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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary (Vol. 2) by Aleksandr Pushkin
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $94.50The description for this book, Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary, will be forthcoming.About the AuthorVladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian-American writer whose novels in English... -
From Forest to Steppe: The Russian Art of Building in Wood William Craft Brumfield 9781478028246
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $71.30Throughout Russian history, local craftsmen have shown remarkable skill in fashioning wood into items of daily use, from bridges and street paving to carts and boats to household utensils and combs... -
The Little Tragedies by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 9780300080278
Booksplease Price: $57.69In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk... -
Russian Novelists by Salem Press 9781619257276
Booksplease Price: $184.38Russian Novelists is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected by our editors to... -
The Heyday of Sir Walter Scott by Donald Davie 9780415519953
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.84First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth century. Encompassing works... -
The Heyday of Sir Walter Scott by Donald Davie 9780415500418
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $89.59First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth century. Encompassing works... -
Mikhail Sholokhov and His Art by Herman Ermolaev 9780691614595
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $97.63Treating Sholokhov's art and life against the Soviet political background, the author considers the episodes in his life that influenced his writing and then shows how one-sided commitment to party... -
Pushkin and the Genres of Madness: The Masterpieces of 1833 by 9780299182045
Booksplease Price: $55.34In 1833 Alexander Pushkin began to consider the topic of madness, a subject little explored in Russian literature before his time. He brilliantly plumbed both the destructive and creative sides of... -
Commemorating Pushkin: Russia's Myth of a National Poet by Stephanie Sandler
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $123.77Two hundred years after his birth, Alexander Pushkin still issues a dynamic, liberating challenge to Russia's cultural identity. His story has promised national coherence and meant artistic integrity... -
Spanish Peru, 1532-60: A Social History by 9780299141646
Booksplease Price: $44.81Focusing on a number of historical and literary personalities who were regarded with disdain in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution - figures such as Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander... -
Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye 9780300110630
Booksplease Price: $128.06The West has been accused of seeing the East in a hostile and deprecatory light, as the legacy of nineteenth-century European imperialism. In this highly original and controversial book, David... -
Pushkin: A Writer’s Biography by Yuri Lotman 9798887196442
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $43.97This volume presents a chronological biography of Alexander Pushkin, often held to be Russia’s national poet and writer. Lotman pays special attention to the development of Pushkin’s social and... -
Plotting History: The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age by Dan Ungurianu 9780299225001
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $92.63Balanced precariously between fact and fiction, the historical novel is often viewed with suspicion. Some have attacked it as a mongrel form, a ""bastard son"" born of... -
Bronze Horseman by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 9781853995750
Booksplease Price: $54.41This last and most brilliant narrative poem by Russia's greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin, should form an essential part of all courses in Russian literature. It combines praise of Peter the Great and... -
The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires by Serhii Plokhy 9781107022102
RRP: $228.90Booksplease Price: $207.56In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. Entitled The History of the Rus', it became one of the... -
Young, Gifted and Black Too: Meet 52 More Black Icons from Past and Present by Jamia Wilson
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.26In this timely follow-up to the best-selling, genre-defining Young, Gifted and Black, you can meet 52 more Black icons from around the world - this time spanning even more countries and including... -
The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin by Andrew Kahn 9780521843676
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $93.49Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and... -
Tarantas: A Novella by Vladimir Sollogub
Booksplease Price: $45.26In this 19th century Russian social novella, two contrasting characters - one a western-educated intellectual, the other a hidebound country squire - find themselves thrown together on a long cross... -
Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts by Dana Dragunoiu 9780810143999
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88This book shows how ethics and aesthetics interact in the works of one of the most celebrated literary stylists of the twentieth century: the Russian American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. Dana... -
Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet by Elaine Feinstein 9780393323627
RRP: $39.90Booksplease Price: $37.09Although Ted Hughes ended his days as England's beloved poet laureate, his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. He never entirely recovered from the suicide of his wife Sylvia Plath in 1963,... -
The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Kahn
