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Ivanov by Anton Chekhov 9780802144089
RRP: £12.99£11.01Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theater, and this was as true of Ivanov, his first full-length play, as of The Cherry Orchard, his last. Building on the success of his acclaimed adaptation of The Seagull, Tom Stoppard returns... -
Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature by Robert Louis Jackson 9781936235568
RRP: £91.99£88.13Essays on Russian Literature: Moral-Philosophical Configurations combines discussions of ethical, esthetic and philosophical interest raised, by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Gorky, with close analyses of their texts. This book... -
Wozzeck by Yuri Izdryk 9781894865074
RRP: £23.99£19.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894865074Author Yuri IzdrykFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesPublisher Canadian Institute of Ukrainian... -
Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature by Robert Louis Jackson 9781618118110
RRP: £31.99£30.93Drawing on the prose, poetry, and criticism of a broad range of Russian writers and critics, including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bakhtin, Gorky, Nabokov, and Solzhenitsyn, Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature explores... -
Russian Silver Age Poetry: Texts and Contexts by Sibelan E. S. Forrester 9781618113528
RRP: £105.99£101.86Russian 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... -
A Double Life by Karolina Pavlova 9780231190787
RRP: £25.00£19.59An 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... -
Sisters of the Cross by Roger Keys 9780231185424
RRP: £28.00£21.80Thirty-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... -
Klotsvog by Margarita Khemlin 9780231182362
RRP: £25.00£19.59Klotsvog 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... -
The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar by Anna Kurkina Rush 9780231193863
RRP: £35.00£29.86The 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... -
Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview by Linor Goralik 9780231183505
RRP: £28.00£21.80One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal, including... -
Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader, Book 2 - Thaw and Stagnation (1954 - 1986) by Mark Lipovetsky 9781618114327
RRP: £98.99£95.30The second volume of Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature: A Reader treats the literature of the Thaw and Stagnation periods (1954-1986). It includes translations of poetry and prose as well as scholarly texts that provide additional material for... -
Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader, Book 2 - Thaw and Stagnation (1954 - 1986) by Mark Lipovetsky 9781618114341
RRP: £27.99£27.61The second volume of Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature: A Reader treats the literature of the Thaw and Stagnation periods (1954-1986). It includes translations of poetry and prose as well as scholarly texts that provide additional material for... -
The Witching Hour and Other Plays by Nina Sadur 9781618113986
RRP: £77.99£74.60The playwright Nina Sadur occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/Russian drama pantheon of the 1980s and 1990s, a group that has with few exceptions been generally ignored by the Western literary establishment. The plays included in this volume offer... -
Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader, Book 1 - Perestroika and the Post-Soviet Period by Mark Lipovetsky 9781618113832
RRP: £22.99£22.35Late- and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader is an introduction to the most important works of Russian literature of the last fifty years. Organized both chronologically and thematically, it is a structured presentation of significant cultural... -
Strolls with Pushkin by Andrei Sinyavsky 9780231180801
RRP: £35.00£27.74Andrei 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... -
To the Stars and Other Stories by Susanne Fusso 9780231200042
RRP: £35.00£27.74A 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... -
Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love by Volodymyr Rafeyenko 9780674275577
RRP: £33.95£27.41A 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 Symphonies by Jonathan Stone 9780231199087
RRP: £35.00£27.74Andrei 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... -
The Voice Over: Poems and Essays Maria Stepanova 9780231196161
RRP: £35.00£32.13Maria 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... -
Fandango and Other Stories by Bryan Karetnyk 9780231189767
RRP: £35.00£27.74In 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... -
Dostoevsky 1821-1881 by Edward Hallett Carr 9781138803350
RRP: £43.99£38.44The bare events of Dostoevsky's life - his father murdered by peasants, his own ordeal before a firing squad, then exile in Siberia, his epilepsy, gambling, poverty and debts - go far to account for his strange intensity of vision. This biography, first... -
Reflecting on Anna Karenina by Mary Evans 9781138780514
£111.61Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is considered by many to be one of the greatest novels ever written. This study of its morally ambiguous protagonist, Anna, discusses Tolstoy's troubled relation to the feminine in terms of the fantasies, hopes, and fears that she... -
