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Earthly Signs by Jamey Gambrell
RRP: $21.92$15.84Apologies 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,... -
Russian Poets Peter Washington 9781841597805
RRP: $14.18$10.02Ever 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: $26.34$20.05Apologies 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 *... -
Pro Eto: That'S What by Vladimir Mayakovsky
RRP: $14.18$9.86Vladimir 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... -
The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev, Voloshinov by M. M. Bakhtin 9780340592670
$49.20Incessantly cited by critics, Bakhtin's work nonetheless remains relatively unavailable: partly through lack of suitable editions, partly because no individual text conveys all the key concepts or arguments. This anthology provides in a convenient format... -
Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Others by Angela Brintlinger 9781350242142
RRP: $16.76$14.96For 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... -
The Land Beyond The Forest: Facts, Figures, And Fancies From Transylvania by Emily Gerard 9789353361303
RRP: $24.51$21.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353361303Author Emily GerardFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 21mm -
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics by Mikhail Bakhtin 9780816612284
RRP: $23.21$21.03This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky's studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle."Bakhtin's... -
The Five: A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa by Vladimir Jabotinsky
RRP: $27.08$23.70"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... -
In Search of Russian Modernism by Leonid Livak 9781421426419
RRP: $61.28$54.66A critical reexamination of Russian modernist cultural historiography.Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures by the Modern Language AssociationThe writing and teaching of Russian literary and... -
Wagner and Russia by Rosamund Bartlett 9780521035828
RRP: $56.75$49.20Wagner is often held to have exerted a greater impact on modern culture than any other artist, yet the history of the reception of his works in Russia has remained largely unexplored. This book, which draws extensively on unpublished archival materials... -
Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva 9780140187595
RRP: $23.22$15.83Apologies 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... -
The Enigma of Gogol: An Examination of the Writings of N. V. Gogol and their Place in the Russian Literary Tradition by Richard Peace 9780521110235
RRP: $49.01$41.64Gogol's place in Russian literature is unique. He is Russia's classic comic writer, yet the phrase 'laughter through tears', which has been applied to him, hints at darker and more tragic overtones. One of the most idiosyncratic of writers, his influence... -
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780268102661
RRP: $29.66$26.33To 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... -
Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense by Robert M. Alter
RRP: $21.92$15.58From 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... -
Dictator Literature: A History of Bad Books by Terrible People by Daniel Kalder
RRP: $14.18$10.02A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times 'The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi's Book of the Soul (once required reading for driving tests in... -
The Voronezh Notebooks by Osip Mandelstam
RRP: $15.47$10.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179109Author Andrew DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 110gDimensions(mm)... -
Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange by Helen Palmer
RRP: $33.53$32.48Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation, or making-strange, from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory. She explores how we... -
A Reader's Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita by J.A.E. Curtis 9781644690789
RRP: $28.37$23.18Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes and moments of great beauty. Readers are often left tantalized but uncertain how to understand its rich... -
Ada to Zembla: The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov by David Vernon 9781739136109
$23.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739136109Author David VernonFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Endellion PressPublisher Endellion PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine by Oksana Maksymchuk
RRP: $21.92$16.89The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war,... -
Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva
RRP: $15.48$10.89During the Stalin years Russia had four great poets to voice the feelings of her oppressed people: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetayeva. The first two survived the terror, but Mandelstam died in a camp and Tsvetayeva was driven to hang... -
Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter by Oliver Smith 9781618118264
RRP: $41.27$39.90While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev's place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book... -
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi
RRP: $14.18$10.81'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... -
The Frontier: 28 Contemporary Ukrainian Poets - An Anthology by Anatoly Kudryavitsky 9781911414483
RRP: $30.95$25.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911414483Author Anatoly KudryavitskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Glagoslav Publications LtdPublisher Glagoslav Publications Ltd -
The Last Poet of the Village: Selected Poems by Sergei Yesenin Translated by Anton Yakovlev by Sergei Yesenin 9780996157087
RRP: $20.58$13.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996157087Author Sergei YeseninFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Sensitive Skin BooksPublisher Sensitive Skin BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)... -
Leo Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction by Liza Knapp 9780198813934
RRP: $11.60$8.32War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as the father of the modern war story; as an innovator in psychological prose and forerunner of stream of... -
Selected Poems: Peter France by Aleksandr Blok
RRP: $12.84$10.69Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived thought his country's savage wars and radical traumas, trying to welcome the new order. But there was no space in it for his kind of imagination. His poem "The Twelve" has claims to being the first great poem of the... -
Handbook of Russian Literature by Victor Terras 9780300048681
$72.06This first encyclopedia of its kind in English covers ten centuries of Russian literature and includes nearly 1,000 entries by leading scholars. It will be an indispensable guide for students or the general reader. "The Handbook is an Eden for... -
Brodsky Among Us: A Memoir by Ellendea Proffer Teasley 9781618115782
RRP: $100.61$96.23A searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he made his way in the new world, and how, during the cold war, Americans... -
Queen of Spades by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 9781853993138
RRP: $29.66$29.48Pikovaia dama (The Queen of Spades) has continued to fascinate readers since its first publication in 1834, and has been successfully adapted to both operatic stage and screen. The most generally admired of Pushkin's stories, it has earned a high place... -
Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale by Andreas Johns 9780820467696
RRP: $36.25$31.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820467696Author Andreas JohnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 510g -
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov 9780691167947
RRP: $25.80$20.50Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time--and placed in biographical and literary context On October 14th, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote... -
Lectures on Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank
RRP: $23.21$18.55From 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,... -
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives by Robert Guay 9780190464028
RRP: $33.53$28.37The gruesome double-murder upon which the novel Crime and Punishment hinges leads its culprit, Raskolnikov, into emotional trauma and obsessive, destructive self-reflection. But Raskolnikov's famous philosophical musings are just part of the full... -
Russian Emigre Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky by Bryan Karetnyk
RRP: $16.76$11.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE GLOBAL READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2018Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the 1917 revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere. In exile, they... -
Reading for Life by Philip Davis 9780198815983
RRP: $43.85$33.36Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully reading, discussing their reading lives, and thinking about the relation of literature to their existence. It... -
Dostoevsky by John Jones 9780198126454
RRP: $177.38$146.18In this passionate and tender book, John Jones discusses the narrative techniques and linguistic subtleties of the novels of Dostoevsky.Book InformationISBN 9780198126454Author John JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Oxford University... -
Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973 by Slav N. Gratchev
RRP: $23.21$19.43Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for... -
The Russian Master and other Stories by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $12.89$9.17These stories are translated with an Introduction by Ronald Hingley. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's...