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One of the most important literary biographies of recent times, this is not only the story of one of the century's greatest writers, but the history of Russia itself. A...

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,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record, edited by Leopold...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the suffocating grip of Soviet bureaucracy, a group of dedicated teachers and students...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the iron curtain, a literary giant waged a silent war against the most powerful state apparatus in the world — and the Kremlin kept...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the gulag to the Russian countryside, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Stories and Prose Poems presents a searing and intimate...

This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of...

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This brutal glimpse of Russia under Stalin shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the Iron Curtain, where literature was both weapon and contraband, one woman found herself at the centre of one...

Condition remarks: Condition: New in original shrink wrap. Jacket: New. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. A rigorous work of political philosophy, Solzhenitsyn's Political Thought presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA powerful work of dramatic literature by Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Candle...

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: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsAlexander Solzhenitsyn’s Lenin In Zürich: Chapters reconstructs a pivotal period in Vladimir Lenin’s life, offering a biographical account of his...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Ex-library book with usual markings. Binding: Intact. Written by Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Candle in the Wind...

At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that he had encountered death itself. These seven compelling stories explore, in...

'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...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis historical novel, Lenin In Zürich, reconstructs a pivotal period in Vladimir Lenin's life, offering a compelling portrait of the...

The acclaimed new translation of Tolstoy's masterpiece, for the first time in Black Classics after the successful hardback and Red Classics editions - 10,000+ hbks and by time of BC...

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...

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...

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...

A new translation of Dostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Dostoyevsky set out to create a protagonist with \"a truly beautiful soul\"...

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....

Pushkin's masterpieces in prose, translated by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories,...

Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she...

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,...

READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITY A stunning new translation of Homer's great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss...

The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann The subject of this book is the life of the former cement-worker and haulier Franz Biberkopf...

'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...

The best available English translation.... [It] compels intelligent readers to come to grips with what Plato actually wrote.' , American Political Science Review

This indispensable translation is as close to the original as it is possible to get while at the same time being a clear and fluid translation 'If you've never read...

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Only edition in print First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcil able relationships. At the...

In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorky's Reminiscences of Tolstoy and it was recognized almost immediately as one of the few masterpieces of modern biography. 'It...

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...

Peter Carson's new translation of Turgenev's vivid and honest tale of generational conflict When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond...

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