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Anna Karenina: New Translation
Trapped in a loveless marriage and suffocated by the expectations of Russian high society, Anna Karenina risks everything for a passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky. But what begins as a pursuit of love soon unravels into scandal, jealousy, and isolation. As Anna...- $ 350.00
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the "wicked and sentimental" Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons--the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and...- $ 400.00
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An Uncommon Story
Ivan Goncharov was once hailed as the true literary heir to Gogol, a towering figure of Russian letters in the 1850s. His early success with The Same Old Story positioned him at the center of Russia’s evolving literary scene. But the tide shifted in...- $ 350.00
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Anna Karenina
Trapped in a loveless marriage and suffocated by the expectations of Russian high society, Anna Karenina risks everything for a passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky. But what begins as a pursuit of love soon unravels into scandal, jealousy, and isolation. As Anna...- $ 350.00
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Belkin's Stories and A History of Goryukhino Village
A playful and sharp-witted entry point into Russian literature, Belkin’s Stories presents five brief tales full of love, irony, and the unexpected—each narrated secondhand by the elusive Ivan Belkin. From duels and blizzards to ghostly encounters and ruined romances, Pushkin uses popular 19th-century genres...- $ 500.00
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A Confession and Other Religious Writings
Leo Tolstoy confronts life’s deepest questions with unflinching honesty. Wrestling with faith, mortality, and the meaning of existence, these powerful texts mark his spiritual awakening and critique of organized religion. Through works like ‘A Confession’ and ‘The Law of Love and the Law of Violence’,...- $ 350.00
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
These seven powerful stories reflect Tolstoy’s profound meditation on mortality and the human condition, each examining the inevitability of death from unique perspectives. In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy delivers a heartrending exploration of a man confronting his approaching death and grappling with...- $ 350.00
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Fathers and Children
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarov’s outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touches off quarrels, misunderstandings, and romantic entanglements that will utterly transform the Kirsanov household and reflect...- $ 500.00
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Faust
A lesser-known novella by one of the great masters of Russian literature, now available to English readers in a lucid translation, is presented with "Yakov Pasynkov," another story exploring the nature of love and human relations. In a series of nine letters, the narrator...- $ 400.00
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Love Poems
One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin’s immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is most popular for, is his mastery of the love poem, a genre which he perfected like few others before or after him. This...- $ 450.00
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Oblomov
First published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogol's Dead Souls, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. The book centres on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the...- $ 270.00
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On the Eve
On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a revolutionary from Bulgaria named Insarov. Facing the wrath and disapproval of her family, Yelena abandons her home to follow Insarov to Bulgaria....- $ 350.00
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Plays
The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their dialogue but their atmosphere and the tensions expressed between the lines. Collected in...- $ 300.00
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Rudin
Dmitry Rudin, a high-minded gentleman of reduced means, arrives at the estate of Darya Mikhailovna, where his intelligence, eloquence and conviction immediately make a powerful impression. As he stys on longer than intended, Rudin exerts a strong influence on the younger generation, and Darya's...- $ 270.00
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Small Fry and Other Stories
Universally acclaimed as the master of the short-story form, Anton Chekhov began his literary career as the author of brief tales and vignettes of Russian life when he was still a young medical student. Later rejected by the writer in the same self-effacing way...- $ 400.00
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The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Novellas
Driven to his deathbed by an incurable disease, the thirty-year-old impoverished gentleman Chulkaturin decides to write a diary looking back on his short life. After describing his youthful disillusionment and his family's fall from grace and loss of status, the narrative focuses on his...- $ 300.00
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The Eternal Husband
During a stifling St Petersburg summer, the rich landowner Velchaninov is haunted by the figure of a man he keeps glimpsing in the street. When he receives a surprise visit from him late at night, he realizes he is an old friend, Trusotsky, whose...- $ 500.00
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The House of the Dead
The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is sent to a prison colony in Siberia for killing his wife. Largely ignored at first by his fellow inmates due to his noble blood, he gradually settles in and...- $ 500.00
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a mad act of desperation while she practised Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata with her...- $ 250.00
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The Looking Glass and Other Stories
It is New Year's Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a landowning general, is sitting in her room looking in the mirror. Although she is tired and her eyes are half closed, she is spellbound as the reflection in the looking glass dissolves...- $ 330.00
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The Story of a Nobody
A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task – an ailing, world-weary “nobody” – seized with the purposelessness of life...- $ 300.00
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Three Years
A powerful novella about redemption and the nuances of human relationships that helped cement Chekhov's reputation as a major figure in Russian literature. On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works...- $ 250.00
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We
In the flawless society of the One State, ruled by the wise Benefactor, everything is transparent—literally. The city is built almost entirely of glass, where every move is watched, and life is governed by precise algorithms designed to guarantee perfect happiness. D-503, the Builder,...- $ 400.00
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War and Peace
Set during one of the most turbulent periods in European history—the Napoleonic Wars—War and Peace offers a sweeping portrait of Russian society in the early 19th century. Against the backdrop of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812, Tolstoy captures the impact of war on...- $ 550.00
