Faust
10 best books like Faust (Ivan Turgenev): The Story of a Nobody, Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, Selected Stories, Poor Folk and Other Stories, Nikolai Gogol, Conquered City, The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems, My Sister - Life, An Armenian Sketchbook, A Red Flower: A Story, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 1843910039 |
The Story of a Nobody is a profound and moving work of fiction, combining the political tensions of the day with a tale of deep poignancy and sorrow. With St Petersburg awash with extravagant, dissolute bureaucrats concerned only with increasing their vast riches, a member of a secret movement is infiltrated...
| Author | Nikolai Gogol |
| ISBN | 0140449078 |
Gogol's detailed, breathlessly sarcastic and mean spirited story telling is a joy to read.
Unfortunately some stories stop abruptly with no decent pay off for the gloriousness before it: The Carriage has an obvious and anti-climatic finale and The Government Inspector didn't finish as grandly...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0140445056 |
Poor Folk was Dostoyevsky's first great triumph in fiction and the work that looks forward to the double-acts and obsessions of his later genius. It takes place in a world of office , lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished love affair in letters between a copy clerk and...
| 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 | Victor Serge |
| ISBN | 0904613518 |
1919–1920: St. Petersburg, city of the czars, has fallen to the Revolution. Camped out in the splendid palaces of the former regime, the city’s new masters seek to cement their control, even as the counterrevolutionary White Army regroups. Conquered City, Victor Serge’s most unrelenting...
| Author | Paul Schmidt |
| ISBN | 1590171918 |
A New York Review Books Original
A master anthology of Russia’s most important poetry, newly collected and never before published in English
In the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians,...
| Author | Boris Pasternak |
| ISBN | 0810119099 |
Boris Pasternak, the Nobel laureate and author of Doctor Zhivago, composed one of the world's great love poems in My Sister—Life. Written in the summer of 1917, the cycle of poems focuses on personal journeys and loves but is permeated by the tension and promise of the impending October Revolution.
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| Author | Vasily Grossman |
| ISBN | 1590176189 |
An NYRB Classics Original
Few writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different...
| Author | Vsevolod Garshin |
| ISBN | 1436746949 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment...
Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories
| Author | Maxim Gorky |
| ISBN | 1589636546 |
Maxim Gorky is the pen name of Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov -- orphaned at the age of nine, he was raised by his grandmother, a story-teller, who imprinted on him a love for tales and travel. All of his varied jobs and the places, people and situations he encountered on his way can be found in his stories....
| Author | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| ISBN | 0875010571 |
The stories collected here represent a sampling of the prose that first established Bulgakov as a major figure in the literary renaissance of Moscow in the 1920s, long before he became known as an influential playwright and novelist. The centerpiece of this collection is the long story "Notes on the...
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| ISBN | 1612191118 |
From the master of Victorian tragedy, the surprisingly comic adventures of a man caught between romance and religion.
When young Mr. Stockdale arrives in a small village to fill in for the Methodist minister, he finds himself pining for his comely new landlady. But she leads a mysterious...
The Confessions of Noa Weber
| Author | Gail Hareven |
| ISBN | 1933633689 |
Acclaimed author Noa Weber has a successful “feminist” life: a strong career, a wonderful daughter she raised alone, and she is a recognized and respected cultural figure. Yet her interior life is bound by her obsessive love for one man—Alek, a Russian émigré and the father of her child, who...
| Author | William Gerhardie |
| ISBN | 0811211762 |
Hailed by his famous contemporaries including Edith Wharton, H.G. Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh, who called him a "genius," William Gerhardie is one of the twentieth century's forgotten masters, and his lovely comedy Futility one of the century's neglected masterpieces....
| Author | Anna Akhmatova |
| ISBN | 2707302066 |
Ces poèmes qui forment le Requiem et dont on lira ici la traduction, s'échelonnent entre les années 1930 et 1957. À l'exception du poème « Le Verdict » (publié sans titre en 1961), ils n'ont jamais été jusqu'à présent édités en U.R.S.S. Le Requiem a parue en langue russe, en décembre 1963,...
| Author | Vivant Denon |
| ISBN | 1590173260 |
A Bilingual New York Review Books Original
Vivant Denon's No Tomorrow is one of the masterpieces of eighteenth-century French libertine literature, a book to set beside Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons dangereuses, except that where Laclos' icy novel tells of hellish depravity, Denon's ravishing...
Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky
| Author | Vladimir Mayakovsky |
| ISBN | 0374281351 |
From the time his first, futurist poems were published in 1912 until his suicide at the age of thirty-six, Vladimir Mayakovsky made theatrical appearances in his written work and perfected an iconoclastic voice James Schuyler called "the intimate yell." As the poet laureate of the Russian Revolution,...
The Essential Cocktail: The Art of Mixing Perfect Drinks
| Author | Dale DeGroff |
| ISBN | 0307405737 |
Dale DeGroff is widely regarded as the world’s foremost mixologist. Hailed by the New York Times as “single-handedly responsible for what’s been called the cocktail renaissance,” he earned this reputation during his twelve years at the fashionable Promenade Bar in New York City’s Rainbow...
