Russian & Former Soviet Union

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376868Author Maxim OsipovFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

The two note-books of the diary of Mme. Dostoevsky, the rough notes of her lengthy Reminiscences, unfinished at the time of her death, all in her own hand-writing, and copies of her husband's letters to her from 1866 to 1881, were found in August 1922...

The 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...

SHORTLISTED 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...

'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...

The sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths preserved among four related peoples whose ancient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486817552Author Leo TolstoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm)...

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm,...

Toward the end of his career as a brilliant novelist, Turgenev turned his pen to the essays that comprise these Literary Reminiscences. Here he discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the...

Apologies 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...

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Klotsvog is a novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War II-and it's a novel about the petty dramas and demons of one strikingly vain woman. Maya Abramovna Klotsvog has had quite a life, and she wants you to know...

Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to Dubrovlag, a Soviet labor camp, smuggling the pages out a few at a time to his wife. His irreverent portrait of Pushkin outraged emigres and Soviet scholars alike, yet his "disrespect" was...

As time has proven, Theory of Prose still remains one of the twentieth century's most significant works of literary theory. It not only anticipates structuralism and poststructuralism, but poses questions about the nature of fiction that are as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513206462Author Anton ChekhovFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

Almost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. His short stories and novels, unpublishable under Stalinism but rediscovered long after his death, have drawn comparisons to the works of Jorge Luis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562382Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Sasha Sokolov is one of few writers to have been praised by Vladimir Nabokov, who called his first novel, A School for Fools, "an enchanting, tragic, and touching book." Sokolov's second novel, Between Dog and Wolf, written in 1980, has long intimidated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916214071Author Ido GrafFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint NielsenPublisher NielsenWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 4mm

Konstantin Batyushkov was one of the great poets of the Golden Age of Russian literature in the early nineteenth century. His verses, famous for their musicality, earned him the admiration of Aleksandr Pushkin and generations of Russian poets to come. In...

Almost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. His short stories and novels, unpublishable under Stalinism but rediscovered long after his death, have drawn comparisons to the works of Jorge Luis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780908480487Author Vasyl SymonenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Thorpe-BowkerPublisher Thorpe-BowkerWeight(grams) 168g

Maria Stepanova is one of the most powerful and distinctive voices of Russia's first post-Soviet literary generation. An award-winning poet and prose writer, she has also founded a major platform for independent journalism. Her verse blends formal...

At the outbreak of the Second World War Vladimir Nabokov stood on the brink of losing everything all over again. The reputation he had built as the pre-eminent Russian novelist in exile was imperilled. In Nabokov and his Books, Duncan White shows how...

Alexander 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...

These bizarre and wildly imaginative pieces, written in Soviet Russia forty years ago, are as vital and disturbing as the best of today's absurdist literature. Almost none of the works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky have been published before...

The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, a novel by Yury Tynyanov, one of the leading figures of the Russian formalist school, describes the final year in the life of Alexander Griboedov, the author of the comedy Woe from Wit. As ambassador to Persia, Griboedov was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173619Author Vasily GrossmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Andrei Bely is best known for the modernist masterwork Petersburg, a paradigmatic example of how modern writers strove to evoke the fragmentation of language, narrative, and consciousness. In the early twentieth century, Bely embarked on his life as an...

Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Age...

In a bucolic idyll, a terrorist agonizes over the act of violence he is about to commit. On a remote island in the South Pacific, the investigation of a case of mass suicide reveals further mysteries. In a far-flung colony, a cynical trio sends an...

A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in "becoming" a dog and howling at the moon. A club of young girls masquerade as...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986436420Author Katherine WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Emotional TroubleshooterPublisher Emotional TroubleshooterWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987463715Author Yuri KazakovFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Vladislav ZhukovPublisher Vladislav ZhukovWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497942899Author Prince KropotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604448283Author Bagrat AyvazyanFormat PaperbackImprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353368739Author Lev N Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy)Format PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498086219Author General Sir Robert WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 599g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950319268Author Maxim D ShrayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint M-Graphics Pub.Publisher M-Graphics Pub.Weight(grams) 133g