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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...

Includes the plays The Forest , Artistes and Admirers , Wolves and Sheep and Sin and Sorrow Four of Ostrovsky's finest plays. The best known of these, The Forest (1871),...

Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune....

Creating A Role is the third book - alongside the international bestseller An Actor Prepares and Building A Character - in the series of influential translations that introduced Stanislavski's acting...

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...

'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution...

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: 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...

Volume two of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the Russian novelist in any...

Nicholas II, the last tsar of all the Russians, remains a haunting and enigmatic figure, surrounded by myth and speculation. As a young man he dreamed of travel, of seeing...

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A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures This is how Emmanuel Carrere, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and chameleon, describes...

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...

Edition: First British EditionCondition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minimal wear with bright colours intact. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Firm. A deeply intimate memoir, Dostoevsky...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew writers have charted the abyss of the human soul with the relentless precision of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Malcolm V. Jones's Dostoyevsky:...

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...

The book titled Deadly Illusions: The KGB Orlov Dossier Reveals Stalin's Master Spy by the author John Costello. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

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In this authoritative and beautifully illustrated new account of Napoleon's greatest victory and the campaign that preceded it, Ian Castle sheds new light on the actions of the commanders and...

Edition: First English EditionCondition remarks: Condition: Good for age. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition; lightly stained; yellowed boards. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition:...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: VG. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm and intact. In the turbulent half-century between 1801 and 1855, Russia underwent a profound...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minor wear to edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and secure. A compelling work of literary biography, Dostoyevsky: His...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. This landmark biographical work chronicles the most creatively explosive period in Fyodor Dostoevsky's life, spanning...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedAt the crossroads of Russian Romanticism and early realism stands Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky — philosopher, musician, writer, and eccentric polymath — whose singular life...

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...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover. A landmark biography of one of the most celebrated and enigmatic figures...

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,...

Condition remarks: Worn but not faded - jacket still in good condition. In this essential counter-narrative, Vladimir Lakshin offers an intimate and piercing defense of Alexander Tvardovsky, the celebrated editor...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis definitive volume unveils the extraordinary, long-hidden visual legacy of Imperial Russia through the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the depths of nineteenth-century Russia, Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov crafts a portrait of human nature at...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageVaslav Nijinsky — the name alone conjures visions of impossible leaps, otherworldly grace, and a genius so blazing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: di - price clipped. Few figures witnessed the turbulent birth of Soviet Russia from as intimate...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. One of the most definitive biographies ever written about the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew writers of the twentieth century provoked as much controversy, admiration, and political fury as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew lives in literary history burn as fiercely as that of Fyodor Dostoevsky — epileptic, compulsive gambler, political...

How could the West have better prepared for the fall of communism and gained a clearer picture of Russia's new political landscape? By cultivating an awareness, Nicolai Petro argues, of...

Tolstoy's most controversial novel is the dramatic tale of a remorseful nobleman who seeks redemption after a woman he once wronged is convicted of murder - only to discover a...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Appears intact. No stickers or labels visible. A work of serious literary scholarship, Dostoevsky:...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA compelling work of political memoir and biography, Impressions of Lenin presents a rare and intimate portrait of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis sweeping historical saga, The Tolstoys: Twenty-Four Generations Of Russian History 1353-1983, chronicles the remarkable lineage of one of Russia's...

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...