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A companion to The Complete Poems, this collection offers in a bilingual format some of the Russian poet's most intense and lyrical moments, while retaining a preface by Roberta Reeder and accompanying notes for Judith Hemschemeyer's translations....

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Revizor is the great comic masterpiece of nineteenth- century Russian theatre. Its central role, that of Khlestakov - the opportunistic yarn-spinner who is mistaken by provincial officials for a government inspector from St. Petersburg - has attra...

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This indispensable text can justly be regarded as the forerunner to the great flowering of Dostoevsky's novels which was to follow. This book contains the Russian text of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, with an English language introduction a...

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This book contains the Russian text of Turgenev's Mumu, edited with an English language introduction, notes and extensive vocabulary.

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This book contains the Russian text of Karamzin's Poor Liza, edited with an English language introduction and notes

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Childhood (Detstvo) appeared in 1852 and was Lev Tolstoy's first published work. Together with Boyhood (Otrochestvo) and Youth (Iunost') it forms a trilogy which, though fictional, is deeply rooted in Tolstoy's autobiography. As the first-person n...

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Turgenev's povest' (or novella) Asya, of 1858, has a Rhineland setting. Asya, the illegitimate daughter of a Russian landowner, is travelling abroad with her half-brother. The narrator falls in love with her, but cannot bring himself to propose ma...

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This book contains the Russian text of Lermontov's Demon, edited with an English language introduction and notes

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This book contains the Russian text of Chekhov's Three Stories and is accompanied with an introduction and notes.

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The theatrical genius of Nikolay Gogol has gone largely unappreciated by English-speaking audiences because pedantically literal translations have left his plays virtually unperformable. These fresh translations restore the vitality of Gogol's lan...

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The three 'Sebastopol Stories' were based on Tolstoy's experience as a serving solider in the besieged Crimean city in 1854 and 1855. First published in book form in 1856, they consolidated the reputation the young Tolstoy had established with Chi...

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Tolstoy is most famous for his two major novels, Anna Karenina and War and Peace, but he also produced several minor masterpieces, of which The Death of Ivan Illyich is the most outstanding. In this tale he deals with the subject of death, which f...

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This book contains the Russian text of Dostoevsky's Dream of a Ridiculous Man, with an English language introduction and notes on the text.

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This is a title in the Bristol Classical Press Russian Texts series, in Russian with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. The influence of Andrey Platonov (1899-1951), a gifted writer of the Soviet era, has pervaded Soviet and Russian liter...

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This book contains the Russian text of Pushkin's Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin. The text is accompanied with English language introduction and notes on the text.

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Anton Chekhov has long been regarded as the master of the Russian short story and one of the leading exponents of the genre in world literature. This volume comprises the classic selection edited by Birkett and Struve, in Russian, here furnished w...

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Gogol's most remarkable exercise in the genre of the absurd.

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This is a title in the Bristol Classical Press Russian Texts series, in Russian with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. Vasilii Shukshin is a writer in the tradition of "village prose", a literary movement which has emerged from...

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This collection of stories by Solzhenitsyn is part of the Bristol Classical Press Russian Texts series. The series is designed to meet the needs of the fast-growing A Level and undergraduate market for texts in the Russian language. Each text come...

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a very original translation of the work of lewis carroll "alice in wonderland" into the russian language by a russian/israeli litterateur oleg haslavsky.

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I never meant to write a book. This here simply is a collection of blog entries on a Russian platform "Odnoklassniki". The short stories are about things that moved all participants at the time, an partially still do. Entries are unedited and left...

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Literatur-Nobelpreis für 2018! Die Preisträgerin des Internationalen Booker-Preises Olga Tokarczuk sammelt Fantasien. Sie injiziert das Unerklärliche, Seltsame und Ungewöhnliche wie mit einer Spritze in unseren grauen Alltag. Fehler aus der Vergan...

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Was die Haut verbirgt. 2 Quadratmeter, die bestimmen, wie wir leben. Chelovecheskaja kozha - udivitel'nyj organ, samyj krupnyj iz vseh, chto u nas est'. Ee ploshhad' pochti dva kvadratnyh metra! Kozha - jeto nasha antenna. Ona mozhet peredavat' i ...

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