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10 best books like Nikolai Gogol (Vladimir Nabokov): Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time, Tolstoy, First Love and Other Stories, The Shooting Party, Russian Thinkers, Tolstoy: A Russian Life, Byron: Life and Legend, Summer in Baden-Baden, The Noise of Time: Selected Prose, The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader

Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
AuthorJoseph Frank
ISBN0691128197
Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single,...
Tolstoy
AuthorHenri Troyat
ISBN0802137687
Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote Anna Karenina, and a supreme writer who declared, "Literature is rubbish." From Tolstoy's famously bad marriage to his enormously...
First Love and Other Stories
AuthorIvan Turgenev
ISBN0192836897
This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known `long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge on the Russian steppes. These stories all display the elegance and clarity...
The Shooting Party
AuthorAnton Chekhov
ISBN0140448985
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...
Russian Thinkers
AuthorIsaiah Berlin
ISBN0140136258
The theme that links the essays in this book, written over 30 years, is the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia, which Isaiah Berlin describes as the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world.

Contents

Introduction: A Complex Vision, by Aileen Kelly

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Tolstoy: A Russian Life
AuthorRosamund Bartlett
ISBN1846681383
A hundred years ago in November 1910 Count Leo Tolstoy died on a remote Russian railway station, attended by the world's media, taken ill as he was finally attempting to escape his decadent (as he saw it), aristocratic family life.

Tolstoy has been universally recognised as a colossus of world...
Byron: Life and Legend
AuthorFiona MacCarthy
ISBN0571179975
An excellent biography of Byron - and I've read a few by now. To be honest, during Byron's early years I was feeling as if I'd read it all (or most of it) before. But during the later years, especially once he reaches Venice, the book really came into its own. I felt there was more depth, detail and interest...
Summer in Baden-Baden
AuthorLeonid Tsypkin
ISBN0811215482
Summer in Baden-Baden was acclaimed by The New York Review of Books as "a short poetic masterpiece" and by Donald Fanger in The Los Angeles Times as "gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving."


A complex, highly original novel, Summer in Baden-Baden has a double narrative. It is wintertime,...
The Noise of Time: Selected Prose
AuthorOsip Mandelstam
ISBN0810119285
Collected prose works by one of Russia's towering literary figures. Osip Mandelstam has in recent years come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. Though known primarily as a poet, Mandelstam worked in many styles: autobiography, short story, travel writing, and polemic. Mandelstam's...
The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader
AuthorClarence Brown
ISBN0142437573
Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and...
The American Years
AuthorBrian Boyd
ISBN0691024715
“...every dimension presupposes a medium within which it can act, and if, in the spiral unwinding of things, space warps into something akin to time, and time, in its turn, warps into something akin to thought, then, surely, another dimension follows.”
-Speak, Memory



Above...
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
AuthorMichael Gorra
ISBN0871404087
Henry James (1843 1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James 's masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady...
Child of Light: Mary Shelley
AuthorMuriel Spark
This is a biography of one of my favourite writers, written by another of my favourite writers. That said, I enjoyed it but was left a bit unsatisfied, feeling that we never quite get inside Mary's heart and mind. And maybe that's okay because maybe it's none of our business, really, but as she is dead and...
The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants
AuthorAlexandra Popoff
The six literary wives in the book, Anna Dostoevsky, Sophia Tolstoy, Véra Nabokov, Elena Bulgakov, Nadezhda Mandelstam, and Natalya Solzhenitsyn were muses, intellectual companions, and indispensable aids to Russia’s most celebrated writers. Popoff draws from the women’s autobiographical...
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
AuthorRobert Chandler
ISBN0141442239
For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years In these folk tales, young women go on long and perilous quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese, and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical...
Anton Chekhov
AuthorDonald Rayfield
ISBN0810117959
Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles, both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that killed him at age forty-four. The traditional image of Chekhov is that of the restrained artist torn between medicine and literature. But Donald Rayfield's biography reveals...
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson
AuthorAlfred Habegger
ISBN0812966015
Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography,...
Pushkin's Button
AuthorSerena Vitale
ISBN0226857719
Pushkin's Button recreates the four months of Pushkin's life leading up to the fatal duel in the snow on January 27, 1837. Many theories have been advanced about the death of one of Russia's greatest artists, none of them wholly satisfactory. Serena Vitale has opened the archives and studies the case...
The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness
AuthorLila Azam Zanganeh
ISBN0393079929
The protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift playfully dreamed of writing "A Practical Handbook: How to Be Happy." Now, Nabokov's own creative reader Lila Azam Zanganeh lends life to this vision with sly sophistication and ebullient charm, as she shares the delirious joy to be found in reading the...
Tolstoy: A Biography
AuthorA.N. Wilson
ISBN0393321223
In this landmark biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly...
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