The Enchanted Wanderer

Author

Teffi

A selection of the finest stories by this female Chekhov

Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely...

Author	Heinrich von Kleist
ISBN	1935554530

About This Book

"No amount of wisdom could possibly make sense of the mysterious verdict which God intended through this duel."

A new translation of a key work by one of European literature’s most important early writers.

One of the few novellas written by the...

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	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	Leonid Andreyev
ISBN	1406933732

Sergey did not know that the colonel, having locked himself all the previous night in his little study, had deliberated upon this ritual with all his power. "We must not aggravate, but ease the last moments of our son," resolved the colonel firmly, and he carefully weighed every possible phase of the...

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...

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	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	0898751985

The Same Old Story (1847) tells the story of Alexander Aduyev who leaves the idyllic setting of his home in the country to seek his fortune and make a career in St. Petersburg under the guidance and protection of his uncle, a government official. Such is the beginning of this "ordinary story". Alexander...

Author	Nikolay A. Nekrasov
ISBN	0404046770

Seven peasants argue over who is most happy and free in Russia. Each has a different idea, and when a little bird gives them a magic tablecloth that serves them a feast each day including a bucket of vodka, they travel about Russia to find out which of the seven is right. The little bird warns them not to use...

Author	Marcel Proust
ISBN	1933633417

This is the first-ever translation into English of this startling tour-de-force by one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.

The Lemoine Affair was inspired by the real-life French scandal involving Henri Lemoine, who claimed he could manufacture diamonds from coal and convinced...

Author	Ivan Turgenev
ISBN	1410103080

“Una sera d’inverno eravamo riuniti in sei presso un vecchio amico, compagno d’università, e parlavamo di Shakespeare e delle sue meravigliose creazioni, di quei suoi personaggi poderosi che rappresentano così mirabilmente la natura umana, così pieni di verità e di freschezza, che...

Author

Vladimir Korolenko

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...

Author	Nikolai Gogol
ISBN	1843910136

Nikolai Gogol’s short story is a sublime work of tragi-comedy. In it, he brilliantly ridicules the Ukrainian passion for litigation and reveals life as something really rather absurd. Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich are the greatest of friends—until the day they begin a foolish quarrel...

Author

Charles Baudelaire

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part...

Author	Anton Chekhov
ISBN	0974607827

...perhaps I was not living as I ought.

Renowned as the greatest short story writer ever, Anton Chekhov was also a master of the novella, and perhaps his most overlooked is this gem, My Life—the tale of a rebellious young man so disgusted with bourgeois society that he drops out to live amongst...

Author	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN	8573262710

Designadas pelo próprio autor como "narrativas fantásticas", as duas novelas aqui reunidas foram publicadas pela primeira vez nas páginas do Diário de um escritor, publicação mensal redigida por Dostoiévski entre 1876 e 1881.

Em A dócil, um homem desesperado refaz, diante do...

Author	Andrei Platonov
ISBN	0882333097

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.



Would-Be Communism: "Chevengur" by Andrei Platonov, Anthony Olcott (Trans.)



(Original review, 1981-04-10)



Dino Buzzati's “The Tartar Steppe” disturbed me in the most elemental...

Author	Félix de Azúa
ISBN	8433920758

Algunos historiadores califican de «siglo idiota» al siglo XIX. Esto es un error. «Siglo estúpido», sin duda; «siglo bobo», quizá. Pero el rango de «idiota» debe reservarse para el siglo XX. El protagonista de esta novela es un idiota del siglo XX. De la segunda mitad del siglo XX, para ser...

Author	Marvin Harris
ISBN	0205454437

Using a cultural materialist approach, the seventh edition of Cultural Anthropology provides a framework for explaining how the parts of sociocultural systems are interrelated and how they change over time. Marvin Harris' lifelong commitment to a scientific anthropology shines through in this...

Author	Juan Luis Arsuaga
ISBN	8478809090

¿Es el hombre «la especie elegida», la consecuencia necesaria de la larga marcha de la evolución? ¿Es, por el contrario, un accidente, el resultado de una de tantas opciones posibles en la historia de la vida? ¿Qué fue antes, un ser bípedo o un ser inteligente? ¿Desde cuándo hablan los seres...

Author	Risto Mejide
ISBN	8467026111

Uno de los personajes más polémicos y sorprendentes de los últimos tiempos reflexiona sobre diversos temas de actualidad que más preocupan a la sociedad. Un libro inteligente, mordaz y lleno de ingenio que no dejará indiferente al lector.
Es un libro inteligente y entretenido, de estilo...