The Precipice

Author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512)

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that...

Author	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN	0486434095

Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.
As...

Author

Mikhail Lermontov

In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin, the archetypal Russian antihero, Lermontov's...

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...

Author

Ivan Turgenev

It never ceases to amaze me how Russian writers can take a tale of love gone wrong and the every day ennui of a relationship and turn it into a political ridden statement. Turgenev excels at this, perhaps even more than Tolstoy or Gogol.

In Smoke, a young man stops in Baden-Baden on his way back to...

Author	Ivan Turgenev
ISBN	1426450427

RUDIN (1856) by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) tells the story of a character typical to Turgenev -- a "superfluous" man, weak of will, brimming with indecisive frustration -- and yet tormented by ideals. Rudin is made impotent by the dissonance of honoring the older generations while at the...

Author	Ivan Turgenev
ISBN	1426450435

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...

Author

Алексей Сальников

Роман «Петровы в гриппе и вокруг него»– финалист премии «Большая книга» и «НОС».

«Пишет Сальников как, пожалуй, никто другой сегодня, а именно –...