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Lolita
Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of...- $ 400.00
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Pale Fire
A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita. The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a...- $ 400.00
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories.Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for...- $ 420.00
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Speak, Memory
Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and émigré...- $ 400.00
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
One of the most exquisitely constructed novellas by Tolstoy is presented alongside The Devil, a further work exploring the powerful and destructive nature of obsession. The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to...- $ 350.00
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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Tolstoy's first published work, completed in 1856, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth recounts his early life up to his university days. These are not memoirs in the strict sense of the word, as the author's Stendhalian take on the autobiographical genre confronts and blurs the notions...- $ 350.00
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The Willow and Other Stories
Old Arkhip sits every day by the roots of a wizened, hunchbacked willow, fishing and exchanging whispered stories with the ancient tree. One of these takes Arkhip three decades back in time, to a quiet day in early spring when a strange encounter shook...- $ 350.00
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The Double and The Gambler
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler. The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare–foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre–in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes...- $ 350.00
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Crime and Punishment
With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. In Crime and Punishment, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St....- $ 350.00
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Notes from Underground
Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In this second edition, they have updated their translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky's birth.One of the...- $ 300.00
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The Gift
Considered by many to be the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. An interweaving of the effects of life and memory, tradition and heritage, upon art, the book tells of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished poet seeking fame in the phantasmic world of Berlin...- $ 450.00
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Secondhand Time
A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing “a...- $ 550.00
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A Serendipitous Error and An Evil Malady
On a chilly winter night, Yegor Aduyev, the privileged son of a wealthy landowning family, quietly enters the home of Baron Neyleyn with a heart full of hope. He plans to propose to Yelena, the baron’s captivating eighteen-year-old daughter. But Yelena is elusive—a flirt...- $ 350.00
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Devils
As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including murder...- $ 500.00
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Humiliated and Insulted
First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcilable relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only...- $ 500.00
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Hadji Murat
Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who accept him but never...- $ 400.00
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The Master and Margarita: 50th Anniversary Edition
Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. Mikhail Bulgakov’s fantastical, funny, and devastating satire of Soviet life combines...- $ 400.00
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A Volga Tale
Spanning from the twilight of the 19th century through the upheavals of the 20th, The Volga traces the fate of Jakob Bach, a quiet schoolteacher whose love affair with Klara Grimm upends both their lives. Banished from their Volga German colony for defying convention,...- $ 580.00
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X and Other Stories
A compelling collection of short fiction from one of Russia’s boldest and most visionary writers. These stories, written in the early 20th century, blend science fiction, satire and psychological tension to explore themes of individuality, conformity and the terrifying machinery of power. In the...- $ 350.00
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White Nights and Other Stories
Lonely and adrift, a young man—an inveterate dreamer—wanders the streets of St Petersburg during one of its endless summer nights. As he meanders through the hushed city, he encounters a young woman in distress, fending off the advances of an unwelcome stranger. He intervenes,...- $ 350.00
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House of Meetings
A dark, gothic story about two brothers, one woman, and the terrible choices that follow them for decades. In 1946 Moscow—still shaken by war and rising antisemitism—the brothers fall in love with the same Jewish girl, creating a quiet but dangerous rivalry. Their lives...- $ 350.00
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The Idiot
Prince Myshkin, just twenty-six, returns to Russia after several years in a Swiss sanatorium, hoping to claim an inheritance and simply “live among people.” Before he even arrives, he encounters the brooding Rogozhin, the wealthy merchant’s son whose fixation on the captivating Nastasya Filippovna...- $ 400.00
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Motherland
A Feminist History of Modern Russia from Revolution to Autocracy. Award-winning journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the women who have lived, fought, and struggled within it—from revolution to utopia to autocracy. In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family...- $ 650.00
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Soviet Bus Stops
Christopher Herwig documents the surprising and imaginative architecture of Soviet-era bus stops across 14 former Soviet countries. What began as a bicycle journey from London to St. Petersburg became a years-long project capturing these overlooked structures in all their creativity and diversity. Featuring striking...- $ 600.00
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Soviet Metro Stations
Christopher Herwig explores the remarkable underground architecture of metro systems built across the Soviet Union and former Eastern Bloc countries. Through striking photography, the book captures stations designed not only for transportation, but as grand artistic expressions of Soviet ideals. From ornate chandeliers and...- $ 600.00
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A Hero of Our Time
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Caucasus, A hero of out rime follows the enigmatic Pechorin —a soldier, seducer, and wanderer—whose charm and cruelty leave lasting scars on everyone he meets. Told through shifting perspectives, including that of a fellow officer and Pechorin’s...- $ 300.00
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