Stories from a Siberian Village

Author	Natsume Sōseki
ISBN	0809260956

A languid, melancholic dream of a novel which pierces the heart of the reader with its quiet intensity.

Cautious in its narrative tread on the ground of contentious issues, delicate in its broaching of subjects like the indignity of death, sin and redemption, existentialist ennui, self-recrimination...

Author	Anatoli Rybakov
ISBN	0099633302

To the two people among my goodreads friends, who are interested in Russian history and culture - this novel (first in a trilogy) covers the era of Stalin's reign of terror and is both riveting and historically accurate. It is mostly about a group of young people caught up in the workings of Stalin's totalitarian...

Author	Nikolai Gogol
ISBN	1406946168

Тарас Бульба = Taras Bulba, Nikolai Gogol
Taras Bulba (Tarás Búl'ba) is a romanticized historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It describes the life of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. The sons study at the Kiev Academy and then return home,...

Author	Justin Kaplan
ISBN	0670037699

This newest book by Pulitzer Prize winner Justin Kaplan is a sparkling combination of biography, social history, architectural appreciation, and pure pleasure

Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, two heirs of arch-capitalist John Jacob Astor battled with each other...

Author	William Faulkner
ISBN	1563127881

Faulkner's classic short story was first published in 1930 in The Forum, his first story to be published in a national magazine. At the time it didn't bring him much commercial success, nor did his now famous novels, The Sound and the Fury (1929), and As I Lay Dying (1930). That success would come later...

Author	Bill Caldwell
ISBN	0930096010

You know living in Maine all of your life you take things for granted! I like books about people places and things and travel. In the book I got to meet people and places and things that I did not know about.
It was done along the coast of Maine and based out of Damariscotta and the central coast area. It...