Anton Chekhov

Author	Terry Pratchett
ISBN	0061020656

It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun. First, there's the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid...

Author	Boris Akunin
ISBN	0753817594

Moscow, May 1876: What would cause a talented young student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public in the Alexander Gardens? Decadence and boredom, most likely, is what the commander of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police thinks, but still he finds...

Author	Anton Chekhov
ISBN	0140448985

Anton Chekhov's only full-length novel, this Penguin Classics edition of The Shooting Party is translated and edited by Ronald Wilks, with an introduction by John Sutherland.

The Shooting Party centers on Olga, the pretty young daughter of a drunken forester on a country estate, and her...

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	0811201201

The work of Gogol—one of the very greatest of Russia's literary geniuses—has become fairly well known in America but has seldom been properly understood. There have been many bad, but a few good, translations of his work available in English, and critics have often tended to put labels on him, to...

Author	Jeremy Clarkson
ISBN	0141017872

In the early nineties, Jeremy Clarkson had outgrown Top Gear (or so he thought) and embarked upon making several other television series, culminating, at the end of that decade, with his own chat-show. Most interesting of these was Motorworld and the book based on the show is probably Clarkson's best...

Author	Jesse Kellerman
ISBN	0399159037

Arthur Pfefferkorn is a has-been, or perhaps a never-was: a middle-aged college professor with long-dead literary aspirations. When his oldest friend, bestselling thriller writer William de Vallèe, is lost at sea, Pfefferkorn is torn between envy and grief, for de Vallèe not only outshone Pfefferkorn...

Author	Yelena Kostyukovich
ISBN	0374289948

Italians love to talk about food. The aroma of a simmering ragú, the bouquet of a local wine, the remembrance of a past meal: Italians discuss these details as naturally as we talk about politics or sports, and often with the same flared tempers. In Why Italians Love to Talk About Food, Elena Kostioukovitch...