The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn

9 best books like The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn (Solomon Volkov): Awakenings, The Canterbury Tales, Metamorphoses, Diary of a Mad Old Man, The First Circle, Heart of a Dog, Vita Nuova, Matryona's House and Other Stories, Aklımda Hep Sen

Awakenings

Author	Oliver Sacks
ISBN	0375704051

Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver...

The Canterbury Tales

Author	Geoffrey Chaucer
ISBN	0140424385

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions...

Metamorphoses

Author

Ovid

Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation,...

Diary of a Mad Old Man

Author	Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
ISBN	0679730249

Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke. He discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still rages on – unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly attentions of his daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, flashy...

The First Circle

Author	Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
ISBN	0810115905

Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, 'The First Circle' is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician.

At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor...

Heart of a Dog

Author	Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN	0802150594

Mikhail Bulgakov's absurdist parable of the Russian Revolution.

A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland...

Vita Nuova

Author	Dante Alighieri
ISBN	0192839357

Vita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in the first of his major writings are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the subject of love. Composed upon Dante's meeting with Beatrice and the "Lord of Love," it is a love story...

Matryona's House and Other Stories

Author	Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
ISBN	0140039856

"As long as there is fresh air to breathe under an apple tree after a shower, we may survive a little longer." (243)I had already read two of the longer pieces in this collection—Matryona's House and An Incident at Krechetovka Station. The other stories in this collection, especially the last, newly...

Aklımda Hep Sen

Author	Kürşat Başar
ISBN	6051854053

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