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Lyric Complicity: Poetry and Readers in the Golden Age of Russian Literature by Daria Khitrova 9780299322106
Booksplease Price: $142.08For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life-in conversation and correspondence, scrapbook albums, and parlor entertainments. Blending close literary analysis with social... -
The European Byron: Mobility, Cosmopolitanism, and Chameleon Poetry Jonathan Gross 9781839991424
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.48Byron concealed himself in various literary disguises, a process he called "mobility." In this study of influences on Byron's verse and Byron's European impact, I explore these borrowings and... -
Money: Lure, Lore, and Literature by John Louis DiGaetani 9780313292194
Booksplease Price: $149.78Joining two seemingly irreconcilable opposites, money and art, this edited collection analyzes the treatment of money in various forms of literature. The volume begins with chapters analyzing money... -
The Pilgrim Princess: A Life of Princess Volkonsky by Maria Fairweather 9781841192413
Booksplease Price: $40.37This biography brings to life, through its subject's vibrant personality, a romantic period of enduring fascination. Princess Zinaida Volkonsky was a member of one of Russia's oldest families, became... -
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov by Robert Chandler
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.18'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... -
Lyric Complicity: Poetry and Readers in the Golden Age of Russian Literature by Daria Khitrova
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life-in conversation and correspondence, scrapbook albums, and parlor entertainments. Blending close literary analysis with social... -
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.62From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan... -
Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.91'The people are silent' So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain... -
Battle of Kosovo by John Matthias 9780804008976
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.03The Battle of Kosovo cycle of heroic ballads is generally considered the finest work of Serbian folk poetry. Commemorating the Serbian Empire's defeat at the hands of the Turks in the late fourteenth... -
Pushkin's Monument and Allusion: Poem, Statue, Performance by Sidney Eric Dement 9781487505523
RRP: $103.35Booksplease Price: $86.01In August 1836, Alexander Pushkin wrote a poem now popularly known simply as "Monument." In the decades following his death in January 1837, the poem "Monument" was transformed into a statue in... -
The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Savory Food of the Republic of Georgia by Darra Goldstein 9780520300262
RRP: $44.85Booksplease Price: $36.64"Every Georgian dish is a poem."-Alexander Pushkin According to Georgian legend, God took a supper break while creating the world. He became so involved with his meal that he inadvertently tripped... -
Tsvetaeva's Orphic Journeys in the Worlds of the Word by Olga Peters Hasty 9780810143210
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Tsvetaeva's Orphic Journeys in the Worlds of the World explores the rich theme of the myth of Orpheus as master narrative for poetic inspiration and creative survival in the life and work of Marina... -
The Wrong Turning: Encounters with Ghosts by Stephen Johnson
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.70Why do people love ghost stories, even if they don't believe (or say they don't believe) in ghosts? Is it simply the adrenaline rush that comes from being mesmerized and terrified by a great... -
Vladimir Nabokov in Context by David M. Bethea 9781107519596
Booksplease Price: $48.05Vladimir Nabokov, bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces, is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of Nabokov as a sole genius who worked in... -
An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New by Werner Sollors 9780814781432
Booksplease Price: $178.17A white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A slave mother kills her child by a rapist-master. A white-looking person of partly African ancestry... -
All the World on a Page: A Critical Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry by Andrew Kahn 9780691207162
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.36The rich and ongoing development of Russian lyric poetry, explored through close readings of thirty-four poems by poets ranging from Alexander Blok to Maria StepanovaThe Russian cultural tradition... -
That Third Guy: A Comedy from the Stalinist 1930s with Essays on Theater by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Booksplease Price: $128.51This collection of theater writings by the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky brings his powerful, wildly imaginative vision of theater to an English-language audience for the first time. The... -
Raven Child and the Snow-Witch by Linda Sunderland
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.82Anya lives with her mother and father in the shadow of the icy glacier where the Snow-Witch reigns. Every spring, Anya's mother journeys to the glacier to pick the blue gentian flowers that grow... -
That Mad Ache: A Novel by Francoise Sagan 9780465010981
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.30That Mad Ache , set in high-society Paris in the mid-1960's, recounts the emotional battle unleashed in the heart of Lucile, a sensitive but rootless young woman who finds herself caught between her... -
