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The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) The International Bestseller by Nino Haratischvili
RRP: $27.28$17.98LONGLISTED 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... -
The Funeral Party Ludmila Ulitskaya 9781474602051
RRP: $20.98$14.28'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... -
Sisters of the Cross by Roger Keys
RRP: $27.28$21.32Thirty-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... -
Russian Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners: Engaging Short Stories to Learn Russian and Build Your Vocabulary by Language Guru 9781950321223
RRP: $14.68$12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950321223Author Language GuruFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Language GuruPublisher Language GuruWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm -
Crime and Punishment: (OWC Hardback) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: $39.88$29.42'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... -
Odessa Stories by Isaac Babel
RRP: $23.08$15.37Odessa 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. ... -
Novels, Tales, Journeys Alexander Pushkin 9780241290378
RRP: $27.28$19.09Puskin'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... -
Plays by Anton Chekhov 9780140447330
RRP: $20.98$14.85Five 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... -
Your Ad Could Go Here: Stories by Oksana Zabuzhko
RRP: $18.88$12.87Oksana 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... -
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
RRP: $27.28$19.09Alexander 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... -
Selected Poetry by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: $27.28$19.09WINNER 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... -
Forty Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies 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 from Russian Folklore by Alexander Afanasyev
RRP: $20.98$14.07Towards 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... -
"I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms by Daniil Kharms
RRP: $52.48$50.76In 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... -
Sentimental Tales by Mikhail Zoshchenko 9780231183796
RRP: $27.28$21.32Mikhail 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: $27.28$19.09Turgenev'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... -
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 9780198800545
RRP: $39.88$30.68I 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: $33.58$22.95Apologies 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 -
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $23.08$16.32Few, 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... -
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (riverrun editions): a unique selection of Chekhov's novellas Anton Chekhov 9781787475946
RRP: $27.28$18.06A 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: $27.28$19.01Alexander 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... -
Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary Olena Stiazhkina 9780674291706
RRP: $35.60$29.09In 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... -
Tolstoy Together: Reading War and Peace with Yiyun Li by Yiyun Li
RRP: $33.58$23.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Windham-Campbell Prize 2020 (United States) and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2020 (United States) and Whiting Literary Magazine Prize 2018 and Whiting Award 2006... -
The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader by Brown Clarence
RRP: $42.88$32.63Apologies 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 *... -
Good Citizens Need Not Fear: 'Bright, funny, satirical and relevant' Margaret Atwood (from Twitter) by Maria Reva
RRP: $18.88$13.02'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... -
The Little Devil and Other Stories by Alexei Remizov 9780231183819
RRP: $29.38$21.23In 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: $31.48$26.36A 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... -
Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary Olena Stiazhkina 9780674291690
RRP: $71.30$57.56In 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... -
City Folk and Country Folk by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya
RRP: $27.28$21.17An 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... -
Yevtushenko: Selected Poems by Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
RRP: $18.88$14.93This 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... -
In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas by Stanislav Aseyev 9780674268791
RRP: $35.60$29.09In 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... -
Tales of the Narts: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians by John Colarusso
RRP: $52.50$41.14An 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... -
A Double Life by Karolina Pavlova
RRP: $27.28$21.32An 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... -
Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke 9780679642329
RRP: $29.38$19.32Apologies 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)... -
Cassandra: A Dramatic Poem Lesia Ukrainka 9780674291775
RRP: $52.40$43.81Cassandra, 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... -
Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva
RRP: $31.48$28.25'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... -
Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love by Volodymyr Rafeyenko
RRP: $35.60$29.09A 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... -
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies 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: $39.80$21.48Apologies 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: $31.48$21.25Nikolai 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...