Pnin. Vladimir Nabokov Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding house; and the
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Ice. Vladimir Sorokine The victims are of both sexes, from different backgrounds, and of all ages, but invariably blond and blue-eyed. Moscow has been hit by a wave of brutal murders. There is no sign of any motive. They are found with their breastbones smashed in,
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Matter Of Death And Life. Andrey Kurkov You give him your photograph, specify when and where to find you, then sit back and prepare to die. Marital troubles? Sick of life? Suicide the answer? Why not get yourself a contract killer? Nothing easier, provided you communicate only by phone
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The Galosh And Other Stories. Mikhail Zoschenko His short stories give expression to the bewildered experience of the ordinary Soviet citizen struggling to survive in the 1920s and ’30s, beset. In his prime, Mikhail Zoshchenko was more widely read in his own country than Pasternak or
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Dead Souls. Николай Гоголь, Nikolai Gogol Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. Dead Souls is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social
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Medea and Her Children. Людмила Улицкая, Ludmila Ulitskaya Childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family, which gathers each spring and summer at her home. Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on
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War and Peace. Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of fully realized and equally memorable characters that populate this massive chronicle. Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a
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Duel and Other Stories. Anton Chekhov Из серии: Dover Thrift Editions Series
2003. Features six tales, including "The Darling," that supports the claim that life has no meaning without love, "The Kiss", "Anna on the Neck", and three others.
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Master and Margarita. Mikhail Bulgakov With his disorderly band of accomplices - including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat - he immediately begins to create havoc. The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. Making a bargain with the devil, she decides to try a little black magic of
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I, Pobot. Isaac Asimov В нем впервые были разработаны три закона робототехники, ставшие впоследствии традиционными для всех писателей-фантастов. Сборник
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Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories. Leo Tolstoy `The Kreutzer Sonata` (1891) is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a splenetic complaint about the way in which society educates young men and women in matters of sex. One of the world`s greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) also
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Special Assignments. Boris Akunin In the comical “The Jack of Spades,” Fandorin finds a Watsonian sidekick in Anisii Tulipov, a luckless and overeducated errand boy whose life changes when Fandorin takes him under his wing. In this thrilling collection of two novellas, Akunin
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Generation of winter. Vassily Aksyonov Reprint. Follows the lives and fortunes of members of the Gradov family of Moscow through the turbulent years of 1928 to 1945, through Stalins rise in the 1930s and the terror of World War II. 1995.
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The Helmet of Horror. Viktor Pelevin Its wearer is the dominant force they call Asterisk, a force for good and ill in which the Minotaur is forever present and Theseus is the great unknown. They have never met, they have been assigned strange pseudonyms, they inhabit identical rooms
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The Kreutzer Sonata. Leo Tolstoy When her beauty blossoms after the birth of their children, men begin to flock around her, and he becomes increasingly jealous. Pozdnyshev and his wife have a turbulent relationship. This book is part of the Great Loves series. Convinced his wife
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Mary. Vladimir Nabokov Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary. Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian emigres. He longs for her arrival, when he can whisk her away and leave everything behind
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Invitation to a Beheading. Vladimir Nabokov (Talk about existential!)
Из серии: Vintage International (Paperback)
1989. A vision of a bizarre and irrational world where Cincinnatus C.is condemned to death by beheading for an imaginery crime in an unnamed dream country.
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Dr Zhivago (+CD). Boris Pasternak Their heart-breaking stories make Dr Zhivago one of the greatest romantic books, and films, of the century. The Russian Revolution – four young people, Yury, Tonya, Lara and Pasha, find love and lose it in this extraordinary time. 2011.
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Despair. Vladimir Nabokov Из серии: Vintage International (Paperback)
1989. Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect
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Ward No.6 and Other Stories. Антон Чехов It presents characters that face madness, alienation and frustration before they experience brief, ephemeral moments of insight, often earned at great cost, where they confront the reality of their existence. A collection of stories from the middle
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Stories of Anton Chekhov. Антон Чехов Now, thirty of his best tales from the major periods of his creative life are. Called the greatest of short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition.
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Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova. Анна Ахматова Her passionate writing has won her an ardent readership all over the world. Anna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. It covers her earlier work and the poems she produced during her persecution
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Notes From Underground. Федор Михайлович Достоевский " I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man", the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling. 1983.
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Idiot. Федор Михайлович Достоевский - Dostoevsky Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life - object poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his firstborn child - Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The. "My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul".
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Fathers and Sons. Иван Тургенев Was he criticizing the worldview of the conservative aesthete,. When Fathers and Sons was first published in Russia, in 1862, it was met with a blaze of controversy about where Turgenev stood in relation to his account of generational
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Death of Ivan Ilyich / Master and Man. Лев Толстой Both stories confront death and the process of. This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, “Master and Man”, both newly translated by Ann
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Crime and Punishment. Fyodor Dostoevsky He withdraws from society and, poor and lonely, he develops a plan to murder a greedy old moneylender. Classic / British English Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been forced to give up his university studies because of lack of money. Surely the
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Anna Karenina. Лев Толстой Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately. A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time.
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The Golovlyov Family. Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин There Arina Petrovna rules over her servants and family with an iron hand - until she loses power to her son Porphyry. Searingly hot in summer, bitterly cold in winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. Yet in
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Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov 2005. A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him.
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Life and Fate. Василий Гроссман This work offers a vision of a totalitarian regime where the spirit of freedom that arose among those under fire was feared by the state at least as much as were the Nazis. Aims to give a view of Soviet society during World War II as Tolstoy did of