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This revised edition has been completely re-set with an updated index and a new preface Isaiah Berlin witnessed the excesses of the Russian Revolution as a child, and in becoming...

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,...

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...

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: 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....

'Notes from Underground establishing Dostoevsky's reputation as the most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Rowan Williams, Guardian FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND...

'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...

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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...

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...

A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020 Alexander Pushkin established what we know as Russian literature....

This is the lost masterpiece of Soviet chess literature. It was written by a double Ukrainian Champion, and published in the Soviet Union in 1956. Russian experts say it is...

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...

The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history The great Russian 20th-century novel...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of one of history's most brutal dictatorships, Isaac Deutscher's Russia After Stalin presents...

The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust. Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge...

A revelatory volume of two of the twentieth century's great poetic innovators, Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, in vibrant new translations by Robert Chandler Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov never...

The book titled Russia Perceived: A Trans-Siberian Journey by the author Elizabeth Pond. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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

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'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...

Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the...

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...

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,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the ancient Slavic tribes of the eastern steppes to the revolutionary upheaval of the twentieth century, A...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels in the Western canon have so relentlessly dissected the human conscience as Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment....

Author: Georgy ButikovBinding: HardbackPublished: Aurora Art Publishers, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.This architectural history details the...

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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...

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...

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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: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good. Few journeys capture the vast, enigmatic soul of a nation quite like a...

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, Through Russia is a...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. In the turbulent social landscape of nineteenth-century Russia, a young man consumed by ambition, illegitimacy, and a desperate...

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...

Author: Peter UstinovBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1983Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsPeter Ustinov's My Russia presents a captivating and often humorous account of his personal connection to Russia, tracing...

Before marrying Igor Stravinsky in 1922 in Paris, the arts patroness Vera Arturovna Sudeikin-Stravinsky (1888-1982) was already known as the "Muse of the Muses" in what had been the bohemian,...

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Who introduced the phrases "banality of evil", "cold war", "economical with the truth" and "back to the future"? Who first declared "The customer is always right"? And who wrote the...