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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...

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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,...

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...

'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...

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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: 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: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...

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....

'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 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:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWritten in secret while its author served on the front lines of the Second World War, Prussian Nights...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...

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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...

My Life in Christ has been read by millions, making it one of the most beloved modern works of Orthodox Christian spirituality. In this new edition, the English translation has...

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....

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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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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...

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...

Author: Andrey Kurkov Format: Hardback 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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