Talking to the Dead by Elaine Feinstein 9781857549027
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.80Opening with a death in winter, this is a tender work of mourning which is wonderfully moving but never dispiriting. Elaine Feinstein uses the remembered words of a much loved husband - sometimes... -
The Superstitious Muse: Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically by David Bethea 9781618118127
Booksplease Price: $63.22For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the "mythopoetic thinking" that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically... -
Parallel Lives: From Freud and Mann to Arbus and Plath by Jeffrey Meyers 9780807182260
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23Parallel Lives covers the century from the birth of Sigmund Freud in 1856 to the death of Sylvia Plath in 1963. Written by the esteemed biographer and literary critic Jeffrey Meyers, the book... -
The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires by Serhii Plokhy 9781107449039
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $41.93In 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... -
Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky: Science, Religion, Philosophy by Vladimir Golstein 9781618115263
RRP: $188.18Booksplease Price: $185.82Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky is a collection of essays with a broad interdisciplinary focus. It includes contributions by leading Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and... -
Pushkin: A Writer’s Biography by Yuri Lotman 9798887196435
Booksplease Price: $88.34This 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... -
The Superstitious Muse: Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically by David Bethea 9781934843178
RRP: $188.18Booksplease Price: $185.82For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the "mythopoetic thinking" that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically... -
Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Vasily Grossman 9781784871963
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.53Life and Fate is an epic tale of twentieth-century Russia told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad.As the battle of... -
Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature by Robert Louis Jackson 9781618118110
Booksplease Price: $62.63Drawing 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,... -
Resurrection Leo Tolstoy 9780140424638
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs in... -
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.39The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories is a collection of stories that emerged from a profound spiritual crisis, during which Leo Tolstoy believed that he had encountered death itself. This... -
Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap by Deborah A. Martinsen
RRP: $193.03Booksplease Price: $161.91Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap grew out of a conference in honour of Robert Belknap, an outstanding teacher and scholar. The collected essays... -
A History of Russian Literature by Andrew Kahn 9780192864031
Booksplease Price: $67.74Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing... -
An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New by Werner Sollors 9780814781449
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $54.99A white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A slave mother kills her child by a rapist-master. A white-looking person of partly African ancestry... -
1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution by Paul W. Werth
Booksplease Price: $92.47Historians often think of Russia before the 1860s in terms of conservative stasis, when the "gendarme of Europe" secured order beyond the country's borders and entrenched the autocratic system at... -
Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry Konstantin Batyushkov 9780231185400
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $48.91Konstantin 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... -
Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry by Konstantin Batyushkov 9780231185417
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $28.76Konstantin 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... -
Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence by Andrew Kahn 9780199654338
Booksplease Price: $130.12Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia's greatest poet, a 'founding father' of modern Russian literature, and a major figure in world literature. His poetry and prose changed the course of Russian... -
Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710-2000 by Stephen Lovell 9781501704406
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $40.74The dacha is a sometimes beloved, sometimes scorned Russian dwelling. Alexander Pushkin summered in one; Joseph Stalin lived in one for the last twenty years of his life; and contemporary Russian... -
1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution by Paul W. Werth 9780198826361
RRP: $38.01Booksplease Price: $37.81Historians often think of Russia before the 1860s in terms of conservative stasis, when the "gendarme of Europe" secured order beyond the country's borders and entrenched the autocratic system at... -
Chevengur Andrey Platonov 9781784879150
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07'Platonov is an extraordinary writer, perhaps the most brilliant Russian writer of the twentieth century' New York Review of BooksThe Soviet Don Quixote, Chevengur is now seen by many Russian writers...