Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

Aelita

by Alexei Tolstoy

Tolstoi published two science fiction novels, both of which appeared in the experimental 1920s and which were revised during the following decades of Stalinist terror. Aelita (1923) is a science-fiction fantasy in the manner of H.G. Wells, telling the story of a Soviet expedition to Mars with the aim of establishing communism. A Red Army officer foments a rebellion of the native Martians, who are in fact... (more)

Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

by Vladimir Nabokov

8 cassettes / 12 hours Unabridged. Read by Jeremy Irons Exhilarating, both appallingly funny and hauntingly sad, Lolita is Vladimir Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, a twentieth century classic whose characters' names have become synonymous with the outrages and degradations of obsessive passion. When the aging emigre Humbert Humbert falls in love with the precocious nymphet Dolores Haze, all the... (more)

The Life of Insects : A Novel

by Viktor Pelevin

A darkly humorous novel set in a crumbling Black Sea resort, featuring a cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and prostitutes) and as insects. By the author of THE BLUE LANTERN and OMON RA.

by V. Suvorov

Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff. (Russian)Marie Bashkirtseff

Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff. (Russian)

by Marie Bashkirtseff

Text: Russian (translation) Original Language: French

[Russkie poe?ty XX veka : antologii?a? dli?a? studentov

Text: Russian

The Island of CrimeaVassily Aksyonov

The Island of Crimea

by Vassily Aksyonov

Aksyonov's energetic potential - obvious in The Steel Bird and Other Stories (1979) - comes to clear achievement in this novel, one of the rare translated Russian contemporary works to exhibit a true cosmopolitan verve. The plot nests in a fanciful hypothesis: that the Crimea is actually an island - on which there developed a non-Soviet democracy after the locals offered military resistance to the 1917 Revolution;... (more)

Teach Yourself Russian Grammar (Teach Yourself)

Teach Yourself Russian Grammar (Teach Yourself)

by Daphne West

This book is designed to meet the needs of any student of Russian, from the complete beginner through to the intermediate and advanced, who wants a quick and easy-to-use reference grammar, with exercises and answers. The grammar is presented in easily accessible double-page-spread units, with grammar explanations on the left-hand page and exercises to practise and check understanding on the facing right-hand page.... (more)

Red Star Rogue

by Kenneth Sewell

March 7, 1968: Several hundred miles northwest of Hawaii, the nuclear-armed K-129 surfaces and then sinks; all of its crewmen and officers perish at sea. Who was commanding the rogue Russian sub? What was its target? How did it infiltrate American waters undetected? Navy veteran Kenneth Sewell, drawing from newly declassified documents and extensive confidential interviews, exposes the stunning truth behind an... (more)

by Fyodor/ Myers, Alan (TRN) Dostoyevsky

A short story from the Classic Shorts Collection: A Disgraceful Affair by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ganhando meu pãoMaximo Gorki

Ganhando meu pão

by Maximo Gorki

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Prince Lyov Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to Russia after a long absence. Myshkin suffers from epilepsy – just like Fyodor Dostoevsky himself – and is prone to periods of blackouts. This has been treated with some success in Switzerland. The Myshkin family line is said to end with him and his cousin. On the train to Saint Petersburg, Myshkin meets and befriends the dark and enamoured Rogozhin. The latter tells the... (more)