Summer in Baden-Baden
10 best books like Summer in Baden-Baden (Leonid Tsypkin): White Walls: Collected Stories, Novel with Cocaine, The Case of Comrade Tulayev, My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Memories of the Future, Maidenhair, A School for Fools, On the Eve, The Artamonov Business, The Golovlyov Family
| 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 | M. Ageyev |
| ISBN | 0810117096 |
A Dostoevskian psychological novel of ideas, Novel with Cocaine explores the interaction between psychology, philosophy, and ideology in its frank portrayal of an adolescent's cocaine addiction. The story relates the formative experiences of Vadim at school and with women before he turns to drug...
| Author | Victor Serge |
| ISBN | 1590170644 |
One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead in the street, and the search for his killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence—at...
| Author | Alexander Herzen |
| ISBN | 0520042107 |
Alexander Herzen's own brilliance and the extraordinary circumstances of his life combine to place his memoirs among the greatest works of the modern era. Born in 1812, the illegitimate son of a wealthy Russian landowner, he became one of the most important revolutionary and intellectual figures...
| Author | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky |
| ISBN | 1590173198 |
Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room;...
| Author | Mikhail Shishkin |
| ISBN | 1934824364 |
Day after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter—the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise—and tell of the atrocities they’ve suffered, or that they’ve invented, or heard from someone else. These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle...
| Author | Sasha Sokolov |
| ISBN | 0941423077 |
“Since it’s winter what kind of butterflies can you be speaking of, asks the pedagogue with mock surprise, what’s wrong – are you crazy? And you respond with unshaken dignity: in the winter one can speak only of winter lepidoptera, those which are called snow butterflies, I catch them in the...
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN | 1426450435 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Maxim Gorky |
| ISBN | 0900948248 |
Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright & essayist, who was a founder of social realism. Although known principally as a writer, he was closely associated with the tumultuous revolutionary period of his own country. Of all Gorky's novels, The Artamonov...
| 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 | 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 | Olga Grushin |
| ISBN | 0143038400 |
Olga Grushin's astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it explores - really, colonizes - the consciousness of Anatoly Sukhanov, who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground...
| Author | Vladimir Voinovich |
| ISBN | 0156340305 |
I read Vladimir Voinovich's short comic masterpiece back in 1989 when first published in English and read it three more times over the years, including this past week. One thing has remained consistent – I laughed out loud on nearly each page. This is a very funny book.
Hardly a whopping...
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...
| Author | Ivan Bunin |
| ISBN | 1566637589 |
"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 and novellas are not to be missed. Over the last several years a great many of them have been freshly and brilliantly translated by Graham Hettlinger....
| 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 | Joseph Frank |
| ISBN | 0691014221 |
Este libro es una colección de 5 libros de la biografía de Dovstoievski. Siendo éste el segundo tomo ya que no encontré el primero. Nos habla de sus años en la cárcel debido a asociaciones con personas equivocadas, no es que fuese un ladronzuelo de poca monta. El tiempo que estuvo en la cárcel siempre...
