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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Leonard J. Kent and Nina Berberova

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov , and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English. After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment , Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin,... (more)

Eugene Onegin : A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)

Eugene Onegin : A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)

by A. Pushkin

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satrical vein. ... (more)

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

FATHERS AND SONS was the most closely studied of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's works in the Soviet high school curriculum. An inadvertent political agenda favorite, juxtaposing two generations, "the fathers," or the fading aristocracy, and "the sons," or the new fresh blood of the middle class and the nihilists, the novel seemed a perfect vehicle for portraying the brewing unrest of the pre-revolutionary era, and... (more)

Demons

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.

The Insulted and Humiliated

by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

In this novel we see a young man madly in love with a girl from a moderately poor family. This girl falls in love with a very aristocratic prince-- a man without principles, but charming in his childish egotism-- extremely attractive by his sincerity, and with a full capacity for quite unconsciously committing the worst crimes toward those with whom life brings him into contact. The psychology of both the girl and... (more)

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the penetrating study of a man who commits murder, convinced of the murder's justice, but suffering mentally nonetheless. It was first published in 1866 in twelve monthly installments of The Russian Messenger, a prestigous publication and an outlet for Tolstoy and Turgenev.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

The Captain's daughter and other tales (Great Russian fiction)Alexander Pushkin

The Captain's daughter and other tales (Great Russian fiction)

by Alexander Pushkin

The Complete Short Novels

by Anton Chekhov

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Steppe –the most lyrical of the five–is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening... (more)

The Foundation Pit

by Andrei Platonovich Platonov

Translated from the Russian by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson With notes and an afterword by Robert Chandler and Olga Meerson In Andrey Platonov's The Foundation Pit, a team of workers has been given the job of digging the foundation of an immense edifice, a palatial home for the perfect future that, they are convinced, is at hand. But the harder the team works, the deeper they dig, the... (more)

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy’s master epic. War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count... (more)

Tales of BelkinAleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Tales of Belkin

by A. Pushkin

Written in the autumn of 1830 and sometimes referred to as "the little parodies," the five stories in this collection involve a number of the key contemporary themes in European literature, including the Byronic hero, the Gothic novel, and the tale of the supernatural. Yet each sparkling vignette adds an unexpected twist to these familiar literary themes, and in doing so fruitful new avenues for exploration are... (more)

The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales (Modern Library Classics)

The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales (Modern Library Classics)

by N. S. Leskov, David Magarshack

Written over the course of Leskov’s career, each story in The Enchanted Wanderer elucidates the very essence of the human condition; themes of love, despair, loneliness, and revenge are explored against the backdrop of nineteenth-century working-class Russia. Leskov deftly layers social satire and subtle criticism atop myth and fable, resulting in a richly entertaining collection.

Mikhail Lermontov : Selected Works (Progress Russian Classics Series)Mikhail IUrevich Lermontov

Mikhail Lermontov : Selected Works (Progress Russian Classics Series)

by Mikhail IUrevich Lermontov

The Inspector-General

by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

"The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General, is a satirical play by the Russian playwright and novelist Nikolai Gogol, published in 1836 and revised for the 1842 edition. Based upon an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, the play is a comedy of errors, portraying human greed, stupidity, and the deep corruption of powers in Tsarist Russia. According to D.S. Mirsky, the play "is not... (more)

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Netochka Nezvanova,

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Netochka Nezvanova - A Nameless Nobody" - tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. The young girl is strangely drawn to this drunken ruin of a man, who exploits her and drives the family to poverty. But when she is rescued by an aristocratic family, the abuse against Netochka's delicate psyche continues in a more subtle way,... (more)

Alexander Blok: Selected PoemsAlexander BLOK

Alexander Blok: Selected Poems

by Alexander BLOK

The Insulted and Humiliated (Progress-Russian Classics Series)Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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