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A Russian heir to Charles Dickens, Leskov is one of the great, underrated voices of nineteenth-century Russia An outsider from the literary establishment of his day, Nikolai Leskov is one...

A Russian heir to Charles Dickens, Leskov is one of the great, underrated voices of nineteenth-century Russia An outsider from the literary establishment of his day, Nikolai Leskov is one...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A cornerstone of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Selected Tales gathers...

The book titled Enchanted Wanderer by the author N.S. Leskov. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I...

A spy story, a love story, and a fable for our time Barley Blair is not a Service man- he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. The Seven Days of Creation is a monumental work of Russian dissident...

A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. A brilliant new translation of a perennial favorite of Russian...

Max Sall, powerful, wealthy and utterly ruthless, a man without a past. His wife, Angela, a society debutante who fell in love with the dark, handsome chauffeur, and broke her...

Laure, seventeen, beautiful and already abandoned twice in her young life. Once by the glamorous mother she can barely remember, a woman who brought shame on the St Lazare family...

A Russian novel about poisons of all kinds - physical, moral, political - all rooted in the recent history of Russia's state assassinations and Putin's continuation of the most degraded...

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, A Hero of Our...

Nic, Caryn and Tory: three girls who form a friendship that should last a lifetime. Until beautiful, ruthless Estelle McKenzie appears on the scene. Estelle has a secret. And, one...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary reputations have been as fiercely contested—and ultimately as triumphant—as that of Vladimir Nabokov, and Nabokov: The Critical Heritage assembles the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Fair/Acceptable. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback with some light yellowing and minor wear to covers and edges. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Minimal markings and annotations in...

Nabokov's early novel about a chess-playing genius, reissuing in Modern Classics as part of the Nabokov relaunch Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Behind every great writer lies a life...

The International Booker Award winner's breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle physics, and graffiti vandalism 'Propulsive and revelatory' The New York Times 'A work of genius' 5-star review, Telegraph Gentle...

Author: A. LebedevBinding: HardbackPublished: Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1976Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSoviet Painting In The Tretyakov Gallery presents a comprehensive...

Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: N/A. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: unmkd. Few novels in the Soviet literary canon carry the raw, autobiographical weight of Hail, Life! — a testament to...

Author: Stuart M. KaminskyBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis gripping mystery, Rostnikov's Corpse, transports readers to the chilling streets of Soviet-era Moscow. It...

Author: Victor Shklovsky; Olga Shartse (trans.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Progress Publishers, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsVictor Shklovsky's Lev Tolstoy presents a compelling and unconventional examination of the iconic Russian...

Author: Andrew FieldBinding: HardbackPublished: Crown Publishers, New York, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Mild staining on book block.This compelling biography, Vn: The Life And Art Of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew events in modern history have so profoundly reshaped the world as the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and in The Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution,...

This remarkable work by Ronald D. LeBlanc is the first study to appraise the representation of food and sexuality in the nineteenth-century Russian novel. Meticulously researched and elegantly and accessibly...

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...

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,...

The book titled V. N.: Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov by the author Andrew Field. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Norman LeslieBinding: HardbackPublished: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1947Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsShadow Over Europe chronicles the escalating tensions that gripped the...