Dostoyevsky's "Notes from the Underground" and Gorky's "The Confession"
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Maxim Gorky
Selected Poems (Hutchinson poets) (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Marina Tsvetaeva
During the Stalin years Russia had four great poets to voice the feelings of her oppressed people: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetayeva. The first two survived the terror, but Mandelstam died in a camp and Tsvetayeva was driven to hang herself in 1941. This comprehensive selection of Tsvetayeva's poetry includes complete versions of all her major long poems and poem cycles: Poem of the End, An Attempt at a Room, Poems to Czechia and New Year Letter. It was the first English tra...
Золотой теленок
by Илья Ильф and Евгений Петров
Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin) (Anthem Cosmopolis Writings)
by Alexander Pushkin
Still the benchmark of Russian literature 175 years after its first publicationanow in a marvelous new translation PUSHKINaS INCOMPARABLE POEM has at its center a young Russian dandy much like Pushkin in his attitudes and habits. Eugene Onegin, bored with the triviality of everyday life, takes a trip to the countryside, where he encounters the young and passionate Tatyana. She falls in love with him but is cruelly rejected. Years later, Eugene Onegin sees the error of his ways, but fate is not...
Presented in this essential collection are the novelWings; the play The Venetian Madcaps; thirteen short stories; and two major poetic cycles, including the acclaimed The Trout Breaks the Ice. This anthology exhibits the high level of craftsmanship for which Kuzmin was valued by so many leading writers of his time, including Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Meyerhold, and Blok.
The Plays of Anton Chekov; Nine Plays Including The Seagull ... and Others
by Anton Pavlovich 1860-1904 Chekhov
First Love is a novella by Ivan Turgenev, first published in 1860. It is one of his most popular pieces of short fiction. It tells the story of Vladimir Petrovich, a sixteen year-old,that is staying in the country with his family and there meets his new neighbor, Zinaida Alexandrovna Zasyekina, a beautiful twenty-one year-old woman who is staying with her mother, the Princess Zasyekina. This family, as with many of the Russian minor nobility with royal ties of that time, were only afforded a de...
Studies in Russian and Polish Literature, in Honor of Waclaw Lednicki
by Zbigniew 1910- Folejewski
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories [with Accents]
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Osip Mandelstam has become an almost mythical figure of modern Russian poetry, his work treasured all over the world for its lyrical beauty and innovative, revolutionary engagement with the dark times of the Stalinist era. While he was exiled in the city of Voronezh, the black earth region of Russia, his work, as Joseph Brodsky wrote, developed into “a poetry of high velocity and exposed nerves, becoming more a song than ever before, not a bardlike but a birdlike song … something like a goldfinc...