Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
10 best books like Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (Robert Chandler): The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales, Collected Stories, White Walls: Collected Stories, Russian Thinkers, Tolstoy: A Russian Life, Bobok, Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, Selected Stories, Pushkin House, The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader, Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi
| Author | Nikolai Leskov |
| ISBN | 0812966961 |
زنجیره قصههای قهرمان داستان (ایوان سیوریانیچ) قدری مسلسلوار و پیدرپی نقل میشه که امان از مخاطب میگیره و کنار گذاشتن کتاب رو سخت میکنه
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| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0141183454 |
A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing...
| Author | Tatyana Tolstaya |
| ISBN | 1590171977 |
Tatyana Tolstaya's short stories — with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly eccentric characters, and stylistic abundance and flair — established her in the 1980s as one of modern Russia's finest writers. Since then her work has been translated throughout the world. Edna O'Brien...
| Author | Isaiah Berlin |
| ISBN | 0140136258 |
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.
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Introduction: A Complex Vision, by Aileen Kelly
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| Author | Rosamund Bartlett |
| ISBN | 1846681383 |
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...
Smelly Souls
What a witty delicious kind of tale :)
Is this the Dostoyevsky we all know?!... The one from Crime and Punishment?!... Or a shrewdly disguised Gogol?!
It seems to me that our usually so dramatic Fyodor is sounding much more like the sarcastic Nicolai in this one! ...
Bobok...
| 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...
No other contemporary novel provides such clear insight into the Russian mind and way of life as Andrei Bitov's Pushkin House. First published in the United States in 1987 and highly praised for its inventiveness, Pushkin House is a contemporary literary masterpiece. Though the novel's focus is a...
| Author | George Gibian |
| ISBN | 0140151036 |
The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of...
Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In pre-revolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 1930s, she wrote some of her finest...
| Author | Osip Mandelstam |
| ISBN | 0810119285 |
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...
| Author | Isaac Babel |
| ISBN | 0140449973 |
Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewish...
| Author | Clarence Brown |
| ISBN | 0142437573 |
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...
| Author | Vasily Shukshin |
| ISBN | 0875805728 |
A cultural phenomenon in his day—an award-winning film director and actor who also wrote novels, plays, and movie scripts—Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974) is renowned for his mastery of the short story. Credited with revitalizing the short story as a genre in Russian literature, he was posthumously...
| Author | Mikhail Zoshchenko |
| ISBN | 0253201926 |
Typical targets of Zoshchenko's satire are the Soviet bureaucracy, crowded conditions in communal apartments, marital infidelities and the rapid turnover in marriage partners, and "the petty-bourgeois mode of life, with its adulterous episodes, lying, and similar nonsense." His devices are...
Moscow in the 1930s is the consummate symbol of the Soviet paradise, a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words, "life has become better, life has become merrier". In Happy Moscow Platonov exposes the gulf between this premature triumphalism and the harsh reality of low living standards and...
"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..."
Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0140449620 |
The stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoys artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humor and compassion. The Two Hussars, inspired by his time in the army, contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited...
The Kiss and Other Stories
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0140443363 |
A selection of ten stories written when Chekhov had reached his maturity as a short storywriter, between 1887 and 1902. They show him as a master of compression and a probing analyst, unmasking the mediocrity, lack of ideals, and spiritual and physical inertia of his generation. In these grim pictures...
| Author | Gillian Avery |
| ISBN | 0679436413 |
I came across this beautifully rendered collection of Russian fairy tales, quite by accident, while looking for a book that would suit as a gift. I couldn’t tell at first as it was shelved in between two other books with its cover concealed, but as soon as I pulled it out I saw a cover which begged to be opened....
| Author | Christine Alexander |
| ISBN | 0192827634 |
In their collaborative early writings, the Brontes created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories, poems, and plays. Together they invented characters based on heroes and writers such as Wellington, Napoleon, Scott,...
