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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 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...

Author: Henri TroyatBinding: HardbackPublished: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerGogol: The Biography Of A Divided Soul presents a compelling portrait of the enigmatic...

'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...

Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are...

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...

Condition remarks: Condition: VG. Jacket: VG Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and intact. In the turbulent years of 1860–1861, Imperial Russian Navy Officer Pavel N. Golovin embarked...

Born in Russia, Arthur Adamov was educated in Geneva and Paris and wrote in French. His avant-garde and often political plays were grouped with the Theatre of the Absurd, but...

Andrei Bely's masterpiece; a vivid, memorable and striking story set at the heart of the 1905 Russian revolution Andrei Bely's Petersburg is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital during the...

The artistic work of Leo Tolstoy has been described as 'nothing less than one tremendous diary kept for over fifty years'. This particular 'diary' begins with Tolstoy's first published work,...

Solzhenitsyn's masterwork about those who dared to oppose Stalin and the lives shaped, devastated and wasted by the Soviet regime. Solzhenitsyn spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile....

'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...

Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the barbed wire of Stalin's brutal labour camp system, one man refused to surrender his mind — and what he wrote there changed...

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...

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...

The book titled The Minister and the Massacres by the author Nikolai Tolstoy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFrom the inner sanctums of the Bolshevik Revolution to the shadowy corridors of Stalinist terror, Power and the Soviet...

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, Who Can Be Happy...

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in...

In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. Two...

When the Revolution broke out in 1917, Sergei Golitsyn was just 8 years old. His memoir of the Revolution and the years that followed constitute one of the most powerful...

'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.What we carry as concealed excess baggage is stories.'In this exquisite literary...

'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.What we carry as concealed excess baggage is stories.'In this exquisite literary...

A revelatory biography of Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, from renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich. Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal acolytes. But how did this club-footed...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Good. Worn/faded - no tears. Mylar sleeve wrapping. Page Condition: Good. Markings: none Binding condition: Good. Very good copy. A landmark work in the history...

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Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: VG. Jacket: VG. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. One of the most electrifying performers of the twentieth century, Vaslav Nijinsky...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback with some wear on edges and corners. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. A landmark work of Marxist literary criticism,...

While post-communist Moscow deals with political transition, Vassili is descending into despair at his wife Anna's chronic infertility. Following his father Sergey's footsteps, he travels to Melbourne to teach Russian...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the shadow of Soviet-era Moscow, where the forgotten dead are tended by the overlooked living, The Humble Cemetery presents a stark and unflinching...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodCondition remarks: Fold-out maps intact. Few eyewitness accounts of history's most seismic upheavals carry the raw authority...

A collection of eight of Chekhov's finest early stories. This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young writer mastering the art of the short story. 'The Steppe', which...

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...

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 incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri. 'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy...

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 'If you've never read it,...

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...

Edition: Vol I (repr.); Vol II (1st ed.,)Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Vol II - slight bruising to board...

The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri.'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy Tan...