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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
RRP: £10.99£7.12THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK OF 2021 'A masterclass from a warm and engagingly... -
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders
RRP: £20.00£9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984856036Author George SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler
RRP: £12.99£9.09From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature -... -
Crime and Punishment: (OWC Hardback) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £18.99£14.01'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!' A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old... -
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham
RRP: £25.00£16.53From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and PunishmentIn the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in... -
Chekhov: The Essential Plays by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £13.99£9.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761348Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry by Robert Chandler
RRP: £12.99£9.09An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was... -
Nikolai Gogol by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: £9.99£7.11Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of... -
Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva 9780140187595
RRP: £18.00£12.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140187595Author Marina TsvetaevaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
Pro Eto: That'S What by Vladimir Mayakovsky
RRP: £10.99£7.64Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man (he often employed the rough talk of the streets and revolutionary rhetoric in his poetry) as to other poets (his... -
Disbelief: 100 Russian Anti-War Poems by Julia Nemirovskaya 9781739772277
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739772277Author Julia NemirovskayaFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin 9780140441192
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Queen of Spades and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction showcasing Alexander Pushkin's application of Romantic sensibilities to uncompromising studies of human frailty. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by... -
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £10.99£7.77Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In... -
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 9780300060997
RRP: £17.00£16.68Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by... -
Tolstoy as Philosopher: Essential Short Writings (1835-1910): An Anthology by Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 9781644694022
RRP: £24.99£18.80The Society for Textual Scholarship Richard J. Finneran Award, Honorable Mention, 2023. For the best edition or book about editorial theory and/or practice published in the English language during 2021-2022.Beginning with Tolstoy's first extant records... -
Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £8.99£6.45Notes from the Underground (1864) is one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature. A probing, speculative book, often regarded as a forerunner of the Existentialist movement, it examines the important political and philosophical... -
The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature by Viv Groskop
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived' Allison Pearson, Sunday TelegraphWhat should I do with my life? What if my love is not returned? Why do bad things happen? The answers... -
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Catriona Kelly
RRP: £8.99£6.45This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional... -
Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction by Dr. Rowan Williams
£19.04An extraordinary book, which enables us to consider the nature of God in the 21st Century through the lens of Dostoevsky's novels. The current rash of books hostile to religious faith will one day be an interesting subject for some sociological analysis... -
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi 9781472964694
RRP: £20.00£14.29'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich... -
"I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms by Daniil Kharms
RRP: £24.99£23.69In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-1942), one of the founders of Russia's "lost literature of the absurd," wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the... -
Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
RRP: £12.99£8.56BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Wonderfully idiosyncratic, coolly heartfelt and memorable' William Boyd'One of the great writers of early 20th Century Russia' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A remarkable memoir . . . both potent and endearing' Erica Wagner, New... -
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780268201708
RRP: £38.00£30.87In March 1917, Book 3 the forces of revolutionary disintegration spread out from Petrograd all the way to the front lines of World War I, presaging Russia's collapse. One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize-winner... -
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 9780198800545
RRP: £18.99£14.61I don't understand it; I don't in the least understand why men can't live without wars. How is it that we women don't want anything of the kind, don't need it? Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during... -
Bakhtin and his Others: (Inter)subjectivity, Chronotope, Dialogism by Liisa Steinby 9781783083312
RRP: £25.00£23.30'Bakhtin and his Others' aims to develop an understanding of Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas through a contextual approach, particularly with a focus on Bakhtin studies from the 1990s onward. The volume offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin's ideas on... -
Lectures on Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank 9780691178967
RRP: £25.00£19.18From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major worksJoseph Frank (1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer,... -
Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey by Janet Malcolm
RRP: £10.99£7.32In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and framed by an account of a recent journey she made to St... -
Short Stories In Russian: New Penguin Parallel Text by Brian James Baer
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118343Author Brian James BaerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Forty Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679733751Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
RRP: £12.99£9.09Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully... -
Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense by Robert M. Alter
RRP: £16.99£12.75From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human conditionAdmirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver... -
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman 9781783784516
RRP: £9.99£6.70'The funniest book I've read in a long time: its deadpan, dry humour and its accumulation of absurdities will leave you rolling on your floor with laughter' The Times She thought she was a lover of the great classics of Russian literature - until she... -
Invitation to a Beheading: A Critical Companion by Julian W. Connolly 9780810112711
RRP: £22.95£18.72Julian W. Connolly's companion to Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading includes a general introduction discussing the work in the context of Nabokov's oeuvre as well as its place within the Russian literary tradition. Also included are primary... -
The Collected Tales Of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol
RRP: £12.99£8.56Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - from the demon-haunted 'St John's Eve' to the strange surrealism of 'The Nose', from the heart-rending trials of the copyist in 'The Overcoat' to those of the delusional clerk in 'The Diary of a Madman' -... -
Earthly Signs by Jamey Gambrell
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371627Author Jamey GambrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
What Is to Be Done? by N.G. Chernyshevskii
RRP: £26.99£23.25No work in modern literature, with the possible exception of Uncle Tom's Cabin, can compete with What Is to Be Done? in its effect on human lives and its power to make history. For Chernyshevsky's novel, far more than Marx's Capital, supplied the... -
The Five: A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa by Vladimir Jabotinsky
RRP: £22.99£19.60"The beginning of this tale of bygone days in Odessa dates to the dawn of the twentieth century. At that time we used to refer to the first years of this period as the 'springtime,' meaning a social and political awakening. For my generation, these years... -
Russian Poets by Peter Washington 9781841597805
RRP: £10.99£7.77Ever since Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry of a comprehensiveness and intensity unmatched elsewhere. Ranging in extremes from the melting tenderness of unrequited love to... -
The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader by Brown Clarence
RRP: £26.00£15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437575Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 129mm *... -
Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Others by Angela Brintlinger 9781350242142
RRP: £12.99£11.41For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, yes, even crime and punishment; readers across the globe have found in Russian writing a substantial measure of...