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The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aristocracy, he worked as a judicial investigator, served as mayor of Bordeaux, and sought to bring stability...

In 1986 Soviet Ukraine, two boys and two girls are welcomed into the world in a Donetsk maternity ward. Following a Soviet tradition of naming things after prominent Communist leaders from far away, a local party functionary offers great material...

WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020Alexander Pushkin established what we know as Russian literature. This collection includes his strongly personal lyric verse, which springs spontaneously from his everyday life - his numerous loves, his exile, his...

In this collection of dispatches, Stanislav Aseyev attempts to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian propaganda among the residents of the industrial region of Donbas. For the first time, an inside account shows the toll on real human...

A fast-paced whirlwind of fantasy and mockery confined to a single room, The Alchemist offers a witty culmination of Jonson's experiments with city comedy. The play has been widely recognized as one of the most impressive achievements of the period's...

"Everything is always topsy-turvy here," he said.A small town in the Ural mountains is the backdrop to the heartbreak and joys of a Russian-Jewish family, witnessing romance and illness, funerals and friendships, and the catastrophe of wartime invasion...

An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history "Foeldenyi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues throughout this fierce, provoking collection (expertly translated...

In Ukraine, War, Love, Olena Stiazhkina depicts day-to-day developments in and around her beloved hometown Donetsk during Russia’s 2014 invasion and occupation of the Ukrainian city. An award-winning fiction writer, Stiazhkina chronicles an increasingly...

A towering achievement in European literature, Pan Tadeusz is the central work of the Polish literary canon, heralded for its lovingly detailed recreation of a bygone world. The traditions of the Polish gentry and the social and natural landscape of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948830782Author Dubravka UgresicFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open Letter

Rediscover the magic of Russian folktales in a breathtaking illustrated edition. This collection of traditional stories will sweep you away to the birch forests and ornate palaces of Russia. You'll meet a mysterious girl born from the snow, a...

A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910886342Author Zinaida LongortovaFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Hertfordshire PressPublisher Silk Road MediaWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062095886Author Czeslaw MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880100387Author Yvonne HowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Russian Information Services Inc,U.S.Publisher Russian Information Services Inc,U.S...

In this witty "how-to" guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: "I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories," she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she...

The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, legends,...

Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam of Troy, is cursed with the gift of true prophecies that are not believed by anyone. She foretells the city's fall should Paris bring Helen as his wife, as well as the death of several of Troy's heroes and her family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912914319Author Jordi NadalFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Mensch PublishingPublisher Mensch PublishingWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

In Case of Loss gathers the best of Lutz Seiler's non-fiction from last twenty-five years, revealing his essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Seiler's beautifully anecdotal and associative pieces throw fascinating light...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513652511Author Branko MikasinovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Movement PublishingPublisher Movement PublishingWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988447115Author Yuliia IliukhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint 128 LitPublisher 128 LitWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 124mm * 8mm

First published in 1954, East-West Passage is a detailed study of the literary relationship between Russia and the West. Divided into two parts, the book focuses both on specific literary connections, as well as on broader social and political...

Writing years after terrible events which colored her life forever, Anna Stanislawska (1651-1701) meticulously reconstructed in an epic poem the episode of her forced marriage to the deviant son of the Castellan of Krakow. He was deemed to be so ugly...

Hired to write a travel article for a magazine, Ulan-Bator ventures to Mongolia, where he finds a cast of odd and outlandish expatriates, including an ex-Red Army officer turned Buddhist, a French zombie, and an American correspondent for a newspaper...

For Adam Zagajewski-one of Poland's great poets-the project of writing, whether it be poetry or prose, is an occasion to advance what David Wojahn has characterized as his "restless and quizzical quest for self-knowledge." Slight Exaggeration is an...

In Ukraine, War, Love, Olena Stiazhkina depicts day-to-day developments in and around her beloved hometown Donetsk during Russia's 2014 invasion and occupation of the Ukrainian city. An award-winning fiction writer, Stiazhkina chronicles an increasingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307949882Author Alexander PushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

With The Voices of Babyn Yar-a collection of stirring poems by Marianna Kiyanovska-the award-winning Ukrainian poet honors the victims of the Holocaust by writing their stories of horror, death, and survival by projecting their own imagined voices...

An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from post-Communist Hungary, received numerous literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941656280Author Aleksandra M RohdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Dale Street BooksPublisher Dale Street BooksWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800649842Author Muireann MaguireFormat HardbackPage Count 728Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 1197gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513620787Author Branislav Brana CrncevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint Movement PublishingPublisher Movement PublishingWeight(grams)...

Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam of Troy, is cursed with the gift of true prophecies that are not believed by anyone. She foretells the city's fall should Paris bring Helen as his wife, as well as the death of several of Troy's heroes and her family...

In this exceptional collection of dispatches from occupied Donbas, writer and journalist Stanislav Aseyev details the internal and external changes observed in the cities of Makiivka and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Aseyev scrutinizes his immediate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880925551Author Jane BarlowFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Start ClassicsPublisher Start Classics

A Ukrainian journalist ends each day “scorched by another person’s grief.” A schoolgirl in Croatia cherishes her Barbie and learns to dread air raid sirens more than her geometry homework. A poet imagines the spiritual life of a fish who escapes the hook...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362519641Author Edward GarnettPage Count 124Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362990044Author Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinPage Count 106Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362921550Author Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinPage Count 326Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions