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10 best books like Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (Leo Tolstoy): Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod, The Eternal Husband and Other Stories, The Collected Poems, Peter the First, Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution, Selected Poems, Rudin, Demon, The Garnet Bracelet, and Other Stories, Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings

Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod
AuthorNikolai Gogol
ISBN0192828800
Hailed universally as Russia's finest comic writer, and by many as its greatest writer of prose, Nikolai creates a unique Ukranian world, from the darkest Gothic to folkloric levity. Here, this extraordinary countryside is revealed in all its variety in his first two collections of short stories....
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN0553214446
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range...
The Collected Poems
AuthorSergei Yesenin
ISBN0970580304
"Preserving in English the immortal spirit and rhyme of the great Russian genius."

Biographical notes on Esenin and Isadora Duncan precede each vol. and some chapters.

Includes several color reproductions of landscape paintings by Isaac Levitan mounted on pages with captions,...
Peter the First
AuthorAleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
ISBN1410225097
Here, for the first time, in its final form and in a new translation, is the epic Russian novel which has sold in its native country over two million copies. Alexey Tolstoy (who was not related to the author of War and Peace) began to study the character of his hero, Peter the First, in 1917. When he died almost...
Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution
AuthorIvan Bunin
ISBN1566635160
“Blessed are those who will visit this world in its fatal moments!” Tyutchev – Cicero
The country is flooded with twilight… Anarchy and chaos are reigning over the nation…
No one believes the newspapers… Hearsay and rumours are all the news…
There is a rumor that the Allies...
Selected Poems
AuthorAlexander Blok
ISBN1857544730
Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived through his country's savage wars and radical traumas trying to welcome the new order. Trotsky wrote, `Certainly Blok is not one of us, but he came towards us. And that is what broke him.' Pasternak said, `He is as free as the wind.'.
Rudin
AuthorIvan Turgenev
ISBN1426450427
RUDIN (1856) by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) tells the story of a character typical to Turgenev -- a "superfluous" man, weak of will, brimming with indecisive frustration -- and yet tormented by ideals. Rudin is made impotent by the dissonance of honoring the older generations while at the...
Demon
AuthorMikhail Lermontov
ISBN1853993166
Where the land knows no time
where bonfires have no end,
and doomed shadows often tend
to mutter songs that poorly rhyme,

there lies the Demon, another prey of his kingdom.

and one by one the ages passed,
as minute follows after minute,
each one monotonously...
The Garnet Bracelet, and Other Stories
AuthorAleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin
ISBN1410102351
Stories contained in this volume: Moloch, Olesya, Night Duty, The White Poodle, I Was An Actor, The Gambrinus Emerald, The Garnet Bracelet. Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was Russian novelist and short-story writer. He was an army officer for several years before he resigned to pursue a...
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN0140446753
Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed. "The Tales of Belkin", his first prose...
The Same Old Story
AuthorIvan Goncharov
ISBN0898751985
The Same Old Story (1847) tells the story of Alexander Aduyev who leaves the idyllic setting of his home in the country to seek his fortune and make a career in St. Petersburg under the guidance and protection of his uncle, a government official. Such is the beginning of this "ordinary story". Alexander...
The Storm
AuthorAleksandr Ostrovsky
ISBN1406938556
KATERINA. Yes, I am well.... It would be better if I were ill, it's worse as it is. A dream keeps creeping into my mind, and I cannot get away from it. I try to think--I can't collect my thoughts, I try to pray--but I can't get free by prayer. My lips murmur the words but my heart is far away; as though the evil one...
A Russian Affair (Great Loves, #10)
AuthorAnton Chekhov
ISBN0141032855
Girl's first Chekhov. Hmmm sigh.

This is one book in a series of 20 Penguin has classified as its Great Loves series. It's been far too long since I picked up something Russian, and I thought this little volume would be a perfect introduction to Anton Chekhov, one of the greats. While the first...
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