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Leskov's short stories exploded the conventions of nineteenth-century Russian fiction. Rooted in the oral storytelling tradition, focused on the everyman, innovative in fo...
Leskov’s stories of Russian life are explosions of imagination. Peopled by outsized characters including serfs, princes, Gypsy girls, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars and ga...
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, a...
This book of reflections present comments on the book by L. Ulitskaya — The Big Green Tent. The purpose of the commentary is to reveal the main idea of the novel — «What g...
The Big Green Tent epitomizes what we think of when we imagine the classic Russian novel.
With epic breadth and intimate detail, Ludmila Ulitskaya’s remarkable work tells...
This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known `long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects a...
This volume contains two of the world's great love stories - ‘First Love’ and ‘A Fire at Sea’, which show Turgenev at his very best. Simple, direct and tender, they record...
Nabokov’s third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness.
As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen — an eni...
Hailed as one of the world’s supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who h...
Предлагаем вниманию англоязычных читателей повесть великого русского писателя Федора Михайловича Достоевского (1821–1881) «Белые ночи». Перевод на английский язык Констанс...
"The Mysterious Portrait" by Nikolai Gogol. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & l...
Notes from Underground, written in 1864, heralds the great novels of Dostoevsky’s maturity. The unnamed narrator is that classic figure of Russian fiction, an embittered m...
The Little Scarlet Flower
by Sergei Aksakov, Сергей Аксаков, James Riordan (Translator), Yulia Ustinova (Illustrator), Юлия Устинова (Illustrator)
The Queen of Spades is a short story with supernatural elements by Alexander Pushkin about human avarice. Pushkin wrote the story in autumn 1833 in Boldino and it was firs...
Английский язык. Русская классика. Стильное подарочное издание одного из самых известных в мировой литературе романов о всепоглощающей страсти, семье и выборе. В издании п...
Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
Илья Ильф, Евгений Петров
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(7K)In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pr...
Повесть Михаила Булгакова «Собачье сердце» – произведение о потере цивилизованных ценностей в советской России, в котором сочетаются острая сатира и глубокая философия. Вы...
The Insulted and Humiliated / Униженные и оскорблённые. Роман (на английском языке)
Фёдор Достоевский
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Filled with dreams of pursuing a career as a poet, the young Alexander Aduev moves from the country to St Petersburg, where he takes up lodgings next to his uncle Pyotr, a...