The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories
8 best books like The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories (Leo Tolstoy): Conversations in Sicily, The Complete Short Novels, The Collected Stories, The Lady with the Little Dog, The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories (Vintage Classics), هشت کتاب, Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Pleasure of the Text
| Author | Elio Vittorini |
| ISBN | 0811214559 |
It stands as a modern classic not only for its powerful thematic resonance as one of the great novels of Italian anti-fascism but also as a trailblazer for its style, which blends literary modernism with the pre-modern fable in a prose of lyric beauty. Comparing Vittorini's work to Picasso's, Italo...
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 | Alexander Pushkin |
| ISBN | 0375405496 |
Pushkin’s prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world’s great storytellers: direct and dramatic, clear-sighted,...
The Lady with the Little Dog
*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...
| 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 | Sohrab Sepehri |
| ISBN | 9649007903 |
هشت کتاب: مرگِ رنگ. زندگیِ خوابه. آوارِ آفتاب. شرقِ اندوه. صدای پای آب. مسافر. حجمِ سبز. ما هیچ، ما نگاه.
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0060726466 |
The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works. The Gambler chronicles Dostoevsky's own addiction, which he eventually overcame. Many have argued that Notes from the Underground contains several...
| Author | Roland Barthes |
| ISBN | 0374521603 |
What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics...
