Seven Who Were Hanged
10 best books like Seven Who Were Hanged (Leonid Andreyev): Sofia Petrovna, The Golovlyov Family, Pushkin House, The Noise of Time: Selected Prose, The Duel, The Enchanted Wanderer, The Petty Demon, The Precipice, The Silver Dove, Scenes from the Bathhouse: And Other Stories of Communist Russia
| Author | Lydia Chukovskaya |
| ISBN | 0810111500 |
Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad publishing house. When her beloved son is caught up in the maelstrom of the purge, she joins the long lines of women outside the prosecutor's...
| Author | M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin |
| ISBN | 0940322579 |
Searingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-until she loses power to the relentless scheming of her hypocritical son Porphyry.
One of the...
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 | 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 | Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin |
| ISBN | 0451500458 |
Her mourth was almost pressed against his, and her words were like quick, hurried kisses: "You must absolutely go through with the duel tomorrow."
This is an account of the final days of Czarist Russia. An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own soldiers. Stranded...
| Author | Nikolai Leskov |
| ISBN | 1612191037 |
A new translation of the hilarious picaresque about a man with an indomitable spirit
The Enchanted Wanderer is a Russian Candide with a revolutionary edge, a picaresque that features a fast-talking monk named Ivan who is at war, it seems, with every level of society. Working as a carriage...
| Author | Fyodor Sologub |
| ISBN | 0882338080 |
The Petty Demon is one of the funniest Russian novels. It is also the most decadent of the great Russian classics, replete with naked boys, sinuous girls, and a strange mixture of beauty and perversity. The main hero, Peredonov, is as comical as he is disgusting, he is at once a victim, a monster, a silly...
| Author | Ivan Goncharov |
| ISBN | 1434409740 |
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was one of the leading members of the great circle of Russian writers who, in the middle of the nineteenth century, gathered around the Sovremmenik (Contemporary) under Nekrasov's editorship-a circle including Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Byelinsky,...
| Author | Andrei Bely |
| ISBN | 0810117576 |
The Silver Dove, published four years before Bely's masterpiece Petersburg, is considered the first modern Russian novel. Breaking with Russian realism, and a pioneering Symbolist work, its vividly drawn characters, elemental landscapes, and rich style make it accessible to the Western reader,...
| Author | Mikhail Zoshchenko |
| ISBN | 0472060708 |
Scenes from the Bathhouse, Mikhail Zoshchenko
عنوانها: طالع نحس : گزیده داستانهای کوتاه؛ حمامها و آدمها: گزیده داستانهای کوتاه؛ نویسنده: میخاییل زوشنکو؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش:...
Gelirleriyle çocuklara kitap hediye ettiğim YouTube kanalımda Puşkin'in hayatı, bütün kitapları ve kronolojik okuma sırası hakkında bilgi edinebilirsiniz:
https://youtu.be/nljKaOPQcBI
Yarım kalmış olmasına rağmen Puşkin okumak isteyenler için en iyi...
| 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...
Sunstroke: Selected Stories
| Author | Ivan Bunin |
| ISBN | 1566634261 |
"The Gentleman from San Francisco" is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin's stories and has achieved the stature of a masterpiece. But Bunin's other stories are not to be missed. In Sunstroke, Graham Hettlinger has selected the "Gentleman" and twenty-four other stories and translated them afresh—several...
| Author | Dmitry Merezhkovsky |
This book is incomparable in the magic power of evoking startlingly vivid pictures of the Middle Ages. It is a gorgeous pageant, full of pomp and magnificence. Here and there the reader is given a glimpse into the mortal and humble frailties and exigencies behind the grandeur. This work is a fabulous...
| Author | Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev |
| ISBN | 0801485592 |
"It evoked almost unprecedented discussions, like those at the time of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Some praised the novel far more than it deserved, others complained bitterly that it was a defamation of youth. I may, however, without exaggeration assert that no one in Russia took the trouble to fathom...
"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...
Hm... one can't know everything, of course... However capacious your brain is, it won't accommodate everything.
This collection includes three short stories.
A nervous breakdown: 4 stars. The character's internal conflict with prostitution was unexpected. An interesting debate...
| Author | Andrei Platonov |
| ISBN | 0940322331 |
This collection of Platonov's short fiction brings together seven works drawn from the whole of his career. It includes the harrowing novella Dzahn ("Soul"), in which a young man returns to his Asian birthplace to find his people deprived not only of food and dwelling, but of memory and speech, and "The...
خفض العم مكسيم رأسه، وقال في نفسه:
"نعم، لقد أصبح مبصرا. ذهبت آلامه الأنانية، العمياء الظامئة، وحلت محلها نظرة صادقة نبيلة إلى معنى الحياة. إنه الآن يفهم...
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....
