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The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader

10 best books like The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (George Gibian): Poems of Akhmatova, White Walls: Collected Stories, The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias, The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories (Vintage Classics), Great Short Works, Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881, Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader, The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Volume 1, Holocaust Poetry

Poems of Akhmatova
AuthorAnna Akhmatova
ISBN0395860032


Anna Akhmatova by Natan Altman (1914)

Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966) lived through the worst years of the 20th century in one of the worst locations in which to be a poet unwilling to play the role of a trained parrot for the ruthless and murderous apes running the country. Born in Odessa,...
White Walls: Collected Stories
AuthorTatyana Tolstaya
ISBN1590171977
Tatyana Tolstaya's short stories — with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly eccentric characters, and stylistic abundance and flair — established her in the 1980s as one of modern Russia's finest writers. Since then her work has been translated throughout the world. Edna O'Brien...
The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias
AuthorW. Bruce Lincoln
ISBN0385279086
For three centuries - beginning with the accession of Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov in 1613 - the Romanov Dynasty ruled Russia. Its reign ended with the execution of Nicholas II and Alexandra in the early 20th century. Noted Russian scholar W. Bruce Lincoln has portrayed the achievement, significance...
The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories (Vintage Classics)
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN0394707141
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...
Great Short Works
AuthorLeo Tolstoy
ISBN0060586974
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...
Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881
AuthorJoseph Frank
ISBN0691115699
This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote A Raw Youth, Diary of a Writer, and his crowning triumph: The Brothers Karamazov.


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Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
AuthorRobert Chandler
ISBN0140448462
From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy,...
The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader
AuthorClarence Brown
ISBN0142437573
Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and...
The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Volume 1
AuthorSarah N. Lawall
ISBN0393925722
Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of Western Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of Western literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton anthologies—thorough...
Holocaust Poetry
AuthorHilda Schiff
ISBN0312143575
The only known collection of its kind currently in print, this important volume includes the work of 59 poets--among them Auden, Brecht, Celan, Jarrell, Levi, Milosz, Plath, Sexton, Spender, Wiesel, and Yevtushenko--writing on a range of subjects that are indelibly linked with the Holocaust. Collecting...
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
AuthorVarious
ISBN1419152319
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original ms. of the Chronicle was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great. Multiple copies were made of that original which were distributed...
The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History
AuthorColin McEvedy
ISBN0140512497
A delightful, irreverent romp through the Dark Ages and medieval history, and if that sounds oxymoronic, all the better to drive home what a gem this little book is. Straight to my favorites shelf.

To start, since it is billed as an atlas, yes, there are maps, elegant, minimalist and well-designed...
Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity
AuthorJohn Lechte
ISBN0415074088

الكتاب يُعد مرجعا لا غنى عنه، جوانبه الإيجابية كثيرة جدا . . غير أنه يتطلب دراية مسبقة بموضوعاته بغيرها يصبح الكتاب مبهم لا فائدة منه . . الترجمة جيدة جدا...
The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil
AuthorNikolai Gogol
ISBN0393003043
The compassion, simplicity, and gentle humor with which he treats the poignant quest of a hapless civil servant for the return of his stolen overcoat—and the fantastic yet realistic manner in which he takes revenge on his nemesis, the Very Important Person—mark "The Overcoat" as one of the greatest...
The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction
AuthorDavid M. Gwynn
ISBN0199595119
The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills beside the Tiber, the city of Rome grew to dominate the ancient Mediterranean. Led by her senatorial aristocracy, Republican armies defeated Carthage...
The Teachings of Don B.
AuthorDonald Barthelme
ISBN0679741194
A hypothetical episode of Batman hilariously slowed down to soap-opera speed. A game of baseball as played by T.S. Eliot and Wilem "Big Ball" de Kooning.  A recipe suitable for feeding sixty park-enamored celebrants at one's daughter's wedding. An outlandishly illustrated account of a scientific...
Spiritual Sayings
AuthorKahlil Gibran
ISBN0806500417
Обичайте се, но не превръщайте в окови любовта. Тя нека е морето между бреговете на душите ви.
Из "Пророкът"

Погрешно е да се смята, че любовта е резултат...
Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology
AuthorLouis P. Pojman
ISBN0534543642
Pojman's PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION offers a comprehensive sampling of newly emerging scholarship and also includes many essays that traditionally have proved successful in p[hilosophy of religion classrooms. The editor's lucid introductions preface articles by such important contemporary writers...
The Portable Walt Whitman
AuthorWalt Whitman
ISBN0140150781
When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the work,...
Pushkin's Button
AuthorSerena Vitale
ISBN0226857719
Pushkin's Button recreates the four months of Pushkin's life leading up to the fatal duel in the snow on January 27, 1837. Many theories have been advanced about the death of one of Russia's greatest artists, none of them wholly satisfactory. Serena Vitale has opened the archives and studies the case...
Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN0060726466
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...
A Russian Affair (Great Loves, #10)
AuthorAnton Chekhov
ISBN0141032855
Girl's first Chekhov. Hmmm sigh.

This is one book in a series of 20 Penguin has classified as its Great Loves series. It's been far too long since I picked up something Russian, and I thought this little volume would be a perfect introduction to Anton Chekhov, one of the greats. While the first...
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