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9 best books like The Fierce and Beautiful World (Andrei Platonov): The Woman in the Dunes, A Country Doctor's Notebook, Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, Sofia Petrovna, The Cherry Orchard, The Lady with the Little Dog, Under Satan's Sun, Sleepwalker in a Fog, Shyness and Dignity

The Woman in the Dunes
AuthorKōbō Abe
ISBN0679733787
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.

After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit....
A Country Doctor's Notebook
AuthorMikhail Bulgakov
ISBN1860461654
Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material that fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction.

With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of freezing rural Russia which, in 1916-17,...
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
AuthorAnton Chekhov
ISBN0553381008
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...
Sofia Petrovna
AuthorLydia Chukovskaya
ISBN0810111500
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...
The Cherry Orchard
AuthorAnton Chekhov
ISBN0413774031
Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history, and in the society around them. Their estate is hopelessly in debt: urged to cut down...
The Lady with the Little Dog
AuthorAnton Chekhov
*Illustrated
*Includes Table of Contents

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his 44 years of life. Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be one of the greatest writers in history, particularly...
Under Satan's Sun
AuthorGeorges Bernanos
ISBN0803261802
This new translation marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Georges Bernanos's first novel, Under Satan's Sun, a powerful account of intense spiritual struggle that reflects the author's deeply-felt religion. The work develops a theme that persistently inspired Bernanos: the existence of evil...
Sleepwalker in a Fog
AuthorTatyana Tolstaya
By "the most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose today" (Joseph Brodsky), Sleepwalker in a Fog is a collection of seven stories and a novella set in contemporary Russia. Here is Denisov, who fears his greatest accomplishment in life will be the treatise he wrote and tore up. He is betrothed...
Shyness and Dignity
AuthorDag Solstad
ISBN1555974465
An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society—publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th anniversary celebrations

In front of him, twenty-nine young men and women about the age of eighteen who looked at him and returned his greeting. He asked them to take out their school edition of...
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