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In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorky's Reminiscences of Tolstoy and it was recognized almost immediately as one of the few masterpieces of modern biography. 'It...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few voices in modern literature carry the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: minor tear on dj. Few writers embodied the turbulence of their age as completely as Maxim Gorky —...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFew figures in modern literature embody the turbulent contradictions of an entire nation quite like Alexei Maximovich Peshkov — the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears, with some minor age toning and light marks. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings observed. Binding condition: Binding intact, hardcover with red...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMaxim Gorky — the pen name of Alexei Maximovich Peshkov — was not merely a witness to Russian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the teeming, restless world of late nineteenth-century Russia, three boyhood friends—Ilya Lunyev, Pavekin, and Grazhdanin—grow up side...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the twilight of Tsarist Russia, a man's quiet, provincial life becomes a mirror reflecting an entire nation's soul —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of Russian literature's most sweeping family sagas stands The Artamonovs, Maxim Gorky's masterful chronicle of a merchant...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBeneath the sun-drenched skies and cobblestone piazzas of early twentieth-century Italy, Maxim Gorky — Russia's most celebrated literary voice —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingA searing portrait of poverty, resilience, and the hunger for self-education, My Apprenticeship is the second volume of Maxim Gorky's...

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 Artamonov Business chronicles...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - minor tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Binding intact. Set against the turbulent backdrop of pre-revolutionary...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. The Life of a Useless Man is a gripping work of Russian...

First published in the original Russian in 1907, this authorised English translation appeared the following year with the subtitle The Story of a Superfluous Man. The novel is also known...

Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. The pages show age-related tanning and yellowing. The binding appears intact. No dust jacket present. A frontispiece portrait photograph of Maxim Gorky is visible....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the poverty-stricken backstreets of Nizhny Novgorod emerges one of Russian literature's most haunting memoirs — Maxim Gorky's Childhood chronicles...

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, Through Russia is a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Some damage to jacket on spine - still intact.From the turbulent twilight of Tsarist Russia emerges the unflinching voice of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the shadowy underworld of Tsarist Russia, a young man named Yevsey Klimkov is recruited into the secret police, drawn into a web of surveillance, betrayal,...

The book titled Chaliapin by the author Makim Gorky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned...

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Author: Simon Ings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow...

It has been Gorky's great misfortune to be remembered mostly for the wrong things - for his apparent support of the Stalin regime; for his direct involvement in the foundation...

Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of art and politics in twentieth-century Europe stands Romain Rolland — Nobel Prize-winning novelist, pacifist, and one of France's most...

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The book titled Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin by the author Dusko Doder. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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Dorkius Maximus is a young boy growing up in ancient Rome. This hilarious diary recounts his exploits as, desperate to become a great Roman hero, Dorkius enlists the help of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the seismic rupture of the 1917 Revolution to the complex literary landscape of the late Soviet era, Dictionary of Russian Literature...

Condition remarks: ** RUSSIAN TEXT ONLY**. Condition: good. N/A jacket. Pages: yellowed. Markings: name penned on fep. This is the second edition of Fyodor Tyutchev's complete poetry, published in Leningrad...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2892 A.J.P. Taylor appears twice — on Bismarck and on Hitler — and the company is equally serious: Dayan's memoir, Gorky's wartime diary,...

Author: Elena FeldmanFormat: Hardback, 254mm x 254mm, 401g, 32 pagesPublished: Clever Publishing, United States, 2022Once there was a house who was unhappy because its paint was peeling, the stairs were...

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Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of The Cambridge Spies--Maclean, Philby, Blunt--brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An...

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