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Pushkin's masterpieces in prose, translated by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories,...
Pushkin: Poet And Lover
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and wear along the spine and corners - now in mylar sleeve. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: No visible markings...
Pushkin
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Author: Henri TroyatBinding: PaperbackPublished: MERIDIAN PRESSCondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling biography, Pushkin, chronicles the tumultuous life and enduring literary legacy...
Selected Poetry
A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020 Alexander Pushkin established what we know as Russian literature....
Pushkin
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Good. Few literary lives burned as brilliantly — or as briefly — as that...
Pushkin Poet And Lover
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Author: Lydia LambertBinding: HardbackPublished: Francis Aldor Publisher London, 1947Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis biography delves into the life of Alexander Pushkin, Russia's most celebrated poet. It...
Pushkin: A Biography
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Some marks and specks on blue cloth. Binding remains tight. From the shadow of imperial Russia emerges...
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
A unique and enchanting collection of Russian folk tales collected over the last two centuries In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children...
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
A sparkling new translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's...
Pushkin
beaurocrats who blocked him at every turn, and after a hopelessly unsuccessful marriage he was murdered in a dual aged 37.
The Captain's Daughter: And Other Stories
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark of Russian literature, The Captain's Daughter and...
The Tales of Ivan Belkin
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A masterpiece...
The Queen of Spades and Selected Works
The Queen of Spades is Pushkin's prose masterpiece, a gripping tale of avarice, obsession, madness and cards. This wonderful collection also includes the keenly and sympathetically observed story The Stationmaster...
Commemorating Pushkin: Russia's Myth of a National Poet
Two hundred years after his birth, Alexander Pushkin still issues a dynamic, liberating challenge to Russia's cultural identity. His story has promised national coherence and meant artistic integrity in its...
Yevgeny Onegin
The aristocratic Yevgeny Onegin has come into his inheritance, leaving the glamour of St Petersburg's social life to take up residence at his uncle's country estate. Master of the nonchalant...
The Captain's Daughter
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears, with some light creasing and edge wear; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed, consistent with age. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding:...
Pushkin's Button
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The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged,...
Russian Literary Attitudes From Pushkin To Solzhenitsyn
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Pushkin House
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The book titled Pushkin House by the author Andrei Bitov. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Journey to the East
'The classic literal-metaphorical journey' Guardian A classic meditation on artistic creation and the quest for spiritual transcendence from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Siddhartha In the aftermath of the Great...
Gothic Tales
'A bawdy burlesque' Guardian A collection of witty, transgressive tales from the great Enlightenment thinker, best known for his inimitable blend of philosophy and scandalous sexuality The Marquis de Sade's...
The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
'One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work' - Ali Smith 'The Updike of his day... Zweig is a lucid writer, and Bell renders his prose flawlessly' -...
The Hedgehog's Dilemma
The first in the internationally bestselling series of witty, moving and philosophical animal fables for adults. 'Only one question remains: is he a writer or a genius? I suspect the...
DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval: A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West
Author: Various Authors Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Writings on people and places, theater and film, in a portfolio of essays and photographs informing Wes Anderson's film Asteroid City....
This is Amiko, Do You Copy?
An astonishing and moving novella about a misunderstood young girl, from the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt - part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella seriesOther people don't...
Birds, Beasts and a World Made New
A revelatory volume of two of the twentieth century's great poetic innovators, Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, in vibrant new translations by Robert Chandler Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov never...
Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of
A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev. There is a literal Russian landscape, and there is...
Binocular Vision
The collected stories of an award-winning, modern classic American writer who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike - and even Anton Chekhov.'The best short story writer in the...
The Life Of Aleksandr Blok (Two-Volume Set)
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Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minimal wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Avril Pyman's two-volume biography stands as the definitive English-language account of Aleksandr Blok, the...
The Society of the Crossed Keys: Selections from the Writings of Stefan Zweig, Inspirations for The Grand Budapest Hotel
'I had never heard of Zweig until six or seven years ago, as all the books began to come back into print, and I more or less by chance bought...
My Tender Matador
'One of the great novels of the past half century' GARTH GREENWELL A rediscovered queer classic: the subversive, blazingly beautiful oddball romance between an ageing trans woman and a young...
The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin and the Decline of Modern
When did Russia lose its chance of freedom? 1990: As a new openness sweeps Russia, a talented young physicist, Boris Nemtsov, begins his career in politics. Charismatic, confident, liberal and...
There's No Turning Back
The young women studying at the Grimaldi yearn for new kinds of life. Monitored by the nuns who run the college, eight of them form a close group, sharing confidences...
Is S Talinism Really Dead?
The book titled Is S Talinism Really Dead? by the author Aleksandr Sergeevich eTiSipko. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Poet And The Revolution: Aleksandr Blok's The Twelve
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good; light foxing on book block. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm. At the turbulent crossroads of art and political...
Story of a Life: Childhood and Schooldays
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Condition remarks: Binding: Hardback; clean and stable, with minor shelf wear to the extremities consistent with a mid-century vintage volume. Jacket: Dust jacket present; shows mild edge wear and light...
Hotel Splendide
Author: Ludwig Bemelmans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 In this uproariously funny memoir, Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide, the luxury New York hotel where...
The Podolian Nights: Essential Tales
Nachman of Bratslav, descended from the founder of the Hasidic movement, carved a unique path as a Jewish spiritual leader. Towards the end of his life, he lost his young...
The Martins
Is it true that every life is the stuff of novels? Or are some people just too ordinary? This is the question a struggling Parisian writer asks when he challenges...
Days in the Caucasus
A rediscovered classic memoir - the scintillatingly witty account of one extraordinary woman's life during a turbulent century 'A voice so vivid it seems impossible that it should ever have...
The Royal Game: A Chess Story
Author: Stefan Zweig (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he...