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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: $14.18$9.18THE 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: $25.80$11.73Apologies 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)... -
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780268102654
RRP: $39.99$34.02To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to publish Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic work March 1917, Node III, Book 1, of The Red Wheel. The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyn's... -
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RRP: $39.99$36.88Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's March 1917, Book 2, covers three days of the February Revolution when the nation unraveled, leading to the Bolshevik takeover eight months later. The Red Wheel is Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work... -
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780268201708
RRP: $42.57$38.22In 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... -
Crime and Punishment: (OWC Hardback) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: $24.50$18.07'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... -
Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: $11.60$8.32Notes 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... -
Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky
RRP: $16.76$11.04When Rachel Polonsky went to live in Moscow, she found an apartment block in Romanov Street, once a residence of the Soviet elite. One of those ghostly neighbours was Stalin's henchman Vyacheslav Molotov. In his former apartment, Rachel Polonsky... -
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler
RRP: $16.76$11.73From 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 -... -
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry by Robert Chandler
RRP: $16.76$11.73An 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... -
The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature by Viv Groskop
RRP: $14.18$10.02'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... -
Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction Rowan Williams (Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK) 9781441183880
$24.56An 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... -
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
RRP: $16.76$11.73Alexander 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... -
Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time by Joseph Frank 9780691155999
RRP: $38.70$31.33Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been... -
A Week Like any Other by Natalia Baranskaia 9781853993398 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.66$6.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853993398Author Natalia BaranskaiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC -
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi 9781472964694
RRP: $25.80$18.43'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... -
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Catriona Kelly
RRP: $11.60$8.32This 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... -
"I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms by Daniil Kharms
RRP: $32.24$31.18In 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... -
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $14.18$10.02Few, 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... -
Disbelief: 100 Russian Anti-War Poems by Julia Nemirovskaya 9781739772277
RRP: $12.89$9.02Apologies 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 -
Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
RRP: $16.76$11.04BBC 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... -
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter by Gary Saul Morson 9780674971806
RRP: $41.22$32.47A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed... -
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 9780300060997
RRP: $21.93$21.52Gogol'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... -
Forty Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
RRP: $16.76$11.09Apologies 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 *... -
Chekhov: The Essential Plays by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $18.05$12.26Apologies 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... -
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 9780198800545
RRP: $24.50$18.85I 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... -
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 9781857151886
RRP: $20.63$14.98An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. It tells of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his marriage, and his passions for... -
Bakhtin and his Others: (Inter)subjectivity, Chronotope, Dialogism by Liisa Steinby 9781783083312
RRP: $32.25$30.68'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: $32.25$25.27From 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: $14.18$9.44In 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: $20.63$14.10Apologies 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 -
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham
RRP: $32.25$21.32From 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... -
Tolstoy Together: Reading War and Peace with Yiyun Li by Yiyun Li
RRP: $20.63$14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Windham-Campbell Prize 2020 (United States) and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2020 (United States) and Whiting Literary Magazine Prize 2018 and Whiting Award 2006... -
Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
RRP: $12.89$9.40'The people are silent' So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with... -
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman 9781783784516
RRP: $12.89$8.64'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... -
Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
$16.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027762Author Vladimir NabokovFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
History of Russia: A Captivating Guide to Russian History, Ivan the Terrible, The Russian Revolution and Cambridge Five by Captivating History 9781950922130
RRP: $25.76$18.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922130Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Collected Tales Of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol
RRP: $16.76$11.04Collected 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' -... -
Mesopotamia by Serhiy Zhadan
RRP: $16.76$14.78A unique work of fiction from the troubled streets of Ukraine, giving invaluable testimony to the new history unfolding in the nation's post-independence years "Serhiy Zhadan is one of the most important creators of European culture at work today. His... -
What Is to Be Done? by N.G. Chernyshevskii
RRP: $30.95$27.40No 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...