The Negro of Peter the Great
10 best books like The Negro of Peter the Great (Alexander Pushkin): First Love, Home of the Gentry, A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Asya, The Duel, Завтра была война, Pushkin Hills, Белый Бим Черное ухо, For Esmé—with Love and Squalor, Una storia semplice
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN | 0974607894 |
This vivid, sensitive tale of adolescent love follows a 16-year-old boy who falls in love with a beautiful, older woman and experiences a whirlwind of changing emotions, from exaltation and jealousy to despair and devotion.
This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes...
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN | 0140442243 |
"Home of the Gentry" is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of "Sovremennik". It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely-read novel until the end of the 19th century. It was turned into a movie by Andrey Konchalovsky...
A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Let's get one thing straight, Seymour Glass was not a sex offender. He never asked Sybil to look at 'his bananafish' as some ignorant reviewer posted.
This is a story about desperation, about a man who was exhausted of trying to fit into a society where he was not welcomed. In the beginning, with...
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN | 1594919992 |
Tolstoy considered Asya, written in 1858, one of Turgenev's two best stories, along with First Love. Asya is a tragic story of two Russians abroad who are in love but conceal it from each other. Constance Garrett and Isabel Hapgood translated Asya in antiquated style approximately 100 years ago. Despite...
First published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into a violent contest: the duel. When Laevsky, a lazy youth who works for the government, tires of his dependent...
Трагичная история, которая смогла меня растрогать!!!
Boris Vasilyev новый для меня автор. Я с опаской подхожу к советским писателям (надоели все эти лозунги,...
An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of regaining some balance in life as his wife makes plans to emigrate to...
| Author | Gavriil Troyepolsky |
বেশ কিছুদিন ধরেই রাদুগা প্রকাশনীর বইগুলো পড়ছি আর মুগ্ধ হচ্ছি। চমৎকার প্রতিটি বই। পড়ি আর ভাবি, "ইশ! এদের...
For Esmé—with Love and Squalor
"For Esmé — with Love and Squalor" is a short story by J. D. Salinger. Originally published in The New Yorker on April 8, 1950, it was anthologized in Salinger's Nine Stories two years later (while the story collection's American title is Nine Stories, it is titled as For Esmé — with Love & Squalor...
| Author | Leonardo Sciascia |
| ISBN | 8845907295 |
Una storia semplice è una storia complicatissima, un giallo siciliano, con sfondo di mafia e droga. Eppure mai – ed è un vero tour de force – l'autore si trova costretto a nominare sia l'una sia l'altra parola. Tutto comincia con una telefonata alla polizia, con un messaggio troncato, con un apparente...
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0679726209 |
Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories...
