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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...

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...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I...

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...

The book titled Enchanted Wanderer by the author N.S. Leskov. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew writers captured the soul of nineteenth-century Russia with the raw, vivid intensity of Nikolai Leskov, and The Enchanted Wanderer...

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,...

1983, Moscow. Twenty-one-year-old Ella dreams of stardom and playing Natasha Rostova in War and Peace at the Moscow Theatre Academy. One day when meeting her friend Vlad in the city,...

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...

Laure, seventeen, beautiful and already abandoned twice in her young life. Once by the glamorous mother she can barely remember, a woman who brought shame on the St Lazare family...

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, A Hero of Our...

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...

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...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: Minor tear to edge of DJ.Few writers of the twentieth century have provoked such fierce...

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...

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: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. The dust jacket shows some wear and fading consistent with age, but the...

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:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerMikhail Lermontov — poet, soldier, and brooding genius of Russian Romanticism — burned through life...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of literary biography, VN: The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov chronicles the extraordinary existence of one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew events in modern history have so profoundly reshaped the world as the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and in The Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution,...

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: Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - yellowed/tanned card cover with wear and marks. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning throughout. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding: Intact paperback binding....

Author: Victor Shklovsky; Olga Shartse (trans.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Progress Publishers, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsVictor Shklovsky's Lev Tolstoy presents a compelling and unconventional examination of the iconic Russian...

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...

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...

Author: Andrew FieldBinding: HardbackPublished: Crown Publishers, New York, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Mild staining on book block.This compelling biography, Vn: The Life And Art Of...

Author: John NicholsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian Scholarly Publishing., 2009Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, A Long Road Home: The Life And Times Of Grisha Sklovsky, chronicles the...

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...

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...

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...

This is the first book to deal with the work of three important Soivet theatre directors - Alexander Tairov, Evgeni Vakhtangov and Nikolai OkHlopkov - who, although familiar names in...