The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader
10 best books like The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader (Clarence Brown): The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales, Sofia Petrovna, The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917, Apricot Jam: And Other Stories, The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader, Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi, Red Cavalry and Other Stories, Poems 1968-1998, On the Golden Porch
| Author | Nikolai Leskov |
| ISBN | 0812966961 |
زنجیره قصه‌های قهرمان داستان (ایوان سیوریانیچ) قدری مسلسل‌وار و پی‌در‌پی نقل می‌شه که امان از مخاطب می‌گیره و کنار گذاشتن کتاب رو سخت می‌کنه
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| Author | Lydia Chukovskaya |
| ISBN | 0810111500 |
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 Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917
| Author | Edward Crankshaw |
| ISBN | 0306809400 |
Exactly 175 years ago, on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a failed uprising ignited a process that would, one red October, finally sweep the autocracy away. The Shadow of the Winter Palace recounts an extraordinary century of Russian history, a politically tempestuous time that was also a Golden...
| Author | Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn |
| ISBN | 1582436029 |
After years of living in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994 and published a series of eight powerfully paired stories. These groundbreaking stories— interconnected and juxtaposed using an experimental method Solzhenitsyn referred to as “binary”—join Solzhenitsyn’s...
| Author | George Gibian |
| ISBN | 0140151036 |
The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of...
| Author | Robert Chandler |
| ISBN | 0140448462 |
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,...
Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In pre-revolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 1930s, she wrote some of her finest...
| Author | Isaac Babel |
| ISBN | 0140449973 |
Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewish...
| Author | Paul Muldoon |
| ISBN | 0374528446 |
"Ireland"
The Volkswagen parked in the gap,
But gently ticking over.
You wonder if it's lovers
And not men hurrying back
Across two fields and a river.
Sven Birkerts has said, "It is not usual for a poet of Muldoon's years to have . . . an oeuvre disclosing significant shifts...
| Author | Tatyana Tolstaya |
| ISBN | 0394577981 |
A collection of thirteen short stories translated from the Russian. The author is distantly related to Tolstoy (a great-grand-niece).
In Loves Me, Loves Me Not, two little girls reflect back on their ugly nanny and how much they hated her.
In Sweet Shura, a woman in her late 80’s...
Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity
| Author | John Lechte |
| ISBN | 0415074088 |
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...
| Author | Nikolai Gogol |
| ISBN | 0393003043 |
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...
| Author | Donald Barthelme |
| ISBN | 0679741194 |
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...
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0141032855 |
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...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0486278050 |
One of the world's greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) also wrote numerous excellent short stories, three of which are contained in this volume. "The Kreutzer Sonata" (1891) is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a splenetic complaint about the way in which society educates young...
| Author | Georgi Vladimov |
| ISBN | 1935554670 |
Unavailable for twenty years, this harrowing allegory of obedience to authority is esteemed as “one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period.” (The Guardian)
Set in a remote Siberian depot immediately following the demolition of one of the gulag’s notorious camps...
| Author | Nina Baym |
| ISBN | 0393979016 |
Why Norton? I'm glad you asked, friend! There are many schools of thought on anthologies, some negative, some positive, all fascinating. Of course, if you're buying this because it's a university textbook then really you have no choice; for the rest of us, there's more than meets the eye.
The...
Big Blonde and Other Stories
| Author | Dorothy Parker |
| ISBN | 0146000765 |
Three brilliant tales by a master storyteller: 'Big Blonde', 'The Sexes'and 'Dusk Before Fireworks'.
W. Somerset Maugham on Parker: 'Dorothy Parker has a wonderfully delicate ear for human speech .... Her style is easy without being slipshod and cultivated without affectation. It is a...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 0140281703 |
Mr Mulliner, raconteur par excellence of the Anglers Rest, has some amazing stories to relate. Take, for example, young Lancelot. He is a bohemian - or was, until he had to look after his saintly uncle's cat Webster, and was startlingly transformed.
The forty-two truth-stretching Anglers'...
| Author | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro |
| ISBN | 0425090817 |
За Челси Куин Ярбро човек научава обикновено много случайно, докато се опитва да си намери някое интересно четиво от непознат автор, което да съчетава...
| Author | Kaja Silverman |
| ISBN | 0195031784 |
This book is a lifesaver for both fledgling academics and educators who assign it alongside the primary texts it references. Silverman provides a helpful, reliable introduction/overview to psychoanalysis, structuralism, and postructuralism as she deftly renders these intimidating topics...
| Author | Thomas R. Beyer Jr. |
| ISBN | 0764113496 |
Here is a fine quick-reference source for language students, teachers, and translators. The 501 most commonly used Russian verbs are listed in table form, one verb per page, and conjugated in all tenses, identified by English infinitive forms. Verbs are both regular and irregular, and are presented...
