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The Steppe and Other Stories 1887-91 is a collection that reveals Anton Chekhov's evolution from a novice writer to a master of short narrative form. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Donald R...

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Huvudpersonen är en trettiosexårig porträttmålare som bor i Tokyo. Efter att hans hustru plötsligt en dag låtit meddela att hon vill skiljas avbokar han allt och reser sin väg. Han hamnar i ett avskilt hus högt uppe på ett berg och bestämmer sig f...

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Begun in 1920 while Bulgakov was employed in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, and continued when he started working for a government literary department in Moscow, Notes on a Cuff is a series of journalistic sketches whic...

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Introduction by Simon Franklin; Translation by Michael Glenny

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One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn In the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear. Crippled by weak, indecisive leadership the Russian troops battle desperat...

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Saharnyj, belyj Kreml' - serdce Rossii 2020-h, perezhivshej Krasnuju, Seruju i Beluju Smuty, zakryvshejsja ot vneshnego mira i pogruzhennoj v son. Jetim serdcem ponemnozhku vladejut vse, ved' i u skotnicy, i u zjeka, i u liliputa est' hotja by osk...

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This book, "Goethes Egmont erläutert und gewürdigt für höhere lehranstalten sowie zum selbststudium", by Friedrich Vollmer, is a replication of a book originally published before 1895. It has been restored by human be...

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'A book that you don't just read, you live' Simon Schama Tolstoy's magnificent epic novel of love, conflict, fate and human life in all its imperfection and grandeur War and Peace begins at a glittering society party in St Pete...

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FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO Solzhenitsyn is one of the towering figures of the age, as a writer, as moralist, as hero Edward Crankshaw After years in enforced exile on the Kazakhstan steppes, a cancer diagnosis bri...

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After being saved from a suicide attempt by the appearance of a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book suddenly accepted for stage adaptation at a prestigious venue and finds himself propelled into Moscow&apo...

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Nikolai Gogol's 'epic poem in prose', Dead Souls is a damning indictment of a corrupt society, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Robert A. Maguire in Penguin Classics. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, ar...

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Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarkable new translation. 'Outstanding... A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement' Telegraph 'One of the great Russian autobiographie...

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"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied here by 'The Kiss' and 'The Two Volodyas' - three exquisite depictions of love and loss in nineteenth-c...

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Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man av Steve Harvey är en självhjälpsbok som syftar till att hjälpa kvinnor att förstå män och deras beteende. Harvey ger inblick i den manliga hjärnan och erbjuder råd om hur man navigerar i relationer med män. Han d...

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In Bulgakovs Diaboliad, the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior, responsible for his dism...

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In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassi...

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Among Dostoevskys later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady the il...

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The 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 Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introd...

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This trilogy of short novels, taken as a whole, recounts the young narrators early life up to his university days, each episode told through the perceptions, points of view and emotions felt by the protagonist at the time. Based on Tolstoys own li...

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Second-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance o...

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Propisi - eto prekrasnoe podspor'e dlja doshkol'nikov i detej, u kotoryh napisanie bukv vyzyvaet zatrudnenija. Propisi javljajutsja prilozheniem k znamenitomu "Bukvarju" Nadezhdy Zhukovoj, kotoryj uspeshno ispol'zujut vse roditeli, vospi...

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Schönschreibheft- und Rechtschreibheft. Schreibmusterheft zum Erlernen der russischen Schreibschrift. Die bekannte russische Wissenschaftlerin und Sprachtherapeutin Nadezhda Zhukova baut ihr Lernsystem auf dem Prinzip des Silbenlesens auf. Das Sch...

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333 ryska verb har översättningar och kommentarer på svenska. Den har utprovats tillsammans med flera årgångar studenter på A-nivån. I inledningen sammanfattas den ryska verbläran. Nio grafiskt åskådliga modeller ges för hur verben böjs. För varje...

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Abel Aganbegyan, once Gorbachev's closest economic advisor, looks at the far-reaching effects of reconstruction on the Soviet economy.

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FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY Dostoevsky's genius is on display in this powerful existential novel. The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground, i...

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