father's death he was taken to live in the... more
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Leo Tolstoy ,
Rosemary Edmonds
[Paperback 1989, 1st Edition]
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Four classic stories of murder and sacrifice, greed and devotion, love and affection, are collected together in this one volume. Also includes "Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, " and "Master and Man." Reissue. Murder, greed, lust, vanity, love-four of Tolstoy's most famous and essential stories in one volume. "The Death... more
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Leo Tolstoy ,
David Mc Duff
[Paperback 1986, 1st Edition]
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Our ambitious program of new Tolstoy editions continues with two collections of powerful stories The violent spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life that inspired his last period of creativity produced the stories in this compelling and startling collection. They portray the multifaceted nature of desire, from idealistic romance to sexual jealousy,... more
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Elif Batuman
[Paperback 2012]
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THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED—ABSURDLY MELANCHOLICALLY BEAUTIFULLY —TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS No one who read Elif Batuman’s first article (in the journal "n+1") will ever forget it. “Babel in California” told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford University during a conference about the... more
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy ,
Louise Maude ,
Aylmer Maude
[Paperback 2004]
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The brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including "The Death of Ivan Ilych" and "Family Happiness," collected and reissued with a beautiful updated design. Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of "War and Peace," his epic in prose, and "Anna... more
