Cultural Region/Russian
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Living Pictures
$17.95 Read moreA poignant collection of short pieces about the author’s hometown, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the siege of Leningrad that combines memoir, history, and fiction.
Living Pictures refers to the parlor g- Author: Barskova, Polina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376598
- Language: English
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Stravaging “Strange”
$17.95 Add to cart“I’m not on good terms with the present day,” Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky once mused, “but posterity loves me.” Virtually unknown during his lifetime and unpublishable under Stalin, he now draws comparis
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Turnbull, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0231199473
- Language: English
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It’s the End of the World, My Love
$16.95 Add to cartOtherworldly forces, dark phantasmagoria, the horrors of underground life, adolescence and rebellion, myth and fairy tale all swirl in Alla Gorbunova’s audacious and spectacular novel.
Children, stude
- Author: Gorbunova, Alla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052102
- Language: English
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Brisbane: From the Award-Winning Author of Laurus
$26.95 Add to cartGold Medal, 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) for Literary Fiction
Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award
Winner of the Ivo Andric Grand Prize for best novel of 2022
From the INTERNAT
- Author: Vodolazkin, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 343
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1636080456
- Language: English
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A Place Bewitched and Other Stories
$23.99 Add to cartAn original selection of short fiction by Nikolai Gogol, “the Russian Dickens,” translated by the great Constance Garnett and curated by Natasha Randall, that captures the genius of one of the most da
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0374231478
- Language: English
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Divine and Human: And Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
$19.99 Add to cartDivine and Human stands apart as both a landmark in literary history and master-piece of spiritual and ethical reflection. Suppressed in turn by the tzarist and Soviet regime, the tales contained in t… [more below]
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: May 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0310223679
- Language: English
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About Love and Other Stories
$9.94 Add to cartRaymond Carver called Anton Chekhov “the greatest short story writer who has ever lived.” This unequivocal verdict on Chekhov’s genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Man… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536686
- Language: English
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Under Western Eyes
$13.00 Add to cart“It was I who removed de P- this morning.” With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0141441941
- Language: English
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To the Stars and Other Stories
$19.95 Add to cartA boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in “becoming” a dog and howling at the
- Author: Fusso, Susanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0231200056
- Language: English
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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Text (Vol. 1)
$29.95 Add to cartWhen Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov’s friendship w… [more below]
- Author: Pushkin, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0691181012
- Language: English
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Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times
$18.00 Add to cart“This lively appreciation of one of the most intimidating and massive novels ever written should persuade many hesitant readers to try scaling the heights of War and Peace sooner rather than later” (P… [more below]
- Author: Kaufman, Andrew D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 145164471X
- Language: English
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Hunger Angel
$24.00 Add to cartA masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the “landscape of the dispossessed” with “the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose” (Nobel Prize Commi
- Author: Müller, Herta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1250032083
- Language: English
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The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants: Newly Translated and Annotated
$12.00 Add to cartPresented in a new translation by Roger Cockrell, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants was originally conceived as a play and first published in 1859, shortly after the author’s release fr
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1847499082
- Language: English
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Red Pyramid: Selected Stories
$18.95 Add to cartExtended comic turns like The Queue and relentless, mind-bending, genre-shredding extravaganzas like Ice Trilogy have established Vladimir Sorokin as a master of the contemporary novel. It is to Sorok… [more below]
- Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378205
- Language: English
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Love of Worker Bees
$16.95 Read moreA rare, graphic portrait of Russian life in 1917 immediately after the October Revolution. The heroine struggles with her passion for her husband, and the demands of the new world in which she lives.
A… [more below]
- Author: Kollontai, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0897330013
- Language: English
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Necropolis
$19.95 Add to cartNecropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as “the greatest Russian poet of our time.” In each of the book’s nine chapters, Khodasevich memori
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Khodasevich, Vladislav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 023118705X
- Language: English
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Oblomov
$18.00 Add to cartIlya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia’s dying aristocracy – a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. To… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Goncharov, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0140449876
- Language: English
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Homeward from Heaven
$22.95 Add to cartHomeward from Heaven is Boris Poplavsky’s masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirty-two. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, this final novel
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Karetnyk, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0231199317
- Language: English
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We
$9.99 Add to cartWe (1924) is a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Written between 1920 and 1921, the novel reflects its author’s growing disillusionment with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Russi
- Series: Mint Editions (Scientific and Speculative Fiction)
- Author: Zamyatin, Yevgeny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1513278304
- Language: English
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The Master and Margarita: Introduction by Simon Franklin
$32.00 Add to cartThe underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, Mikhail Bulgakov’s THE MASTER AND MARGARITA was written during Stalin’s regime and could not be published until many years after its a
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: April 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410465
- Language: English