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and... -
Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia: Envy and Authorship in the 1920s by Yelena Zotova 9781793605580
Booksplease Price: $238.16In Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia, Yelena Zotova argues that the Russian Modernist prose of the 1920s underwent a peculiar transformation due to a series of radical shifts in societal values,... -
No Good Without Reward: Selected Writings. a Bilingual Edition by Liubov Krichevskaya
Booksplease Price: $56.03A female contemporary of Alexander Pushkin, Liubov Krichevskaya makes her Anglophone debut in an excellent translation of her fiction, drama, and poetry, which deftly capture women's estate in the... -
The Pushkin Project: Darwin, Diversity, and A Story for Our Time by David Bethea 9798887192024
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $28.62The Pushkin Project tells the story of how a Russian studies professor changes course late in his career by reeducating himself in evolutionary thought and founding a summer institute that partners... -
Pushkin's Historical Imagination by Svetlana Evdokimova 9780300181906
Booksplease Price: $69.32This book explores the historical insights of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia's most celebrated poet and arguably its greatest thinker. Svetlana Evdokimova examines for the first time the full... -
Little Poems by Michael Hennessy
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $19.13Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted... -
The Pushkin Project: Russia's Favorite Writer, Modern Evolutionary Thought, and Teaching Inner-City Youth by David Bethea 9798887192017
RRP: $207.88Booksplease Price: $144.84“Bethea’s book conveys the story of an amazingly ambitious attempt to preserve the humanities while also saving the future of disadvantaged high school students in Chicago. … Highly recommended.”... -
Greetings, Pushkin!: Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard by Jonathan Brooks Platt 9780822964155
RRP: $102.80Booksplease Price: $95.72In 1937, the Soviet Union mounted a national celebration commemorating the centenary of poet Alexander Pushkin's death. Though already a beloved national literary figure, the scale and feverish pitch... -
Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda by Kevin M. F. Platt 9780299215040
Booksplease Price: $48.97Focusing on a number of historical and literary personalities who were regarded with disdain in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution - figures such as Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander... -
Letters of a Russian Dissident: Ivan Pouschine's Siberian Exile Correspondence by Anna Pouschine 9781680531817
Booksplease Price: $190.20The Russian nobleman Ivan Ivanovich Pouschine is most recognized for two achievements: his leadership role in the 1825 Decembrist uprising agains Russia's tsarist government and his set of poignant... -
The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination by Luba Golburt 9780299298142
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Modern Russian literature has two "first" epochs: secular literature's rapid rise in the eighteenth century and Alexander Pushkin's Golden Age in the early nineteenth. In the shadow of the latter,... -
Bronze Horseman by Alexander M. Schenker 9780300212235
Booksplease Price: $83.90This book is the first comprehensive treatment in any language of the most consequential work of art ever to be executed in Russia-the equestrian monument to Peter the Great, or The Bronze Horseman,... -
Russia and the Classics: Poetry's Foreign Muse by Zara Martirosova Torlone 9780715637173
Booksplease Price: $85.66This important study, the first in a new series on "Classical Diaspora", explores the reception of classical antiquity in Russian poetry with a particular focus on the writings of several significant... -
Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia: Biography for the Masses by Carol Ueland 9781793618290
Booksplease Price: $217.16The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series... -
The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin by Andrew Kahn 9780521604710
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $51.66Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and... -
Eugene Onegin And Other Poems by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 9781857157390
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $19.13Pushkin was the first Russian writer of European stature, and he is among the very few artists - such as Homer and Shakespeare - to have shaped the consciousness and history of an entire nation and... -
Spaces of Creativity: Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts by Ksana Blank 9781618115409
Booksplease Price: $158.74In the six essays of this book, Ksana Blank examines affinities among works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and their connections to the visual arts and music. Blank... -
Bottlenecks: Hypotextual Levels of Meaning in Russian Literary Tradition by Evgeny Soshkin 9783631821220
RRP: $114.77Booksplease Price: $103.05Why did Osip Mandelstam picture himself as a victim of anti-Semitic persecution, but at the same time described his victimizers using the grotesque features of Jews from anti-Semitic mythology? What... -
Claude McKay's Liberating Narrative: Russian and Anglophone Caribbean Literary Connections by Tatiana A. Tagirova-Daley 9781433118203
RRP: $129.78Booksplease Price: $115.96Claude McKay's Liberating Narrative: Russian and Anglophone Caribbean Literary Connections examines McKay's search for an original form of literary expression that started in Jamaica and continued in... -
The Wisdom of the Romantics Michael K Kellogg 9781493087112
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $48.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMichael K. Kellogg (Washington, DC), educated at Stanford and Oxford in philosophy and at Harvard Law...