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'A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction' New York Times in Bulgakov's allegorical masterpiece of Stalin's regime the devil is making a personal appearance in Moscow. He is accompanied...

In his own lifetime, Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was scarcely published. A quarter of a century after his death, his novel, "The Master and the Margarita", has become...

Mikhail Bulgakov's devilish salute to artistic freedom, now in a beautiful clothbound edition Written in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, The Master and Margarita became an overnight...

A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and on Soviet society - first time in Penguin Classics This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: paperback. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact. Few writers of the twentieth century have led lives as dramatic and turbulent as...

A rich and poetic play set during the Russian Civil War, by the author of The Master and Margarita. Mikhail Bulgakov's satirical play creates a grotesque, tragicomic world in which...

Reissued in Black Classics to coincide with the new translation of other two magnificent Bulgakov titles The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of...

The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history 'A masterpiece - a classic...

New translation and new to Penguin Classics This is Bulgakov's surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a stray dog and performs on it a human transplant - with...

Author: Mikhail BulgakovBinding: PaperbackPublished: New Directions, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMikhail Bulgakov's two plays present a compelling narrative that...

Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It...

Author: Mikhail BulgakovBinding: PaperbackPublished: Grove Press, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis play presents a searing dramatic chronicle of the...

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION...

Author: V. F. BulgakovBinding: HardbackPublished: The Dial Press, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis biographical account chronicles the final, tumultuous year in the life...

Author: Valentin BulgakovBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Clear cover over DJ. Discolouration to back of DJ. Denting to spine of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn one of the most powerful memoirs to emerge from behind the Iron Curtain, Vladimir Bukovsky chronicles his remarkable life as a Soviet dissident...

A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature.Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize...

When Gorbachev came to power in 1985, the globe was still divided into two armed camps - one for each superpower - as it had been ever since 1945. The...

An epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature One of the most important Russian masterpieces of the 20th century, And...

Mikhail Gorbachev is the man who changed everything. It was Gorbachev's initiative that raised the Iron Curtain; his actions that resulted in one of the era's most symbolic events, the...

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A new selection of seven of Dostoyevsky's best short stories, translated by Ronald Meyer The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories...

Nabokov's biography of this other Russian literary giant, now part of this new Penguin Modern Classics series Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature,...

A splendid study of Chekhov, this book is primarily an original, sympathetic and wonderfully insightful account of his evolution as a writer, especially of short stories.

Author: Lev Ozerov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Lev Ozerov's finest book, Portraits Without Frames comprises fifty intimate, skilfully crafted accounts of meetings with important figures, ranging from fellow...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew literary figures of the twentieth century provoke as much fascination and controversy as Mikhail Sholokhov, the Soviet Nobel laureate whose epic...

A unique collection bringing together acknowledged masterpieces from classic authors such as Chekhov and Gogol and a rich selection from less familiar writers. From the reign of the Tsars in...

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Author: Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevBinding: HardbackPublished: Progress Publishers, 1982Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection by Ivan Turgenev features stories that explore themes of dreams, lost love,...

'Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange' Vladimir Nabokov Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and...

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NEW LOOK FOR THE CLASSIC NOVEL WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEELI CHERKOVSKI Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good, some tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Good. Few literary controversies in the twentieth century are as charged and...

The best of Gogol in a single volume - his most famous drama and the most brilliant of his short stories. Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced...

Penguin Classics relaunch The award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel.Leo Tolstoy (Author) Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of...

The autobiography of one of the world's most talented and intriguing writers, reissuing in Penguin Modern Classics 'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodCondition remarks: Faded boards. Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik, three-time World Chess Champion and one of the most dominant figures in...

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This dark satire follows the egotistical Hermann Hermann, a murderer who thinks himself an artist Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann is perhaps not...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the chaotic aftermath of the Russian Revolution, one writer captured the absurdity of Soviet life with an...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: Minor tear to edge of DJ.Few writers of the twentieth century have provoked such fierce...