The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
10 best books like The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (Fyodor Dostoyevsky): Eugene Onegin, Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories, A Hero of Our Time, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Collected Poems, The Complete Short Novels, The Sebastopol Sketches, The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories (Vintage Classics), Great Short Works
| Author | Alexander Pushkin |
| ISBN | 0192838997 |
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in imperial Russia during the 1820s, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself...
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0553381008 |
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s...
The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0451528808 |
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest...
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin, the archetypal Russian antihero, Lermontov's...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0812968239 |
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust...
| Author | Sylvia Plath |
| ISBN | 0808595040 |
The aim of the present complete edition, which contains a numbered sequence of the 224 poems written after 1956 together with a further 50 poems chosen from her pre-1956 work, is to bring Sylvia Plath's poetry together in one volume, including the various uncollected and unpublished pieces, and to...
Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. Here, brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
The...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0140444688 |
In the winter of 1854 Tolstoy, then an officer in the Russian army, arranged to be transferred to the besieged town of Sebastopol. Wishing to see at first hand the action of what would become known as the Crimean War, he was spurred on by a fierce patriotism, but also by an equally fierce desire to alert the...
| Author | Alexander Pushkin |
| ISBN | 0394707141 |
I already read these stories in The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin, but wanted to reread Pushkin's prose in a more recent translation. This volume includes Duddington and Keane translations which are somewhat less formal in diction and easier to read.
"The Captain's...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0060586974 |
Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. Here reprinted...
| Author | Nikolai Leskov |
| ISBN | 1843910683 |
In this powerful and brutal short story, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean archetype joltingly displaced to the heartland of Russia. Chastened and stifled by her marriage of convenience to a man twice her age, the young Katerina Lvovna goes yawning about the house, missing...
