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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 Funeral Party by Ludmila Ulitskaya
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Dazzling . . . [An] engrossing study of a vivacious personality slipping away' THE TIMES'Rich in detail, elusive in meaning, light in touch' MOSCOW TIMESIn a small apartment in New York, in the sweltering mid-summer heat, a group of Russian emigres... -
The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) The International Bestseller by Nino Haratischvili
RRP: £12.99£8.56LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR The bestselling sensation that UK booksellers are calling this generation's War and Peace. Six romances, one... -
Sisters of the Cross by Roger Keys
RRP: £12.99£9.89Thirty-year-old Piotr Alekseevich Marakulin lives a contented, if humdrum life as a financial clerk in a Petersburg trading company. He is jolted out of his daily routine when, quite unexpectedly, he is accused of embezzlement and loses his job. This... -
Odessa Stories by Isaac Babel
RRP: £10.99£7.32Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel - a Jewish man, writing in Russian, born in Odessa - uncover its tough underbelly. Gangsters, prostitutes, beggars, smugglers: no one escapes the pungent, sinewy force of Babel's pen. ... -
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov by Robert Chandler
RRP: £12.99£9.80'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle'In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or... -
Russian Absurd: Selected Writings by Daniil Kharms
RRP: £24.95£20.26A writer who defies categorization, Daniil Kharms has come to be regarded as an essential artist of the modernist avant-garde. His writing, which partakes of performance, narrative, poetry, and visual elements, was largely suppressed during his lifetime,... -
Novels, Tales, Journeys by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: £12.99£9.09Puskin's masterpieces in prose, in sparkling new translations by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic... -
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... -
Your Ad Could Go Here: Stories by Oksana Zabuzhko
RRP: £8.99£6.13Oksana Zabuzhko, author of "the most influential Ukrainian book in the fifteen years since independence," Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex, returns with a gripping short story collection. Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine's leading public intellectual, is called... -
Selected Poetry by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER 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... -
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... -
Plays by Anton Chekhov 9780140447330
RRP: £9.99£7.38Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov's Plays is translated with notes by Peter Carson, and an introduction by Richard Gilman in Penguin Classics.At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by... -
Tales of the Narts: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians by John Colarusso
RRP: £22.00£16.99An exciting collection of mythology about heroes, heroines, villains, and monsters in the intriguing world of the nomad warriors of the CaucasusThe Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. Tales of the Narts expands... -
"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... -
Tales from Russian Folklore by Alexander Afanasyev
RRP: £9.99£7.11Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, following the example of the Brothers Grimm in Germany, Alexander Afanasyev embarked on the ambitious task of sifting through the huge repository of tales from Russian folklore and selecting the very best... -
Sentimental Tales by Mikhail Zoshchenko 9780231183796
RRP: £12.99£9.89Mikhail Zoshchenko's Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, who is anything but a model Soviet author: not only... -
Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev
RRP: £12.99£9.09Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he... -
Yevtushenko: Selected Poems by Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
RRP: £8.99£7.11This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. 'Zima Junction' vividly... -
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... -
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... -
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (riverrun editions): a unique selection of Chekhov's novellas by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £10.99£7.77A young woman struggles to assert herself within a regrettable marriage.A boy learns about life on an epic summer's journey to a new school.A doctor attempts to befriend his most interesting patient.A young man tries to figure out the best way to live... -
Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts by Elizabeth Hulick
RRP: £12.99£9.48Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted banter and biting... -
In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas by Stanislav Aseyev 9780674268791
RRP: £16.95£13.54In 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... -
Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Rilke 9780679642329
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679642329Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)... -
Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love by Volodymyr Rafeyenko
RRP: £16.95£13.54A mondegreen is something that is heard improperly by someone who then clings to that misinterpretation as fact. Fittingly, Volodymyr Rafeyenko's novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love explores the ways that memory and language construct our... -
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 *... -
The Queen of Spades and Selected Works by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: £12.00£8.44The Queen of Spades and Selected Works is a brand new English translation of two of Alexander Pushkin's greatest short stories, 'The Queen of Spades' and 'The Stationmaster', together with the poem 'The Bronze Horseman', extracts from Yevgeny Onegin and... -
The Little Devil and Other Stories by Alexei Remizov 9780231183819
RRP: £13.99£11.10In a dilapidated and isolated old house, something peculiar seems to happen whenever the town's bestial exterminator visits. On a seemingly bucolic country estate, the head of the household is a living corpse obsessed with other corpses. An adolescent... -
The Russian Soul: Selections from a Writer's Diary: 2017 by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £14.99£12.55A new anthology of Dostoevsky's remarkable work 'A Writer's Diary'. A voluminous and variegated miscellany in which the celebrated author spoke to his readers about issues concerning Russia, it is a work as eerily prescient of global preoccupations in... -
Tales of the Narts: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians by John Colarusso 9780691170404
RRP: £45.00£35.07The Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. Tales of the Narts presents a wide selection of fascinating tales preserved as a living tradition among the peoples of Ossetia in southern Russia, a region where ethnic... -
City Folk and Country Folk by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya
RRP: £12.99£11.41An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia's aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites in the 1860s. Translated into English for the first time, the novel... -
Good Citizens Need Not Fear: 'Bright, funny, satirical and relevant' Margaret Atwood (from Twitter) by Maria Reva
RRP: £8.99£6.20'Bright, funny, satirical and relevant. . . . A new talent to watch!' MARGARET ATWOOD (via Twitter)This brilliant and bitingly funny novel-in-stories, set in and around a single crumbling apartment building in Soviet-era Ukraine, heralds the arrival of a... -
Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva
RRP: £14.99£13.45'Bright, funny, satirical and relevant. . . . A new talent to watch!' MARGARET ATWOOD (via Twitter)'Bang-on brilliant' MIRIAM TOEWSThis brilliant and bitingly funny novel-in-stories, set in and around a single crumbling apartment building in Soviet-era... -
A Double Life by Karolina Pavlova
RRP: £12.99£9.89An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures. Pavlova combines rich narrative... -
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374901Author Nikolai LeskovFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman
RRP: £18.95£14.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173282Author Vasily GrossmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Nose and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol 9780231190695
RRP: £14.99£11.59Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol's peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By...