Translating Music by Richard Pevear 9780955296314
RRP: £14.00£9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955296314Author Richard PevearFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph EditionsWeight(grams) 126g -
Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader, Book 1 - Perestroika and the Post-Soviet Period by Mark Lipovetsky 9781936235407
RRP: £91.99£76.75Late- and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader is an introduction to the most important works of Russian literature of the last fifty years. Organised both chronologically and thematically, it is a structured presentation of significant cultural... -
Where Currents Meet: Frontiers of Memory in Post-Soviet Fiction of Kharkiv, Ukraine by Tanya Zaharchenko 9789633861202
RRP: £20.95£19.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789633861202Author Tanya ZaharchenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Central European University PressPublisher Central European University Press -
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 9780393427950
£8.52"Mesmerizingly good ... the best, truest translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece into English. It's a magnificent, almost terrifying achievement of translation, one that makes its predecessors, however worthy, seem safe and polite."-STEVE DONAGHUE, Open... -
Selected Prose and Poetry by Kuzmin 9781468301526
£22.33Presented in this essential collection are the novelWings; the play The Venetian Madcaps; thirteen short stories; and two major poetic cycles, including the acclaimed The Trout Breaks the Ice. This anthology exhibits the high level of craftsmanship for... -
The Igor Tale: An Annotated Bibliography of 20th Century Non-Soviet Scholarship on the Slovo O Polku Igoreve by Henry R. Cooper, Jr.
RRP: £32.99£29.16The great Slavic medieval epic, The Igor Tale, recounts the story of a Russian prince who leads his men into battle against the Mongols. In 1935, Soviet scholar P.N. Berkov began to compile a bibliography of Western European translations of the poem,... -
Mongolian Etudes: To the Ends of an Empire: A Remarkable Story Told in Letters, Poems and Prose by Vladimir Azarov
RRP: £14.95£8.71A wonderful look at Soviet-era life as witnessed from the edge of the empire, this book is comprised of letters, poems, and prose pieces that together create a narrative. Through an entirely original form, Vladimir Azarov, who trained to be an architect... -
The Igor Tale: An Annotated Bibliography of 20th Century Non-Soviet Scholarship on the Slovo O Polku Igoreve by Henry R. Cooper
RRP: £110.00£95.11The great Slavic medieval epic, The Igor Tale, recounts the story of a Russian prince who leads his men into battle against the Mongols. In 1935, Soviet scholar P.N. Berkov began to compile a bibliography of Western European translations of the poem,... -
Where Currents Meet: Post-Soviet Fiction of Kharkiv, Ukraine by Tanya Zaharchenko
RRP: £56.00£51.28Where Currents Meet treats the Ukrainian and Russian components of cultural experience in Ukraine's East as elements of a complex continuum. This study of cultural memory in post-Soviet society shows how its inhabitants negotiate the historical legacy... -
Illegible: A Novel by Sergey Gandlevsky
RRP: £19.99£17.54Sergey Gandlevsky's 2002 novel Illegible has a double time focus, centering on the immediate experiences of Lev Krivorotov, a twenty-year-old poet living in Moscow in the 1970s, as well as his retrospective meditations thirty years later after most of... -
Reflecting on Anna Karenina by Mary Evans
RRP: £37.99£33.38Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is considered by many to be one of the greatest novels ever written. This study of its morally ambiguous protagonist, Anna, discusses Tolstoy's troubled relation to the feminine in terms of the fantasies, hopes, and fears that she... -
"I am a phenomenon quite out of the ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms by Anthony Anemone
RRP: £105.99£88.72In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms, (1905-42), 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 first... -
Between Dog and Wolf by Sasha Sokolov
RRP: £28.00£21.80Sasha 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... -
21: Russian Short Prose from an Odd Century by Mark Lipovetsky
RRP: £91.99£76.75This collection of Russian short stories from the 21st century includes works by famous writers and young talents alike, representing a diversity of generational, gender, ethnic and national identities. Their authors live not only in Russia, but also in... -
Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview by Linor Goralik
RRP: £12.99£10.15One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal, including... -
The Nose and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
RRP: £35.00£27.74Nikolai 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... -
Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry Konstantin Batyushkov 9780231185400
RRP: £30.00£27.39Konstantin 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... -
The Little Devil and Other Stories by Alexei Remizov
RRP: £35.00£27.74In 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...