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A unique and enchanting collection of Russian folk tales collected over the last two centuries In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children...

Author: Collins Dictionaries Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The home of trusted Russian dictionaries for everyday language learning. A handy and affordable Russian to English and English to Russian...

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...

'In this new translation one finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky's original' New York Times Book Review FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY Dostoevsky's beautiful writing...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine....

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsWay of All the Earth is a collection of poems by Anna Akhmatova, showcasing her voice in Russian poetry, particularly...

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An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged,...

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The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history Read this stunning new translation...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA landmark work in the study of Russian intellectual history, this scholarly volume presents Raymond T. McNally's authoritative...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: good condition with minor shelf wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Farewell from Nowhere is a semi-autobiographical novel by the dissident Russian writer Vladimir...

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In a new translation by Ronald Wilks 'Notes from Underground' (1864) is a study of a single character, 'the real man of the Russian majority', and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's...

One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and...

The old woman was merely a sickness... it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle! TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY 'The old woman was merely...

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 Captain's Daughter and...

The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical and...

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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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: FEP missingThe high seas have never been more treacherous than in the world conjured by Alexei Novikov-Priboi in...

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: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:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark anthology in the tradition of literary resistance, Pages from Tarusa: New Voices...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the bitter winter of early 1917, the Romanov dynasty — three centuries old and seemingly immovable — collapsed in a matter...

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"Both a pleasure and a testament to life in Ukraine, before" Sunday Times "Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European " A Ukrainian Murakami" Guardian A love letter to the beautiful...

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One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate and Stalingrad. "A significant, valuable addition to Grossman's small but powerful body of work" WILLIAM BOYD "A remarkable...

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of...

Author: Andrey Kurkov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 "Both a pleasure and a testament to life in Ukraine, before" Sunday Times "Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European "A Ukrainian...

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Author: Vassily Aksyonov; Translated from the Russian by Michael GlennyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis landmark work of...

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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...

**A Summer 2024 pick in the Times Literary Supplement and the Financial Times ** "Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime...

Condition remarks: Condition: Paperback - good/fair, cover may be worn. May have inscription on fep. When revolution and exile scattered Russia's greatest literary minds across Europe, the result was not...

A gripping new translation by David Bellos of the first novel which appeared in the famous Maigret series, revealing Simenon as a dark, visceral and surprising writer 'What he sought,...

The Queen of Spades is Pushkin's prose masterpiece, a gripping tale of avarice, obsession, madness and cards. This wonderful collection also includes the keenly and sympathetically observed story The Stationmaster...

Edition: First edCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingA voice that refuses to be silenced echoes through the pages of The Impenitent Midge, a witty and irreverent work...

A landmark anthology of extraordinary Russian writers, revealing the full story of the emigre experience in their own words Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the Russian Revolution and subsequent...